Here We Go Again: Walter Scott, Michael Slager And Another Post-American Lynch Mob
By an odd coincidence, both attacker and victim were Coast Guard veterans.
As the whole world by now knows, white North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, 33, killed black Walter Scott, 50, shooting him five times in the back, last Saturday, April 4, at 9:30 a.m.
According to the official Main Stream Media story, Slager slaughtered an unarmed, model black man, retired Coast Guardsman and father of four, for no reason.
Slager has been charged with first-degree murder, and if convicted will either get life in prison, or the death penalty.
So why bother with Slager? Everyone, Left and (Respectable) Right, agrees that he’s a murderous RACIST monster. Shouldn't I just concede this one, and move on to a more winnable battle?
Except that for the Respectable Right, of conventional Republicans and glibertarians, there are only surrenders that lead to more surrenders, no matter what the odds or conditions are. What is the term? “French, cheese-eating surrender monkeys”? They sought tosacrifice George Zimmerman for refusing to let Trayvon Martin murder him. They bend over for homosexuals.
And now they are, of course, cheering the prosecution of Michael Slager. Maybe they think that will help them with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission later on.
It won’t.
Some perspective: Although no-one seems to remember this, until 1985, it was still perfectly possible in almost half the states for a cop legally to shoot and kill a fleeing suspect. The theory: the suspect must be running for a reason. And you wouldn’t want a potentially dangerous criminal to escape, would you?
Answer: yes. The Supreme Court ruling that changed that was part of a generations-long war on behalf of colored criminals. ...
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