It’s pretty much settled policy now.
Supporting the Marxist Antifa-Black Lives Matter movement and the dangerous criminals it represents is mandatory.
Supporting anyone who opposes them can get you fired.
In the first case, the New Orleans Saints have emblazoned the name of sex-assault suspect Jacob Blake on their helmets.
In the second, a public official in Maryland lost his job for tweeting support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two people and wounded a third who attacked him during the riots that ensued after a cop shot Blake.
The first is allowed. The second is not.
Support the Thug
Multiple social-media posts depict the team’s apparent support for Blake.
An angry tweet from NotKennyRogers showed a photo of quarterback Drew Brees, who should know better:
1 in 3 women experience sexual assault or domestic violence at some point in their lives.
65% of victims who come forward say no one helped them.
Here’s Drew Brees at practice today with the name “Jacob Blake” on his helmet.
Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/rPJ4zdSFBd
— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) August 29, 2020
Another tweet from the Saints shows Brees in the Blake helmet. “Cookin,’” the Saints publicists observed.
Cookin’ ♨️@drewbrees x @JaredCook89 pic.twitter.com/a4Qb4AHMgM
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) August 27, 2020
An Instagram post from cornerback Janoris Jenkins shows a close-up of the helmet: “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything,” the part-time philosopher ruminated.
In 2019, Jenkins’ brother William was indicted for manslaughter in the death of another man in the football player’s home.
For the record, the man the Saints think is a saint had violently resisted arrest, and when a police officer shot him, was reaching into his car. Police later found a knife on the floorboard of the driver’s side.
As well, authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Blake in connection with a third-degree sex assault.
Blake’s former girlfriend, the criminal complaint against him says, described the sex-assault this way:
As [she] lay there, on her back, the defendant, suddenly and without warning, reached his hand between her legs, penetrated her vaginally with a finger, pull[ed] it out and sniffed it, and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men.”
The NFL is popularly known as the National Felon League.
No Supporting Rittenhouse
Meanwhile, top Maryland official Arthur Love learned a hard truth about life in America, 2020: For a public official, supporting law and order is a job killer.
Love was deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives, the Washington Post reported, until he was pink-slipped for posting “‘divisive images and statements’ on Facebook about the shooting of protesters in Kenosha, Wis.”
Reported the Post:
In recent days, Love posted statements and shared memes on his public Facebook page in support of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with homicide after opening fire on a group of protesters in Kenosha, killing two and injuring one.
After online users identified Love as a state employee, his posts received widespread backlash, with some lawmakers calling for him to be removed from his role. On Saturday afternoon, Steve McAdams, executive director of the Governor’s Office on Community Initiatives, said Love had been “relieved of his duties.”…
“These divisive images and statements are inconsistent with the mission and core values of the Office of Community Initiatives,” McAdams said.
Shareese Churchill, a spokeswoman for Gov. Larry Hogan (R), released a separate statement saying, “These posts are obviously totally inappropriate. We fully support the immediate actions taken by Director McAdams to address this matter.”
Love’s superiors didn’t tell him personally. He learned he was jobless “through cable news on Saturday and received official notice of his termination Sunday morning.”
What was Love’s crime?
This sentiment, the Post reported: “I’m grateful that conservatives are rallying behind this kid. He genuinely seems like a good person.”
Even worse, Love thinks Blake got what he deserved and that Antifa-BLM rioters are waging war and terror against police:
Another post on his account showed a uniformed officer sticking two thumbs up with the caption: “Don’t be a thug if you can’t take a slug.”
In an earlier post, dated July 24, Love weighed in on the clashes between armed officers and protesters in Portland, Ore., writing, “So at what point in time does the local militia gather to defend the local police from these radical anarchists and terrorists.”
The message from public officials and corporate sports? We support criminals, and you better, too.
H/T: Independent Sentinel, Washington Examiner
Photo: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
