Who’s to Blame for the NYPD Killings? Inciters and enablers are culpable too.

A week ago, New York City police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were murdered in an act of premeditated assassination by a man who was patently inspired by — indeed, was a documented participant in — a radical movement that has brazenly called for cops to be murdered.

To be sure, not every radical in the movement is down for the cop killing, no more than every Islamist thinks jihadist terror is the best route to imposing sharia. But cop killing is undeniably an aim of a not insignificant part of the movement’s hard core, and a good many more members applaud it even if they would not carry it out themselves. Cop killing is thus a foreseeable, if not inexorable, consequence of tolerating the movement as a well-intentioned display of our commitment to free speech.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395389/whos-blame-nypd-killings-andrew-c-mccarthy

The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers

Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed that the police are the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks; that the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites—leaving disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods unexplained without reference to racism. The poisonous effect of those lies has now manifested itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1222hm.html

The TV Interview of the Year: James Mitchell

Dr. James Mitchell, who was involved in the Enhanced Interrogation program, is angry with Democrats over the release of their biased report on Enhanced Interrogations that they call ‘torture’. He is the subject of the report as he was one of the interrogators and he says they have never once asked him anything about his participation in this program. In fact he says what makes him angry is that KSM now has the chance to address the charges against him he doesn’t.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/james-mitchell-ksm-predicted-what-the-dems-would-do-to-me.php

“They Thought They Were Free”

But Then It Was Too Late

https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/they-thought-they-were-free/

Caroline Glick on fire regarding Israel

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152900415193629&n_

What the media is not telling you about the Har Nof massacre

The media has hidden from us many gruesome facts about the Har Nof massacre and about many other terror attacks. Why? Because if Israeli knew the truth about 'Palestinian' terror there would be no 'peace process.' Because if the West knew the truth about 'Palestinian' terror, much of the pressure on Israel to conduct a peace process would eviscerate. 

Please watch the video below. If you don't have time for the entire video, please start around the 10:30 mark. 

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.ca/2014/12/what-media-is-not-telling-you-about-har.html#links

David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace

http://kurtrudder.blogspot.ca/2009/01/lost-years-last-days-of-david-foster.html

Daniel Greenfield

Wilson’s crime wasn’t shooting Michael Brown. It was shooting him while being white. If he had been black, we wouldn’t be talking about it now. If the black sergeant supervising the takedown of Eric Garner had been the one to restrain him, there would be no protesters shouting “I can’t breathe”.

Subtract the race of the perpetrator and the case wouldn’t exist. That’s what makes the case racist.

An Interrogator Breaks His Silence By Stephen Hayes

What follows is the document written by Jason Beale -- a pseudonym for a longtime U.S. military and intelligence interrogator with extensive knowledge of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA on some high-value detainees. Those techniques are scrutinized a forthcoming report, scheduled to be released today, prepared by the Democratic staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Beale would not confirm to THE WEEKLY STANDARD that he worked in that program, but others with knowledge of the program and its personnel tell TWS that he served as a senior interrogator beginning in 2004.

Beale tells TWS that his document was reviewed, redacted, and cleared by a U.S. government agency. A CIA spokesman would not confirm that the CIA was the agency in question. Beale says he made minor edits for grammar and flow after the document was cleared.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/interrogator-breaks-his-silence_821039.html

Giuliani responds to De Blasio, says he might be racist if he can’t accept crime reality in NYC

Giuliani was on with Sean Hannity tonight to respond to de Blasio saying he fundamentally misunderstands reality regarding crime in NYC. Giuliani said that most of the crime in NYC is black and black and that cops are not the problem and that’s a reality, and that if De Blasio can’t accept that reality, he might be the racist. 

http://therightscoop.com/giuliani-responds-to-de-blasio-says-he-might-be-racist-if-he-cant-accept-crime-reality-in-nyc/

What’s Really Going on with Holder’s Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments By Andrew McCarthy

The deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York are each tragic in their own way. But in neither is there a federal civil-rights case to be had. To think otherwise, you have to be getting your advice from Al Sharpton — the huckster confidant of President Obama and Attorney General Holder.

The law of civil rights requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, usually driven by racial prejudice, willfully acted — violently in these cases — with the evil purpose to deprive a person of specific federal rights. Let’s put aside the utter absence of proof that race had any bearing on what happened in Staten Island, for example, where police supervised by an African-American officer came to the scene because of complaints about Garner by local business owners. It is virtually impossible to prove a civil-rights violation when there is no denying that police were engaged in a good-faith arrest and were put in the position of using force because a suspect resisted.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394116/whats-really-going-holders-civil-rights-crusade-against-police-departments-andrew-c

BLACK PEOPLE THE MEDIA HATE (AND RAND PAUL ISN'T WILD ABOUT)

Now that the Ferguson grand jury documents have been made public, even MSNBC has had to quietly drop its fantasy of Michael Brown being gunned down like a dog in the street by Officer Darren Wilson. Instead, MSNBC is defending the looters. 

On Monday night, MSNBC's Chris Hayes objected to anyone referring to the people who "set fires or looted as 'thugs.'" 

His guest, former Seattle chief of police Norm Stamper, said, "I could not agree more." (Stamper did such a bang-up job dealing with the World Trade Organization riots in 1999 that he was forced to resign -- which may explain why he is the left's favorite police chief.) 

Hardworking black people in Ferguson poured their lives into their stores, depended on them to support their families and shopped at them to improve their quality of life. I wonder if they appreciated Hayes' principled opposition to calling the arsonists "thugs." 

Instead of exquisite sensitivity to the feelings of black thugs, how about considering the feelings of black citizens who want to live in safe neighborhoods? 

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-12-03.html

Eric Garner’s Death Has Nothing To Do With Racism And Everything To Do With Bad Laws.

I’ll tell you what I know about the Eric Garner case: it’s a horrible tragedy, and it’s got nothing to do with race but a lot to do with bad laws — specifically, the law that criminalizes the sale of untaxed individual cigarettes. I want to get into those two points, but first I suppose I’m expected to render a verdict on the grand jury’s opinion. On that end, I can say this for sure: I’m not sure.

Certainly, the video is brutal and difficult to watch, especially knowing how it all turned out. This one isn’t Ferguson. Eric Garner isn’t Michael Brown. Eric Garner wasn’t a violent thug who went out of his way to provoke a violent encounter with a cop and then tried to take the cop’s gun while assaulting him in his patrol car. That’s not what happened here; there simply aren’t any comparisons to be made.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/eric-garners-death-has-nothing-to-do-with-racism-and-everything-to-do-with-bad-laws/

Ann Coulter on EricGarner: Don’t stand between a liberal and his taxes!

Ann Coulter weighed in on the Eric Garner case last night saying this is all about liberals collecting their taxes in order to pay for their beloved public sector unions and pensions:


http://therightscoop.com/ann-coulter-on-ericgarner-dont-stand-between-a-liberal-and-his-taxes/

On the Staten Island Decision The grand jury may have gotten it wrong. Eric Garner

Several news organizations have reported that a New York grand jury in Staten Island has voted against indicting Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City police officer, in the choking death of Eric Garner. The decision is to be announced officially on Thursday. Clearly, this No True Bill is more difficult to justify than the St. Louis grand jury’s vote against filing homicide charges against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393933/staten-island-decision-andrew-c-mccarthy

When Black Lives Don’t Matter

Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals than it is to their victims. If you attack enough people, eventually one of them will fight back. Eventually one of them will kill you.

It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up with a sense that his life was worth anything more than violent posturing could make of it. Just like Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed him.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/when-black-lives-dont-matter/

Witness 10 proves Darren Wilson had a reasonable belief he needed to shoot Michael Brown

Paul Cassell, a former federal judge, has been producing the best analysis I’ve seen of the Ferguson grand jury evidence. I recommend in particular this post, which contains links to others. Cassell notes that Missouri law on self-defense required only that Darren Wilson have a reasonable belief that he needed to use deadly force to defend himself against Michael Brown.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/12/01/witness-10-proves-darren-wilson-had-a-reasonable-belief-he-needed-to-shoot/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/

Charles Barkley: Cops are AWESOME; The notion they are out there just killing black men is RIDICULOUS

Barkley told Baldwin that the black community has a lot of crooks and there’s a reason why cops racially profile black people at times, admitting that sometimes it is justified. 

And there’s more.

Watch:

http://therightscoop.com/charles-barkley-cops-are-awesome-the-notion-they-are-out-there-just-killing-black-men-is-ridiculous/

AP Disses ‘Whistleblower’ But a New Whistle Blows. Israel

It began with a “tell-something” tale by a former reporter. But as with so many small tempests, the shrill response of the alleged victim has fanned the winds to tornado strength.

A former AP reporter, Matti Friedman, publicly detailed allegations of biased coverage of the Israel-Arab conflict and claimed that Gerald Steinberg, a non anti-Israel expert, was banned by the AP. Friedman was immediately and with great force contradicted by Paul Colford, AP’s director of media relations.

Colford claimed Friedman’s articles were filled with “distortions, half-truths and inaccuracies.” And he wrote, point blank, there was “no ban on AP’s use of Prof. Gerald Steinberg.”

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ap-disses-whistleblower-but-a-new-whistle-blows/2014/12/03/0/

Finding Meaning in Ferguson What the New York Times won’t tell you. By Heather Mac Donald

The New York Times has now pronounced on the “meaning of the Ferguson riots.” A more perfect example of what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan called “defining deviancy down” would be hard to find. The Times’ editorial encapsulates the elite narrative around the fatal police shooting of unarmed Michael Brown last August, and the mayhem that twice followed that shooting. Unfortunately, the editorial is also a harbinger of the poisonous anti-police ideology that will drive law-enforcement policy under the remainder of the Obama administration.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald