Germany showed some backbone dealing with troublemakers today. From the BBC:
Officers evicted about 50 residents at Liebig 34 – a now-rare symbol of the German capital’s radical-left alternative community.
The graffiti-covered building, located in a gentrified part of former East Berlin, had housed an “anarchist-queer-feminist” community since 1999.
The owner decided not to renew the lease two years ago, and sued the occupants when they refused to leave.
Police began enforcing the eviction order early on Friday. A few hundred people held a protest as officers removed residents from the four-storey building one by one.
Most large American cities have similar squatter houses: “Safe spaces” for radicals, criminal or otherwise. They are also all filthy and covered in graffiti. Here is what the inside of Liebig 34 looked like on eviction day:
Houses such as Liebig 34 offer refuge to any criminal thug who can repeat a leftist slogan. They are also indoctrination centers for apolitical druggies and waifs who wander in because they have nowhere else to live.
Governments across the West have all the weapons, crowd-control equipment, and vehicles they need to put down riots. All that’s missing is someone to give the orders.