Broken Windows Are Killing Jews
The Romance of Leniency and Its Bondi Corpses
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One of the most dangerous myths in modern political life is the belief that violent movements announce themselves fully formed—that there is a neat moral divide between “ordinary protesters” and “extremists,” between speech and bloodshed.
This is comforting nonsense.
Violence does not arrive fully formed. It emerges through testing. In any mass movement, you do not find a single moral character but a distribution. Most are merely angry, confused, or performing grievance for status. Beyond them are gradations: those who relish incendiary speech, those who normalise threats, those who enjoy intimidation, those willing to vandalise, those prepared to assault, and a smaller but decisive minority who will kill if allowed.
When the lower tiers are indulged, the higher tiers advance. Rhetoric hardens into menace, menace into action, action into atrocity—pogroms in Amsterdam, slaughter in Bondi Beach, assassinations in New York. None of this is sudden. It is cumulative.
Crucially, almost none or few of these people know in advance where their own limit lies. Their restraints are not internal. They are discovered only when imposed. People push until something stops them. When nothing does, they continue.
