Posted on 07/31/2009 3:17:46 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Complete text of Officer Barrett's e-mail Below is the text of Boston Police Officer Justin Barrett's e-mail sent to Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham following her July 21, 2009, column about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. The message was sent all in one paragraph. Punctuation and spelling are the author's.
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Never known a cop like that. Nope.
They don't beat their wives, either.
And never, never hit "send" when you're angry and want to throw a tirade at the other person. Set it aside until your temper is back under control. Then, throw it away and start over.
Yikes. MSM loves to print stuff like that.
LOL...that would cut FR traffic by at least 80%!
This looks like BS to me....can this e-mail be verified?
Yep. And the MSM thinks that for every Crowley there are ten Barretts.
Gates and Obama probably high-fived each other over this.
You noticed that too? :-))
I took it from The Boston Globe website. I would assume they verified it. It was alleged sent straight to them.
Noticed it? I’m regularly hip deep in the middle of it!
I would have never guessed that he once worked as an English teacher.
Very good advice.
This ain’t just another guy hoping to get some beer at the White House Tavern on the Green.
"That was, by far, the worst article I've ever read. I am a former English teacher, writer,.........You need to be corrected and I certainly hope others have attempted, for your written messages and material is so 4th grade level.........I might as well ax you the question. "Is this your first test at reporting?".............Go ahead, ax me what I think?"
Sure hope I never get pulled over by a cop and have him walk up to my window and say "Sir, I'd like to ax you a few questions."
The ‘ax’ spelling was an attempt at ironic racism in and of itself. The real clincher here is that this writer actually copped to being an english teacher before writing the scrambled thoughts from a mangled brain. The use of the phrase “Jungle Monkey” (which I have to admit I never heard before and which I have to guiltily admit makes me giggle a little which is wrong on so many different levels I am ashamed to say), does say that he is indeed a racist. You just don’t use a phrase like that half a dozen times and be anything but racist (sorry, still giggling).
Finally, I heard this former officer was on Larry King and tried to say he was not racist. Come on. I mean, I think we are all racist and can’t help it, black and white. What we try to do is keep the worse angels of our nature down so we can try to be dispassionate or inclusive or professional or something approaching objective. We all have a wide kaleidescope of hopes and fears inside of us. We are made that way. Reasonable people can form a society if they can look beyond their kaleidescope and try to see things in a common light. This officer is so reflective of the fractured shards of colored glass that sprinkle over his brain that he is unaware of his scrambled thoughts...truly.
For that reason, I think the officer should probably be drug tested because that rant really looks meth induced...it certainly goes beyond Panamanian coffee with a hint of sweetened condensed milk, that’s for sure.
As far as I know it isn’t illegal to be a racist. I am. I see differences between people of different races and that’s all it takes to be a racist today.
As I understand it Barrett wrote this on either his own or a family member’s computer; on his own time. I’m not sure to whom he sent this other than the Boston Glob.
Seems to be a case of 1st Amendment rights. If this guy has no record of racist or discriminatory actions and BPD fires him for expressing his opinion...I’m not sure this guy won’t win at least in any court outside of Mass.
The “send” button may be next to obama the most dangerous thing on the planet.
LOL!
So you saying it not true?
Not a case of First Amendment Rights.
And if a one of the people that works under me wrote the same letter to a newspaper, signed their name and indicated their company name, they would be gone in a second.
Of course its true.
But now back to Earth. Would they print some random leftist spouting nonsense if it didnt fit their template? How about all the cowpie that flies out of Kucinich and Maxine Waters and the rest of the leftwingnuts? News = propaganda with the Allinsky- neo-Marxist MSM.
If you are writing as a representative of a company then the company has cause. Similar to the concept of agency I think.
If you are identifying your work affiliation as a matter of full disclosure, where relevant, then there is no cause. In this case he identifies himself as a current police officer; not specifically a Boston police officer. Always best to throw in that blurb about opinions are mine and do not reflect those of my employer blah, blah, blah.
There are probably all sorts of other avenues to try to get rid of the guy. Damage to company reputation, increased risk of some kind of incident etc.
But this guy sends an email to the author of an article. This isn't even an op-ed piece. Seems to me he has the right to express his opinion—regardless of how painful it is to read—without fear of retaliatory actions on anyone's part.
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