Today, I will not answer the radio call that your boyfriend has come home drunk and is beating you again. Today I will not answer the radio call that your 16 year old daughter, who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home from school. Today I will not answer the radio call that your store has been robbed or your house has been burglarized. Today I will not stop a drunk driver from killing someone. I will not catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief. Today I will not answer the radio call that a man has a gun or tried to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or has been in a terrible accident. Today I will not save your child that you locked in a car or the child you were to busy to watch who went outside and fell into the swimming pool, but that I revived. No, today I will not do that.
Why? Because Today I was killed by a drunk driver while I was helping push a disabled car off the highway. Today I was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop to simply tell someone that they had a taillight out. Today I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to help a citizen. Today I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a known drug dealer. Today I was killed by a man when I came by to do a welfare check because his family was to busy. Today I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a grocery store robbery. Today I was killed doing my job.
A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a mom and dad or a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter or husband or wife or father or mother won’t be coming home today. The flags at many police stations were flown at half-mast today but most people won’t know why. There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will come, a twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps will be played as I am laid to rest. My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a building, in a city somewhere. A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase in a home somewhere and a family will mourn.
There will be no cries for justice. There will be no riots in the streets. There will be no officers marching, screaming “no justice, no peace.” No citizens will scream that something must be done. No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones thrown, no names called. Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be the only sign that I was cared about.
I saw one today with 4 pictures, one of Obama speaking about Garner, one with him speaking about Mike Brown, one with him speaking about Trayvon Martin and then an empty podium where he didn't speak about the NYPD murders.
I saw one today with 4 pictures, one of Obama speaking about Garner, one with him speaking about Mike Brown, one with him speaking about Trayvon Martin and then an empty podium where he didn't speak about the NYPD murders.
Yeah. As if police are murdered so frequently without justice or publicity. So many cop killers walk out of jail and resume their normal lives. This whole discussion is disgusting. They guy who killed them is disgusting for allowing them to play martyr. The cops themselves (especially the police commissioners) are even more disgusting because if they want to be beyond touch as a member of the government they should be acting like part of the solution and not great big hypocrites.
Remember when that conservative nut shot the representative from Arizona, and those other conservative nut jobs killed cops, and Fox News was so offended anyone could blame conservatives for that? Where's the outrage now jackasses.
I will say, however, that my FB feed has none of that shit because I've had a long five years and my block function is working pretty well now. I used to have my aunt unblocked so I could keep track of the tea party but after they shut down the government, tanked the economy, and lost all their support I've decided the tea party threat is not significant enough to sacrifice my sanity.
I truly just don't see the point of their message AT ALL. Not once has our judicial system ever sent a message blue lives don't matter. They all seem to be confusing being murdered and getting away with murder. I can't stand intellectual dishonesty. Nobody would have been protesting if a cop killed a black person then himself. Because that man would clearly be CRAZY. That wouldnt be a systemic deprivation of life without due process, that would be a random act of violence by an insane man. And so what would the point be? The situations just are not comparable at all. Serious apples to oranges guys. Or, like, raisins to blueberries. Or something.
Post by lobstertail on Dec 22, 2014 23:09:48 GMT -5
I received this invite from my husband's cousin a few days ago. I'm on the app so hopefully I attached the pic right.
Intellectually dishonesty is the perfect way to describe this. Comparing it to Black Lives Matter suggests that there's a long-standing history of LEOs being murdered and the perpetrators not being held accountable, which...no. Just no.
I truly just don't see the point of their message AT ALL. Not once has our judicial system ever sent a message blue lives don't matter. They all seem to be confusing being murdered and getting away with murder. I can't stand intellectual dishonesty. Nobody would have been protesting if a cop killed a black person then himself. Because that man would clearly be CRAZY. That wouldnt be a systemic deprivation of life without due process, that would be a random act of violence by an insane man. And so what would the point be? The situations just are not comparable at all. Serious apples to oranges guys. Or, like, raisins to blueberries. Or something.
I said this exact thing, word for word last night to my cousin. I passed out from banging my head against the desk after the racist slurs and the, "if anybody is a racist, it's Obama". I should know better than to engage...at least I can now point to her public racism as a reason for not attending family functions