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Cop killers

Posted on December 22, 2014 | 4 comments

For all the criticisms I have posted about killer cops, I will have no truck with cop killers. That should go without saying, but in case it doesn’t…

The problems I’m concerned about are fixable politically if the pols have the cahones to take on the police unions and police chiefs, the ersatz little generals wearing four and five stars. Who have now, after the NYC cop ambush killings, apparently encouraged police across the country to make no arrests that are not “absolutely necessary.” I would have thought that’s what they were doing already, but I guess not.

Instead of working the obvious problems, the pols are now using the NYC killings as an excuse to continue doing nothing, and some of them are trying to make it a left-right issue. And that would be a pity that might well lead to more ambushes of police officers. I hope not. It will only make them more agitated.

That the NYC killer Brinsley suicided will make no difference. Whatever he had to say wouldn’t have meant much to the issue at hand, the issue I see, of cops treating too many of us, white and black, as combatants in a war. The drug war, as the pols have dubbed it, arming the cops to the teeth with Pentagon castoffs. And then slunk back into the shadows to take no responsibility for the outcome. Damn their eyes.

I hope the killings stop—on both sides. But the way things are going I wouldn’t count on it.

UPDATE:  The legit complaints are being lumped with the radical b.s. and the usual flag wavers and cop apologists are lining up on the other side. At this rate we will never get rid of the militarized police and their armored cars and bayonets.

MORE:  There’s reason to believe things will get worse, because they already have: “There’s evidence that aggressive policing in the NYPD is intensifying, according to data from the New York City Comptroller. Police misconduct claims – including lawsuits against police for using the kind of excessive force that killed Garner – have risen 214 percent since 2000, while the amount the city paid out has risen 75 percent in the same period, to $64.4 million in fiscal year 2012, the last year for which data is available.”

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And more random thoughts

Posted on December 8, 2014 | 3 comments

Amazes me that anyone still takes the news media seriously. They don’t even take themselves seriously. Rolling Stone’s phony gang-rape story was based on the word of one, uncorroborated, source without any comment from the accused. None at all. When will the firings begin?

New York City’s illegal cigarette-salesman Eric Garner should not have resisted arrest but surely it wasn’t necessary to kill him for it. I have no use for the rioters but I have to agree with them that the system is seriously out of whack. Cops are killing people more often these days and many of their prosecutor-backers are persuading grand juries to do nothing about it.

As Ted Cruz has said, and Rand Paul has chimed in, it’s time to abolish the IRS.

Who will be the Republican nominee in 2016? Why Jeb, of course. It’s his turn. That’s the way the Stupid Party does business.  And creation of a third, Tea Party, will only pad the loss to the Democrats. Sixteen years of ’em. Whew.

There’s one consistent detail about the Democrats. A hundred years later, they are still trying to disarm black people. Only now they’re trying to do it to everyone else at the same time. Except their own elites, of course. They’ll always have guns. Or bodyguards with guns.

Few journalists are independent actors like the Rolling Stone “reporter” Sabrina Rubin Erdely. They do what their editors & publishers tell them and their editors & publishers are primarily interested in keeping the pols, the authorities and the advertisers happy. And, nowadays, keeping their own jobs. Erdely is an outlier. But, then, so is her editor. Are they still employed? Why?

Tell me why anyone would feel safe with a president who considers economic sanctions for Israel while fighting congressional attempts to renew sanctions on terrorism-supporting Iran? Sho’ loves him some jihadis, don’t he?

UPDATE:  The NYC grand jury’s failure to indict for trial the killer cop who murdered an unarmed black man for resisting arrest is a grave injustice that demands redress. Demands it, dammit. Get your heads out of your asses, people.

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Posted in Guns, Israel, Obituaries, The Culture

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