Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The left's police-hating chickens are coming home to roost. While partisan liberals have gone out of their way to blame conservative media and the Tea Party movement for creating a "climate of hate," they are silent on the cultural and literal war on police that has raged for decades -- and escalated tragically this year.
The total number of law enforcement officers shot and killed this year is up 19 percent over last year, according to the Christian Science Monitor. More officers have died in ambush incidents this year than in any other since 2000.
The Lakewood, Wash., massacre on Thanksgiving weekend claimed the lives of four dedicated officers getting ready for work at a coffee shop Sunday morning. Maurice Clemmons -- the violent career thug who received clemency from former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee and benefited from fatal systemic lapses in the criminal justice system -- had many other enablers.
Clemmons had told numerous friends and family members to "watch the TV" before the massacre because he was going to "kill a bunch of cops." The witnesses did worse than nothing. Several have been arrested for actively aiding and abetting Clemmons -- with shelter, food, money and medical aid -- before he was discovered in Seattle early Tuesday morning and shot after threatening a patrol officer investigating Clemmons' stolen vehicle.
A militant online group called the National Black Foot Soldier Network celebrated Clemmons as a "Crowned BOW (Black on White) Martyr" and dubbed the Lakewood ambush a "pre-emptive strike on terrorists." It wasn't the only chilling propaganda cheering black-on-white police murders in the Pacific Northwest this year.
Just three weeks before the Lakewood massacre, the region endured another police attack. Suspect Christopher Monfort was arrested last month in the targeted shooting death of Seattle Police Department Officer Timothy Brenton and the wounding of his partner Britt Sweeney. Monfort had written diatribes against law enforcement, harping against white policemen.
The leader of a Seattle hip-hop/punk band commemorated the assassination with a T-shirt depicting Monfort's face splattered with blood and overlaid with a Seattle Police Department badge under the slogan "Deliver Us From Evil." The other side of the shirt read, "Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamp."
From where does the deadened and deadly callousness toward the thin blue line come?
How about years of police-bashing rap from Ice-T's "Cop Killer" to Dead Prez's "Police State" ("I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct") and The Game's "911 is a Joke" (I ought to shoot 51 officers for the 51 times that boy was shot in New York")?
Try the glamorization of poisonous anti-police domestic terrorist groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. Add in the mainstreaming of anti-police demagogues Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (whose ex-wife and daughter were arrested last week after verbally abusing a Harlem police officer and resisting arrest after running a red light). And toss in the global glorification of Death Row police-killers Stanley "Tookie" Williams and Mumia Abu-Jamal by the Hollywood elite.
It is, in my mind, no coincidence that another of 2009's bloodiest multiple-police shootings took place in Oakland -- a hotbed of black nationalism/Free Mumia radicalism that gave us the likes of Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Obama green jobs czar turned liberal think-tank fellow Van Jones (whose "creative" activism and "energy" in the Bay Area won senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett's heart). Four Oakland officers went down and one was injured when a convicted felon ambushed them during a routine traffic stop. Nearly 20,000 law enforcement officers and supporters from around the country filled a memorial event for the fallen.
President Obama -- Chicago pal of police-targeting Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and the convener of the national beer summit to indulge his race-baiting, police-bashing Harvard professor friend Henry Louis Gates -- did not attend the service.
Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2009).
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Comments
yankeewhaler (anonymous) says...
TY for giving PD competition, any way, any time a convicted felon thinks they are Jesus and have access to weapons, that should be mandatory life in jail. Jim Jones, Branch Davidians and now MC, all nutcases with a gun. Bad news.
December 8, 2009 at 1:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
TECooper (anonymous) says...
What? While the murdering of police officers is horrific and frightening, this article contains some of the most strained logic and tortured attempts to blame 'liberals' that I think I've ever heard. It was so hard trying to follow the argument -- such as it was -- that it wasn't even interesting to read.
December 8, 2009 at 3:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
DeanHartmann (anonymous) says...
TECooper. It was actually rather easy to obtain her point from reading the article. Yes, it was a little heavy on the liberal bashing for my taste, but her point is still relatively salient.
Would you make such a comment on an article written by the likes of Leonard Pitts
( who is equally disdainful and unapologetic as Malkin-just to the opposite spectrum of people) ?
While I will not agree with everything that I am sure Michele Malkin has to say on the issues of the day, I must say that reading it gives hope to me for what I expect the Globe will bring to Saint Louis' news. Now, I just hope we can get similar thought provoking columns from the editorial page of the Globe rather than just farmed out columns by national people.
December 8, 2009 at 4:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
knjse (anonymous) says...
I love Malkin and true journalists like her that will print not only her viewpoints, but both sides of an issue. Thank you Globe Democrat for coming back!
December 9, 2009 at 8:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
EJRotert (anonymous) says...
I'm at at loss here. This doesn't sound like either a liberal- or conservative-based issue, but an issue of hate being directed toward police from the black community. Malkin has gone out on a limb -- and a thin, creaking one at that -- by implying that leftist politicians and activists are condoning this by not overtly focusing on it. Last I checked, this country has a lot to clean up after Bush's eight-year frat party. And like it or not, conservative media and the tea partiers are bigger issues at this time because we're talking about the plutocracy trying to hang on to its stacked economic and political system. It's about class warfare that's always been there. It's just now that it's coming to light in the media because of public, physical confrontations. Cop-killing has always been an important issue, but to suggest that something nefarious is afoot because the numbers are up, and polticians aren't commenting on it enough to Malkin's satisfaction, is ludicrous. Malkin's really gone out of her way to concoct a column here.
December 9, 2009 at 10:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
nick (anonymous) says...
When it comes to spewing hate, Michelle Malkin has few peers. I am still waiting for an article with a positive message from her.
December 9, 2009 at 11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
etblues (anonymous) says...
Nick...spewing hate. Please!! That's a huge stretch. I think this word is used too much by people who disagree with someones' opinion.
Feel free to disagree.....but it's not hate.
December 9, 2009 at 11:54 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
murph2920 (anonymous) says...
How in the world do you turn commentary on outrage against "cop killers," into a "hate George Bush" monologue? Jeez EJ, you didn't have an agenda here, did you? The issue is the horror of cop killings in our society, and how our political system, and political elitists are contributing to the "fad" that is terrorizing our nation at it's very root...the local cop...the citizen policeman. For God's sake, EJ!!!
December 10, 2009 at 7:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
iguess (anonymous) says...
Nick- Spewing hate? So, your so indoctrinated that telling the truth has become "spewing hate". Interesting...
Ej same with you. Looking at the column through your far left viewpoint "may" make Malkin's column unappealing to you but again, facts, (such as those mentioned by Malkin regarding the Oakland cop killings), are facts whether their too close to home for you or not !
I'm no Bush fan either, but last I heard, he wasn't personal friends and an admirer of a cop killing murderer (William Ayres), and other "Marxist professors" !
With his popularity plummeting to 49 percent from a high of 76%, most people are coming to their senses!
What's up with you two?
December 10, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
nick (anonymous) says...
iguess - Michelle Malkin writes an opinion article. She is not a reporter and she isn't bound to report the facts, only her (perhaps-right-wing-slanted) version of what she has heard or read. To say that she hates Obama, to me would be an understatement. If you think otherwise, well then, if that rocks your boat, just go for it.
What's up with me? Well, for one thing, while you and Malkin are looking at Obama from one angle: that he once sat on a school board with William Ayers- and judging him with guilt by association; I'm judging him from quite another: his accomplishments in life, education, family, and career-wise, all from a very humble beginning.
So what, you say. Oh, well. As you were.
December 10, 2009 at 3:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
iguess (anonymous) says...
Nick, thanks for responding. I don't care about Malkin's references about Obama. As the title of her piece suggests, the column is not about Obama per se, rather, about the perceived license his election has given to already unbalanced individuals to act out their hatred.
I was shocked to read your last paragraph, but I think I may now realize the degree of leftism you truly represent.
To speak of William Ayers in any terms other than to describe the despicable murderer that he is, shows a callousness and insensitivity that is hard to stomach..
What next Nick? Your adulation for Mao and Stalin? (Like some members of Obama's administration)?
December 11, 2009 at 8:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
nick (anonymous) says...
OMG, iguess! Read what I write ... not what you imagine.
I made the statement that Obama sat on a school board with William Ayers. Period. Nothing more. That's it.
I admire Obama for his educatioal accomplishments, his family values, and his station in life.
Where the last three paragraphs of your reply came from, I have no idea.
We can't have a conversation until you stop putting words in my mouth, and judging me based on your imagination.
December 11, 2009 at 3:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
ronpaper (anonymous) says...
An opinion is just that. An opinion. I agree with her point, but don't see this as the arena for an argument between two readers. She made her point. You made yours. Stop fighting here.Grow up.
December 12, 2009 at 1:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
iguess (anonymous) says...
Nick- give me a break-- You try to incorporate minimization of the close relationship between Ayers and Obama when evidence speaks to the contrary!
You conveniently want to ignore the facts of who William Ayers really is! A subversive, anarchist, terrorist, indited for the murder of a Oakland policeman.
I'm not putting words in your mouth , I'm holding you accountable for your statement (by inference), that the fact that Obama is friends with a known terrorist,and murderer is just a nonchalant non-starter!
I beg to differ.. Aryers is a terrorist. Obama is President.
It's somewhat disconcerting to me to know that these two were friends and brethern..
What next Nick? Obama didn't believe in the sermons of anti-Americanism and racism and hatred he went to hear every Sunday for 20 years by the Unreverened Wright?
December 14, 2009 at 11:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
TyWebb (anonymous) says...
TECooper and EJRotert nailed it. Attacking the left for actions by groups such as weather underground and the black panthers is beyond reaching ... this article feels awfully forced.
December 14, 2009 at 2:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
independent (anonymous) says...
I think a couple of things should be kept in perspective:
1. Yes, assault on police are up about 19%. That means that 49 total police officers out of around 900,000 (if memory serves me correctly) were killed in the line of duty. Which is ..000054 or around 5,000 of 1%. You are more likely to die from lightening that in the line of duty as a police officer. This is not to minimize the danger of being a police officer as it does not include assaults, injuries, etc that all police are subject to just on standard traffic violations. But the odds of being killed in the Line of Duty are vanishingly small.
2. I do agree that a liberal bias of the press certainly contributes to any violence since the concept of "personal responsibility" doesn't exist -- whether you are a politician, lawyer or even a phychiatrist. This is a large part of the problem, in my opinion, when everybody but yourself is blamed for your own actions.
3. But in all fairness, and my wife is an ex-police officer, it is difficult to have respect for a cop that breaks the law. Such as the St. George officer that threatened to "trump-up" charges on that kid in the parking lot last year that was cought on tape. Or impounding your car so that the officers child gets a free rental (St. Louis Tow scandal) or officers lying for each other or not stopping this type of behaviour themselves.
The fact remains when people feel, right or wrong, that an officer is solely a tax collecting entity, a liar or only cares about himself and his/her power their authority and respect is undermined. Even if it is some small thing like not willing to take a police report if you are note physically injured.
Many of my friends, who by the way are basically conservative as am I, have all commented about the perceived "police swagger" condencending attitude and unwillingness to help anyone but themselves. This makes it an "us versus them" situation and that is always a recipe for disaster.
Until such time as there is actual non-confrontational activity between the police and citizenry we are destined to more of these tragedies.
Both sides have to clean up their act or I believe a war is inevitable between the police on one side and those who feel that police have wronged them on the other.
December 23, 2009 at 7:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jn123 (anonymous) says...
"the left's police hating chickens?" Lots of police officers are liberal minded thinkers. That's why they choose to serve their community. Why are people like MM trying to own everything?
December 29, 2009 at 12:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
wchenry (anonymous) says...
did not see any blacks at the tea parties, or hispanics ,the right wing has you afraid of them
January 8, 2010 at 2:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )