Wacky Wednesday--Rioting Makes Sense

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~Some things are so horrible, that violence is the proper response.
~When a government fails to provide for the life, liberty, and property of its citizens, it is illegitimate.
~There is always a time when negotiation fails, just like with warfare.
~People can only be expected to endure so much.
~Riots create jobs when the repairs come in.
~A riot is nothing more than collective expressions of anger. It feels good to punch a pillow or break something, well, a riot is just a massive expression of that.
~The American Revolution was just a riot. In fact, the Boston Tea Party could certainly be described as a riot.
~Thomas Jefferson “Every generation needs a new revolution.”
~Only the poor and the ill-educated resort to rioting. Which means that society has failed them so badly that it deserves this.
~Rioting is so abhorred by civil society because it is barbaric, but the veneer of civilization is sometimes so thin that to puncture it and behave barbarically is the only appropriate educational response.
~You feel better after you’ve had your riot.
~It definitely gets attention for your cause.
~It can work because it plays on the cognitive dissonance of the person who believes that all human beings are rational. This looks like irrational behavior, which cannot be the case, so it must be well-deserved, hence our fault.

Links:
A Biblical perspective on the LA Riots (John Macarthur)
Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
Letter From A Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Statement by the Alabama Clergy To MLK (pdf, but small)
Civil Disobedience Objections Considered (Peter Suber)
Index To Non-Violent Action (Activism.net)