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Over the past week we have seen Black Lives Matter protests turn violent in cities across the country.  In Phoenix a mob hurled rocks and bricks at police.  In Minneapolis they used molotov cocktails.  5 cops were murdered at a BLM rally in Dallas and others were shot at in cities like St. Louis and San Antonio.  Such violence, orchestrated by organizations for whom the delegitimization of the police and our political institutions has been a multi-decade project threatens chaos which strikes at the pillars of civil society.  They do it to gain political power through threats and intimidation rather than at the ballot box and through the people's elected representatives.  This is a threat to free government that well meaning people must counter.