{"id":32,"date":"2022-10-08T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokecapital.flywheelsites.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-11-10T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:33:17","slug":"the-morning-call-looks-at-the-recall-of-chesa-boudin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokecapital.org\/the-morning-call-looks-at-the-recall-of-chesa-boudin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Call looks at the recall of Chesa Boudin"},"content":{"rendered":"
SAN FRANCISCO: MAN UNRESTRAINED<\/h3>\r\n\r\n
W<\/strong>hat happened in San Francisco the other day was both remarkable yet utterly predictable.\u00a0 It was a triumph, but one made possible only by recurrent defeat.\u00a0 It was, in short, the story of American society over the last half-century, its bifurcation and its struggle to retain what is left of its formerly immense promise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
As you likely know, on Tuesday, the voters of San Francisco decided overwhelmingly to recall their District Attorney Chesa Boudin.\u00a0 Boudin, of course, is the adopted son of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the erstwhile Weather Underground terrorists who have a made a nice bourgeoise life for themselves in Barack Obama\u2019s old neighborhood in Chicago.\u00a0 Boudin was \u201cadopted\u201d and raised by the Ayers family after his own parents, also Weather Underground terrorists, were convicted of murder in a failed Brinks armored-car robbery that left two police officers and one Brinks security guard dead.\u00a0 Boudin ran for DA on a plat5form of criminal justice \u201creform\u201d and proceeded to reform the city into a ghastly urban hellscape.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Let us begin our discussion today with a reminder: generally speaking, civilized man responds to one of only two constraints on his instinctively selfish and antisocial behavior, conscience or fear, that is to say, morality or law.\u00a0 Or, as the late, great James Q. Wilson put it in a 1994 essay for\u00a0Commentary<\/em>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
There are only two restraints on behavior — morality, enforced by individual conscience or social rebuke, and law, enforced by the police and the courts. If society is to maintain a behavioral equilibrium, any decline in the former must be matched by a rise in the latter (or vice versa). If familial and traditional restraints on wrongful behavior are eroded, it becomes necessary to increase the legal restraints.<\/strong>
Over the last sixty years or so, American society has been the subject of a great experiment.\u00a0 For a variety of reasons \u2013 some benevolent, most malevolent \u2013 American institutions have encouraged the abandonment of the first of the restraints on man\u2019s behavior, morality.\u00a0 This morality, the institutional elites have insisted, is stifling and antiquated and, worst of all, designed specifically to create and maintain division and inequality.\u00a0 The morals of our ancestors, they continued, was based on superstition, not on reason, and was, therefore, ill-equipped to provide real-world answers to real-world problems.\u00a0 In the end, it should be abandoned for the betterment of mankind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n