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Police Union Endorses Gospel Of Bigotry, Fear And Hate

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It is disheartening to see that The Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union, has endorsed Donald Trump.

Sometimes union leaders make very bad decisions.   This is one of those  times.   With a candidate as controversial and inflammatory as Trump, someone who has been labeled as being downright “dangerous,” by several of the world’s great newspapers, the blanket endorsement makes the union’s members appear uninformed and biased in favor of a candidate who preaches bigotry and comes across more like a a third-world strongman than a leader who exhibits thoughtful judgement through well-reasoned policies.   It also relects badly on unions in general.

How can the FOP possibly endorse a candidate  who suggests that the way to  deal with someone who disagrees with you is to “punch him in the face?”   A man who says that in the old days, protesters would have been “carried out on stretchers?”  A candidate who wonders outloud what might happen to Hillary Clinton, if her security guards had no guns, or suggests that the “Second Amendment people” might be able to do something about Mrs. Clinton, should she be elected?

Note to the FOP leadership:  Your endorsement indicates approval of all that Mr. Trump has said in the past, including what appears to be the suggestion of a possible assassination attempt on a future President of the United States.

Second note to the FOP leadership:   Your officers already have an image problem with regard to their relationship with America’s minority communities.   Do you really think that supporting a candidate who has almost no support among African-Americans and who wants to  build a wall between the US and Mexico will help street cops win the hearts and minds of the communities they police?   Shouldn’t you be more interested in mending fences than in further dividing your officers from the communities they serve?  Or would you prefer turning our inner-cities into even bigger war zones, putting even more police and civilians at risk in a country that leads the world in the number of people under incarceration.

The  following is an exerpt from a lengthy and insightful article entitled “Donald Trump Is The World’s Most Dangerous Man” in the widely-read German newsmagazine “Der Spiegel.”   The FOP leadership needs to read it .   And then, after becoming better educated, they need to rescind their endorsement of Mr. Trump, post haste.   You can read the entire piece by clicking on the hotlink at the end of the quote.

“If the most powerful office in the world wasn’t at stake, all this wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous. Germany has been too busy dealing with the supposed threat posed by refugees in recent months to appreciate what’s really been going on across the Atlantic. Despite their differences, the US and Germany share an unshakeable faith in democracy and freedom. But nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if Donald Trump were to be elected president. Compared to that, the America of George W. Bush would seem like a land of logic and reason in retrospect.”Der Spiegel

 

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