I think that the protesters against the police brutality would have served their cause better if they said: "Black lives matter also!" The way they had it allowed for the interpretation that only black lives matter.

Public speaking in the era of instant distribution is hard to do well.

The professional-victim classes, but especially the blacks, are asserting a permanent God-given right always to be treated as "special" people.

I think we should give it to them, by declaring them all eligible for the Special Olympics. ;-D

Yes.

Taxpayers lives matter
Military lives matter
Cops lives matter.

I heard the angry outburst on the video when something other than PC correct "Black lives matter!" was stated.
I wonder if blacks would care to chant that at Planned Parenthood.
It also occurred to me that a good way to make the ISIS terrorists laugh would be to chant, "All Muslim lives matter!"
And maybe I should stop chanting, "Extinct dino lives matter!" with tears in my eyes anymore.

O'Malley just proved a Democrat will say or do ANYTHING to get votes.

This also proves that the left does not want or promotes any form of equality. They want some to be "more equal" than others.

This also proves the statist nature of the left, and the liberals and their total desire to control everyone and every thing.

Their idea of Liberty is being able to do with others and the product of others labor as they see fit.

This is the same as what Lincoln talked about in his address on Liberty and Tyranny.

The wolf cries the shepherd is a tyrant by preventing them from eating the sheep and call him a destroyer of their freedom while the sheep decry the shepherd as a liberator of their freedom.;

So who is the liberator and who is the destroyer of freedom?

Depends on your agenda whether all lives matter. To the HIllary Clintons, the only lives that matter are the ones that further her political agendas- that means people who will work and give to the state willingly, black people who can be exploited politically, illegal aliens who can be made into democratic voters, etc. Regular american entrepreneurs are too rebellious to be of use. And god forbid the people who rebelled against the UNION- the confederates- are still around. We should wipe out all references to them.
I would say that there ARE some people who I would rather NOT have around- and those are the real power hungry statists who just want to control people. I am not going to kill them, but I certainly wouldnt cry if they just disappeared. We could start with Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid, and those senators from California. I am sure there could be a rather long list if one really thought about it. The best thing to do with those people is to let them live with their sympathizers, but in such a way they cant steal wealth from the people who actually create it.

Are you speaking of the ones that crawl on their bellies or the ones in Washington...

Never mind - same thing.

Isn't the second part of your statement a consequence of the first part?

O'Malley's listeners clearly went beyond "Black lives matter!" to "White lives don't matter!" They lose their standing to criticize others for racism when they indulge in it themselves.

I understand why people are upset. But, I think a lot of people aren't dealing in reality anymore. Doesn't bode well...

Rand was a great author, but not the only great author on the subject of dystopia.

We have a situation here where their idiocy and group-worship has led them to a logical conclusion of such self-evident outrageousness that--well, what more can be said? I'm almost speechless! :-p

Ah, what a fabulous quote to pull out on this topic! Thanks Jim. I'm still waiting for someone to give us the most appropriate Rand quote. There's one I'm thinking of...

"Martin O'Malley apologized on Saturday for saying 'All lives matter'"
What? It sounds like some weird parody or alternate universe.

I realize that the statists and race baiters have absolutely no concept of reason or logic, but this totally defies any kind of sense.

Once Chamberlain had a speech memorized from Shakespeare and gave it proudly, the old man listening but not looking, and Chamberlain remembered it still: 'What a piece of work is man...in action how like an angel!' And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, 'Well, boy, if he's an angel, he's sure a murderin' angel.' And Chamberlain had gone on to school to make an oration on the subject: Man, the Killer Angel. And when the old man heard about it he was very proud, and Chamberlain felt very good remembering it. The old man was proud of his son, the colonel.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Exactly....

I hear you SD. I have to admit, I would not cry overly much if I heard that poisonous snakes were extinct!

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". from Animal Farm, George Orwell

Except fruit flies and mosquitos; I'm sure they have a place in the general scheme of things, but frankly I don't care what they do to them!

Yes, all lives matter! Even those of animals -
or at least most of them (animals, that is).

Well, I guess not all lives matter.

That seems to be in keeping with the general trend of things over these last years, wouldn't you say?