The Usual Suspects

It was an awful thing to murder two cops in cold blood, as happened in New York City. The cops are pissed but, as is fitting with the times, they are pissed at the wrong people.

Rudy Guiliani- you may know him from his 9/11 fame- blames current NYC mayor, Bill De Blasio, and Whipping Boy in Chief, Barack Obama, for the deaths of the two cops. He's joined in this assertion by NYPD Union chief, Patrick Lynch. Isn't it nice to see conservatives and public union rep's getting along so well? This never happened after school shootings where teachers were murdered along with children. Maybe the conservative teapublicans are warming to unions?

Not a chance. It's just the strange bed-mates of politics meeting any port in a storm.

Patrick Lynch is calling for a sort of work slow down, telling his cop members to only make arrests that are "absolutely necessary".  Looks like the sale of loose cigarettes is not a capital offense for the time being.

But, isn't "only arrests that are absolutely necessary" kinda telling about what police work is really all about in the 21st century whether it's practiced in NYC or Reduced Speed, Arizona? Arresting folks is big business in NY as it is in other places and the cops are telling the liberal mayor that they despise that, they won't be filling city coffers for awhile. Presumably they will going after murderers and robbers instead. So, there!

I know that if I were a cop, I'd be very upset at the murder of my brothers. Kinda like, if I were black I'd be very upset at the murder of my brothers.

The cop-killer took his own life after the murders. There was no one left to blame but the president, De Blasio, Al Sharpton, maybe MSNBC, all of the people- black and white- who protested the Ferguson and Eric Garner killings...

Republicans tout themselves as the party of personal responsibility (at times) but, usually this just means holding someone else (like President Obama) personally responsible rather than actual transgressors. BENGHAZI!!!!!! and few hundred other incidents come to mind.

This wasn't De Blasio's or Obama's fault. NYPD has a right to be hurt. They ought to man and woman up and not misdirect their anger. All signs point towards the killer acting alone, using social media and protests about the killings to justify his cowardly actions. He shot his girlfriend. He didn't do that in vengeance for Eric Garner or Mike Brown, now did he? After murdering the cops he then took his own life. This was not a revolutionary martyr. This was nut job.

Like the husband and wife nut jobs who, inspired by the stand against law enforcement that Cliven Bundy took earlier this year, killed two Las Vegas cops, a "good guy with a gun" and then themselves. Or, in 2009, Richard Poplawski killed three Pittsburgh cops because he feared an "Obama gun ban was on the way".

Now, where'd he get that idea?

Conservatives! The same conservatives who blame Obama for (somehow) inciting protests against the police, have in the past incited action against the police. This doesn't give them credibility as much as it gives them portfolio.

In 2008, a guy walked in, guns-a-blazing into a Tennessee church and killed two people and wounded seven because he had felt liberals were bad for the country. At his home were several books by Fox "news" persons disparaging liberals. So, that's where he heard that.

Of course,  neither Sean Hannity nor Bill O'Reilly or any of the other assholes at Fox news told any of these people to murder in so many words. Frankly, they're not that bold or committed. Actual revolution is not their thing. They are not leaders, they just carry the water. It would actually be bad for business. But, hey, shit happens. They'd probably claim it's unfair to blame them for the actions of others. Well, they would say that, now wouldn't they?