'Defund the police'? The method
to the left's madness
American Thinker,
by
Selwyn Duke
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
6/7/2020 6:26:03 AM
Dismantling the police, a measure already proposed in Minneapolis, makes about as much sense as eliminating doctors or farmers, and would likewise lead to pain and death. But if there is method to the madness, and I suspect there is in some Machiavellian quarters, it’s perhaps this: Certain leftists want to eliminate the police because they want to become the police.
Or, at least, they want their foot soldiers to fill that role.
Oh, there are other motivations, too, ranging from raw, misguided passion to formulaic devotion to a perverse leftist creed to wider efforts to destabilize the country.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/7/2020 6:48:42 AM (No. 435576)
They want a national police force controlled from DC. Wouldn't it be nice to have inner city NYC or Chicago recruited officers patrolling the streets of fly over USA? Of course, their recruitment will be based on social backgrounds, and their orders will be to skip over crime by minorities.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/7/2020 6:52:04 AM (No. 435578)
The new police will look a lot like the old Brown Shirts
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
redraider 6/7/2020 6:56:50 AM (No. 435584)
Progressives on the Liberal/Left hold no aversion to the concept of authority. They're just unhappy with those who currently hold the positions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/7/2020 8:14:10 AM (No. 435652)
“We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." (As the military)
0bama, 2008.
Looks like he’s about to get what he wanted. We MUST stop them!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Calamity Kate 6/7/2020 8:20:46 AM (No. 435657)
Add 'contact tracing' on top of a centralized police force and now your movements aren't free. A contact tracer can 'quarantine' you based on specious data, with no right to confront your accuser. All of this, since the beginning of Covid, stinks to high hell.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/7/2020 9:21:39 AM (No. 435734)
Yup. They want Antifa to become their new, improved police force. Snitch reporting. Contact tracing, Bicycle locks and on the spot beatings. They don't need no stinkin' laws or constitution to know who needs punishment.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 6/7/2020 9:26:56 AM (No. 435744)
How much looting would there be if cops didn't exist? How long would it go on?
I suspect less than we've had for the past two weeks. If the police didn't exist, do you think a vandal would be allowed to desecrate the Lincoln Memorial in the presence of armed American citizens? I think he would end up face down in The Reflecting Pool. Then the police would show up to arrest the citizens.
I think the cops have shown that they are better at policing than protecting. In fact, citizens have had three unprecedented months of being policed in almost every aspect of daily life. The lady in Salem, Oregon, who tried to open her hair salon got thoroughly policed. Then when rioters announced they would target her, she asked for help protecting her store. Armed citizens showed up. She was fine. So the rioters busted up a mall down the road. (The story was posted here
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/citizens-ar15s-protect-salem-storefronts-protest/ )
A police force that surrenders to a mob is worse than useless. They just get in the way. After two weeks of watching useless cops fail to put rioters on the pavement, I'm done with them. Tell the police to shelter in place and stay out of the way. Tell anyone approaching a business, home, or person with violent intent that they will die if they persist.
It's no fun, and civilized people don't want to do it, but no one ever said civilization was easy. As Ronald Reagan once said, "There are simple answers; there are no easy answers."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Refried 6/7/2020 9:57:05 AM (No. 435795)
How about defunding the socio-garbage departments in tax payer supported universities!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 6/7/2020 9:57:51 AM (No. 435797)
Why not take it a step further and de-fund the entire city? That would save the taxpayers a lot of money.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Connor 6/7/2020 10:44:05 AM (No. 435855)
Our beautiful country is finished and will not recover. I hope they are happy. There is nowhere to move to that is free or livable.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/7/2020 1:32:01 PM (No. 436182)
The Congressional leftists and liberal Democrats are already swinging into action with a bill to reform local police, but the local police can only be truly reformed by the Governors and Mayors in the States and Cities where those police forces are located, as those are the politicians who actually control those policing operations.
Notice that the initial pretext for everything thereafter occurred in Minneapolis, a very liberal City in a very liberal State, that has been politically run by leftist and liberal Democrat politicians, some aligned with domestic terrorist groups like Antifa, who are now yelling about institutional racism in the Minneapolis Police Department calling for that department to be abolished. If that police department is so racist for so long, without the leftist and liberal Democrat State and local politicians doing anything about it, they are clearly totally incompetent and were asleep at the switch! Following the killing of Floyd in Minneapolis just about all the rioting, arson, and looting took place in other inner city areas that were controlled by incompetent leftist and liberal Democrat politicians for many years. And whose only answer was to fraudulently blame President Trump who demanded that they restore law and order.
As far as the leftist and liberal Democrats in Congress is concerned, the only thing they will do is send as much Federal money as possible to the leftist anti-police local groups around the country, to be skimmed off, or used to further harass the local police.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zarin 6/7/2020 10:56:25 PM (No. 436683)
It is a power grab. FTA: Remember, though, if you’re a power seeker, you attack those whose power you want for yourself. And upon attaining police power, enforcing a political agenda becomes much easier. There will be new 'laws' ala 1984 & Brave New World. They will be enforced with that underlying threat of violence that is part of any governance - however there will not be the protections of our Constitution. I guess they think the social workers can go to a domestic dispute and not get shot by one of the angry parties? Who will police the drunks, the dopers, the robbers & shooters? Gheez - what maroons!
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Think about it. A sanctuary city is okay but the police isn't. Being played people. All chaos is about stopping the election. It's only going to get worse.
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The left wants to become the police. Like commissars.