Posted on 07/19/2016 8:21:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A year ago, two police officers in New York were executed while they sat in their patrol car. A week ago, five cops were killed in Dallas. Now three more officers have been murdered in Baton Rouge by a man inspired to kill because he believed the news about police unfairly targeting black men.
If you are to believe to President Obama, who issued a statement right after the shooting, these events should not be linked to anyone or any movement: “These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes.”
One needs wonder if President Obama’s eagerness to explicitly reject the connection between any movement (including Black Lives Matter) and the string of murdered police officers is a result of the sort of criticism recently lodged against him by writers like Myron Magnet at City Journal. Magnet, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, recently penned an opinion piece entitled “America’s Worst President? I nominate Obama, the Anti-Lincoln.”
Magnet’s main point is that Obama has stoked the flames of resentment against police officers throughout his presidency by repeatedly—either explicitly or implicitly—suggesting white police officers’ shootings of non-white people are acts of racism. Meanwhile, Obama largely ignored the scourge of black-on-black crime, delivering only a single speech on the topic....
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She’s also classified as a DOMESTIC TERROSIST, like BLM should be.
Ignorance runs deep
Please do. Then there will be no one to protect you from us.
It is much more than ‘defunding the police’.
BLM is about reparations. I saw a BLM activist/leader on FoxBusiness yesterday and every word was about “reparations”. He pronounced it “repairations”. Defunding the police is just an approach to funding “repairations”.
As a postscript to my post.
If you want to understand Black Lives Matters, you must google “Black Lives Matter and Reparations”. See what BLM leaders have to say about their objectives.
Also, anyone (including their families) on government assistance that participates in violent protests where property damage or looting occurs, or attacks on law enforcement, LOSE ALL GOVERNMENT BENEFITS!!!
Police have pulled themselves from black neighborhoods.
Nothing good comes from it.
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