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Aug. 27, 2020<\/div>\n
Daniel Greenfield<\/a><\/div>\n

Placerville is a pleasant place to spend a day visiting wineries and touring historical buildings from the Gold Rush era. The small California city once did its best to shed the rough days of the mining camps, back when it was known as Dry Diggings or Hangtown, before embracing the image all over again to lure in the tourists.<\/p>\n

Placerville\u2019s logo is bordered by rope, its former name, \u201cOld Hangtown,\u201d gets second place on the town seal, and behind the miner panning for gold is a noose hanging from a tree.<\/p>\n

And that noose is the problem.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/i>\u00a0screed complained about the challenges of bringing \u201ceven a whiff of the widespread reckoning on race to the conservative corners of California that need it the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Placerville has 162 black people living there.<\/p>\n

But a paranoid symptom of the endless reckoning and wrecking has been finding nooses all over the place. Bubba Wallace thought a pull rope in a NASCAR garage was a noose. White women have\u00a0mistaken\u00a0<\/a><\/span>pinatas and swings for nooses while clutching their copies of Robin DeAngelo\u2019s racist anti-racist tract. So there was no way that Hangtown was going to get away.<\/p>\n

Placerville was getting rid of Hangtown all over again for the sake of respectability.<\/p>\n

A petition falsely claimed that Hangtown \u201cglorifies and celebrates a violent and racist history\u201d and that it suggests that \u201cracial hate crimes are acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/i>\u00a0insisted that \u201cAmerican Indians \u2014 along with Chinese immigrants and Mexicans\u201d were the ones being strung up.<\/p>\n

\u201cNative people get left out of the conversation, even though, in this case, I feel certain they were the primary victims of mob justice or vigilantism or whatever you want to call it,\u201d Brendan Lindsay, a history professor at Sacramento State, is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

A history professor telling readers what he \u201cfeels\u201d happened is not especially reassuring. But history, like Hangtown, is dead. And facts are just dry real things that no one really cares about.<\/p>\n

Hangtown got the name after five men tried to rob a Mexican gold prospector named Lopez.<\/p>\n

Three of the men were also accused of the previous murder of a Frenchman. One of them was from Chile or, variously, a Spaniard, the other two were described as French.<\/p>\n

The three were hung.<\/p>\n

The other major hanging at Hangtown took place after a fight between Richard \u201cIrish Dick\u201d Crone and a Chilean miner.<\/p>\n

Crone killed his Chilean opponent, and a contingent of Chilean miners took the lead in lynching him. Various accounts have Crone either cursing blasphemously or telling the lynch mob, \u201cDon\u2019t be impatient, gentlemen. I\u2019ll soon give you a fair lay out.\u201d<\/p>\n

As in the case of who shot Liberty Valance, you often print the legend.<\/p>\n

The gambling hall where Crone committed his murder is a popular Placerville stop for ghost hunters who claim that the boyish New Orleans gambler still haunts it today.<\/p>\n

Hangtown got its name from a crime that occurred between, in modern politically correct parlance, Latinos. Its second most famous hanging was championed by Latinos.<\/p>\n

Despite all the intersectional rhetoric about \u201cindigenous\u201d people, the Chilean miners were as European as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and would have killed anyone who said otherwise.<\/p>\n

Two of the victims of Hangtown\u2019s two pivotal crimes were from south of the border. Two of the men who were hung were Frenchmen who didn\u2019t speak English. One was Irish.<\/p>\n

But in an era when pinatas, pull ropes and swings can be mistaken for nooses, mere facts are weak things to put up against performative emotive hysteria. The\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/i>insists that Placerville needs to make a reckoning with its racist history when it lynched the French and the Irish. And so Hangtown\u2019s name and the noose from its city have to go.<\/p>\n

The petition to keep the noose and the name earned\u00a0three times<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as many signatures as the petition to take them off. But politicians have stopped listening to voters as well as to the facts.<\/p>\n

Placerville got its current name when the city fathers decided to shed its old history for respectability. After revisiting that history for glamor and tourism, they\u2019re shedding it again.<\/p>\n

Does it matter to anyone outside Placerville whether it keeps the Hangtown name and noose?<\/p>\n

Hangtown\u2019s actual history does have some troubling things for all of us to reckon with. The California mining camps were lawless and multicultural. The wildest western doesn\u2019t even come close to capturing the state of lawlessness or the response by an armed male population.<\/p>\n

The rope wasn\u2019t the racist tool of repression by white men against minorities.<\/p>\n

People from all across the world arrived during the California Gold Rush. Many didn\u2019t speak English. And many shrugged at robbery and murder. Tribal encampments popped up based on region and language. People grouped together with those of their own kind for security.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what a history professor \u201cfeels,\u201d everyone lynched and was lynched.<\/p>\n

Mexicans, Chileans, Indians, Chinese, black and white men killed and hung each other. Larger parties could assemble for firefights. Vendettas dragged in innocent people of the wrong race.<\/p>\n

There were indeed racist massacres, but they weren\u2019t limited to any one side.<\/p>\n

In a tribal atmosphere when people didn\u2019t even share a common language, vigilante bands took out an atrocity on any male members of the group, white, Mexican, Indian, that carried it out.<\/p>\n

This is why we have police and a justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s \u2018justice,\u2019 as in \u2018vigilante justice,\u2019 which pairs nicely with the Trump administration\u2019s current, racist re-branding of it as \u2018law and order.\u2019\u201d the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/i>\u00a0stupidly rants. \u201cThen as now \u2014 whether it\u2019s an Indigenous man in what\u2019s now Placerville, labeled by a mob jury as a thief and hanged, or a protester in Portland, labeled by federal agents as violent and grabbed from the streets \u2014 it\u2019s the same extrajudicial punishment being unfairly meted out against Black and brown people, and white allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Law and order is the alternative to vigilante justice. It\u2019s what keeps racist violence from taking over. The media and the Democrats oppose judicial punishments for criminals as unfair. But without police and a functional judicial system, vigilante justice, fair or unfair, takes over.<\/p>\n

Just ask the folks at CHOP during their Summer of Love.<\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter and the racist hate group\u2019s allies, when they aren\u2019t complaining about the noose in Hangtown, want to defund the police and take us back to the California mining camps. And if you think that\u2019s an exaggeration, look at the rising rate of murders in Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and New York City. It\u2019s the Gold Rush, but with drugs instead of gold.<\/p>\n

And while there were few women and children in the California mining camps, there are plenty of them being shot and even killed as collateral damage in gun battles between urban gangs.<\/p>\n

Take away the police, and what\u2019s left is crime and vigilante justice.<\/p>\n

Like the California camps, urban areas are dangerous, violent and tribal, filled with ethnic and racial groups that don\u2019t share a common language or even a common moral code.<\/p>\n

Democrat activists are urging us to imagine a world without police. That\u2019s easy enough to do. Go back in time, tear down the suburbs, the 911 system, prisons, and revert back to a world in which safety comes from being part of an armed group ready to kill or be killed.<\/p>\n

Placerville is a warning. Underneath every placid town exterior lies something darker and uglier. Civilization is moral, but it\u2019s also institutional. The California camps were what happened when large multicultural male populations, prone to taking risks, made their own law and security.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s major cities, and increasingly some of its towns and suburbs, are the scenes of violent clashes between young risk-taking males who aren\u2019t married and aren\u2019t interested in raising families, but find their own gold rush in selling cocaine, heroin, meth and other drugs.<\/p>\n

Defund the police and the history of Hangtown won\u2019t be the past, it\u2019ll be our future.<\/p>\n

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This article was first published by\u00a0FrontPage Magazine<\/a><\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Daniel Greenfield<\/a><\/div>\n
Daniel Greenfield is an Israeli-born journalist and columnist with nearly 20 years of experience writing for conservative publications. His work spans national and international stories, covering politics, history, and culture. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with industry legends like David Horowitz, interviewed senators and congressmen, and shared the stories of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary challenges. His first book,\u00a0Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers\u2019 Fight Against the Left<\/em><\/a>, explores the forgotten struggles that shaped America\u2019s early history.<\/div>\n

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