Let’s Right Some Wrongs: Facts DO Matter!
/By: Joel E. Gordon
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
Facts do matter and repeating propaganda does not make assertions factual by virtue of repetition of less than truthful innuendo.
In political jargon, a useful idiot is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders. Were the waning "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" Black Lives Matter movements’ organizers playing the progressive left? You decide.
Law enforcement has been weathering a decline in law and order due largely to wrong-headed thought supported by prosecutors who are more akin to defense attorneys and those politically appointed feckless police leaders who had demonstrated their willingness to “take a knee” resulting in increased rates of crime in too many jurisdictions.
As policing is “re-imagined” through policy changes and via consent decrees, officer discretion has often been compromised. Yet officer discretion and a reasonable level of autonomy in the performance of duty is necessary to accomplish stated goals toward enhanced community policing initiatives. Micromanagement, Monday morning quarterbacking, and a philosophy that police are guilty unless and until proven innocent have too often taken precedence over real fairness and common sense enforcement of our laws.
While a large impact, perhaps the largest, has been felt in underserved, impoverished neighborhoods, the middle class is also being hurt from policies that attack safety, freedom and prosperity.
Americans are smart. We know that the results we see in our own lives are real through obvious consequences we witness daily whether acknowledged by the “elites” or not. Who wouldn’t truly believe what they see with their own eyes, anyway?
The recent revelation confirming that the previous media denial that the contents contained on Hunter Biden’s laptop were, in fact Hunter Biden’s, has further cast aspersions on Americans’ trust of government, big tech and the media. When at least 51 “intelligence experts,” our president, the White House press secretary and others are ensnared in the lie that the laptop was “Russian disinformation” then who can be trusted?
While short of the defined criteria of a criminal conspiracy, this was quite a scheme through deception on a massively large scale designed to influence perceptions and tip the scales on election outcomes. A report from the Media Research Center shows that the media’s lack of coverage and big tech’s suppression of certain issues and scandals surrounding Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden may have cost President Donald Trump the election.
Some of these topics include former Biden staffer Tara Reade and her sexual assault allegations against Biden, the Hunter Biden scandal, Vice President Kamala Harris’s extreme liberal voting record in the Senate, the U.S.’s economic jump in the third quarter, millions of jobs added, America’s energy independence, Operation Warp Speed successes and Trump’s facilitation of multiple peace deals in the Middle East.
One in six Biden voters polled, 17 percent, said they would have changed their vote had they been aware of these stories. The report also found that without even voting for Trump and simply refusing to vote for Biden, “These voters would have handed all six critical states, and a second term, to Trump if the news media had properly informed them about the two candidates.”
Trump has initiated a civil lawsuit.
Have any of the “experts” looked in the mirror for a moment of self-reflection? Are they incapable of recognizing when they are wrong? With the admission by the New York Times that the laptop story is true, Joe Biden is inarguably a compromised president. His own personal denials further complicate analysis of his presidency on both materiality and motive with Ukraine, Russia and China taking center stage.
And this too … is it any wonder that so many Americans want real answers on both the origin and the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic? Why is there reportedly such a deficit on knowledge when it comes to the effectiveness of natural immunity? After two years, is this even possible from a scientific standpoint or just another deception through denial and omission?
As Americans, we must insist on more from our government representatives and their appointees. Government in our United States of America was designed to serve, not control or take advantage of, you and I.
To my sisters and brothers in law enforcement, remember why you joined the fight and keep being of honorable service. You are the best of the best and with perseverance, better days can be seen on the horizon. Truth, justice and the American way must prevail. Let’s right some wrongs. See you at the polls on Election Day!
Joel E. Gordon is a former Field Training Officer with the Baltimore City Police Department and is a past Chief of Police for the city of Kingwood, West Virginia. He has also served as vice-chair of a multi-jurisdictional regional narcotics task force. An award winning journalist, he is author of the book Still Seeking Justice: One Officer's Story and founded the Facebook group Police Authors Seeking Justice. Look him up at stillseekingjustice.com
