Quick Update from the Front

 

I had a chat with son #4, the cop, earlier this evening. He said “the silent majority is speaking up,” and went on to say that citizens were showing up in increasing numbers at the station to express support, drop off food, and generally counter the prevailing anti-cop message.

We had a well-attended Back the Blue event here in town a few days ago. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear about it until it was over, or I’d have been there. My son tells me that he and his people are familiar with Back the Blue and appreciate the support.

In other news, I see that officials, including prominent black leaders, in New York City are calling for a restoration of the proactive policing practices terminated by the incompetent mayor of that city. Homicides are up 100% over this time last year. People are noticing.

America is sane. Pass it on.

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  1. Henry Racette Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):
    If minority communities want no police and all the other BLM stuff then let them have it.

    That’s called “begging the question.”

    Minority communities don’t “want no police.” That’s the point. You can’t simply conclude that, because most of the people in a particular community have the same pigmentation as the outspoken representatives of some radical movement, they must be in agreement with them.

    You seem to live in a different world than the rest of us. All my life I have heard how much blacks hate cops. I have heard blacks tell me repeatably how much they hate cops. How cops need to go. Black celebrities demanding police to go. If the world was as you seem to believe then there would not be large group of Black athletes trying to defund the police. Get our of your fantasy. There are a large amount of black that do not want the laws and the police. That is why the Democrat mayor are defunding and slamming down on the police. They are trying to survive and get elected and to do so they need what their biggest voting block wants. They voted for Democrats that promised this stuff. Now they want Democrats to delivery what they promised. No police. No lock up of blacks since many are their family. They basically want whites to leave them alone except to give them money.

    Polling suggests that black Americans in crime-ridden neighborhoods are bigger supporters of increased policing than are white Americans, twice as likely to call for more officers in their neighborhoods. Black athletes — athletes in general — aren’t representative of the public. Nor are the rioters calling for defunding the police and emptying the prisons.

    Polls lie, always have always will.

    BLM – seem to want to defund the police by their website

    https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/

    Black athletes, Black entertainers, Black musicians, Black rappers are the heros of black culture. Sure they represent what their community wants. They would not be popular if they were against their communities. Democrat politicians are being responsive to the Black community by defunding the police because they want to be elected. Not sure why you seem to not understand the obvious and allow this community what it is demanding.

    I guess your logic is airtight: certainly all Black people must embrace the views of famous black celebrities. What was I thinking.

    Because skin color.

    The same must apply to all white people, since our white celebrities are conspicuously leftist. Obviously, white America wants socialism.

    I begin to see the advantages of thinking of America as a collection of differently colored populations composed of individuals of identical thoughts and values. It makes dumb things sound smart, when you say it that way.

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  2. Mikescapes Inactive
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

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    The people a locals, all I see on TV is minorities and their white supporters.

    Is this satire? Surely, you don’t think TV news is giving you an accurate picture of how locals want their neighborhoods to be run. Surely, you wouldn’t beg the question by saying, essentially, this is about what minorities want, because some white people said so, and some minorities agree with them.

    I know many people that have gone to these protests. My FaceBook feed is full of them and videos of the protests. This is what those protesting are protesting about. At least the ones I know of.

    All the emphasis in this chain is on Black and White. The Communists get a free pass. This is part of a plan, created long ago, to move America further and further left in order to bring down democracy. Discrimination v Blacks has always been an entry point for the Marxists. From time to time they have to invent a new category –  Systemic Racism. Liberal Whites, especially millennials, find this logic appealing, therapeutic   It’s what they want to hear, and it kind of lets them off the hook. They are, in effect, victims of the insidious disease, which we all need to be treated for and recovered from. Thus, the popularity of BLM despite the fact it’s a player in the long game of Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Anarchist aimed at undermining our society.

    Many are do-gooders, many just young and hot for revolution, others uninformed and gullible, communists activists, and an assortment of criminals. Attack on police, a soft target, is an effort to disarm the establishment. Black leaders haven’t exactly discouraged the more assaultive conduct ((statues, etc.) of the protesters. It’s no surprise that people, especially in the ghetto don’t want the police in their neighborhood defunded and disarmed. But the strategy is to weaken the police power of our constitution. This is a very clever, long term takeover.

    Are Black people being used? Yes, but so are the rest of us. Far too many Americans can’t resist this propaganda. From one bizarre act of police brutality in Seattle, the Left has managed to convince enough people that all police departments are racist and the entire structure of policing needs to be overhauled – made impotent! Well of course, the argument is if the entire population is systemically defective why wouldn’t the cops be as well. Ergo, we need to reduce their threat to minorities by eliminating some of their duties and powers. This is not destruction, but a healing process for us all. So goes the logic of the Fox at the doorstep.

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  3. Front Seat Cat Member
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    People and businesses in this area are reaching out and helping the police.  A country music star and his wife recently donated 15 electric bikes each to two different precincts. The police in a local beach town loaded up a police cruiser with ice cream crates and were handing out ice cream bars to children in an effort to show a friendly face to the community. Another father and son team made a financial donation to the local K-9 community.  The private community is stepping up!

     

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    No, give the minorities what they have demanded for months. Release all minority prisoners, pull police from minority areas, do not arrest minorities for any crimes. Let them chew their own dog food.

    I grew up in the South. Throughout my life, people have assumed that I’m racist or have accused me of being racist – not because of anything I have said or done but just by virtue of where I was born. I believe that I have some standing to assert that I have a pretty good understanding of what is and isn’t racist.

    Sir, this comment was racist. You should be ashamed.

    Of course it is. I am whiteish, my very existence is racist. Everything in the world is my fault. Got it. But asking that people that get what they demand so they can live it to understand the repercussions is now racist? Yes I guess that too is a racist white position

    It’s the young minorities who need the lesson, in my area at least, not their parents.  But if the parents didn’t teach their children properly, maybe the parents need the lesson too, as a reminder of their own (ir)responsibility.

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