PAX Centurion - September / October 2015

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • September/October 2015 • Page 11 To the men and women of the BPD and BEMS, It was, and is, a great pleasure to raise awareness, on your behalf, of the annual scholarship by securing advertisers to offer their services to you, the members of the BPPA, in 2015 and beyond. It is most important to keep in mind that many of these advertisers are happy to support our cause just because they are appreciative of your efforts, but many, while appreciative, need to drive additional sales as well. Please try to keep this in mind as you shop for groceries, fill prescriptions, buy cars, dine in restaurants or when you might be in need of any services you see advertised within the pages of this, or past and future issues of the Pax. Also, as always, as you go about your daily routines, if you see or hear of a potential candidate for advertising, I can be reached at 617-989-2772 (office) or my cell 617-529- 9288. Thank you in advance and thank you for the opportunity to represent you in this endeavor. Sincerely, Mike Joyce Advertisers in this issue of the Pax Centurion : Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Boston Firefighters Credit Union Boston Red Sox Foundation Burke Distributors Byrne & Anderson, LLP, Attorneys at Law City of Boston Credit Union Eire Pub The Embroidery Clinic Law Firm of Scott D. Goldberg, P.C. Law Offices of Donald E. Green Guaranteed Rate Mortgage Carole Lund, R.E. Neponset Preschool New York Life/Kevin J. Pishkin Valvoline Instant Oil Change porters “ hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest” . Repeat a lie often enough, and it will eventually become true, simply by virtue of its repetition. Warren’s speech conjures up horrific images of innocent people “choking to death while gasping for air,” “peaceful protesters beaten,” “ journalists jailed,” and then alleges that “…in some cities, white vigilantes with weapons freely walk the streets….” REALLY, SENATOR? And WHERE would that be?What city or town in these United States do “white vigilantes freely walk the streets with weapons?” Chicago? Detroit? Baltimore? Los Angeles? Gross, false, contrived, incendiary statements made by a United States Senator, sickeningly trying to connect law enforcement with the racist KKK. (Editor: The Senator and her staff can deny attempting to make that connection all they want, but the very next sentence in her full speech , verbatim, as prepared for delivery by her staff, is : … “And it’s not just about law enforcement either.” We know exactly what you meant, Senator.) But no one – NO ONE – at the like-minded Boston Globe calls Senator Warren out and asks the most basic, obvi- ous question: WHERE in the United States do “armed white vigi- lantes freely walk the streets” while President Obama andAttorney General Lynch are in office? The Senator then proceeds to demand that “…Police forces should look like, and come from, the neighborhoods they serve.” (One of BLM’s demands, also.) In theory, that sounds great. But in practice, that would result in a balkanized police force. ALL citizens are sup- posed to obey the law and act civilly without regard to an officer’s race or ethnicity. Brookline and Newton, for example, would have to exclude some minority candidates from employment consideration almost by necessity, if Senator Warren’s proposal for hiring police officers were adopted. And if each of Boston’s neighborhoods were restricted to being policed only by those who “came from” or “looked like” the local residents ( whatever that is determined to be,.. and (more importantly) who gets to determine that???) then Boston, too, would have a balkanized police force. And why stop there? Bringing Senator Warren’s restrictive proposal for hiring and assigning police officers to its logical conclusion, shouldn’t we also consider issues such as an officer’s language, religion and sexual orientation before assigning them to a particular neighborhood? “Progressives” who advocate “diversity” often live in upper-income areas. I wonder how “diverse” and “income-equal” is Senator Warren’s neighborhood? If the Senator practices what she preaches about police forces “coming from and looking like the neighborhoods they serve” , then I guess the police officers assigned to patrol her block are all named Muffy or Biff, have blond hair, blue eyes and make $700,000 per year. (Sign me up, color my hair, and call me Biff!...) The senior Senator’s speech prattles on paying lip service to “brave officers” when in reality, she and her staff detest middle-class, blue-collar police officers. Keep it, Senator: we don’t want or need your Cheshire-cat accolades. She panders to the lowest common de- nominator knowing that her hand-maidens at the Globe will dutifully report only what and how she wants them to report. Senator Warren once took credit for “providing the intellectual background for the Occupy movement.” That much may be absolutely true.