Tuesday, December 23, 2014

NEW YORK CITY SLIDES TOWARD CHAOS AFTER POLICE OFFICERS ASSASSINATED



◼ Take a bow, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Hero of the Revolution. You got what you were pushing for. After weeks of the Mayor treating his own police force like a gang of psychotic racist killers he couldn’t even trust to watch over his mixed-race son, in order to curry favor with the mobs of protesters filling the streets (often illegally, but apparently city ordinances don’t apply to such righteous crusaders), a particularly deranged protester murdered two police officers on Saturday afternoon. - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o
Of course, characters like de Blasio are scrambling to retract their most incendiary statements and pouring forth a geyser of tears over these murders. It doesn’t take very finely-honed political instincts for them to realize they’ve gone too far. But this horror also resulted from what they didn’t do. They didn’t stand up for the rule of law. They indulged the worst paranoid fantasies of angry mobs, because they wanted to be seen as “down with the struggle” by those whose votes Democrats must harvest in order to win elections. People who could have short-circuited the racism narrative constructed without a shred of evidence around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner were instead content to indulge those bleak fantasies, assuring the mob that their concerns about police racism were well-founded. Democrat city officials haven’t even been willing to enforce the rules surrounding street demonstrations – a willful dereliction of duty that telegraphs the message, your cause is so righteous that mere city ordinances don’t apply to you.

That goes all the way up to President Obama, who – predictably but still incredibly – strolled off the golf course to dump a brief statement, made a phone call to the NYPD commissioner, and then returned to the links in Hawaii.
◼ Who's Responsible? - Thomas Sowell /Real Clear Politics
The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police.

...We can only hope that Mayor de Blasio has some residual decency, so that he will not defile these two officers' memorial services with his presence. No politician in the country has done more to play the race card against the police and spread the notion that cops are the big problem in minority communities.

It so happens that the police officers killed were both members of minority groups -- Officer Rafael Ramos, Hispanic, and Officer Wenjian Liu, Asian. It so happens that a substantial part of the New York City police force are members of minority groups.

But you might never know that from the story told by demagogues who depict the black community as a "colonial" society being "occupied" by white policemen who target young blacks. Mayor de Blasio joined the chorus of those saying that they have to warn their black sons how to cope with this situation.

"What can we say to our sons?" some demagogues ask. They can say, "Don't go around punching strangers, because it is only a matter of time before you punch the wrong stranger."

Mayor de Blasio has made anti-police comments with Al Sharpton seated at his side. This is the same Al Sharpton with a trail of slime going back more than a quarter of a century, during which he has whipped up mobs and fomented race hatred from the days of the Tawana Brawley "rape" hoax of 1987 to the Duke University "rape" hoax of 2006 and the Ferguson riots of 2014.

Make no mistake about it. There is political mileage to be made siding with demagogues like Al Sharpton who, as demagogue-in-chief, has been invited to the White House dozens of times by its commander-in-chief....
◼ The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops - Daily Beast

◼ Thought those anti-cop protesters were peaceful? Think again - NY Post

’Tis the season of magic, so let’s play pretend. Let’s make believe that only an itsy-bitsy handful of those anti-police protesters disrupting the city are hell-bent on mayhem.

To get there, you have to ignore the hundreds if not thousands in Manhattan caught on tape chanting, “What do we want?” and answering: “Dead cops.” They must have been in some other city.

You have to overlook those “shoot back” chants as well. As for that nut from CUNY caught trying to throw a garbage can onto the Brooklyn Bridge roadway and punching a cop — blame your lying eyes!

And pretend you didn’t see those “peaceful” protesters who were taped helping him escape, and kicked one cop when he was on the ground. Hey, the camera lies, too!...

It’s only by peeling back the layers of pretend that we get to the naked truth: The whole narrative of widespread police brutality is a big fat lie.

It’s a lie that turns truth on its head, meaning the movement the mayor praises as “organic” and says is raising legitimate concerns is a scam foisted on the public for the sole purpose of advancing a far-left political agenda.

The NYPD saved the city from killers, rapists and muggers and most New Yorkers know it. They showed their appreciation by trusting cops and giving former commissioner Ray Kelly sky-high approval ratings all through his 12 years — higher, in fact, than any politician, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg....



◼ 'NYPD KKK': ANTI-COP PROTESTERS FLOOD STREETS... Anti-cop protesters flood NYC despite de Blasio’s appeal - NY Post

people tried to do last-minute Christmas shopping — defying Mayor de Blasio’s call for a moratorium on the demonstrations after two Brooklyn police officers were slain.

Many of the activists took shots at the mayor.

“The mayor says stop that, we say fuck that!” yelled activists, while jumping in place. They started on 59th Street and 5th Avenue, went down to 53rd Street, and then marched up the Upper East Side.

Tarik Grand, 25, of Brooklyn said he was out there because of de Blasio’s words on Monday. “We’re protesting tonight, because the mayor specifically said not to,” he said.

◼ Sharpton says “no” to holding off protests until after police officers’ funerals - Jazz Shaw/HotAir
If you were holding out some hope for things to get better sooner rather than later, I would say that this response pretty much puts the kibosh that idea. It is only four days until the funeral of Rafael Ramos on Saturday. (Services for Wenjian Liu can not be finalized until travel plans for relatives from China can be arranged.) Of those four days, two of them are Christmas Eve and Christmas day. To think that a brief pause over such a period of time is an excessive demand is absurd. Nobody is trying to chill free speech or shut the conversation down. It was a simple, civil request to not add insult to injury by having crowds out in the street chanting Hands Up Don’t Shoot (or even What Do We Want, Dead Cops) while the bodies are awaiting interment.
◼ NYC protesters say they won't stop demonstrations despite de Blasio's wishes - FOX & AP
Al Sharpton told Reuters late Monday that de Blasio's request was too "ill-defined" to heed.

"Is a vigil a protest? Is a rally?" Sharpton asked.
◼ Anyone need more proof of who is driving this honeywagon? - Discussion at Lucianne

◼ The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal... The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers - City Journal
Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing 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 the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites—leaving disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods unexplained without reference to racism. The poisonous effect of those lies has now manifested itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers.

The highest reaches of American society promulgated these untruths and participated in the mass hysteria.
◼ Here comes the great unraveling. - Discussion at Lucianne

◼ DeBlasio, Black Leaders Fueling Flames of Racism in America - Robert Davi/Breitbart Big Hollywood
President Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bill de Blasio, and the Rev. Al Sharpton are fueling the flames of racism in America just as the Ku Klux Klan did 100 years ago. Sounds inflammatory? It is. What’s worse, it’s true.

The reason? They are considered the establishment. They are out in broad daylight perpetrating a racist agenda and, instead of wearing a white sheet to protect their identity, they are shrouded in the cloak of government.
◼ Once again blacks are being used and lied to. They don't know it. - Discussion at Lucianne

◼ De Blasio’s nightmare - Politico
◼ The NYPD had many ways and reasons to dis the mayor but one swift, silent group gesture was the killer.

◼ In Bloomington, Minnesota: Charges Expected To Be Filed Against MOA Protest Organizers
◼ Let's roll. There is more work to be done.

◼ De Blasio aide has history of vulgar tweets - NY Post

This is what passes for “community relations” in Mayor de Blasio’s New York.
A foul-mouthed former campaign aide to the mayor who was previously scolded for her Twitter rants against the NYPD and NAACP was quietly hired as the mayor’s new co-director of community affairs in Brooklyn....

Her highlight reel included:

  • “NYPD fatally shoot knife-wielding man in Times Square. (VIDEO) F–k. The. Police” Motley wrote on Aug. 11, 2012, after cops shot Darrius Kennedy, 51.
  • She slammed the NAACP in January 2013 for siding with drink companies against Bloomberg’s soda ban: “@NAACP aka corporate d–k riders. Standing with soda makers for a few bucks.”
  • In February 2013, she linked to an article highlighting Bloomberg’s pro-gun-control efforts and wrote, “Hey rest of #America, welcome to Bloomberg using his #money to mess up your sh-t.”
  • Motley also used Twitter to cheer crazed ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner, who went on a wild shooting spree across Southern California in February 2013 after claiming he was fired because of racism.
  • “There’s a part of me rooting for #Dorner. This racist, imperialist country gets the best of people sometimes. It makes some snap. #lapd,” she tweeted several days before Dorner was killed by cops during a standoff.
  • After The Post exposed the tweets, Motley pulled down her Twitter page and apologized, but stayed on with the campaign.
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