Friday, March 29, AD 2024 10:40am

Blue Lives Matter

 

Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County gave a fiery speech at the Convention yesterday:

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to make something very clear: Blue  Lives Matter!

I want to talk with you about something important, indeed, a concept that five law enforcement officers were murdered and nine more were wounded for earlier this month in Dallas, and for which three more were murdered yesterday in Baton Rouge:  that is the importance of Making America Safe Again.

I believe that this noble mission is not just a requirement, but a prerequisite for achieving this campaign’s goal of Making America Great  Again.

We simply cannot be great if we do not feel safe in our homes, on our streets, and in our communities.

I see this every day, at street level where many Americans increasingly have an uneasiness about the ability of their families to live safely in these troubling  times. This transcends race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, and  lifestyle.

If you don’t believe it, a recent Gallup poll confirms it: more than half of all Americans now worry a great deal about crime and violence, up consistently and dramatically from just a few years ago.

For African-Americans that number is 70 percent.

 

Sadly for a growing number of communities the sense of safety that many of us once took for granted has been shattered.

Americans don’t always feel safe no matter if they are working in a big city, living in a suburb or  rural areas all around our great country.

I often tell residents of Milwaukee, and the cities and towns I visit that safety  is a shared endeavor. It starts with the willing acceptance of people to play by society’s rules: a code we collectively agree upon that ensures stability, order, fairness, and respect.

It’s built on a foundation of trust in each other and in the people who administer and enforce society’s rules, which at its foundation is the rule of  law.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about “the interrelatedness of all communities and states” and about our “inescapable network of mu-tu- ALITY, tying us in a single garment of destiny.”

He spoke of the basic morality of the rule of law, provided that it is applied   equally to both the wealthy and the impoverished; both men and women, and yes, the majority and the minority.

What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest, and violates the code of conduct we rely  on.

American law enforcement officers understand that race is and has been a heated issue in our country. Most appreciate the vital need for thoroughness and transparency in pursuit of the greater good in their actions, and in their investigations.

These are truths that are self-evident to me, and which I practice, and they are the truths that Donald Trump understands and supports.

Donald Trump is the steadfast leader our nation needs.

He has spoken passionately to me of his belief in our American system of justice, and he speaks to the values that are at the foundation of our social  contract.

Throughout his campaign and over many years before he has consistently and constantly raised his voice not only in defense of the character of the American police officer, but the need for ALL people to feel they are being treated fairly and respectfully by law enforcement.

Donald Trump understands that what can make our nation safe again is a recommitment to a system of justice in which no government official, not even  those who have fought their way to the marble and granite halls of Washington; no private citizen, not even Hillary Clinton; and no group of people, despite the fervor with which they press forward their grievances, can claim privilege above the  law.

The tradition of the primacy of the rule of law in America is strong. It is in those simple facts and in our acts that we will move forward and toward Making America Safe Again. God Bless you, and may God continue to bless these United States  of America.”

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T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, July 19, AD 2016 5:27am

They have shown me that the initials BLM mean “Black Lynch Mob.”
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Seen on Bookworm Room blog, 9 July 2016: Black lives don’t matter. to blacks. How do I know this? Because if black lives really mattered, blacks would stop killing each other. Blacks would stop committing genocide against themselves by aborting more black children than they allow to be born. Blacks would stop consigning generations to poverty by having the majority of their children out-of-wedlock. Blacks would stop treating education as punishment and instead treat it as an opportunity.”

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“. . . black lives don’t matter to the black people doing the vast majority (90%) of killing blacks.”

TomD
TomD
Tuesday, July 19, AD 2016 9:16am

T.Shaw, I’ve been thinking that it would be appropriate to start using the term “lynching” for the attacks on police. A rope may not be involved, but the intention is the same. Perhaps some guilt might be stoked in the minds of a few fence-sitters.

Foxfier
Admin
Wednesday, July 20, AD 2016 11:37am

Lynching isn’t define to require hanging, that’s just what pop culture gets focused on– it’s any mob execution.

Our school kind of glossed over the part where actual lynchings usually had accusations of criminal behavior (frequently rape or cattle-theft) as the justification. It wasn’t “you’re black so we’re going to hang you.”

Foxfier
Admin
Wednesday, July 20, AD 2016 1:36pm

here:
Causes Of Lynchings, 1882-1968*

Number Percent
Homicides 1,937 40.84
Felonious Assault 205 4.32
Rape 912 19.22
Attempted Rape 288 6.07
Robbery and Theft 232 4.89
Insult to White Person 85 1.79
All Other Causes 1,084 22.85
Total
http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/classroom/lynching_table_causes.html

The dates do rather select to maximize “racial tensions”– by the 50s, even my grandfolk’s areas had regular law enforcement.

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