Police Turn Their Backs On De Blasio—But They’d Already Turned Their Backs On The White Working Class
R. I. P. Officers Wenjian Liu, Rafael Ramos, and Charles Kondek
The hot war on the police, which Barack Obama, Eric Holder, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Main Stream Media have beenwaging since August 9, and which a motley alliance of black supremacists and white communists and anarchists continue on the streets, took the lives of three policemen last Saturday and Sunday. The victims: NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos and Tarpon Springs FL Officer Charles Kondek. The killers: black supremacist Moslem Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, in New York City, and Marco Antonio Parilla Jr., 23, in Tarpon Springs. Both had lengthy criminal histories.
Republican voters are reportedly solidly behind the police and profoundly hostile to Senator Rand Paul’s typically clumsy triangulation attempts. [GOP Won’t Forgive Rand for Cop Critique, by Lloyd Green, Daily Beast, December 23, 2014].
I too am outraged at the killers and their enablers. But my attitude to the police is wracked with ambivalence—for reasons related to those outlined by reader “White Southerner” in one of VDARE.com’s most popular recent posts.
Growing up in Long Beach, N.Y., no institution treated me betterthan the Long Beach PD. And I was no angel. I was a street urchin and an “adjudicated juvenile delinquent.”
Of the 70 or so cops on the job, at least half knew me, and only two were hostile to me. I still remember many of their names with fondness. ...