RTFri, 08 Jul 2016 15:38 UTC
© Ron Jenkins / AFPDallas police officers escort a woman near the scene where eleven Dallas police officers were shot and five have now died on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
As the US finds itself in the grip of heightened racial tensions, former Illinois
Republican Congressman Joe Walsh took to Twitter to tell President Obama the chaos unfolding in Dallas is "now a war."This happened late Thursday, as what was initially thought to be two shooters - later determined to be four - engaged nearly a dozen police officers in combat. It was a massacre that
left five police officers dead and six injured. Three of the injured are in a critical condition, with two more in surgery.
This followed two separate police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, in which both African-Americans were later judged not to have been posing any threat.
The retired Walsh, who used to represent the 8th District of Illinois, went online to bash both Obama and the #BlackLivesMatter movement in no fewer than a dozen tweets. This one below was later deleted, according to the
Washington Examiner.
Another tweet sees Walsh strike out at the now widespread accusations of white racism.
Walsh also posted a series of tweets about "standing up" to "cop haters", such as this one.
But later the former lawmaker appeared to change his tune, explaining that he wasn't lashing out against any one race - just the "haters."
His latest Twitter address says the police "work their asses off to protect our inner cities. They deserve respect and help. Not hate and resistance."
The retired congressman is now a conservative radio talk show host. However,
Walsh has been dropped from a number of radio shows for various reasons, including using racial slurs on air.
Comment: At this point, the police as an institution don't face many options. Death and thug culture are so rampant within police departments all over the United States that the only solution is to completely revamp the system from the bottom up. Since that is unlikely to happen, and in the face of increasing public outrage at the daily murder of innocent civilians by trigger-happy apes in uniform, the only viable option police have is a 'war', as Walsh tweets, in which the police are
justified in committing violence in the streets in
self-defense. Randomly killing cops in the street serves no strategic purpose, which implies that the people who committed these killings are either stupid or agents provocateur. James Corbett reports:
Considering this is the sort of racist divisive nonsense that the PTB wants out there in order to provoke violence, the question seems to be, how much a part of the agenda is Joe Walsh? Oh, and how on Earth did he get elected into any position of responsibility in the first place? What a racist raving loony.