Mobs:

Toronto's inner city space is overrun with noisy mobs these days. You'd think we actually had no procedures to redress social ills and no politicians with enough backbone to have them enforced.

The process of peaceful co-existence seems to have been subverted by noisy minority groups who have nothing better to do than to gather in the streets, bellowing loudly to draw attention to their causes.

There's the inner city feminist mob, the indeterminate sexuality (LGBT-whatever) mob, and, most prominent lately, the Black Lives Matter mob.

The BLM mob, bent on bringing attention to the killing of a black man with a hammer by a cop, has been receiving most attention from the electronic media lately. At its nucleus are a pair of stridently loud black females with a megaphone, an accusatory attitude and language suitable for launching bloody revolution.

We can only hope that at some point in their undertaking, they come to realize that their message would be more effective if it included all lives, not just black lives. And if, having achieved that, they might proceed to use their influence on their own community to take up that message.

Even better, they might get their community to cooperate with the police when witnesses to shootings should step forth to make law enforcement easier.

Let's hope their efforts evolve into a learning experience for them with achievable goals that will benefit all of us.