urges even more resistance to immigration law!
Abraham Lincoln was wrong when he predicted that the world would little note nor long remember that speech he delivered on an exhausted battlefield on that day of memorial.
Madison WI has noted not at all the musings of one Robin Copley. But in commemoration of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s heroic passing this past Memorial weekend, those of a civic mind should take notice of his long-delayed but little awaited annual report. The above-named individual is the city’s independent police monitor, annual pay: $138,381. The City of Madison, sore ashamed of this country’s institutional racism, created the position as a burnt offering to the ghosts of Mr. Floyd and Tony Robinson Jr., individuals who resisted lawful arrest and paid the ultimate price.
The city employee accuses the Trump administration of fascism most foul. How come? For enforcing immigration law:
As long as there has been fascism in the world, communities have come together in anti-fascist movements to protect each other. — Robin Copley
Anyone who thinks that trying to secure a border is the same as what happened to Jews in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s must have the IQ of a potato chip. Among much else it suggests they believe that in the 1930s and 1940s Jews were desperate to break into Nazi Germany. — Douglas Murray, editor of the [British] Spectator magazine
White supremacists, ’emboldened’
Them tiki torches must be lighting up the night sky! We realize that the monitor’s evocation of the F word (for “fascism”) reverberates most pleasingly to this community’s progressive ear. But we do not recall any appointed official posting a political stance so baldly stated on the municipal door — not the fire chief; not the police chief; neither the city attorney, building inspector, assessor, parks superintendent, or metro transit director.
Such public policy pronouncements, it once was believed, were reserved for elected mayors and alders (however addled). But not Madison’s independent police monitor, who reports to a semi-autonomous board of carefully curated grievance mongers. Copley calls for police and citizens to resist immigration authorities and to harbor illegal immigrants.
Already, there are horrifying stories of arrests made through plain clothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and unmarked vans, families being separated and detained, and the emboldening of white supremacists. There are stories of ICE agents hiding in grocery store parking lots and near after-school facilities, putting families in fear of leaving their homes.
As are many who live near the illegals. (Read & Weep.)
The back door is open
Copley the police monitor (we shall avoid pronouns) urges resistance to the federal Laken Riley Act. “Subjecting Madison residents to the treatment specified in the Laken Riley Act should be avoided at all costs. … Officers should consider the potential suitability of an alternative resolution, rather than arrest.” That advisory appears to go beyond already circumscribed MPD policy. Sounds like the Judge Dugan method. The 58 Democrats who voted for Laken Riley might chafe at being labeled “fascists.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The Monitor resorts to the hackneyed weeper of many a progressive scoundrel, a paraphrase of Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came For …” We still believe that someday, an enlightened city will come for the independent police monitor — with his walking papers.
7 responses to “Madison police monitor cries fascism”
National SOCIALIST German Workers Party. Every NAZI was an enthusiastic Socialist.
Every single one.
Full stop.
Repeated often enough, charges of fascism will lose whatever sting they might have had–in fact, it’s already happened in Madison, where those charges are leveled every time Trump sneezes. As for the societal damage occasioned by George Floyd’s demise, it’s second only to that wrought by the pandemic; and paying someone an obscenely inflated salary for issuing absurd pronouncements is only one of its manifestations.
Nobody cares what a paid City hack has to say about fascism.
Not to mention a paid City hack who was third choice for the job and the only one who took it.
Nobody cares, Rob.
It sounds like he is running for some elected office.
It sounds like this blog supports killer cops. Not to mention our petty, addled President of the United States.
“No free speech for Fascists”
Yes, absolutely free speech for Fascists. I think most Madisonians understand this and it takes a special knucklehead like Tim Walz to think otherwise.
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