PAX Centurion - March / April 2015

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • March/April 2015 • Page 15 Response to Boston Globe Editorial: “After Ferguson report, police need to embrace reform…” (3-13-2015) Officer Moynihan, amazingly, continues to recover. Thank God for John’s fellow officers from the gang unit, the EMT’s and all officers from across the city who responded to the crime scene, the hospital, or assisted in a thousand ways, most of which went unnoticed. But for those of us cynics whose faith has waned over the last sev- eral years, the fact that John Moynihan’s condition began to improve shortly after the Palm Sunday prayer service on Dudley Common might actually prove to be something more than coincidence. If you want to take offense to this article because you’re an atheist or a com- munist or aWican, go right ahead. Put your complaint in triplicate, send it off to Internal Affairs, theACLU, and then send me a copy so I can put it in the circular file. But something else saved John Moyni- han’s life, more than just the outstanding medical care he received…. A Moynihan miracle?… From Moynihan on page 11 Dear Editor Brian McGrory, interim Editorial Page Editor Ellen Clegg, O n Friday, March 13 th , 2015, an editorial (“After Ferguson report, police need to embrace reform…”) appeared which took yet another gratuitous slap at your longtime enemies, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and myself personally as editor of the BPPA’s Pax Centurion newsletter. ( Nobody from the Globe contacted me for comment or response, par for the course... ) The editorial snidely infers “racism” and “intolerance,” without, once again, providing any specifics or any examples which you good lib- erals at the Globe have determined to be “racist” or “intolerant.” (That is because they don’t exist, except in your own fertile imaginations and deeply biased perceptions). Obviously, that definition changes by the day and with the wind, depending on who or what the Globe determines to be “racist” or “intolerant.” I am keenly aware of what it must have been like in Salem, Mass. in 1692, when the accusa- tion of “witch” was cavalierly hurled against political enemies and people were left trying to defend themselves against the indefensible. Is opposing President B arack Obama’s or Deval Patrick’s policies tantamount to “racism?” Is disagreeing with liberal programs and policies which have caused social chaos for police officers equiva- lent to your Orwellian definition of “intolerance?” If so, I guess I’m guilty, and proudly so. Since 1968, Pax Centurion has existed as the patrolmen’s lone voice in the wilderness, expressing the opinions and frustrations of the vast majority of Boston Police Patrolmen and law enforcement officers across the state. (Not the politicians-in-uniforms masquerad- ing as police officers, but the actual street cops.) Our readership is not yours; you cater to the Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Wellesley, etc. etc. elitist frauds, and we address conservative police officers who often must deal with the terrible results foisted upon us by 60 years of failed liberal theology. Muzzled by rules, regulations, and real threats of retribution from political operatives (some in uniform, some not…), the Pax attempts to express the viewpoints of street-level po- lice officers, articulate our frustrations and concerns, and sometimes simply to highlight the lighter side of police work. “Cop humor” may not be understood by hand-wringing liberals sitting in their ivory tow- ers, but it is an avenue by which our members can vent. The Globe, as it has since our inception in 1968, desires to stifle free speech and extinguish any opinion which does not conform to your editorial board’s diatribes. The difference between Pax Centurion and the Boston Globe is this: we make no pretense about being 100% in support of law enforcement, the military, and our friends and supporters; we proudly admit that we are biased, always have been, always will be. The Globe , by contrast, masquerades editorials as “news stories/reporting/ journalism” and then pretend that you have no political agenda. Few, other than your own staff, believe that balderdash for a moment. Indeed, George Orwell, in his famous novel, 1984 , was prophetic: those who preach “tolerance and diversity” are, in practice, the polar opposite. Liberalism seeks to quash anything and everyone who does not kowtow to their world-view. Simply wag the finger of “racism,” “intolerance,” “sexist,” “homophobic,” etc., etc., and your enemies will be silenced. How do you prove a negative? The Globe exists as liberalism’s town crier and chief accuser, the modern-day equivalent of Salem’s Rev. Cotton Mather. All dissenting/conservative opinion is tarred and feathered as “hate speech” by the thought police. What is “hate speech?”Apparently, anything that liberals don’t like… If you have any actual examples of what you consider to be “racist” or “intolerant,” kindly identify them and call me directly for debate or comment. And the fact that the former Mayor and Police Commissioner were not pleased with our content is indeed a badge of honor. Pax Centurion does not exist to lavish praise upon egotis- tical politicians who want “happy-photos” of themselves shaking hands dominating our pages. When the Globe dictates that we should “embrace reform,” well, in the words of the immortal Clark Gable, “Quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn….” Or, as General An- thony McAuliffe simply said at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 when the Nazis demanded his surrender: “Nuts!” James W. Carnell Area A-1 BPPA representative Editor, Pax Centurion This whole story smacks of elitism, hypocrisy and fraud, but it repeats itself time and time again. Remember years ago when the good liberals of Brattle St. in Cambridge worked behind the scenes with the zoning board to eradicate a pre-school that attracted many minority parents due to “traffic concerns”. Of course, they all denied any ill-intentions, ….at least publicly. (Privately, at the Cambridge art exhibition and wine-tasting, they must have had a good laugh!) And as police officers, we see it all the time: it is the good liberals who scream about the plight of the poor and the downtrodden and how the police don’t do enough and don’t treat the homeless with respect and dignity. But as soon as one of Pine Street’s finest curls up on their front stoop, they’ll be the first ones on the phone to the D.S. demanding their removal immediately because… because… they’re taxpayers, and we pay your salary…!!! We’ve heard it all before, honey, we’ve heard it all before…. High hypocrisy… From Hypocrisy on page 13