Sheriff’s deputy murdered in Texas
Expect more of this sort of horrific crime:
A man shot a uniformed sheriff’s deputy “execution-style” while he fueled his patrol car in the Houston area, killing him instantly, authorities said.
Deputy Darren H. Goforth, 47, was returning to his car after pumping gas Friday night.
The gunman walked up from behind him and opened fire for no apparent reason, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said.
When Goforth fell to the ground, the gunman stood over him and shot him some more, authorities said. He died at the scene.
“He was literally gunned down in what appears to be an unprovoked, execution-style killing,” Hickman said. “I have been in law enforcement for 45 years, I have never seen anything this cold-blooded.”
The article does not mention the race of the men, which is in indication that the perpetrator was black and the victim white. This would not be an incidental fact, either; it is likely that it is very much a part of the motive for the crime, and therefore relevant.
That’s a point made by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air, who does a rewrite of the article, imaging what would have been written if the races had been reversed. He adds this statement from a press conference held by the police (in which it remained unclear whether a person already apprehended for the crime is a suspect or merely a “person of interest” at this point):
Also, the speakers at the presser had quite a few pointed comments not just for the community, but for the nation. The District Attorney called out those who would foment an atmosphere of violence against law enforcement officers and said that this murder was an “attack on the fabric of society.” (A point which I’ve made repeatedly here, but it’s good to hear from a D.A. behind a podium.) The Sheriff also stepped up to the plate and said that the “rhetoric” had gone too far. He stated that “we’ve heard about Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, well”¦ cop lives matter too.” He went on to say that it was time to stop with such divisive speech and simply agree that “lives matter.”
I predict that, when and if he is caught, the perpetrator in this murder will be found to share an orientation and motivation with his predecessors. I wrote about those predecessors here:
You remember that in the early 70s a war against police began, a war in which police were gunned down by cold-blooded killers with a racial/political agenda and a convict past. The assailants were members of various black militant groups, mostly offshoots of the Black Panthers, such as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), which specialized in racially-motivated cop killings.
It was almost inevitable that the furor against police officers that’s been whipped up over the Brown and Garner deaths would end in some person or persons deciding that killing a cop would be just the thing. Whether Brinsley was crazy or not””and he may have been””and a lone wolf or not, even crazy people can be sparked to violence by an atmosphere of orchestrated hatred.
There is also evidence that Brinsley was not a lone wolf, however, but instead may have been a member of a group known as the Black Guerrilla Family. The Family shares similar antecedents with the BLA, including a prison genesis and a stated leftist/socialist/Marxist philosophy.
Probably the most famous police officer ambush case was that of partners and Vietnam vets Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, which occurred in January of 1972. Witnesses and an investigation indicated that they were shot in the back by BLA members as the officers walked down the street on their beat, and then shot again multiple times as they lay dying and the murderers had grabbed their service revolvers. The murders of Foster and Laurie caused a furor because they were part of a war on police, but also because both were well-liked, young, handsome, left young grieving wives and a great deal of fear in the NYPD, and because they were good friends and an interracial team (Foster was black and Laurie white). There was a 1974 book and a 1975 movie about the heinous crime, and although there were suspects (some of which have died or been killed in the ensuing years), no one has ever been tried for their murders.
The atmosphere today resembles the feeling that was in the air back in the early 70s, and that is most definitely not a good thing. This mood could be felt building and building prior to the murder of Ramos and Liu, and the fear is that it will keep on building. Today, unlike in the 70s, even our leadership””and by that I mean Barack Obama (who consorts with the likes of Al Sharpton), Eric Holder, Bill de Blasio, for example””fans the flames of the hatred in ways subtle and not-so-subtle.
Unfortunately, I see no reason to believe that this murder will be the last of its kind.
“The United States is an outlier, both in our lack of serious policies toward guns and in our mortality rates. Hemenway calculates that the U.S. firearm homicide rate is seven times that of the next country in the rich world on the list, Canada, and 600 times higher than that of South Korea.
We need universal background checks with more rigorous screening, limits on gun purchases to one a month to reduce trafficking, safe storage requirements, serial number markings that are more difficult to obliterate, waiting periods to buy a handgun – and more research on what steps would actually save lives. If the federal government won’t act, states should lead.
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article32493027.html#storylink=cpy“
Fred:
Why not mention the elephant in the room? The elephant is the fact that US gun death rates are not such big outliers except in the US black community. The difference between the US and other developed countries is mostly (although not entirely) in its black community, and most crimes in the black community with black victims are black-on-black crime.
See this:
“Hemenway calculates that the U.S. firearm homicide rate is seven times that of the next country in the rich world on the list, Canada, and 600 times higher than that of South Korea.” Fred
In 2010, Vermont had the lowest gun murder rate in the country per 100,000 at 0.3%. Washington DC had the highest gun murder rate at 16.5%. Vermont is 95.3% white and 1% black, virtually tied with Maine for the highest white pop. Washington DC is 37% white and 47% black, with the highest black percentage in the nation.
The top gun murder rates in states and black and Hispanic population percentages closely correlate. Asian percentages do NOT correlate, which IMO means that it is NOT race per se that is the determinative factor but culture.
Note also that black and Hispanic crime rates and incarceration rates closely correlate.
Since racism is an equal opportunity oppressor, the close correlation between crime and incarceration rates disproves the charge of a racist system.
According to UN statistics, Canada’s murder rate is 1.6 per 100,000 population. FBI statistics show the state of Wyoming to have the highest gun ownership rate of 59.7% with an 85.9% white pop. but Wyoming has a lower murder rate than Canada with a 1.4% murder rate per 100,000 population. 40 other states have a higher gun violence rate than Wyoming and 9 states have a higher white pop.
These statistics demonstrate that more gun laws and regulations are NOT needed, instead what is needed is a more moral/ethical culture, one that places its highest value upon individual lives.
“Our Constitution (individual liberty under the rule of law) was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
NO amount of laws will suffice in a lawless, unethical culture.
This is mostly gang violence and the gangs are blacks and Hispanics. Thanks again Barack! Fundamental change nearly complete.
I think the fact that so many young blacks are not anchored in families and healthy communities is why so many seek their own community in gangs. I wonder how many were even taken to the local library to get their first library card. No wonder they fall for the BS that learning to read is acting white. The Obamas think that an EBT card and school lunches can fix what is missing for these kids. Black Lives Matter from the time of conception–not just when they commit crimes and get shot.
Looking at the data it is clear why those evil southerners created segregation. Separate schools, separate towns, and separate neighborhoods were a way of protecting whites from crime and violence. The system was unfair to decent, hard working blacks and it was indefensible under our laws.
Now whites and middle class blacks try to find schools and neighborhoods with small black populations. This drives up commuting costs and housing costs. In many towns and cities the only option is private schools.
Apparently in Texas on a podcast there was a calling for blacks to kill cops and to lynch white people. This, a few days before the killing. This was from a group that is an offshoot in spirit, if not officially, from the #blacklivesmatter group – which is a loosely organized group to begin with though it has actual founders and a real, ongoing presence. Or maybe they are affiliated with #blacklivesmatter but they seem more of an offshoot or related group. You may have seen this already Neo but here:
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/08/28/black-activists-called-for-lynching-and-hanging-of-white-people-and-cops/
I find this more than alarming and I think it will continue. I do think your comparison to the early 70’s is very appropo. The anti-cop antagonism is more “acceptable” now as I can bet you that it is being pushed on college campuses by far left academics who are endemic there. And yes, the MSM seems to be pushing anti-cop narratives more often than not. Really bad for everyone and for the police, but also for the minority communities that will suffer from less ardent policing. This is just — the worst thing.
I feel of course for the police officer, friends and family and his community.
I am glad that the press conference was clear on the issues here with executing police.
Thanks also for the stats Geoffrey Britain, I have seen many but you pulled them together here very succinctly.
In Boise, ID a city of 216,000 there were four murders last year. In Jackson, MS a city of 170,000, there were fifty murders. It’s not guns. It’s race which is a marker for a violent subculture.
It’s also not poverty. Maine is a poor state with a low murder rate.
Mr. Frank:
Actually, though, I don’t think black crime rates were so very much higher than white ones right after slavery. I think it wasn’t till the 1960s that black crime rates as compared to white ones really rose so much that the disparity was many many multiples. Sowell has written about that sort of thing, I believe (can’t find it right now).
Neo,
And what happened in the 60’s? It was the civil rights era which ended night stick justice and a lot of police brutality. Under the old system blacks had lots of leeway on the bad side of town, but crimes against whites resulted in swift “justice.”
Kudos to Geoffrey Britain for bringing statistics to bear on the issue. The truth of the matter is easy to see.
His conclusions are also exactly right. Ethical standards and a respect for the law matter greatly in a free society.
Poverty does not necessarily lead to criminality. If it did, Justice Clarence Thomas and Dr. Ben Carson would both be in prison today. Good parenting makes a difference.
I believe that all murders of LEOs should carry an automatic death penalty with no exceptions and only one appeal available. And the executions should be highly publicized. It’s important to stand behind the thin blue line that protects society from the criminals in our midst.
Mr. Frank:
Sowell has written quite a few books on the subject. He does not, as far as I can recall, agree with you. He ascribes the changes to liberal policies, especially those regarding welfare and the discouragement of the black family that resulted. Before the 60s he says the black family was doing rather well. He’s really written a ton about this.
Fred,
Balderdash! You are not aware of real, credible info. GB and neo make many great points about why we have a high murder rate per capita. However, unless there has been a dramatic change, several countries come to mind with rates higher than the USA. Perhaps you should investigate rates in Africa and Latin America. Btw, I will not do your research for you as neo and GB have so kindly done.
The most wicked liars circle like vultures around the 2nd amendment. I am not calling you a liar, but you are ill informed on this issue. The federal and state laws and regulations on firearms are as numerous as the bureaucracy of obamacare. I bought a 22LR rifle when I was ten, it was delivered by the USPS, and I and others took our rifles to school once a month for marksmenship class.
The violent crime rate per capita was far lower before background checks and the tens of thousands of laws and regulations of today. As noted many times on this forum, its the decay of our culture at the root of many, if not most, of the curses that plague our society. Laws mean little where dangerous, anti-social thugs hold sway.
Are we going to see a return of the “Zebra Killings”?
Or are we actually there already but the MSM isn’t reporting it as such?
I’ve mentioned it before in other comments; the hostility I’ve personally faced from some blacks on the NYC subway in the last few years is unlike anything I’ve personally witnessed before. Things are getting worse; not better. And cops must be feeling under attack like no other time in recent memory.
While, those individuals involved are ultimately responsible for their own actions, I do place a lot of the blame on Obama and company (and their supporters!) for creating the atmosphere that allows bigots to be so bold.
neo and Mr. Frank,
It also had a lot to do with the radical chic 60s groups that made it cool for blacks to be rebels and “white” to be a responsible person. I think that when what Charles Murray talked about as the upper class failure to transmit their values to the poorer.To prove their own enlightenment, all these rich, educated creeps who had never talked with a struggling poor black sold them out to the loudmouth creeps like the Black Panthers. Then the radicals took over black colleges and procreated.
An excellent if not entirely right wing take on this is at an odd blog by a black woman who goes by the pen name “Muslim Bushido”. I don’t know that I’ve mentioned her, maybe I have? She has some opinions I certainly would disagree with but she does make some very crucial and on point arguments regarding black violence. She believes, as Neo says and others like Thomas Sowell, that this is principally the result of black family dissolution – no fathers and lots of “baby mamas.” And, she also attacks gangsta rap as a source of cultural degradation. Her solution is to tell black women to get far away from thugs, do not hang with thugs or date them, even if that means gong somewhere where there are no black people! And, date men of quality and if they happen to not be black, fine. Apparently, black women who are looking for decent men are finding that hard to find. This movement is called “black women’s empowerment” and “divestment”. I think she’s a changer in a sense since she used to be a black nationalist but has quit blaming white people for black problems. She’s a trip to read and I think she makes good points, and — she is speaking from an insider’s perspective.
She writes in this blog post that black women should recognize that (paraphrase) ‘white dominated law enforcement is the only thing between you and gang rape by black men’. That’s strong stuff. I would not have said that, but I am not an insider. It is harrowing to read her but she appears to make some good points:
http://muslimbushido.blogspot.com/2015/08/you-betta-recognize-what-dee-dee-is.html
I also second expat in the idea that academics and the intelligentsia and apparently – the educated classes did not transmit their values to the poor but lionized dysfunction. Radicals became chic in the 60’s and all hell broke loose. I lost a few good years of my life chasing the radical vision, it leads nowhere. Any way…
This is all foreboding.
Many law and order things are not mutually exclusive, and may actually be mutually explainable.
It is complicated.
Conservatives need to be careful.
For instance: how willing are conservatives to give up the 4th amendment?
Think about the 4th amendment and leftist activism.
It is complicated.
Tonawanda,
Please explain how the intersection of the 4th amendment and leftist activism are ‘complicated’.
Amendment IV
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
What black radicals are planning for 9/11 will turn your stomach…
I blame the voters ….
Neo & Geoffrey Britain
Why not mention the elephant in the room?
You are and others right what you siad and prove you mentioned.
The question here what you can do to stope/ prvent more bad news dose not matter what colour who did it.
You have society that a mix, there are laws strian that mixtur how to make more robust to stop the kiling this goal you know the root but what the tool to stope the Black do it agian
It is a federal crime, with a mandatory sentence of 5 years, for an ex-felon to possess a firearm or ammunition. This law was the result of intense lobbying by the NRA. Anyone care to guess how often the obama doj prosecutes ex-felons in violation of this law? The obama doj is not interested in prosecuting offenders, they welcome more crimes that involve possession of a firearm. Never let a manufactured crisis go to waste.
how calculating, Obama & holder *ignore* a law
because it does not further the Lefts agenda to *disarm* the citizenry ! More blood on their hands, but that”s OK somebody else can make the ultimate sacrifice for Leftism, right dear leader?
Thpmas Sowell is right. Prior to civil rights blacks for the most part had an excellent work ethic, intact families and thanked God every Sunday for what they had.
It was liberals and their “compassion” that destroyed all that. Reminds me of my neighbor lady whose dogs live miserable lives and die from gross obesity because she cares for them so much.
For those who think gun laws are the answer, a look at Vermont is instructive. Along with their extremely low murder rate, they have some of the least restrictive gun laws in the country. No permit is required for open or concealed carry.
A quote from the infamous, segregationist Georgia governor Lester Maddox is instructive. At a press briefing he was asked about the deplorable conditions in the state prison system. He said words to the effect that the prisons would not get better until they got a better class of prisoner.
Where the hell is Al Sharpton?
Heh, I bet people here thought CW I was over and done with in America, heh. We killed slavery, right, we don’t need to worry about that any more. No more slave rebellions.
Well, CW 1 didn’t kill slavery which is why you will be welcome to CW 2. Regardless of whether people like to believe it or not.
As for stats, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Oakland, and New Orleans heavily tilts US statistics towards certain conclusions. But it doesn’t cover the majority of the outlands.
Without Democrat murder zones and plantations accounted in the statistics, the US has a firearms and crime rate equal to Switzerland.
Looking at the data it is clear why those evil southerners created segregation.
That’s not why whites in the South were ordered to obey Democrat laws to segregate or else. The South has had Democrat totalitarian control before CW 1, after CW 1, and before 1960. They were owned more totally than the blacks are now, on Democrat plantations.
Nobody could step out of line in a Democrat controlled culture. Not the women. Not the blacks. Not the whites. Everyone had their place, under the Demoncrats.