Blue Lives Matter

2022 is not off to a good start for America.  There are growing threats abroad (see below), growing supply chain problems, soaring inflation and COVID still persists.  But most heartbreaking of all is that five police officers have already been killed in the line of duty this year protecting us. 

Their deaths leave behind grieving families and friends, shocked communities and the tears of countless people who mourn them.  This reaction is what you would expect in a good and decent country.

What we would not expect is the disgusting reaction of radical leftist groups.  One such group is BLM – the Black Lives Matter organization.  It is not to be confused with the idea that black lives matter.  Virtually every American believes that black lives and all lives matter because we're made in the image of God. 

But the BLM organization rejects that idea.  The BLM chapter here in the nation's capital is furious that people are mourning murdered police officers.

The group issued an outrageous statement insisting that we mourn instead for the people killed by the police, and they listed several names as examples.  But in every case, the listed individuals were armed and confronted police officers who rightly defended themselves. 

In other words, this radical group wants us to weep for criminals but not for police officers.  They should be condemned by every person of goodwill and by our government leaders. 

But so far today, I have not seen a word from the mayor of Washington D.C.  There's nothing from liberals in Congress and nothing from the White House.  Shame on them for failing to defend the brave men and women on the Thin Blue Line.

It shouldn't be hard for any politician to speak out against this insanity.  The obscene views expressed by the Washington BLM chapter are rejected by most black Americans. 

The country was horrified by the death George Floyd.  The officer responsible was convicted of murder.  Yet in the middle of all that emotion, polling found that 81% of black Americans wanted the same law enforcement presence or even more police – not fewer – in their neighborhoods. 

Black voters also opposed efforts to defund and disband the Minneapolis Police Department.  They understand that the danger they are facing each and every day is from criminals, not police.  They know better than most white liberals that the Thin Blue Line prevents civilization from devolving into anarchy.