The Atlanta insurrection is the Münster rebellion all over again, and it ought to be dealt with similarly.

1534

• Anti-Catholic radicals settled in the town of Münster, in the Westphalia region of northern Germany, and distributed pamphlets among the poor calling for the absolute equality of man in all matters
• The pamphlets had it that the poor were the elect of Heaven and, by golly, they ought to reap some benefit from that
• Eventually, the radicals figured out that God was calling them to take political power over the town, and when the locals had been sufficiently converted to the new radical egalitarian faith, they managed to sweep the local elections, depose the old-line magistrates in charge, and elect one of their number, a wealthy wool merchant named Bernhard Knipperdolling, as the mayor
• When rebaptism became compulsory, and the zealots began rampaging through cathedrals and monasteries and smashing statues and other icons, the adults elsewhere began to take a more jaundiced view of what Bockelson and others were calling the "New Jerusalem"
• Franz von Waldeck, who was the Catholic bishop, was among those not enjoying the happenings in his town; in fact, the Anabaptists showed him the city gate and insisted that he reside on the other side of it
• He took his expulsion with a deficit of good cheer, in fact raising an army and laying siege to the city

The Anabaptists did achieve social justice, in that, other than Bockelson's little ruling elite, the citizens of Münster were all equally starving under the siege.

• But alas, it didn't last. After 1535, the bishop stormed the city, routed its defenders, and rounded up the rebellion's leadership.

Today, we have "white flight," "municipal bankruptcy," and "federal indictments" as a way of policing totalitarian heresies.

• But there's a problem with that: our experience seems to show that modern ways, humane though they may be, are a bit less effective in proving to the fanatics that their theories don't work.
• Bishop von Waldeck was able to restore Münster to market economics and civil society in just 18 months and there is no such timetable for Atlanta.

https://spectator.org/georgia-should-crush-antifa-without-mercy/