Posted: 14 Jul 2016 08:35 AM PDT
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.
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