Race Bait, Inc. Gets It's Wish

The overwhelming majority of police officers are good men and women, doing a job 99% of people can't, couldn't, wouldn't, won't do - standing between us and the savages of the world - but most of the time all we hear about are the bad ones, or ones involved in situations that people with an agenda try to make out to be bad.

Today, 2 uniformed NYPD officers were gunned down while sitting in their marked police cruiser by an animal posing as a man, in an apparent retaliatory killing for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, just a couple of days after protesters were filmed chanting "What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want them? Now!"

I pray for the families of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, and send my deepest and most heartfelt condolences. They were assassinated doing what they loved by an evil coward.

Anyone who knows me even a little bit knows that I love things political. I've followed politics since I was about ten years old with a passion most people reserve for their favorite sports teams, or a band they love.

As much as I love it, however, even I find it distasteful to bring politics into a tragedy like this, but there are things that must be said, and one of those things is...... This shooting is a direct result of people like the "Reverend" Al Sharpton injecting race into everything they don't like, whether it calls for it or not. Ferguson ring any bells?

Unless and until black America decides that they're Americans first, black second, and ditch their so-called "leaders," whose primary interests are to line their own pockets, perpetuate the victim mentality, accomplishing nothing except dividing us from each other, we will never be free of this nonsense, and that saddens me greatly. ~ Hunter

Enforcement Of A Crap Law Is Still Necessary For The Rule Of Law

I know this is probably going to make me pretty unpopular with quite a few folks, but I just call things the way I see things.

Eric Garner's death, as tragic as it was, was not because he was selling "loosies" (single cigarettes). As with Michael Brown, who wasn't shot and killed for the strong-arm robbery he committed minutes before Ferguson P.D. Officer Darren Wilson encountered him, Garner died as a result of his disobeying the lawful order of the police officers attempting to arrest him.

We can complain that the law the police were there to enforce the day Garner died was, and is, ridiculous. The government interfering in the free-market service Garner was attempting to provide is precisely the type of law that true conservatives wish to abolish, and it should be. But just as with Mike Brown, had Garner complied with the police officers' commands, he would most likely be alive today.

While most people are focusing on the underlying crime in both NYC and Ferguson, they're missing the obvious - the failure of both men to obey the lawful commands of the police. With Garner, we must also keep in mind that he had been previously arrested and was out on bail for selling untaxed cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession, among others. Garner had a criminal record that includes more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, grand larceny. An official said the charges include multiple incidents in which he was arrested for selling unlicensed cigarettes.

The Garner incident had nothing to do with race. In fact, the police sergeant leading the detail making the arrest was a black woman. It was her decision to go forward with the arrest. I deeply sympathize with the Garner family, but facts are facts, and as he had been arrested multiple times - FOR THE SAME OFFENSE - he *knew* that what he was doing was against the law.

We can argue about the ridiculousness of the law Garner was breaking until we're all blue in the face, but unless and until that law is changed, we are duty-bound to obey that law. This is the type of government overreach that we have allowed to creep into our system.

Just as Mike Brown is responsible for Mike Brown's death, Eric Garner is responsible for Eric Garner's death. The police officers involved in both cases were just trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. ~ Hunter