I believe it was Tonto who once provided a bit of sidekick wisdom to the Lone Ranger when he said, “Two wrongs don’t make a right.”
We’re seeing violence erupting at Donald J. Trump’s political rallies. It seemed to come to a full boil today in San Jose, Calif., when protestors attacked Trump supporters at the Republican presidential nominee-to-be’s rally.
It is utterly disgraceful for those who disagree with a political candidate to attack the candidate’s supporters, which is what happened in San Jose.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-campaign-violence-223893
That was the second wrong. The first one has been the candidate’s fiery rhetoric all along the campaign trail that has been inciting the violence.
Look, the violence we’re seeing at these rallies is absolutely uncalled-for. It’s un-American to deny people the right to exercise their right of political expression.
Oh sure, we’re hearing from those who say the protesters/hooligans are exercising their First Amendment rights of political expression. How? By chasing down Trump supporters and attacking them with fists and feet?
Have these demonstrators ever heard of “peaceful assembly”? Are they unaware of that provision?
Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is partly to blame for what has been transpiring at his rallies. The bulk of the blame, though, belongs to those who act on that rhetoric with violence.
It is long past time for the candidate, Trump, to condemn this violence and to tamp down his own incendiary comments.
Moreover, it also is long past time for those who feel the need to protest at these rallies to realize that there is a right way to do so and a wrong way.
What happened today in San Jose was wrong … in the extreme.
