By Selwyn Duke

The authorities are Johnny on the spot when someone puts bacon on a mosque’s door handles or a paranoid race-car driver claims a garage-door pull rope is a noose. But a spate of Christmas tree burnings isn’t attracting much attention and generally gets sloughed off as mischief. In fact, after a Christmas display was vandalized at a Chicago park recently for the third year running, a media outlet sloughed the act off as the work of a “Grinch.”

So while leftists have often been called “tree-huggers,” it appears that reflecting their usual standard, some trees are more equal than others. Reporting on this Wednesday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson cited the case of a non-profit Chicago group called My Block, My Hood, My City, which aims to encourage virtue and responsibility in youth. Last Saturday afternoon, four members from this group went to the Windy City’s dangerous Bronzeville neighborhood to hang Christmas lights and were robbed by four hooligans; mere hours later, someone torched a Christmas tree they’d erected in a nearby park.

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