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Published: Jul 15, 2015
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2015-07-17 11:24:22 by Deckard
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Rationalization. Willful denial. Cognitive dissonance. Whatever term you prefer, it boils down to irrational mental gymnastics in order to avoid the uncomfortability that arises when encountering a contradiction to a firmly held belief. But a particularly vitriolic faction of Americans—who apparently have the wool surgically implanted over their eyes—has taken this flawed reasoning and turned it into a laughable case of Stockholm Syndrome: cop apologists.
Funny thing about denial: it’s absurdly predictable.
As if on cue, rationalization commenced from the moment Gardena Police dash cam footage of the shooting death of Diaz Zeferino on June 2, 2013 (posted below) finally began circulating on social media after a lengthy legal battle for its release. While countless people’s jaws dropped in horror witnessing seven cops gun down the unarmed and non-threatening man, others were occupied creating mental notes for their version of the reason he deserved to die.
It could easily be a checklist:
The group of three precisely matched the unbelievably vague and overbroad description of the suspects? Check.
Zeferino presented himself in a threatening manner? Check.
He didn’t follow the officers’ orders with exacting precision? Check.
They thought he had a gun, right? Of course!
Every cop on the scene feared for their life? No question!
And a death sentence is appropriate punishment given these questionable circumstances? Absolutely!
This has become quite the tiresome pattern. An alarming video surfaces that every sane person views as yet more evidence of appalling abuse of police power and dwindling civil rights—and is immediately followed by logic-defying, mind-bending, utterly unreasonable explanations for why yet another person “deserved” execution by cop. In fact, this pattern is so typical, it necessitated the creation of a meme: “I’m just here to see who’s gonna try to justify this shit.”
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How incredibly apt.
Such inexplicable excuses for the explicitly inexplicable are more offensive to common sense and logical deduction than pig shit in August. Without the hindrance of coherent dialectic even attempting to enter the thought process, justifying State violence is easier than phonics. Simple, yes. But it’s still uninformed nonsense.
Nonsense because the go-to argument is wholly devoid of fact—the notion that “police have such a dangerous job.” Sorry to burst that soapbox bubble, but police officer didn’t even rank in the top ten most dangerous jobs in the U.S. After the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics fatal occupational injuries list was thoroughly updated in late April of this year, a total of 35 police officers had been killed by people (or animals) in the line of duty. That might seem like a high number on its own. However, the argument that cops work in an atmosphere of constant danger is fundamentally flawed—even by the most cursory comparison.
Considering 37 food preparation workers, 40 construction workers, 53 retail salespeople, and 67 sales supervisors died at work in the same manner as the 35 aforementioned cops . . . it’s arguable we’re arming the wrong occupation entirely. Though statistics for the number of people killed by salespeople on the clock aren’t readily available, it’s safe to say there weren’t many—if there were any at all.
Yet police officers—whose job is slightly less risky than preparing food—literally kill people by the hundreds.
To date, American cops have killed at least 613 people. This is tragic for countless reasons, not the most minor of which is the imperative need to use the qualifier “at least”—necessary because that figure was yesterday’s estimate; and on average, police in the U.S. have taken a life every 7˝ hours in 2015. It’s also necessary because the alarming lack of a national requirement to report these killings means that responsibility transposes to a diffuse but committed network of concerned citizens, journalists, civil rights advocates, and the families and friends of the victims. Thus, estimates must be aggregated from a mix of voluntarily offered and publicly available information—which means the numbers are consequently inaccurate on the low side.
Similar countries just do not have this problem. Icelandic police have fatally shot one person in the nation’s entire 71 years in existence. Police in England and Wales, combined, shot 55 people to death—in the past 24 years. Germany has been given a violent reputation in America, but their police “only” killed 15 people over a period of two years. For Australian police, that number was 94 over nine years. Even Canada—a nation many believe is the most logical comparison to the U.S.—averages 25 fatalities by police per year.
One more time for the sake of emphasis: this is the 195th day in 2015—and American police have already killed no less than 613 people.
That many killings by police is not a problem—it is the entire ship engulfed in flames on the open ocean without a single life preserver.
It’s simply no longer accurate to describe indiscriminate brutality of this scale as an epidemic—not when lack of accountability also equates virtual impunity.
No. This is institutionalized, systematic violence by the State—normalized.
America has become a police state.
Your argument is invalid.
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#32. To: Gatlin (#29)
He has no time for that and doesn’t even care. His biggest priority in life is to hate cops. If 4 cops had been killed, he would have been dancing in the street like a crazy wild Iranian. Gatlin posted on 2015-07-17 12:17:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Punk, give us your opinion on the Muslim scumbag who killed the 4 Marines yesterday. Show the forum your Muslim sympathetic side. Just how freaking thick are you that you can't see ... Just how friggin stupid are you that you can’t see I did not make the comment you quoted. My apologies,I should have added your alter ego's screen name to the ping list instead of just replying to post number 2 that you wrote. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Deckard: Careful - ole Percy will call you a kook for pointing out that documented fact. What fact? You two idiots need to show where the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, "was an Arizona Muslim.”
That's factual? “Al Qaeda R Us”: John McCain’s “Moderate Rebels” in Syria are ISIS McCain Wants More Weapons Delivered to Al Qaeda Rebels; How Do Warmongers Get Elected? John McCain Admits he wanted to Support ISIS in Syria... In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much What hondo posted and you confirmed in your response was NOT factual. Document that Abdulazeez "was an Arizona Muslim."
Marguerite is the head nurse at the institution.
Who was MURDERED by cops?
From Gateway Pundit: Islamist Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was identified by CBS News as the gunman who fatally shot four Marines and wounded a police officer on Thursdayin Chattanooga. Four Marines were shot dead Thursday morning. The suspect drove up to two locations in a Mustang, according to CBS News, and used a “high-powered” weapon to fire into both facilities. Officials say it was domestic terrorism. SHOOTER’S NAME: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much "It was previously reported via CBS News that he was a 41-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona. It turns out that information was a mistake."
He's a pig from Kuwait & had no business in this country, and what does this nonsense have to do with your inclination to defend these Islamic animals?
Very true. These things do not belong in America, or any western nation for that matter.
Not too bright, are ya sparky. Seems to me that McCain is the one defending (and posing for pictures with them I might add). You and the other short bus rider Gatlin should probably direct your faux outrage at him and the other neo-con scum. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Yet another BS reply with no acknowledgement that the STINKING MUSLIMS who live among US pose a deadly threat. Speak up PUNK, tell this forum how wickedly EVIL these subhumans are.
Dead on nativist nationalist.
Percy is not the one posting the erroneous information. You are posting a lie. And now that you have been pinned to the wall, you choose to ignore that. But I will not let you. So, since you obviously have trouble with your research….let me help you. Abdulazeez is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kuwait. His family is Jordanian. He came to the United States in 1996 with his parents. He lived in Hixson, Tennessee, which is a community in Chattanooga, in a middle-class Muslim family. Abdulazeez attended Red Bank High School in Tennessee. Abdulazeez graduated from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 2012 with a degree in electrical engineering. He never lived in, or visited, Arizona. You need to be more careful to insure you post correct information. Fact finding can be your best friend. You never seem to get anything correct….why is that?
Of course, you don't know that with absolute certainty, do you? The fact remains - Republican Senator John McCain is in favor of training these" freedom fighters". THAT was the point being made. You seem to be focused on minutiae instead of the big picture - why is that? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I focus on the truth, as you should also. You cannot prove he "was from Arizona." CBS first identified him as a 41-year old from Arizona, then admitted they made a mistake. The fact remains, that you posted wrong information. Just admit that you did, and move on.
Yet another BS reply with no acknowledgement that the STINKING MUSLIMS who live among US pose a deadly threat. Speak up PUNK, tell this forum how wickedly EVIL these subhumans are. Bump to #43, PUNK.
You claimed he never visited there. Are you psychic, or just psychotic? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Asked and answered canary-boy. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I'm not speaking about this one subhuman, but rather *ALL of the STINKING Quran believing American MUSLIMS living here.* What is your answer PUNK???
Nah - your shrieking, pants-wetting hysteria really doesn't warrant a reply. There are plenty of other things to be concerned about. Terrorism - not so much. Not to mention this: You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much See, there....you pay attention to nothing. I posted that in there to see if you were paying attention and I proved you never pay attention to anything. Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait in September 1990,
Still waiting for you to tell the class how you know with absolute certainty that he never visited Arizona. Oh - you can't? I suggest you shut your festering pie hole then. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much The Muhammad cartoon Muslim Jihadis in Texas were from Arizona, Phoenix.
Terrorism - not so much. Since you fit the typical KooK profile THAT was the answer I expected, PUNK. Your sympathy toward these anti-Semitic, anti-American animals is duly noted.
So? Toddlers Killed More Americans Than Terrorists Did… Do you now want to start a hate campaign against toddlers?
Still waiting for you to first admit you posted wrong information. Oh, you won't? I suggest you start posting TRUTH.
Are you psychic, or just psychotic? Nope, if he had....there is no doubt the news would have mentioned it. That is why they made a mistake to jump to Arizona in an attempt to tie him to the mosque in Phoenix. Are your an idiot, or just unconscious?
Cut off funding for radical Islam (neocons), no campaign contributions to Republicans or Democrats, the sponsors of terrorism. Try and hang muslim leaders... McCain & Kerry, Bush, Hillary, Imam Limbaugh, Graham, Feinstein, Lieberman, Rove, etc... Try and hang enough of the leaders, and terrorism will stop.
Pet dogs kill more people in America that terrorist.
In the last couple of days,a woman in Georgia,and a unarmed teen. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Details about their *MURDER*, please.
"There are plenty of other things to be concerned about. Terrorism - not so much." - Deckart
Eat shit and die,retard. Both have been posted right here on LF. Find them yourself. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
So I ask for details and this is how you answer? Sounds like you haven't the proof to back up your comment, but I knew that... "There are plenty of other things to be concerned about. Terrorism - not so much." - Deckart
Nah - I just don't have an attack of the vapors and wet my pants at the thought of being killed by a terrorist. Question - how do you even get up the courage to crawl out from under the covers since your life is so consumed by fear? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Where's your verification that he NEVER took a trip to Arizona?
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Thanks for making my point. The threat of terrorism is hyped and overblown by fed.gov and the narrative is duly echoed by the MSM. In fact - the actual threat of terrorism is so low that the FBI has to resort to creating "terrorists". The FBI must not have too many real terrorists to fight. They create fake plots and terrorists, bust them, then take the credit. Basically, they seek out someone that ‘could be’ a terrorist, coax them into action and then bust them to claim ‘another foiled plot’. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much No sale PUNK. You are part of a special strain of KooK who feels sympathy for Muslims, much like Obama does. The fact that you wheel out contorted conspiracy theories when they attack Americans is part of the Infowar psychosis you and a handful of other hold. You've been exposed, own it PUNK. "There are plenty of other things to be concerned about. Terrorism - not so much." - Deckart
Nah - but your hyper-ventilating rants are becoming amusing. The fact that you wheel out contorted conspiracy theories when they attack Americans is part of the Infowar psychosis you and a handful of other hold. Oh- you meant the fact about the FBI "creating" terrorists? Interesting that you use the pejorative term "conspiracy theories". Conspiracy theory’s acutely negative connotations may be traced to liberal historian Richard Hofstadter’s well-known fusillades against the “New Right.” Yet it was the Central Intelligence Agency that likely played the greatest role in effectively “weaponizing” the term. In the groundswell of public skepticism toward the Warren Commission’s findings on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA sent a detailed directive to all of its bureaus. Titled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission Report,” the dispatch played a definitive role in making the “conspiracy theory” term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question. This important memorandum and its broad implications for American politics and public discourse are detailed in a forthcoming book by Florida State University political scientist Lance de-Haven-Smith, Conspiracy Theory in America. Dr. de-Haven-Smith devised the state crimes against democracy concept to interpret and explain potential government complicity in events such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the major political assassinations of the 1960s, and 9/11. “CIA Document 1035-960” was released in response to a 1976 FOIA request by the New York Times. The directive is especially significant because it outlines the CIA’s concern regarding “the whole reputation of the American government” vis-à-vis the Warren Commission Report. The agency was especially interested in maintaining its own image and role as it “contributed information to the [Warren] investigation.” The memorandum lays out a detailed series of actions and techniques for “countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries.” For example, approaching “friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors)” to remind them of the Warren Commission’s integrity and soundness should be prioritized. “[T]he charges of the critics are without serious foundation,” the document reads, and “further speculative discussion only plays in to the hands of the [Communist] opposition.” In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Where's your verification that he WAS from Arizona?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest#2. To: Percy Misanthrope (#1)
#33. To: Deckard, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope (#30)
hondo: The Chattanooga shooter was an Arizona Muslim, likely trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
#34. To: yukon, hondo68 (#31)
trained, equipped, and funded as some point in his career by Senator John Muhammad McCain(R).
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#35. To: Deckard, hondo68 (#34)
(Edited)
That's factual?
#36. To: misterwhite (#12)
Trivia. What's significant about the Oregon State Mental Institution?
#37. To: sneakypete (#24)
Just how freaking thick are you that you can't see the POINT,which is that people have a reasonable right to expect that cops NOT MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE AND HAVE NO MORE RIGHT TO DO SO THAN MUSLIMS TERRORISTS?
#38. To: Gatlin, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope, idiot canary clan members (#35)
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Document that Abdulazeez "was an Arizona Muslim."
The shooter attacked two different military facilities in Chattanooga.
FOUR MARINES ARE DEAD!
He is from Arizona. “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#39. To: Deckard, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope, The Exalted Canary Clan (#38)
SHOOTER’S NAME: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
He is from Arizona.
#40. To: Deckard (#38)
#41. To: Percy Misanthrope (#40)
He's a pig from Kuwait & had no business in this country, and what does this nonsense have to do with your inclination to defend these Islamic animals?
#42. To: Percy Misanthrope, Gatlin (#40)
He's a pig from Kuwait & had no business in this country, and what does this nonsense have to do with your inclination to defend these Islamic animals?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#43. To: Deckard (#42)
#44. To: nativist nationalist (#41)
Very true. These things do not belong in America, or any western nation for that matter.
#45. To: Deckard, hondo68, Percy Misanthrope, The Exalted Canary Clan (#42)
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Not too bright, are ya sparky.
#46. To: Gatlin (#45)
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He never lived in, or visited, Arizona.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#47. To: Deckard (#46)
#48. To: Deckard (#46)
#43. To: Deckard (#42)
#49. To: Gatlin (#47)
CBS first identified him as a 41-year old from Arizona, then admitted they made a mistake.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#50. To: Percy Misanthrope (#48)
Speak up PUNK, tell this forum how wickedly EVIL these subhumans are.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#51. To: Deckard (#50)
Speak up PUNK, tell this forum how wickedly EVIL these subhumans are.
#52. To: Percy Misanthrope (#43)
Yet another BS reply with no acknowledgement that the STINKING MUSLIMS who live among US pose a deadly threat.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#53. To: Deckard (#45)
His family is Jordanian.
#54. To: Gatlin (#53)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#55. To: Gatlin, guest worker jihadis, cheap lettuce, dead infidels, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#33)
the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, "was an Arizona Muslim.”
#56. To: Deckard (#52)
There are plenty of other things to be concerned about.
#57. To: Deckard, Percy Misanthrope (#52)
You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist
#58. To: hondo68, Idiots who can't get the correct information (#55)
SHOOTER’S NAME: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
"It was previously reported via CBS News that he was a 41-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona. It turns out that information was a mistake."
He is from Arizona.
#59. To: Deckard (#54)
(Edited)
#60. To: Deckard (#49)
You claimed he never visited there.
#61. To: Percy Misanthrope (#56)
#62. To: Deckard (#52)
You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist
Pet dogs account for 31 deaths per year.
Start a crusade against pet dogs.
#63. To: Percy Misanthrope (#37)
Who was MURDERED by cops?
#64. To: sneakypete (#63)
#65. To: Percy Misanthrope (#64)
Details about their *MURDER*, please.
#66. To: sneakypete (#65)
Eat shit and die,retard.
#67. To: Percy Misanthrope (#56)
Your sympathy toward these anti-Semitic, anti-American animals is duly noted.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#68. To: Gatlin (#59)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#69. To: Gatlin (#62)
(Edited)
Pet dogs kill more people in America that terrorist.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#70. To: Deckard (#67)
Nah - I just don't have an attack of the vapors and wet my pants at the thought of being killed by a terrorist.
#71. To: Percy Misanthrope (#70)
You are part of a special strain of KooK who feels sympathy for Muslims, much like Obama does
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#72. To: Deckard (#68)
Where's your verification that he NEVER took a trip to Arizona?
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