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Two NYPD cops killed
A 28 year-old, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, shot and killed the two police in Brooklyn while they were in their squad car, then fled into the subway where he killed himself. He left posting(s) online that he had intended to kill police- he had earlier shot his girlfriend in Baltimore before posting such a message on his instagram.
The police union and other such groups in NYC have taken the opportunity to attack the Eric Garner and other protests against police brutality, and even calling out the mayor for somehow enabling this because he had appeared sympathetic to the protestors.
Unfortunately as can be expected police and their apologists have taken full advantage of this to fit their narratives.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0JY0N820141221
Police had that coming, justice is being served.
I was in NYC almost a week ago...
This bit seems unusual. Did she disagree with him of his opinion of cops? Or did they get in an argument about what he was going to do? Perhaps we'll never know. But this certainly gives more weight to the fact that, as Red Commissar said, police and their apologists have taken full advantage of this to fit their narratives.Originally Posted by Red Commissar
[formerly Cthenthar]
Revolutionaries don't spend all day on a messageboard. Action is realisation of the polemic.
"When the lie returns to the mouth of the powerful, our voice of fire will speak again." - quote EZLN
“Development develops inequality.” ― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
My parents were there almost two weeks ago. Needless to say it was intense.
I can't think of anything much to be said about this that hasn't been said in similar threads about cops getting shot, or about a bourgeois politician dying (not that the two are equivalent).
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
"If he did advocate revolutionary change, such advocacy could not, of course, receive constitutional protection, since it would be by definition anti-constitutional."
- J.A. MacGuigan in Roach v. Canada, 1994
not all cops got killed
continue shitting on the others
Let me put it this way: this should continue until police brutality has the opposite meaning it has today. /end rant
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
--rms
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
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AKA loonyleftist
If I could thank this post twice, I would. Though it wasn't done for political reasons, I hope it would be.
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
--rms
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
--rms
AKA loonyleftist
Fuck them!
MDC-Dead Cops/America's So Straight
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
--rms
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
--rms
AKA loonyleftist
There is a side of me that thinks we're ceding the moral high ground to cops when we cheer on stuff like this, and then there's the other side that doesn't give a fuck about that.
"to become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly"
lool are you for real? happy cops are being killed?
Yeah, they're the bulldogs of the state and they defend private property, private interests, and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
Same, it's shitty people die, but fuck the state and its creatures
I am skeptical of the shooter first of all (what the hell made him shoot his girlfriend?) I would be all for it had it been in a more appropriate context such as a mass demonstration, labor struggle, or anything but what appears to be an attack by some psycho.
"The people have proved that they can run it... They (the pigs) can call it what they want to, they can talk about it. They can call it communism, and think that that's gonna scare somebody, but it ain't gonna scare nobody" ― Fred Hampton
“Mao Zedong said that power grows from the barrel of a gun. He never said that power was a gun. This is why I don't need no gun to do my thing. What I need is some freedom and the power to determine my destiny” ― Huey P. Newton
so shooting a woman is justice being served? i could care less about the cops being killed but the guy killing his girlfriend is fucking shit and make me think of the guy who did as not much different than the cops he killed.
All i want is a Marxist Hunk.
It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back into barbarous types of labor and it turns the other section into a machine. It produces intelligence – but for the worker, stupidity, cretinism.
Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
Who cares about some trifle like domestic violence when it comes to revleft posters' vengeance fantasies? It's not remotely surprising that people here find something to cheer on in this.
So does a fair part of the population do and if I remember rightly, you too. Killing a cop for being a cop without a possibly revolutionary context is just stupid.
Last edited by DOOM; 21st December 2014 at 09:35.
La dialectique, peut-elle casser des briques?
revolutionary edgyness it is. This killing won't help our cause at all. It's just a stupid isolated killing of two cops, which has happened a thousand times. I don't even want to explain how this is wrong.
It's only getting more attention than other cases because of the Garner protests. The cops and media are obviously trying to link this to the recent protests and some people here are helping them without even knowing.
La dialectique, peut-elle casser des briques?
I'm pretty sure the murderer thought the same, like "I'm gonna be part of the revolution and kill the authorities of the bourgeoise, fuck yeah, fuck private property!"
Come on guys, be real about it. This is just some asshole without any political motivation killing his girlfriend and 2 guys that happen to be policemen. Now police is gonna press this into some scheme to fit their idea of someone deliberately killing cops for political reasons. But enjoy your edgy police murder wet dreams, yawn.
Liberal Dudes are guys who will jump up and down to tell you that they’re all about equality and prosperity for everyone, but then tell you about the strip club they were at the night before or about the awesome anal porn site they last jerked off to. Liberal Dudes are ready to welcome us into the boardroom, provided we’re still willing to dance on the conference table at the employee party. Liberal Dudes love “sex-positive” “feminists” because Liberal Dudes support women’s freedom and “rights,” up to and including our “right” to strip and to suck dicks for money. Liberal Dudes love to see women embracing pornorific behavior like pole dancing, pube waxing, porn watching, thong wearing, chick kissing, and boob flashing as a means to “empowerment,” because that’s exactly the kind of power they want us to have: the power to give them boners.
So much ugh to this.Originally Posted by That Reuters article
I'm not gonna join the tut-tut chorus about "edgy wet-dreams" or whatever - and this was definitely not apolitical - but seriously, try to look at the big picture here. Don't let this turn into catharsis; that makes it easier for things to go back to normal tomorrow.
"to become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly"
