Many readers will already have heard about the episode today in which a "protester's" response to the police "murder" of Alton Sterling became, ummm, overly enthusiastic, resulting in an unfortunate situation that we could have avoided if the cops would finally own up to their years of racist oppression.
That, at least, is my first draft of the forthcoming Black Lives Matter press release.
What actually happened, obviously, is that several police were lured to an ambush murder. Thus far the number dead is three. Three others lay wounded.
I should perhaps be more circumspect so soon after this incident, but I've found that "circumspection" has become liberal code for "keep your mouth shut until we figure out the spin this time." Today, I'm not biting.
BLM and its allies and enablers, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and a goodly chunk of (almost all Republican) libertarian politicians have spent years putting out sulfuric condemnation of the police. Sometimes the hatred just underneath is decently well concealed; other times, not so much. Criticism, of course, is fine. Skepticism is fine. But when it's hatred -- and more and more, that's what we're seeing, no matter its skimpy disguise -- there will be an outcropping. We saw the outcropping in Dallas. We see it today in Baton Rouge. We'll see plenty more of it.
We have free speech in this country, for the moment. Obama, Clinton, BLM and libertarian stump speakers can say whatever they want, as long as it's not direct solicitation. But it's time that they get called on the violence they encourage and abet. And that they take, rather than indignantly deny, their share of responsibility for it.
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