SHITEPOKE.COM: An Open Letter to (some of) my White Friends

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I note that many of my Facebook 'friends' are righteously offended by the "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) movement – countering with their own self-satisfied "All Lives Matter" come-backs – suggesting that BLM is some scary prelude to a black-on-white race war.

Well, let me tell you why BLM is spot-on: Local police are the uniquely American institution that has a legal license to KILL you – on the spot – based on a single officer's assessment of the circumstances. Reflect on that for a moment. OK?

We all knew – but with the advent of Youtube and Facebook it has become apparent – that SOME – NOT ALL – cops have long treated blacks shockingly differently. This systemic racism has resulted in the flat-out police-sanctioned murder of far too many young black men.

Watch this video of the execution of Philandro Castile by a Minnesota cop this week – narrated real-time by his fiancé on Facebook – as he bled-out and died in her arms – with her 4-year-old daughter in the back seat. Yeah. Why? For being stopped for a busted tail light. Now watch it again. THAT – multiplied by literally hundreds of similar incidents – is what BLM is about.

Technology tells-all – fiance live-streams everything on Facebook

And the really rich part: Mr. Castile had informed the officer that he was carrying a perfectly-legal handgun. But when he went to reach for his identification, the cop shot him anyway. Apparently the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply to black Americans. Where are my 2nd Amendment friends and the NRA – caterwauling to high heavens about “jackboot thug cops” violating his right to bear arms. Yep – you guessed it: Chirrrp. Chirrrp.

So stop – your smarmy "All Lives Matter" come-backs. White people are not being murdered by local police – graphic evidence that WHITE LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED. Ain't it fascinating' that when black people point this out – and beg to be ‘MATTERED’ too ––– you call them terrorists and race-baiters.

Now – let’s talk about this week's Dallas police assassinations – which took place in the midst of a BLM peaceful protest. "See there" ––– was plastered on my newsfeed – "BLM is just a cover-story for killing cops.” –– "Black Lives Matter = Domestic Terrorism" – allowed one person. And when President Obama weighed in on the poignancy of the BLM movement –– oh my God – you all compared him to Hitler and the Ku Klux Clan. Really?

You might want to actually bone-up on the real story: Turns out the 25-year-old mass-murderer, Micah Johnson, was a walking time-bomb. He had served in Afghanistan, but was dishonorably discharged after being charged with sexual harassment.

Fitting the all-to-familiar pattern of authentically home-grown, All-American, lone-wolf terrorists – he had amassed an arsenal in his home – including bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics – all lying await for some yet unidentified atrocity – known only in his deranged head. Bottom line – he was spectacularly unhinged.

Like Dylan Roof (Charleston) and Omar Mateen (Orlando) – Micah Johnson's seething blood lust was riveted on a specifically reviled (in his own mind) population. This time – not black Americans – and not gay Americans – but white Americans. Seems our mass murderers represent – at least – equal-opportunity killers. And for what it's worth – he had posted several tirades against the BLM movement on social media – flatly belying any overt motive of his mayhem to BLM.

Among Johnson's arsenal – was his perfectly legal – State of Texas approved – weapon-of choice: a Saiga Kalashnikov AK47 semi-automatic rifle – capable of emptying a 30-round clip – a-bullet-a-second. (The Saiga model is a consumer knock-off the military assault AK47 rifle – widely manufactured after the 2004 sunset of the assault weapons ban.)

What we know about the killer and the killing

The murder weapon – a street-legal Saiga AK47 – outlawed in 1994 – along with most other so-called assault weapons. When the ban expired in 2004, Senate Republicans overrode a Democratic filibuster, and re-authorized the manufacture and sale.

But it gets better – Johnson did his homework and brought a supply of (once again) perfectly legal green-tipped so-called “cop-killer” bullets – which proved their worth – as the ballistic vests worn by the Dallas cops – were no match for his military firepower.

Lethal combo – widely decried by police departments nationwide – so-called green-tipped armor-piercing rounds – known in the trade as 'cop-killers'. When the ATF and the Obama Administration proposed banning them in 2015, the NRA and gun enthusiasts caterwauled to high-heaven. At the behest of Republican legislators, the ATF backed down.

And spare me the schoolyard rejoinders – ‘’not so; not so – Johnson could have killed those police with brickbats. Guns don’t kill people.” No. But critically mentally ill civilians armed with readily-available weapons of war – can – and do – kill people. Lots of them – at one time. Time and again.

So there you have the formula for yet one more full-fledged American mass shooting: ONE deranged killer with a sociopathic axe to grind – and ONE readily available military assault weapon. That the Dallas police force was the target – this go around – seems no more than their tragic luck-of-the-draw. It certainly had very little to do with – other than co-incidence – the BLM movement.

When it was over five policemen lay dead – and seven officers and two civilians lay wounded. The personal despair of those affected Dallas families is unimaginable. But – let’s be clear about it – their grief is no greater than the family of Philandro Castile – and other black lives wantonly wasted by our dysfunctional local policing culture.

So get a grip my White friends. OK? When America is really ready to do something about our 'mass-shooting-a-week' world-class disgrace – we will.

Until then – move right along. Nothing new to see here.