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What Hillary Clinton won't say | page 1, 2
Here's a statistic even more striking. Under the Dinkins' administration, during which Sharpton led no funeral riots against police (although he did incite one against Hasidic Jews), there were 2,350 murders in New York. Under Giuliani the figure has dropped to 635. That means 1,700 people in New York, likely more than half of them Hispanic and black, are alive today because of the compassion, concern and competence of the Giuliani police department. And the lives of hundreds of thousands of people of all races in New York are safer, better and richer because of the vigilance and concern of the Giuliani administration. Then again, when was the last time Hillary Clinton and her friends showed compassion over the Irish, Jewish, Polish, Armenian, Greek, Vietnamese, Indian, Pakistani, German, Italian, English, Hungarian, Russian, Ukranian, Canadian or Serbian victims of violence in New York?
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This is ultimately the most striking evidence of the hypocritical racism of the so-called "civil rights" establishment, and its blood lust for the men and women who risk their lives defending the people's safety. If the Jesse Jacksons and the Hillary Clintons cared as much about the lives of inner-city blacks as they do about political power and the privileges it brings them, they would long ago have been singing the praises of Giuliani. Homicide is the number one killer of young black males in urban America, and Giuliani has reduced the homicides of African-American males in New York by 75 percent. But Jackson, Hillary Clinton and their pals are not Giuliani fans. They are his sworn enemies and detractors. The bottom line is that they don't care. For the sake of their political futures, they are far readier to defend murderers like Carter than to support those who risk their lives to apprehend his ilk. In one of those odd synchronicities of events, Jackson's friend and one-time comrade Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, better known by his 1960s radical trademark name, H. Rap Brown, assaulted and killed a black police officer and wounded another in Atlanta on the very day that Patrick Dorismond was shot in New York. Unlike the Dorismond case, there can be little doubt that Brown killed Officer Ricky Kinchen in cold blood. Brown was identified as the killer by the black officer he wounded. Neither officer knew his political identity. The murder weapon itself was found at the site of his capture. The officers were victims of an unprovoked and vicious attack with a high powered assault weapon against which their protective vests proved useless. They didn't have a chance. Yet, the other night Geraldo Rivera was on television entertaining former Black Panther lawyer Gerald Lefcourt and former Panther "chairman" Bobby Seale, soliciting their opinions of the event. Since both men have been lying about the Panthers' criminal activities for 30 years, it was no surprise to hear them once again rehearse their stale tales of "Cointelpro" conspiracies against black leaders in order to insinuate that there just might have been a police vendetta to hunt down Rap Brown. It occurred to me, watching this sordid and sickeningly familiar performance, that in recent decades many lives have been lost (both white and black) and many more will continue to be lost as a result of the anti-police paranoia whose flames are fanned by demagogues like Jackson, Seale, Sharpton and Hillary Clinton. It occurred to me further that it would be a good moment for this country if, just once, the press would step out of its partisan lockstep to call them to account.
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