What About Black Lives Matter?

Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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For two years the protest movement called "Black Lives Matter" has caused demonstrations all around the nation. It was triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in August of '14. It holds that racist police are the greatest threat to young black men. This has triggered riots, and the murder or attempted murder of police and an attempt to eliminate grand juries when police use lethal force.

The U.S. Justice Department has completely disproven that Brown was merely a Gentle Giant and was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender. Even though it was shown that Brown had just stolen from and intimidated a store owner and was charging at the officer who shot him, and had attempted to get the officer's gun, he is venerated as a martyr.As a result, officers are backing off in the face of the hatred which is relentlessly directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise. The question becomes do the police pose the greatest threat to young black men? Or is it the far greater threat of black-on-black crime?


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  • Posted by H2ungar123 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Please know, Term2, that your feelings are
    shared by countless others!! We also know
    that PC is, in a word (or two) BS. Onward!
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 6 months ago
    Obviously, you have read this month's issue of Imprimis... the statistics are clearly on the threat of black-on-black crime...however, the greater threat is the media and the Fed govt and their campaign to demonize local police departments...what is their goal in fostering a crisis environment...if their goal is to create a national police force that is only answerable to Washington, D.C., then they can remove another barrier to Federal control of our lives...
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is going to sound very politically incorrect, BUT...
    I think human nature is basically tribal. We like what we feed comfortable around, and we dont like what we dont feel comfortable around. Thats why there was Chinatown, Koreatown, Spanish Harlem, etc. Eventually the immigrants melted into the American culture enough that the americans accepted them into their tribes.
    When government forces people to live together, it just encourages hatred for the people in the "other" tribes.

    I dont see anything wrong with people wanting to live around others who have similar values. Thats what formed tribes in the first place.

    Everyone is a member of one "tribe" or another if we think about it, and political correctness be damned, whats wrong with it. There can be tribes of people who are totally open to immigration and melting of various tribes together. Thats ok, but dont force me to do it if I dont feel comfortable with some of the tribes.

    Again, political correctness be damned, but I dont happen to like the muslim culture and I dont want to live around people who profess to kill me if I am an infidel (which I am). Mormons dont go to the same degree, but I dont feel comfortable around their non accepting religion.

    If I lived in totally black neighborhoods that I have seen, the first thing I would do is MOVE. Why do they call the three most important things about real estate- location, location, and location Sometimes it really is about geographical location, but often its who else lives there- rich, poor, entitled, violent, etc.
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. Good one!
    I think that we could do a Kickstarter of that invention and sell it to the police in any given metro area.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. I think Hillary is the poster child for all of it too. She cant even tell us what she told Goldman for $200k, and she wants US to give her presidential power? No thanks. I could care less about Trumps tax returns. I want to know what she told (promised) Goldman and wall street. They just dont give $$ out for NOTHING..
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think its that most peoples' interaction with police is negative in terms of traffic tickets, accidents, fines, and that sort of thing. Its easy then to believe they are totally bad people.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What I meant was that as Americans one should embrace American culture which includes Black culture and every other culture sub-division of Americans..
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    eventually would solve the problem !! Maybe some sort of high tech EMP device to temporarily scramble their brains would work and could be fired off from a distance like bullets.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a fight being won in the Oklahoma legislature to restrict confiscation to only those charged with a drug offense. That requires enough evidence to stand the test of judicial indictment. Not as restrictive as it needs to be, but it's a start.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was announced just today that in Boston they have performed the first viable penis transplant. (Honest).
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I see the new Dec 31st replacement for civil rights is spreading unchecked. First it was for foreign terrorists but no limitations were really listed. We were assured it didn't US Citizens or our private papers and homes and conversations. Bang Dec 31 last 85 Senators voted for a bill which contained the new verbiage replacing 'probable cause' arrests.

    suspicion of terrorism
    (terrorism not defined.)
    added suspicion of supporting terrorism
    (still not defined)
    now they are going after the street gangs after all who is going to complain. But what about the people living on the street?
    (still not defined)
    along with that no rights that was said not for foreigners
    (but it wasn't written done anywhere)
    and we still have 100 miles from any coast or border with the entire Constitution suspended.
    regardless of citizenship and coast lines include navigable waters so the Mississippi and much of the Ohio and Missouri and a number of other areas are affected. Columbia, Sacramento.

    85 Senators and Lightning Boy Obeyme signed it and presented it on national TV in front of the Original Document he had just crapped on.

    No move to impeach
    No negative comments on Cspan
    (Congress was you say culpable)

    SCOTUS hiding behind a think wall of dignity waiting for a case to be filed

    An incompetent Attorney General picked for her loyalty to anything and anybody but justice.

    Ditto Media

    Ditto educators well some body has to teach snowflakes how to fall and melt.

    Military leadership shy's away from testifying before Congress much less upholds it's own oath of office.

    Political party's ?? Ha ha Where?

    and the population?

    Deserving every bit of what they asked for and what they got and what they are going to get.

    BOHICA!

    Still goinjg to vote left wing?
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As I look back, I realize that I was pretty naïve when it come to the government. It took me quite some time and a pile of evidence to convince me that our government lied 9 out of 10 times. Even when they didn't have to lie. In Washington, they lie to their constituents, they lie to each other and they even lie to themselves. I don't know if it always was, but DC has become a filthy cesspool of lies, which turns into a filthy cesspool of deeds.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have to say that our government has been involved so much in manipulation, lying, and mistruths that I just dont believe anything they say without my being able to verify it. "trust, but verify" applies now to OUR government, not just Russia.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's because the Lib media loves police shootings. And, inevitably it is always the police's guilt. I am always surprised at the strong anti-police sentiment in the Gulch.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is all a severe conflict of interest- When the confiscating agency is the same one that decides what is to be confiscated. That should be stopped immediately and completely.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sure--and they tell us that DHS, TSA, and Border Patrol are protecting us from danger, and we just don't understand the criminal's sad upbringing, yah, yah, yah.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The worst money-snatching system is the confiscation of money and property on "suspicion" of drug or gang activity. The Federal law enforcement agencies have been given this authority, and have granted local police and sheriffs the right to do the same. The rationale for suspicion has been stretched to an obscene point, with just the existence of "excessive" cash (with how much is excessive undefined), or the possession of an expensive vehicle, watch, or jewelry being claimed as probable cause to allow confiscation. God forbid anything that can be claimed to be "drug paraphernalia" is found in a vehicle, because then everything of value can be confiscated and liquidated to the benefit of the capturing agency. It's become a rich source of revenue, and efforts to stop the practice, or hold abusive law enforcement liable have been vigorously fought in every state.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would be a lot happier if drugs were decriminalized and fines for traffic violations didnt go to the cities who hire the cops. Would definitely help me to have a better view of cops.
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