New York Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to be immediately backing down after being confronted by NYPD union leaders angry at him for criticizing past incidents of police brutality and killings of civilians, today jumping on the bandwagon and calling for an end to all public protests against police in this “difficult moment.”
The police union had blamed the protesters and the mayor for a weekend killing of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn, and have threatened to put themselves on a wartime footing against the protesters and against “enemies in City Hall.”
The police unions were angry with de Blasio from the start, as the mayor campaigned on a platform of police reform, including ending the practice of racial profiling.
De Blasio insisted that the protesters need to end their rallies and accept his promise that they will discuss the police killings of civilians “in due time,” and instead focus on supporting the police.
Yes the police are guarding our wealth — But will they ever give it back?
Criminals are busy stealing half of all the wealth in America, as not a penny of it ever trickles down to the impoverished lower half of society. And the unkindest cut of all, the police that should prevent such a multi-trillion dollar yearly plunder, they spend most all of their time protecting the wealth of the voting majority, all those darling criminals that do so love to plunder.
But then, are not the police registered members of the voting majority?
The Poor Man's Obama doin' what Democrats do best.., suckering their base into complacency.
re: di blahhhsio
http://gothamist.com/2014/12/18/de_blasio_mass_ar…
Yet the de Blasio administration continues to fight in federal court for the right to arrest hundreds of protesters without warning.
"Mayor de Blasio, even though he says that he supports peaceful protest with those rulings that held the police in check, now he's trying to unravel them," says Carl Messineo, the legal director for the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
"Now he wants the court to issue a ruling that says you don't need to give fair warning. You don't need to give notice and opportunity to comply with police directives before those hundreds of persons can be arrested. So in fact, what lies in jeopardy is the status quo that we've been seeing in the streets, which has been restrained by the part of the police in terms of not engaging in these mass false arrests that were characteristic of the prior administration."
It's pretty scary to see the logic of guerrilla war playing out in our own backyard:
1. Mass protests, civil unrest, and riots over government policies in 1960s
2. Government responds with repression (that's the only tactic they know)
3. After fifty years of slowly increasing repression unstable individuals start fighting back directly
4. Government responds with repression
5. Violent resisters start to organize
6. Government responds with repression
7. Etc.
There are plenty of resources to go around. It costs nothing to stop the killing. It's not too late to unwind this spiral of repression/resistance, but it will be soon. Unfortunately governments run by psychopaths can only hear their own warped voices and never learn new strategies.
You are right. Sadly, throughout history, sooner or later this happens to all occupying armies.
It's a dangerous situation when threats from Police unions can shut down legitimate, peaceful protests. I thought that the job of the police was to protect our freedom not curtail it and the job of the mayor was to manage the police department not cave under a union leader with a big mouth.
"I thought that the job of the police was to protect our freedom not curtail it "
I'm sorry to have to inform you that you have been lied to. The job of the police is to protect rich people from the rest of us. The fact that us peons are sometimes helped by the police is a side effect.
Remember, the cops have climbed out of the primordial middle class and become the protector of the man, as a result they are no more accountable for their acts than the man is.
Absolutely horrible what happened to these two officers for they were completely innocent just doing their job enforcing the laws implemented by the national security state apperatus just as it has been absolutely horrible for all the law enforcement swat raids, killings, and all out abuse against Americans (suspects and innocents alike). However, under no circumstances should the protests end or retreat, at all. Screw De Blasio and that thug union chief. The NYPD should actually JOIN the protests because it isn't them who are the problem; it is the establishment who are the problem making law enforcement arms of the state enforcing nanny state authoritarian laws instead of peace officers enforcing laws with respect to the constitution and bill of rights. Example: Stop and Frisk is absolutely a violation of the 4th amendment.
Any protester who backs down in the face of this "threatened wartime footing" deserves to have their skull cracked by nypd criminals. Honest law abiding people need to take a stand, ALA CLIVEN BUNDY AND HIS LOYALISTS IN NEVADA and tell the thug criminals with guns and badges that they can go screw themselves. It's time for the citizenry to draw a line in the sand and say, no more police criminality and unlawful murders.
It's a good opportunity to test the people's resolve to peacefully protest. Not only on this issue but on all the other issues where the American people pay lip service to opposing torture and wars but little else.
luv from Canada.
Those cops got what they deserved.
That's foolish. And disgusting.
NYPD — Property protectors in a wealth dictatorship
To gain a proper perspective of what is actually happening in New York, we need to reflect on the fact that the two NYPD cops that were wasted were members of the royal guard that protects the property of the grandest rich nobility the world has ever known, the High Society of international commerce and the corporate investors of the richest multinational conglomerates on earth.
For in reading the U.S. Constitution, the Federalist Papers and all the documents that created Empire USA, we see a fake morality and a concept of government designed to make humans creatures of property, with all of our basic rights determined by the extent to which we own property.
For if you own no property, then you do not even have the right to sleep on a public bench in Arrow Park of Milwaukee. For a Grand Jury of registered voters has just determined that city cops may now pump 14 bullets into the body of a unarmed homeless man, if he refuses to get his worthless being off of public property.