I pretty much knew were you’d go with this piece before I read it. However, I don’t like the title. While I understand what you are saying, we categorically don’t need more government, we need the law to be applied. It’s like Hate crimes. We don’t need separate legislation for hate crimes; we need to hold murderers accountable for actions, regardless of their excuses. That’s the law. You shall not commit murder. If you commit murder, you are in violation of the law. There doesn’t need to be more law to specifically deal with protesters. If they break the law, they should be arrested. If they escalate it into a riot, they should be dealt with appropriately. Vandalism is vandalism, and your personal excuses are of no value under the law. What we need to do is stop trying to exclude people from the law. We don’t need more government, which often times layers existing laws with more wordy laws that have greater propensity for loopholes.
More government has made it harder for police to enforce the law, because it places the undue burden of bureaucracy in place to retard their efforts, thus emboldening the law-breaker. These law breakers in the occupy crowd are emboldened by the excuse making of an ever growing portion of the American public. While I don’t advocate turning the dogs and batons on them, I do advocate that they are made to pay for their criminal activities as anyone else would, or should.
