The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department
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- There is blood on hands of those who demanded 'dead cops'
Posted on 12/22/2014 8:18:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The way to honor those who defend our liberties with their lives — as did my father and grandfather — is not to curtail liberty, but to exercise it fully in pursuit of a just and peaceful society.
According to Ecclesiastes, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose.” For me, today, that means a time to seek justice and a time to mourn the dead.
The recent brutal murder of two Brooklyn police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, is a national tragedy that should inspire nationwide mourning. Both my grandfather and father were police officers, so I appreciate what a difficult and dangerous profession law enforcement is. We need to value and celebrate the many officers dedicated to protecting the public and nourishing our justice system. It’s a job most of us don’t have the courage to do.
At the same time, however, we need to understand that their deaths are in no way related to the massive protests against systemic abuses of the justice system as symbolized by the recent deaths—also national tragedies—of Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, and Michael Brown.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the suicidal killer, wasn’t an impassioned activist expressing political frustration, he was a troubled man who had shot his girlfriend earlier that same day. He even Instagrammed warnings of his violent intentions. None of this is the behavior of a sane man or rational activist. The protests are no more to blame for his actions than The Catcher in the Rye was for the murder of John Lennon or the movie Taxi Driver for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Crazy has its own twisted logic and it is in no way related to the rational cause-and-effect world the rest of us attempt to create.
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Poor Lou Alcinder. He’s had such a rough life in America.
Why anyone cares about what a thug-ball player thinks is a mystery.
HIs whole career he pushed off with the off arm on the “sky hook” and still ended up at the free throw line. Special treatment player.
The “Bell Curve” was right, were I to think that this idiot represents his race.
Kareem would be correct that the murdered police officers had nothing to do with the nation-wide “protests” - if the protest movement and it’s leadership HAD NOT been saying the idiocy they’ve been saying and doing the rioting/looting they’ve been doing and chanting the calls for violence they’ve been chanting, etc.
Oh and he tries the whole “the killer was unhinged and in no way motivated by the protests. Even if someone was to buy this stupid and baseless claim by Kareem, what is the excuse for the widespread cheering on twitter? Can he show us sane rational men who kill in cold blood?
He’s doing a victory by definition because he’s unwilling to admit he encouraged a man to kill cops with his rhetoric. You fill a man’s head up with lies that the police are out to kill him and then when he takes preemptive action you feign innocence and claim the man is simply unhinged.
He wasn’t crazy. He was violent and angered because of lies YOU told Kareem. Dip your hands in their blood and wipe them on your cheeks. You earned the kill. Take joy in your kill and stop whining about how it’s unfair your side is taking flak for its loea and agitation.
LOL, you sure like “Airplane!”, don’t you :-) Me too.
He might have used the cross hairs in the Sarah Palin ad as an example to make his point, but, unsurprisingly, he didn’t.
Loea=lies
Well Lew ole buddy, you were a great basketball player, but stay out of racial politics. BTW I loved you in Airplane!
Hey Lew, STFU! No one cares about what you have to say!
Here is the real problem, Abdull Jabber -— there are two many thugs in the black community who have male inseminators who just abandon their kids. In addition, many in the black community refuse to cooperate with the police in bringing to justice horrible people in their neighborhoods. Those who should be most cooperative with the police are those in the black community whose neighborhood are being ravaged by thugs. That is what has been institutionalized.
So, are ya ready to support affirmative action in sports Kareem? Should every team look like America?
Then, pray tell, why are the police the ones being demonized and attacked? Officers injured in the line of duty and insults hurled by marching mobs, defiance when confronted by police from those who are CLEARLY committing an infraction of the law, attempts to disarm policemen, attempts to try to bluff the way out of a potential arrest by charging AT the police officer, and open assassinations on the streets in broad daylight of officers who were ambushed from behind, just to name a few of the escalating steps in this macabre dance.
The purpose, or at least the effect, will be exerting Federal control on local police forces, substituting “approved” law enforcement officers for the current corps of trained and ready locally-recruited personnel, and essentially bypassing local and state control of the police altogether.
Maybe he and his good friend OJ Simpson could co-host a roundtable discussion about that.
The only institutionalized racism is directed at people who look like me.
So, assuming all of this is true, why would or should the protesters modify their behavior? Just keep on chanting “What do we want? Dead Cops!”, and continue promoting narratives based on fictions. After all, the only people who act out violently are insane, so aren’t motivated by the actions of the dishonest agitators and protesters.
The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department
I believe there is plenty of institutional racism. Whites are discriminated against for college admissions and job openings. Whites can be fired for having racial opinions counter to the current politically acceptable norms. Whites can be targeted in racially motivated crimes and the government and media will ignore it. Finally, whites are derided as being inherently racist by actual racists who support the anti-white status quo.
Oh but you are wrong! What do you call affirmative action if not "institutional".
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