Are Attacks on Police Part of a National Plan?
Written by Steve Byas
The
terrible murders of five police officers in Dallas, with the wounding
of seven more, was a coordinated attack following a Black Lives Matter
Rally in the north Texas city. A wave of protests has swept the nation
after two black men were killed, one each in Louisiana and Minnesota,
this week.
It
was the deadliest single day for police officers in America since the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 — but in this case, police
officers were specifically targeted. Dallas police Chief David Brown
said, “(They were) working together with rifles, triangulating at
elevated positions in different points in the downtown area where the
march ended up going.”
But
is this targeting of police part of a larger plan, with efforts to kill
police officers across the country, not just in Dallas? And, who is
responsible for this rash of shootings of police officers, and what is
the ultimate goal?
Some
are holding Twitter at least partially responsible, because it has not
only provided a platform for anti-police invective, it has failed to
delete calls for murdering police, either through negligence or worse.
It is reported that thousands of posts have been in “tweets,” including
calls to “kill pigs,” and “kill police.”
One
tweet is from Ben Baller, Kanye West’s personal jeweler, who has almost
a half-million Twitter users reading his calls for violence upon the
police. Among his tweets is, “I want to kill 100 cops every time I hear
‘stop resisting.’ RIP," followed by the hashtag “Alton Sterling.”
Sterling is one of the black men killed in an altercation with police.
Baller
also praised Christopher Dorner, calling him “a legend.” Dorner was
fired from the Los Angeles police force in 2013, then published an
11-page “manifesto” in which he called for the “unconventional and
asysmmetric warfare” upon LAPD. Baller’s profanity-laced Tweet said
Dorner “tried to [do] something about” the police. Dorner shot police
officers and civilians (including family members of officers) before he
died in a later shoot-out with police at a cabin in the San Bernardino
Mountains.
Another
Tweet that Twitter had not removed as I wrote this article, written by
“My Precious,”depicted a masked man slitting the throat of a police
officer, with the caption, “SOON THE TALES WILL TURN.”
Other
Tweets also called for the murder of police officers, including such
vicious inciting to violence as, “Take the pigs to the slaughter house,”
and “kill em all.”
Twitter
does remove some “insulting” Tweets, but incredibly, had not removed
incitement to murder against police officers before the Dallas
shootings.
President
Barack Obama called yesterday (before the shooting of the Dallas
officers) for a “change” in the justice system to deal with what he
called “a broader set of racial disparities.” Obama said the killings of
black men in Louisiana and Minnesota are not isolated incidents, but
highlighted concerns about bias against African-Americans, claiming that
blacks are being shot by police at a higher rate than whites.
Black
Lives Matter (BLM) is a movement that Governor Chris Christie of New
Jersey has charged with “calling for the murder of police officers.” BLM
marches last year in Minnesota included the chant, “Pigs in a blanket,
fry 'em like bacon” is just one piece of evidence for Christie’s
accusations. Yet, Obama has defended BLM, and backs up the assertions
made by one of its founders, Alicia Garza, who said blacks are
“uniquely, systematically, and savagely targeted by the state.”
But is that true?
Larry
Elder, a conservative columnist and an African-American who disagrees
with those bold assertions, said, “In the last several decades the
numbers of blacks killed by cops are down nearly 75 percent.” Elder
added, “In 2012, according to the CDC, 140 blacks were killed by police.
That same year 386 whites were killed by police. Over a 13-year period
from 1999 to 2011, the CDC reports that 2,151 whites were killed by cops
— and 1,130 blacks were killed by cops.”
While
this still seems like a disproportionate number of blacks being killed —
they only make up about 13 percent of the population versus whites
being about 62 percent of the population — according to the Bureau of
Justice statistics, between 2002 and 2011 blacks made up about half of all murder victims in
the United States, averaging more than 7,500 per year. And though
offender statistics are incomplete for various reasons, it is estimated
that about 90 percent of black murder victims were killed by other
blacks.
Studies
indicate that police officers may actually be more hesitant to use
lethal force when dealing with blacks than whites. David Klinger, in his
book Into the Kill Zone: A Cop’s Eye View of Deadly Force,
interviewed hundreds of police officers, and wrote, “I’ve had multiple
officers tell me they were worried in the wake of a shooting because
they shot a black person, and I’ve had multiple officers tell me that
they were glad that the person they shot was white.”
Milwaukee
County Sheriff David Clarke, who is black, was particularly critical of
the BLM movement, and of Obama, charging the president himself had
“started this war on police,” with his inflammatory rhetoric. One
Georgia BLM activist actually made a video calling for blacks “to take
office’s guns, take over a police station and kill white people.”
The
current “war” against the police began during the Obama administration
and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black criminal, Michael
Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. A
grand jury later investigated the incident interviewed 40 witnesses — 38
of whom were black — and concluded that Wilson was acting in
self-defense, yet the narrative is still repeated that Brown was gunned
down while trying to surrender.
But,
this “war” against the police is not totally new. James Fitzgerald, a
former police detective from Newark, New Jersey, recently conducted a
national “Support Your Local Police — and keep them Independent!”
speaking tour for the John Birch Society, and addressed this issue.
Fitzgerald
told his audience in Oklahoma City in May that the roots of the
violence against police are decades old, and have continued to the
present. He said that the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate had
compiled a report in 1960 entitled “Communist Plot Against Free World
Police.” The report concluded that communists were working to sully the
reputation of the nation’s police forces.
A
few years after the report was published, Sargent Shriver, a
brother-in-law of President John Kennedy, was director of the Peace
Corps for President Lyndon Johnson. From that position, Shriver was
funneling money to “community organizers” [remember Obama’s former role
as a “community organizer” in Chicago] in Newark, New Jersey, who were
working to radicalize young black Americans. Shriver was cautioned that
these groups were led by ideological communists, who had posters of
communists such as Mao, Lenin, and Che Guevera gracing the walls of
their headquarters. He dismissed the concerns, but the agitation against
the police continued until the infamous Newark race riots occurred.
Fitzgerald
also discussed the Freddie Gray incident in Baltimore, where three of
the six officers involved in Gray’s arrest and transport were black.
Exacerbating
the present racial animus and problems is Black Lives Matter, which
condemns every killing of every black person by police, spreading
discontent. Black Lives Matter is a radical organization founded by
Marxists, Fitzgerald said. He used photographs of demonstrators around
the country, with signs all including the word, “RevCom.US.” He
explained Rev.Com.US is
for “Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States.” BLM, a group
that President Obama has defended repeatedly, teaches chants that
glamorize the killing of police.
The
Obama administration has also worsened the problems in many ways. In
one case, Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, actually funneled
$1.5 million to the Bronx Defenders, a group that created a rap song
about how to kill policemen!
What is the purpose of this leftist attack upon the police?
Fitzgerald
charged that the Justice Department was using something called the
Police Data Initiative to achieve “federalization of the local police.”
The way this is to be accomplished is through “standards” for local
police both created and enforced by the Justice Department.
Fitzgerald
asserted that a principal goal of the Left is to nationalize the police
function. Fitzgerald offered some examples of nationalized police
forces, including the Cheka of the Soviet Union and the Gestapo in
National Socialist Germany.
An
increase in lawlessness, largely owing to the reluctance of police to
confront some criminal activity in minority neighborhoods in such places
as Chicago, where the murder rate has spiraled upward, is planned to
lead some Americans to believe the local police are not capable of
controlling violent crime, Fitzgerald predicted. A nationalized police
force will then be presented as the solution, he warned.
Al Sharpton has called for an “end” to local policing, with that function taken over by a nationalized police force.
And,
of course, the tragic murders of the police officers in Dallas will be
yet another talking point with those who want to disarm law-abiding
American citizens.
With a former “community organizer” in residence in the White House, this is not surprising.
Laura J Alcorn
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