"... may spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking up ways of protecting themselves from their persecutors."
Posted on 08/15/2014 5:05:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you’ve been watching cable news, reading Hollywood celebrities’ tweets, and listening to race-hustling opportunists, you might think that every police officer in America has a finger on the trigger, hunting for any excuse to gun down defenseless youths.
This hysterical nonsense must be stopped.
The Cirque du Cop-Bashing, with Al Sharpton as ringmaster, is working overtime to exploit the deadly incident in Ferguson, Mo. That means stoking anti–law enforcement fires at all costs.
Are there bad cops? Yes. Does the police state go overboard sometimes? Yes. Do the demagogues decrying systemic racism and braying about “assassinations” know what happened when teenager Mike Brown was tragically shot and killed last week? No.
Here’s a reality check. While narcissistic liberal journalists and college kids are all posting “hands up” selfies in hipster solidarity with Ferguson protesters, it’s law-enforcement officers who risk their lives in “war zones” every day across the country.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) reports that a total of 1,501 law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years, an average of one death every 58 hours, or 150 per year. These include local and state police officers, federal officers, correctional officers, and military law-enforcement officers.
Fact: Last year, 100 law-enforcement officers were killed. On average, over the past decade, there have been 58,261 assaults against law enforcement each year, resulting in 15,658 injuries.
Fact: New York City has lost more officers in the line of duty than any other department, with 697 deaths. Texas has lost 1,675 officers, more than any other state.
Just this week, NLEOMF released preliminary fatality statistics from August 2013 to August 2014. Total fatalities are up 14 percent, from 63 last year to 72 this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Maybe the problem is not Limbaugh, Ingraham and Malkin. Maybe its you.
See tagline.
Then it's chilly in hell, because I not only lectured you, I schooled you, crushed you, destroyed you and embarrassed you. Your desperate pathetic infantile rant about "hating cops" and "conservative" is totally baseless and obviously a spoiled three year old tantrum.
Then it's chilly in hell, because I not only lectured you, I schooled you, crushed you, destroyed you and embarrassed you. Your desperate pathetic infantile rant about "hating cops" and "conservative" is totally baseless and obviously a spoiled three year old tantrum.
The problem is, you are way behind the times, and I think way behind in reading comprehension. I am not at all on the race baiters side - but I have noticed a sea change in cop attitudes in the past 6-10-15 years. If you haven't, then you don't get out much.
But you go ahead and pretend in your little cloistered fantasy world that most cops are the friend of a free republic. This naivete will bite you on your ass one day…….I guaran -dam-tee it.
You make my point every time you post. Thx, LOL ...
Yeah I'm "behind the times" on amnesty, abortion, gun control, obamacare and gay marriage too. Oh well.
I am not at all on the race baiters side
Right, keep telling yourself that while you help their cause.
but I have noticed a sea change in cop attitudes in the past 6-10-15 years. If you haven't, then you don't get out much.
Well that's anecdotal evidence at best. But if we're going to go there I can say that when I was younger I would mouth off to cops and was rude and I was given the same treatment back. When I got older I smartened up and learned if you treat them nicely, usually, not always, but usually, they will do the same to you.
okay, you’re just an IDIOT. You are confusing two very different ideas. I don’t know how to get thru to thick folks.
I am saying that cops are no longer friends of a free republic. This is not at all the same thing as “morphing” on issues of principle. It’s the damned cops who have changed, not a lot of us. I don’t know if I can possibly type slowly enough for your brain to get it. This is like the third ignorant post you’ve made on the same topic. You are projecting and not reading.
you laugh the laugh of the ignorant.
Hmmm.... That sounds like a ticket I got in 1976. Turning left in the middle of the night. Having a nice time listening to the radio, in no hurry. So, I sat for at least 10 minutes. Obviously, the light wasn't going to turn green, so I went. WHOOP-WHOOP! The cop swore in court that I just pulled up and ran through. I was 18. If it was today, I'd have told the judge she was a lying perjurer. Instead, I just shook my head and paid the $25. The judge knew she was lying.
Sorry to bore you. But, your post got me stirred up. Thanks!
Wake up idiots:
http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/09/wisconsin-police-chief-harasses-tea-party-activist/
Problem is, We're not wrong, you and Jesse and Al are. Like my Jim Robinson endorsed tagline says, you f-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy
union protects cop who idiotically crashed into private boat:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/d-c-officer-taken-off-harbor-duty-after-boating-accident/
you can keep crying to the teacher if you are so insecure as to have to…..and you are probably technically retarded to think I agree with Jesse and Al. I am not saying a damned thing about the racial aspect of this.
But go ahead and be a dumb ass sheep: this will come to a neighborhood near you and bite you on your pompous ass:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Boston+Strong+militarized+police&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=manvU_CrK4T5yQS72YCAAg&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1264&bih=708
and to clarify, yet another of your kindergarten reading mistakes, I have said that perhaps Limbaugh and Ingraham and some others are behind some of their listeners.
You think I’m the only former law and order conservative who has re-thought my feelings towards LEOs??? If you do, you’re dumber than I thought.
the naivete is astonishing……many cops are union thugs first now. Many are anti second amendment now. Many harrass tea party groups now. Many think the “protect and serve” mantra is a joke. Many mock the idea they “work for us”
If you don’t see this, and don’t see the connection between this and the ATF buying ammo, the IRS arming themselves, the IRS targeting conservatives, the BLM having an army - then you perhaps are over your head on a political forum.
These idiots have no clue do they? The cops are wearing such gear because of the very obvious threat to their safety.
so thoroughly defeated in the debate, and with your reading comprehension problems exposed, you change the subject……
you lose, bigtime. Now go back to your cop union meeting and continue the liberal slimy technique of lying about your opponent’s position.
Yeah, that's the aspect these old-timers forget. The LEFT only cares about out-of-control cops when there's a racial angle. Otherwise, they cheer the police state! They're all for the militarization. The unionization. (What was the Clinton cop-hiring program?) During the Bundy face-off they were itching for a conflagration.
The idea that the Left is anti-LE is 100% backwards and based on attitudes from the '60s.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.