A ONCE GREAT ORGANIZATION – AT 8:52 A.M. ET:  The NAACP Legal Defense Fund used to be a generally fine organization.  With some exceptions, its leaders were thoughtful lawyers who had no use for fashionable radicals.  The organization, working effectively, was at the heart of the civil rights movement. 

In recent decades, though, the Fund has come on hard times.  Poor leadership has been its major curse.  Its response to the murder of the two officers in New York shows how thoughtless the group has become.  From Breitbart: 

On December 20 the NAACP Legal Fund issued a press release saying the execution of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos show “the need for sensible gun control.”

I'm not kidding.  They actually led with that.

According to the release, we need also “need to thoughtfully address untreated mental illness.”

One thing the NAACP Legal Fund’s release said we don’t need to do is to “suggest a causal link between between these killings and the recent protests and activism focused on the serious issue of police violence against unarmed African Americans.” They suggest that pushing such a “causal link” may escalate “an already tense state through rumor and conjecture.”

That's absurd.  Of course there's a link.  The activism, and the raw nature of some of the chants we heard from radical marchers, inevitably had their impact on weak minds.  The murderer posted things on social media that clearly showed the effect of anti-cop hatred.

The NAACP does not mention that the attack on the officers took place in a state with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country–laws which were impotent against the criminal desires of the gunman.

COMMENT:  That is correct.  The NAACP is tired.  Like most tired liberals, its leaders fall back on the old discredited formulas.  No amount of gun control could have stopped this killer. 

Yes, he should have received proper mental help and, considering the fact that he had 19 arrests on his record, he probably should have been in prison.

In the end, though, this double murder was perpetrated by one man in a very highly charged atmosphere made worse by statements by the president, the attorney general, some black leaders, and the mayor of New York. 

December 22, 2014