Tearing down statutes isn’t equivalent to looting stores or assaulting people. But allowing any riotous act to accomplish a political end sets a bad precedent.
The freedom to speak on campus does not, of course, either guarantee you an audience or confer upon you the right to “occupy” any part of campus.
If the section of the bill repealing the medical-use exemption is deleted when House and Senate versions are reconciled, the result will be a sensible and appropriate response to the protests.
In recent weeks, pro-Palestinian protests have roiled college campuses nationwide. In many instances, protests led to encampments, which in some instances resulted in takeovers of university grounds, facilities, and buildings. Thus far, North Carolina’s colleges and universities have been spared the worst effects of the protests and rioting, thanks in no small part to quick...
This week I spent some time in Edenton, North Carolina. While the scenery is amazing on a spring afternoon, the town’s history intrigues me more. This quaint harbor was the setting of one of our nation’s first revolutions organized completely by women. In 1774, the Edenton Tea Party served as a rallying cry for independence...
We can't live in a society where words are violence, silence is violence, but vigilantes, for example, trapping a stadium full of sports fans in their seats for three hours or taking a hammer to Michelangelo's David is innocent protest.
While the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals quickly issued a stay on the OSHA vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), the Biden administration insisted that companies ignore the stay and proceed with the mandate. No matter what the courts or the Biden administration do, we the people of NC must prevent the implementation of this mandate...
“You don’t matter.” Three words. Eloquent in their simplicity, biting in their clarity. They come from a letter, posted on Facebook, from the N.C. Bar and Tavern Association. They come a day after the group’s founder, Zack Medford, who, in a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, writes poignantly about how the lockdowns have crippled his...
A 2015 law enacted by bipartisan majorities in the General Assembly had forbidden state or local officials from removing public monuments except under limited circumstances. And, of course, preexisting state law made it a crime for private citizens, acting individually or as part of a mob, to deface, damage, or remove a public monument whatever their feelings about it might be.
To allow the mob to achieve its objective in removing Silent Sam would reward criminality, weaken the rule of law, and set a dangerous precedent. What might the next mob do?
We simply can’t have people defacing public property because legal attempts to redress their grievances haven’t yet succeeded, or attempting to coerce government agencies to comply by threatening criminal action.
