POLICE AND YOU STRONGLY SUPPORT
THAT RIOT, THEN YOU ARE AGAINST
POLICE.
SO R.I.P. FOR BLUE LIVES MATTER,
FOR EVERYONE WHO SAID THEY
BACKED THE RIOT, WHICH YOU JUST
SAW IS ABOUT HALF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN THOSE POLLS.
FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, THERE ARE
THOSE RIGHT-WING AGITATORS WHO
TALKED UP BLUE LIVES MATTER AND
THEN FAILED THIS ULTIMATE TEST.
AND THEY BEAR EXTRA
RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE OF THEIR
PLATFORMS AND REACH AND
INFLUENCE.
TRUMP ALLY LOU DOBBS CLAIMED TO
RESPECT BLUE LIVES BUT FAILED TO
CLEARLY CONDEMN THE ATTACKERS.
THAT VERY NIGHT HE FALSELY
CLAIMED THERE WAS NO RIOT AND
ONLY "ONE INSTANCE OF VIOLENCE,"
REFERRING TO A RIOTER WHO WAS
SHOT BY POLICE.
THE RECENTLY DECEASED RUSH
LIMBAUGH HAS CLAIMED TO SUPPORT
POLICE BUT HE WAS EXPOSED ON
JANUARY 6th TAKING SIDES AGAINST
POLICE.
AND WITH THEIR ATTACKERS.
COMPARING THEM TO, RIDICULOUSLY,
PATRIOTIC REVOLUTIONARIES.
MARK LEVINE, WHO’S OFTEN ON FOX
NEWS, SAYS HE’S A PROPONENT OF
BLUE LIVES MATTER.
HE POSTED ABOUT IT.
ON JANUARY 6th HIS ENERGY WAS
ALL ABOUT THE PRESS.
SAYING "THE MEDIA’S TRYING TO
SILENCE CONSERVATIVES."
THAT’S WHERE HE WENT ON THAT
DAY.
NOT VERY HELPFUL TO THE POLICE
YOU JUST SAW.
IN CONGRESS SOME MEMBERS OF BOTH
PARTIES DID STRONGLY CONDEMN THE
VIOLENCE.
BUT SOME OF THE MOST VOCAL HOUSE
MEMBERS WHO BACKED TRUMP’S --
EXCUSE ME, WHO WERE ALLIED WITH
TRUMP AND BACKED HIS RALLY OR
WERE LINKED TO IT, WELL, THEY’VE
SPENT YEARS TALKING ABOUT LAW
AND ORDER AND BLUE LIVES.
THEY FAILED THE TEST TOO.
WE CHECKED.
THREE REPUBLICANS CONNECTED TO
THE RALLY BEFORE THE ATTACK
FAILED TO FULLY BACK POLICE.
INSTEAD THEY MINIMIZED OR
DOWNPLAYED THE VIOLENCE OR THEY
LIED ABOUT IT.
SOME OF THEM SPREAD
MISINFORMATION DESIGNED TO IN
ESSENCE SHIELD THE VIOLENT
ATTACKERS FRKTABILITY, GIVING
THEM A FALSE ALIBI.
MATT GAETZ, THE REPUBLICAN,
TRIED TO BLAME IT ON OTHER
PEOPLE.
WHICH DOESN’T HELP THE POLICE.
THEY DIDN’T DO THE BARE MINIMUM
OF CONDEMNING THE MAGA FANS WHO
DID ATTACK POLICE.
HE BLAMED DEMOCRATS ON JANUARY
6th AND HE COMPLAINED DEMOCRATS
WERE, QUOTE, ANGERING PEOPLE BY
CONDEMNING TRUMP’S ELECTION
LIES.
SO THAT’S SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE ALL ABOUT THIS.
THIS WAS NOT A HARD TEST.
YET MANY FAILED AS THEY
STRUGGLED TO FIND ANY WAY TO
ECHO TRUMP’S PRAISE OF THE
SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO ATTACK POLICE
OR THEY MINIMIZED THE ATTACKS ON
POLICE OR THEY JUST LIED ABOUT
WHO DID ATTACK POLICE.
>> THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY FOR
THESE PROTESTERS.
THEY HAVE DISRUPTED THE SYSTEM
IN AN ENORMOUS WAY.
>> SO MANY THEM ARE JUST
PATRIOTIC, WELL-LOVING
AMERICANS.
>> THEY’RE KIND OF SOLID
AMERICANS.
>> THEY’RE NOT VIOLENT.
THEY’RE NOT TROUBLEMAKERS.
>> PRIVATE CITIZENS, IT SEEMED,
ON THEIR WAY TO LOOK AT THE
CAPITOL.
THAT TURNED INTO AN OUTRIGHT
VICIOUS RIOT.
>> SOME OF THEM WERE LET INSIDE.
WE SAW THAT.
SOME OF THEM JUST HAPPENED TO BE
THERE.
>> 99% OF THEM WERE PEACEFUL.
>> LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.
99%.
>> THESE DON’T LOCK LIKE TRUMP
SUPPORTERS.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS DON’T DO THESE
THINGS.
>> THEY WERE LIKELY NOT ALL
TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
>> THERE’S VIDEO OF PEOPLE
SCREAMING THEY’RE ANTIFA.
>> YOU WOULDN’T FIND A TRUMP
SUPPORTER THAT WOULD BE CHASING
AFTER A CAPITOL POLICEMAN.
THAT’S NOT WHO THEY ARE.
>> THE INSURRECTION WAS A
VIOLENT TRAGEDY.
IT’S ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE
REVEALING.
SHOWING THAT WHILE SOME
AMERICANS DO GENUINELY MEAN IT
WHEN THEY HAIL POLICE, TO BE
SURE, OTHER POLITICAL HACKS
HIJACK THAT TALK FOR TACTICS
THAT LITERALLY ENDANGER
OFFICERS’ LIVES.
THIS IS VERY CYNICAL STUFF.
EXPLOITING EFFORTS TO PROTECT
OFFICERS FOR POLITICAL DIRTY
TRICKS THAT USE OFFICERS AS
PROPS TO FOMENT THEIR OWN
POLITICAL AND RACIAL AGENDA.
IT’S WRONG.
IT’S MISLEADING.
AND IT DOES NOT MAKE POLICE
LIVES MATTER.
QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
WHEN WHITE NATIONALIST GROUPS
WERE SEEN FLYING A BLUE LIVES
MATTER FLAG AT THE 2017 UNITE
THE RIGHT RALLY, THEY CLEARLY
SEE THIS AS PART OF THEIR WHITE
POWER AGENDA WITH A VISION OF
RACIALIZED POLICING.
JUST AS INDICTED
INSURRECTIONISTS SAW THEIR BLUE
LIVES MATTER FLAG AS CONSISTENT
WITH THEIR THUGGISH PLOT THIS
DAY.
THEY VALUED THE LIVES OF THEIR
CO-CONSPIRATORS WHILE THEY SAID
THEY WANTED TO KILL ANY POLICE
OR ANY VICE PRESIDENT WHILE
WE’RE AT IT WHO STOOD AGAINST
THEIR CRIMINAL PLOT.
HONEST POLICE LEADERS MAY ENGAGE
HOW TO TO ADDRESS THE HIGH RATE
OF POLICE SHOOTINGS, ONE OF THE
ISSUES BLM HAS HIGHLIGHTED.
21, BY THE WAY, ON THE PATH TO
THE SAME RATE AS THE PREVIOUS
YEARS.
BUT MILITIA GROUPS, THEY’RE NOT
ENGAGING ON THAT KIND OF THING.
THEY OPENLY TALK ABOUT MORE USE
OF FORCE AGAINST THEIR
OPPONENTS.
THEY ESPOUSE A SICK VISION OF
RACIALIZED POLICING THAT NO
LAW-ABIDING POLICE CHIEF SHOULD
EVER GET NEAR.
SINCE SO MUCH OF THIS IS
ORWELLIAN WE CAN ALSO APPLY SOME
OF HIS WISDOM.
ORWELL SAID THAT POLITICAL
SPEECH IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH
MISLEADING CLICHES BECAUSE SO
MUCH OF POLITICS IS A DEFENSE OF
THE INDEFENSIBLE WITH WORDS
DESIGNED TO MAKE LIES SOUND
TRUTHFUL AND MURDER RESPECTABLE.
FOR THOSE DEFENDING RACISM AND
WHITE SUPREMACY AND VIOLENCE AND
POLITICAL TERRORISM, FOR THOSE
LITERALLY TRYING TO OVERTHROW
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND END
ELECTIONS FOR A TRUMP-STYLE
DICTATORSHIP, WELL, EVEN AMONG
SOME OF THEIR PEERS THOSE THINGS
ARE SO INDEFENSIBLE THAT THEY
ARE HARD TO SAY OUT LOUD.
SO WATCH OUT FOR WHEN THEY MAY
SAY OTHER THINGS.
THEY MAY HOPE THAT YOU ONLY HEAR
THE CATCHPHRASE OR THAT YOU TAKE
YOUR OWN BENIGN MEANING FROM IT
WHILE THEY EXPLOIT IT TO ADVANCE
THEIR AGENDA, NOT YOURS, NOT
HONEST POLICE.
THEY MAY BET YOU THAT WON’T DIG
MUCH DEEPER, THAT YOU WON’T FIND
OUT ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY WHEN
THEY THINK YOU’RE NOT THERE.
AS THEY CONSPIRED AMIDST THEIR
ATTACKS ON POLICE THAT DAY.
AS REPORTED, YELLING ABOUT PIGS
AND CALLING OFFICERS SATAN,
DEMANDING THAT THEY BE ALLOWED
TO BREAK THE LAW FOR AN EXCHANGE
WHERE THEY THINK THEY ARE,
QUOTE, BACKING THE BLUE AND
CAPTURING THEIR SICK MIND STATE
WHEN THEY GASPED IN SHOCK THAT
POLICE WERE SHOOTING AT US,
"THEY’RE SHOWSUPPOSED TO SHOOT B
ANYONE WHO SIMPLY SUPPORTS
LAW-ABIDING POLICE CAN CHOOSE TO
DO SO.
BUT THE DAYS OF DOING THAT, OF
TRYING TO KILL POLICE WHILE
CHANTING "BLUE LIVES MATTER,"
AMERICA, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.
THAT WING OF BLUE LIVES MATTER
IS DEAD.
THAT POLITICAL QUEST DID NOT
EVER TRULY DEFEND POLICE WHILE
RACISTS SEIZED ON IT FOR THEIR
OWN ENDS.
THE EVIDENCE SHOWS IT WAS A
FRAUD.
IN SERVICE OF A LIE.
NOT THE ONLY LIE EXPOSED BY THE
INSURRECTION.
BUT IT WAS A BIG ONE.