More on the evil media’s coverage of the four murders in Oakland

A. Zarkov writes:

Black parolee Lovelle Mixon murders four Oakland policemen in two separate incidents. The media in its typical fashion covers these savage murders as though they were some kind of natural catastrophe instead of an act of volition on the part of a savage human being with a history of violence, including rape.

This New York Times article provides some good examples. The Times quotes Mixon’s cousin: “We’re devastated; everybody took a major loss… ” She asserts an equivalence between the murderer and his four victims almost as if a natural event claimed them all. Her loss is just like the loss of the policemen’s families.

Then we have the lead: “A day after four police officers were shot down in a rampage, the public and city officials struggled to understand how a routine traffic stop turned into one of the bloodiest days for police officers in California history.” They need not “struggle” to understand. Mixon was a beast let loose on the community by a careless and cowardly criminal justice system. His savage acts were entirely predictable. But perhaps worst of all was the statement by Mayor Ron Dellums: ” … called on residents to “unite our hearts, rally our strength and dedicate our collective will to free our beloved city from the clutches of violence and despair.” Dellums, former black Congressman, and former poverty pimp from the 1960s, makes it seem like the Dalton gang has ridden into town. Need I remind him how the residents of Coffeyville Kansas dealt with the Daltons—they killed them? With no regrets. With no moral equivalences between the citizens and the outlaws. Was anyone in Coffeyville struggling to understand why some people want to rob banks and kill others?

Dellums also says “Enough is enough.” We know what that means—gun control. See this article. The focus on guns further directs the issue away from moral culpability and onto impersonal objects.

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Gintas writes:

Is it too late to resurrect the American Colonization Society?

LA replies:

Desperate men have desperate thoughts.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 24, 2009 05:11 PM | Send