Another veteran shot another cop!
It was, of course, reported widely for a day or two, but then the national media quickly forgot it, for one reason or another.
Some in the grassroots media do a much better job reporting on it, like Michael Harriot, who wrote the following; but even he didn't cover it all:
Why Is the Media Afraid to Call Matthew Riehl a Racist, Anti-Cop Terrorist? 01/03/2018
He was a racist and a terrorist. He was an Islamophobe. He spread white supremacist memes. He used the terminology of the “alt-right.” He called Barack Obama a “lying piece of shit.”
You probably have no idea who I’m talking about, because when Matthew Riehl fired more than 100 bullets at Douglas County, Colo., sheriff’s deputies on Sunday, he was initially called the “Denver shooting suspect.” CNN described him as the “Colorado gunman.” Fox News described him as a “Wyoming lawyer.” The Associated Press highlighted his mental illness. Newsweek described him as an “Iraq veteran.”
Almost every major news outlet has reported how Riehl killed 29-year-old Deputy Zackari Parrish and wounded three other law enforcement officers outside of Denver, so you probably already know the story.
Except you don’t.
None of those outlets has called the incident a “terrorist attack.” Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock told CBS News that it was an “ambush-type of attack,” despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security labeled a string of December shootings at Harrisburg, Pa., police officers a “terror attack.” But, to be fair, the perpetrator of that crime had a Muslim name. .....
Law enforcement organizations have yet to attribute Riehl’s murderous rampage to the “Ferguson effect” or blame it on “Black Lives Matter.” I know what you’re thinking: “But was there any indication that Riehl had ties to Black Lives Matter?”
The answer is no. There is no evidence that Riehl was connected in any way to the Black Lives Matter movement. But there was also no evidence that Micah Johnson had any ties to the Black Lives Matter movement when he killed five Dallas policemen in 2016, except for the fact that conservative outlets made the connection even though the Dallas police chief explicitly said that Johnson had no connection with the group. Johnson never attended a Black Lives Matter meeting. He never identified himself as a member of BLM. Complete article
He was a racist and a terrorist. He was an Islamophobe. He spread white supremacist memes. He used the terminology of the “alt-right.” He called Barack Obama a “lying piece of shit.”
You probably have no idea who I’m talking about, because when Matthew Riehl fired more than 100 bullets at Douglas County, Colo., sheriff’s deputies on Sunday, he was initially called the “Denver shooting suspect.” CNN described him as the “Colorado gunman.” Fox News described him as a “Wyoming lawyer.” The Associated Press highlighted his mental illness. Newsweek described him as an “Iraq veteran.”
Almost every major news outlet has reported how Riehl killed 29-year-old Deputy Zackari Parrish and wounded three other law enforcement officers outside of Denver, so you probably already know the story.
Except you don’t.
None of those outlets has called the incident a “terrorist attack.” Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock told CBS News that it was an “ambush-type of attack,” despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security labeled a string of December shootings at Harrisburg, Pa., police officers a “terror attack.” But, to be fair, the perpetrator of that crime had a Muslim name. .....
Law enforcement organizations have yet to attribute Riehl’s murderous rampage to the “Ferguson effect” or blame it on “Black Lives Matter.” I know what you’re thinking: “But was there any indication that Riehl had ties to Black Lives Matter?”
The answer is no. There is no evidence that Riehl was connected in any way to the Black Lives Matter movement. But there was also no evidence that Micah Johnson had any ties to the Black Lives Matter movement when he killed five Dallas policemen in 2016, except for the fact that conservative outlets made the connection even though the Dallas police chief explicitly said that Johnson had no connection with the group. Johnson never attended a Black Lives Matter meeting. He never identified himself as a member of BLM. Complete article
Michael Harriot was right about the double standard by the media; however Micah Johnson and Matthew Riehl, along with some of the police they fought were all trained by the government, in the military, police force or both to allegedly protect us; however in the case of one war after another that we fight, they're based on lies, like the ones about weapons of mass destruction, and the threat that they're protecting us from is a sham! The methods they use to train these veterans involves teaching them to obey orders without question and to deal with their problems with violence, although officially it's supposed to be only when they're ordered to.
This, of course, doesn't mean that all police or all veterans are violent psychopaths going on shootings sprees; in fact, as this case shows other police or veterans are often the victims when those the government train to kill with emotional problems do go on shooting sprees. One of the other most common victim of violence from veterans, or police, for that matter, are often their own family members.
This is far more common than the media reports and a major part of the reason for it is that they're constantly providing the propaganda to fight all these wars based on lies; and they only provide media coverage for politicians that support their ideology. People that do the best research into how violence starts at an early age and escalates from their or how military or police training can, in some cases, lead to more violence that it prevents.
The war on terror has never honestly exposed the real causes of terrorism and that a lot of it is retaliation for the attacks that we make in wars based on lies overseas ; which means that they're doing more to incite terrorism than they are to stop it! It shouldn't be hard to understand that they don't like it when we bomb them anymore than we like it when they bomb us; yet many veterans are trained to believe what they're told, even when the evidence overwhelmingly indicates it's a lie. Anti war protesters are often treated as unpatriotic; but they do a much better job recognizing the causes of violence and how to prevent it, and veterans have been coming home and going on shooting sprees far more often than the media implies, by reporting each incident briefly and quickly forgetting it.
It was only a few weeks ago that Devin Patrick Kelley went on his rampage and they reported that the military didn't adequately report the signs of his problems with domestic abuse. The same thing happened with Matthew Riehl who also had signs of mental issues that weren't reported as widely as they could have been but the media didn't focus on this nearly as much and has now moved on to other things.
Another thing that they fail to report on is that if they did report all these problems then it would be clearer that they may need these people with emotional problems if they're going to continue fighting all these wars based on lies, since they're the ones most willing to kill without question.
However it is unlikely that this begins with military training, although boot camp indoctrination does escalate violent tendencies. One of the most important contributing causes of violence later in life is the way children are raised early in life, often starting with corporal punishment which is used to teach blind obedience and it is also used to teach children to accept the beliefs from their parents without question, which makes them very susceptible to continued indoctrination at boot camp that uses the same tactics, instead of treating any emotional problems that cadets might have.
Boot Camp indoctrination doesn't teach cadets to question orders; it teaches them to blindly obey, or as they say in "A Few Good Men," they "Obey orders or people die," which might sound very good and seem to be true if it is repeated over and over again like the propaganda in "A Few Good Men" or in the real world where it is a realistic portrayal of real boot camp and the media where they always present us as "fighting for freedom," but it's often based on lies!
This may be much easier when they recruit veterans that are taught to believe what they're told without question, often even racists veterans like Matthew Riehl and Wade Michael Page, who also have emotional problems and are often involved in domestic violence. With the shrinking pool of potential veterans, especially after growing disclosures about weapons of mass destruction that don't exist or reports about how veterans aren't being treated well after they're discharged, and that when there are problems like at Abu Ghraib it is the lowest veteran that was trained to blindly follow orders that got all the blame while those that gave the orders weren't held accountable it is much harder to recruit.
This means that they have to recruit veterans anywhere and everywhere they can and screening out people with emotional problems will make that more difficult. Amazingly, on top of that the political establishment is blatantly admitting that they're not going to keep their promises to these veterans anyway, like when they routinely betray promises about immigrants, or so called "dreamers" that have been led to believe that they would have a path to citizenship if they serve the military, but they routinely abandon this promise.
They're also trying to recruit a growing percentage of minorities to fight their wars based on lies, but when many of these minorities come home and they return to their abandoned inner cities they realize that the government isn't keeping their promises. It becomes clear that when the police are often shooting black people and the economic system isn't providing them with educational or economic opportunity that they're fighting to defend only the wealthy, not the majority of the public, although it is easier for white people in the suburbs to ignore this when they don't live in the ghettos that have sky high rates of violence.
It's much easier to blame black people for all the violence that takes place in these ghettos; however it's not the black people that make the decisions to slash funds for education and child care while they're spending a fortune on wars based on lies and to ship jobs overseas so that they don't have any opportunities.
There's much more details to the research into how violence escalates starting from early abuse and that it gets worse in boot camp indoctrination; so it's much easier to dismiss this as "blaming society" for the things done by the people without any resources; however it's not all of society and sometimes the details are relatively simple assuming you actually want to acknowledge them.
It should be incredibly easy to understand that spending billions of dollars on wars and prisons while cutting funds to schools and child care are bound to cause major problems, especially when it's only the funds for education to the poor, not the rich that is being cut. Nor should it be easy to understand that when they use outsourcing to ship jobs overseas combined with deceptive advertising about the economic system to ensure that the working class gets their wages crushed so they can't afford to pay for education or child care, while the ruling class gets advertising, union busting, public relations, insurance, political pundits, or other white collar jobs that pay well but don't improve the quality of life for the majority of the pubic is epidemic fraud!
Nor would it be hard to understand this if white people actually had to live in the ghettos and be treated the way blacks are treated by police to understand that they aren't always there to protect them at all. In this case it began with a veteran that shot and killed a cop and wounded several others before being killed by police, but in the vast majority of cases it's the police that are the ones that kill either veterans or blacks or in many cases both.
Not that I'm trying to blame the police for this, or at least not entirely, and some of the better police officers realize this. It's actually the politicians that make the decisions that lead to these confrontations that are more responsible including the ones about police training. But many police officers are trained like veterans to blindly obey orders and only how to escalate tensions with the threat of increased violence.
In one case, that I've cited in the past, David Couper, former police chief of Madison Wisconsin, has advocated for reform in police training speaking out against bullying and hazing in the police academy, so like some of the veterans, including those speaking out against wars based on lies or family members some of the most effective solutions are coming from police, but the media rarely reports on his research anymore than they report on how early child abuse leads to escalating violence or how the predatory economic system abandons inner cities and leaves them without the resources to function properly.
I've gone into this more in numerous previous articles including a recent one when Devin Patrick Kelley went on his shootings spree in the following articles:
Texas Church Shooting Exposes Cover-up of Military Domestic Violence Problems
Does Training Cause Police Domestic Violence And Infighting
Military Indoctrination Endangers Veterans and Public for Wars Based on Lies
Or for additional stories about this shooting see the following:
Colorado gunman threatened to ‘fire’ sheriff before shooting deputies 01/01/2018
Colorado gunman who killed deputy left alarming online trail, officials say 01/02/2018
Colorado shooting: Concern over Matthew Riehl's mental state flagged a month ago 01/02/2018
Colorado Shooter Matthew Riehl Shared Alt-Right Memes on Facebook 01/02/2018
Deadliest U.S. mass shootings, 1984-2017 10/02/2017
Motive behind the madness in Sikh shooting 08/09/2012
Fellow veterans paint conflicting views of Douglas County shooter Matthew Riehl’s military service 01/04/2018
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