Did the Washington Post just attempt to incite mob violence – PB/TK
Arrest the Editor of the Washington Post – By Daniel Greenfield / Aug 16 2017
Marty Baron lives in a $1.7 million condo in Logan Circle. It’s seven blocks away from the headquarters of the Washington Post. And a 12 minute drive away from the FBI’s J Edgar Hoover Building.
Arrest him.
His paper’s latest contribution to wrecking this country is an editorial titled “Charlottesville showed that liberalism can’t defeat white supremacy. Only direct action can.”
It concludes with, “Start throwing rocks.”
“Resistance, be it forceful or clandestine, threatened or explicit, stands as our ‘rock.’ Rocks can look like armed self-defense or nonviolent direct-action campaigns,” N.D. B. Connolly, a history professor at Johns Hopkins who specializes in racism writes.
“In April 1968, amid a flurry of other ‘rocks,’ riots shook American cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It took that rolling unrest, not the promise of further economic growth, to spur President Lyndon Johnson and Congress to action.”
Incitement to riot is a crime. And it’s about time that the Washington Post along with other media outlets was held accountable for the violence that is tearing apart our cities and our campuses.
Free speech covers a multitude of ugly expressions. But as Brandenburg v. Ohio established, it doesn’t cover speech “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action” if it is “likely to incite or produce such action.”
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