PAX Centurion - Fall 2017

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • Fall 2017 • Page 41 An unpublished Letter to the Globe Editor regarding their editorial: Hateful, anti-police fascism, not a “peaceful rally” Returned to BPPA at 4:35 PM, 6/21/17, exactly seven minutes later. Dear Reader, T hank you for your submission to The Boston Globe’s letters section. We appreciate your interest.  Although this may be an automatic response, we want you to know that we do read submissions as they come in. However, because of the volume of submissions we receive, we regret that we cannot publish every letter.  All letters should be exclusive to the Globe and include name, address, and phone number. Ideally, letters should be under 200 words. If you do not hear back from us within 10 days, it is likely your letter has not been selected. If that is the case, we encourage you to write to us another time. Thank you, Matthew Bernstein, Letters Editor, The Boston Globe Dear Editor, O n Saturday, August 19 th , I and many other police officers were assigned to the so-called “free speech rally” on Boston Common. Your allegedly “peaceful rally” quickly and (I believe) deliberately devolved into a fascist mob of anarchists, BLM activists and assorted lemming-like college students. They chased, threatened and surrounded a few pathetic losers who wandered onto the Common stupidly wearing a “Trump” football jersey or an (apparently) threatening-looking “M.A.G.A.” baseball hat, naively thinking they might engage in civil discourse/free speech with alleged liberals. Repeatedly, police officers wandered into the crowd to save these lost souls who were in serious danger of being beaten to a pulp or worse. Robbed of any actual Klansmen or Nazis (save themselves) to vent their hatred upon, they chased racist ghosts up Joy St. to Mt. Vernon St., tolerantly and inclusively throwing bottles of urine at BPD officers and command staff seeking sanctuary for these poor people at the rear of the State House, (and thank God for the Mass State Police, who saved us!) These alt-left racists (does “White M.F. Pig,” repeated many times a few inches from your face, qualify as “racist hate speech,” Boston Globe ?) then descended upon downtown crossing to throw bottles and rocks and trash at officers wearing soft-cloth uniform hats (so as to not “incite” the tolerant, inclusive demonstrators). Officers were spat upon and treated with vitriolic hatred by those whom the Globe described as “peaceful protesters”. One television reporter went so as far as to evoke an image of “flower blossoms tossed onto the hoods of a police cruiser.” Collectively, the major media and our political establishment did everything possible to turn a blind eye towards what devolved into an anti-police riot. The The quick & curt response from the Boston Globe Letters Editor only “hateful beliefs”, and “poisonous… extremist… radicalism” (your words, Boston Globe, 8-21-17, “Boston’s mettle tested, but questions linger”) that I and my fellow police officers saw on display that day belonged solely to “Black Lives Matter” radicals, anarchists and their legion of kindred, pandering, condescending young lemmings from our local institutions of higher learning. The Globe’s editorial board, however, blithely dismisses this anti- police riot as “...a few counter-protesters in black outfits showed up, made some noise, and went home. …” If indeed they went home, I hope you kept dinner warm for them.Your reporting of this rally was disgraceful and intentionally false, but among police officers, not at all unexpected. – James W. Carnell, A Boston Police Officer 617-989-2772 (P.S.: Should you doubt my veracity, your photographer, John Tlumacki, took our picture as we escorted one of the naïve youths wearing a “Trump” football jersey from a certain assault; photo on page one, Sunday’s Globe, 8/20/17. Ahmm, …John, next time, please stay out of our direct exit path or we might run you over. You had the luxury of not wearing a uniform, John. We didn’t…) Sent to the Boston Globe on 6/21/17, 4:28 PM. JJ’s Irish Pub &Grill 1130 Dorchester Avenue Dorchester, MA 617-282-5919 Proudly Supports the BPPA Scholarship Fund