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Of course not-Sharpton is too smart for that.
"Race hustler" is the new conservative term for "black guy we don't like."
The original post is ridiculously dishonest. There was one picture, followed by two videos. The first of the two videos is protesters saying "dead cops." Not cool, not acceptable. The second video is of Sharpton speaking at a rally, tastefully narrated by Fox News. They were not the same rally. Yet the obvious intent was to portray them as the same rally.
US Conservative, lying again.
And I'm speaking as someone who doesn't even LIKE Al Sharpton. It's funny that conservatives fancy themselves the ones who are all about personal responsibility ... until some "lib" says something you don't like, and then his Professor X mind control powers kick in and it's all his fault. Pathetic.
It takes a lot of nerve to accuse Al Sharpton of "Race hustling" when you're doing it in SPADES. Pun ****ing intended.
Not really-its in plain english
Considering it likely went over your head, conservatives believe that being responsible for your own actions also includes responsibility for your own words. Liberals, even the fake Libertarian kind, believe they can spew whatever hate they want and then step back and wash their hands of the havoc they may cause.
Firstly, Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a leftist with psych issues, secondly, what right wing rhetoric was calling for the deaths of congressional reps?
About as much as radical right-wing rhetoric was responsible for Gabrielle Giffords getting shot in the head.
Show me where he, himself advocated for dead cops. I watched your video, and it was protesters shouting that at his rally. When and where did he ever endorse violence himself? Did he tell his crowd to go out and kill people? If you have a clip of him screaming for cops to be killed, that would dramatically change my opinion...
Show me where anyone else advocated for the death of cops like in that sharpton led protest-and a week later 2 cops aren't going home to their families.
His rhetoric advocated dead cops, do you disagree?
Thats true, Obama got his start from Bill Ayers, who liked to set off bombs.
At no point did I absolve the shooter of his responsibility in the matter. Had he lived, that would have been up to a jury and a court to determine, including a determination of his mental capacity. It would have been an interesting trial and I would have loved to hear his testimony of why he drove to NYC to kill cops.
When? Provide a quote of rhetoric from him that advocated for dead cops. What rhetoric promoted that. You keep claiming it and have produced ZERO EVIDENCE of such.
Your own link has his rhetoric specifically saying he is not anti-cop, suggesting that most cops aren't bad, and suggesting they should stand against brutality (and it sure would seem that killing a cop is brutality). So please, what rhetoric are you speaking of, because it's not any rhetoric you've linked to thus far.
If I remember correctly, Bill Ayres wife Bernardine Dohrn killed/murdered a cop. Must be a left wing thing to kill cops.
It is very possible Sharpton and the protests are what tipped the scales for this man to kill the two policemen. He could have seen the march in NYC which was chanting, "What do you want, dead cops, when do we want it, we want it now."
I recall when President Clinton tried to link Timothy McVeigh and his bombing in Oklahoma to Rush Limbaugh and talk radio. This kind of stuff is not new. In fact I still see arguments like that made today. I saw Rudy Juiliani trying to do the same thing Clinton did, but only aimed at the current occupant of the White House. I don't think any of this s**t is helping.
Wrong Weatherman, that's the guy who killed a cop on the east coast.
Bernardine killed a cop in San Francisco.
Back in the day, liberals, Marxist and socialist didn't call police officers cops but "pigs."
Firstly, Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a leftist with psych issues, secondly, what right wing rhetoric was calling for the deaths of congressional reps?
It's not new, which is what is frustrating as hell about it.
From McVeigh, to Loughner, to Andrew Stack, to Sparkman, to the Las Vegas Police... There's been so many times on this forum I've seen an incident happen and people IMMEDIATELY jumped on it as a chance to use the dead to push their political position and proclaim that some group or some politician was significantly responsible for the potentially criminal act that was committed based on nothing but an assumption that their "rhetoric" had "encouraged" the act. And each and every time I've argued vehemently against such an outrageous, dishonest, hackish stance...
And now all of a sudden I'm supposed to simply sit back and allow such ridiculous and specious attempts to attack and blame someone other than the murderer, due to speech that was in no way encouraging or intended to cause a crime, simply because I'm a "conservative" and this time it's a liberal in the cross hair.
It's beyond ridiculous and dishonest.
And this is exactly why unchecked inflammatory rhetoric is so dangerous and people who trade in venomous speech should take responsibility for their part in this situation.
To me, that's the entire relevance of this thread and the entire nature of my posts in it.
The police will have to capitulate eventually. Personally I'd like to see them all walk off the job in protest, but that won't happen. But it's what some people deserve. For every post I see saying something positive about cops, I see 10 saying ugly things about them. I'd like to see NYC survive for a day without the police, and then maybe people would not be so ugly.
The attorney general has proven himself to be useless. He has done nothing to stop this either, or even lessen the impact of what happened, either in Ferguson or the Garner situation.
Why do they only have mental illness when it suits your political motives?
:lol:
I think most people would be happy if police served and protected the community, wore body cameras, and were better trained. The debate could even go into the area of the militarization of our police forces, and the government turning arrest and imprisionment into a for-profit industry, but in the Fox News clips posted in the OP, the discussion was instead focused on provoking racial division and fear.
The story is going to go away in a few weeks, and all your fears of cops walking off their jobs will be gone too...
Eric Frein wasn't a Weatherman. He was a right-wing extremist that murdered one cop and tried to kill another earlier this year. You know, cop-killing, that "left-wing" pastime.
Thats a strawman, as untrue as can be. But I do think Sharpton has mental issues as well.
I wouldn't say this guy was a left-winger. I wouldn't say he could be classified as "ANY" wing in the classical sense. He's a lot like the lunatic that flew his plane into the IRS building some months back. He's a "bipartisan" whackjob...one who is as likely to spit on Reagan as he would to spit on Obama. From his youtube videos and other things that have came out with regards to his associations and comments, the guy has view points that fall in line with stereotypes of extreme conservatism, extreme liberalism, and extreme libertarianism. Its a mistake to really attempt to put this guy in either political camp. Even if he's "left wing" or "right wing" he's that in a similar sense that a 1 bedroom shack is as much a house as a mansion is. Its unfair to clearly label him as any common ideology, because none of it fits him well and the only reason to do such is to attempt and insult/degrade/implicate through passive correlation.
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