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Subject: "Attacks on Law Enforcement Are Attacks on America: The Democrat Party has morphed into the Deathocrat Party."
Hi Gang:
On July 1, 2020 FrontPage Magazine published my latest article:
Attacks on Law Enforcement Are Attacks on America
The Democrat Party has morphed into the Deathocrat Party.
Kindly forward this e-mail to your senators and congressional representatives and to as many folks as you can and then ask that those to whom you send this forward it along to everyone they can- I am attempting to create a “Bucket Brigade of Truth!
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My article today is predicated on the attacks on law enforcement launched by the Radical Left and by the increasingly radicalized Democratic Party- that incredibly includes defunding police departments across the United States, in spite of a drastic rise in shootings and murders committed by criminals.
Ironically, many of those killed are Black Americans including children in such cities as Chicago, New York and other cities that are under the control of the Democratic Party.
Unlike the the immutable laws of nature, legislated laws are meaningless if there are no resources- including law enforcement officers- to enforce those laws.
Years ago I noted that the growth of so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” were pushing America to the precipice of anarchy.
As my kids used to ask, “Are we there yet?”
For all of the claims of the politicians who promise to help American minorities- no one is questioning how the destruction of businesses- many minority owned, and jobs will help poor Americans lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Facts are indeed, “stubborn things!"
Please take the time to read my commentary in its entirety.
Ignorance is not bliss. Knowledge is power, so my article provides some cold hard facts for you to consider and hopefully share with others.
If you like my article I ask that you make a point of posting it on FaceBook and other social media and forward this e-mail to as many folks as you can. It is important to dispel the lies and nonsense about the true nature and significance of effective immigration law enforcement in this particularly perilous era.
Being “Pro-Enforcement” is not “Anti-Immigrant.” Indeed, advocates for immigration anarchy are actually taking an “Anti-Immigrant” position by obfuscating the line that separates lawful immigrants from illegal aliens. To provide a bit of clarity, while we are indeed a “Nation of immigrants” America is not a nation of trespassers. The difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar.
Americans must be willing to stand their ground and not be intimidated by the false accusations- far too much hangs in the balance! We must speak out against mayors and governors who create “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States.”
Many people have come to complain that we have become too “Politically Correct” to speak the truth about important issues. My view is that the artful use of language that has been described as examples of political correctness are in fact, examples of Orwellian “Newspeak.”
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Attacks on Law Enforcement Are Attacks on America
The Democrat Party has morphed into the Deathocrat Party.
Wed July 1, 2020 | Michael Cutler
America has faced massive demonstrations and riots in the wake of the incomprehensible death of George Floyd allegedly Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin and other members of that city’s police department.
No one has attempted to defend Chauvin’s actions.
Yet the Radical Left and the mainstream media have seized on Floyd’s death to discredit law enforcement and spurred high-profile leaders of the Democratic Party, to “Defund the police” and erase the “Thin Blue Line.”
In point of fact, the Minneapolis City Council has voted to completely defund and dismantle that city’s beleaguered police department. Final action on this insane proposal is pending.
In New York City, the NYPD’s highly effective Anti-Crime Units have been disbanded and Mayor de Blasio has stated he will reduce the NYPD funding by one billion dollars even as, on June 22, 2020 NBC News reported, Weekly NYC Shootings Soar 358% Over Last Year, Data Shows.
Many years ago, as an INS agent, I worked closely with the NYPD and its Anti-Crime Units and can personally attest to how effective that unit was.
Incredibly, the same Democrats who attacked President Trump when he sought to defund “Sanctuary Cities” for not cooperating with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) arguing that defunding police would cost innocent people their lives are now, themselves, seeking to defund police departments.
The most dangerous four-word statement a law enforcement officer can make is, “You are under arrest.” No one knows how a suspect may react to being taken into custody. I speak from my 30 years of experience with the former INS. While many individuals may go quietly others may react with the fight or flight response.
On June 25, 2020 House Democrats passed a bill to reform police that included a provision that would strip police officers of protection against being personally sued for their actions.
Currently law enforcement officers may be sued if it can be demonstrated that they acted outside of their scope of authority. This bill would leave law enforcement officers personally vulnerable under all circumstances.
Should such a bill become law, law enforcement officers would have to be foolish to arrest anyone or take any official action.
There is a Yiddish expression that “When the fish goes bad it smells from the head.” If any group should be vulnerable to lawsuits, it should be the politicians who create dangerous sanctuary policies as I noted in my article, Politicians Must Face Consequences For Crimes They Enable.
The vast majority of law enforcement officers are professional and fair and decent guardians of peace and safety. The actions of a very small minority of bad cops is being exploited by the Radical Left to attack law enforcement in general.
As unhinged as the demand to defund police is, we must remember that the Democrats launched their first attack on law enforcement by vilifying our nation’s immigration laws and the federal agents who are responsible for enforcing those laws. In a very real sense, the Border Patrol and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents were the “canaries in the coal mine.”
Under so-called “Sanctuary” policies alien criminals have been shielded from detection by ICE and other federal agents who are charged with enforcing our nation’s immigration laws- often with catastrophic deadly consequences.
Consider my recent article, New York State Blocks ICE and Border Patrol Access to DMV Database in which I focused on additional dangerous policies engaged in by New York’s governor Cuomo to undermine immigration law enforcement.
Many have called for finding ways to de-escalate the encounters between police and the public. Certainly, this is a worthwhile objective. However, when the media and politicians warn black men that police officers are seeking to kill them, the false fear that this creates may well cause people to not comply with law enforcement causing greater likelihood that interactions between the police and the public may end badly.
Calls for “de-militarizing police” may be well-intentioned but are wrong-headed. Certainly, police officers should not routinely patrol neighborhoods with Kevlar helmets and submachine guns- but heavy weapons and other tactical resources need to be maintained in reserve to be readily available for situations involving terrorists or other heavily armed criminals.
The calls for defunding police have been predicted on a relatively few situations involving a tiny percentage of our valiant police officers. Let me be clear- the loss of even one life is a tragedy.
However, if the sole justification for defunding police and vilifying the hundreds of thousands of men and women who form the “thin blue line” and save innumerable lives each year, is because an extremely small number of people have lost their lives to police actions, then by that fatally flawed reasoning, perhaps hospitals should be defunded.
Consider that on February 22, 2018 CNBC posted an important report, The third-leading cause of death in US most doctors don’t want you to know about.
That report began with these two bullet points:
KEY POINTS
A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.
Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
Consider that when medical professionals err their patients may suffer grievous and life=altering injuries or die. The life and/or physical wellbeing of the medical professional who errs, however, is not on the line.
When law enforcement officers err, they may pay for their mistakes with their own lives or the lives of their colleagues.
There are no “do-overs!”
Of course I am not advocating for hospitals to be defunded- but certainly neither should police departments be defunded.
The majority of those who fall victim to violence, including young children are members of the minority communities, just as the majority of those who fall victim to the crimes and violence of transnational gangs are members of the various ethnic immigrant communities.
The Radical Left and their patrons in the Democratic Party don’t care about those innocent lives, they simply seek anarchy as a means of gaining political power.
If I had a wish list, I would love to see the development of additional effective non-lethal means of quickly subduing violent suspects during an arrest.
More training and additional resources for police- not fewer, could be effective.
Police departments should have to meet common training requirements to make certain that minimum common standards are met.
Critical elements contained in the evaluations of police officers should be reviewed. Police officers who seek to advance their careers see in their evaluations their “marching orders” that they must follow in order to get good evaluations. If, for example, quotas for arrests are established as critical elements, some police officers may act aggressively to make more arrests to satisfy this requirement.
Police departments should not be used to generate revenue for their jurisdictions. Revenue generated by the issuance of parking tickets and other such administrative actions can create hostility between police officers and the communities that they serve.
Police departments might benefit by enabling officers who “burn out” to take an early retirement with an appropriately reduced pension after five or more years. Many police officers suffer from PTSD. This is evidenced by the high number of police officers who commit suicide.
To this point, on January 2, 2020 ABC News reported: Record number of US police officers died by suicide in 2019, advocacy group says The figure rose to 228 from 172 in 2018.
Those who enlist in our armed forces are able to leave after a few years, having served our nation, so that they could then move on to other careers. Why not provide a similar option for police officers?
My list is not all-inclusive but could serve as “food for thought.”
However, the number one issue is clear- any politician who seeks to defund or undermine the police must be voted out of office. Elections must have consequences!
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Discussions about immigration almost invariably focus on the lack of integrity to the border that is supposed to separate the United States from America. Clearly that border lacks integrity and represents little more than a speed bump to smugglers who transport illegal aliens and contraband including record quantities of dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine into the United States.
However, there are many more components to the immigration system including systems by which aliens are granted visas to enter the United States and various immigration benefits such as conferring employment authorization to aliens in the United States and also include the adjudications process by which aliens are granted lawful immigrant status and even United States citizenship.
All of these systems of the immigration system lack integrity. Aliens who have gone on to commit crimes and even participate in terrorist attacks have often been dissevered to have successfully gamed the immigration benefits program in order to embed themselves in communities around the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.
The findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission must be the starting point for any discussion about immigration legislation. That commission determined that a lack of border security, including the visa process. and fraud in the immigration benefits program, enabled terrorists to enter and embed themselves in the United States, as they went about their deadly preparations.
Immigration is not a single issue but a singular issue that impacts nearly every challenge and threat confronting the United States today! Simply stated, the immigration laws were enacted to save lives and protect the jobs of American workers. In point of fact, our borders and our immigration laws are America’s first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals.
It is not “Anti-Immigrant” to be “Pro-American” it is also not “Anti-Immigrant” to be pro-immigration law enforcement!
Our armed forces are charged with securing America’s borders externally while the DHS is supposed to secure those same borders from within. The failures of the DHS to live up to its half of the equation are undermining the efforts, valor and incredible sacrifices of Americas men and women who serve in our military!
If our government's failures to protect American jobs by securing our nation's borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional "Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation!
If our government's failures to protect American jobs by securing our nation's borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional "Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation!
All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!
We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
American Lives Matter!
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
-michael cutler-
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