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		<title>The NYPD Cop-Killing: The Chickens Come Home to Roost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leftist and Islamic supremacist demonization of the police bears bitter fruit.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247986" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc-450x331.jpg" alt="627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc" width="326" height="240" /></a>When Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley murdered NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as they ate lunch in their patrol car last Saturday, the only people who could possibly have been surprised were those who have not realized how assiduously Leftist and Muslim activists have worked – long before the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner &#8212; to demonize the NYPD and law enforcement in general. The advent of the killer was only a matter of time.</p>
<p>It has been only lightly reported that Brinsley was a Muslim, and generally when it has been mentioned, it has been dismissed as a motive in favor of his statements about wanting to kill police officers to avenge Garner and Brown. But these two motivations – revenge for the perceived racist killings of two black men and Brinsley’s Islamic faith – are not mutually exclusive. Brinsley’s Facebook page featured a photo of the Qur’an open to the eighth chapter, where Allah exhorts the believers to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60).</p>
<p>Brinsley may have thought, what better way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah than to kill a couple of infidel, racist police officers? Investigative journalist Patrick Poole found an additional sign of Brinsley’s attachment to Islam on his Facebook page, where Brinsley wrote at one point that he was heading to “Al-Farooq Tomorrow inshallah.” <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/20/did-cop-killer-ishmael-brinsley-visit-terror-tied-brooklyn-mosque/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Poole notes</span></a>: “If this reference by the cop killer was from Brooklyn (which is hard to discern since his Instagram account has been taken down), it may indicate that he was going to visit Masjid Al-Farooq in Brooklyn.”</p>
<p>Explains Poole:</p>
<blockquote><p>Al-Farooq’s long history of terror support goes back more than 20 years, when the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was hatched by members. One imam from the early 1990s, when Al-Farooq was a hub of the nascent Al-Qaeda and was hosting Al-Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam, was Fawaz Damra, who was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070715000536/http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/061804akron.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged, convicted and later deported</span></a> for lying to immigration officials about his terror ties when he applied for U.S. citizenship.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, Muslim activists in New York City – with willing help from their Leftist allies &#8212; have long cultivated a sense of grievance, claiming that they have been unfairly singled out for NYPD surveillance and monitoring. At an October 2011 hearing about the New York Police Department’s counter-terror activities in Muslim areas, New York City Councilman Brad Lander <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/454221-ny-police-grilled-over-muslim-surveillance.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserted</span></a>: “It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities. That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.”</p>
<p>New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the NYPD programs, saying, “What we’re doing is following leads.” His critics were not mollified. In February 2012, <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2012/02/hamas-cair-devout-muslims-protest-nypd-homeland-security-self-defense-against-jihad-in-america.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims in New York held a massive protest</span></a> against the NYPD. Many protesters were holding printed signs with slogans designed to enhance Muslims’ feelings that they had been targets of NYPD prejudice and discrimination: “FIRE Ray Kelly!”; “Stop NYPD Ethnic, Racial and Religious Profiling”; “Stop Entrapment and Surveillance Without Warrants”; “Muslims Demand Equal Rights”; and “NO to a Police State!” A handwritten sign held by a woman in a hijab foreshadowed the charges widely made against the NYPD after the death of Eric Garner: “GOOD BYE RACIST RAY!”</p>
<p>“Racist Ray”’s days were numbered in October 2013, when, according to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/16/de-blasio-tells-muslims-hell-end-broad-nypd-spying-if-elected/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CBS NewYork</span></a>, “Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio told a group of Muslim supporters Wednesday that they won’t have to live in fear of being under constant surveillance if he’s elected mayor.” Linda Sarsour, head of the Muslim Democratic Club, was pleased: “People are tired of a mayor,” she asserted, “that unequivocally stands behind the (police) commissioner and says that everything we’re doing is right.”</p>
<p>De Blasio warmly embraced Sarsour, which in itself was telling, as Sarsour is a rabidly anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/rabidly-antisemitic-islamic-supremacist-who-said-nothing-is-creepier-than-zionism-is-frequent-white.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has said that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and equated it with “racism.”</span></a> She is also a frequent visitor to the Obama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3791/more-radicalism-from-another-white-house-guest"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CIA agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam</span></a>. She is a practiced exploiter of the “hate” smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/oops-islamic-supremacist-activist-whines-about-islamophobia-using-alawadi-case-just-as-it-was-reveal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America</span></a>.</p>
<p>When he became Mayor, de Blasio moved swiftly, <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-muslim-surveillance-unit-disbanded/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dismantling</span></a> the legal NYPD Muslim surveillance program in April 2014 – thereby validating the Muslim activists’ claims that the program was racist, discriminatory and unjust. But the end of this program did not end the Muslim and Leftist sense of grievance, which was only fueled by the Brown and Garner incidents. Leftist and Muslim groups continued to fuel the perception that police were “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-to-muslims-lady-liberty-says-shhhh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">repeatedly</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-discourages-muslims-from-talking-to-fbi"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exhorted</span></a> Muslims to contact a lawyer and the nearest CAIR office if contacted by the FBI, and to “Know Your Rights” and say as little as possible. CAIR would, of course, hotly deny that they have given this advice to Muslims to protect those engaged in terror activity from detection and prosecution, but then the only other alternative is that CAIR wants Muslims to believe that law enforcement officials are engaged in an ongoing campaign to entrap and persecute innocent Muslims.</p>
<p>That message, of course, coincides perfectly with that of race-baiters such as Al Sharpton, who have labored so long to foster among black Americans the same idea. In Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, these dual and interrelated grievances came together, and two policemen are dead. There will be more.</p>
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		<title>Speed Kills Racial Profiling Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the lie that black drivers are pulled over more often because of racism.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240230" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg" alt="radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large" width="328" height="250" /></a>In an article about police shootings in last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times (8/31), Michael Wines disputes the conventional wisdom about a disproportionate number of African-Americans being shot by police, saying there are no data one way or another. But Wines revives the canard about blacks being disproportionately targeted in traffic stops.</p>
<p>There actually is a study for that.</p>
<p>Throughout the 1990s, the nation was fixated on tales of jack-booted New Jersey state troopers who were stopping speeders on the turnpike just because they were black! In a 2000 primary debate, Vice President Al Gore sneered at then-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, saying, &#8220;Racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.&#8221;</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder recently paid tribute to the myth, claiming that when he was in college, he had been stopped &#8220;driving from New York to Washington.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t mention how fast he was going.</p>
<p>The story never made sense. How could the troopers tell the race of drivers in speeding cars? Did they wait until the driver rolled down his window and, if he was white, say, &#8220;Oh, sorry &#8212; have a nice day!&#8221;</p>
<p>But the Clinton administration was slapping consent decrees for racial profiling on police departments across the country, and the N.J. highway patrol was its prime evidence, based on a study that a child wouldn&#8217;t believe.</p>
<p>As is usually the case with bogus race studies, the pivotal 1993 survey compared speed stops on the New Jersey turnpike to the population of all drivers on the turnpike &#8212; not with the population of all speeders on the turnpike.</p>
<p>Such meaningless studies are popular on the left, where it is assumed that people of different races, genders and ethnicities will always behave identically in all respects.</p>
<p>If fewer women pass the physical test to become firefighters, that can only be because of sexism. If fewer blacks pass the written test &#8212; that&#8217;s racism. If fewer whites play professional basketball &#8212; no, forget that one. Sports are important. (Unlike arson or vehicular homicide.)</p>
<p>Nonetheless, based on the assumption that blacks speed just as much as whites &#8212; because to believe otherwise would be racist! &#8212; Temple University&#8217;s John Lamberth announced that while only 13.5 percent of drivers along a particular stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike were black, 46 percent of those stopped for speeding were black.</p>
<p>Racial profiling, Q.E.D.</p>
<p>The New York Times ran a dozen articles trumpeting the nonsense study, proclaiming it &#8220;the most thorough documentation of the contention that the police regularly pulled over black drivers.&#8221; Lamberth himself praised his research for ruling out the possibility of coincidence &#8212; and if you can&#8217;t trust Lamberth on his own study, who can you trust?</p>
<p>Largely on the basis of that investigation, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert E. Francis threw out the contraband evidence seized from 19 African-American men in traffic stops on the turnpike. New Jersey&#8217;s ninny governor, Christie Todd Whitman, pronounced her state&#8217;s troopers guilty of racial profiling and agreed to a consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that basically prohibited the troopers from doing their jobs.</p>
<p>Statisticians, and other people with common sense, tried to explain to liberals that human beings are not identical. Any study purporting to show that too many blacks are stopped for speeding must first determine how many speeders are black.</p>
<p>Being denounced as virtual Klansmen, the state troopers demanded a real study.</p>
<p>Confident that any new study would merely serve to confirm the troopers&#8217; racism, the DOJ and the New Jersey attorney general commissioned a statistical investigation from the Public Services Research Institute in Maryland.</p>
<p>The institute&#8217;s study was a spectacular thing. Using expensive monitors with high-speed cameras and radar detectors, they clocked the speeds of nearly 40,000 drivers on the relevant section of the turnpike. Three researchers then examined the photos to determine the race of the driver &#8212; without knowing whether the driver was speeding, which was defined as going more than 80 mph in 65 mph zones.</p>
<p>The result: No racial profiling.</p>
<p>Blacks constituted 25 percent of all speeders and they were 23 percent of drivers stopped for speeding. Controlling for age and gender, blacks sped at about twice the rate of whites. The racial disparity was even greater for drivers exceeding 90 mph.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as the study was irrefutable, Mark Posner, a lefty Clinton holdover in the Bush Justice Department, tried to block it from being released, continuously demanding more information.</p>
<p>But no matter how statisticians fiddled with the data, the results were identical: Blacks were twice as likely to speed as whites &#8212; and at much higher speeds. The troopers were completely vindicated.</p>
<p>When the study finally leaked &#8212; over Posner&#8217;s objections &#8212; he informed the press it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;valid&#8221; without articulating any actual problems with it. The attorney general of New Jersey, David Samson, nonsensically said the results didn&#8217;t matter because New Jersey had already admitted its troopers were engaging in racial profiling.</p>
<p>Perhaps the Times is right and there is no comprehensive study of police shootings by race. But it&#8217;s also possible that there is one, it didn&#8217;t come out as planned, so it has never seen the light of day.</p>
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		<title>Hunted Leftist Terrorist Laughs at FBI from Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A $2 million bounty is put on cop-killer Joanne Chesimard's head -- while she is free in Castro's prison state. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/black-panther-most-wanted-terrorist-list-.si_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188414" alt="black-panther-most-wanted-terrorist-list-.si" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/black-panther-most-wanted-terrorist-list-.si_-450x346.jpg" width="315" height="242" /></a>This week the FBI announced a $1 million reward for &#8220;information leading to the apprehension&#8221; of Joanne Chesimard, also known as &#8220;Assata Shakur,&#8221; who they named a &#8220;Most Wanted Terrorist.&#8221; Chesimard is the first woman to make the FBI’s list. The New Jersey State Police also want her and added another $1 million to the pot.</p>
<p>Convicted cop-killer (of a New Jersey State-Trooper) and &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; Chesimard has been living in Cuba since 1984 as a Castro-coddled celebrity of sorts. And it’s not like bounty hunters can operate freely in a Stalinist country. So the $2 million may be symbolic &#8212; as in the U.S. Justice Dept. putting on a game face and saying: &#8220;Look Castro, we’re serious here!&#8221;</p>
<p>In the early 1970’s Chesimard belonged to a Black Panther offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army. &#8220;This case is just as important today as it was when it happened 40 years ago,&#8221; said a recent press release from Mike Rinaldi of the New Jersey State Police. &#8220;Chesimard was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a radical left wing terror group that felt justified killing law enforcement officers&#8230;This group conducted assaults on police stations and murdered police officers.&#8221;</p>
<p>More than a mere member of these domestic terrorists, Chesimard was described by former assistant FBI director John Miller as &#8220;the soul of the Black Liberation Army.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1973, while wanted for multiple crimes from bank robbery to murder, Chesimard and two accomplices were pulled over for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the troopers were routinely questioning them, Chesimard (who was in the passenger seat) and her pals opened up on the lawmen with semi-auto pistols (no word on whether these were properly registered).</p>
<p>As trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice &#8212; then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper’s own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro murdering hundreds of their own (always defenseless) &#8220;counter-revolutionary&#8221; enemies.</p>
<p>&#8220;This crime was always considered an act of domestic terrorism,&#8221; stresses Mike Rinaldi.</p>
<p>Chesimard escaped but was captured in 1977, convicted of murder and sentenced to life plus 33 years. Then in 1979 she escaped from prison&#8211;with some ultra-professional help, probably by Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists. &#8220;Two men smuggled into the prison, took guards hostages and broke her out,&#8221; explained John Miller to CBS News.</p>
<p>Chesimard’s 1979 escape from prison was well planned, Rinaldi explained. &#8220;Armed domestic terrorists gained entry into the facility, neutralized the guards, broke her free, and turned her over to a nearby getaway team.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In 1984, they smuggled her to Mexico. Using a network of Cuban intelligence officers who worked with American radical groups, they got her into Cuba,&#8221; adds Miller.</p>
<p>Since then, according to New Jersey State Police Col. Rick Fuentes, Chesimard &#8220;flaunts her freedom&#8230;.To this day from her safe haven in Cuba Chesimard has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary. She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist,&#8221; declared FBI agent Aaron T. Ford, during a recent news conference. &#8220;She absolutely is a threat to America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Along with coddling Chesimard, Castro’s fiefdom provides a haven for over 70 fugitives from U.S. law, including several on the FBI’s most wanted list. Cuba harbors convicted cop-killers Michael Finney and Charlie Hill, along with Victor Gerena, responsible for a $7 million heist of a Wells Fargo truck in Connecticut in 1983, as a member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, Los Macheteros. All requests by U.S. authorities for these criminals’ extradition have been rebuffed, often cheekily by Fidel Castro himself: &#8220;They want to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie!&#8221; Castro answered a U.S. request for Chesimard on May 3, 2005.</p>
<p>By the way, just this week Raul Castro’s daughter (Fidel’s niece, Che’s god-daughter) Mariela Castro was granted a U.S. visa to attend the &#8220;Equality Forum’s annual conference on civil rights for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people.&#8221; In brief, this apparatchik of a Stalinist regime and of the same &#8220;State Sponsor of Terrorism&#8221; that fetes U.S. cop-killers &#8212; indeed that helps them escape from U.S. jails &#8212; will headline a sort of gay rights-palooza in Philadelphia were she’ll be honored with an award for her tireless contributions on behalf of Human Rights.</p>
<p>In brief, an outfit (Equality Forum) dedicated to crimimalizing &#8220;anti-gay bullying&#8221; (in the U.S.) and ferociously dedicated to prosecuting such &#8220;bullies&#8221; to the fullest extent of (U.S.) law and sending them to jails cells (in the U.S.) &#8212; this <em>same</em> outfit is honoring a high-ranking apparatchik of the only regime in the history of the Western Hemisphere to herd thousands of men and boys at Soviet gun-point into forced labor camps for the crime of fluttering their eyelashes, flapping their hands and talking with a lisp.</p>
<p>&#8220;Work Will Make Men Out of You&#8221; read the sign at the Cuban prison-camp’s gate, right over the barbed wire and next to the machine gunners posted on the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG, but the conditions were quite similar.</p>
<p>And we wonder why Fidel, Raul and their guest Joanne Chesimard are all laughing heartily from Havana.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/chris-dorner-a-mass-shooter-leftists-can-love/chris-dorner-crop-598x350/" rel="attachment wp-att-177214"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-177214" title="chris-dorner-crop-598x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chris-dorner-crop-598x350.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="206" /></a>In the past several days, we&#8217;ve learned about how you too can gain a degree of public sympathy if you plan to embark on a killing spree and then go into hiding as you bide your time waiting to kill again: Write a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; dominated by anti-police rants, a &#8220;progressive&#8221; outlook towards Second Amendment freedoms and support for leftist politicians.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner, <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16899029-police-search-mountains-for-lapd-murder-suspect-christopher-dorner-release-new-image">who is accused</a> of killing Monica Quan, Keith Lawrence, and an as yet unnamed LAPD officer while wounding two others, has done. His sympathy-by-manifesto strategy has been alarmingly successful.</p>
<p>Dorner&#8217;s <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?section=news/local/orange_county&amp;id=8983607">11,000-word tome</a>, addressed to &#8220;America,&#8221; was reportedly delivered to CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Southern_California_shootings#February_1.2C_2013">on February 1</a>. Much of its second half directs praise and scorn at a variety of politicians, celebrities and athletes while also, of all things, politicking for gun control and praising two of its proponents (spelling and grammar errors were not fixed in this and the following manifesto excerpt):</p>
<blockquote><p>The time is now to reinstitute a ban (on assault weapons) that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle?</p>
<p>&#8230; Mia Farrow said it best. &#8220;Gun control is no longer debatable, it&#8217;s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dorner also effusively praises President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, while showing contempt and disdain for &#8220;America,&#8221; the screed&#8217;s addressee, for not wholeheartedly supporting Dear Leader (paragraph breaks added by me):</p>
<blockquote><p>You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have.</p>
<p>You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents.</p>
<p>… You call his wife a Wookie. Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama. A woman whose professional and educational accomplishments are second to none when compared to recent First wives.</p>
<p>You call his supporters, whether black, brown, yellow, or white, leeches, FSA, welfare recipients, and ni$&amp;er lovers. You say this openly without any discretion. Before you start with your argument that you believe I would vote for Obama because he has the same skin color as me, (expletive) you.</p>
<p>&#8230; Mr. President, I haven&#8217;t agreed with all of your decisions but of course I haven&#8217;t agreed with all of your predecessors decisions. I think you&#8217;ve done a hell of a job with what you have been dealt and how you have managed it. I shed a tear the night you were initially elected President in 2008.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dorner also allocated space to praising the following broadcast media members, in order of appearance: Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad O&#8217;Brien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, Cooper, the late Walter Crokite, Tom Brokaw, the late Peter Jennings, Willie Geist, and Piers Morgan.</p>
<p>While Dorner&#8217;s alleged acts and plans have properly appalled the vast majority of America, a distressingly large contingent of our fellow citizens considers him a hero.</p>
<p>As of 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, I located two newly-minted Dorner-friendly Facebook pages: &#8220;I Support Christopher Jordan Dorner&#8221; (over 7,700 &#8220;likes&#8221;), and &#8220;LAPD Cop Killer Christopher Dorner is A HERO&#8221; (over 300 &#8220;likes&#8221;). <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/09/Facebook-fan-pages-Chris-Dorner">On Saturday</a>, Breitbart.com&#8217;s Ben Shapiro identified several others. This is clear evidence that there is a dangerous strand of thought on the left which is perfectly fine with the commission of violent, murderous acts &#8212; as long as their perpetrators hold anti-establishment, anti-authority views.</p>
<p>By contrast, the pro-life community always roundly denounces the very few acts of violence visited upon abortion clinics and abortion doctors &#8212; of course other than those which clinic employees themselves commit by killing pre-born babies. Criminals who have bombed clinics and harmed or murdered their employees have never garnered any meaningful level of sympathy beyond a truly tiny and obviously unrepresentative fringe.</p>
<p>Public figures who should know better have either gone into a sympathy routine or chosen a strange form of neutrality towards Dorner. <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/jesse-jackson-tweets-plea-to-chris-dorner-i-understand-your-feelings-of-hurt-and-pain/">Jesse Jackson tweeted</a>: &#8220;I understand your feelings of hurt and pain.&#8221; Noticeably absent was any recognition of the &#8220;hurt and pain&#8221; Dorner has inflicted on the families of Quan, Lawrence, and the unnamed slain police officer&#8217;s families. <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/bill-maher-calls-christopher-dorner-a-nut-followers-disagree/">Bitter Bill Maher</a> attempted to draw an equivalence between cold-blooded killing and a &#8220;headline&#8221; at FoxNews.com, which, from what I can tell, was really either <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013">never there</a> or was planted by a commenter at a blog post. The aforementioned <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/mia-farrow-tweets-about-murderer-cop-doesnt-mention-he-quotes-her-in-manifesto/">Ms. Farrow tweeted</a> about &#8220;a murderer cop,&#8221; but &#8220;somehow&#8221; didn&#8217;t mention that Dorner views her favorably.</p>
<p>Print and web reports from the nation&#8217;s establishment press are following Farrow&#8217;s example. From reading their output, you wouldn&#8217;t even know that Dorner even mentioned President Obama, Mrs. Obama, or Vice President Joe Biden, let alone spent hundreds of words praising them. An unbylined Friday report <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LA_POLICE_SHOOTING_MANIFESTO_EXCERPTS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">at the Associated Press</a> containing &#8220;some samples&#8221; from the manifesto which one would have hoped would be representative <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/02/08/aps-used-excerpts-dorners-manifesto-various-pols-omits-effusive-praise-o">managed to suppress everything</a> relating to our sitting president, his wife, and vice president, but managed to quote relatively brief mentions of George H.W. Bush, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton, and Colin Powell, while also ignoring Dorner&#8217;s anti-gun stance. There isn&#8217;t a chance in Hades that the self-described &#8220;essential global news network&#8221; would have been so kind to a sitting Republican or conservative president, first lady, or veep.</p>
<p>Also recall that ABC&#8217;s Brian Ross initially attempted to pin the blame for the Aurora, Colorado theater murders on a Tea Party activist <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/07/20/It-Begins-ABC-Ross-Stephanolpoulos-Point-to-Tea-Party-for-Dark-Knight-Shooting">based only on his name</a>, while his network and other <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/christopher-dorner-manhunt-cops-manifesto-posted-online-18438426">have reported nothing</a> about Dorner&#8217;s sympathy for Obama.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, no one Dorner named shares any blame for his actions. He bears that responsibility alone.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not what the left or their media sympathizers would be saying if Dorner had invoked the views of conservative talk radio hosts, pundits, or politicians in a vain attempt to justify themselves.</p>
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<p><em>Intellectuals and Society</em><br />
By Thomas Sowell<br />
Basic Books, $29.95,<br />
Review by David Forsmark</p>
<p>George Orwell famously said some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool.</p>
<p>Thomas Sowell has made a career out of debunking those very things—most famously elite assumptions about racism and economics in classic books like <em>Ethnic America</em>, <em>Race and Culture</em>, <em>Knowledge and Decisions</em>, and <em>The Vision of the Annointed.</em></p>
<p>I’ve often defined a postmodern intellectual as someone who is trained to be sure he knows better.  Thomas Sowell, however, is a true intellectual in the best sense.  His mind is not only open to the fact that he might <em>not</em> know better, his superb new book explains why it is impossible for one dictator or a small group of elites to know better than the great unwashed how to run their lives.</p>
<p>A constant theme of Sowell’s work is that elites regularly—and with disastrous effect—substitute their assumptions for the actual on the ground knowledge of the masses of people.  In <em>Intellectuals and Society</em>, he singles out so-called “intellectuals,” those whose profession is trafficking in ideas, and the echo chamber they tend to inhabit.</p>
<p>He charges that such people may be “intellects,” but that doesn’t mean they are very smart.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The capacity to grasp and manipulate complex ideas is enough to define intellect but not enough to encompass intelligence, which involves combining intellect with judgment and care in selecting relevant explanatory factors and in establishing empirical tests of any theory that emerges. Intelligence minus judgment equals intellect.  Wisdom is the rarest quality of all &#8212; the ability to combine intellect, knowledge, experience, and judgment in a way to produce a coherent understanding.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Of course, once you have spent a lifetime debunking things that are accepted as Gospel by the “intellectual class,” and prove Orwell’s thesis on a daily basis, the term “pseudo- intellectual&#8221; starts to lose its meaning:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The term “pseudo- intellectual&#8221; has sometimes been applied to less intelligent or less knowledgeable members of this profession. But just as a bad cop is still a cop &#8212; no matter how much we may regret it &#8212; so a shallow, confused, or dishonest intellectual is just as much a member of that occupation as is a paragon of the profession.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Recently, Boston College’s Alan Wolfe, a prime example of the above definition&#8211; wrote an intellectually dishonest pseudo-review of <em>Intellectuals and Society </em>for the usually rigorous <em>New</em><em> </em><em>Republic</em>—<a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/10/the-closing-of-the-liberal-mind-tnr-attacks-thomas-sowell/">which David Horowitz dispatched quite nicely</a>.</p>
<p>Wolfe’s review might as well have been titled, “I Represent That Remark.”  (I have done a couple of radio interviews with Wolfe, and found him to be less than impressive.) While Horowitz doubted that Wolfe, who protested the lack of musicians and novelists in Sowells’ discussion, had read the parameters of the discussion on page 2, I think it’s more likely Wolfe made it to the page 4 definition of pseudo-intellectuals, felt the pang of self-recognition, and then went on his <a href="http://www.tnr.com/book/review/the-joyless-mind">very personal rant</a> against Sowell.</p>
<p>Wolfe, ironically supplies the perfect example of how intellectuals who share the currently anointed vision of the world make what Sowell calls “Arguments without Arguments:”</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Although many intellectuals are especially well-equipped by talent and training to engage in logically structured arguments using empirical evidence to analyze contending ideas, many of their political or ideological views are promoted by verbal virtuosity and evading structured arguments and empirical evidence. Among the many arguments without arguments are claims that opposing views are &#8220;simplistic&#8221; and opposing individuals unworthy, as well as assertion of &#8220;rights&#8221; and attributing to adversaries a belief and panaceas or golden ages.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>…Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong.  But often the fact that some explanation seems to simple becomes a substitute for showing that it is wrong.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Usually, economists who discuss Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” do so in the context of business and the economy.  In<em> Intellectuals and Society</em>, Sowell not only gives the best explanation of why the invisible hand of self-interest works better than a central plan, he then applies it to subjects as far afield from economics as war and police shootings.</p>
<p>Sowell argues that the intelligentsia devalue “mundane knowledge” in favor of special knowledge.  However, mundane knowledge is what it takes to actually get anything done.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Someone who is considered to be a &#8216;knowledgeable&#8217; person usually has a special kind of knowledge &#8212; perhaps academic or other kinds of knowledge not widely found in the population at large. Someone who has even more knowledge of more mudane things &#8212; plumbing, carpentry, or baseball, for example &#8212; is less likely to be called &#8220;knowledgeable&#8221; by those intellectuals, for what they don&#8217;t know isn&#8217;t knowledge.. .. It is by no means certain that the kind of knowledge mastered by intellectuals is necessarily more consequential in its effect in the real world.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>For instance, it may be impressive that a physicist understands Bernoulli’s principles of aerodynamic lift, but you wouldn’t want him in the cockpit second guessing your pilot.  Sowell argues that the smartest man cannot know even 1% of what would be required to run the lives of the people in a community, but that is what experts, politicians and intellectuals attempt in their hubris.<em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Despite the often expressed dichotomy between chaos and planning, what is called &#8220;planning&#8221; is the forcible suppression of millions of people&#8217;s plans by government imposed plan.</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;.what is called &#8220;social&#8221; planning are in fact government orders over writing the plans and mutual accommodations of millions of other people.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>That is why free markets, judicial restraint, and reliance on decisions and traditions growing out of the experiences of the many &#8212; rather than the presumptions of elite few &#8212; are so important to those who do not share the social vision prevalent among intellectual elites.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>The intellectuals’ exultation of “reason&#8221; often comes at the expense of experience, allowing them to have sweeping confidence about things in which they have little or no knowledge or experience.</em></p>
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<p><em>Intellectuals and Society</em> is one of those books you want to read with a red pencil, to highlight nuggets like those above for later use.</p>
<p>While intellectuals’ visions cause social and economic disruption in many areas, none are so immediately deadly as their approach to war and foreign relations.  Sowell indicts the anointed for ignoring all empirical evidence and experience to the contrary, and insisting that the next dictator—from Hitler to Ahmadinejad—is the one who can be dealt with diplomatically.</p>
<p>Sowell concludes with a list of the anointed intelligentsia’s assumptions which have turned the world upside down, of which, he says, a complete refutation would fill volumes. “More important,” he says ruefully<em>, “It fills our schools and colleges.”</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>The intelligentsia have treated the conclusions of their vision as axioms to be followed, rather than hypotheses to be tested.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Some among the intelligentsia have treated reality itself as objective or illusory, thereby putting current intellectual fashions and fads on the same plane as verified knowledge and the cultural wisdom distilled from generations of experience…</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>They have filtered information in the media, in the schools, and in academia, who to leave out things that threaten their vision of the world.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Above all, they exalt themselves by denigrating the society in which they live and turning its members against each other.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Of course, as he points out early in the book, an intellectual is someone who can lecture a police department on how many shots are sufficient to bring down an armed suspect under stressful conditions—when he himself has never even fired a pistol on a range.</p>
<p>Long before the<em> Freakonomics </em>phenomenon<em>, </em>Thomas Sowell was making this kind of real life critique from an economist’s point of view.<em> Intellectuals and Society</em> is accessible, witty, practical, brilliantly argued, and essential reading.  It’s sure to infuriate self-important elites.</p>
<p>In other words, it’s a typical Thomas Sowell book.</p>
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