Posted on 10/24/2017 5:35:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers with over 330,000 members, sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week expressing “outrage and shock” that the National Park Service would fund a project honoring the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
“Mr. President, as far as we are concerned the only meaning they brought to any lives was grief to the families of their victims,” wrote Chuck Canterbury, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. “According to our research, members of this militant anti-American group murdered 16 law enforcement officers over the course of their history. Among their victims was U.S. Park Ranger Kenneth C. Patrick. He was murdered in cold blood by three members of the Black Panther Party on 5 August 1973. His killer, who remains behind bars, still considers himself a Black Panther and a ‘political prisoner.'”
“It is appalling that the National Park Service, Ranger Patrick’s own agency, now proposes to partner with [Berkeley] and two active members of this violent and repugnant organization,” Canterbury said.
The FBI labels the Black Panther Party as advocates for “the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government.”
“At a time when many in our nation feel strongly that memorials to aspects of the darker times in our history be removed from public lands, why would the NPS seek to commemorate the activities of an extremist separatist group that advocated the use of violence against our country—a country they perceived as their enemy?” Canterbury asked. “This is a despicable irony and we hope you can bring it to an end by halting [the grant] immediately.”
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Thank you President Trump!
The left has to be watched around the clock.
They are constantly looking for ways to degrade of debase our way of governance or civility in the USA.
Oh yeah without a doubt.
Duh! What, you mean we won’t honor domestic terrorist groups?
Well I never...
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“Jeremy Barnum, a spokesman for the National Park Service, confirmed to the Free Beacon that the project would not receive funding from the agency.”
Why is it that they always bury who actually sets up these “deals” by sending out a “Jeremy Barnum” to deliver the mea culpa? It’s way, way past time when the people behind this stuff get outed.
You know what, I was thinking the same thing. The ACLU would be on this in a hot minute!
How dare they sing a religious song like that? They are working for the government!
The bureaucrat who approved this needs to be identified and fired!
Win....
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