It has been bizarre and surreal here. David
> On Jul 9, 2016, at 2:38 PM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > July 9, 2016 > Blame Black Lives Matter Movement for Dallas Carnage > > By Daniel John Sobieski > <http://www.americanthinker.com/author/daniel_john_sobieski/> > > www.americanthinker.com <http://www.americanthinker.com/> > Dallas police chief David Brown said all we need to know about the > inspiration and motives of the thug who assassinated five Dallas cops. As NBC > News reported > <http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dallas-police-ambush/protests-spawn-cities-across-u-s-over-police-shootings-black-n605686>: > > Brown said the suspect, who he would not identify, told a hostage negotiator > that he was upset about the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent police > shootings of black men elsewhere in the U.S > > > > The Dallas shootings are the logical extension of the demonization of police > officers by the racial grievance industry spearheaded by the Black Lives > Matter movement, a demonization that began almost as soon as President Obama > took office. As Fox News reported > <http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/07/24/disgraceful-cops-angry-after-obama-slams-arrest-black-scholar.html> > in 2009: > > Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack > Obama Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public > criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly > <http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/07/obama-says-cambridge-police-acted.html>" > when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make > it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said > Thursday. > > It could even set back the progress in race relations that helped Obama > become the nation's first African-American president, they said.: > > "What we don't need is public safety officials across the country > second-guessing themselves," said David Holway, president of the > International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public > safety officials around the country. "The president's alienated public safety > officers across the country with his comments." > > Ever since that day police have been second-guessing themselves, beset by > accusers who find them guilty of racism and excessive force. In their eyes > police are guilty of racism until proven innocent. That BlackLivesMatter was > credited by the assassin of being a source of his racial hatred and hatred of > police is not surprising. After the Ferguson riots, the movement quickly > spread, framing the confrontation as not one between criminals, such as the > black youth who had just committed a strong-arm robbery of a convenience > store, and law enforcement. They painted Officer Darren Wilson, who was later > found to be justified in shooting the black youth who tried to kill him with > his own gun, as the poster child for police brutality that willfully and > indiscriminately targets minority communities. > > We saw their bloodlust in New York as “protesters” of police brutality > chanted their lust for dead cops. As Heather MacDonald writes in her new > book, The War On Cops > <https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-war-on-cops-how-the-new-attack-on-law-and-order-makes-everyone-less-safe/> > (Encounter Books, 2016): > > In the summer of 2014, as we have seen, a lie overtook significant parts of > the country and grew into a kind of mass hysteria. That lie holds that the > police pose a mortal threat to black Americans— indeed, that the police are > the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths > buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased > against blacks; that there is no such thing as a black underclass; and that > crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites, so that > disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods cannot be explained > without reference to racism. The poisonous effect of these lies manifested > itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers in December > that year. The highest reaches of American society promulgated those untruths > and participated in the mass hysteria. President Barack Obama, speaking after > a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally shot > Michael Brown, declared that blacks were right to believe that the > criminal-justice system was often stacked against them. Obama repeated that > message as he traveled around the country subsequently. Eric Holder escalated > a long-running theme of his tenure as U.S. attorney general: that the police > routinely engaged in racial profiling and needed federal intervention to > police properly…. > > Meanwhile, protests and riots against the police were gathering force across > the country, all of them steeped in anti-cop vitriol and the ubiquitous lie > that “black lives” don’t “matter” to the police. “What do we want? Dead > cops,” chanted participants in a New York anti-cop protest…. > > Cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who assassinated NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and > Rafael Ramos on December 20, 2014, exemplified everything the elites have > refused to recognize as the antipolice crusade marches on: he was a > gun-toting criminal who was an eager consumer of the current frenzy of > cop-hatred. > > The anti-cop bloodlust of this movement wasn’t satisfied then and won’t be > satisfied now. We saw it last August in a Black Lives Matter protest at the > Minnesota State Fair. As the Daily Caller reported > <http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/29/black-lives-matter-protesters-chant-pigs-in-a-blanket-fry-em-like-bacon-video/> > and a video showed <https://youtu.be/9xNxoeqf0Ws>: > > Black Lives Matter protesters marching on the Minnesota state fair on > Saturday spewed violent anti-cop rhetoric just hours after a Harris County, > Tex. sheriff’s deputy was ambushed and executed at a Houston-area gas station. > > “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” activists with the St. Paul, Minn. > branch of Black Lives Matter chanted while marching behind a group of police > officers down a highway just south of the state fair grounds. > > This inflammatory racial animus has been repeatedly stoked by grandstanding > liberal politicians who benefit politically from perpetuating the culture of > victimhood. Gun and crime researcher John Lott Jr. has noted President > Obama’s > <http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/12/03/ferguson-obama-contines-to-underminepolice-departments-around-country.html>contribution > to the war on cops: > > As a response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, President Obama > proposes $263 million for police training and body cameras. But more police > training wouldn’t have prevented the Brown shooting and the president’s > proposal plays into the hands of those who blame the police. President Obama > has continually undermined police departments around the country, and his > demand for more training fits that pattern. In 2009, he jumped to the > conclusion that Cambridge, Massachusetts police “acted stupidly” when they > arrested Henry Gates. He personalized the Trayvon Martin investigation > <http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/19/remarks-president-trayvon-martin> > in a way that to many implied > <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-07-21/news/ct-met-kass-0721-20130721_1_trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-tribes> > the murder was radically motivated. And yet again last week, he emphasized > that the anger to the verdict was “an understandable reaction” and blacks’ > distrust of police is “rooted in realities > <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/25/obama_on_ferguson_riots_distrust_of_police_in_communities_of_color_rooted_in_realities.html>.” > > Nevertheless, whatever Obama implies, there was absolutely no evidence > Officer Darren Wilson was motivated by race and he did exactly what he should > have done. Brown’s robbery of the convenience store, his decision to reach > into the police car and punch Wilson while trying to take his gun, and > finally Brown’s decision to charge Wilson was what caused the teen’s death. > > Unindicted co-conspirators in providing moral support in the war on cops is > New York Mayor Bill De Blasio and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton. Stoking the > fans of racial animus, After the death of Eric Garner in a confrontation with > police, De Blasio told of warning his mixed race son > <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-details-talk-son-dealing-cops-article-1.2036870> > of encounters with police. > > De Blasio, who is white, gave some details of the conversations he and his > wife, Chirlane, who is black, have had with their 17-year-old son, who is a > senior at Brooklyn Technical High School. > > “With Dante, very early on, we said, ‘Look, if a police officer stops you, do > everything he tells you to do. Don’t move suddenly. Don’t reach for your > cellphone,’” said deBlasio. “Because we knew, sadly, there’s a greater chance > it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of color.” > > After a police-involved shooting during a traffic stop which resulted in the > death of the black driver, Dayton played the inflammatory race card > <http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/black-driver-wouldnt-be-dead-if-he-was-white-governor-mark-dayton/articleshow/53113760.cms?prtpage=1>: > > A suburban police officer who killed a black motorist likely wouldn't have > fired if the driver had been white, Minnesota's governor declared, jumping > into a suddenly reignited national debate over how law enforcement treats > people of color…. > > "Would this have happened if those passengers would have been white? I don't > think it would have," Gov. Mark Dayton said to a crowd that gathered outside > his residence all day and night Thursday. > > Hours after Dayton's remarks, gunmen shot and killed five police officers and > wounded six more amid protests in Dallas over Castile's killing and a second > fatal police shooting of a black man. > > It’s not easy access to guns, Mr. President, that killed five cops in Dallas. > It’s easy access to hatred stoked by black activists and sympathizers in > public office who see cops as racial predators and ignore the courage, > dedication, and color blindness of those who show up every day to protect the > lives of those that spit on them. The Dallas cops ran towards the gunfire > that endangered citizens of every color and ethnicity. They have paid the > ultimate price for the false mantra of those who run away from the truth. > It’s not white cops versus blacks. It’s good guys versus bad guys. > > Daniel John Sobieski <https://twitter.com/gerfingerpoken>is a freelance > writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, > Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications > > > > Read more: > http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/blame_blacklivesmatter_movement_for_dallas_carnage.html#ixzz4DwT8E9K5 > > <http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/blame_blacklivesmatter_movement_for_dallas_carnage.html#ixzz4DwT8E9K5> > > Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter > <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=dlia0Qbjyr4BNDacwqm_6l&u=AmericanThinker> | > AmericanThinker on Facebook > <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=dlia0Qbjyr4BNDacwqm_6l&u=AmericanThinker> > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > <http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism> > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > <http://radicalcentrism.org/> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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