May 29 2020: Independent book store Uncle Hugo’s, a prominent fixture of the science fiction, fantasy and mystery community for the last 45 years, was burned to the ground by looters and arsonists. Among the thousands of books reduced to ashes were many rare and irreplaceable volumes, including First Editions signed by authors no longer living. We have all lost a priceless resource, and what should have been an enduring legacy is now a pile of scorched bricks.
What the fuck is WRONG with those shitheads? What did burning down Uncle Hugo’s have to do with ANYTHING?!?
But that is what those dumbshits do — burn what they lack the capacity to understand or appreciate. I suppose it's because their union-run government schools never taught them to read. They certainly never learned to value reading. Bookstores and libraries mean nothing to them. Nor do restaurants, workshops, houses or lives.
The left-wing media calls them ‘civil rights protesters’. Everybody with a functioning brain calls them what they are: violent rioting mobs seeded with paid instigators shipped in from hundreds of miles away. Why did the violence ramp up after 3 days? That’s how long it took to get the instigators in place.
What are they ‘protesting’, you might ask? A criminal fought the police, and lost. That’s it. In fact, that has been the cause of…pretty much every riot I can remember. “A criminal was hurt or died after fighting with the police! Burn down the city!”
Police are SUPPOSED to arrest criminals. If they resist arrest, they MUST be subdued. That can get as violent as the criminal wants to make it. If the police DON’T arrest and subdue criminals, civilization falls apart.
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In this world there are people who build things up, and those that burn them down. I have zero regard for the second group.