Posted on 12/22/2014 8:18:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The way to honor those who defend our liberties with their lives — as did my father and grandfather — is not to curtail liberty, but to exercise it fully in pursuit of a just and peaceful society.
According to Ecclesiastes, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose.” For me, today, that means a time to seek justice and a time to mourn the dead.
The recent brutal murder of two Brooklyn police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, is a national tragedy that should inspire nationwide mourning. Both my grandfather and father were police officers, so I appreciate what a difficult and dangerous profession law enforcement is. We need to value and celebrate the many officers dedicated to protecting the public and nourishing our justice system. It’s a job most of us don’t have the courage to do.
At the same time, however, we need to understand that their deaths are in no way related to the massive protests against systemic abuses of the justice system as symbolized by the recent deaths—also national tragedies—of Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, and Michael Brown.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the suicidal killer, wasn’t an impassioned activist expressing political frustration, he was a troubled man who had shot his girlfriend earlier that same day. He even Instagrammed warnings of his violent intentions. None of this is the behavior of a sane man or rational activist. The protests are no more to blame for his actions than The Catcher in the Rye was for the murder of John Lennon or the movie Taxi Driver for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Crazy has its own twisted logic and it is in no way related to the rational cause-and-effect world the rest of us attempt to create.
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Celebrated? Not by me.
A Moslem quoting Ecclesiastes? He couldn’t quote from the Koran?
A delusional man trying to convince himself as well as others.
I didn’t read the whole article per FReeper SOP. But somehow I doubt Alcindor calls out Al Sharpton for his “dead cops” rhetoric.
Kareem Abdul-Jabar is so obnoxious. When the Lakers used to play the Pistons, I always wanted Bill Lambeer to land an elbow right in his eye.
Moving Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the loath folder.
Folder is filling up.
” I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense.”
I don't know about the Gurley case, but I agree that Garner was killed wrongfully. Brown, on the other hand, got what was coming to him.
The two cops' deaths *were* connected to protestors involved in the Garner/Brown cases. Jabbar needs to SHUT UP and stop spouting provably wrong drivel.
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised by the outpouring of nauseating hate and joy expressed by many on the left over the execution of two New York City police officers. In truth, there is a case to be made to ignore the celebration of death, not give it any oxygen to breathe nor acknowledge it exists in any way.
But holding up these examples of inhumanity for all to see is both necessary and proper. It is necessary because it’s a record of hypocrisy that the entire left cannot ignore. And it is proper because it is instructive as to the depths that humans can sink in their depravity.
They were compiled — many of them — by LilMissRightie from #BlueLivesMatter, a hashtag hijacked by protestors earlier.
I will simply let the tweets speak for themselves. Via Twitchy:
Wow… Let me almost care RT @MichaelSkolnik: Sources tell me that both NYPD officers shot in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn have passed away.
— Broke and Nameless (@Beckz) December 20, 2014
Guess NYPD can’t breathe after all
— Brandon (@Nawshus) December 20, 2014
I couldn’t care less about those cops though .. to be completely honest. I can’t even pretend to.
— Browniee (@SlapMyDinosaur) December 20, 2014
LMR apologizes for upsetting people:
Sorry guys, these tweets are revolting, I know. But we need the reminder how defective some of these protest people really are.
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
It gets worse:
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
LilMissRightie should be commended for her compilation of mentally unbalanced thoughts from some pretty despicable human beings. Two more from her on the next page.
That was just an hour’s worth of tweets and they were going so fast no way I caught them all. This will continue all through the night.
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
Pray for our country. If you’re not the praying type, please put something good out in the universe today. We desperately need it.
— #BlueLivesMatter (@LilMissRightie) December 20, 2014
Jeez Kareem, I kinda like ya dude, but the is NO institutional racism.
Had to do a double take, to make sure Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote it.
Already enough open source info to refute the claim that this wasn’t driven by Obama’s Martin, Brown, etc rhetoric.
You mean like the institutionalized racism in the NBA?
Dear Fake Assumed Muslim Name:
I took your article to my nearest college campus to discuss its merits with any black students I found.
I went to the African American-only Diversity Dorm, on-campus home to African American-only scholarship recipients who were admitted despite having test scores and grades well below the university’s thresholds for any other group and was told I was not welcome. Same story at the African American Only Racial Justice Student Union. Someone uttered something about white privilege from an upstairs window but they withdrew and called campus security to complain about racial animus before I could respond.
The only thing worse than the double standard constantly espoused by the likes of you is the smug, self-righteous manner in which is it delivered and the mindless cliches you employ.
Well, then, the guy who was aiming at institutionalized racism was a very bad shot, because while he was aiming at institutionalized racism, it seems like he blew holes through the heads of two police officers.
Got explanation?
I guess he really wasn’t using a gun either. No, he staged a “die-in” inside the police car. What a skilled organizer.
And...that stuff he wrote on his Instagram account? That was just a joke, he didn’t really mean it.
Do I have it about right?
OK... This got me...
“This phony and logically baffling indignation...”
Projection. Pure projection. He doesn’t recognize legit outrage because he subscribes to faux outrage at every turn. He simply can’t recognize legit outrage.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.; April 16, 1947) is a retired American professional basketball player...
Source: Wikipedia
Lew Alcindor trying to disconnect what a black career criminal & cop-killer did from the Brown & Garner cases, despite the explicit link that the murderer made on social media and to bystanders just before he pulled the trigger. NYPD is a majority minority police dept. What “institutionalized racism!?” Alcindor is a punk.
True, but since Alcindor was writing about “institutional racism” at large, I was pretty sure he would pass on the chance to renounce the racism that is now institutionalized by Al, Jesse and Holder.
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