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the graffiti. When trespassers block-
ing other people at the University of California, Davis refused to disperse, and locked their arms with one another to pre- vent the police from being able to physically remove them, the police finally resorted to pepper spray to break up this human logjam. The result? The police have been strongly criti-
cized for enforcing the law. Apparently pepper spray is unpleasant, and people who break the law are not supposed to have unpleasant things done to them. Which is to say, we need to take the “enforcement” out of “law enforcement.” Everybody is not given
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these exemptions from paying the consequences of their own illegal acts. Only people who are cur- rently in vogue with the elites of the left -- in the media, in politics and in academia. The 14th Amendment? What is the Constitu- tion or the laws when it comes to ideological soul mates, especially young soul mates who remind the aging 1960s radicals of their youth? Neither in this or any
other issue can the Con- stitution protect us if we don’t protect the Consti- tution. When all is said and done, the Constitu- tion is a document, a piece of paper. If we don’t vote out of
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other parts of the physical infrastructure. But the crumbling of the moral infrastructure is no less deadly. The police cannot main-
tain law and order, even if the political authorities do not tie their hands in advance or undermine them with second-guess- ing after the fact. The police are the last
line of defense against barbarism, but they are equipped only to handle that minority who are not stopped by the first lines of defense, beginning with the moral principles taught at home and up- held by families, schools, and communities. But if everyone takes the
path of least resistance -- if politicians pander to particular constituen- cies and judges give only wrist slaps to particular groups or mobs who are currently in vogue, and educators indoctrinate their students with “non- judgmental” attitudes -- then the moral infra- structure corrodes and crumbles. The moral infrastruc-
ture is one of the intan- gibles, without which the tangibles don’t work. Like the physical infrastruc- ture, its neglect in the short run invites disaster in the long run.
Thomas Sowell is a se-
nior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni- versity, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is
www.tsowell.com.
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