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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I agree with this direct local blame laid, but I lay the majority of the blame on Obama and Holder because of the import they gave the Michael Brown event and Eric Garner (although there is some wrongful death blame to be laid there, IMO).
Had these two racists not given Federal Government aegis to protests, and ACTIVELY incited a populace not equipped to understand the real reasons behind the events (i.e., media, government, black icons purposely held them in ignorance and disbelief), perhaps this psycho thug would not have leaped to assassination as a last ditch effort after murder in another state.
Obama, Holder and Sharpton caused this. DeBlasio avidly helped.
“There is political mileage to be made siding with demagogues like Al Sharpton...”
Rand Paul begs to differ.
Well said.
“Hispanic” is a language group, not a race. Mexicans of Spanish decent are European Caucasians.
Without a doubt, Sowell is one of the most brilliant, insightful social historian of the age.
Something really concrete to throw back at libtards every time they engage in this degeneracy.
Actually most Mexicans are Mestizos. Spanish & American Indian descent. That word has been deemed racist by some, so we now have Hispanic or Latino.
Tom Sowell for President!
Amen!
Agreed, de Blasio has no class at al.
Thanks for the link.
Calling this social degeneracy "a legacy of slavery" is not just an excuse for those who engage in it, it is an excuse for the ideology of the intelligentsia behind the social policies that promoted this degeneracy.
Something really concrete to throw back at libtards every time they engage in this degeneracy.
An equally forceful statement immediately follows in his text:
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.
It is no "legacy of slavery" it is a legacy of welfare and a legacy of abortion both products of second half liberal politics.
Most Mexicans are indeed mestizos, though much of the ruling elite in Mexico have definite Castillian blood.
620,000 to 750,000 Americans died in the Civil War, in significant part, to end slacery
The number of dead is roughly equal to the number of slaves imported to North America during all the years it was practiced.
Sowell for President!
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