Too bad

Somebody shot two cops last night around the demonstrations celebrating Chief Jackson's somewhat overdue but certainly welcome resignation in Ferguson, MO, last night. Fortunately they failed to kill them, but the injuries are serious. If the person or persons responsible thought they were performing some kind of act of radical justice or imagined they were bringing the struggle to a new level, like assholes who voted for George W. Bush in 2000 in the hopes of hastening the revolution, they were wrong. They're just assholes.

Steve says,

Cop killers (and their fans) are the superhawks of the social justice movement. They're the neocons. They're the Cheneys and Bill Kristols. They're poisonous in the same way. 

But that's way too respectful. The Cheneys and Kristols do have some base of support for their criminality, a movement that they represent, however ill-educated and emotionally immature it may be; cop killers are more like the Cliven Bundys and David Dukes, people so embarrassing that even the Cheneys and Kristols don't want any part of them. They can't poison the social justice movement. All they do is provide the National Review with material for denouncing it, which is not a very significant contribution to anybody's discourse, since those people can get material from an unseasonable snowfall or the wrong pair of jeans (see BooMan on the predictable reactions). They are what Marx referred to as Lumpen, people too wasted and worthless to have any real revolutionary consciousness at all. They're spreading pain in the world for no good reason. They ought to be ashamed.