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Title: If the Shooting of Dallas Police Surprises You, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention
Source: The Anti-Media
URL Source: http://theantimedia.org/dallas-shooting-police-surprise/
Published: Jul 8, 2016
Author: Dan Sanchez
Post Date: 2016-07-08 20:57:48 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4502
Comments: 17

Five police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. This mass shooting was a despicable act of murder.

It was also blowback.

“Blowback” is a term generally reserved for foreign policy. It refers to the reverberating ill effects of foreign interventions. Ron Paul famously and persuasively characterized the 9/11 attacks as blowback from decades of US warfare and imperialism in the Greater Middle East.

In the 1980s, American support for the anti-Soviet Mujahideen in Afghanistan helped lay the groundwork for what would become Osama bin Laden’s jihadist network, Al Qaeda. And in the 1990s, further US interventions in the Middle East spurred the jihadis to turn on their former sponsors and to wage a terrorist war on the west that culminated in the attacks on September 11, 2001.

The outrage elicited by those attacks provided cover for a massive US-led war for the Greater Middle East that rages to this day. That Long War has only served to plummet the entire region into chaos and carnage, which has caused the number of jihadis and would-be terrorists to grow exponentially. As a result, western civilians continue to suffer blowback in the form of terror attacks in San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris, Brussels, etc. These attacks are fueling Islamophobia and driving calls for further violence and repression against Muslims.

Collective Punishment

The motor of this spinning cycle of reciprocal bloodshed is collectivism. Seeing fellows attacked prompts fear and anger. Fear and anger focused by the lens of reason pinpoints individual offenders for the delivery of justice. But refracted through the lens of collectivism and primal reaction, fear and anger disperses into indiscriminate terror and hate, which scatters to cover whole populations who are ascribed collective guilt and prescribed collective punishment.

This collective punishment of innocents then prompts fear and anger among the targeted population. If they too are afflicted with collectivism, some of them will also succumb to terror and hate, which will be expressed in retaliatory indiscriminate violence: blowback. This collectivist retaliation begets further collectivist retaliation, and the cycle of violence spins out of control.

The Home Front

But this phenomenon is by no means restricted to international affairs. It can characterize civil unrest as well. Again, what we saw yesterday in Dallas was, if not something even more diabolical, blowback.

The American people feel under siege. Different populations feel besieged by different forces. Black Americans especially have suffered decades of persecution by the American “justice” system: police brutality and harassment, mass incarceration, being nickel-and-dimed by tickets and fines, etc. And especially since the summer of 2014, they have been seeing a litany of viral photos and videos of black Americans having been gunned down, throttled, and broken by the police.

This violence too is driven by collectivism. Law enforcement officers are granted an exceptional status in society: a special dispensation to mete out violence with impunity. This caste privilege has instilled deep tribalism in many police officers, which is amplified by training and police union propaganda.

Cops are trained to be obsessed with “officer safety” and to effectively treat those outside the “blue tribe” (whom they ostensibly “protect and serve”) as an enemy population: as if every American they detain is a potential quick-draw gunman ready to shoot them down in a millisecond. This paranoia, combined with the impunity of the badge, is what makes an encounter with the police so potentially lethal: especially for black civilians.

Take the collectivism of “blue” tribalism explained above and add, for some individuals, the collectivism of racial terror (irrational, hateful prejudice that every black male is a potential super-predator), and you begin to understand the epidemic of police violence against American blacks.

Hate and Terror

This police violence has elicited thoroughly justified fear and anger. Virtually all of this emotional response has expressed itself in peaceful protest, led by the Black Lives Matter movement.

However, for some already-unstable individuals, it can boil over into terror, hate, and indiscriminate violence: blowback. Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley was filled with hate when he killed two off-duty NYPD officers in 2014 following the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. So was whoever killed five police officers in Dallas yesterday following the killing of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling.

True justice is always individual and never collective. Badges do not grant extra rights, but neither do they negate the human rights of officers. Victims of police violence have a right to protect themselves from current attacks with proportional defensive force against actual perpetrators. They or their heirs also have a right to secure restitution from the specific individuals who violated their rights. But collectivist “retribution” is neither defense nor restitution.

Just as international terrorism is often blowback from international war and occupation, the sniper attack on cops in Dallas yesterday was blowback from American police acting as a domestic army of occupation. And just as the victims of terror attacks do not deserve to be killed for the crimes of war-making politicians, the victims of yesterday’s shootings did not deserve to be killed for the crimes of other cops.

Collectivist retaliatory violence is not justice. It is despicable warfare and murder. That does not change the fact that refraining from collectivist violence is not only the right thing to do, but is also the best way to avoid collectivist retaliatory violence: that is, to avoid blowback. We are not “blaming the victim” when we counsel a foreign policy of peace. It is not only right; it is also the best way to be safe from terrorism. Neither is it “blaming the victim” to counsel a domestic policy of justice. It is not only right; it is also the best way to be safe from civil unrest and domestic terrorism.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

It was also blowback

So 1 possible accidental murder by an officer causes blow back?

Sick people out there!

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   21:17:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Justified (#1)

So 1 possible accidental murder by an officer causes blow back?

Oh, there's only been one?

This has been brewing for much longer than the murder of the guy who was shot and killed reaching for his ID after the cop told him to do so.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

Deckard  posted on  2016-07-08   21:48:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#2)

Yes unless you know that there are more murders by cops that I have missed?

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   21:54:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Justified (#3)

Yes unless you know that there are more murders by cops that I have missed?

You been asleep for the past 10 years?

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

Deckard  posted on  2016-07-08   22:09:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Deckard (#0)

We are being pushed steadily toward Martial Law and Civil War.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2016-07-08   22:17:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Deckard (#4)

Who have the police murdered in such numbers that the innocent police should be murdered?

To me you are more likely to win the lottery than to be murdered by police. It happens but rarely does. Now many criminals get killed because they get out of hand.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   22:30:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Don (#5)

Yes that is what progressive's and Anarchist want.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   22:31:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Justified (#6)

To me you are more likely to win the lottery than to be murdered by police. It happens but rarely does.

You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

Deckard  posted on  2016-07-08   22:56:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Don, Justified (#5)

We are being pushed steadily toward Martial Law and Civil War.

Thanks to incidents like the one in Dallas, it's coming sooner than you think.

Operation “Summer of Chaos” exposed: Obama Admin, Soros, Black Lives Matter, plan to activate martial law before General Election revealed

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

Deckard  posted on  2016-07-08   23:00:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Deckard (#8)

You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

What is with killed? Murder is the name not killed. Murder is unjustified and killed is justified. I have no sympathy for criminals that get killed by police but I do have sympathy for those innocent people who are murdered by anyone. For those that are murdered by anyone may justice prevail!

Criminals may be 55 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist but who cares?

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   23:21:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Deckard, Don, Everyone (#9)

Operation “Summer of Chaos” exposed: Obama Admin, Soros, Black Lives Matter, plan to activate martial law before General Election revealed

So I guess the lesser of 2 evils does matter! Boy how much better off we would be if Romney would have been elected instead of Zero? Not saying Romney would have be a great or even good president but just less harmful by a million times.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-08   23:24:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Justified (#10)

Murder is unjustified and killed is justified.

Murder is always a crime, but killing may or may not be a crime.

I.e. all murders are killings, but not all killings are murder.

Pinguinite  posted on  2016-07-08   23:44:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Pinguinite (#12)

I use kill and murder in the biblical sense. To kill is justified and to murder is a sin or unjustified.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-09   0:00:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Deckard (#2)

"This has been brewing for much longer than the murder of the guy who was shot and killed reaching for his ID after the cop told him to do so."

He was? Who said that?

Oh yeah. His girlfriend.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-07-09   8:53:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Deckard (#2)

"This has been brewing for much longer than the murder of the guy who was shot and killed reaching for his ID after the cop told him to do so."

Then why assassinate Dallas cops? What did they do? It could be that they get along well with the black community.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-07-09   9:01:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#14)

"This has been brewing for much longer than the murder of the guy who was shot and killed reaching for his ID after the cop told him to do so."

He was? Who said that?

Oh yeah. His girlfriend.

Yep and it is the president and MSM fault for pandering to the intercity mindset!

Instead of telling the truth and hold criminals responsible for their actions they go after the police who have to deal with gangster mindset every stinking day with not no support but holding the police to a standard that is unattainable.

Justified  posted on  2016-07-09   9:03:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Justified (#16)

Yep. And the police have to remain silent while all the accusations fly because they "can't comment on an ongoing investigation".

In this era of camera phones, YouTube, and the Internet spreading false narratives, the police need to get their side of the story out there within hours, not weeks.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-07-09   9:32:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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