‘The Law Is A Teacher’: Michael Knowles Reacts To Viral Video Showing El Salvador’s Crackdown On Violent Gangs

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles A viral video was praised by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele gang In humiliating fashion, members were taken to a large prison and sent to it. The inmates claimed that American officials should have the same authority to prevent violent acts. crime.

The murder rate in El Salvador decreased by 56.8% last year after the government of the Latin American nation instituted a crackdown against gang violence. Bukele shared a Video Social media photos showed thousands of gang members in shaved heads, wearing no clothes and only identical white shorts as they were being loaded into buses by heavily armed prison guards. The inmates were then taken by buses to a new supermax prison.

El Salvador is part of MS-13, an infamous gang that targets women and children with brutality. Knowles During a recent episode on “The Michael Knowles Show“The Salvadoran effort for the protection of its population was the result of a concentrated will by the electorate.

“It’s a miracle political program over the last couple of years,” Knowles remarked. “How did El Salvador do that? It wanted to do that. It wanted to fix the murder problem, it mustered the political will to do it, and then the president effecting this policy, sent in troops to go round up MS-13 like the animals that they are.”

Knowles stated that Bukele had been deliberately created by Knowles “created a very slick, highly produced propaganda video humiliating them, and then he put that out there for all the world to see” The unapologetic American approach to criminal justice was compared with the policies of American officials. “We in the United States need to follow the lead of the government of El Salvador,” He continued. “We need to be clear that if you commit crimes, you will be punished for it.”

El Salvador’s video is indeed a follow-up. Report According to the Marshall Project, less than 50% of murders in America were solved by 2020. This is the most alarming metric since the 1970s when 70% of homicides were solved. Americans show their lowest approval of capital punishment in decades, with only 54% responding to a Gallup poll. Survey We were in favor the death penalty being applied to murder victims.

Knowles predicted that American criminals will not be held responsible for their actions. “the libs and the squishes” According to one, the crackdown in El Salvador was inhumane and authoritarian. One Article According to The New Yorker, Bukele was the one who instituted it. “a repressive crackdown on gangs to become Latin America’s most popular leader.”

“Can you be repressive against gangs?” Knowles asked. “Seems like that is actually liberative of the people. It’s not repressive upon the people when you go after these criminals.”

Knowles observed that Bukele is the most beloved leader in the region because of his charisma. “wielding authority to do good, to get the bad guys and to help the good guys.” He encouraged American politicians, judges, and executives alike to follow his lead.

“What he is showing us is that the law is a teacher. We’ve known this all the way back to the ancient Greeks,” Knowles continued. “When the law sends an army to your door and rounds up your gang like the animals they are, you are going to get fewer gangsters, and they are going to commit fewer crimes.”

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