jueves, 7 de julio de 2016

ISIS eyes anger of African Americans

On this day, five white policemen were ambushed and killed in cold blood in Dallas by Micah Johnson, an African American who decided to vent his anger in response to the killing of afroamericans at the hands of policemen in separte incidents in separate cities. This incident could end up being a turning point in the state of affairs regarding the deaths of black men at the hand of US policemen and the lack of justice in holding any cop accountable for his actions when an unwarranted use of excesive force resulted in what clearly became the unwarranted murder of a civilian.

Can things get much worse than they already are in the USA regarding race relations?

Yes they can, if an uninvited guest arrives via the Web into the USA to stoke up anger inside the Black community. It hasn’t happened yet, but it is only a matter of time before a dreaded enemy of the USA sticks its finger to invoke all the fire from Hell it can possibly invoke.

Reforming the US Justice System is way beyond the purview of the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security. But both are surely keenly aware that the ambush and killing of five cops in Dallas has already opened up the eyes of ISIS on the other side of the globe, offering a wide spectrum of possibilities that had not been considered before but very likely are now being considered in the planting of seeds of hatred and utter chaos inside the USA. The masterminds of ISIS do not have to convert afroamericans to radical Islam in order to gain willing accomplices inside the USA. All they have to do is go into the USA via the Internet and social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and start convincing afroamericans of taking out one-by-one or wholesale (like in Dallas) the lives of white policemen. There are millions of afroamericans now living in the USA, by some accounts estimated to be around 42 million, and it is fair to say that most of them are pretty much fed up with the wanton killing of black men, many of them unarmed, at the hands of trigger happy white policemen. It is also fair to say that many of them have already given up on any hope of getting any fair justice from a justice system that has traditionally been rigged against blacks with a majority of white jurors and white judges, with images of scenes from the the book and the movie To Kill A Mockingbird springing up even in their dreams. With the cards stacked up against them, afroamericans know they only have two options: embrace Christian forgiveness and do nothing, or come up with some sort of payback scheme by resorting to outright murder. Since, thanks to the NRA and the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, any American and this includes African Americans can legally procure AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles, it would take not millions, not hundreds of thousands, but just a few hundreds of well armed afroamericans, to tinge with the blood of white policemen a good chunk of the USA map, and they would not even care of losing their lives in carrying out the black revenge since they know well beforehand that they would be viewed as heroes, as martyrs, by many blacks in the USA. If only one tenth of one per cent of the black community in the USA is convinced by ISIS to take revenge into its own hands for the deaths of black americans at the hands of policement, there are 42 thousand candidates inside the USA ready for recruitment. These 42 thousand men, armed with assault rifles, can more than make up for the deaths of African Americans who have perished in the recent past at the hands of law enforcement officers. Indeed, it can make the worst nightmares of police departments all over the USA come true.

ISIS is well known for its crafty ability in brainwashing young men all around the world, and it would not require a lot of ingenuity for ISIS to start uploading materials to move afroamericans into action even without the need of embracing Islam. As a matter of fact, calling afroamericans to embrace Islam and go to the streets to start murdering white cops would be counterproductive, since many afroamericans enlisted in the US Army have actually been combatants of the USA against ISIS in the Middle East. Instead, the objective would be to convince black americans, especially young men, that the only justice they will ever get in the murder of afroamericans at the hands of white policemen is the justice they take into their own hands, emphasizing that any one could very well end up being executed by a cop for some petty ofense like driving above the speed limit well before they take up arms against US policemen, so in the long run they would only be speeding things up but evening the score at a time when it can be evened.

Ever since Rodney King, it is more than evident in all the time that has elapsed that not a single white policeman has ever gone to jail, not a single one, in spite of unquestionable proof such as actual videos of police brutality gone rampant, and quite the contrary, a good many of them who have exercised abuse of authority have been sent back into the streets -after a short administrative leave with full pay to keep on doing their jobs not as true policemen but as vigilantes backed by the police departments that employ them.

The cold blooded murder of Freddie Gray comes to mind. Fifteen months have gone by since Freddie Gray in Baltimore suffered a devastating spinal injury in the back of a Baltimore city police metal-lined van when he was taken on a “rough ride” without a seat belt. Gray lingered in a coma for nearly a week before dying in a local hospital. And what happened to the cops who killed him? In the end, nothing, absolutely nothing.

The case of Freddie Gray seemed simple enough: He was an able-bodied man before his encounter with police in April 2015. Days later, he died from injuries sustained while in custody. If he had lived, Gray would have likely have been a quadriplegic, unable to move on his own volition from the neck down. At the time, many people especially those from the black communities needed to believe that for once the system could work, that it could finally do the job of meting out justice when officers were the ones committing the crimes, they needed to believe that the rule of law and equal protection applied to Gray and not just to Gray but to any African American.  His death was worthy of inspection. If there was some justification for why he was apprehended and how he was treated in custody, it was assumed that the public had the right to know what that was and to assess its veracity. But that did not happen. In fact, the local police union attacked the very notion that any investigation would result in a conclusion of wrongdoing even before the first officer involved had so much as given a statement. This was to be expected, since it is rare that an officer is charged in the death of a suspect in custody. Prosecutors know that getting a judge or jury to convict a police officer who was acting in the line of duty is all but impossible, and it has nothing to do with the race of the victim. If the victim happens to be an African American, it only makes it a lot harder to get any kind of justice. Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby promised at the courthouse steps that the justice system would hold those responsible to account. “I will seek justice on your behalf,” she said. The people were told to expect truth and transparency and last summer, six Baltimore city officers were indicted—three black, three white—including the driver who pulled away knowing Gray had not been strapped in with a seat belt. There would be a reckoning for what happened to a young black man who had been suspected of nothing more than averting his eyes and jogging away when police officers looked his way. Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White and Officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson, William Porter, Garrett Miller faced various charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to second-degree murder. But in the end they were all acquited. In short, six Baltimore cops killed Freddie Gray, and the system set them free, because the system was rigged to do that.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the five Dallas officers who were killed were killed as payback. The murder of the five policemen in Dallas was preceded on December 20th by the murder of two policemen in New York, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who had no previous records of having exercised police brutality. They were shot dead as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner. However, there is one difference. The murder of the two New York cops was due to what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s assassination-style mission to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, it was the result of a sudden rage. The Dallas murders, instead, were actually planned in advance and executed with military precision. ISIS may be brutal, and at times it may appear to be crazy. But it seldom bases its actions on mere rage. Its terrorist acts in Europe are the result of well planned attacks that may take weeks, even months or perhaps years of preparation to exact the greatest number of casualties. ISIS is not interested in rage-provoked actions like the murder of the two policemen in New York. Instead, it prefers something like the scenario that took place in Dallas, and it is precisely this kind of behavior ISIS will try to invoke.

So, as bad as thing may appear to be right  now, if ISIS meddles into the racial conflicts and tensions confronting African Americans with US policemen, thing can get much, much worse. And if we add to this a presidential candidate whose angry rethoric will only add kerosene fuel to the conflict, the USA we know today could end up being a different USA after the presidential election.

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