A Ditsy Star Warren’s False Claim to Trap Minority Votes

 

POLICE CHIEFS: WARREN’S FALSE CLAIMS ARE PUTTING POLICE OFFICERS’ LIVES IN DANGER

by  Paul Mirengoff   at  PowerLine:

I wrote here about Elizabeth Warren’s statement that Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer. This claim is so contrary to the facts that even the Washington Post gave it four “Pinocchios” — the most adverse rating it awards to false statements.

Warren’s lie about Michael Brown is part of her campaign to disparage law enforcement. Through that campaign, she hopes to win over left-wing and African-American voters.

There’s also a good chance she believes that law enforcement officers, as a collective, are incorrigibly racist. This is dogma among the America-disparaging left, of which Warren is a member in excellent standing.

Now, a major law enforcement organization in Warren’s home state has lashed back at the Senator. The Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association complains that Warren’s repeated attacks on law enforcement are putting the lives of police officers in danger.

In a letter to their Senator, the Chiefs call her rhetoric “appalling” and “another slap in the face” that endangers cops. They state:

Having had two Police Officers murdered in your own state, in the past 18 months, we expect our elected Officials to condemn the murder and assaults of Police Officers. Instead on multiple occasions, you choose to fan the fires of divide for you own political gains. Shame on you!

Yarmouth police Chief Frank Frederickson, commander of one of the two murdered officers, has invited Warren to spend time in a police department in order to understand what actually takes place. Warren, of course, has not accepted the invitation.

She has no desire to understand what actually happens, and no concern about the consequences of her fact-free, inflammatory rhetoric. Her sole desire is to gain votes.

Heaven help our country if Elizabeth Warren becomes president.

Police chiefs: Warren’s false claims are putting police officers’ lives in danger

ghr – Star ditsy queen of today’s ditsy Dem fascists bounces and jumps to win her votes!   Truth among these Dems has no meaning!   Socialists lead with deceit as their most  godly weapon!

Will Jews Still Vote Dem, Its Fascistics NOTWITHSTANDING? Probably!!

Most Jews don’t vote for Trump because we don’t share his values

BY DAVID H. SCHANZER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —

Trump: Voting Dem is disloyal to Jewish people, Israel

I can see from the president’s statements on Tuesday that he is very frustrated by the fact that a strong majority of Jewish Americans, like me, did not vote for him or the Republican Party in 2016 and 2018 and probably won’t in 2020 either.

Trump even went so far as saying that Jews who vote for Democrats had “a total lack of knowledge” or “great disloyalty.” Ouch.

I gather from his citation of formerly Jewish talk show host who said that “the Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel,” Trump can’t figure out why most Jews here at home just don’t feel the same way.

Before I help explain why we don’t, the president’s assumption that Jewish people all think the same thing because we are Jewish shows that he really doesn’t know very much about Jews.

Yes, we all tend to like lox and bagels and we talk with our hands, but that is where the commonality ends. Jews throughout history have been arch capitalists, socialists, neo-cons, neo-liberals, Marxists and every ideology in between. We have a diverse set of views about international relations. We disagree, a lot, about Israeli politics and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

And by the way, most other religious and ethnic groups in America are equally diverse and don’t really like it when others assume them to be a monolith.

For this reason, I realize I can’t speak for the 79 percent of American Jews who voted Democratic in the 2018 midterms. But I can explain why I voted that way and I think that many Jews like me did so as well

Bottom line: We don’t share the president’s values

First of all, most American Jews have a close connection to immigrants. Many of us are second, third or fourth generation immigrants. We feel strongly that refugees escaping persecution should be able to seek safety and shelter in America because throughout our history we have been persecuted and forced to flee to save our lives.

We have been on many refugee caravans. Ferdinand and Isabella evicted us from Spain, the tsars used pogroms to chase us out of Russia and we fled on boats and trains and by foot from the Nazis. We support today’s refugees because we know they could have been us.

We also support civil rights and diversity. We know what it’s like to be an oppressed minority for we “were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

We may feel very comfortable and secure in America, but we recoil when any American is targeted as “the other” — whether it be the Mexican you accuse of being a rapist or the Muslim you stereotype as being a terrorist — because so often we have been “otherized.”

The Jew with horns, the Jewish moneylender, the Jew with dual “loyalties.” We know that a frenzied mob calling for an American citizen of color to be kicked out of the country might be chanting to kick us out too one day soon. For there is one thing we know for sure: Those folks who don’t like people because they are black, brown or Muslims  don’t like Jews much either.

American Jews are deeply suspicious of any whiff of authoritarianism. We know the places we have thrived the best have been pluralistic democracies: America, Great Britain and Israel. But we also know the signs of an eroding democracy: demonizing of a free press, false claims about a rigged electoral process, the undermining of an independent judiciary, to name a few. When a charismatic leader scapegoats minorities for society’s ills and claims that “I alone can fix it,” our deeply engrained Jewish warning lights start flashing red. We have seen this play before.

Trump can order a Star of David be placed on the American flag, but I will never vote for someone with values so antithetical to mine. These values I consider essential to me as a Jew.

David Schanzer is a professor of public policy and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University. 

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/458428-most-jews-dont-vote-for-trump-because-we-dont-share-his-values

Just a Note:   The first twenty years of my life were spent in  a  Jewish minority urban community…..the only minority community  of those days in our part of the city.    An American  Jewish  community would have to be urban.  Our  Jews were urban folk.  Wealth accumulation was this minority’s cultural drive.   American Jews have never been outdoor people.   The students, despite their youth, collectively exuded  airs of confidence to superiority because they were Jewish and were pressured at home to succeed at school.   They left classes early Tuesday afternoons of the public school season  to go to Hebrew School.

I learned that from school observation and experience.

Nevertheless, such specialties  never seemed to have  been allowed public in Uncle Sam’s world in my lifetime.  They would be smeared as anti-Semitic, ergo evil, lies, unworthy of a true American no matter how truthful!

I also noted that a small  number of Jewish students in my grade school classes cheated regularly while taking  tests,  notes inked on their wrists and such, a doing which never could have occurred in my mind.    In my family grades never really mattered.   Cheating on tests would have been a horror, a grievous sin in my child life.   I was expected to be civil, polite,  honest, and do as I was told by my teachers or else!   Getting good grades was never mentioned.

I attended public elementary school from 1939-1948.    ghr