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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

When A President Sends A Message, The Country Hears It Loud And Clear. Obama Wants Civil Strife, Riots

Boston Cops Were Fed Up With Obama, So They Just Showed It In A BIG Way- White House ‘Furious’

Image Credit: Flickr/PROThomas Hawk

"Our members are enraged at his lack of support of law enforcement."

Randy DeSoto September 8, 2015 at 11:21am

The White House is reportedly very upset after the Boston Police Union chose to boycott President Obama’s Labor Day address in their city.

The association’s executive director, Jerry Flynn, explained the officers’ reasons why to the Boston Herald.

Our members are enraged at his lack of support of law enforcement. It’s clear that he has an agenda, and unfortunately the police are not part of his agenda.

Let’s face it, [there have been] eight people killed in a nine-day period, eight police officers, and his silence up until recently has been deafening. And the real sad part of this — and when I went to the White House in the first term with Joe Biden — he said to me that he would be the voice of law enforcement. Well, as much as I love and adore Joe, his voice has been silent as well. So it’s not an Obama problem. It’s an administration problem.

This is a horror show. This is an epidemic of lawless people trying to kill police officers for no apparent reasons. Case in point is the lieutenant who was pumping gas in Houston. Over 7,000 people were at that church, and where was he [Obama]? Why wasn’t he there instead of a unity breakfast?

The president, in fact, was still inferring that Ferguson was an example of racism by Officer Darren Wilson in March, despite his own Justice Department issuing a report that same week disproving the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” narrative. Flynn argued that the president’s actions, or lack thereof, have actually inflamed false anger towards police officers as manifested by movements like Black Lives Matter:

I mean, he had the opportunity to do things then and he didn’t, and all he’s done is escalated and allowed these people that are hellbent on causing problems to do so. We can’t continue to have people who have no intention to do anything but to be disruptive. These aren’t good citizens. These are thugs who go out and try to cause problems.

You can’t continue to have this kind of hatred and animosity and the lawlessness that’s going on in this country at the cost of police officers losing their lives. It’s irresponsible of the president and his administration.

Flynn advised Obama if he wished to improve relations with the police to issue a statement of support for the work they do. He said:

I think it would send a message to people in law enforcement that we have a commander in chief who actually is backing the people who are in the war on the street. And this is a war on the street. He’s got to come out and ask to be a unified group and to support law enforcement.

He’s got a new attorney general. What’s her agenda? What is her message going to be, that she’s actually putting forth? I don’t know the answer to that question. But certainly, what he’s doing now, what he hasn’t done now, has been supportive of those in law enforcement.

The White House reportedly was not happy about the president getting shunned by Boston police.

Obama got off on the wrong foot with Boston area law enforcement shortly after taking office in 2009, when he quickly took sides with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Jr. after he was arrested for disorderly conduct by Cambridge Police.

Obama said at the time that the police “acted stupidly” and the incident “showed how race remained a factor in our society.” The African American professor, at first, refused to show any identification and then got into an altercation with Officer James Crowley, who was responding to a 9-1-1 call for a potential home break-in. The so-called “Beer Summit” between President Obama, Gates and Crowley followed.

h/t: TopRightNews

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Rent-A-Rioters Don't Get Paid. Makes You Wonder Who Else Is Paid To Destroy

Tags: Ferguson | Missouri | paid | protesters

Ferguson Protesters Now Protesting Over Not Getting Paid

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Tuesday, 26 May 2015 09:26 AM

By John Blosser

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At least some of the protesters who looted, rioted, burned buildings and overturned police cars in Ferguson, Missouri, last year were promised payment of up to $5,000 per month to join the protests.

However, when the Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), the successor group to the now-bankrupt St. Louis branch of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), stiffed the protesters, they launched a sit-in protest at the headquarters of MORE and created a Twitter page to demand their money, the Washington Times reports.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen B. West noted on his website, "Instead of being thankful for getting off the unemployment line for a few weeks and having a little fun protesting, the paid rioters who tore up Ferguson, MO, are protesting again.

"First of all, can you even imagine getting paid $5,000.00 a month for running around holding a sign and burning down an occasional building? That's around $1,250.00 per week. Try making that at McDonalds or Starbucks."

The Kansas City Star estimates that the Ferguson riots, characterized as a spontaneous eruption of anger over the shooting of unarmed black criminal Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, cost the county $4.2 million.

Millennial Activists United (MAU) posted a letter on their website stating, "On May 14, 2015 many individuals and organizations of the protest movement that began in Ferguson, Missouri, organized a sit-in in the office of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE). The demand was simple: Cut the checks. The protesters say they are unable to pay their bills after taking time to travel to Ferguson.

"Questions have been raised as to how the movement is to sustain when white non-profits are hoarding monies collected of off (sic) black bodies? When we will (sic) hold the industry of black suffering accountable? The people of the community are fed up and the accountability begins here and now," the letter continues.

"There is an insidious strand of racism and white supremacy that exists in this movement. This money is typically in the hands of white people who oversee the types of services that the non-profit provides, while having select token black people to spearhead the conversations within and to the community."

Friday, January 23, 2015

Race Hustlers Like Sharpton Are Not Going To Slow Down Promoting Hate And Violence. It Will Be Worse This Summer And In 2016, The Country Will Explode In Riots!

Black Sheriff to Al Sharpton: 'Go Back Into the Gutter'

Thursday, 22 Jan 2015 06:15 PM

By Jason Devaney

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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has a message for the Rev. Al Sharpton: "Go back into the gutter."

During an interview on "Fox & Friends" Thursday morning, Clarke, who has been making a name for himself as a conservative commentator in recent months, was discussing the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo. from last summer.

When asked to comment on Sharpton's remarks in the wake of the shooting that left an 18-year-old black man dead, Clarke was blunt.

"I don't expect anything intelligent to come out of the mouth of Al Sharpton," Clarke said.

"The next intelligent thing that comes out of his mouth will be the first. Al Sharpton ought to just shut up and go back into the gutter that he came from."

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The segment was centered on Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who will reportedly not face federal civil rights charges for shooting Brown. He was cleared of criminal charges in November.

Sharpton said over and over the shooting was race-based because Brown did not have a weapon on him. But the evidence, released by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch, showed Brown attacked Wilson several times, leaving the officer no choice but to use his gun.

Clarke also had harsh words for Attorney General Eric Holder, who traveled to Ferguson after riots and violent protests broke out in the St. Louis suburb. Holder vowed there would be a federal investigation into the shooting, even after the grand jury's decision in November that said Wilson acted in self defense — and even after Holder's options to charge the 28-year-old officer were limited.

"Just take a look at the history here. This isn't the first time that he has done this sort of thing," Clarke said of Holder. "He sat up there for months just slandering law enforcement officers all across the nation. He's the one in Ferguson, Mo. that brought up the racial profiling term. That we were gonna end racial profiling once and for all. He invoked that into this thing, when that was never any part of what happened in the tragedy between officer Darren Wilson and Mike Brown.

"This is habit now for this Justice Department under Eric Holder, and I just think it's a shame."

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Reporter Gets The Taste Of Some Bitter Medicine And Doesn't Like It!

The Woman Who Published Darren Wilson’s Address Found Out How the Real World Works

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

When the Oxford English Dictionary publishes its 2015 edition, you may want to check the entry for “hypocrite.” I’m pretty certain it’ll have Julie Bosman’s picture next to it.

Bosman, you may recall, is the The New York Times reporter who decided to publish officer Darren Wilson’saddress in the wake of the grand jury’s decision not to charge him in the death of Michael Brown.

When Bosman disclosed the street where Wilson and his pregnant wife were residing, controversy ensued and the reporter received widespread criticism for her actions.

One of the sources of the criticism was her own employer, The Times.

The “newspaper of record” (if the year were 1978) decided that the address of a man receiving hordes of death threats from rioters and race baiters didn’t exactly fit under the aegis of their motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”

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The Times issued a statement saying that printing Wilson’s address “may have been unwise in such an emotionally fraught situation,” which is sort of like Hitler admitting he may have had a slight problem with border incursions.

The paper and its not-so-intrepid reporter probably thought that was the end of the whole affair. However,Bosman had forgotten a certain adage about payback and how it’s somewhat akin to a female dog.

In retribution, bloggers found and posted Bosman’s address online, sending the reporter scrambling hysterically for protection from the very people she had sold out — the police.

And apparently, she did so in a none-too-subtle fashion.

“She came in thinking she was Steven Spielberg or something shooting a movie,” a source within the ChicagoPolice Department was quoted as saying (H/T Western Journalism).

The source confirmed that not only did she grossly exaggerate the threats she had received, but she demanded “top-tier” protection of the sort usually accorded to movie stars and visiting dignitaries.

So, let’s review: Reporter publishes address of police officer who isn’t charged with a crime. Uproar ensues. Reporter has her address published. Reporter demands that law enforcement put their lives on the line for her because she endangered the life of a police officer.

How do you think the Chicago police responded? Much in the manner you probably did.

“The police laughed at her,” the law enforcement source said.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Obama Makes Race Relations Worse Instead Of Better. The Great Uniter Becomes The Greatest Divider.

Poll: Race Relations Worse Under Obama

Sunday, 07 Dec 2014 07:56 PM

By Greg Richter

Many hoped the election of the first black president would improve race relations in America, but six years into the administration of Barack Obama, a new poll shows them worsening.

According to a Bloomberg Politics poll, 53 percent believe race relations have worsened under Obama, 36 percent think they are unchanged, and only 9 percent believe they have improved.

Only 45 percent of black people surveyed believe race relations have gotten worse, while 56 percent of white people do.

The reactions to two recent grand jury decisions involving police and black suspects show the divide widening. In both cases, unarmed black men were killed by white police officers.

In the Ferguson, Missouri case 52 percent of the public agreed with the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

In Staten Island, New York, only 40 percent agreed with a grand jury that didn't indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner. Garner died of a heart attack after a police takedown, in which many described Pantaleo as employing a chokehold.

Broken down by race, 64 percent of whites and 4 percent of blacks either agreed or strongly agreed with the Ferguson decision. In the Staten Island case, only 32 percent of whites agreed or strongly agreed, and only 6 percent of blacks did.

Eighty-year-old Dale Griessel, a white retiree in Columbia, Missouri, told Bloomberg he will trust grand juries until he sees proof they aren't being honest.

"None of us has seen the forensic evidence. They have," he said.

Meanwhile, 28-year-old Delarno Wilson, who is black, said his Coast Guard assignments have been in mostly white towns, and he constantly has to worry about how to relate to people.

"That's something white people don’t have to think about," he said.

The poll talked to 1,001 adults and was conducted Dec. 3-5 by Selzer & Company of Des Moines, Iowa. The polls has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

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