Not feelin' the brotherly love in Philly:
Philadelphia's police union issued a scathing rebuke of Hillary Clinton for including relatives of victims of police shootings at the Democratic National Convention but no relatives of slain police officers.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 said in a statement that it was "insulted by the exclusion of police widows and family members" as speakers at the convention, from Monday to next Thursday.
"It is sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country," the statement read. "Mrs. Clinton you should be ashamed of yourself if that is possible."
The statement came days after the Clinton campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton would speak Tuesday night along with members of Mothers of the Movement, a group that includes Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown.
Clinton's campaign responded Wednesday, noting that two members of law enforcement are scheduled to speak at the convention, including former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey.
"As Hillary Clinton has said, we need to support heroic police officers who put their lives on the line every day as well as listen to the voices of mothers who have lost their children," said Stephanie Formas, Pennsylvania communications director for Hillary for America.
Reached by phone, FOP vice president Roosevelt Poplar said the union felt the speaker list was "a slap in the face to our men and women and their families, who were victimized by the same type of violence, especially in the past weeks when we've had eight officers assassinated."
While the police union is obviously in the right here, surely they didn't expect a gaggle of Alinskyites to seek its sign-off on their lineup of revolutionaries.
Sanders peeps plan a fart-in and it is said this is borrowed from Alinsky
ReplyDeleteCite me a viable element within the Freedom-Hater party that is not Alinskyite.
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ReplyDeleteConservative author William F. Buckley, Jr. said in 1966 that Alinsky was "very close to being an organizational genius"
ReplyDeleteHis early efforts to "turn scattered, voiceless discontent into a united protest" earned the admiration of Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who said Alinsky's aims "most faithfully reflect our ideals of brotherhood, tolerance, charity and dignity of the individual."
ReplyDeleteAlinsky died at the age of 63 from a heart attack near his home in Carmel, California, on June 12, 1972. He was cremated in Carmel and his ashes were interred at Mt. Mayriv Cemetery (the cemetery is now included in Zion Gardens Cemetery) in Chicago.[17][18] Shortly before his death he had discussed life after death in Playboy:[4]
ReplyDeleteALINSKY: ... if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.
PLAYBOY: Why?
ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I've been with the have-nots. Over here, if you're a have-not, you're short of dough. If you're a have-not in hell, you're short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.
PLAYBOY: Why them?
ALINSKY: They're my kind of people.
He feared the middle class could be driven to a right-wing viewpoint, "making them ripe for the plucking by some guy on horseback promising a return to the vanished verities of yesterday." His stated motive: "I love this goddamn country, and we're going to take it back."
ReplyDeleteWhen asked during an interview whether he ever considered becoming a Communist party member, he replied:
ReplyDeleteNot at any time. I've never joined any organization—not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism. One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.[
Alinsky once explained that his reasons for organizing in black communities included:
ReplyDeleteNegroes were being lynched regularly in the South as the first stirrings of black opposition began to be felt, and many of the white civil rights organizers and labor agitators who had started to work with them were tarred and feathered, castrated—or killed. Most Southern politicians were members of the Ku Klux Klan and had no compunction about boasting of it.
You just outlined the case for why he was a spiritually grotesque figure.
ReplyDeleteAnd why his devotees, such as the MEC and Hillionaire also fit that characterization
The lynching was done by Democrats
ReplyDeleteOoh,smackdown. I guess you're right. He said goddam and said he would prefer hell to heaven. So did Mark Twain. What is spiritually grotesque anyhow? I googled it, and guess what came up first: About 417,000 results (0.52 seconds)
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Since everything has its opposite in your world view, what is the opposite of spiritually grotesque and how long do you think it will take for it to catch on in the lexicography?
ReplyDeleteAnd oh great seer, do you see, do you see? Do you see auras or something? What color is your parachuter?
ReplyDeleteComing in 3rd at bing to your second is something I wanted to read, about Flannery O'Connor: O’Connor was a storyteller whose characters represent the strangest sort of people on earth. She shows us ugly characters and reveals the ugly parts in us all. “We’re all grotesque,” O’Connor confidently said in answer to a question about why her characters were odd, often even physically disfigured.
She wrote about what needs forgiving in human life and often depicted violence to do so. O’Connor once expressed admiration for a local Georgia pastor who pinned a real lamb to a wooden cross and then slaughtered it before the eyes of his congregation as a teaching lesson. She also believed that Protestants understood the Mass in ways that were lost on many of her fellow Catholics.
Well, you've kind of answered your own question.
ReplyDeleteBut since I put those two words together without any outside influence, perhaps I should explain a bit about what I mean by it: A spiritually grotesque person is utterly without capacity for the human traits we commonly find attractive: warmth, empathy, integrity, genuine humor, sincerity. Such a person is so consumed with self-aggrandizement that he or she will say anything to further that cause.
ReplyDeleteSuch a person is completely without contrition or humility.
We are saddled with two such people as our only viable presidential candidates.
You don't say?
ReplyDeleteSo what is its antithesis and who alive today most embodies spiritual attractiveness?
ReplyDeleteVery good question. Here's the thing: Anyone that I - you - anyone could put forth as a candidate for that would have some kind of chink in his or her armor that could be the centerpiece of an argument for why he or she doesn't qualify.
ReplyDeleteFallen creatures. In need of grace.
Very good question. Here's the thing: Anyone that I - or you, or anyone - would put forth would have some kind of chink in his or her armor that would bolster the argument for shooting him or her down.
ReplyDeleteFallen creatures, all of us. In need of grace.
Kierkegaard called us "angels that shit." There are those with discernment but it is said they do not say. Perhaps you're one of them.
ReplyDeleteBlessed are the merciful,
ReplyDeletefor they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
ReplyDeletefor they shall be called children of God.
i am making contributions of $1 million EACH to TWO organizations, the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s newly established Institute for Community-Police Relations and the NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. The Institute for Community-Police Relations’ policy and oversight work is focused on building trust and promoting best practices in community policing. My donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the NATION'S OLDEST CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION will support its ongoing work in support of reforms that will build trust and respect between communities and law enforcement. Although I know these contributions alone are not enough to solve the problem, I hope the resources will help both organizations make a positive difference." -Michael Jordan, 7/25/2016 https://theundefeated.com/.../michael-jordan-i-can-no.../
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