Condolences *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Mar 22 2009 at 1:47 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Since I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, I came of age in an era when policemen were routinely referred to as “pigs.” That, I’m happy to say, was not the sentiment in my home, and I’ve always had a deep and abiding respect for the men and women who are willing to put their lives at risks to keep their fellow citizens safe. Yes, there are some bad apples, those who see the job as a power trip, rather than a civic duty but, thank God, they are few in number. Most American police officers are really and truly the good guys.
I was therefore horrified to learn that 4 of these good guys died in one horrible afternoon in Oakland, California, just across the Bay from me. I extend my sincerest condolences to the men’s family, their friends, and to the entire Oakland police department.
UPDATE: Thomas Lifson highlights the uncharacteristic comments left by readers at the SF Chron’s report on this story — uncharacteristic in that they’re hostile to the thug, not the police.
UPDATE II: The Chron’s readers may have been unexpectedly on the side of angels. It is with horror that I report that the crowd on the scene was not. Staring at the carnage before them, at least 20 of them jeered at the officers.
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I watched the news reports in horror last night when the fourth victim was still alive.
One of the dismaying things about the news report was seeing a long-faced Mayor Ron Dellums wringing his hands and pretending to care about what had just happened.
Dellums is an old Communist, a despiser of lawful authority. When he was in the Congress he consistently voted and railed against a powerful U.S. military. When he became mayor of Oakland, he advocated “kinder, gentler” approaches to combating crime, such as “community service,” in lieu of beefing up the number of officers patrolling the streets.
Nothing will come of the lip service he will render to an institution he abhors. And after the decent people have expressed their condolences, the bottom feeders who are Dellums’s true constituency will no doubt emerge to defend the poor, misunderstood, oppressed black parolee who committed these four savage murders.
Good god! That hoary old communist, Ron Dellums, is now a mayor???
I hadn’t heard of him for years! It’s A-LIIIIIIIVE!
Can’t you get those guys retired out to pasture, where they can munch on red-tinged grass the whole day, reminiscing with each other, cheeering on Obama?
They ‘jeered’ WTF!!!
I reminded of the old bumper sticker from the 60′s:
NEXT TIME YOU NEED A COP – CALL A HIPPIE