"The war on cops is getting worse"
Mike
The war on cops is getting worse
By MICHELLE MALKIN
Last Updated: 10:42 AM, December 5, 2009
Posted: 12:40 AM, December 5, 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're silent on the cultural and literal war on cops 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, reports 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
cele brated Clemmons as a "Crowned BOW [Black on White] Martyr" and
dubbed the Lakewood ambush a "preemptive 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 PD 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 cop-bashing rap from NWA's "F--k tha Police" and
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 in October after verbally
abusing a Harlem cop and resisting arrest after running a red light).
And toss in the global glorification of Death Row cop-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 former Obama green-jobs czar 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 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
Hiccum Blurpaedius
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