The Good Quote

"Perhaps USA Today [which editorialized against the "poor repressed Muslims" excuse for the London horror] recognizes what's happening now in Britain as a kind of replay of what happened in the United States decades ago, when "riot ideology" was dominant in our cities. Urban historian Fred Siegel coined that phrase to describe the implicit threat made by some black leaders: Give us money, or else burn, baby, burn. Many top politicians, white and black, were happy to invoke the threat of riots as a way of extracting more federal money.

"The reign of riot ideology was not broken until the 1990s, when, as Siegel observed in an interview, people in both political parties finally wised up.

"But today, Siegel continued, the British, not learning from the American experience, have fallen into the same trap - handing out money to noisy hustlers who threaten violence otherwise. Yet the result is more violence, not less. As he noted, the government-funded storefront community center in Leeds proved to be an "incubator" for the July 7 bombers."

James P. Pinkerton in Newsday (h/t Real Clear Politics)