With looting black-owned stores starting to become a public relations problem for leftist anti-police protesters, they've returned to their old standby: statue-toppling. As if directed by some Mighty Integral, statues of Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Mohandas Gandhi, Matthias Baldwin (a Philadelphia abolitionist), Abraham Lincoln, Boy Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell, father of modern policing Robert Peel, Captain James Cook, and Sir Francis Drake were all targeted for vandalism, removal, or destruction across the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.  Cecil Rhodes apparently escaped only because the protesters didn't know who he was.  The suddenness of this collective madness, so redolent of the Taliban's Bamiyan Buddha destruction or Pol Pot's or Robespierre's bid to erase history and start at zero, is worth a blog post of...(Read Full Post)