Bush vs Trump revealed when Jeb Bush allowed himself to be bullied by Black Lives Matters hecklers, providing evidence that as president he would cave to those who seek to override rights of others-Thomas Sowell

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9/1/15, "BUSH VS. TRUMP: A REVEALING CLUE," Thomas Sowell, American Spectator

"Can someone be trusted to lead if he allows himself to be bullied?"

8/12/15, Las Vegas

"Even those of us who are not supporters of either Donald Trump or Jeb Bush can learn something by comparing how each of these men handled people who tried to disrupt their question-and-answer period after a speech. 

After Bush’s speech, hecklers from a group called “Black Lives Matter” caused Bush to simply leave the scene. When Trump opened his question-and-answer period by pointing to someone in the audience who had a question, a Hispanic immigration activist who had not been called on simply stood up and started haranguing. 

Trump told the activist to sit down because someone else had been called on. But the harangue continued, until a security guard escorted the disrupter out of the room. And Jeb Bush later criticized Trump for having the disrupter removed! 

What kind of president would someone make who caves in to those who act as if what they want automatically overrides other people’s rights--that the rules don’t apply to them? 

Trump later allowed the disrupter back in, and answered his questions. Whether Trump’s answers were good, bad, or indifferent is irrelevant to the larger issue of rules that apply to everyone. That was not enough to make “The Donald” a good candidate to become President of the United States. He is not. [Why not?] But these revealing incidents raise painful questions about electing Jeb Bush to be leader of the free world. The Republican establishment needs to understand why someone with all Trump’s faults could attract so many people who are sick of the approach that Jeb Bush represents. 

No small part of the internal degeneration of American society has been a result of supposedly responsible officials caving in to whatever group is currently in vogue, and allowing them to trample on everyone else’s rights. Some officials allow “the homeless” to urinate and defecate in public, right on the streets, or let organized hooligans who claim to represent “the 99 percent against the one percent” block traffic and keep neighborhoods awake with their noise through the night. Politicians who exempt from the law certain groups who have been chosen as mascots undermine the basis for a decent society--which everybody, from every group, deserves.

Even those who happen to be in vogue for the moment can lose big time when the vogue changes, as vogues do.

Back in the 1920s, when there was international outrage on the political left over the trial of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to British leftist Harold Laski, pointing out that the trials of black defendants were far worse, but nobody seemed to care about that.

“I cannot but ask myself why this so much greater interest in red than black,” he said.

The vogue has changed since then--and it can change again, when some other group comes along that catches the fancy of the trend-setters, and sways politicians who go along to get along.

The goal of “the rule of law and not of men” has increasingly been abandoned in favor of government picking winners and losers. Too many in the media and in academia do the same.

Time and again, we have seen false charges of rape set off instant lynch mob reactions in the media and academia, regardless of how many previous false charges of rape have later been exposed as hoaxes.

The problem is not with the particular choices made as to whose interests are to override other people’s interests, but that picking winners and losers, in defiance of facts, is choosing a path that demoralizes a society, and leads to either a war of each against all or to a backlash of repression and revenge.

The recent televised murder of two media people by a black man who said that he wanted a “race war” was one sign of the madness of our times. Nobody who knows anything about the history of race wars, anywhere in the world, can expect anything good to come out of it. Unspeakable horrors have been the norm.

It is a long way from a couple of disruptive incidents on the political campaign trail to a race war. But these small incidents are just symptoms of larger and worse things that have already happened in America, when the rules have been routinely waived for some.

We do not need to risk still worse consequences if we get yet another President of the United States who acts as if it is just a question of whose ox is gored." 

Image above, 8/12/15, Jeb Bush and Black Lives Matter audience hecklers, screen shot from video, via Daily Mail

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8/12/15, "The former governor of Florida answered a question on racial inequality - sparking chants of 'Black Lives Matter' from members of the crowd," ap

"In a statement, his (Bush's) campaign team said they had spoken to members of the group before the rally."...  

8/12/15, "Jeb Bush forced to abandon rally early after activists start chanting 'Black Lives Matter'," UK Daily Mail, Wills Robinson

8/12/15

"Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has been forced to abandon a rally early because of a protest from Black Lives Matter.

The former governor of Florida was in Las Vegas for a town hall meeting on Wednesday when he answered a question on racial inequality. 

An advocate in the crowd of around 150 then started to chant their slogan, so he quickly ended his speech and left the venue without making a final statement or shaking hands with members of the audience. 

The music he plays when he walks off stage is heard in the background of a video as the civil rights group keep shouting the mantra. 

It comes just four days after Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders suffered the same fate because of the group's actions during an appearance in Seattle. 

In the past week members have also turned up to one of Hillary Clinton's events. 

Bush was asked about the racial disparities in the criminal justice system that have been exaggerated by black men being killed by white police officers.
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He said that 'these problems have gotten worse in the last few years' and that communities 'no longer trust the basic institutions in our society that they need to trust,' according to CNN. 
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The GOP prospect then said 'perception becomes reality, and there really is racism in America'. 
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Bush has received criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement. He backed Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley for telling protesters that 'all lives matter.'
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In a statement, his campaign team said they had spoken to members of the group before the rally."... 

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Image: "Black Lives Matter protesters invade Jeb Bush campaign event," UK Daily Mail screen shot from video

 

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