Posted on 06/26/2020 5:52:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Radicalism in America's largest cities seems impervious to reason. Consider this headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Despite a wave of violence, Minneapolis 'defund police' effort continues: An influential bloc of city council members is pressing ahead with plans to dismantle the department as a monthlong eruption of gunfire sent tremors through neighborhoods."
Reporter Liz Navratil explained that a majority of the Minneapolis City Council and like-minded community activists have used terms such as "defund," "dismantle" and "abolish" in different ways. There's some semantic tap-dancing. But they're serious. They're working to rewrite the city charter and dismantle a "minimum size requirement" for the police department. They talk about a police-free future.
A protester named Maisah Outlaw insisted: "This isn't the first time an institution that is rooted in racism has been abolished. It's not impossible." She claimed, "We don't need to scare people and beat people into submission." Who's going to be scared and beaten after the police go away?
The radicals behind this movement don't just tweet about abolishing the police. They also talk about abolishing prisons. If violence is the problem, how is emptying prisons the solution? What next? Abolish the courts? These activists seem to think only police officers commit the kind of violence worth protesting. Prosecuting violent crimes like burglary, rape and murder is apparently racist. Conversation about Black-on-Black crime is treated like a distraction employed by racists.
One has to wonder if this is really the kind of stance people will support at reelection time. But it seems the pendulum only swings further to the left. Democrats have gotten reelected for decades on end to run big American cities. Many mayors and police chiefs are minorities. If "systemic racism" is rampant in America, how does that explain the systemic progressivism that keeps failing?
In the meantime, people who commit crimes are acting. With at least 113 people injured or killed in shootings since George Floyd's death on May 25, some locals are "asking urgent new questions" about the potential effects of defunding the police, the Star Tribune reports. Do these elected officials fail to imagine what could happen if you were to "dismantle" the police force? The consequences of their utopian naivete?
Steven Belton, president and CEO of the Urban League Twin Cities, told the Star Tribune he believes all this Defund the Police advocacy "has emboldened criminals and sparked a new wave of violence."
But city council member Steve Fletcher claimed they often don't need armed officers, saying, "It's so much more common that we're showing up (and) the person has already left who has committed the crime." So, should police officers show up at crime scenes unarmed, assuming the crook fled the scene? That seems to be the suggestion ... that is if the cops have jobs in the coming years.
The radical experiment is coming. Cities will send social workers instead of police officers to deal with domestic violence complaints and drug overdoses. Will unarmed social workers be harmed in these volatile situations? Will they wish they had an armed cop backing them up?
Can liberal big-city newspapers be trusted to report on the aftermath of an overreaction? Or will they be too torn by inner newsroom turmoil over racial politics to paint an accurate picture for their community? Given their business model erodes, it's not like they can afford to get this wrong.
If we had no cops, if we had no prisons, if we had no laws … people would just take out the trash themselves. I bet the Left wouldn’t like that at all.
Better to abolish government run schools and abolish the democrat party.
What’s next? The Thought Police.
arrest the innocent? like Mueller and Comey already did?
Barbara Lee said “Abolish the Pentagon”. You need to add that.
Easy, no police, no prisons = chaos.
Chaos = governmental collapse.
Governmental collapse = communism.
Communism = oppressive government.
Take your IRAs for "reparations."
A protest movement based on rage, emotions and irrationality. What could go wrong?
If we had no cops, if we had no prisons, if we had no laws … people would just take out the trash themselves. I bet the Left wouldn’t like that at all.
Ready, willing and able.
What’s next? The Thought Police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4FwJdBb6_M
Oppressive Government = Revolution
It’s an attempted revolution, I.e. the Commies are making their move.
Leftists are attacking the US to create chaos and demoralize their opponents. These attacks/riots/etc. will reach a crescendo in October. Sleepy Joe is a puppet who will be replaced after the election with a “progressive”.
Keep the faith, take heart, and soldier on!
“Oppressive Government = Revolution”
Eventually. I won’t live long enough to see that. The indoctrinated we are living with now will accept communist oppression because they were told it’s better. They will stubbornly cling to it, because it is their cause, it’s what they “know”.
Eventually, new generations will figure out the load of crap that is being sold. And I’ll be long dead by that time.
Why obviously disarm white people so that the black leftist mob can kill them or take whatever they feel is their due. Oh wait. The Democrats have been doing that for decades.
It would be a sociopath heaven.
Abolish whites
No cops = highly devalued real estate in the city and some ‘burbs.
This has been in the works for decades.
Engorge the lumpenproletariat to bring down the system, then grab the reins of the means of production.
Millions suffer and die, the elites live high on the hog.
If you want to say it doesn’t work, remember most totalitarian dictators died of natural causes at a ripe old age.
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