Black Lives Matter protesters call for total anarchy

This is a guest post by a member of the UCI Republicans in response to Friday’s Black Lives Matter protests. The Tab is a platform for open debate, if you have an alternative view that you’d like to put forward, message The Tab UCI on Facebook to pitch your article.

The destruction of civil society and that of the very mechanism that prevents total and complete chaos is exactly what the Black Student Union at UCI is now calling for.

As per their own Facebook event page, their self-proclaimed goal is to initiate, “a national movement of radical critique that addresses the entire institution of policing and calls for the Abolition of the Police in totality!” Just because their leaders felt they needed to top this, they paraded around UCI chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon,” in reference to murdering cops (of course, most of the media excluded this part of their daily reports). Included in this happy bundle of insanity was the protesters very own, “FUCK the police,”  T-shirts.

Don’t believe me? Go look for yourselves — it’s all caught on camera.

Protestors at Friday’s event

I even attempted to ask one of the protesters what he felt should replace the police. His answer? Discourse. To expand on this fancy, overused academic term, his advocacy, and really that of the majority of this group’s, is to replace the police with talks. That’s right, the expectation of these protesters is that crime can be alleviated by having civil ‘talks’ with criminals. Despite how insane this sounds, this advocacy isn’t untested, the UN has been trying it for years. But the fact of the matter is, as seen through the failures of the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides, and now ISIS, the UN is insolvent. Sure, ‘discourse’ and ‘talks’ are fine in theory, but in practice, safety can’t be bought with fancy words. Life isn’t a college campus.

I will credit the movement with this – they are bringing up legitimate points about the use of government coercion against citizens. From the Snowden scandal exposing the ‘all-watching’ eyes of the NSA, to the impoverished neighborhoods of California tortured by the endless wave of gentrification, to radical war against business, the government has proved to fail in nearly all aspects of life, except in destroying completely legitimate businesses.

With this being said, this does not mean all police are racist — a study produced by Roland Fryer of Harvard (a black professor) found that when comparing similar situations (such as education, income, number of police interactions) of whites and blacks to police shootings, whites were actually shot more often. This isn’t to say that racism isn’t existent in other parts of society, but it does imply that it does not exist on the scale argued by the left. It isn’t the fault of some random cops that the statistics appear racist, it’s the fault of millions of Americans that misinterpret them.

So in part, I would agree with the protesters. There is a massive problem with the system, but that doesn’t mean that we destroy the only string that struggles to hold together civil society. That doesn’t mean that we result to impractical ideology, that, in the past, has done nothing but led to the deaths of millions of innocents. In America we have a process, and that process is called Democracy.