Posted on 12/05/2006 1:46:40 AM PST by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I live in the area. The news coverage of this story makes me groan. Every once in a while they slightly mention that the vehicular assault of the officer. Mostly they just forget about that aspect of the case.
I shudder whenever I hear of a case like this - I know exactly what will happen. I have mugged and jumped numerous times by inner city youth. There is a profound racism in this country, but it is not in whites. Sharpton and Barron etc should not be given the respect they get in the media. They are both slime.
Has the statute of limitations expired yet?
";^)
Too bad the whole force just doesn't walk off the job for the next month. The people of NY might develop a different attitude.
A man is mugged every 35 seconds in this country... and he is getting really tired of it!
When the africanhyphenamerican fuhrers howl, the white man is going to pay the price. We can add these deaths to the contrived list of white on africanhyphenamerican crimes that whites will be expected to atone for for the next 300 or so years. Doesn't matter that black cops too were involved.
Although I won't see it I expect that the Olivia Benson character on some future Law and Order SUV will utter some left wing comment about the killing cops.
This is a really good article, complete with data/facts/statistics to prove the writer's points. Just too darn bad we know ahead of time it will have no impact on those determined to portray NYC cops as racist.
The best thing for the cops to do is stay out of those neighborhoods. When the residents become tired enough of the killings and other serious crimes to stop backing these race merchants, they can return. As long as the residents are going to support this particular strain of racism that attacks cops for doing their job every time a black man is killed, they don't deserve the protection of people who get paid very little in comparison to the value of their lives.
MacDonald should not have used this term. A man in charge of a vehicle that weighs 3000+ pounds with an engine capable of easily moving it to crush someone is not what I'd called "unarmed". It's why you can be charged with vehicular homicide.
Good one goldstate...ping for later read.
Life in the NYC area with these racial hucksters and their media enablers is so fulfilling. (/sarc)
"The best thing for the cops to do is stay out of those neighborhoods."
The good people who live there will never fight the criminals if the cops don't.
Sure, but I'm not saying the good people should fight the criminals. I'm saying they should fight the race merchants.
One thing stands out in m mind. Had these people left the bar sober it would never have happened.
The fundamentals of the situation are that the police have to actually do things - or take the responsibility of not doing those things - whereas journalists never do things and if they change their minds about what they said yesterday they can just change the subject.The police are susceptible to second guessing, just as any private business which actually does things is susceptible to second guessing. The idea that journalism advocates big government is not quite right. Journalism advocates journalism. Journalism is self-interested. It is no more a surprise that journalism promotes Al Sharpton criticizing the police than it should have been that journalism edited the Rodney King arrest tape down only to the part that made the police look bad, then endlessly repeated replays of that part.
Journalism promotes itself by propagandizing against everyone who, by doing necessary things, might manage to earn a good image. Controlling image is what journalist think is their turf, and you are not to be allowed to earn a good image with deeds. You can only earn good PR by promoting journalism by secong guessing people who do things.
Journalism is cynical about everyone else; the only rational thing for the public is to be cynical about journalism. Journalism has codes of ethics; you read those codes which tell what journalism promises not to do - and expect that that is precisely what journalism will do. Routinely.
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Queens has @ 2,000,000 residents. Fewer than 200 protesters show up (most of them not even from Queens) and you read it as the residents 'support' the protesters? Wow.
That'll teach me to type while half awake and possibly half aslesspo.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Even Fox News has used that term. It appears "unarmed" means without a gun, yet the use of it by the media implies something more: harmlessness. You are right a 3000 lb car can be a dangerous thing, in the wrong hands. IMO, it really is lying when someone says he was "unarmed." The way it is used as a bludgeon on police compels me to believe it is used as a synonym for "innocent" or "angelic" or "harmless." In this case, none of these seem to be true. God Bless the NYPD.
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