“What do we want?” drones the blood chant.
“Dead cops!” comes the reply.
Done.
Thus does rhetoric have consequences.
There may have been just a single shooter in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday afternoon. But New York’s failure to denounce without nuance the bloodlust that’s been boiling out of the corners of the Eric Garner-Michael Brown demonstrations for weeks now boils down to this:
There is blood on many hands this morning.
Yes, First Amendment. Yes, redress of grievances. Yes, peaceful protests — even as clogged bridges and mobbed boulevards created, however temporarily, very real peril for tens of thousands of New Yorkers every night for a week.
The free-speech trope is so obviously true that it’s a deflection even to raise it.
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4 comments:
It goes beyond the dead cops "protesters." It extends to all those "protesters" who perpetrated the "hands up" lie.
While it is their free speech right to perpetrate lies, it speaks as to their basic lack of morals. It's unfortunate that these morally corrupted individuals creep around in our midst because then you don't know who to trust and who not to trust so you end up not trusting many at all unless you know them personally.
I guess the "pants up, don't loot" antagonism had nothing to do with it at all?
What 4:08? Your comment is lost on me.
true but unfortunately over militarization of local police departments along with rubber stamping of misdeed by kops has all led up to this. So they deserve each other! have at it!
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