Why Dallas Happened

Source: Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy
Published: Jul 8, 2016
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2016-07-09 14:38:06 by Deckard
Views: 1739

Is the Dallas police shooting a false flag affair in behalf of gun control? Is it the result of a war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder? Is the shooting the beginning of retribution for thousands of wanton police murders of US citizens in the 21st century? Or is there some other explanation?

We will never know. The perpetrator is dead. The authorities will tell us whatever suits the purposes of authority.

We could say that the police have brought this on themselves by their undisciplined and violent behavior toward the public. On the other hand, we can hold the police chiefs, the police unions, the mayors and city councils, the governors, prosecutors, and the Justice (sic) Department responsible for failure to hold accountable those cops who murder and commit gratuitous violence against the public.

When police execute someone, the excuse is always something like this: “He reached under his shirt to his waistband. I thought he had a gun. I didn’t want to leave my children fatherless and my wife a widow.” The murdered victim’s wife and children, if any, are of no consequence.

Conservatives, especially those taught to be fearful of crime, have scant objection to police murders. Their view is always: “The police wouldn’t have shot him without cause.” The same bias in favor of the police is why conservative jurors always convict.

The liberals tend to interpret the shootings as racism, so they want to combat racism.

The real problem is that public authorities do not protect the public from gratuitous violence. Therefore, hatred and disrespect for the police are growing. Routine murders by police–several each day, almost all of which go unpunished–are generating the kind of anger that causes people to snap and to reply to violence with violence.

If the criminal justice system applied also to the police, the police would think twice before they wantonly murder.

Being a police officer is not supposed to be risk free. A police officer should be concerned about the public, not merely his own family. We cannot accept gratuitous police violence on the grounds that the officer’s behavior is dictated by his concerns for his own family. If an officer cannot accept the risks of being a police officer, he should find a different occupation.

Police violence is out of control because mayors, prosecutors, and governors are failing the public by refusing to put a halt to it. According to conservatives, punishment deters crime, but they do not apply this to the police.

Police violence is also out of control because of the revolution in police training which teaches police to protect themselves and to subdue the suspect regardless of cost. A number of former police officers have written to me that the reason they gave up the occupation is that today police are being trained to be killers like soldiers.

If a former police officer or someone knowledgeable about this training would describe it and its history, where it originated and why, I will post it on the website.

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#1: Roscoe    To: Deckard (#0)

We could say that the police have brought this on themselves by their undisciplined and violent behavior toward the public. On the other hand, we can hold the police chiefs, the police unions, the mayors and city councils, the governors, prosecutors, and the Justice (sic) Department responsible for failure to hold accountable those cops who murder and commit gratuitous violence against the public.

Or we could say hysterical cop-haters inciting violence 24/7.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-09 14:43:51   Reply   Private Reply


#2: tpaine    To: Y'ALL (#0)

Police violence is out of control because mayors, prosecutors, and governors are failing the public by refusing to put a halt to it.

Right on.

The canary statists here will deny Robert's conclusion, but hey, that's their nature. They worship the State, and majority rule.

tpaine posted on 2016-07-09 14:57:28   Reply   Private Reply


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BorisY posted on 2016-07-09 15:06:58   Reply   Private Reply


#4: A Pole    To: Deckard (#0)

When hundreds of thousands of young men are scientifically trained to kill with ease and sent for years to kill and occupy local populations, it forms them and influences them.

They get into police and influence others. The same leaders that wage unending wars give them military toys. So they act out.

But on the other receiving side, the number of veterans is increasing as well. You cannot separate Afghanistan from home country, sooner or later each influences one another. Violence and contempt to other human beings has to spill over.

I've got the reach and the teeth of a killin’ machine, with a need to bleed you
when the light goes green, best believe, I’m in a zone to be, from my
Yin to my Yang to my Yang Tze.
Put a grin on my chin, come to me, ‘cuz I’ll win,
I’m one-of-a-kind and I’ll bring death
to the place you’re about to be:
another river of blood runnin’ under my feet. 

[...]

I bask in the glow of the rising war,
lay waste to the ground of an enemy shore,
wade through the blood spilled on the floor, and if
another one stands I’ll kill some more.
Bullet in the breech and a fire in me,
like a cigarette thrown to gasoline, if
death don’t bring you fear I swear
you'll fear these marching feet.
Come to the nightmare, come to me,
deep down in the dark where the devil be,
in the maw with the jaws and the razor teeth,
where the brimstone burns and the angel weeps.
Call to the gods if I cross your path and
my silhouette hangs like a body bag;
hope is a moment now long past,
the shadow of death is the one I cast.

[..]

A Pole posted on 2016-07-09 15:48:25   Reply   Private Reply


#5: Justified    To: Deckard (#0)

Why Dallas Happened

Criminals got tired of being oppressed?

Just think those officer went into gun fire to protect these people protesting them and were murdered by some deranged lunatic who can't understand that police have a job to do and it isn't always easy. They deal with the shittist people on these peoples worst day and guess what shit happens!! I guess you guys think cops should turn a blind eye since its a black neighborhood and let the criminals run it? Then why be there at all? Why not let the criminals run the hood and we just build a wall around it?

Justified posted on 2016-07-09 17:01:17   Reply   Private Reply


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Roscoe posted on 2016-07-09 17:44:55   Reply   Private Reply


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Roscoe posted on 2016-07-09 17:55:37   Reply   Private Reply


#9: ConservingFreedom    To: Deckard (#0)

We cannot accept gratuitous police violence on the grounds that the officer’s behavior is dictated by his concerns for his own family. If an officer cannot accept the risks of being a police officer, he should find a different occupation.

Indeed.

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-07-09 22:35:58   Reply   Private Reply