Tuesday, December 9, 2014

May the biting fleas of a thousand camels infest the thief’s crotch and may he/she suffer thusly unto eternity.

The Eimers’ incident revealed that some officers’ body microphones were not working, but were on, whereas other officers’ body microphones were working, but their in-car cameras were not.

Conservatives are a group that lives off of bumper sticker quotes and pointing fingers blaming everyone else.

Its like Conservatives were ranting daily about Obama trying to destroy America with high gas prices and now that in some states its under $2.00 a gallon he suddenly has nothing to do with it.

Dress it up and put lipstick in the form of abstract numbers on it but in the end its still bumper sticker logic.

In a recent interview he make it clear that he is pushing the notion that racism is “deeply rooted in our society”. He said that: “When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias, you’ve got to have vigilance but you have to recognize that it’s going to take some time, and you just have to be steady so you don’t give up when we don’t get all the way there. This isn’t going to be solved overnight.”

His message is clear: “racism is deeply rooted in our society.” He ignores the obvious tremendous strides that have been taken to oust racism. He ignores the fact that we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and that as a nation we have taken giant steps to eradicate racism. Steps like affirmative action, the Civil Rights bill, etc. etc. etc.. Conveniently he ignores the fact that with Democrat governance and a black President, black poverty is increasing, and the unemployment rate for blacks is nearly twice that of whites.

And yet he does all in his power to put obstacles in the path of the growth of small business, America’s largest employer. All of that while lavishing bailouts and special treatment for banks and big business.

In the various Obama and Democrat wails that the deaths in Ferguson and NYC are the result of racist police misconduct, we hear nothing about the fact that in each instance, had the suspect complied with police orders, he would be alive today. The police actions would have been exactly the same whether the suspect was black or white or striped. The police action was directed against the acts of the suspects, not his race.  Even Eric Garner’s wife (the NYC decedent) is adamant that the police actions were not racist.

Nor do we hear that in the NYC incident, the police were there under orders from the Democrat NYC autocracy to enforce the tax laws of NYC. The decedent was selling untaxed cigarettes. The decedent’s crime of petty tax evasion ultimately led to his death. The arresting officers were led by a black sergeant. The police division was under the command of a black police executive.

Eric Garner did not die from a choke hold, he died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He died from a heart attack. He was morbidly obese, well in excess of 100 pounds overweight, had asthma, and a litany of other health problems, nearly all life threatening. And, he was no angel, he had had at least 30 arrests for charges ranging from assault, to grand larceny.

It is disturbing that the Democrats and Obama choose use racism as an excuse or mitigating factor in the illegal acts of members of the black community. We hear no dialog from the left that urges the black community to respect law enforcement and the rule of law. Instead, in each and every episode Obama and the Democrats immediately blame law enforcement. In NYC the Mayor has elected to require retraining of the entire PD as a result of the Garner death. That is grade school discipline, punish all for the supposed errors of a few. Yet, the ultra liberal mayor has failed to initiate any programs in the black community so as to inspire comity between the community and law enforcement. Obama and the Democrats are dead set on convincing the black community that the police are not there to serve and to protect, but rather are an occupying force.

It is no wonder that even after more than 6 years of a black President and a black Attorney General, a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated since they took office.  That is yet another failure of the Obama administration.

Action is needed to bolster public trust in the police in the aftermath of the killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers, Obama has the bully pulpit, and he should use it.

The tension between law enforcement and the black community is certain to have disastrous consequences. Police officers are certain to be more and more concerned with their own safety in their interactions with the black community, that concern will certainly result in harsh, arm’s length dealing with minorities. It is a witch’s brew that is certain to cause harm to society. And we must ask ourselves, why do we, in the 21st century even tolerate the notion of a “black community?” Why aren’t we demanding that the notion of a “black community”, a “Jewish community”, a “Latin Community”, etc. etc., be tossed on the scrap heap of history?

Black “leaders” like Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, et al, are doing their constituency a grave disservice.

The media have been virtually silent about the indictment of the Eutawville S.C. Chief of Police for the killing of a black man during the course of an arrest. Nor have we heard anything about the murder of a white police officer, Police Officer Jeff Westerfield, of Gary by a black career criminal.