Exploiting Dead Cops to Promote Their Killers
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
In Dallas, Obama mentioned the name of dead sex
offender Alton Sterling more times than those of the
murdered police officers whom he was pretending to
memorialize. After quickly dispensing with the
formalities of eulogizing the slain officers, Obama
demanded that “even those who dislike the phrase
‘black lives matter’” should “be able to hear the
pain of Alton Sterling’s family”.
Alton
Sterling was a convicted sex offender, burglar and
violent criminal who was shot while reaching for a
gun. His family may mourn him, just as every
criminal’s family mourns their own, but it was
obscene to class him together with five police
officers who were murdered by a violent racist while
doing their duty.
It is even more obscene when Obama’s favorite sex
offender displaces the murdered police officers.
And yet that was Obama’s theme in Dallas. Murdered
police officers were contrasted with dead criminals.
The proper thing for Americans to do, as Obama told
us, was to mourn both officers and criminals, to
respect the sacrifices of the police and the
anti-police accusations of #BlackLivesMatter.
Obama did not come to Dallas to mourn the murdered
police officers, but to defend the ideology that
took their lives. And this is what he has done from
the very beginning.
Before the shootings, Obama expressed his
“condolences for the families of Alton Sterling and
Philando Castile” and insisted that the criminal
justice system was racist. His statements and
speeches after the shootings echoed the same talking
points and spin complete with the claims that
accusing the police of racism is “not to be against
law enforcement”.
“When people say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ that doesn’t
mean blue lives don’t matter”, he famously said.
That’s true. Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean that
blue lives don’t matter. It means that blue lives
are evil. As Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author on Obama’s
reading list, wrote of the dead police officers who
gave their lives on September 11, “They were not
human to me.” That’s the kindest thing that the
black nationalists whose cause Obama has championed
have said of the police.
In a more recent article titled, “The Near Certainty
of Anti-Police Violence”, the MacArthur Genius Grant
recipient and son of a Black Panther suggests that
black resentment of police makes their murder
predictable.
“Sanctimonious cries of nonviolence will not help,”
Coates writes. “The extent to which we are tolerant
of the possibility of more Walter Scotts and Freddie
Grays is the extent to which we are tolerant of the
possibility of more Micah Xavier Johnsons.”
It’s the core black nationalist message made more
palatable for liberal audiences. Underneath the word
games, the attempt to treat the ideological
justifications for the mass murder of police as
inevitable, is the same message delivered by
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, the #BlackLivesMatter
supporter who assassinated two NYPD officers, who
had posted, “They take 1 of ours…Let’s take 2 of
theirs”. Obama’s message was even more polished than
Coates, but not really so very different. Coates had
polished up the radical black nationalist message
for liberal audiences. Obama’s speechwriters shaped
his for a national audience. But underneath the
religiosity and praise of the police was sheer
contempt.
In one of the nastily cynical moments, Obama claimed
that “to honor these five outstanding officers who
we lost” we would have to act on “uncomfortable”
truths such as his claim that the police are racist.
“Insisting we do better to root out racial bias is
not an attack on cops, but an effort to live up to
our highest ideals,” he spun.
While the media applauded his “healing”, Obama was
just recycling his speeches from before the Dallas
shooting. The talking points had not changed. They
had only been moved around a little to exploit the
police officers murdered by a #BlackLivesMatter
supporter in order to promote #BlackLivesMatter.
Indeed this had always been Obama’s first and
foremost priority.
After the shooting, his initial response was to
emphasize that the anti-police protests were
“peaceful”. At Dallas, in his praise of the police
officers, he insisted on inserting that same
description of a “peaceful” protest “in response to
the killing of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge and
Philando Castile of Minnesota”. The choice of words,
‘killing’ rather than ‘death’, is significant.
The “shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge” were
equated with the murders of police officers in
Dallas in a breathtaking bit of moral equivalence.
Americans were encouraged to grieve for sex offender
Alton Sterling and the murdered police officers at
the same time. And, just in case there was any
ambiguity about which side he was on, Obama warned
that “we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those
in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid.”
It was a defense of #BlackLivesMatter at a memorial
for their victims.
Obama’s spin was that he was calling for unity when
in reality he was pushing the divisive agenda of the
hate group whose rhetoric helped lead to the
killings. He was not a healer, but an arsonist.
There was nothing unifying about his exploitation of
a memorial service to push anti-cop messages or to
call for gun control. Neither message is in any way,
shape or form unifying. They are as divisive as can
be.
Obama did not come to Dallas to mourn, to heal or to
unify. His sole purpose was to protect his
#BlackLivesMatter hate group from the consequences
of its rhetoric. Americans were fed lies about
peaceful protests featuring armed members of hate
groups who had called for the murder of police.
#BlackLivesMatter draws its inspiration from a
cop-killer. It has deliberately targeted white
people in much the same fashion that Micah X.
Johnson did. The only real difference between
Johnson and the black nationalist hate groups
frantically trying to distance themselves from him
in much the same way that mosques do from the latest
Islamic terrorist is that he followed through on a
lot of their rhetoric.
Johnson was not trying to get a job writing Black
Panther comics or making YouTube videos. He actually
did the sort of thing that #BlackLivesMatter role
models like Assata Shakur did. He killed police
officers.
For Obama, Dallas was a bump in the black
nationalist road. It was, like every Islamic
terrorist attack, an unfortunate incident from which
we shouldn’t draw any conclusions, except perhaps
that guns are bad. The goal is to redirect our
attention to the next set of #BlackLivesMatter
protests or the next celebrity tweeting about gun
control and how mean those men with guns who aren’t
on their payroll are.
He did not come to Dallas to praise the dead, but to
enlist them in the service of his anti-police
agenda.
Not only had Obama’s actions led to the murder of
police officers, but he was determined to whitewash
their deaths and exploit them as weapons in his war
against the police.