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'Conservatives are racists'

Conspiracy theorists at CNN have figured out why there was no indictment in the Eric Garner case



Over at CNN, the conspiracy theorists are hard at work. The network that famously wondered if a black hole might have swallowed a certain never-recovered Malaysian airliner has turned its attention to the fact that the New York police officer responsible for Eric Garner's death will not face charges. The network's analysts say they "don't want to create a conspiracy theory" but then they say "...but" and do it anyway.

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If they're to be believed, the DA threw the case in order to appease the racist conservatives who populate Staten Island.
“It is by far the smallest, the whitest, the most politically conservative of the boroughs. And the home of many police officers. Important to this story is the fact that the district attorney there, Daniel Donovan, is an elected official. So he answers to that constituency. I don’t want to create a conspiracy here that he buried this case because he wants to ingratiate himself with a conservative electorate, but.... It is certainly a factor to be considered when you think about how this case resolved itself."
Frankly, I was stunned that there was no indictment in this case. Unlike the situation in the Ferguson MO, the facts - and video - of Eric Garner's death clearly appeared to warrant a trial. Conviction is another matter, but it should have -at least - gone to court. However, to blame some nebulous "conservative racism" for the grand jury's decision is simply ridiculous. First of all, if Staten Island is pso racist, why did it vote - by a substantial margin - to re-elect Barack Obama in 2012? More importantly: if there's a racist through-line, it seems to be coming from the left. Virtually every media outlet is lumping this together with the Ferguson story. They couldn't possibly care less that the facts in the two cases are radically different - each featured a white cop and a black death. That's all they see. Never mind that one was a clear case of self-defense and one wasn't, the two stories complement each other in an ongoing effort to gin up outrage, create division, drive ratings, and - in the case of people like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson - assist with fundraising. The "real racism" isn't that there's a conservative/racist conspiracy. That's simply a race-industry fantasy. The "real racism" is that - to the left - the facts of the cases don't matter, only skin color does. A better point, one that both Democrats and Republicans should be asking, is this: have we constructed a monolithc out-of-control government where employees are protecting each other regardless of the facts involved in their various cases? AND... is the problem so rampant that we can no longer rein it in?


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