Stupidity in San Francisco
Stupidity in San Francisco
By Daniel G. Jennings
From the City By the Bay comes a disturbing story of political correctness run amuck - twenty of San Francisco’s police officers have been suspended from their jobs and are being investigated by the local district attorney.
These cops didn’t take bribes, abuse prisoners, beat anybody up or gun down armed citizens. No all they did was to exercise their First Amendment rights by making a video tape that poked fun at themselves, their jobs and their city’s residents. This tape somehow made its way to the Internet where the thin-skinned powers that be in San Francisco’s city administration saw it and took action.
Their objection to the tape: it poked fun at homeless people or rather cops’ indifference to their plight and contained some scenes that observers claimed promoted bigotry against Asians and gays. I haven’t seen the whole tape but the scenes shown on TV news don’t look all that racist or homophobic to me.
What I wonder did these police officers do wrong? It isn’t as if they made a tape promoting the Ku Klux Klan or the Communist Party (oops I suppose that would be alright in San Francisco these days). All they did was make a videotape featuring the kind of humor seen on our television screens 24 hours a day and got busted for it.
Where I wonder are all the left wingers who rushed to that moron Ward Churchill’s defense? Will those defenders of freedom come to the aid of the working class cops whose rights are being trampled? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
This incident is disturbing on two levels, first it shows that the lefties who have taken over many of our city governments have no respect for Free Speech. Or at least the free speech of the working class, arrogant white college professors who make $100,000 a year and pompous movie stars can say whatever they want. Working class cops can forget about free speech.
Worse reality and real people don’t matter to these people. The cops didn’t actually do anything wrong yet they were removed from their jobs which I imagine they’re still being paid for. If San Francisco’s civil service is anything like Denver I imagine the cops are on paid leave. That means they’re off fishing or working at another job to make a little extra income at taxpayers’ expense.
Meanwhile twenty less cops are on the streets of San Francisco which has an increasing murder rate. The real losers are the people of San Francisco including gays and Asians who are now in more danger of crime because fewer cops are on the streets. Does the gay guy who calls 911 when he sees four homophobic thugs coming at him in an alley worry about the cops attitudes towards him. No he just wants to see the guys and gals with the guns and the badges. The same goes for the Asian shop owner faced with an armed robber or gangbangers collecting for a protection racket.
The message this sends to the men and women on the beat is chilling. The people at city hall don’t support you, so don’t take any risks just shut up and follow orders. I bet we’ll see a lot of resignations and retirements among the San Francisco PD in the near future. The department will have a hard time replacing the veteran officers with good recruits and the quality of police work in San Francisco will suffer while incidents of real police abuse and brutality increase.
This affair bears a disturbing similarity to the Abu Ghraib incident in which American military personnel were disciplined and sent to prison. Not because they had actually abused or hurt prisoners but because they took some pictures of prisoners in embarrassing situations. The media made a big deal of that incident even though nobody was actually hurt or killed at Abu Ghraib. The same media ignored real incidents in which American soldiers really hurt and killed prisoners and the numerous atrocities committed by our enemies.
Americans should take note of what it is happening in San Francisco because it shows that the left has become both a threat to our freedoms and to our lives and safety. Hopefully, common sense will takeover and somebody will have the guts to pull the plug on this nonsense. Unfortunately, that’s not likely because common sense is no longer politically correct in America on either side of the political aisle.
By Daniel G. Jennings
From the City By the Bay comes a disturbing story of political correctness run amuck - twenty of San Francisco’s police officers have been suspended from their jobs and are being investigated by the local district attorney.
These cops didn’t take bribes, abuse prisoners, beat anybody up or gun down armed citizens. No all they did was to exercise their First Amendment rights by making a video tape that poked fun at themselves, their jobs and their city’s residents. This tape somehow made its way to the Internet where the thin-skinned powers that be in San Francisco’s city administration saw it and took action.
Their objection to the tape: it poked fun at homeless people or rather cops’ indifference to their plight and contained some scenes that observers claimed promoted bigotry against Asians and gays. I haven’t seen the whole tape but the scenes shown on TV news don’t look all that racist or homophobic to me.
What I wonder did these police officers do wrong? It isn’t as if they made a tape promoting the Ku Klux Klan or the Communist Party (oops I suppose that would be alright in San Francisco these days). All they did was make a videotape featuring the kind of humor seen on our television screens 24 hours a day and got busted for it.
Where I wonder are all the left wingers who rushed to that moron Ward Churchill’s defense? Will those defenders of freedom come to the aid of the working class cops whose rights are being trampled? I wouldn’t hold my breath.
This incident is disturbing on two levels, first it shows that the lefties who have taken over many of our city governments have no respect for Free Speech. Or at least the free speech of the working class, arrogant white college professors who make $100,000 a year and pompous movie stars can say whatever they want. Working class cops can forget about free speech.
Worse reality and real people don’t matter to these people. The cops didn’t actually do anything wrong yet they were removed from their jobs which I imagine they’re still being paid for. If San Francisco’s civil service is anything like Denver I imagine the cops are on paid leave. That means they’re off fishing or working at another job to make a little extra income at taxpayers’ expense.
Meanwhile twenty less cops are on the streets of San Francisco which has an increasing murder rate. The real losers are the people of San Francisco including gays and Asians who are now in more danger of crime because fewer cops are on the streets. Does the gay guy who calls 911 when he sees four homophobic thugs coming at him in an alley worry about the cops attitudes towards him. No he just wants to see the guys and gals with the guns and the badges. The same goes for the Asian shop owner faced with an armed robber or gangbangers collecting for a protection racket.
The message this sends to the men and women on the beat is chilling. The people at city hall don’t support you, so don’t take any risks just shut up and follow orders. I bet we’ll see a lot of resignations and retirements among the San Francisco PD in the near future. The department will have a hard time replacing the veteran officers with good recruits and the quality of police work in San Francisco will suffer while incidents of real police abuse and brutality increase.
This affair bears a disturbing similarity to the Abu Ghraib incident in which American military personnel were disciplined and sent to prison. Not because they had actually abused or hurt prisoners but because they took some pictures of prisoners in embarrassing situations. The media made a big deal of that incident even though nobody was actually hurt or killed at Abu Ghraib. The same media ignored real incidents in which American soldiers really hurt and killed prisoners and the numerous atrocities committed by our enemies.
Americans should take note of what it is happening in San Francisco because it shows that the left has become both a threat to our freedoms and to our lives and safety. Hopefully, common sense will takeover and somebody will have the guts to pull the plug on this nonsense. Unfortunately, that’s not likely because common sense is no longer politically correct in America on either side of the political aisle.
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