Friends, in countless ways the Thin Blue Line, which endures tremendous sacrifice and risk on the public's behalf, is under continuous assault. Sometimes those attacks are literal, like the recent shooting in San Antonio that targeted ICE officers. Sometimes the slings and arrows suffered by law enforcement are more political in nature, like in the case of Elizabeth Warren's recent slander against Darren Wilson, the unfortunate officer who was involved in the Ferguson, Missouri debacle in 2014. However you slice it, being a police officer isn't easy, and it's getting less so all the time. We need to ask ourselves, therefore, how can we, as ordinary citizens, pitch in and come to the assistance of the police? The maintenance of law and order, I would argue, takes more than a well-trained and well-equipped police force. It also takes a citizenry eager to help the police, to report instances of criminality, to visit harsh justice on evildoers, and to support candidates and causes that enhance rather than degrade public order. That, my friends, rules out voting for Democrats, at least in the present climate. Those of us who value law and order, and who cherish the brave men and women of law enforcement, therefore, need to circle the wagons. As the old saying goes, "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." My advice, then, is: do SOMETHING! Do whatever you can to show that, in the war between criminals and lawmen, your loyalties are clear.
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2019/08/16/its-time-to-embrace-the-police-n2551786
Being married to a former military policeman, I hear all too often that respect starts from the home. Unfortunately, with the breakdown of the family nucleus, r-e-s-p-e-c-t is a forgotten word. I'll forgo the thoughts on Christian values as to not upset the left. Sadly, we as a Nation, are in moral decay and have been for some time now.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Thank you so very much, I say as a Vietnam veteran and as one retired from a law enforcement setting for your comparison of the depraved attacks on our returning Vietnam vets to today's execrable onslaught on our police. It is directly analogous and thanx once again for asserting this in a venue as broad as your blog and Town Hall.
ReplyDeleteOne of the terribly discouraging factors in the leftist ambush of our soldiers returning from Vietnam was the apparent lack of public support for the returnees. Where were the major veterans' groups who should have been protecting the vets from the subhumans? The vets were often under orders not to react to being spit upon or hit with crutches (I know that happened). The vets were hesitant to wear their uniforms in public or to tell anyone (and gee, they needed friends just like everybody else) that they had been there. The present day impossibility of abuse for returning war vets is PROOF the public could have ACTED! If they had, there would have been alot fewer still messed up Vietnam vets.
So, real America, take the lesson Dr. Waddy has pointed out! Resolve that THIS time there will be zero tolerance of leftist America haters who seek to disempower their worst enemies, the police. Overt, sign carrying, car sticker displaying,talk show calling, government official calling, letter writing (eg. writing of supportive letters to Officer Darren Wilson care of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Dep't - he is no longer with them but I think they will forward them to him - he may still be in close confidence. I wrote to him; he said it helped), all of this counts!
Don't miss this opportunity, the beloved and proven real America! Come thru for our police! They need us, just as those Vietnam veterans did. We failed them but we need not fail this time and the hard lives of the police will be so much bettered if we energetically support them. Those leftist Antifa thugs and their street trash imitators are organized, fanatic and unimaginably (given their perverted provenance in a blessed land)insanely committed. No sense wasting time trying to figure them out; they are here - like cancer, like hurricanes,like crime. They must be met! And in our numbers we have the power to do it, if we believe and if we have the guts!
I was reading Jack, that no arrests were made of the Antifa demonstrations yesterday in Oregon, but yet the "Poor Boys"/Right movement were. Funny, but what I read and saw on TV, Antifa were the ones instigating. CNN (don't ask why I was watching) had a interview with two young Antifa members, oh how confused and misguided they are. The poor misguided youth were complaining that they had to wear masks out of fear from the alt. right so they, Antifa, don't get doxxed or worse. I am afraid there are some community leaders such as police who tolerate this madness, I don't think personally they do, but the superiors do or are told to allow such behavior. I think folks in general are just so delusioned because of this so called support of Antifa. My personal beliefs are that no one /anyone who wears a mask for protest should be allowed to do so. I wonder what their parents think? But it goes right back to the lack of fear and respect one has for parents or anyone including themselves. I also think there is a lot of fear in reference to combating Antifa and that ilk. It seems this cancer is here to stay...and so I have been reading on whom supports this; Soros. That evil little man.
DeleteJack, I am super impressed you wrote to Mr. Wilson. It never dawned on me to do so. You are a good man, Jack.
To Dr. Waddy and everyone: let me add this in support of Dr. Waddy ; if you will: never but never vote for any Democrat at any level. You may trust that local Dem but their vote will quickly be added to those who have nothing but complete contempt for you, at the state or federal level. Your democrat friends may not purpose it but be certain, very certain, it will work out that way. And you know the "Democrat "party has been captured by America hating liberal radicals.Reject "Democrats" at all levels, I implore you.
ReplyDeleteLinda, you're absolutely right about respect beginning at home. How can we expect anyone to respect the police when children aren't even raised to respect parents and teachers? It's a problem that goes far beyond law enforcement, therefore, but in a twisted way the PC movement IS bringing back a species of "respect" -- albeit the kind that is founded in cringing fear. If we can grovel at the feet of all the "protected groups" which the Left adores, why not just add the police to the list?
ReplyDeleteJack is right, I'm sure, that, while broad public support doesn't entirely remove the sting that law enforcement feels because of incidents of disrespect, it sure helps. I'm impressed that you reached out to Darren Wilson. That was a very humane thing to do. My heart goes out to that poor man.
As for the Democrats, I have to concur that they are a lost cause -- not as individuals, but as a party and a movement. There used to be tolerance in the Democratic Party for a wide range of views, and even for traditional American values. No more. Any Democrat who spoke up for Brett Kavanaugh, for instance, out of a sense of basic fairness, would be toast, in the current climate. (Joe Manchin is the exception that proves the rule -- West Virginia is the land that time forgot.)
Dr.Waddy: So much from here on the harried fringes of the real America: Manchin: a good man and perhaps devoted to those who elected him yet knowing he was a Dem. I wish there was a principled way he could come in from the cold to us; he is probably one of us. I know WV would be one of the first sane havens I would retreat to if I could leave NY and if they would accept me.
ReplyDeleteJack, we are thinking of leaving once I finish school to the Live Free or Die state, at least they believe in the state motto. I'm not sure if I can live in a state that allows abortion on demand and the red flag law that takes affect in a few days. Of course, it all depends on the job market. These liberal loons here are just about useful as a...well...never mind.
DeleteDr. Waddy: I reread your TownHall article and was struck by your saying she should leave the Presidential race. She should be facing a tsunami of public outrage at the terrible wrong she did to Darren Wilson so intense as to make her continued candidacy completely untenable. The shamelessly partisan MSM refuses to pursue this view with the unrelenting vindictiveness it would surely manifest were a conservative to do such an execrable thing. She should be persona non grata in the Senate too.
ReplyDeleteJack, once again, I agree. smiles
DeleteLinda and Dr. Waddy: Having experienced, on a FAR less serious scale, the betrayal Darren Wilson endured, I was eager to commiserate with him. That he was driven into fugitive status, with the tacit approval of the President, is a towering injustice. So I wrote a letter supporting him to our paper and sent a copy to him with additional comments. Its easy to get the address of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Dep't, so I sent it in care of them and they forwarded it and I hope they still will. It was one of the most gratifying moments of my life when I got a handwritten reply from him which said I had helped him. This was redeeming reward.
ReplyDeleteI anticipate the day when this country, emerged from its Marxist assault, will publicly honor and reward Officer Wilson, as it has, belatedly, our Vietnam vets. When common sense triumphs, it will be almost universally acknowledged, he acted honorably and dutifully. And I say that willingly, with NO APOLOGY to those who would urge the "wrong" of his attacker's loss of his life. The attacker gave every indication of willingness to use his tremendous upper body strength to work who knows what extent of bodily harm on Officer Wilson. The fact that he was black is no excuse, NONE! EQUAL PROTECTION FOREVER.
Linda: I would advance to you a suggestion that NH may not be a good destination for conservatives. They are experiencing, I think, an invasion by Northeastern liberals motivated by "Country Life" notions of the joys of rural life. What they do not ken is that true country people despise the leftist values they bring with them and resolve to enforce. I saw this first hand in the NY Adirondacks where urban people took over town councils and ordered life long natives around.
ReplyDeleteLook at Vermont; a state with no pistol regulations (they actually counted on the virtues of the vast majority of their citizens) but invaded by NY, Conn. MA and NJ emigres blithely willing to impose their standards, by weight of their suffocating numbers, on atavistic natives. So they sent such usurpers as Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy to the Senate and spawned a committed "Take Back Our State " movement. NH is in for the same.
A better bet might be Pennsylvania, which has over a million hunters and their votes COUNT. Gunowners are one of the main pillars of the conservative movement; gunowners and their organizations (NRA) support candidates and office holders conservative on a wide range of issues well beyond gun rights and the gun grabbers know that!
Dr. Waddy and Linda: Another thought about Darren Wilson: his attacker apparently was very angry when he attacked Officer Wilson. Could it be that the attacker was predisposed to hostility toward the police after listening to demagogues like Elizabeth Warren and her ilk? They maintain as a given that what they consider to be President Trump's intemperate language has been productive of mayhem.Are they hoping for another Ferguson incident to ride to the White House? Will Andrew Cuomo's now promised new "law" redefining "domestic terrorism" address the reckless and proven lethal castigation of the police. Ahhh, not!
ReplyDeleteHow sad that all three of us are considering fleeing from the People's Republic of Cuomoia. New York's blue tendencies are only going to intensify, though, and we do have to consider the question: how much can we take? West Virginia would be a great escape hatch. It's a beautiful state, and now a conservative/GOP bastion. New Hampshire is more purple than blue, but in a lot of ways an improvement on what we're used to. (I suspect Jack is right that NH will trend bluer over time -- affluent white New Englanders seem to be deserting the GOP.) On the other hand, local government counts for a lot, and most of WNY is reliably Republican and morally upstanding. That gives us a little protection from the depredations of Cuomo and his gang.
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree that the lack of outrage over Warren's smear of Darren Wilson is itself...outrageous! But we should expect it by now. Assuming the guilt of white men accused of various and sundry bias crimes is NORMAL on the Left. To think critically about whether Darren Wilson is guilty, or about what he is guilty of, would be, from the liberals' point of view, an affront to black America, and a minimization of the torment they have been through. Frankly, I don't even think people like Warren care what happened on that fateful night -- they view the Darren Wilsons of this world as sacrificial lambs. Their (our?) fates are sealed.
Dr. Waddy : I agree with you; the left is intransigent. We must defeat them on the political battlefield. They will NEVER pay any heed to our views until they are politically compelled to do so.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy, thank you for the laugh over "People's Republic of Cuomoia". Gosh, I have to remember that.
ReplyDeleteAs for Warren and the left, I am really not that surprised.
Dr. Waddy and Linda: At what point does democracy enable dictatorship? We saw an extreme example of it in '30's Germany. But in the U.S., Cuomo's joyful contempt for probably millions of the residents of "his" state may be unprecedented. Yes, his now complete command of NY government was established by nominally democratic means but when views radically opposite to the convictions of a significant portion of a governmental entity in this country are openly disdained by an executive empowered by a very unique, yet overwhelmingly populous corner of his state,(NYC, the tumor on the Hudson) is that not dictatorship? That is what it amounts to; we in upstate are not only blithely over powered in consideration of controversial issues but we are given to understand we are "merely a vocal minnahritty" and are bid leave the state for nether regions. How can we combat this? In the courts and in the knowledge that this supremely contemptuous and dismissive man's identical father was finally beaten at the election booth. Meanwhile we stand an abject example of what is in store, in any state, when radicals take over. Beware Washington, Montana, Texas, Idaho, Colorado, even maybe the Dakotas, when the noxious liberal tide advances to your state.They have no respect for you and believe themselves unquestionably right and just.They will, if you allow it, trample on you and all you value.
ReplyDeleteYes, Jack -- we showed the Cuomo family the door once before (against the odds), so we could (theoretically) do it again! Hope springs eternal.
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