Nov. 2024. Blues Vol 40 No. 11

GUEST COMENTARY

GUEST COMENTARY Noah Webster Police publication allows unhinged anti-Trump post on LinkedIn page, going against overwhelming majority of cops. By Noah Webster, Law Enforcement Today When a once-respected law enforcement publication like Police 1 veers off course, it’s our collective responsibility to set the record straight. This was the case with a recent LinkedIn post on Police1 Network, where Allen R. Kates, a figure whose views are overwhelmingly at odds with the majority of our readers, made a controversial comparison between President Trump and Adolf Hitler. As most of our readers are aware, Law Enforcement Today and the Fraternal Order of Police (as well as The BLUES) have all endorsed Trump. The fact that Kates cites an article from HuffPo is a clear indication of his stance. We question why Police 1 allowed this post to be published on their page. To be fair, Kates has written a book called CopShock: Surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which we understand has been helpful to some officers with that disability. That does not however, excuse Kates, nor does it excuse Police 1 for allowing this post to remain on their page. In the post, Kates cites the jump made by the HuffPo writer who claimed that because “industrialists” played a role in elevating Hitler to power, the same is “true” of Trump. Get it? Hitler was an evil dictator, therefore, so is Trump. This is Liberal Logic 101. Ironically, Kates appears to be unfamiliar with who took Trump out of power in 2020, big tech oligarchs. “In a word, their interests were Greed, which is the prime interest of American industrialists and tech entrepreneurs,” he wrote. Rewind to 2020, and who were the “tech entrepreneurs” in bed with? From Twitter to Facebook, Google to YouTube, the tech oligarchs worked overtime interfering in the 2020 election in an attempt to undermine Trump. Yet Kates claims that “industrialists and tech entrepreneurs” supported President Trump. In the current election cycle, Democrat Kamala Harris has raised a reported billion in campaign funds. Does Kates believe that money came solely from small money donations? If he does, we have some oceanfront property in the Sahara Desert to sell him. A journey through Kates LinkedIn posts (remember, LinkedIn is supposed to be a “professional” social media platform) shows that he has a terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome. He claims that Trump is an anti-Semite despite his daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren all being Jewish. Trump is also a strong supporter of Israel and its right to exist. The same cannot be said of Cackling Kamala Harris. Harris blew off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional speech, an unprecedented snub by a vice president. Who is the anti-Semite again? Perhaps Mr. Kates should take some of his own medicine because, as a “PTSD & Trauma Expert,” he appears to have a terminal case of both. Kate’s post on Police 1’s LinkedIn page spurred a lot of animosity among Police 1 followers: “I will no longer be following Police1 after this article has been posted. This is insulting to our profession. I will also be canceling my training account and find other resources for my training. I refuse to be indoctrinated by this 14 The Blues - November ‘24

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