Anti-social behavior in Riots and looting

 

So you can’t reform a rioter, I heard at the Oklahoma Republican Committee Meeting. They had some new legislators introduce themselves and speak briefly.  Rep. Randy Randlewood of District 15 in eastern OK (been Dem represented for almost 100 years!) got up and said that he had checked this and discovered he was the first psychologist ever elected to the OK legislature.  Everyone laughed and cheered.  But I caught him after the talk and visited for awhile.  Illuminating.  His firm serves 115 public schools and the OK Corrections Dept. He began to talk about what was happening with Antifa.  The fact that they were indiscriminate in the damage they do, and to the people they beat to near death, worries psychologists--this is Antisocial Behavior.  That’s the way people behave when they have had so many abuses/traumas in their lives or have dug themselves into such a hole of crime that they are essentially beyond therapy.  Their hate is so complexly ingrained, they will slit a throat in the morning and then continue on the rest of the day as if nothing had happened.  Like the BTK killer of Wichita?  Randy agreed said that short of a true spiritual awakening, these folks are virtually unreformable and must be watched by authorities constantly.  When these folks are young they often torture and kill animals. And the indiscrimate attacks?  Normal people, committed to a cause think about how some behavior appears to others.  When someone tears down monuments to both Lincoln and a confederate general, or burns both black and white businesses, indiscriminate behavior, it shows they’re just tearing things down and burning—just showing hatred of everybody and everything, i.e. antisocial.  And if some group like the Democrats think they are going to take advantage of this anger, they will soon learn that such individuals will not stop looting and rioting when the Democrats call a hault. Only force dissuades and curbs them.