Posted on 10/12/2014 1:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m a cop.
A few weeks ago, two of my beat partners and I were called to an apartment in a fairly nice complex to help a mother and father with their 16-year-old son.
The son had no criminal history, and by all accounts was a decent kid. But he was having some problems at home — breaking things and making threats with a knife — and the parents needed our help.
When we finally located the son, who is of mixed ethnicity (dad is white, mom is Hispanic), he instantly began cussing and yelling at us. He took a fighting stance and said he was not going to do anything we told him.
Luckily, we were able to calm him and get him into handcuffs without any blows being thrown.
We asked why he was so hostile towards us. His response? Ferguson. The cops could not be trusted because of what happened in Ferguson, Missouri. He told us that he wanted to kill all white cops because of what “they” had done to Michael Brown....
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Unfortunately the cop seemed to buy into it. Stupid.
Police have and do overreact. There are good ones but even one bad one is far too many. Every cop who crossed the line of bad judgement brought this on all of them good or bad.
It’s all jealousy. Mexicans come here because they want to be on the upward track, and most girlls, of any color or nationality, want to be on that track too. Blacks have got to decide that they want to be on the upward track...and they can do it. But not if they tell themselves that they can’t.
Which juror are you?
Yes, extremely stupid. If he thinks he will generate sympathy for cops, he is mistaken. As the guy from the show Homicide Hunters says, people love firemen. They hate cops. They shoot at cops. And certain segments of the population hate cops more than the rest.
All because they could.
Too many brainless hoods in blue, hiding their drunk brothers and smiling when they shoot a civilian and get a paid vacation. I hope the Politicians crucify the Ferguson Thug. Not because they should, but because they can, for political gain.
Karma is a Mother.
I'm with you.
From what I read, the shooting in Fergusen was most likely justified. The problem is, exactly what you specified. They have lost any credibility with me they might otherwise have had. It's really difficult to shed any tears for police in modern America.
Are you calling Officer Wilson a thug? Do you side with the Ferguson protestors?
You are correct, but many citizens on average. Enough concern that a few in Congress are starting to consider legislation.
The media creates these divisions as part of “divide & conquer” (not just along ethnic, but also gender lines); the media also created Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson.
They have successfully destroyed the notion of a single culture to which Americans should seek to assimilate (the WASP culture that built this country); by marginalizing that they have created a situation where my own children are probably about as patriotic as a Ferguson looter (though with regard for others’ property rights). What exactly should instill pride in my children? Gay “marriage”? Affirmative action? ObamCare?
The constant assault on our people (even in kids’ TV shows) may encourage/rally the left, but it has been noted on the right as well.
“Where I live, Hispanics could not care less what happens to Blacks and Blacks could not care less what happens to Hispanics.”
Then blacks in your area are lucky; here in NJ Hispanics are taking the political power, jobs, the drug trade, and neighborhoods from blacks.
“From what I read, the shooting in Fergusen was most likely justified.”
What really changed with Ferguson is that there is no longer a “justified shooting”. The second part (looting and torching are OK as long as perps are black) was settled years ago, when the LA riots were sold to gullible people as a revolution.
Black America is no closer to assimilating today than it was 20+ years ago; freebies, affirmative action, and social promotion have hurt them badly (as many knew they would), and they’ve in fact become less literate and more dependent since.
Agreed, but the police have largely brought this reaction on themselves. as they refuse to police themselves. If they were even minimallywilling to accept responsibility when people are murdered and abused by police, they'd have more support. You'll notice that even here on FR, the police no longer get the benefit of the doubt. This used to not be the case. Our antipathy has been earned.
I don't know what they can do about it at this point, trust has to be earned, and once broken, it's harder to regain. The only positive is that most people would like to trust the police, which would make it easier if they actually made the effort. It's still going to take a long time to turn around the perceptions of those who have been paying attention.
The police have damaged their own reputation, but in the end you’d rather have them between you and a Ferguson mob than not. They know where their bread is buttered (taxpayers), and they know who kicks in nothing for police protection (gibsmedats).
While I agree that the media is responsible for aiding and abetting the total lack of loyalty to country we see in so many kids today-I have to point out that I’m not a White Anglo Saxon Protestant, or WASP-I’m a Caucasian of mostly Hispanic ancestry, none of my ancestors were Anglo-Saxon-from the British Isles-and I’m Catholic. My ancestors came to what is now SW Texas and NM from northern Mexico in the late 1700s, so I’m certainly an American...
The first “Anglos” to come to SW Texas, and the rest of Spanish Territory to live in the late 18th century were mostly Irish, by the way-a lot of old Hispanic families have a broad stroke of Irish...
Wasp is too narrow a brush to use for a culture that “built this country”-the Spanish got here 500 years ago-the French were not far behind-WASP culture was not a part of the South and Southwest until much later-and I think the Spanish Territories, French Louisiana and Mississippi were doing okay culturally speaking before that. I think of American “culture” as a mix of all the other cultures brought here from other places, adopted and shared with others-that is what the Jacksons, Sharptons, Obamas and drive-by media are trying to separate out again, to set us against each other, and they need to be stopped in their tracks...
A large number of the kids out here are either home-schooled or go to the nearby private school on the farm road, and I certainly understand why...
My folks saved me as well when they took away my ABBA 8-track tapes...
The Spanish arrived before the English, but they (and the French) were monarchists; the WASPs that built this country created it from a revolt against despots with institutions in place that were unique in the world at the time. The southwest today would look like the rest of Mexico without that influence.
I’m not a WASP myself (mostly Irish Catholic), but while I detest England’s historical abuses I can acknowledge what we inherited from them that made this country great for such a long time. That run is over now, but I’ll give credit where it is due.
As my area is overrun with replacement Americans (Hispanic and Asians, primarily), much of the liberalism dished out in our school system falls on deaf ears anyway...
Part of the Spanish territories, including Mexico, Texas etc rebelled against Spain, gaining independence in 1821-so they no longer had a king. Texas repaid Mexico in the same coin, going to war-a couple of my ancestors fought along with every other ethnic group here-gaining independence in 1836-and becoming a Republic with a president-Sam Houston-no king there, either.
Texas became a state in 1845-I really wish it had not-Texas is not like the rest of the SW states, because of the cultural mixing for several centuries of malcontents from Spain and other places-my family is mostly Basque, and we all know what calm, obedient people they have always been-not...
The Irish have certainly had the worst England had to offer-even worse than the Scots did, I think.
Mexico traded monarchy for dictatorship; it certainly wasn’t democracy they were pursuing. Texas left the Union in relatively short time; apparently they realized their mistake.
My wife is a Spaniard (Gallega); they want Gibraltar back as we want the north of our island. Some Scots were willing partners of the English (even participating in the Protestant occupation of northern Ireland); three hundred years later it looks like almost half of them have had enough...
From all I’ve read about the way Spain governed-and taxed- its territories in the new world in the 19th century, I’m guessing that just about anything was preferable to that-at least in the short term, and especially if you were not-exactly-rich mestizo ranchers, like my antecedents were.
The Basques have always been a revolutionary bunch, too from what I’ve been told, including the ones who came to the new world-prices on their heads in Spain and all that-and lot of them still want to be independent of Spain, too-when I was in college, the separatists over there had one of their uprisings, and one of my friends who was a Basque with family in Spain packed up and took off for the airport, telling us all he was going to Spain to fight with the Basque separatists-we all thought he was totally nuts-but he was back the next semester, raving about how good it had felt to go there and be a part of the push for independence.
Mexico was one of the rare cases where the native population played a role in the independence movement; they had little role in South America. For the most part, the Latin American independence movements differed from those following WWII in that those seeking independence were from the mother countries (as opposed to an occupied/colonized native population). Even Santa Anna had served as a Spanish officer (as George Washington had served England during the French & Indian Wars).
Unfortunately, Basques found themselves allied with the communists in the Civil War; they stuck to their faith and spared their clergy (unlike the rest of the republic), but their isolation made their fall inevitable. That isolation would have to be dealt with in the event of independence, which I don’t see happening; at this point the notion of “countries” in the European Union has been replaced by “states”.
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