Social Justice has come to mean
permission to resort to mob rule, wanton destruction of private and public
property,looting, Molotov cocktails, disrespect for the Police and at times
physical attacks on and the shooting of others. The war for Social Justice is a
mask covering a war on the Social Contract. The dirty little secret is that this
has been going on for a very long time.
"No Justice, No Peace"today means that
those chanting this don't want justice via the rule of law to prevail. It has
come to mean the demand for instantaneous preconceived punishment to be applied
and the facts and the truth as determined by law enforcement, Judges and juries
be ignored.
We are seeing all of this now in Ferguson
Missouri, where the Governor has announced a state of emergency, called in the
National Guard and established a curfew which has failed to stop the looting.
To a much lesser extent it also exists in Staten Island, New York. In each
instance two black males died after encounters with a white cop. Both of the
deceased were allegedly breaking the law, albeit in minor
ways.
That these two ended up dead is a
tragedy. That both situations were seized upon by racial arsonists like Al
Sharpton and criminals determined to exploit the racial anger and chaos are also
tragedies. That Barack Obama felt once again the need to interject himself in
Ferguson by equating police actions with criminal activity is a third and
unnecessary tragedy.
Sharpton and his ilk ignore black on
black crime in places like NYC and Chicago and wait in the tree line for
"unequal power" events which end with the death of a black "victim". Victim in
each case is the operative word.
"Victimhood", with all its waivers for
personal responsibility, actions and behavior is what people like Al Sharpton
sell like a drug.
The politics of "victimhood" has resulted
in double standards throughout American life and the predictable and resultant
fraying of the social contract. "Victimhood" has also been grafted onto certain
groups thereby resulting in knee jerk reactions when bad things happen.
In NYC progressive politicians egged on
by people like Sharpton and other left wing radicals now want to discard the
"Broken Windows" theory of policing because it allegedly unfairly targets victim
groups like blacks and other minorities. The press has started calling it
"controversial" even though it is the reason that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and
his first ( and now the present ) Police Commissioner Bill Bratton were able to
make NYC the safest big city in the world.
"Broken Windows" was first theorized by
George Kelling and James Q. Wilson and posited that little signs of disorder in
the quality of life lead to bigger ones and eventually if left unchecked, a
major breakdown in order such as NYC went through in the 1970s and the 1980s and
which Chicago is going through now.
We are a nation of laws that protect
individual rights. No person or no group is supposed to be exempt. Yet that is
exactly what far too many "victims" who break the law want. Non-designated
"victims" don't have a prayer of getting public sympathy for this position because the prevailing progressive ethos will
not allow that to happen.
The fight to allow anarchy and crime to
become the norm is a historic tactic of the left as well as a predictable result
of the implementation of Social Justice policies. The objective is to destroy
respect for law enforcement and the justice system in order to replace the
above with a nation of government and not one of law. The innocents who die
when the politicians handcuff the police are of no consequence to these
radicals who believe as Stalin allegedly said " you can't make omelettes
without breaking eggs". For progressives dead victims have more power than
live ones.
"Victimhood" must be retained only for
those who can be used to help bring down the "system" as Cloward and Piven would
have it. So it is reserved for blacks, Muslims, gays, women, illegal's
etc. Everyone else is the enemy and can go to hell! Those
promoting "victimhood" want chaos because chaos obliterates the social contract
and leaves them in charge.
Ferguson, Missouri is currently ground
zero for Social Justice where first amendment rights and law and order are in a
war with anarchy. Two preliminary autopsies of the deceased, one of which was
commissioned by the family of Michael Brown puts into question what some alleged
witnesses described at the time of the shooting. Now the family has asked for a
third autopsy from Eric Holder who is sending 50 FBI agents to Ferguson ( far
more than were sent to Benghazi). This raises the question as whether the
Social Justice crowd will keep demanding autopsies until one fits their
narrative. Saul Alinsky is smiling somewhere over the river Styx to see the
turmoil that his acolytes have produced in the
heartland.
Sharpton is also planning a march in
Staten Island which is co-sponsored by the city's United Federation of
Teachers. This has raised the ire of many teachers as well as the Police Unions
as Gotham's progressives step up their war on cops. The UFTs involvement
invites the question as to whether the city's children are being taught
traditional civics or more Social Justice propaganda.
Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island,
NY are examples of social
justice progressivism at its finest or at its worst depending on from which side
you are viewing it. It is where this President who was supposed to end racial
strife and his allies has taken us in the fundamental transformation of
America.
However none of the above is to deny or
diminish the fact that too many law enforcement agencies in this country seem
to have rotten relations with minority communities. Nor should it minimize or
dismiss the real fear of harassment or the lure of the street that many black
mothers have, when their sons leave the house. The real truth is that there is
no such thing as their cops or their kids. There is only our cops and our
kids...and they need our help. A young presidential candidate once said
something similar...but he has long since disappeared into the Social Justice
swamp which has always been his real home.
ERLANDSSON
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