To his Peril, Obama crossed the wrong “Red Line”
Police union accuses White House of politicizing cop safety
Dear All,
While working at the Federal Building in San
Francisco, the common theme was, “Don’t do or say anything that will embarrass
the president”; not even if the problem “is the president”.
The fear of losing federal funding was and still is
of great concern which is where this fear of embarrassing the president is
derived.
The effect of stifling free speech is enormous and I
believe is one reason why our country is in the poor shape we see it in today.
Those who are experts in their fields are afraid to
speak out to the truth for the very fear of losing their jobs; and who
suffers? All of us!
This intimidation by the superiors in Washington
D.C. is the way they control the information (or miss-information) that we get
from those in our government; going as high as the Office of the President.
(example below)
Remember when Obama
stated, “Marijuana is safer than Alcohol” and the brave former DEA
Administrator Michelle Leonhard took issue and criticized him for his
stupidity....shortly after, USAO Holder took Leonhard to the wood shed and we
all know what happened to her just a few weeks ago.
Well, finally we are seeing a shift in the trend of
being silent in the face of adversity and fear of those in the Obama
Administration.
Men and women who have dedicated [and many who have sacrificed]
their very lives to protect and serve communities across the America have
finally said, “enough is enough”........these same men and women who thrust
themselves into harm’s way, in all manners of ways, to protect our society have
finally become to understand that they can no longer stay silent and are
beginning to speak out in no uncertain terms that they will not allow this
president to continue business as usual..........and as you will read from the
article below...........after sending Obama this strong admonition, they have now
forewarned this feckless president to strap on the gloves and prepare for the
fight of his political life............the game is on!
Best regards,
Ronald L. Kirkish, Resident of Gilroy, CDFC/IFBC/CALM
Ronald L. Kirkish, Resident of Gilroy, CDFC/IFBC/CALM
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Police
Union Fed Up With Obama
05/20/2015 / By shawn
The largest police union in the country has had it
with President Obama and his constant harassment of the nation’s law
enforcement officers.
After getting wind of Obama’s plans to take military
equipment out of the hands of local police departments, the Fraternal Order of
Police is fighting back against measures that would put officers in greater
danger.
The union’s executive director, James Pasco, told
Politico on Monday that the FOP would be “at our most aggressive” when it came
to defending the rights of officers in harm’s way.
“We need to only look back to Baltimore to see what
happens when officers are sent out ill-equipped in a disturbance situation,” he
said.
“Because you don’t like the optics, you can’t send
police officers out to be hurt or killed.”
This week, Obama announced that military weapons
such as bayonets, grenade launchers, and weaponized vehicles would no longer be
accessible to local police departments.
He also said that police would have to be granted
special permission to acquire riot gear and armored vehicles.
“We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give
people a feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s
part of the community that’s protecting them and serving them,” Obama said
Monday.
“It can alienate and intimidate local residents and
send the wrong message.”
Yes, perhaps that’s true.
And perhaps there are very good reasons to keep our
law enforcement agencies from having all of the weaponry available to the U.S.
military.
But the president isn’t being driven by common
concerns about militarization, he’s being driven by the fictional narrative
that says police are a brutal, racist force out there to keep the blacks in
line.
This is his way of pandering to the civil rights
leaders who are making this their cause, and to make sure he secures a legacy
that makes him look like he did something for his own people.
Isn’t is funny how it’s always a one-way street?
It’s always the police that have to make the
community feel better.
It’s always the police that have to change their
ways.
What about these communities?
Why does Obama never criticize them?
Why is there never any responsibility thrown their
way for steeping themselves in criminal activity?
No, it’s only the police that have to change, only
the system, only the laws, only the juries…never the ones who riot and loot and
make the cops have to get out their tanks and smoke bombs.
It may seem strange to the rest of us, but Obama
believes that if we simply ignore crime, maybe it will go away.
That’s probably not going to happen.
And it may look better on the books when police are
no longer arresting black men, but it’s going to look a lot worse on the other
side of the ledger when crime statistics keep going up and up.
Is there a middle ground?
Probably.
But disarming and vilifying the police isn’t going
to get us there.
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