image: http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/comment-1-1024×189.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA lot [sic] of these thugs don\u2019t realize that a lot [sic] of us officers have spent a lot [sic] of our time downrange stepping in the sandbox and are ready for a righteous fight if they want to bring one,\u201d snarled Obie, his spelling reflecting the undemanding intellectual standards of his profession, in a comment posted on a law enforcement-oriented Facebook page. Identical sentiments were expressed by Major Travis Yates of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Department, who lectures nation-wide on officer safety issues and editor-in-chief of the publication Law Officer.<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/this-is-war-1024×421.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are at war!\u201d exclaimed Major Yates<\/a>. \u201cThe men and women behind the badge know it. Good leaders know it, and decent communities know it. For the safety of all of our men and women behind the badge, it is time our country knows it.\u201d In what some might consider a remarkable specimen of hyperbole, Major Yates compares the emotional impact of recent episodes in which police officers have been murdered to the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll never forget the mood at the squad meeting at 3 pm on September 11, 2001,\u201d Yates recalls. \u201c\u00a0I gathered with about 20 cops in the same room that we had deployed out of for years but this day was different. \u00a0Our country had been attacked and we were pissed. In fact, several from that day joined the military and others seriously pondered it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThose thoughts and feelings came back like a vengeance this morning as I heard the news about Baton Rouge,\u201d he continues. \u00a0\u201cYes, we all saw five officers killed in Dallas last week and multiple shot throughout the week but today\u2019s news solidifies what just about no one wants to acknowledge \u2013 we are at war.\u201d<\/p>\n Nearly a year ago, celebrity Sheriff David Clarke of Wisconsin\u2019s Milwaukee County<\/a>, an FBI-indoctrinated<\/a> drug warrior who was awarded a Master\u2019s Degree in \u201cSecurity Studies\u201d through the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterrey, California<\/a>, issued an undisguised call for action to \u201ceradicate\u201d Black Lives Matter activists and others giving voice to what he calls \u201canti-cop rhetoric.\u201d Such people, he ranted, are \u201cvulgar, vile, [and] vicious \u2026 slime\u201d whom he characterized as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d He now demands that the public and the political class mobilize for a literal war of extermination \u2013 and he insists that citizens must rally to the defense and protection of the police officers whose advertised role is to protect them<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s time to come to the aid of our police, our front-line soldiers, by calling this war, and not terrorism,\u201d<\/strong> exhorted Clarke in an essay for The Hill.<\/a> \u201cAvoiding the truth through wordsmithing \u2013 the false narrative of the lone-wolf \u2013 is contemptible as more innocent officers perish while our politicians hem and haw. We as a people need to declare that we stand with the rule of law, and not with the false tales of the revolutionary Marxist forces, who most recently have rebranded themselves from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n Those who refuse to enlist in that war are \u201caccomplices\u201d in league with \u201can enemy within our borders [and] without our borders,\u201d Clarke insists.<\/p>\n It would be worthwhile to know if Sheriff Clarke would include within that indictment Wichita, Kansas Police Chief Gordon Ramsay, whose department, along with hundreds of local residents, participated in a July 17 First Step Cookout with local Black Lives Matter activists.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe time\u2019s come, we\u2019ve got to rewrite the playbook on how we\u2019re doing business and really change the way we\u2019re doing things \u2013 but it takes two,\u201d commented Police Chief Ramsay. \u201cIt takes all parties to come together to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n Sheriff Clarke and other war-crazed Blue Privilege cultists would most treat Ramsay\u2019s comments as evidence of collusion with the \u201cenemy,\u201d rather than a gesture of reconciliation by a chief who at some level aspires to be a peace officer devoted to serving the public, rather than the interests of his professional tribe.<\/p>\n Overt calls for civil war by police officials have been coupled with legislative action \u2013 at both the state and federal level <\/a>\u2013 to designate police as a \u201cspecially protected class\u201d for the purposes of hate crimes prosecution. At the same time, former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, has filed a class action lawsuit against President Obama, activist Al Sharpton, \u00a0Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan<\/a>, and the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, accusing them of fomenting a race war. In a fashion all but guaranteed to catalyze the racial antagonism he supposedly protests, Klayman purports to speak on behalf of a victim class that includes police officers, \u201cCaucasians,\u201d and \u201cJews.\u201d<\/p>\n Klayman\u2019s complaint<\/a> alleges that the public criticism of law enforcement officers by the named respondents constitutes illegal \u201cincitement.\u201d He insistently describes \u2013 without plausibly documenting \u2013 a centrally directed criminal conspiracy led by Obama that threatens white citizens as a class.<\/p>\n \u201cFor too long, law enforcement and others, including white and non-white Jews and Christians, have remained silent, scared to speak and act, for fear of being branded racists over the fear of being threatened and harmed by defendants and their accomplices,\u201d declares Klayman. \u201cThis must stop and justice must be done to preserve the integrity of our great nation and to avoid an all-out race war\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to injunctive relief, Klayman is demanding damages of $2 billion. The instrument has yet to be invented that could measure the infinitesimal chance that Klayman would win that lawsuit, but legal victory isn\u2019t the objective. The purpose of that suit is to propagate a unified field theory of counter-insurgency on behalf of \u201cLaw and Order Conservatives\u201d who are irrepressibly eager for a nation-wide paroxysm of state-sanctioned violence to cleanse the land of an internal \u201crevolutionary enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/at-war.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n![\"comment](\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/comment-1-1024x189.jpg\")
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