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Sowell: The War on Cops
Creators Syndicate ^ | July 12, 2016 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/11/2016 1:34:24 PM PDT by jazusamo

There was never a more appropriately named book than "The War on Cops" by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.

Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame?

There is a ton of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don't even know, there are those who created the atmosphere of blind hatred in which such killers flourish.

Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the "Black Lives Matter" movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don't matter to them.

The same is true of the more upscale, genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States. During his first year in the White House, Barack Obama chastised a white policeman over his handling of an incident with a black professor at Harvard — after admitting that he didn't know the specific facts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchy; blm; heathermacdonald; leo; mediabias; micahjohnson; msm; obama; sowell; thewaroncops; thomassowell
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1 posted on 07/11/2016 1:34:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
*PING*
Thomas Sowell


2 posted on 07/11/2016 1:36:42 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

How many times have BLM met with obama, jarret, holder/lynch??

There lies the allegiance and marching orders.


3 posted on 07/11/2016 1:41:06 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: jazusamo

Sowell nails it once again.


4 posted on 07/11/2016 1:43:56 PM PDT by Zarro (JAIL CONGRESS!)
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To: jazusamo

I was waiting for one of my heroes to weigh in on this issue!

*BUMPITY-BUMP-BUMP-BUMP*


5 posted on 07/11/2016 1:50:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: jazusamo

“...genteel and sophisticated race panderers, including the President of the United States.”

*BOOM*


6 posted on 07/11/2016 1:51:44 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Zarro
Sowell nails it once again.

Yep. As usual, he's 100% right. If you read a Sowell column and disagree with him, go back and re-read it because chances are that he's right.
7 posted on 07/11/2016 1:52:46 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: jazusamo; All

“Mob rule is not democracy. It threatens democracy, as it threatens lives — black or white — and all lives should matter.”

*BOOM*

P.S. In case you don’t know the difference; A REPUBLIC is representative government ruled by law (The Constitution). A DEMOCRACY is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule). A REPUBLIC recognizes the inalienable rights of INDIVIDUALS while DEMOCRACIES are only concerned with group wants or needs. Choose wisely!


8 posted on 07/11/2016 1:57:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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BOOM Bump, my FRiend. :)


9 posted on 07/11/2016 2:00:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

>Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?<

Thank you, Dr. Sowell!


10 posted on 07/11/2016 2:01:10 PM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

11 posted on 07/11/2016 2:02:13 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo
Are we to decide who is right and who is wrong on the basis of skin color? There was a long history of that in the days of the old Jim Crow South. Are we fighting against racism today or do we just want to put it under new management?

The management isn't new. Its still the same old Democrats. Under Jim Crow, they stirred up racial hatred against blacks to stay in power. Today, they stir up racial hatred against whites to stay in power. The are, always were and always will be the Party of Race.

12 posted on 07/11/2016 2:02:51 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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*MmmmmWAH* :)


13 posted on 07/11/2016 2:06:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Sowell is a #NeverTrump punk, screw him, he’d rather see Hillary elected, FUTS.


14 posted on 07/11/2016 2:09:35 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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Who is to blame? .....lets start with George Soros who hires/pays non caring, no skin in the game unemployed Blacks....most who don't pay Federal Taxes and are probably on some government subsistence...soft hires for Mr. Soros.

It is against the law to to cross state lines to become involved in activism/rioting Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

The Black Power Political Organization took credit for the deadly police shooting last night in Dallas. The group claimed their sniper team took down “five police officers.” These people are American citizens....i.e., aren't they guilty of treason through terrorism? Isn't George Soros also culpable? Soros should be stripped of his citizenship...he hates Capitalism, I don't know why as it i that method of marketing that has made Soros extremely wealthy.....The people are traitors to the Constitution....lock them up!

15 posted on 07/11/2016 2:09:53 PM PDT by yoe
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To: jpsb

Sowell is a #NeverTrump punk, screw him, he’d rather see Hillary elected, FUTS.


Unlike many of the other establishment pundits, I will still read Sowell occasionally, for I admire his incisive mind.

Nevertheless, he has the academic disease: What is hypothetical/ideological is more real to him than reality. (Scientists often have this disease as well.)

We The People see the reality of what the neocon RINOs have done to our nation; they - more than the Democrats - are to blame. After all, Democrats are Democrats: pretty much all treacherous and traitorous. The Republicans are supposed to be the opposition party, but they abandoned that after Reagan left office.


16 posted on 07/11/2016 2:31:16 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: yoe

George Soros is proof that this is a fallen world.

Good, honest criminals (to paraphrase Clive Staples Lewis) rot in prison while this monster who betrayed his own people is eulogized by the communist press.


17 posted on 07/11/2016 2:33:12 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: jazusamo

Lots of wisdom in this article.


18 posted on 07/11/2016 3:44:16 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: jpsb
Sowell is a #NeverTrump punk, screw him, he’d rather see Hillary elected, FUTS.

No, FUjpsb!

Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.



19 posted on 07/11/2016 5:19:05 PM PDT by rdb3 (You know, I've yet to see a hearse with a U-Hall trailer hitched to it. . .)
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That’s the first I have heard that. Got a link to his own words on that?


20 posted on 07/11/2016 5:23:38 PM PDT by Zarro (JAIL CONGRESS!)
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