“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
-Barack Obama, 2008
Enough. Yes, obama is inciting violence against cops and he’s got to stop.
It started with Henry Gates. Without knowing a single fact, obama accused the cops of “acting stupidly”:
“But I think it’s fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 … that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.”
The incident, Obama said, shows “how race remains a factor in this society.”
Race had nothing to do with Gates’ arrest and the arresting officer was supported by his boss:
Haas described Sergeant James M. Crowley as a “stellar member’’ of the department who had “tried to deescalate the situation’’ before he arrested Gates last week on the porch of Gates’s Cambridge house. Haas emphatically said that Gates’s arrest was not racially tinged.
“He [Crowley] tried to move away from the situation, and, when he wasn’t successful, he used arrest as a last resort,’’ Haas said at a packed news conference at police headquarters. “I do not believe his actions were in any way racially motivated.’’
Obama is utterly incapable of admitting being wrong about anything, but invited Crowley and Gates for a beer summit. It was too late. The damage was done. obama had smeared the incident as racism from a cop.
Then there was Trayvon Martin:
“You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Mr. Obama said.
“All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen,” he continued. “And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident.”
You know, as in racism, since George Zimmerman was acquitted:
“The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws, everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws,” he said. “And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.”
Then there was Ferguson. There was not a “smidgen” of evidence that racism was involved, but obama made sure racism became part of the narrative:
“In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement,” Mr. Obama said. “Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement — guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.”
More recently, despite any evidence of it, obama made sure the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philano Castile carried the racism label:
ST. PAUL — President Obama, reacting with the same horror as many Americans to a grisly video of a bloody, dying man in Minnesota who was shot by the police, begged the nation to confront the racial disparities in law enforcement while acknowledging the dangers that officers face.
“When incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same, and that hurts, and that should trouble all of us,” Mr. Obama said in a statement on Thursday after arriving in Warsaw for a NATO summit. “This is not just a black issue, not just a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue that we all should care about.”
He wasn’t going to wait for the completion of any investigation:
“We have seen news like this too many times,” Obama said. “All of us as Americans should be troubled by these shootings. These are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.”
Judge obama rules that the cops are racist. Nevermind that Sterling is responsible for his own death. I still think the Castile shooting was a mistake in protocol by a scared cop, not racism unless there is proof otherwise.
Since obama’s latest accusations of racism eight officers have been slain. He’s got to stop inspiring these murders. He’s got to stop injecting racism into events at every opportunity where none exists. He’s got to stop issuing verdicts before the trial. He’s got to stop damning the police and the system at every turn. Not once has he addressed what these men could have done differently to avoid being killed- things like not carrying illegal weapons or resisting arrest.
There is no small irony that obama is doing to cops what he asks the country not do to Muslims. And he wants us to tamp down OUR inflammatory rhetoric.
He’s got to stop.
UPDATE
I forgot to add: the killings of cops- Moore, Liu and Ramos in NYC, the five cops in Dallas and the three in Baton Rouge- all by racially aggrieved black men.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., published the entire pool report, which included the quote now attributed to Obama.
Chozick, June 13, 2008: He [Obama] warned that the general election campaign could get ugly. “They’re going to try to scare people. They’re going to try to say that ‘that Obama is a scary guy,’ ” he said. A donor yelled out a deep accented “Don’t give in!”
“I won’t but that sounded pretty scary. You’re a tough guy,” Obama said.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
So, yes, Obama said it and now you have the context. We’ll leave it to you to decide whether Obama’s remarks were appropriate or not.
At least get the quote correct
And Dr J stand up for 2nd Amendment rights !!!
The quote is absolutely correct.
Obama misses the larger picture.
Blacks who want to be ignored by police know what to do.
Black Man Conducts Dress-Up Experiment to Prove ‘Racism.’ Does the Opposite…
Not only did his style change, so did his demeanor.
90 percent of our communication is nonverbal.
By dressing to impress, Pedro changed the way he comported himself.
I don’t know why Obama wants so many dead police, but he does.
He keeps dog whistling blacks to kill police.
Maybe he thinks we will accept national oversight to all police.
Maybe he thinks we will accept gun confiscation since all the gun control laws are laxly enforced, by his own ATF and DOJ.
Who knows what he thinks.
I get very tired of hearing constant claims that Obama doesn’t support law enforcement from people who never actually listen to word he says. The line of crap-for-the-feeble-minded Sean Hannity has been pitching today notwithstanding, Obama’s message has been clear and consistent all along. He said this on October 27, 2015, speaking before the International Association of Chiefs of Police:
Believe it or not, he can also understand the concerns of Black Lives Matter. Concerns about the inappropriate use of lethal force by the police are also entirely legitimate. The idea that this has been happening too often is not the product of somebody’s imagination. Such things actually happen. Consider what recently happened to Philando Castile. This is also part of the problem.
Obama, today, on the Baton Rouge shooting:
Is that not clear enough?
Obama is allowing this to happen so he can cercumvent the U.S. Constitution and order all privately owned guns confiscated just like Hillary dose and insert Martial Law and make himself Emporer just like was in the Star Wars movies wait for the Imperial Storm Troopers in their white body armor and lackey Darth Vader(John Kerry)to do his dirty work for him
It’s rather sickening to see the same race baiters and dog whistlers like DJ et al wallowing in their self gradification of another shot at blaming Obama.
It’s as if you take delight in another cop down for nonsensical political points.
@Greg:
FFS, Greg, the guy left a manifesto! Seems that these murderers are getting the gist of obama’s message, doesn’t it?
@Ajay42302:
Race baiting is blowing the dog whistle of racism where none exists.
@Ajay42302:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/17/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-eugene-long-was-nation-of-islam-member-railed-against-crackers-on-youtube-channel-video/#ixzz4El0My8Uh
Wake up.
@DrJohn:
Birds of a feather.
Obama has made everything worse while in office, so what’s new?
Worst president EVER!
Another cop is ambushed- this time in Milwaukee
I personally think this article is BS. Obama couldnt inspire anything his speeches suck.
He like most african Americans raised prejudice, a color, very early trained to have a victim mentality. It never stops all the way through college, White people are racist no matter what, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/sep/4/20020904-084657-6385r/ Abolish the white race, fork over all you money Cracker you didn’t earn it, college professors. They are all Charlie Manson spark that race war silly bastids, Obama is just a product. Helter Skelter. They all make as much sense as Charlie too.
What moron turns on page refresh on page with comments so that by the time you compose and write, it refreshes and erased your comments?
are they THAT desperate to fake page views?
Look at Obama pedigree through Ayers, weather underground and the communist organizations of the SID and before that LID
One of the last things they did before some of them died, some of them went to prison, and more, was to rob a brinks truck to start a race war to fundementally change the USA… of course, this back history is nicer than donald trumps and why we elected someone with these connections to office. right?
Brink’s robbery (1981)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink's_robbery_%281981%29
The Brink’s robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, which was carried out by Black Liberation Army members Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Brown (aka Solomon Bouines), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns (aka Sekou Odinga), and Cecilio “Chui” Ferguson; several former members of the Weather Underground, now belonging to the May 19th Communist Organization, including David Gilbert, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Boudin, and Marilyn Buck.
They stole $1.6 million from a Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York, killing two police officers, Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown (the first African American member of the Nyack, New York police department) and a Brink’s guard, Peter Paige
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pedigree of the perps back then who are now back in play again today… same organizations, same people, some of them the children of the prior people
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The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed largely of former Black Panthers (BPP), the organization’s program was one of “armed struggle”, and its stated goal was to “take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States.” The BLA carried out a series of bombings, murders, robberies (what participants termed “expropriations”), and prison breaks.
“We are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and anti-sexist.”
According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the Black Liberation Army is suspected of involvement in over 70 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1976. The Fraternal Order of Police blames the BLA for the murders of 13 police officers.
On October 22, 1970, the BLA is believed to have planted a bomb in St. Brendan’s Church in San Francisco while it was full of mourners attending the funeral of San Francisco police officer Harold Hamilton, who had been killed in the line of duty while responding to a bank robbery.
On May 21, 1971, as many as five men participated in the murder of two New York City police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones.
On August 29, 1971, three armed men murdered 51-year-old San Francisco police sergeant John Victor Young while he was working at a desk in his police station, which was almost empty at the time due to a bombing attack on a bank that took place earlier
On January 27, 1972 the Black Liberation Army assassinated police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie at the corner of 174 Avenue B in New York City. After the killings, a note sent to authorities portrayed the murders as a retaliation for the prisoner deaths during 1971 Attica prison riot. In January 2007, eight men, labeled the San Francisco 8 were charged by a joint state and federal task force with John Young’s murder
On the 3 November 1971, Officer James R. Greene of the Atlanta Police Department was shot and killed in his patrol van at a gas station. His wallet, badge, and weapon were taken, and the evidence at the scene pointed to two suspects. The first was Twymon Meyers, who was killed in a police shootout in 1973, and the second was Freddie Hilton (aka Kamau Sadiki)
On July 31, 1972, five armed individuals hijacked Delta Air Lines Flight 841 en route from Detroit to Miami, eventually collecting a ransom of $1 million and diverting the plane, after passengers were released, to Algeria.
The BLA was active in the US until at least 1981 when a Brinks truck robbery, conducted with support from former Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, left a guard and two police officers dead. Boudin and Gilbert, along with several BLA members, were subsequently arrested [mentioned above]
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pedigree of the perps
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Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams, August 8, 1950) is an American black nationalist and acupuncturist. He was a proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt. He is currently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Victorville in Adelanto, California for conspiracy to aid bank expropriation, not the actual robbery. He is also the stepfather of legendary rap superstar Tupac Shakur
Kuwasi Balagoon (December 22, 1946 – December 13, 1986), born Donald Weems, was a Black Panther, a member of the Black Liberation Army, a New Afrikan anarchist, and a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late 1960s.
Nathanial Burns, known better as Sekou Odinga, is an American activist who was imprisoned for actions with the Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s [LAST name is same as OBAMA UNCLE]
In 1965, Sekou joined the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), founded by Malcolm X. After Malcolm’s death the OAAU was not going in the direction he wanted and in 1967 he was looking at the Black Panther Party. In early 1968 he helped build the Bronx Black Panther Party. Sekou Odinga remained underground, partaking in revolutionary clandestine activity for twelve years until his capture.
the rest were white members of the revolutionary weather undergroud whose main members and founders were AYERS, BOUDIN, etc
Apparently dodger those blacks must have believed that the government was tyrannical so they were allowed to go all 2nd Amendment on them
1970-1980???? Gee that was a long time ago 45 years
Now this latest cop killer seems to have ties to the sovereign citizen movement
Angry, ex marine owning a gun
Gee I can’t see any possible problem can you?
The 2nd Amendment only applies to white people carrying AR 15s in their local Walmart, apparently.
Such blatant hypocrisy.
@Greg: Yes today Greggie after beating up gun laws and the police for months the politics in him finally told him he was a failure. Now rather than be a black racist maybe he will act like a president but I doubt it!!
@DrJohn: And completely out of context. Nice try.
Just looking at the ridiculousness and stupidity of the post from rightards here is telling enough and no further argument regarding the topic is needed, lol!
To be clear, there is a recurring problem in law enforcement with the use of excessive force. The solution involves acknowledging that reality and addressing it in an appropriate and open fashion when and where it occurs. A blanket denial of that reality isn’t helpful. It’s how we got to where we are now.
To be even more clear there is a recurring problem with persons following the lawful order of an officer, many of these viral videos clearly show the perps resisting arrest.
Maybe somewhere in common core education they can slip in how to survive an arrest. Advanced education such as cooperate and be polite or a masters degree in dont commit a crime no matter how petty.
@DrJohn:
yeah, the racism is all made up. The hundreds of thousands of people claiming to be subject to it are all lying.
This isn’t racist, either: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/15/miami-police-target-practice-mug-shots-blacks/21834491/
Yup, it’s all being made up.
Fuck you.
Good morning. Hillary started as a Goldwater Girl in Park Ridge, IL.
Once she got to college she morphed into a Saul Alinsky acolyte.
Of course she despises the police. She also thinks that our troops
are inferior people to be used at her pleasure. Intern scandal?
No problem , send troops to the Balkans to kill Christians, and
defend Muslims. Great distraction.