PAX Centurion - January / March 2016

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • January/March 2016 • Page 19 F BI Director James Comey, an appointee of the Obama administration who was once hailed by liberals for his “fierce independence” (Ed: Obama’s words, not mine…) , has recently fallen from grace and been hastily summoned to theWhite House… basically for telling the raw truth about policing inAmerica today. Comey committed the sin of truth-telling in a Chicago speech in which he asserted that police officers inAmerica have retreated from aggressive policing following several recent highly publicized incidents. This tactical retreat has emboldened criminals and weakened police efforts, due to an onslaught of criticism and second guessing from the media, self-appointed community activists, radical groups, and the general public. This did not sit well with the administration or their handmaidens in the liberal media, who want to believe that police officers are tin soldiers and mindless idiots and will do as they are told by their chiefs, commanders, and politicians. Despite withering criticism, hostile anti-police rhetoric, and even violence and murder directed at the police, the administration seems to believe that the police should just grin and bear it, suck it up and run the gauntlet like theAustralian soldiers at Gallipoli. It appears that Comey’s words have sent theWhite House liberals off the proverbial Richter scale, as it flies in the face of the gross propaganda being put forth regarding how happy police officers are with the “support” from the current administration. The Pax Centurion has reported on this understandable phenomenon before, known a s “de-policing,” specifically after the Cincinnati, Ohio, riots inApril, 2001. (TIME magazine and many other publications focused on this matter in lengthy, multi-page articles.) Writing in Capitalism magazine (August 30, 2001), Walter Williams writes: “A Seattle policeman explained de-policing as “Parking under a shady tree to work on a crossword puzzle is a great alternative to being labeled a racist and being dragged through an inquest, a review board, an FBI and U.S. Attorney investigation and a lawsuit.” Following the civil disorder, the intense scrutiny and second-guessing directed at the police resulted in a “laissez-faire” (“hands-off”) approach by street-level cops and their supervisors who were rightly concerned about aggravating an already-tense and fragile situation. Spineless politicians adopted a “shrinking violet” attitude, pandering and kowtowing to self-appointed “community activists” and radical groups. Criminals and gang-bangers, naturally, filled the void and took advantage of this tactical retreat, much as ISIS did in Iraq when the President quickly removed U.S. military FBI Director James Comey lambasted… for telling the truth Criticismand secondguessing of policehas caused “chillwind” throughout lawenforcement community, saidComey troops from strategically important towns and cities. Law abiding citizens, businesses and taxpayers were, as always, the ultimate losers. The ever-hypocritical media soon did a 180-degree “about face”, questioning why the police weren’t making arrests or enforcing the law, when only days earlier, they had been criticizing the “heavy- handed, overly-aggressive, racist” police for enforcing the law. Evil and violence festers and multiplies within a vacuum of power. One need only witness the murder rate skyrocketing in Baltimore in the aftermath of those recent riots. INA SCATHING ad hominem editorial (“Political Lies about Police Brutality,” Oct. 27 th , 2015, page A26), the NewYork Times savaged Comey, (whom it had previously gushed over when Comey had adopted an anti-wiretapping stance during the Bush administration) and accused him of racially insensitive, “incendiary” comments. “Mr. Comey’s speculations about alleged pressure on officers to stand down shows that he hasn’t begun to grasp the nature of the problem,” said the haughty, repugnant Times’ editorial board. It is this disgusting remnant of failed liberalism, the elitist frauds and high holy hypocrites of the N.Y. Times editorial board (soon followed editorially like Pavlovian dogs a few days later by their poor cousins and red- headed stepchildren on the panting, fawning editorial board of the sad Boston Globe ) who “don’t grasp the nature of the problem.” Like the paternalistic racists they truly are, they pretend to know and understand the struggles of the poor and oppressed and dismiss any humanity on the part of police officers who are second-guessed, scrutinized and criticized for the very problems which, by and large, were actually created by the liberal frauds who feign solidarity with the masses during the day and then flee to their mansions in the Hamptons at night (…or, locally, to Brookline, Newton, Weston and Wellesley). Actually, several of the Times favorite liberal politicians have already admitted the obvious. Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Post (Oct. 28 th , 2015) said that “Baltimore’s Mayor admitted her cops were ordered to “stand down” and give “those who wished to destroy ,- …space,.. to do that” [destroy property, loot, riot, burn, etc.] during riots last April. ”And, according to Goodwin, “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, another liberal Democrat, attributed soaring murder rates to cops going “fetal”. “They have pulled back from the ability to interdict… They don’t want to be a news By James W. Carnell, Pax Editor See FBI on page 29