Glenn Beck

These are not just part of some group.

These are historically recognizable markers of an end of a civilization.

When the behaviors appear to question no longer, is this a demonstration?

The question becomes, is someone trying to build veto power over law enforcement through fear?

That's how we describe terrorism.

Once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly, too dangerous, too politically radioactive, then law becomes optional.

And when the law is optional, what is the next step?

It's not persuasion.

It's escalation.

Third fact, cities are now laboratories when enforcement is inconsistent.

And this is the part that's really hard to say out loud because it sounds like an insult to the city, but it isn't.

It's sociology.

When you have an environment with deep political polarization, a high distrust of institutions, uneven persecution or prosecution, sorry, activist ecosystems with strong NGO infrastructure and money coming from the state and a constant media feedback loop, those conditions don't automatically produce violence, but they do produce something else.

They produce a repeated stress test, not one riot, not one clash, but a series of them.

And they start to probe how fast can we mobilize?

What are police allowed to do?

Will any of the prosecutors follow through?

Will federal authorities pull back if we make it ugly enough?

Can we create martyrs?

Remember their name, remember their name.