"Breaking: Texas Makes Huge Move Against Black Lives Matter"

Blogger retitled Fox7austin.com article and posted it on Conservative Tribune Blog ^ | July 19, 2016 | Fox7austin.com posted by Kim Smith

[CorporateStepsister]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Lone Star State lawmakers are cracking down after recent recent attacks carried out against police officers.

Abbott on Monday announced the Police Protection Act, which
 aims to strengthen penalties for crimes committed against police officers.

[I want the USA back]

Good. The left already hates Texas.

[coloradan]

1. It’s called “service” for a reason.
2. Cops already have a number of legal exemptions and special privileges, e.g. possession of NFA weapons or otherwise banned hardware, e.g. normal-cap magazines; use of wiretapping that would be criminal if we did it; bans of open and concealed carry don’t apply to them; speed limits and other traffic laws don’t apply to them; other drivers have to pull aside when their emergency lights are on, etc.
3. Nothing that they do makes their lives fundamentally more important than anyone else’s. The idea that some lives are intrinsically more important is like a caste system, which I oppose on moral grounds. “All men are created equal”; “equal protection under the law.”

[Wallace T.]

This is the Republican, law and order, equivalent of feel good legislation. It may be a good idea to charge those who attack LEOs with a higher level of punishment than attacks on civilians. However, such legislation will not stop attacks on policemen. There has been a high mortality rate for the perpetrators in any case. Prosecuting the BLM movement leaders for conspiracy to overthrow the government and, more importantly, the financiers of BLM and other subversive organizations would be far more effective. George Soros, other leftist billionaires, and directors and executives of leftist tax free foundations should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting treason and subversion.

[Wallace T.]

If the fear of prosecution drives Soros and others out of the country, so much the better. A similar fear drove the post-Soviet oligarchs out of Russia after Putin made an example of a few of them. I am no fan of Putin, but he effectively dealt with a huge portion of the corruption that prevailed under Yeltsin in this manner.

[Lady Heron]

Are you kidding???? How is having equal laws for everyone hating police?????? It is these unequal laws that are causing problems.

[TXnMA]

"All laws have to be for the protection of everyone, not just their chosen few."

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Your "equal protection" shtick might be value -- if you and your family are:

1. Dressing up in uniforms that make them designated targets...

2. Deliberately placing themselves in harm's way daily -- if not hourly...

3. The targets of insane rhetoric that implores simpleminded sycophants to go out and kill them (even firemen and EMTs -- "because they are on the same side")...

4. Placing their lives in harm's way for the very people who are seeking to kill them...

Sorry, but -- if you and your family don't meet those criteria, you are not deserving of equal protection.

Next, are you going to pontificate that our military troops shouldn't be equipped with body armor and armored vehicles -- just because you have been provided none?

Go ahead and sit there safely at your keyboard -- protected by those braver than yourself -- and feel free to trash them -- just don't expect those of us who see reality to join in your simplistic, childish rants...

[TXnMA]

#46 applies to you, too.

[dragnet2]

Our military units would use single man patrols units if it didn’t offer a higher degree of protection/defense. And if you’re responding to one of these wholesale murder type calls, 2 are always better than one.

[CivilWarBrewing]

WHAT? DOJ denouncing policies against Black Lives Matter is what I was referring to. ‘Black Lives Matter’ is inherently racist. It’s right there in their name.

[lewislynn]

I think they do deserve special protection and consideration because of this.

Give me just one good reason why those protections and considerations can't also apply to me or you.

How is taking a life of a cop any different than say your mother, father, brother, sister, husband/wife?

[coloradan]

You’re raging against far too many things that I didn’t say for me to invest time in actually responding, except to say that there is a great difference between an employer furnishing equipment and tools needed to do a job, and being exempted from laws that one enforces against others, e.g. regarding weapons possession, traffic laws and use of deadly force.

[Gene Eric]

>> Best thing to do is treat murder, assault, rape, etc., as such.

Agreed.

[trebb]

WHAT? DOJ denouncing policies against Black Lives Matter is what I was referring to. ‘Black Lives Matter’ is inherently racist. It’s right there in their name.

We're on the same page - I may have been too short in my quip.

I was saying that even if the new law didn't mention BLM or race - just used the act of going after cops as the basis, and DOJ calls it racist, DOJ would have an interesting time explaining how a law that defines itself by actions against police is racist without actually coming out and saying that Blacks would suffer more because they're more likely to be the perps against police.

Make better sense in the longer version?