By Jon Dougherty
(TNS) Under the guise and direction of former President Barack Obama, the Democrat Left began a campaign of propaganda and demonization against American police, claiming they are all racist bigots who would rather shoot (minorities) first and ask questions later.
The Obama Justice Department, when it wasn’t undermining the rule of law, letting Hillary Clinton off the hook for gross and serial violations of the Espionage Act, and plotting the “Russian collusion” hoax against the 2016 Trump campaign, waged a political, psychological, and cultural war against local police officers.
“I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible,†William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations told Fox News in July 2016.
He was commenting on the ambush of Dallas PD officers by Micah Xavier Johnson, killing five and injuring nine others.
It was the culmination of years’ worth of cop demonization by Obama (beginning just a few months after his first inauguration), his first AG, Eric Holder, and his Justice Department, which essentially took over local departments accused of harboring racist cops.
But the movement to demonize U.S. police officers didn’t end when Obama left the White House. In fact, it has only picked up steam since.
Leftists are now not only continuing to propagandize against police officers, but they are openly, actively calling for “reforms” that include getting rid of the thin blue line altogether.
As Christopher Rufo of City Journal reported last week:
The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists: “Abolish the police.†From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists are building a case not just to reform policing—viewed as an oppressive, violent, and racist institution—but to do away with it altogether.
When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform. But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that “abolish the police†is a concrete policy goal. The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see “police officers disappearing from the streets.â€
One might dismiss such proclamations as part of a fringe movement, but advocates of these radical views are gaining political momentum in numerous cities. …
So, as a mental exercise, let’s assume for a minute that a major city — Seattle would probably be first since it is a growing hotbed of socialism — actually implements this incredibly stupid idea; what would happen? Would it ‘work?’
That depends on what your actual policy objective is.
Rufo notes:
Police abolitionists believe that they stand at the vanguard of a new idea, but this strain of thought dates to the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who believed that stripping away the corruptions of civilization would liberate the goodness of man.
What police abolitionists fail to acknowledge is the problem of evil.
No matter how many “restorative†programs it administers, even a benevolent centralized state cannot extinguish the risks of illness, violence, and disorder. Contrary to the utopian vision of Rousseau and his intellectual descendants, chaos is not freedom; order is not slavery. In the modern world, civilization cannot be rolled back without dire consequences.
If anything like police abolition ever occurred, it’s easy to predict what would happen next. In the subsequent vacuum of physical power, wealthy neighborhoods would deploy private police forces, and poor neighborhoods would organize around criminal gangs—deepening structural inequalities and harming the very people that the police abolitionists say they want to help.
Utopian visions of ‘goodness’ and ‘fairness’ aside, it’s difficult to believe that advocates for abolishing police are not thinking things through. Sure, some of them are ideologues, but not all of them.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand how damaging police abolition would be to the social fabric of our nation. It would collapse — literally overnight — in many parts of the country.
Deaths would skyrocket. Looting and plundering would break out everywhere. No one would be safe.
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Chaos would ensue.
So again, what’s the real goal of getting rid of police? Remember Obama’s objective of “fundamentally transforming” our country?
From what to what?
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I’ve got a GREAT idea — let ME visit some of these a$$holes at their homes, & let them NOT be able to call the police, when I do
If you Pull out all law enforcement; you would have to pull out the fire department and any other first responders too; so Just build a wall like escape from ny and call it a day
Cops should be illegal. No one voted for them. We should only have Sheriff’s who get voted into office. They can have as many deputies as needed for jurisdiction, but everyone should be replaced when new sheriff is elected.
Law enforcement is far too corrupt to give them entire careers. But most importantly, masonic brotherhood should not be controlling, monitoring, enforcing the public. Masons are corrupt, even if majority of the lower orders are clueless they are being used as tools.
So you’re in favor of getting rid of cops and you’re a criminal?
And of course they are going to try to disarm the public so that you can no longer protect yourself, your family or your property.
The intent is to eliminate local or community police and replace them with a federal police force directly under the control of the Federal Government. The constitution mandates that police be a state matter rather than federal, but if they can convince the public that local police are all corrupt racists, then they can walking in with the federal police and take over.
AIN’T gonna happen, Commies….We KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW it’s your wet dream!
Idiocracy at its finest.
I say we do an experiment, that is, remove police from all sanctuary cities for 30 days.
It is an effective way of ridding America of lefties. Most of the time lefties are easy targets. Bad athletes, poor street awareness, unarmed. Yep, a perfect opportunity for felons to practice their stabbing and shooting techniques.
Start the experiment and test it with Virginia!
Obama should never have been elected to ANY office. He is a communist, anti-American twpoc
Virginia is the real beginning of the test for the next stage of the lefts takeover. They are totally dedicated to the destruction of America as founded and if people in Va. don’t roll over it will send a BIG message.
Get rid of 3/4 of police. I would be OK with that. I haven’t needed one for 49 years.
Marxist police states do not abolish the police. Rather, they replace them with security forces loyal to The Party. The current POTUS, is an aberration and in time will be replaced with a loyal Party Member who will see fit to speed up local police replacement with central command and control security forces better suited to following central party policies. Obama; “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we set,” Obama said at the time. “We’ve got have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong,… Read more »
These Dems have private armed security…they don’t care about the unwashed masses!
The police are the only local force that prevents the lives of ordinary people from being hellish and chaotic. The goal of the left is to reconstitute Feudalism with an elite safely behind their armed guards and walls, destroy the middle class and make life for the ordinary person again nasty, brutish and short. The real purpose of drug laws was to turn the public against the police, plus make a lot of money. Prohibitions always breed corruption.
These same people who want to abolish the police will be one of the first people to call the police when someone is breaking into their homes or harming their family. The same people who believe American citizens should not own a gun to protect themselves from criminals The same people who want to abolish borders and let everyone and anyone waltz right on into this country, regardless of whether those immigrants want to become US citizens or kill some US citizens. This will not end well.
Duck Femocrats
Why do cops get away with shooting and killing a person when they just run away from a non-moving traffic stop?
Because of the comply or die mentality and a motorist getting away means there will be mass chaos and slaughter in the streets. Any copsucker will tell you.
At that point, the 2nd Admd kicks in and we end the insanity.
Over 320 sanctuary cities Nationwide.
If I were working on patrol, and got a code 3 response to some lefty politicians house, I’d put on the lights and sirens, and obey every traffic laws on my way to respond.
That’s exactly what these bastards deserve.
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