That's Daniel Henninger, deputy editorial page director of The Wall Street Journal, who today surely encapsulated the thoughts of millions of law abiding citizens in the opening sentences of his regular weekly column entitled today: Mobs of New York. Everything Henninger writes is relevant, but today's quote is perhaps the most succinctly relevant thing yet said on this topic.
Here's the quote:
How did we get to the point in the United States where street protesters are treated as saintly figures? How did it happen that important public leaders - the American president, the mayor of New York, college presidents - feel obliged to legitimize these protests, no matter what they do to a city, its citizens or owners of private property? Why is it that the leaders of America's most important institutions are no longer capable of recognizing a mob when they see one?There is, of course, an obvious answer. It concerns the "leaders" mentioned above and it comes from the infamous Butch Cassidy: Who are those guys? and, more importantly, who voted for them?
