This is an actual headline from the Washington Post:
For some reason the Left still believes they speak for everybody or at least they can read minds. If the intention of the Fake News Writer is to make you believe that Law Enforcement is seen as some sort of Evil Force by the majority of the American People, he could not be more mistaken.
Listen, as much as I understand that Black Lives Matter has managed to push the narrative of all cops are murderers to a sizable percentage of the Black population, the same does not apply to Whites and other minorities. I know there are some whiny shitheads in the Chicano community that communed with BLM, but East Coast Hispanics? Latinos that have lived in Latin America or are sons and daughters of immigrants that lived under a Police State (which is most Latin Nations anyway) find US LEOs the height of politeness and professionalism.
This is a lame attempt by Mr. Balko to create a controversy where none exist but for a few in the Left and he probably picked up the “dissent” by the postings of some Chest Thumpers on our side. What he does not understand because he simply does not spend time in our world is that we are in a perpetual state of analysis and criticism among ourselves, but that does not mean there is a break up and dissolution of our resolve.
We catch a picture of a Gun Owner being unsafe, we fall upon him like pigs on fresh corn and free mud. Several decades later, the argument of 9mm versus .45 ACP is still going. Do not badmouth the 1911 or say anything bad about a John Browning design or you will be tarred and feathered. And I don’t want to get in the political arena and legal issues. Hell, even instructors are reviewed and discussed with savage detail.
But the Left has the misconception that if there is an argument, it can only mean there is not unity. This is based in their dogma that in order to have unity, their members cannot argue the edicts brought forward by The Betters. To do so is treason and immediate expulsion from the group and obtaining the label of traitor. And you don’t have to go far to see it, recently a journalist was relieved from her post for covering the removal of Jewish individuals from a LGBT parade because their presence and Pride flags with the Star of Israel would make Palestinians feel bad or some horsehit like that. So basically the organizers sent the Jewish Women back to the closet and the journalist got punished for calling attention to the contradiction. Dissent is verbotten in the Left. On our side? You tell us we can’t do something and even the most College Educated, Multi Doctored Scholar from the West Coast will suddenly develop Southern accent and say: “Challenge accepted. Hold my beer.”
And the last mistake Mr. Balko made was not figuring out that he just informed over a million LEOs across the Nation that they have good friends in the NRA. When it comes time for passing Legislation, more cops will stand on our side than with the Gun Control nannies that have taken into their bosom the Black Lives Matter Pigs Must Die movement.
Thank you.
Well said!
Cop-hating is Balko’s shtick. He’s not rational about it in the least, so given the opportunity, he’d toss out every Libertarian principle to get the chance to out down cops.
HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY?
As someone who works with law enforcement regularly, and has been observing how law enforcement has come to evolve, Balko’s criticism of some police agencies and their dangerous tendancies is entirely fair and should be take seriously, particularly by those of us in a community particularly dedicated to protecting life and constitutional rights.
Castille’s shooter, Off Yanez, should have been convicted of manslaughter; he shot Castile because he panicked. And he had no basis for that panic; his panic, and his lack of training, cost Castile his life and Yanez his career. I will gladly support law enforcement; I have a son who’s a cop. But law enforcement has to police its own. I have to call them as I see them.
Well said. I usually don’t like Balko, but he got it right here.