"Protests planted seeds" op ed needs rebuttal

[LiberalElite]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20141222_Protests_planted_seeds_for_ambush_killings_of_2_NYPD_cops.html


F YOU SAY something loudly enough, with just the right amount of conviction, the odds are that people will begin to listen. They might not agree with you, but they'll listen, and then move on.

Sometimes, though, there will be people who listen too closely and then, out of a skewed sense of reality or priorities, or simply as a convenient excuse for their own twisted motives, turn your passion and conviction into a criminal act.

You will say that legitimate protest and advocacy, when peaceful, should never be blamed for the antisocial aberrations of others, but that is naive.


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[elehhhhna]

1. if anyone believed this baloney, limbaugh would have been off the air years ago.

[Downwinder]

2. Shall we blame the media for copycat crimes?

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Nope. The cops themselves planted the seeds by killing unarmed people. nt

[Cal Carpenter]

4. Kareem Abdul Jabbar said it pretty good right here:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Police Aren’t Under Attack. Institutionalized Racism Is.

Those who are trying to connect the murders of the officers with the thousands of articulate and peaceful protestors across America are being deliberately misleading in a cynical and selfish effort to turn public sentiment against the protestors. This is the same strategy used when trying to lump in the violence and looting with the legitimate protestors, who have disavowed that behavior. They hope to misdirect public attention and emotion in order to stop the protests and the progressive changes that have already resulted. Shaming and blaming is a lot easier than addressing legitimate claims.

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