Posted on 12/22/2014 2:02:17 PM PST by jazusamo
The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police.
Those cheap shots are in fact very expensive shots, not only to the police themselves but to the whole society. Someone once said that civilization is a thin crust over a volcano. The police are part of that thin crust. We have seen before our own eyes, first in Ferguson, Missouri and then in other communities, what happens when there is just a small crack in that crust, and barbarism and arson burst out.
That can happen anywhere. So can what happened in New York. "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."
It is a painful irony that, on the eve of the murders of these two police officers in New York, some of the city's police were already saying that, in the event of their deaths, they did not want Mayor Bill de Blasio to attend their funerals.
We can only hope that Mayor de Blasio has some residual decency, so that he will not defile these two officers' memorial services with his presence. No politician in the country has done more to play the race card against the police and spread the notion that cops are the big problem in minority communities.
It so happens that the police officers killed were both members of minority groups Officer Rafael Ramos, Hispanic, and Officer Wenjian Liu, Asian. It so happens that a substantial part of the New York City police force are members of minority groups.
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Great column.
The left can see a clear connection between an obscure map with crosshairs on it by Sarah Palin and the shooting of Gabby Giffords but see no connection between the demonization of police and calls for violence by Obama, Holder, and the left and the killing of 2 cops.
The fact is you probably can find somewhere a DNC memo that says to push this issue, along with the “war on women,” raising the minimum wages, etc.
There’s no question but this was a coordinated campaign by Obama and the Democrats. And they should be held accountable.
The Profanity-Laced Message Russell Simmons Tweeted to the NY Post, Police Union Then Deleted
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/22/the-profanity-laced-message-russell-simmons-tweeted-to-the-ny-post-police-union-then-deleted/
Thanks...Simmons is scum.
I didn’t want to post a thread due to the f-bombs.
Let those who have laid a guilt trip on people in our times, for evils done by other people in past centuries, at least face their own responsibility for the evil consequences of their own notions and policies. If they won’t do it, then the rest of us need to stop listening gullibly to what they are saying.
Bears repeating.
Progressives never seem to have consequences for their actions. They’ve jumped the shark with this.
My favorite conservative author!
“The race card is nothing to play with. It can ruin us all.”
That's soooooo good...
Bttt!
“The number of dead [620,000 to 750,000 Civil War dead]is roughly equal to the number of slaves imported to North America during all the years it was practiced”
It is an astonishing number. The pain and loss felt by the survivors of the war obviously resonated for generations afterward.
But does the BGI acknowledge the debt they have to the country that tore itself apart to abolish slavery?
bump for good post on Sowell
One of the best pieces I have ever seen out of Sowell.
Bump
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Welcome Hardens Hollow, you’re on.
He's a commie, literally, so you can scratch that.
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