{"id":46299,"date":"2016-08-16T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46299"},"modified":"2016-08-16T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:52:42","slug":"this-is-a-revolution-and-its-not-a-righteous-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46299","title":{"rendered":"‘THIS IS A REVOLUTION, AND IT’S NOT A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police veteran warns Milwaukee riots are part of larger war<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

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by Paul Bremmer
\nWND.com<\/p>\n

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Americans witnessed\u00a0<\/span>an all-too-familiar scene play out over the weekend. A police officer shot and killed a black man in a major city \u2013 this time Milwaukee \u2013 and two nights of rioting ensued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowds of angry black people set fires, looted stores and targeted white individuals for beatings.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But this was not another instance of a white cop shooting an unarmed black man.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, the slain suspect, 23-year-old Sylville K. Smith, was armed with an illegal firearm that had been used in a burglary. He allegedly ran from police after a traffic stop and refused to obey orders to drop his gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

He had a lengthy arrest record, including an investigation for witness intimidation.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the officer who shot Smith is black, according to Milwaukee\u2019s police chief.<\/span><\/p>\n

So if a black cop shot a potentially dangerous black criminal, what was all the rioting about? Why did rioters chant \u201cBlack power!\u201d and attempt to beat up every white person they saw?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all kabuki now: Everyone knows the drama, everyone knows their role, everyone knows their lines, everyone knows how it is going to turn out,\u201d said Colin Flaherty, an award-winning writer and reporter who chronicled black mob violence in his book \u201cWhite Girl Bleed a Lot.\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u201cMaybe the family will get paid. Maybe not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut soon there will be lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Calls for better police-community relations. Important people will issue earnest documents and make serious pronouncements. One month after that it will be accepted that this widespread black criminality in Milwaukee is really the fault of white racism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The scary part, according to Flaherty, is that Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and their political and media surrogates have spent the past several months blaming \u201csubconscious\u201d or \u201cunconscious\u201d white racism for the problems of the black community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is subconscious or unconscious, how do you fix that?\u201d Flaherty wondered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Roorda, a retired police officer and four-term Missouri state representative, noted the Milwaukee protesters smashed and burned police cars and threw bricks at the police. It\u2019s part of what Roorda calls \u201cThe War on Police,\u201d<\/span><\/a> which is the title of his forthcoming book.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people that are mad that we shoot back, but they can bully politicians, they can cajole the media, but police officers are always going to defend themselves and others, and all of the rioting and all of the attempts to manipulate the story and manipulate society are not going to work on law enforcement,\u201d Roorda told WND.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former officer, who now serves as the business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association and writes a WND column,<\/span><\/a> chided Black Lives Matter for protesting the death of a black criminal while ignoring the life of a black officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about the black life of this police officer who, had he not acted, probably would have been killed?\u201d Roorda asked. \u201cAnd this kid (Smith) wasn\u2019t some honor roll student innocently walking home from school \u2013 this is a kid that\u2019s terrorizing the neighborhood. If he hasn\u2019t already killed some other folks in his neighborhood, he was on the track to doing that sort of thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to view VIDEO<\/a>: Milwaukee police say shots fired during demonstration<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo these are the types of people police officers should be expected to take off the street. This officer did everything right: he followed his instincts, he encountered a dangerous armed felon and he acted accordingly, and yet still there\u2019s hell to pay for the city of Milwaukee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Flaherty believes some black people can\u2019t admit some police shootings are justified because there is too much money at stake in the racial grievance industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody wants to get paid,\u201d Flaherty said. \u201cIn Milwaukee, we see black political figures defending the rioters, predicting more unless some unnamed people create these unnamed government programs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was local Alderman Khalif Rainey who, at a news conference after the initial riots, warned downtown Milwaukee could face more violence if issues facing African Americans were not addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo we continue \u2013 continue with the inequities, the injustice, the unemployment, the under-education, that creates these byproducts that we see this evening?\u201d Rainey asked. \u201cThe black people of Milwaukee are tired. They\u2019re tired of living under this oppression. This is their existence. This is their life. This is the life of their children.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow what has happened tonight may have not been right; I\u2019m not justifying that. But no one can deny the fact that there\u2019s problems, racial problems, here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that have to be closely, not examined, but rectified. Rectify this immediately. Because if you don\u2019t, this vision of downtown, all of that, you\u2019re one day away. You\u2019re one day away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Roorda believes the Milwaukee riots represent the ongoing effort to vilify law enforcement, but he thinks it\u2019s only a proxy war in a much larger struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement make a convenient target because they are essentially the only representatives of government who will step foot in these urban war zones,\u201d the former officer said. \u201cBut this is an attack on our country and on our way of life. The cops are just a scapegoat in this proxy war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Roorda noted the zeal with which so many of Milwaukee\u2019s black residents rushed into the streets to protest before they knew all the facts of the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore they knew the race of the police officer, they were already burning buildings and burning cars,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, this is a revolution, and it\u2019s not a righteous cause.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Flaherty fears black urban riots like those in Milwaukee, Baltimore and Ferguson will remain a part of American society for the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBlack riots will be a fixture as long as they are allowed to be,\u201d Flaherty said. \u201cAs long as reporters and public officials ignore, deny, condone, excuse, encourage and even lie about black criminality and how it is wildly out of proportion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Roorda similarly believes the media and elected officials need to start being honest about the facts of these cases in order to escape the vicious cycle of police shootings and urban riots.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we would just be honest about what\u2019s happening in these situations, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d see anything like we\u2019re seeing,\u201d Roorda offered. \u201cBut the fact that \u2018Hands up, don\u2019t shoot\u2019 or \u2018I can\u2019t breathe\u2019 or \u2018rough ride,\u2019 or whatever the battle cry of the day is, immediately takes hold and is embraced by the media and too many politicians \u2013 that\u2019s how we end up in the situation we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n


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