My habit is to try to read ideas from different political spectrum, to keep myself balanced and in check so I can see where I am at with my personal opinions and biases.
Ran across this post (below) in relation to the assassination of the two NYPD officers yesterday.
We turn to the always pointed commentary of the AceofSpades blog for this observation:
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...in light of the murder of twp NYPD officers, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, I thought I'd bring up one quick concept that too many people tend to forget or understandably shy away from.
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This is what they do.
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The political left in this country is comprised primarily of people who have a background as, or the mindset of, "community organizers". The job of a community organizer is to make things worse. They are the ones throwing gasoline on the fire and rubbing salt in the wounds. Their job is to sew turmoil, discord and hate. They work to prevent accord from being reached, to end cooperation between peoples and to head off agreement. They are professional shit stirrers.
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Why?
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Ideologically, their reason is to destroy western civilization so that it can be replaced with a collectivist Utopia. That's great and all, but it's kind of fuzzy. Personally, however, their motivation is pure personal profit. There's not a single one of these sons of bitches that doesn't get rich ripping the scabs off of wounds, and in that lies the ultimate irony. They decry the capitalist and free marketeer as promoting a system based upon the assumption that people act from in own self interest, while at the same time demonstrating all of the traits that they condemn, proving that the capitalist was right in the first place. Human nature is human nature. None of this should surprise anyone who is a student of history, yet somehow it always does.
A peaceful, prosperous community or nation does not need community organizers. Community organizers, on the other hand, can't function in a peaceful, prosperous nation, so they are always, ALWAYS, striving to destroy it.
None of this is new, or surprising. We just need to remember who these people are.
from:
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2014
NYPD Turns Back on Mayor
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
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It started to make me think, what is the end goal of many of the objectives I have personally as an activist; which naturally provoked contemplation of the progressive programming happening throughout the nation, especially in organized labor.
What is actually the end game in what we are doing in relation to:
1) how the membership looks at us
2) how the public looks at us
I believe that progressive labor will be labeled in the corporate media as community agitators and organizers, rather than what our institutions are: a labor organization that enforces workplace rights. This is a discussion of my thoughts as a member of an activist union and what that other side says about progressives, which ultimately leads to how we might be perceived by the masses, not a commentary of my personal opinion of the current affairs of the Labor Unions.
When police start getting murdered, it easily gets turned against any opposition faction or group. In historical contexts these types of events were used for mass arrests, martial law, suspension of human rights, death squads, public executions, and other extreme measures to cull anyone that was a threat to the ruling class.
the Judge was "partisan," and all the jurors admitted prejudice against the defendants. Historian Carl Smith writes: "The visceral feelings of fear and anger surrounding the trial ruled out anything but the pretense of justice right from the outset."[85] Smith notes that scholars have long considered the trial a "notorious" "miscarriage of justice."[86] In a review somewhat more critical of the defendants, historian Jon Teaford concludes that "[t]he tragedy of Haymarket is the American justice system did not protect the damn fools who most needed that protection... It is the damn fools who talk too much and too wildly who are most in need of protection from the state."
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh introduced a range of progressive social and political reforms. declassified CIA documents detail how western intelligence recruited pro-Shah military officers, police, royalists, Islamic mullahs, and others, including paid informants and thugs, to destabilize and ultimately overthrow Mossadegh’s young regime. Following clashes between the police, military and pro-monarchy elements on one side and Mossadegh supporters on the other -- which killed hundreds of people...
http://www.ibtimes.com/...
"Operation Condor" involved military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. They worked together to track down, kidnap and kill people they labeled as terrorists: leftist activists, labor organizers, students, priests, journalists, guerrilla fighters and their families.
http://www.democracynow.org/...
Just think of the events of yesterday and how NYPD rank-and-file officers reacted to Mayor de Blasio. If a Union turns its back on de Blasio, who incidentally my Union supports as a progressive politician, am I now against my brothers in the NYPD? When the progressive labor movement gets involved in politics, do we support our union brothers or a politician?
These are hard topics to answer and need to be carefully looked at, since we are now talking about government agents who were killed in broad daylight, as the result of social and racial disparities that are part of a national progressive agenda. They were workers caught in the cross-fire of class struggle, may they rest in peace.
We need to be mindful of those who have created the conditions of intra-class violence between groups of workers and citizens, since we now have begun to develop a viable front for the inter-class struggle. When we do not see the events around us and how they will be used against us, then we will always fail; in some cases, as the past has shown us, we will be killed.
In Solidarity