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.
“means of production” were off shored years ago. They are taking command of a sinking ship.
Vigilante justice as people take those jobs on themselves.
There will be a lot of shooting in self-defense, and sometimes vigilante mobs will form. And the left is worried about police brutality?
Do they seriously think we’re just going to lay down and take it when someone comes to loot, rape, and burn?
This is a winning issue for President Trump. The OVERWHELMING majority of Americans don’t want police to disappear, and they sure as h*ll don’t want violent criminals released out on the streets. Biden came out against defunding the police, but he hasn’t said much about all the violence. Trump can easily define Slow Joe as the candidate of chaos.
They want to eliminate the police and let all criminals out of prison (except those who refuse to use the mandated pronouns for a tranny.) This will enable the “oppressed” underclass to waltz right in and take what is “rightfully” theirs from their “oppressors.”
But they need a police force. One that jails people for having European ancestry or for leaving a ham sandwich near a mosk.
IOW, police state.
Almost as bad as the dream police by cheap trick:
Eliminate black criminals who think it is their black right to ignore the law and cease being American
They are sinking the ship so they can take command of it. Just enough of it will remain above water for their enjoyment.
The left is using blacks and other lower class types to gain power. Once in power you will see LAW AND ORDER like you wouldn’t believe....
Excellent point.
Imagine there's no police,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to get arrested for,
and no prisons too.
Imagine all the people
looting for today
You, you may say I'm a Liberal,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you will join us,
and the world with burn as one.
Awesome parody!
Have posted that and told people. Talk about abuse and murder...people have no idea.
What’s next. Abolish white people of course.
status quo-> anarchy -> revolution -> status quo
Abolish private property. Which is what they are really after.
Precisely. Their slogan will be "Better Police For a Better Police State."
Armed citizens will not operate under restrictive rules of engagement that bind cops when confronting criminals. Minneapolis better order more bodybags. BTW, leftist politicians will not be exempt from new rules of engagement from both sides, as that liberal state senator from Milwaukee discovered.
Incidentally, all the experienced and trained bodyguards have been hired out. All that’s left are fat mall guards found at temp agencies. You leftist politicians, judges and bureaucrats can now enjoy the sh*tshow you created, unprotected and easy targets. The cops you fired - your “army” - will head out to red country. Call your local college marxist professor for protection.
These Yutes do not know history. They are being soooo used. This is so text book. The fascist are NOT going to give two craps about race once they are in power.
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