Article by Derek Hunter in "Townhall":
I have to preface
this column with a disclaimer: I don’t know if this actually came from a
cop or not. I’ve seen this shared on Facebook a few times and while I
can’t verify it was really written by a police officer, the sentiment is
accurate, so it’s worth sharing some of it here with that caveat.
We can argue whether or not
police need more training – I don’t personally view it as a bad idea –
but the rest is spot on. It’s the America liberals have created: a bunch
of self-entitled brats used to getting whatever they want and unable to
deal with not being coddled.
We’ve seen it for a while
now, mostly on college campuses but occasionally boiling over off
campus into things like “Occupy Wall Street.” They’re the unemployed and
otherwise unemployable who are angry about the results of the bad
choices they made – majoring in bisexual polar bear studies or some
other worthless field of study that only qualifies you to teach that
worthless skill to other suckers dumb enough to major in it, for example
– and unqualified to do anything.
Their rooms back home are likely covered with
participation ribbons, driveways likely filled by the family Prius
coated with “I’m the proud parent of a spectacular student” bumper
stickers, and fridges overrun with tofu. In other words, these people
were created. Bad parenting has consequences.
The post
continues, “When an officer says ‘Put your hands up,’ then put your
hands up! Don't reach for something in your pocket, your lap, your seat.
There's plenty of reason for a police officer to feel threatened, there
have been multiple assaults and ambushes on police officers lately.
Comply with requests from the officer, have your day in court. Don't
mouth off, or fight, or refuse to comply... that escalates the
situation.”
If you’re used to your temper tantrums
getting you the results you want, why wouldn’t you throw them regularly?
Consider every video you’ve seen on social media of some
just-out-of-college-aged white chick screaming in the face of a black
police officer about how cops are the problem. The arrogance of these
people, coupled with the ignorance of never having experienced life, is a
danger to the country and those around them.
If they
only hung around others like them, I couldn’t care less. If people
educated beyond their intelligence want to ruin their lives, I’m happy
to let them. But they don’t want to just ruin their lives. They want to
ruin life. That’s where the problem lies.
These people aren’t capable of running on a
treadmill, let alone running a country. Yet those in power are bowing to
them like they’ve been to the mountaintop and seen the truth, when in
reality, all they’ve done in their lives is been to the mall and seen
The Gap.
The adults who are supposed to stand up to them, educate them, and look out for them have failed miserably at that job.
Teachers indoctrinate: You can find high school graduates who can barely read, but know they’re victims of society. They are victims
– not of society but rather of the teachers who spent more time making
sure they knew they were victims and which bathrooms people should be
allowed to use than they did making sure they learned to read and
write.
Parents ignore: As long as their kid shows up at
night, they don’t care what they do. Good grades or bad grades don’t
matter if you don’t know what your kids are learning. An “A” on a gender
studies test is about as useful as the ability to swallow live fish.
Corporations
pander: In the hopes of not being the next target, large companies are
funding this grift thinking they’ll be spared. All they’re doing is
losing the audience they should care about – people with jobs and money
to buy their products – while only postponing the attacks on them. Other
than a corporate meeting room, the only place on the planet where
you’ll find smaller content in the front of underpants is in political
office.
Politicians cower: Liberal politicians are sniffing
the throne of people whose allowances they should be cutting off. As the
song goes, “I believe that children are our future…” Yes, they are the
future, but it’s not the future. We don’t let them make decisions
impacting the country for the same reason we don’t let them smoke and
drink – they’re idiots. All the teaching in the world, even done
properly, means nothing without real world experience, and sitting
around doing a Zoom chat with friends about how oppressed people are
doesn’t count as experience. Nor does having been grounded.
Someone
has to tell these people “No,” mean it, and make it stick. If that
means arresting them, so be it. If that means charging them with serious
crimes that will damage their employment prospects for the rest of
their lives, fine. Not everyone is meant to lead a life of example; some
people’s lives can and should be cautionary tales.
The
Facebook post ends, “They [the police] are the only thing that stands
between us and anarchy in the streets. If you want to protect your
child, teach them respect.”
The people in the streets are too old to learn that
last part. Oh, they scream it a lot – mostly in an “I demand respect”
kind of way. (By the way, why is it always the dumbest people who demand
the most respect? Smart and successful people command it, dumb people
demand it. No smart or successful person ever beat someone else because
they weren’t shown the proper respect, they simply moved on for the
better. Get your kids to think about that next time they scream about
how they want respect.) But they don’t get it, even if they get their
way.
And that’s the problem. Far too often, these little brats
are getting their way by simply getting in the way. They’re tough and
strong because they never stand alone: always in a mob and always up to
civilians on their own or police on duty. Every once in a while they’ll
stand up to a former MMA guy or Marine who lays them out with one good
punch, but only by mistake. They choose their targets wisely. Those
white girls screaming at cops know the only consequence they're going to
face is more social media followers, because they’re filming
everything. Anytime these people are bumped they go flying backwards
faster than boxers taking a dive and are on the phone with a left-wing
lawyer before they even have a chance to fake back pain.
Someone
has to be the adult in the room – the president, a senator,
congressman, governor, mayor, dog catcher, it doesn’t matter. There is a
silent majority out there horrified at what this tiny, violent mob is
getting away with. They’re also ready to rally behind anyone in those
positions who stands up and offers a rallying cry against the mob and
teaches this mutant army the difference between demanding something and
getting it.
We can either be a nation of spoiled brats or the greatest, freest nation in the history of the planet. We can’t be both.