The McCloskey Story, and Crisis in America

By Rich Kozlovich

This video surfaced on the internet showing Mark McCloskey and his wife standing up to the barbarians who standing outside home with guns, and that's when this mob "turned mostly peaceful".  Becca Woods posted an article yesterday entitled,  Neighbors Sign Letter Condemning St. Louis Gun-Bearing Couple.

She notes that nearly three dozen of the McCloskey's neighbors signed the letter condemning the McCloskey's with a lot of meaningless drivel as she notes:

The letter explains that Westermore Place and the adjoining street Portland Place are historic neighborhoods with the City of St. Louis representing many walks of life. "As the undersigned, we condemn the behavior of anyone who uses threats of violence, especially through the brandishing of firearms, to disrupt peaceful protest, whether it be in this neighborhood or anywhere in the United States," the letter reads. The residents wrote that they seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society. 

Okay, that really sounds nice, but what exactly does it mean when they claim they would "seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society"?

These "protesters" were armed, violent, destructive, they made threats to these people's lives and property" but after they smashed through the gate they were "mostly peaceful".  Especially when guns there were aimed at them.  Exactly what "positive action and constructive dialogue" do they think would have worked on these barbarians.  What would have worked to prevent them from wreaking havoc on this now broken into, no longer secure, no longer safe, gated community that would "build a civil society"? And why did they separate themselves and live in a gated community in the first place?  Do I detect the faint odor of hypocrisy?  Imagine that!

Based on their letter, we have to assume they have some sort of system in mind!  Right?  If that's so, and since they're shooting off their mouths, it must be so, then I have to ask why didn't they go out into the streets and confront these barbarians with their "positive action plan with its constructive dialogue"?   Afraid?  Why?  Weren't the "mostly" peaceful? 

It's easy to be brave when someone else has driven the barbarians off.

Let's face it, this letter, beyond the leftist pandering narrative, never states how they would have handled that mess.  But one thing we absolutely know, they never once stepped out into the streets and stood up to do anything, let alone "seek positive action and constructive dialogue" with this armed band of thugs.

However, it seems the McCloskey's are a lawsuit happy couple and a pain in the butt on the best of days, at least it appears that way in the article, Neighbors From Hell? The Insane Drama Behind the Gun-Toting St. Louis Lawyer Couple.  The author outlines all the issues between the McClosky's, his neighbors, the local homeowners association and others.  They even sued forcing the previous owner to sell the house to them, and the turmoil has never ended, including pulling guns on people before. People who did not represent harm to them. 

I've often wondered why would anyone want to live in a gated community with people who don't want you living there, and then, after moving in, stirring up strife.  Who wants to live that way? Some things are worth standing up for, and some things just aren't worth the aggravation, and the McCloskey's don't seem to have a aggravation filter.  If all that's being said about them is true, I wouldn't want them as neighbors either.

But all that's a separate issue!

The real issue is the willingness to defend society against barbarians, and the one thing history has shown beyond contestation is this: In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians will win every time, and the McCloskey's are living amidst a society of wimps.

But now they're not only facing the neighbors.  As Andrea Widburg points out in this article:

A mob, some members of which appeared to be armed and dangerous, trespassed on the McCloskeys’ property. The McCloskeys used guns to warn the mob off their property but did not fire the guns. Now, a prosecutor who won her election with help from George Soros, says that the McCloskeys’ conduct constituted a “violent assault” that may justify a criminal charge. Missouri is a “stand your ground” state.

She goes on to show time after time how corrupt left wing politicians are siding with barbarians and thugs against peaceful citizens defending themselves against violent out of control black and white leftist radicals.   And that's in states with right to stand laws

As she notes at the end of her piece.

With Democrats defunding the police or driving them off the streets, people of all colors are going to resort to self-defense. It’s legal in one form or another across America,and people's lizard brains are going to react hard when threatened. We’re at a perilous moment in America if leftists first deprive people of police protection and then activist prosecutors criminalize self-defense only when whites do it. If people do not believe they are getting the benefit of equal protection under the law, they will stop complying with the law entirely.

It's crisis time in America!