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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.
Published in General
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.
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.
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!
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.