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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Dan Gainor
November 22, 2011
Thanksgiving means we should give thanks. Seldom since 9/11 has it been this
obvious that we owe so much thanks to the men and women in blue. Occupiers
abuse, harass and threaten them and the media blame … the police.
So from the NYPD to Oakland PD and every police department in between, our
nation should give an extra special “thank you” to all of those who are on
the frontlines dealing with the fiasco that is Occupy Wall Street. Lord
knows, the Occupiers sure won’t say it. When they aren’t calling them “
pigs” or chanting “f*** the police,” they are throwing paint, batteries,
rocks, bottles and feces at those who keep law and order.
One Occupy Oakland protester admitted to MSNBC that her side had started a
battle with police by throwing rocks and bottles. That conflict resulted in
anti-war protester and Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen being seriously injured.
Her view was police should just take the attacks in stride. “I think that
the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades are a completely
inappropriate response to bottles being thrown at police officers who are in
full riot gear.” Pretty easy to say when you want to be on the giving side
of violence.
Even the Soros-funded, left-wing publication Mother Jones agreed police had
merely responded to attacks. Reporter James West said “a small, visible,
determined group of agitators” turned “violent.” “I saw two men throw
bottles at the police,” he wrote. Then, and only then, police responded
with tear gas.
MSNBC “Morning Joe” idiots Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle skewered the
Oakland police. Barnicle called it “a police riot.” Scarborough, who
seldom even pretends to be conservative, said police made the scene worse.
“We didn't really understand the extent of the brutality till now.”
In New York, Denver, Oakland and more, Occupiers have embraced their role as
lawbreakers. There have already been more than 4,600 arrests according to
Occupy Arrests Twitter feed. “[T]hree Occupy Denver activists have been
charged with felonies – including inciting a riot and second-degree assault
on an officer,” reported CNN this past weekend.
That’s typical for Occupy Wall Street. In their world, they are righteous
and can commit any crime they want – seizing public or private property,
attacking police, blocking traffic, vandalizing buildings and shutting a
port. Any attempt by police to arrest lawbreakers is met by a wall of
cameras desperate to catch police somehow doing wrong while the morons in
the crowd shout “Shame” like some broken record of an ‘80s Eurythmics
song.
Watching the livestream videos of protesters and police is almost too
upsetting for anyone who respects police. The Occupiers are contemptuous of
any authority – because they are right and The Man is evil. So they
continually confront officers with minor or sometimes major crimes. They
jump out into traffic, step in front of motorcycles, push police and more.
When arrests occur, they swarm officers to take pictures, heedless that they
are intruding into an arrest and volatile situation.
Arrestee Brandon Watts became the latest face of the movement when he was
nabbed during the N17 “Day of Action” to mark the two-month anniversary of
the protest. According to The New York Daily News, “the protester who
busted his head open during a bout with cops at Zuccotti Park on Thursday
has long carried the reputation of being a fighter.”
But there’s more. “Watts stood atop a wall inside Zuccotti Park and tossed
objects — including a AAA battery — at cops standing outside the
barricade along Liberty St., police said.” According to the Daily News, he
’s been arrested four times since September. Do I have any sympathy for
this bloody and bloodied moron? Not a bit. Police are the only ones keeping
animals like this from destroying the greatest nation this world has ever
seen.
And they are being made the fall guy by the media, lefty revolutionaries and
cowardly politicians desperate for someone else to blame. Yet lefties at
Truthout led with Watts as their first image of “Caught on Camera: Ten
Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters.”
Whether it’s the state-sponsored, anti-American Russia Today TV or some
crazy American lefty publication, the goal is to turn people against police.
The increasingly rabid RT complained the police were operating a “
coordinated crackdown” and then went on to show the incidents almost
entirely from the whiny protester view.
American lefties are spouting the same garbage. Former Obama green jobs czar
Van Jones, who now heads the lefty group Rebuild the Dream, went on CNN
praising the alleged “overwhelmingly peaceful” Occupy Wall Street. Then he
blamed police for violence. “And most people who have been hurt,
unfortunately, whether you are talking about the veteran who was put in a
coma, or the reporters that were hurt yesterday, were hurt by law
enforcement.”
A Times opinion piece by, of course, a Berkeley professor, even described
police in “Star Wars” terms as “Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth
Vader riot gear.” That creative writing came from Robert Hass, a former
poet laureate of the United States, who also took pains to paint the police
as mostly white and blame Reagan for cuts in social spending.
On Twitter, the land most occupied by the protesters, they often rail about
a “police state” or bash the police “Gestapo” who dare oppose them.
Even Forbes’ contributer E.D. Kain was incensed that police pepper sprayed
UC Davis students who refused to move, saying, “the police are public
servants, and public servants have no business treating the public this way.”
What none of the anti-police crowd will admit is that quisling politicians
have placed officers in an impossible situation. They have asked ordinary
police forces to face down a movement that openly advocates for a revolution
. Arresting revolutionaries and turning them loose hours later does nothing
to stop them from seizing new buildings, vandalizing more businesses or
attacking more police. Instead, it emboldens them and adds to the
criminality.
But police must face them once more – knowing their every action will be
videotaped and photographed by dozens or even hundreds of Occupiers. Knowing
that they will be assaulted, intimidated, harassed and more by protesters
and hackers who act more like the Mafia than peaceniks. And knowing that
politicians will constantly undercut their ability to shut down the crimes
of these protests until eventually this will cease to be a police matter.
Then desperate politicos will likely call for National Guard troops to quell
the uprising.
Yet the police keep protecting and serving – not just the whims of the
protesters – but the desires of all law-abiding citizens who don’t want to
turn over America to those who are truly revolting.
It’s not much consolation to the police, but thank you, keep safe and have
a happy Thanksgiving. |
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