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There are protests happening all over #America now. I'd like to politely ask #Police in the #USA to PLEASE understand tensions in this country are high, and to please change you attitudes towards human life for a short while so that we can recover. PLEASE!

ExMuslimMary 5 May 30
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What this individual cop did is not reflective of 99% of the cops out there any more than the black
folk looting are representative of the 99% of black folk.

Statistically, death by cop is rare which is why we take note.
Based on the Washington Post Database
Last year there was a total of 235 black folk killed by cops.
Of those killed, 152 were armed with guns, 31 with knives, an 18 attempting to use a vehicle.
Only 9 were said to be unarmed and 8 were listed as "unknown".

This is not to say there are no problem cops harassing black folk ever or that there is never a
case of a cop killing without justification, merely that the idea that its common is false.

The main cause of death of young black men in America is other young black men.

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Please Please Please will Blacks in Chicago and Baltimore respect human life....

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The U.S. is one of the most diverse nations in history. Great progress has been made over the last 60 years in accommodating that diversity while maintaining the principles of unalienable rights and limited government. Over those 60 years police brutality has been greatly reduced because professionalism has become the standard for police departments everywhere in the country. That professionalism however has come at the cost of the loss of connection with the public that was once provided by the "beat cop". The grouchy, disciplinarian uncle cop is now a highly efficient approachable professional.

It hasn't helped that as the neighborhood cop has disappeared so has the community. Where people live is just an address and a statement of socio economic status today. Segregation is no longer a matter of race as the successful of all races have fled our cities. With them went the example of how to move to the middle class. The example of will power to embrace temperance, discipline and self sufficiency for a better future.

As charity was replaced with government assistance the human element was replaced with a cold bureaucracy. The government has no pride and it's dependents no shame. The government makes a poor spouse and worse father. Bread and circus does not serve the poor so much as it allows the upper classes to ignore the poor.

The social divide has been deepened by a professional class that neither serves the lower classes or feels dependent on their labor. It has been easier to import desperate labor from abroad than deal with the existing working class's sense of entitlement. To export slave labor and pollution to China than fix the welfare system and much more profitable at the same time. Easier to vote for a black president than address the real issues facing minorities, such as single parent households, drug addiction and crime.

The pandemic has illustrated just how much contempt the non essentials have for the working class. Instead of let them eat cake if they have no bread the elites say let them take a government check instead of allowing the dignity of productive labor or service. It's perfectly fine for the elites to shelter in place as long as the deplorables stock the grocery shelves and keep the lights on. Adding insult to injury the elites then say it is the stupid masses that want to work.

The same pattern plays out again and again over history. Luxus produces a weak and divided people.

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The premise of this comment is demonstrably false and if we had a virtual trash bin that is where I would send it

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I just want to know if people are social distancing 😐🤔

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Change you attitudes towards human life for a short while? Why not permanently?

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If you really think this is a spontaneous expression of frustration by an oppressed class, I have a bridge in NYC City I’d love to sell you. Let me know.

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I'd like to urge the police to use appropriate force to deal with these deployed, staged, riots with a pair of balls.

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I strongly suggest that you stop believing the Leftist narrative about the police without questioning, and do the research on crime, including the demographics of which groups of people tend to commit crimes (socially disadvantaged) and how police procedures already do hold justice and the innocent in far higher regard than the motive of catching offenders.

What make her comment so frustrating it completely removes the incentive to actually understand why these things are happening.
So nothing will change and this will keep on happening whenever they want to move people’s attention from something else...

Ha, that's a joke. There are two justice systems in this country. One for the rich and politically connected and the other for poor people. They're are not the same. Just like we have two economic systems in this country. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.

@TyKC, If you would travel the World, you would see that not just THIS country, but EVERY country has the same thing. You are describing human nature - including actually demonstrating the short-sightedness to point it out as if it is the fault of our system. That kind of point of view is what destroys systems that do better than most, and by doing so, people like you cause poverty, torture and death, as exactly happened in Stalinist Russia, China, Cuba, the Congo....

@TimTuolomne If what you say is true, then we live in a failed culture. All the edicts that our country is supposedly founded upon are lies: equal justice for all; all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights .... etc. etc. are all deceptions. What you are saying is that certain human groups are superior to others, and therefore, deserve certain privileges. You may be right, but who decides that?

@TyKC, No I am not saying that. Human nature is to mercilessly destroy the rights of others. Those willing to condemn others demonstrate that perfectly, and verbal condemnation is the foundation of violence. That's why humans need institutions: to protect ourselves from each other.

Any institution that protects us from each other must to some degree set restrictions, limiting our freedom. Socialist, fascist and monarchy tend to be the most tyrannical.

Constitutional Republicanism in its original form was the least restrictive of freedom in human history, because it relies of a triumvirate of branches which balance human fallibility, prevent impetuous and opportunistic governance, and prevents any single interest from gaining a foothold.

But any system that limits human freedom - even for our own protection, is still administered by humans, and can't be perfect. And there are human forces in our system in the US who have been systematically pulling the legs out from under the Constitution since 1942, and that has driven us squarely into more tyrannical socialism, as humans will do. (Can you guess which party is doing that?)

So expecting safety among humans without governance, or perfect freedom with governance is pure fantasy.

@TimTuolomne No, your logic is flawed. If it is really true that it is in Human Nature to destroy the rights of others, then no institutional control is going to stop that, since the institutions are made up of humans. What we are witnessing in our streets today would simply be your prediction that Humans will destroy one another left to their own devices. We'll have to agree to disagree on this because I have an entirely different perspective. My perspective is that we've become inhumane. We've become more like robots than humans. And the dissatisfaction, anger and violence is a result moving away from being who we are as humans, not that we are inherently destructive. We are not inherently bad, but we become bad if we lose that which defines us as being human (Human Nature).

@TyKC, Lots of smart people don't think my logic is flawed. And I can discern from your comments that you have absolutely no idea how and why the Constitution was written. I strongly suggest that you inform yourself by reading the Federalist Papers and the Constitution. Hillsdale College offers FREE courses on these subjects online.

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