Who's
Responsible?
The cold-blooded murder of two New
York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a
wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having
demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at
the police.
Those cheap shots are in fact very
expensive shots, not only to the police themselves but to the whole society.
Someone once said that civilization is a thin crust over a volcano. The police
are part of that thin crust. We have seen before our own eyes, first in
Ferguson, Missouri and then in other communities, what happens when there is
just a small crack in that crust, and barbarism and arson burst out.
That can happen anywhere. So can
what happened in New York. "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It
tolls for thee."
It is a painful irony that, on the
eve of the murders of these two police officers in New York, some of the city's
police were already saying that, in the event of their deaths, they did not
want Mayor Bill de Blasio to attend their funerals.
We can only hope that Mayor de
Blasio has some residual decency, so that he will not defile these two
officers' memorial services with his presence. No politician in the country has
done more to play the race card against the police and spread the notion that
cops are the big problem in minority communities.
It so happens that the police
officers killed were both members of minority groups -- Officer Rafael Ramos,
Hispanic, and Officer Wenjian Liu, Asian. It so happens that a substantial part
of the New York City police force are members of minority groups.
But you might never know that from
the story told by demagogues who depict the black community as a
"colonial" society being "occupied" by white policemen who
target young blacks. Mayor de Blasio joined the chorus of those saying that
they have to warn their black sons how to cope with this situation.
"What can we say to our
sons?" some demagogues ask. They can say, "Don't go around punching
strangers, because it is only a matter of time before you punch the wrong
stranger."
Mayor de Blasio has made anti-police
comments with Al Sharpton seated at his side. This is the same Al Sharpton with
a trail of slime going back more than a quarter of a century, during which he
has whipped up mobs and fomented race hatred from the days of the Tawana
Brawley "rape" hoax of 1987 to the Duke University "rape"
hoax of 2006 and the Ferguson riots of 2014.
Make no mistake about it. There is
political mileage to be made siding with demagogues like Al Sharpton who, as
demagogue-in-chief, has been invited to the White House dozens of times by its
commander-in-chief.
Many in the media and among the intelligentsia
cherish the romantic tale of an "us" against "them"
struggle of beleaguered ghetto blacks defending themselves against the
aggression of white policemen. The gullible include both whites who don't know
what they are talking about and blacks who don't know what they are talking
about either, because they never grew up in a ghetto. Among the latter are the
President of the United States and his Attorney General.
Such people readily buy the story
that ghetto social problems today -- from children being raised without a
father to runaway rates of murder -- are "a legacy of slavery," even
though such social problems were nowhere near as severe in the first half of
the 20th century as they became in the second half.
You would be hard pressed to name
just five examples from the first half of the 20th century of the kinds of
ghetto riots that have raged in more than a hundred cities during the second
half. Such riots are a legacy of the social degeneracy of our times.
Calling this social degeneracy
"a legacy of slavery" is not just an excuse for those who engage in
it, it is an excuse for the ideology of the intelligentsia behind the social
policies that promoted this degeneracy.
Let those who have laid a guilt trip
on people in our times, for evils done by other people in past centuries, at
least face their own responsibility for the evil consequences of their own
notions and policies. If they won't do it, then the rest of us need to stop
listening gullibly to what they are saying.
The race card is nothing to play
with. It can ruin us all.
Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/23/whos_responsible_125043.html#ixzz3MzmFGLv5
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