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		<title>Video: Ferguson Lynch Mob Speaks</title>
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		<title>The Real Racist Conspiracy In Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing level of community deceit that led to the false story of Michael Brown's death. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ferguson-protesters.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246562" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ferguson-protesters-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-protesters" width="375" height="281" /></a>After a grand jury in St. Louis, Missouri, voted against the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown, President Obama gave a short address to the nation. In it, he said he understood why some would feel disappointed at the verdict — an odd statement, given that all available evidence showed that Brown had robbed a convenience store, attacked Wilson in his vehicle, attempted to grab his gun and charged Wilson before Wilson shot him.</p>
<p>Then Obama dropped a doozy: &#8220;We need to recognize that this is not just an issue in Ferguson, this is an issue for America &#8230; there are problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama did not specify what problems he wanted to discuss. Nor did he explain why Ferguson&#8217;s issues were America&#8217;s. But the largest lie was the notion that &#8220;communities of color&#8221; don&#8217;t make problems up.</p>
<p>Because in Ferguson, that&#8217;s precisely what a community of color did.</p>
<p>In the immediate aftermath of the Brown shooting, grand jury documents show, witness intimidation and lying became the order of the day. Witness after witness told police that local thugs were intimidating those who had seen the events. One witness told police, according to the St. Louis Police Investigative Report, that threats &#8220;had been made to the residents of Canfield Green Apartment Complex.&#8221; This witness said that &#8220;notes had been posted on various apartment buildings threatening people not to talk to the police, and gunshots were still being fired every night.&#8221;</p>
<p>The witness wasn&#8217;t alone. Other witnesses stated that supposed witnesses were lying to the media about events, that others who had seen the events were &#8220;embellishing their stories&#8221; in order to convict Wilson.</p>
<p>One witness stated, &#8220;You have to understand the mentality of some of these young guys they have nothing to do. When they can latch on the something they embellish it because they want something to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some 16 witnesses testified that Brown&#8217;s hands were up when he was shot, which was factually false according to the autopsy. Another 12 witnesses said that Wilson shot Brown from behind — again, false according to the autopsy. One witness testified that Wilson used both a Taser and a gun — false. Another said that Brown had kneeled before Wilson shot him. When confronted with the fact that the physical evidence made such an account impossible, the witness acknowledged he hadn&#8217;t seen the event, and then asked if he could leave the grand jury because he was &#8220;uncomfortable.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death outside her apartment complex in New York. The entire nation gasped in horror when it learned that supposed witnesses had not called the police.</p>
<p>Fifty years later, the nation completely ignores the fact that an entire community apparently lied, facilitated lying or intimidated witnesses in order to put an innocent man behind bars, because he happened to be white. At least Kitty Genovese&#8217;s neighbors didn&#8217;t actually murder her. Members of the Ferguson community tried to murder Darren Wilson by putting him on death row. Meanwhile, President Obama and those in the media who played up the original narrative cheered them on.</p>
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		<title>Justifying the Rioting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246395" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg" alt="sd" width="269" height="201" /></a>Rather than denounce the shameful lawlessness demonstrated by many “protesters” demanding “justice” in the wake of the grand jury decision about Officer Darren Wilson, progressives are doubling down by posting rationalizations for the rioting.</p>
<p>Marc Lamont Hill, for example, author of a book on “hip hop pedagogy” who hilariously <a href="http://www.marclamonthill.com/about">describes</a> <em>himself</em> as “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/537112561221517312">tweeted</a>, “The story of ferguson tonight is way bigger than looting or violence. People are angry. People are hurting. They&#8217;re killing us with impunity.” This is nonsense. People don’t loot and burn down neighborhood businesses because they are angry and hurting; they do so because trumped-up racial controversies give a criminal element the cover to commit crimes against business owners who had nothing to do with the controversy. Rioters steal big-screen TVs and Nike sneakers because they’re hurting? Ridiculous. They steal them because they are opportunistic thieves.</p>
<p>The hugely popular Gawker site, in an <a href="http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918">article</a> claiming that “riots are good,” actually argues that “rioting is economically efficient”: “Since state authorities are always and everywhere most concerned about capital and business interests, threatening to impose costs on them via rioting should have a similar impact on police incentives” – by which it means that destructive rioting now supposedly discourages the police from shooting innocent black males later. What it really dissuades economically is businesses starting up or rebuilding in a neighborhood devastated by looters. The costs it imposes are not on the police, but on the victimized local business owners and their employees. But then, celebrity gossip is Gawker’s strong suit, not economics or common sense.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most unintentionally comical defense of rioting is from <em>Mask Magazine</em>, “an online style + living magazine for antagonist youth.” With a title that could have come straight out of the satiric site <em>The Onion</em>, “Hey, Step Back with the Riot Shaming” explains irrationally that “[People of color] are criminals because we are <em>seen as criminals</em>.” [emphasis in original] So, simply being viewed with suspicion causes people to commit crimes? The writer argues (actually, he doesn’t “argue” anything; he just spews a lot of whiny victimhood) that blacks don’t “own” neighborhoods; there <em>are</em> black-owned businesses, he concedes, but in the next breath he claims that “we don’t have shit,” and so apparently it’s all right to loot and burn the black-owned neighborhood businesses that he says blacks don’t have.</p>
<p>Even before the grand jury decision, as early as August right after the shooting of Michael Brown, a site called the New Inquiry put up a piece with the straightforward title, “<a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting/">In Defense of Looting</a>.” It was Marxist, racist agit-prop written by a guy whose bio identifies him as “a member of the punk band Vulture Shit.” Here’s a sample: “Only if you believe that having nice things for free is amoral, if you believe, in short, that the current (white-supremacist, settler-colonialist) regime of property is just, can you believe that looting is amoral in itself.” Here’s another: “Looters are only stealing from the rich owners’ profit margins. Those owners, meanwhile, especially if they own a chain like QuikTrip, steal forty hours every week from thousands of employees who in return get the privilege of not dying for another seven days.” This sounds like easily dismissed, Occupy lunacy, but unfortunately it is representative of the “thinking” of a depressing percentage of young people.</p>
<p>Also in August, the radical Salon.com posted a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/12/in_defense_of_black_rage_michael_brown_police_and_the_american_dream/">piece</a> “in defense of black rage,” in which the writer states about rioting, “I refuse to condemn the folks engaged in these acts, because I respect black rage… How dare people preach and condescend to these people and tell them not to loot, not to riot? Yes, those are destructive forms of anger, but frankly I would rather these people take their anger out on property and products rather than on other people.”</p>
<p>But what Salon and other riot apologists refuse to acknowledge is that those products and property don’t exist in a vacuum; they belong to people who had nothing to do with the controversy and yet whose lives are seriously damaged, and in some cases ruined, by the looting and burning of that property.</p>
<p>In addition to these intellectually insupportable attempts to justify rioting, other progressive voices took the opportunity to simply fuel the fire. In apparent response to tweets that the rioters should “go back to Africa,” <em>The Atlantic</em>’s popular Ta-Nahisi Coates, perhaps best-known for his recent article supporting slave reparations, <a href="https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/537742938248605697">tweeted</a>, “Not how this works. We are here to run you out, not the other way around.” If he’s saying that blacks are here to run whites out of the country, then that’s a rather militantly racist admission.</p>
<p>Another militant, UPenn’s willfully <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/24/after-reading-her-tweet-youll-understand-why-an-ivy-league-professor-deleted-this-racial-comment-on-the-vmas/">illiterate</a> Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler – whose <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/the-4-most-unhinged-responses-to-the-zimmerman-verdict/">unhinged response</a> to the George Zimmerman verdict I have previously written about – <a href="http://religiondispatches.org/americas-racist-god-meets-miss-celie-darren-wilson-not-indicted/">posted</a> an equally unhinged response this time, an inflammatory article asserting that Michael Brown was a “sacrifice to the god of white supremacy.”</p>
<p>In all fairness, not all the progressive voices attempted to whitewash the rioting or fan the flames. Charles M. Blow of <em>The New York Times</em>, for example, kept a relatively even keel in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/opinion/charles-blow-fury-after-ferguson.html?_r=0">his Wednesday op-ed</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>No one of good character and conscience condones rioting or looting or any destruction of property. Those enterprises aren’t only criminal, they’re fruitless and counterproductive and rob one’s own neighborhood of needed services and facilities and unfairly punish the people who saw fit to follow a dream and an entrepreneurial spirit, and invest in themselves and those communities in the first place.</p></blockquote>
<p>“But people absolutely have a right to their feelings,” Blow continues, “including anger and frustration.” Of course. But what the riot apologists won’t acknowledge is that violent rage is not justice or justification.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lynch mob politics embraced by the Obama administration hit the streets of America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246094 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992-450x337.jpg" alt="ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992" width="362" height="271" /></a>And so the whirlwind, cultivated by Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, the mainstream media and the army of thugs they enabled, is now being reaped. As the result of a St. Louis County grand jury <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/24/ferguson-grand-jury-deliberations/19474907/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">refusing</span></a> to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO has become Ground Zero, in what irresponsible Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadali <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/24/State-Senator-This-Is-St-Louis-Race-War"><span style="color: #1255cc;">referred</span></a> to on MSNBC as “St. Louis’s race war.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One of the race war’s architects <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848308/Obama-begs-calm-rioters-set-fires-attack-police-cars-Ferguson-grand-jury-refuses-indict-police-officer-Michael-Brown-case.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">pleaded for calm</span></a> shortly after the decision was announced. Yet even as Obama spoke about that &#8220;need for calm” and that there was “no excuse for violence,” he insisted, “We have to try to understand&#8221; the anger of those who demanded nothing less than a murder charge absent an ounce of evidence as an &#8220;understandable reaction&#8221; from people who believe &#8220;the law is being applied in a discriminatory fashion.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Where did those people get that belief? Leave it to Obama to omit that critical information &#8212; the same President Obama who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/groups-in-ferguson-prepare-for-grand-jury-decision.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> with protest leaders and Sharpton on Nov. 5 at the White House. It was at that unscheduled meeting the president was ostensibly &#8220;concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating,&#8221; according to Sharpton. &#8220;He said he hopes that we’re doing all we can to keep peace.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to marvel at one of two realities. Either we have a president so utterly naive he believes a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/sharpton-cant-admit-tawana-brawley-hoax/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">hoax-perpetrating</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/rev-al-caught-protest-tape-called-mart-owner-white-interloper-article-1.693222"><span style="color: #1255cc;">riot-inciting</span></a> Al Sharpton, who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/al-sharpton-high-alert-ferguson-decision/story?id=27025757"><span style="color: #1255cc;">denigrated</span></a> the grand jury process, <i>pre</i>-organized <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/heres-agitator-al-sharpton-just-revealed-will-spread-protests-far-beyond-ferguson/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">protest rallies</span></a> in 25 American cities, and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/25/al-sharpton-s-conflicting-roles-in-the-trayvon-martin-case.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">uses</span></a> his MSNBC platform to fire up racial unrest, is a man of peace. Or the president, who once <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/25/obama-tells-latinos-to-punish-our-enemies-the-gop/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">urged</span></a> his Latino followers to “punish our enemies,” remains as wedded to the same racial &#8220;us against them&#8221; mentality as America’s foremost racial arsonist. Is it really possible to believe the former?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite Obama&#8217;s superficial condemnations of violence, at least 25 businesses were set ablaze, many of which are total losses—and most of which were <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/25/Most-Businesses-Destroyed-in-Ferguson-Minority-Owned"><span style="color: #1255cc;">minority owned</span></a>.  Ten cars were burned at a dealership, and a &#8220;lot of gunfire,” as Ferguson Asst. Fire Chief Steve Fair put it, made maintaining control of the streets highly problematic, if not impossible. Reporters were <a href="http://deadline.com/2014/11/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-verdict-networks-cut-primetime-1201292322/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assaulted</span></a>, the store Michael Brown robbed prior to his confrontation with Wilson was <a href="http://deadline.com/2014/11/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-verdict-networks-cut-primetime-1201292322/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">looted</span></a>, and at least 61 people have been <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/in-ferguson-police-cars-businesses-on-fire-much-worse-than/article_47fc89b3-b0d2-5c41-a1fa-f4636673aac0.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">arrested</span></a>. “What I&#8217;ve seen tonight is probably much worse than the worst night we ever had in August, and that&#8217;s truly unfortunate,” said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar Monday at a 1:30 a.m press conference. Belmar further noted that there was “nothing left” along West Florissant between Solway Avenue and Chambers Road, that he heard at least 150 gun shots, and that he was surprised he and Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who “got lit up,” as they drove through the area, weren’t hit by that gunfire.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“We talked about peaceful protest, and that did not happen tonight,” Johnson said. &#8220;We definitely have done something here that&#8217;s going to impact our community for a long time&#8230;that&#8217;s not how we create change.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sharpton continued to stir the pot, criticizing <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/prosecutor-democrat_819853.html">Democratic</a></span> Prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s handling of the case, and <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/25/sharpton-grand-jury-announcement-an-absolute-blow/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">demanding</span></a> to know who voted for or against indicting Wilson, even though the law prohibits that information from being released. Sharpton’s motives are transparent. The grand jury was <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/24/366370100/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-michael-brown-case"><span style="color: #1255cc;">comprised</span></a> of nine white and three black jurors, seven of whom were men, and five of whom were women. Agreement by nine of 12 jurors was necessary to file criminal charges, and there is no doubt Sharpton was attempting to exacerbate the racial divide with the implication that race was the over-riding, if not sole, factor in the decision.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The grand jury <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-case-of-ferguson-officer/2014/11/24/de48e7e4-71d7-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> 25 times over the course of three months and heard testimony from 60 witnesses. They contemplated charges ranging from first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter, and the bar for indictment was &#8220;probable cause,&#8221; not the far more onerous standard of determining &#8220;beyond a reasonable doubt” whether a crime had been committed. A plethora of evidence from the proceedings was released, demonstrating how the jury came to the conclusions it did. It included testimony from Wilson himself, physical evidence, and other eyewitness testimony, including some from black Americans who corroborated Wilson’s version of events. ”They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against Officer Wilson, and returned a ‘No True Bill’ on each of the five indictments,” <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/24/ferguson-police-officer-darren-wilson-not-indicted/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explained</span></a> McCulloch.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">None of it mattered to the mob—or seemingly the media either. McCulloch faced a hostile press during his post-announcement interview, one that has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/bob-mcculloch-ferguson_n_6215986.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">characterized</span></a> that interview as “bizarre,” no doubt in response to his contention the media&#8217;s &#8220;insatiable appetite for something, for anything to talk about, following closely behind with the non-stop rumors on social media,” contributed to the firestorm surrounding this case.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same media that initially lionized Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, whose thoroughly debunked eyewitness testimony about Brown being <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michael-brown-and-dorian-johnson-the-friend-who-witnessed-his-shooting/2014/08/31/bb9b47ba-2ee2-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">shot in the back</span></a> while holding his hands up in surrender, epitomized the sensationalism that ignited the national firestorm. Johnson’s lie propelled much of the violence and unrest that followed, initiating the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” meme that remains prevalent to this day. It was the same media that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/15/Robbery-Tape-Humiliates-Media-Gentle-Giant-Narrative"><span style="color: #1255cc;">perpetrated</span></a> the “gentle giant” meme to <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/18943-ferguson-s-michael-brown-the-tall-tale-of-the-gentle-giant"><span style="color: #0433ff;">describe</span></a> the 6’4’’ nearly 300-pound Brown, only to see it undone by his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z5-H8NSGA"><span style="color: #1255cc;">participation</span></a> in a strong-arm robbery of a much smaller store owner just prior to his confrontation with Wilson. It was the media who <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/doj_denounces_irresponsible_leaks_in_ferguson_police_shooting_case"><span style="color: #1255cc;">leaked</span></a> information during the grand jury proceedings, drawing a rebuke from an “exasperated” Holder, despite the reality that <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shakeup-ferguson-police-force-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">MSNBC</span></a>, The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=2"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>New York Times</i></span></a> and the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/eric-holder-to-ferguson-leakers-shut-up-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Daily Caller</span></a> all cited the administration and the Justice Department itself as sources of those leaks. That would be the same Eric Holder who ginned up mistrust of the police when he spoke to 50 community leaders, not just as Attorney General of the United States, but “as a black man” who remembers how “angry&#8221; he was when police stopped him for speeding on the New Jersey Turnpike.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would also be the same Eric Holder, who like his efforts in the Trayvon Martin case, initiated <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848622/Federal-investigation-Ferguson-cops-ongoing-says-Attorney-General-Holder.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">two separate</span></a> DOJ investigations, one of potential civil rights violations allegedly committed by Wilson, and the other regarding practices of the Ferguson police force. &#8220;While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department’s investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing,” he said. &#8220;In addition, the Department continues to investigate allegations of unconstitutional policing patterns or practices by the Ferguson Police Department.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for social media, the Twitterverse is currently <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/11/25/twitter-lynch-mob-calls-for-murder-of-officer-darren-wilson/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">inundated</span></a> with calls for the murder of Officer Wilson.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it is unsurprising the protests have spread beyond Ferguson. In Oakland, CA, hundreds of protesters bearing signs that read &#8220;The People Say Guilty!&#8221; and &#8220;Missouri, Palestine, Justice Now!” (an illuminating linkage to say the least) <a href="http://abc7news.com/news/group-marches-on-i-580-to-protest-ferguson-decision/409119/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">blocked</span></a> a major highway and other streets, starting fires, breaking the window of a bank, and spray painting a police cruiser with graffiti. In New York City, three bridges were <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/thousands-rally-ferguson-decision-article-1.2022628"><span style="color: #1255cc;">blocked</span></a>, there were marchers in Times Square and the Police Commissioner had fake blood thrown at him. A total of 90 cities across the nation were <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848203/Protesters-gather-90-cities-U-S-grand-jury-decides-Officer-Darren-Wilson-won-t-charged-death-Michael-Brown.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">besieged</span></a> by protesters who were seemingly united by a trio of themes: Michael Brown was innocent, Darren Wilson was guilty, and police departments deliberately and disproportionately target black America.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And once again, a mainstream media still interested in fanning the racialist flames is leading the way. The same CNN that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/19/damned-if-they-do-tapper-rips-ferguson-police"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ripped</span></a> the heavy police presence in Ferguson last August is the CNN whose morning co-anchor Michaela Pereira <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/11/25/ferguson-riot-media-live-blog"><span style="color: #1255cc;">spoke</span></a> about the community’s &#8220;frustration the police didn&#8217;t do more to protect those businesses.” Vox columnist Ezra Klein, who apparently considers himself more knowledgable than the grand jury, penned a column whose title says it all: “Officer Darren Wilson’s story is unbelievable. Literally.” Why? &#8220;None of this fits with what we know of Michael Brown,” Klein <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/11/25/7281165/darren-wilsons-story-side"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insists</span></a>, even as he admits the encounter with Wilson happened shortly after the aforementioned robbery. <a href="http://salon.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Salon.com</span></a> pushed the envelope to the max, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/206293-lib-rag-salon-calls-america-a-white-supremacist-state-over-ferguson-decision/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">declaring</span></a> the jury’s decision “reaffirmed what we already knew: America is a white supremacist state.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even Brown’s immediate family, who initially <a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/ferguson-verdict-grand-jury-decides-not-to-charge-darren-wilson-over-killing-michael-brown/story-fnh81jut-1227134388237"><span style="color: #1255cc;">expressed</span></a> “profound disappointment with the decision, but asked that the protests “be kept peaceful,” had their wishes <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056"><span style="color: #1255cc;">undermined</span></a> by stepfather Louis Head. Shortly after the decision was reached, he urged the crowd 10 times to “burn this bitch down.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those four words aptly describe the agenda of those with a vested interest in keeping Americans divided, angry and completely convinced the nation is a cesspool of racism where law enforcement must be considered the “enemy.” A nation where there are no longer irrefutable facts backed by witnesses and evidence, but a nation where reason and truth can only be determined after the filter of race is applied. One where the narrative must be served, even when that narrative assumes the characteristics of a lynch mob calling for the death of a police officer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a narrative that dismisses the reality of a disproportionate amount of <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">homicides</span></a> and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/family-secret-what-the-left-wont-tell-you-about-bl/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">other crimes</span></a> committed by black Americans (overwhelmingly against other black Americans) relative to their population, even as it has <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-01-17/news/0601170177_1_black-men-countdown-kimberly-jones"><span style="color: #1255cc;">long glorified</span></a> the thug culture that engenders most of it. It is the narrative that <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/new-black-panthers.jpg"><span style="color: #1255cc;">demands</span></a> police forces who “reflect the racial demography of the community,” even as many black Americans have been &#8220;taught from the time that you could speak, from the time that you could understand speech, that police are to be feared and that they’re part of an occupying force that is there to circumvent the democratic processes and to strip you of your rights,” <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/14/achieving-diversity-among-police-ranks-not-easy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">according</span></a> to Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Saddest of all, it is the narrative supported by a president whose track record extends from his past with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his racist rantings and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assertions</span></a> the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” when they arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to his efforts to exacerbate racial discord <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/19/obama-goes-full-race-baiter/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">during and after</span></a> the Trayvon Martin saga. He is joined by an Attorney General who believes Americans are a “nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race, one who insists voter ID is <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-holder-voter-id-used-to-depress-the-vote-of-people-who-dont-support-gop/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">tantamount</span></a> to “black disenfranchisement,” and continues to run the most racially polarized DOJ in recent history.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even worse, both men have <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-headline-al-sharptons-nan-conference"><span style="color: #1255cc;">unduly elevated</span></a> the status of race huckster Al Sharpton, showing up at National Action Network (NAN) galas to sing his praises. That odious reality is tantamount to a Republican president showing up at a meeting of the <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/52672"><span style="color: #1255cc;">European-American Unity and Rights Organization</span></a> and singing the praises of its white supremacist founder, David Duke. The fact that such as comparison is never made obscures the depths of the racial polarization embraced by the nations’s top two law enforcement officials. It is both an ongoing tragedy and a national disgrace that will only be assuaged when Sharpton and every other person who profits from the misery of millions is ejected from the national stage.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Until then, America will seethe. Well-meaning Americans on both sides of the color line will tread warily, remaining ultimately distrustful of each other, lest they be branded sellouts to “the cause.&#8221; The mob and its media enablers will continue to foment violence, looting, death and destruction, based largely on the notion that such mayhem is a “reasonable” price to be extracted from an irredeemably racist nation in need of “fundamental transformation.” One family will mourn for a son who could not resist the siren song of thug culture, while another family will continue to live in terror perhaps forever, or at least until the mob finds another bogeyman at whom it can channel its orchestrated blood-lust. The thin blue line that separates America from the anarchists will be stretched to its limits.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And the promise of a post-racial society that once propelled this president into the White House now more closely resembles the division and racialist bean-counting that epitomizes the community organizer mindset. In short, hope and change is going up in flames in Ferguson, MO.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246026" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29-450x298.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Ferguson_Schu(29)" width="350" height="232" /></a>Grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., refused to indict local police officer Darren Wilson yesterday, heroically resisting pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer who fought off a violent attacker.</p>
<p>The decision is infuriating left-wingers across America because it rebuts the underlying assumption they embrace which is that white police racism caused the death of Michael Brown, a young black thug who tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm.</p>
<p>As fresh rioting was already underway in the St. Louis area, the decision also angered President Obama who could barely contain his hostility in a disgraceful, unprecedented television appearance following the release of the announcement about the non-indictments. Obama urged activists to refrain from using violence. The president himself bears direct responsibility for fomenting the combustible situation, however.</p>
<p>The county’s elected prosecuting attorney, Robert McCulloch, calmly explained the process in detail last night that the grand jury employed in choosing not to return indictments in five potential charges from first-degree murder to lesser offenses.</p>
<p>McCulloch is a white Democrat who has come under heavy fire from race-baiting members of his own political party. His partisans hate him because he does not share their antipathy for police officers, and presumably, because he is the wrong color. McCulloch easily secured the Democratic nomination for his office in a primary election four days before Brown was killed. In that contest, he handily beat former state public defender Leslie T. Broadnax, a black woman, by a margin of 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.</p>
<p>McCulloch said many witnesses gave testimony that was not believable. Witnesses fabricated events, admitted they were in error, clung to discredited factual accounts, or gave evidence inconsistent with the physical evidence.</p>
<p>McCulloch said grand jurors were &#8220;the only people who heard every witness &#8230; and every piece of evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,&#8221; he said. The grand jury consisted of nine whites and three blacks and was meeting every week since Aug. 20 to hear evidence in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The panel convened for 70 hours and heard from 60 witnesses.</p>
<p>Perhaps in a conciliatory gesture to those who wanted Wilson strung up, McCulloch referred to the death of Brown and the events surrounding it as tragic. Obama too used the word <i>tragic</i>.</p>
<p>But that is the wrong word.</p>
<p>Recall that Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he attacked Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown&#8217;s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Brown&#8217;s height was 6&#8242; 5&#8243; and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson&#8217;s gun during their fateful altercation.</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s death was not tragic. He was a villain. The evidence shows that he initiated potentially deadly force against an officer of the law and suffered the consequences of his actions. Grand jurors only needed a little bit of evidence to indict Officer Wilson. The evidence needed only to establish that probable cause existed to charge Wilson with a crime. The prosecution couldn&#8217;t even satisfy that low legal bar. The Wilson case may never have made it to a grand jury at all were it not for the antics of left-wing racial grievance groups working with and taking directions from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>The decision not to indict Wilson is not a tragedy. Far from it. The decision is just, proof that the grand jury system that was created to prevent governments from railroading unpopular defendants still works.</p>
<p>The tragedy is that Wilson had to be subjected to a three-month-long circus in which he was wrongfully accused of being a racist, murdering cop. He was demonized in the media day in and day out, a process that continues in the nation&#8217;s newsrooms even after last night&#8217;s announcement.</p>
<p>Petulant, as America&#8217;s childish Commander-in-Chief is wont to be when he fails to get his way, Obama sounded angry that grand jurors failed to indict Officer Wilson. The plot by Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama operative Al Sharpton to lynch Wilson in the courts failed.</p>
<p>Coming across like a Latin American <i>caudillo</i>, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/24/president-obama-delivers-statement-ferguson-grand-jurys-decision"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sounded disgusted</span></a> with Ferguson police and police forces across the nation in a press briefing last night.</p>
<p>Instead of accepting the grand jury&#8217;s wise decision, Obama set about stoking the flames. After spending months stirring up racial antagonism, Obama pontificated as if an innocent bystander of the events.</p>
<p>The decision &#8220;was going to be subject of intense disagreement not only in Ferguson, but across America, so I want to just say a few words suggesting how we might move forward,&#8221; he said, without noting that Wilson&#8217;s use of justifiable force against Brown became a national issue at his instigation.</p>
<p>Ignoring the fact that the death of Michael Brown had everything to do with his threatening, abusive behavior and absolutely nothing to do with his race, Obama implied cops hate minorities.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation,&#8221; Obama said, even though no broader challenges that we face as a nation played a role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color,&#8221; he said, without noting that he and his comrades-in-arms in the world of community organizing have created distrust and disharmony where none previously existed.</p>
<p>Obama then blamed white people for Michael Brown attacking Darren Wilson.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country,&#8221; Obama said even though there is no evidence that the residue of racial discrimination played any role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;And this is tragic, because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The good news is we know there are things we can do to help, and I’ve instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country to help build better relations between communities and law enforcement.&#8221; Obama said this even though the case at hand provided no evidence that there is a problem between communities and law enforcement.</p>
<p>The president then pivoted to make a pitch for affirmative action in police departments:</p>
<blockquote><p>That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference. It means working to train officials so that law enforcement conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody. It means enlisting the community actively on what should be everybody’s goal, and that is to prevent crime.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are mere policing platitudes Obama is lip-syncing as he advances the notion that only black police officers are suited to work in black communities. We do not know that it makes a difference. In fact, enforced diversity can be deadly.</p>
<p>We know that in the rush to furnish communities with cops of the correct skin color corners are likely to get cut and <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-08-27.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">people will die</span></a> as a result. Economist John Lott found in a 2000 study that the apartheid approach to police staffing led to increases in violent crime, especially in black neighborhoods. This is because the forced lowering of standards put less-qualified officers of all skin colors on the streets.</p>
<p>Even though the justice system ultimately worked in Ferguson, Obama pretends there is still a problem because there aren&#8217;t enough blacks in the local constabulary, in his view. He urged communities &#8220;interested in working with this administration and local and state officials to start tackling much-needed criminal justice reform,&#8221; even though the Brown-Wilson saga does not prove any reform of the criminal justice system is needed.</p>
<p>Obama continued ignoring the facts, insisting there is a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the past several decades &#8230; but what is also true is that there are still problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up,&#8221; Obama said, again ignoring that there is no evidence of a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those who are only interested in focusing on the violence and just want the problem to go away need to recognize that we do have work to do here, and we shouldn’t try to paper it over,&#8221; he said without proving there is any work to be done. &#8220;Whenever we do that, the anger may momentarily subside, but over time, it builds up and America isn&#8217;t everything that it could be.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is as if the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/understanding_obamas_ebola_psychosis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">psychosis</span></a> our troubled president suffers from regarding Ebola, the virus Obama is lovingly importing from West Africa, has spread to other issues as well. Only Obama and his fellow travelers say there is a problem in Ferguson.</p>
<p>The mass hysteria over Michael Brown&#8217;s death that Obama and his allies generated continues.</p>
<p>It is yet another success for America&#8217;s first Alinskyite president.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why violence will be the outcome in the St. Louis suburb whether Wilson is indicted or not.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245585" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown-450x300.jpg" alt="ferguson-mike-brown" width="333" height="222" /></a>This week, America held its collective breath as it waited on the grand jury indictment verdict for Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson, you&#8217;ll recall, had the misfortune to run into 6&#8217;5&#8243;, 289-lb. Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who had just finished strong-arm robbing a convenience store. Wilson pulled Brown over as he and his accomplice walked in the middle of the street; all available evidence shows that Brown then pushed himself through the driver&#8217;s side window, punched Wilson, went for his gun, was shot in the hand, ran, turned around, charged Wilson, and was shot to death.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t matter. And it has never mattered. Because facts do not matter to those attempting to rectify what they perceive as an unjust universe. For those utopian visionaries &#8211; and, yes, violent thugs who rob stores are minions of the utopian visionaries — individuals do not exist. Individuals are merely stand-ins for groups. Wilson was a white cop; therefore, he was the Racist White Establishment. Brown was a black teenager; therefore, he was the Innocent Black Victim. The parts have already been written; Wilson was merely unlucky enough to land the starring role.</p>
<p>And so we expect riots no matter what the outcome of the indictment. Should Wilson escape indictment due to complete lack of evidence, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will attribute that acquittal to the Racist White Establishment. Should he be indicted, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will cite Wilson as merely the latest example of the Racist White Establishment. No matter the antecedent, the consequence has been determined in advance: rage, riots, recriminations.</p>
<p>If all of this sounds familiar, that&#8217;s because it is.</p>
<p>Alongside the anti-Racist White Establishment protesters taking to the streets in Ferguson in recent weeks, anti-Israel and pro-ISIS protesters have appeared. All utopian visionaries fighting the status quo — self-perceived victims — love their Days of Rage. And these Ragers don&#8217;t require evidence to incite their emotions. Evidence regarding individuals is for the reasonable; false stories of victims and villains are the fodder for Ragers.</p>
<p>Whether we&#8217;re watching thousands of Muslims across the world protest and riot over cartoons of Mohammed, or whether we&#8217;re watching hundreds of people in Ferguson riot over a media-manufactured story about a racial killing, Days of Rage provide the outlet for delusional anger. Radical Muslims need an external enemy to justify their own brutality; protesters in Ferguson need an external enemy to justify their own failure to make good in the freest country in the history of humanity.</p>
<p>Every society has its Ragers. The West&#8217;s suicidal impulse to humor those Ragers, however, spells the end of the West. When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn&#8217;t value truth cannot survive. Calling out the National Guard in Ferguson while lending a sympathetic ear to the Ragers does little good, long-term. It merely staves off the inevitable surrender of the reasonable to the Ragers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245445" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP-382x350.jpg" alt="ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP" width="314" height="288" /></a>The FBI is warning that extremist protesters will probably threaten or physically attack police officers or federal agents when a grand jury investigating the death of Michael Brown decides whether to indict the policeman who shot him.</p>
<p>Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he beat Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown&#8217;s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=xmy6uee2106fbacd545978b48f5d6490642a4#bookmark=http://www.stltoday.com/online/pdf_ce018d0c-5998-11e4-b700-001a4bcf6878.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">At autopsy</span></a> Brown&#8217;s height was 6&#8242; 5&#8243; and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson&#8217;s gun during their fateful altercation.</p>
<p>Grand jurors&#8217; decision about whether Wilson will face criminal charges could be handed down at any time. Some activists are not content to wait. A group called RbG Black Rebels <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/ferguson-agitators-put-a-price-on-officer-darren-wilsons-head-as-protestors-prepare-for-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is offering</span></a> a $5,000 reward to anyone who provides the location of Wilson, who has reportedly gone into hiding. Taking a page from Niccolo Machiavelli, the Renaissance era courtier who urged the powerful to kill not only their enemies but also their families of their enemies, the group is also offering $1,000 for information on the whereabouts of Wilson&#8217;s close relatives.</p>
<p>Whenever the grand jury acts, loathsome leftists like Al Sharpton will be there to further stir the pot. Mob rule, that is Marxist mobocracy, is the model of governance preferred by Marxist community organizers like Sharpton and Barack Obama. Civil unrest is an opportunity, not a tragedy. The more bodies, the better.</p>
<p>The FBI&#8217;s expectation of violence shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone. Radical leftists have long held that terrorizing people leads to change. Violence is part of the Left&#8217;s stratagem for sociopolitical change. Just one tool in the box. As one organizer in Ferguson recently <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/17/Organizers-Train-Newly-Minted-Protesters-in-St-Louis">said</a></span>, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to get change in this society unless white people are just a little bit afraid.&#8221;</p>
<p>The organizer is echoing the words of the late neo-communist activist Richard Cloward. As I explained in my book, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Subversion Inc.</i></span></a>, Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven devised a strategy to force change by flooding the nation with welfare recipients.</p>
<p>Cloward wanted the poor to rise up violently against The System. Poor people would benefit more than other groups &#8220;from a major upheaval in our society,&#8221; he said. The poor only make progress &#8220;when the rest of society is afraid of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>As tensions rise in Ferguson and other cities across America in anticipation of the grand jury announcement, the FBI reportedly issued an intelligence bulletin to law enforcement agencies all over the country. The FBI is warning that extremist protesters &#8220;will likely&#8221; threaten and possibly attack police officers or federal agents.</p>
<p>Electrical or water treatment facilities could be targeted and &#8220;hacktivists&#8221; like the group Anonymous could carry out cyber-attacks against authorities, ABC News reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;The announcement of the grand jury&#8217;s decision &#8230; will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure,&#8221; the FBI stated in the recent memo. &#8220;This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities.&#8221;</p>
<p>The FBI said it believes &#8220;those infiltrating and exploiting otherwise legitimate public demonstrations with the intent to incite and engage in violence could be armed with bladed weapons or firearms, equipped with tactical gear/gas masks, or bulletproof vests to mitigate law enforcement measures.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course the use of the verb <i>infiltrating</i> is curious. These people won&#8217;t be hijacking the protests, as the FBI implies. They already run the show.</p>
<p>The union goons, Afrocentrist militants, open-borders advocates, leftover ACORN activists, and Occupy Wall Street thugs are all allies of President Obama and they are already on the ground in Ferguson, as they have been for months. Their violent so-called protests which involve Molotov cocktails and urine are no more legitimate in our constitutional republic than assassinations, thuggery, and bribes.</p>
<p>These terrorists want roughly the same things that Obama wants. It is an open question whether the terrorists in question are pro-Obama or perhaps to the political left of Obama, which is possible but hard to conceptualize given Obama&#8217;s radicalism.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a statewide state of emergency yesterday and activated his state&#8217;s National Guard in anticipation of civil disorder following the grand jury&#8217;s decision in the Darren Wilson case. &#8220;Regardless of the outcomes of the federal and state criminal investigations, there is the possibility of expanded unrest,&#8221; Nixon states in Executive Order 14-14.</p>
<p>While some may applaud Nixon for being proactive, it is important to recall that he is responsible, at least in part, for any unrest that follows because he has engaged in race-baiting and has pandered to the mob that is now screaming for Wilson&#8217;s blood.</p>
<p>And let there be no doubt which side the Obama administration is on: rampant chaos, civil unrest, and bloodshed. The Obama administration&#8217;s disingenuous disavowals of violence don&#8217;t persuade anyone: Obama and his radical colleagues want Ferguson to burn for political reasons. The White House doesn&#8217;t give a fig about the outside agitators who have been streaming in to the St. Louis area from Chicagoland and beyond. They are the president&#8217;s comrades-in-arms.</p>
<p>If Obama weren&#8217;t in the Oval Office, he himself would be in the streets of Ferguson right now doing everything in his power to polarize and demonize Darren Wilson and maximize criminal anarchy.</p>
<p>Remember that Obama&#8217;s Attorney General, Eric Holder, sent scores of FBI agents to desperately scour Ferguson for non-existent proof of racial animus by local police. He also sent in the Saul Alinsky Division of the DoJ, the Community Relations Service (CRS), to help disturb the peace. Under Holder, CRS mediators are community organizers paid by taxpayers to facilitate civil unrest.</p>
<p>As Alinsky wrote in <i>Rules for Radicals</i>, a community organizer must stir up disorder. The organizer’s first job is “community disorganization” by manufacturing crises in order to inflame the community. The organizer must “create the issues or problems,” which is exactly what the Obama administration and allies like Al Sharpton have done in Ferguson in the complete absence of evidence that Michael Brown suffered an injustice at the hands of local police.</p>
<p>A community organizer must “rub raw the resentments of the people of the community,” Alinsky wrote, and “fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.” <i>Overt expression</i>, of course, is leftist-speak for politically motivated violence.</p>
<p>The organizer must “agitate to the point of conflict” because without friction and controversy “people are not concerned enough to act,” Alinsky wrote. Having harangued the community out of its feelings of complacency, the organizer then directs its rage at specific targets and scapegoats, providing “a channel into which the people can angrily pour their frustrations.”</p>
<p>Even now Holder is trying to ramp up tensions in the black community. Nothing else can explain his outrageous, downright kooky comparison of would-be cop killer Michael Brown to lynching victim Emmett Till.</p>
<p>Till was brutally tortured and murdered on Aug. 24, 1955 in Money, Miss. He reportedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store. Four days later two white men abducted him, beat him, gouged out an eye, shot him in the head, and dumped his weighted-down body in a river. In a shameful miscarriage of justice, an all-white jury acquitted Till&#8217;s killers who later admitted their guilt to <i>Look</i> magazine, knowing that the double jeopardy rule precluded a second prosecution for their crimes.</p>
<p>Although Holder <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-attorney-general-eric-h-holder-jr-emmett-till-tree-planting-ceremony-us-capitol"><span style="color: #0433ff;">didn&#8217;t mention</span></a> Brown or Ferguson in his prepared remarks yesterday at a tree planting ceremony commemorating Emmett Till, he worked Ferguson in during remarks to MSNBC, echoing his infamous accusation that America is &#8220;a nation of cowards&#8221; on the topic of race.</p>
<p>&#8220;The struggle goes on and it&#8217;s not only Ferguson,&#8221; Holder <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/holder-on-ferguson-the-struggle-goes-on-359945283533"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told</span></a> the barely watched cable TV network. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are other communities around our country where we are dealing with relationships that are not what they should be, be they officials in their communities that they are supposed to serve. Or really on a more personal level there is an enduring legacy that Emmett Till has left with us that we have to still confront as a nation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder won&#8217;t admit that Brown was a vicious 18-year-old thug because his ugly ideology will not allow it. Brown was a victimizer and Till was a victim. Just about the only thing Till and Brown have in common is that they are both dead.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s bizarre analogy brings into clearer focus why the Department of Justice <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/07/doj-invites-cop-hating-pro-hamas-protester-to-police-reform-meeting-in-ferguson-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">invited</span></a> a deranged 27-year-old Islamist named Bassem Masri to share his thoughts on police reform in light of events in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Masri calls police &#8220;pigs,&#8221; supports the terrorist group Hamas, and said he hoped the recently deceased comedian Joan Rivers would &#8220;burn in hell&#8221; for siding with Israel in its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>During protests in Ferguson, Masri aggressively needled police officers. After VonDerrit Myers, another black teenage male, was shot Oct. 8 by a local cop, Masri baited officers. &#8220;Get the f*** out of here with your coward ass boys! Your life is in danger, homie, you gotta go,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m praying for your death, and your death and your death,&#8221; Masri told individual officers.</p>
<p>In another cop-baiting episode, Masri compared police to the murderous Islamic State (ISIS). &#8220;I see ISIS in front of me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Hamas? They&#8217;re real men. You go stand with Hamas and see if you&#8217;re going to stand a day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Masri was in the news when he shut down a live CNN broadcast in Ferguson on Oct. 20. &#8220;You&#8217;re all run by Zionists,&#8221; Masri shouted at a CNN correspondent. &#8220;They&#8217;re all run by Israel, so they&#8217;ve all got to go,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Masri is Eric Holder&#8217;s idea of a model citizen. He&#8217;s the kind of person Obama and friends want to be a vital part of the democratic process &#8212; whether he votes or not.</p>
<p>Ferguson, St. Louis, and other cities across the country could soon be at the mercy of an army of unbalanced extremists like Bassem Masri. That&#8217;s exactly what the Obama administration wants to happen.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ferguson-st-louis-protest-police-shooting-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244190" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ferguson-st-louis-protest-police-shooting-1-433x350.jpg" alt="Activists Protest For Justice After Police Shootings" width="323" height="261" /></a>It would appear that unnamed Obama administration officials, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and their media cheerleaders have coordinated a narrative with regard to the Ferguson, MO Police Department. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/us/ferguson-police-chief/index.html?hpt=hp_t2"><span style="color: #1255cc;">According</span></a> to CNN, &#8220;government officials familiar with the ongoing discussions between local, state and federal officials&#8221; are saying Police Chief Thomas Jackson is expected to step down &#8220;as part of the effort by city officials to reform the Police Department.&#8221; The proverbial fly in the ointment? Jackson and Mayor James Knowles deny any such plan exists.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;Nobody in my chain of command has asked me to resign, nor have I been terminated,&#8221; said Jackson in a phone call with the news network. Knowles affirmed that statement and dismissed the notion that pressure was brought to bear by the feds. &#8220;People have been saying that for months, I mean for him to step down, Knowles explained. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve stood by him this entire time. So there is no change on that.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Apparently Eric Holder has a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/holder-wholesale-change-needed-ferguson-pd-n236731"><span style="color: #1255cc;">different</span></a> agenda. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty clear that the need for wholesale change in that department is appropriate,&#8221; he said Wednesday, during an appearance at the Washington Ideas Forum. &#8220;Exactly what the form of that change will be, I think, we&#8217;ll wait until we complete our inquiry.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Holder reiterated his exasperation with the leaks that have been emerging from the various investigations in the case that garnered national attention &#8212; as well as ongoing civil demonstrations often deteriorating in lawless mayhem &#8212; following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson last August. The AG declared that the attempt to shape public opinion while the investigation remained ongoing was inappropriate. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said I&#8217;m exasperated. That&#8217;s a nice way of saying &#8216;I&#8217;m mad,&#8217; because that&#8217;s just not how things should be done,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;Whoever the sources of the leaks are needs to shut up.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The irony is rich. Holder is calling for wholesale changes in the police department prior to the ultimate determination of Wilson&#8217;s guilt or innocence, yet somehow the leader of perhaps the most politicized Justice Department in modern history doesn&#8217;t see that statement as a blatant attempt to shape public opinion.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, MSNBC has <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shakeup-ferguson-police-force-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reported</span></a> at least one of those leaks comes courtesy of &#8220;a source within the Obama administration,&#8221; the <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cited</span></a> &#8220;government officials&#8221; as their source in detailing leaks about Wilson&#8217;s testimony, and Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/eric-holder-to-ferguson-leakers-shut-up-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a> that Mayor Knowles told the Caller that he was told by CNN &#8220;that the DOJ was the source of their information.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Could it be that Eric Holder himself &#8220;needs to shut up&#8221;? Or is he in the process of fashioning yet another capitulation to the mob that has been so threatening that five felony cases have been <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/10/30/72918.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dropped</span></a> because Wilson, characterized as an &#8220;indispensable witness&#8221; in all of them, can&#8217;t appear due to threats on his life?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a mob that has regularly chanted, &#8220;Who do we want? Darren Wilson! How do we want him? Dead!&#8221; It is a mob that has rioted on several occasions, looted and burned down businesses, shot at police and news helicopters, and threatened the lives and property of many innocents. It has been egged on by professional race-baiters and radical leftist organizations, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-new-black-panthers-rally-at-st-louis-county-courthouse-over-michaelbrown-killing/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">including</span></a> the Tauheed Youth Organization, the pro-Hamas Organization for Black Struggle, the Moorish Science Temple, the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and racial arsonist Al Sharpton. The NBPP and Sharpton both presented a <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/new-black-panthers.jpg"><span style="color: #1255cc;">list of demands</span></a> that must be met, with the NBPP insisting that Wilson, who had yet to be identified at that point, much less charged, &#8220;be fired and charged with murder,&#8221; and that the Ferguson Police Department must be re-made to &#8220;reflect the racial demography of the community.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Diversifying a police department is a legitimate desire, but easier said than done. &#8220;We hire everyone that we can get,&#8221; Knowles <a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/ferguson-missouri-protest-increasing-diversity-among-police-officers-isnt-enough-88671/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s also the problem that a lot of young African American people don&#8217;t want to go into law enforcement.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not just in Ferguson. The <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/14/achieving-diversity-among-police-ranks-not-easy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">authors</span></a> of the Law Enforcement Recruitment Toolkit, published by the U.S. Department of Justice, spoke to the reality of peer pressure. “Some nonwhites may view policing as a white-dominated and racist profession and may reject the idea of working for the police because they fear being perceived by their peers as selling out,” they noted. Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and president of The Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles echoes that assertion. “If you were taught from the time that you could speak, from the time that you could understand speech, that police are to be feared and that they’re part of an occupying force that is there to circumvent the democratic processes and to strip you of your rights, then it’s very difficult for that department to come into your neighborhood and tell you that they respect you and that you should join their team,” he said, adding that diversity is “no pancea.” Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith, co-authors of “Race and Police Brutality: Roots of an Urban Dilemma,&#8221; further explained that diversifying police forces “have not curbed police violence in communities of color” or removed the unique challenges of policing deprived neighborhoods.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Regardless, the mob may get at least one of their wishes fulfilled. In addition to the purported ouster of Chief Jackson, MSNBC is reporting that Officer Wilson is also expected to be &#8220;eased out&#8221; of his job. Both moves are ostensibly a prelude to a &#8220;full-scale take over of the Ferguson force by the St. Louis County police.&#8221; The announcement of these steps could occur as early as next week, according to CNN.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CNN legal analyst Mark O&#8217;Mara was quick to jump on the bandwagon. &#8220;The animosity that existed in Ferguson were way before Mike Brown&#8217;s shooting, justified or not. So, unfortunately, the leadership in the Police Department has to change,&#8221; he insisted. &#8220;And if [Jackson's] sort of a sacrificial lamb to get this started, it&#8217;s going to have to be. Ferguson&#8217;s going to have to move forward. And it doesn&#8217;t seem they can move forward with this police chief in place.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">O&#8217;Mara was likely taking his cue from Holder, who voiced a similar dissatisfaction last month when he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/justice/ferguson-justice-department-investigation/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> the Justice Department was conducting an investigation of the force. &#8220;People consistently expressed concerns stemming from specific alleged incidents, from general policing practices and from the lack of diversity on the Ferguson police force,” Holder told reporters at the time. &#8220;These anecdotal accounts underscore the history of mistrust of law enforcement in Ferguson that has received a good deal of attention.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be predominantly media-driven attention, and their initial effort to frame the narrative in this case was reprehensible. Their <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/15/Robbery-Tape-Humiliates-Media-Gentle-Giant-Narrative"><span style="color: #1255cc;">description</span></a> of Michael Brown as a college-bound &#8220;gentle giant&#8221; was shattered by a video-tape depicting him committing a strong-arm robbery against a far smaller store clerk. Also debunked were the initial reports that Brown was shot in the back. That allegation was made by witnesses Dorian Johnson, Piaget Crenshaw and and Tiffany Mitchell. Johnson was Brown&#8217;s partner in crime, and Crenshaw <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/19/hands-up-story"><span style="color: #0433ff;">changed</span></a> her story following the family autopsy conducted by Dr. Michael Baden.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet the trio’s other allegation, that Brown had his hands up when he was shot— <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unsupported</span></a> by the official autopsy—was far more problematic. While several other witnesses contradicted that assessment, the &#8220;hands up&#8221; narrative went national, and remains largely embedded among a portion of black America and their white, leftist enablers who are either uninterested in the truth, or working feverishly to gain as much political mileage as they can from the incident, prior to the grand jury&#8217;s ultimate determination.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CNN analyst Michael Smerconish believes that the attempt to oust Jackson is another orchestrated sop to the mob that may indicate the grand jury is not going to indict Wilson. &#8220;To me this is all calibrated and intended to take the temperature down of the community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely convinced we&#8217;re headed for no indictment in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The evidence leaked so far points in that direction. The official autopsy <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-evidence-supports-officers-account-of-shooting-in-ferguson/2014/10/22/cf38c7b4-5964-11e4-bd61-346aee66ba29_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">backs</span></a> Wilson&#8217;s version of the events, as do seven or eight black American witnesses &#8212; who won&#8217;t speak publicly because they fear for their own safety. And the infamous hacker group Anonymous <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2810141/Drug-case-dropped-Ferguson-officer-no-show.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cites</span></a> yet another &#8220;government source&#8221; indicating that Wilson will not be indicted, adding that the grand jury&#8217;s announcement to that effect, originally slated for January 7, may now be made in as little as 10 days.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, Americans ought to ponder the &#8220;chicken or the egg&#8221; order of events if and when such a scenario unfolds. As a simple Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=+riots+will+occur+in+Ferguson+if+Wilson+not+indicted&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;gws_rd=ssl"><span style="color: #1255cc;">search</span></a> reveals, much of the media consider it a virtual given that Ferguson, and perhaps several other communities as well, will erupt in unrestrained violence if Darren Wilson is acquitted. The <i>LA Times </i>offers a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-ferguson-shooting-201409"><span style="color: #1255cc;">quote</span></a> from Kevin Seltzer, who lives at an apartment complex near where Brown was shot. “They’re not going to be looting next time,” he warns. “They’re going to burn the city down.” CNN gots in on the act. &#8220;If there is not an indictment, excuse my French, all hell is going to break loose,” says an unnamed protester. &#8220;Ferguson and St. Louis will be in a state of emergency if Wilson is not indicted,” grad student Jaleah Williams <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/ferguson-protesters-darren-wilson_n_6036584.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Huffington Post. &#8220;If he’s not indicted, Ferguson will never be same. At the end of the day, the amount of times Wilson shot Mike Brown was excessive. So, if no charges come down, that’s saying it’s okay for police to kill our kids,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/ferguson-protest-leaders-rally-new-york-michael-brown-shooting"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reports</span></a> that protesters are &#8220;warning police that they are prepared to die on the streets for their cause,” with Millennial Activists United co-founder Ashley Yates insisting that if Wilson is not indicted &#8220;people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered.” Hands Up United activist Tef Poe was far more direct. &#8220;Don’t come to Ferguson if you aren’t ready to die,” he warned. &#8220;Stay at home, as it could happen.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If it does happen, the blood will be on the hands of the aforementioned race-baiters and their media enablers, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder, whose role in this tragedy cannot be understated. It was Holder who went to Ferguson last August and, absent any evidence of what actually occurred, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/21/holder-says-understands-mistrust-police-as-ferguson-protests-dwindle/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sympathized</span></a> with the residents&#8217; “mistrust” of police because he is not only the attorney general, but a “black man” &#8212; one who proceeded to tell the crowd about his own experience of being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike and accused of speeding. &#8220;I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me,&#8221; Holder said &#8212; without ever mentioning whether or not he had in fact been speeding. And now, even with the facts as yet unannounced, he has essentially indicted an entire Ferguson Police Department that requires “wholesale change.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is America itself that requires wholesale change. The nation has reached the point where the politics of division embraced by this administration and its enablers in the Democratic party, egged on by their corrupt cheerleaders in the media, must be forcefully rejected. The race card is maxed out, and only those who profit from the misery of others wish to see the divisiveness continue.</p>
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		<title>Ferguson Braces for Lynch Mob Revival</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242814" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM-450x326.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-10 at 2.37.46 AM" width="317" height="230" /></a>Police in Ferguson, Mo. are preparing for the mayhem and deadly violence that radical activists are promising if a grand jury declines to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown two months ago.</p>
<p>A grand jury is expected to determine next month if Wilson, a decorated white policeman, will face criminal charges for killing Brown, an 18-year-old black man who reportedly attacked him minutes after robbing a convenience store. The St. Louis suburb has been plagued by violent demonstrations since the Aug. 9 shooting. Hundreds of people, including individuals police call &#8220;outside agitators,&#8221; have been arrested in nearly continuous protests since Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>The politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, won&#8217;t die. In the minutes before the altercation with Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.</p>
<p>Local agitators connected to the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) <a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are knee-deep</span></a> in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform &amp; Empowerment (MORE) has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest.</p>
<p>The MORE front group&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer Jeff Ordower. Ordower, a vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN. Under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters the Missouri chapter incorporated itself separately as MORE in December 2009.</p>
<p>State authorities are holding two to three meetings a week <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/report-missouri-authorities-planning-for-riots-if-ferguson-cop-not-indicted-in-browns-death/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to draft plans</span></a> to deal with riots should they materialize.</p>
<p>“We know outside groups visited us in August,&#8221; St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. &#8220;We are expecting that different people will come in from outside the St. Louis area.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said he is afraid that “the unrest is going to be far beyond the city of Ferguson” if Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/ferguson-protest-leaders-rally-new-york-michael-brown-shooting">Activists say</a></span> if Wilson is cleared by the grand jury, rioting will follow.</p>
<p>Ferguson protest leader Tef Poe told Reuters to expect &#8220;carnage&#8221; if an indictment is not handed down. “There is a lot of explosive energy.”</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” said Ashley Yates, who co-founded Millennial Activists United. Yates, who spoke at a New York rally alongside activists from Hands Up United and the Organization for Black Struggle, was arrested last week during a demonstration in Ferguson. The rally took place in the same ballroom where Malcolm X was murdered in a hail of gunfire in 1965.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Poe said that although Americans have often expected “casual revolution,” Ferguson may be “the moment when we can’t do that.”</p>
<p>Poe urged his fellow activists to die for the cause, browbeating what he termed the &#8220;intellectual set&#8221; who contemplate race relations but “didn’t show up and didn’t want to get shot when the teargas came out.”</p>
<p>“Don’t come to Ferguson if you aren’t ready to die,&#8221; Yates said. &#8220;Stay at home, as it could happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I can say this with 100 percent certainty: all three of us have had moments in the street where we realized we could die right there,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Answering claims that activists had encouraged rioting, Poe said, “No, you incited a riot by leaving Mike Brown’s body on the street for four and a half hours.”</p>
<p>More protests are expected in Ferguson over this weekend.</p>
<p>Activists are also demanding that Bob McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney in the case, recuse himself. They claim he is biased in favor of the police. They also want the mayor and police chief Tom Jackson to resign for supposedly mishandling the case.</p>
<p>Although they won&#8217;t admit it publicly, Obama administration officials are praying for the worst.</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has been deliberately fanning the flames of racial discontent in Ferguson. It&#8217;s good for revving up the Democrats&#8217; political base in time for the November elections that could hand control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans.</p>
<p>Despite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the shooting of Brown, the Department of Justice has been conducting a race-baiting witch hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson. It is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House.</p>
<p>To add an aura of legitimacy to the witch hunt, the U.S. Conference of Mayors held a symposium on the events in Ferguson at Bill Clinton&#8217;s presidential library in Little Rock, Ark.</p>
<p>Attorney General Holder <a href="http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/slay-joins-holder-clinton-in-calling-for-sensitivity-collaboration-after/article_e1d34c15-c00e-5b9d-8341-2dbfea6441f1.html?mobile_touch=true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">wasn&#8217;t shy about</span></a> discussing the Obama administration&#8217;s rather frightening plans to use the Ferguson crisis as a pretext for bringing local police forces under greater federal control.</p>
<p>&#8220;The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot and must not allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved,&#8221; said Holder who announced his intention to resign his post two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Holder told participants at the conference Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s broad review of police training, techniques, and tactics ought to be expanded &#8220;to provide strong, national direction on a scale not seen since President Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s Commission on Law Enforcement nearly half a century ago.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration never, ever lets a crisis go to waste.</p>
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		<title>The Great Racial Disconnect on Police</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black community's distorted view of Ferguson — and how to fix it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239024" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg" alt="MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257" width="284" height="229" /></a>On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of Americans regarding the guilt or innocence of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown six times in Ferguson, Missouri. Those polls show that 57 percent of black adults think that Wilson should be found guilty of murder; 56 percent of whites, by contrast, are undecided on the matter.</p>
<p>The latter position is the correct one. Witnesses, including one Dorian Johnson, claim that Brown was pulled over by Wilson, attacked by him and pulled into the car, ran, stopped when told to freeze by Wilson, held up his hands, and was then shot. Other witnesses — more than a dozen of them, according to local media — say that Brown attacked Wilson, went for Wilson&#8217;s gun, fled before being told to stop, then charged Wilson before being shot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what we do know: Despite original media reports labeling Brown a &#8220;gentle giant,&#8221; Brown and shooting witness Dorian Johnson did participate in a strong-arm robbery of a local convenience store. We know that despite original witness reports suggesting that Brown was shot in the back, he was not. We know that contemporaneous witness accounts caught on tape suggest that Brown charged at Wilson. And we know that a young black man is dead with six bullets in him at the hands of a white cop.</p>
<p>And to huge segments of the black community, that last fact is the only one that matters. The full facts do not matter to extremists in the black community and to their white leftist enablers, particularly in the media. A full 41 percent of black Americans believe that riots and looting represent &#8220;legitimate outrage.&#8221; Not protesting — riots and looting. Just 35 percent of blacks think that looters and rioters are criminals taking advantage of the situation.</p>
<p>There is a pattern here: a widespread belief in the black community that the justice system is rigged against them. That belief is not without basis — there is no question that America has a history of racism within the criminal justice community. By the same token, there is also no question that American law enforcement is the least racist it has ever been, by a long shot, and that racism within the law enforcement community is broadly considered unacceptable and vile.</p>
<p>But the belief in a racist justice system seems to have maintained its stranglehold inside the black community. That belief, taken to its extreme, means support for black criminality. It is no coincidence that during the O.J. Simpson trial, 60 percent of black Americans did not believe O.J. was guilty. It is also no coincidence that many white Americans perceive black support for murderers like O.J. Simpson and riots in Ferguson as support for lawlessness, and therefore pooh-pooh charges of police racism. When crying racism becomes crying wolf, it is hard to take such charges seriously.</p>
<p>The solution, however, lays neither in knee-jerk accusations of racism from the black community nor in immediate dismissals of individual accusations by the white community. It lies in continued targeting and prosecution of individual racists in the police community, of course — and far more importantly, it lies in less criminality within the black community. The high levels of crime in the black community contribute to heavier policing, which in turn reinforces perceptions of racial targeting; those perceptions then create resentment against police than ends too often in violent encounters and failure to report crime. And so the cycle starts anew.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to break the cycle. The only way to do that is to focus on the fact that police have no excuse to shoot anyone unless those people are committing criminal acts. On that we can all agree. Yes, we must arduously insist that police hold to that standard, and we must prosecute those who do not to the fullest extent of the law. But by the same token, we must insist that criminal acts stop — and to do that, we must move beyond simple anti-police sentiment.</p>
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		<title>Michael Brown: A Criminal and a Thug</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[...Obama, Holder &#038; Co. side with the forces of destruction.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/081514_tobin1400_video2_640-450x2531.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238864" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/081514_tobin1400_video2_640-450x2531.jpg" alt="081514_tobin1400_video2_640-450x253" width="293" height="229" /></a>As the media-sanctioned rioting, bloodshed and looting continue in Ferguson, Missouri, evidence is emerging that police shooting victim Michael Brown wasn&#8217;t the upstanding citizen that many on the Left have claimed him to be.</p>
<p>All of this is happening as mobs have been attacking cops with Molotov cocktails and destroying community infrastructure. Some blacks in the region are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown. Looting and property destruction are rampant. Scores of people have been arrested. Aircraft were ordered to fly at least 3,000 feet over Ferguson airspace after police said their helicopters were fired on from the ground.</p>
<p>A curfew was imposed, and the state&#8217;s feckless Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, stripped local police of some of their responsibilities, replacing them with state highway patrolmen. This, predictably, led to more looting of stores and all the things that usually happen when an angry, violent mob is rewarded for its bad behavior.</p>
<p>Through it all, the Left is out in force in Ferguson, trying to make a bad situation worse. The criminal elements of the city have been emboldened by martyrized accounts of Brown, and have carried out a campaign of destruction against the civil order under the banner of &#8220;no justice, no peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>As happened in the Trayvon Martin case two years ago, the hulking, nearly 300-lbs. Brown has been portrayed as an innocent doe-eyed angel unfairly cut down by evil police as a promising future awaited him. In Brown&#8217;s case, he was said to be just days away from heading off to college.</p>
<p>But as one blogger <a href="http://soopermexican.com/2014/08/15/listen-to-mike-browns-very-explicit-rap-songs-featuring-drugs-drinking-and-murder/">observed</a>, in this age of ubiquitous social media, the 18-year-old African-American man left behind,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;a cache of rap songs &#8230; that contain pretty much what you’d expect out of modern rap – lots of boasting about murdering, taking drugs, drinking, and sex with hos.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In one of them labeled &#8220;Free$tyle Big&#8217;Mike,&#8221; one performer raps, &#8220;My favorite part&#8217;s when they bodies hit the ground. I soak &#8216;em up like I&#8217;m wringin&#8217; out a sponge.&#8221;</p>
<p>The fact that Brown liked performing thug music obviously doesn&#8217;t by itself make him a thug, but it does provide insight into his state of mind. The same can be said for the photographs that have surfaced of Brown posing like a tough guy, making gestures with his hands that some say are gang signs.</p>
<p>But what Brown did before he was killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, whose home and address were publicized by a reporter despite ceaseless death threats against the officer, offers compelling insight into what made Brown tick.</p>
<p>Evidence is now available that shows that Brown tried to wrest a gun away from a policeman and that he was ordered to freeze before he charged Darren Wilson and was shot. Some have suggested Brown was high on drugs at the time and that made him especially aggressive but a toxicology report on his body won&#8217;t be available for weeks.</p>
<p>Before the shooting incident last weekend, Brown used violence and the threat of more violence to steal. With an accomplice, he knocked over a convenience store, bullying victims with his prodigious size and weight. (Incidentally, the owner of the store told the <i>Washington Post</i> he fears that his customers will murder him and that he begged reporters not to suggest that he called the police on Brown.)</p>
<p>An official incident report about the robbery <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/michael-brown-strong-arm-robbery-657032">was released</a> Friday by Ferguson police, over the vehement but ultimately groundless objections of left-wing politicians, including the Missouri governor and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. History shows that leftist office holders aren&#8217;t too concerned about getting to the bottom of a matter when their supporters are in the streets calling for blood. If the documentation in question helped make the case that the local police were cold-blooded, murdering racists, those same politicians would be loudly demanding its release.</p>
<p>The report in question identifies Brown and his 22-year-old friend Darren Johnson as suspects in the Aug. 9 robbery that took place minutes before Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>According to the report, police responded to a call about &#8220;stealing in progress&#8221; at a convenience store. The stolen item was a $48.99 box of Swisher Sweets cigars.  Marijuana users are known to hollow out such cigars and use them to smoke drugs.</p>
<p>A man identified as Brown was captured in store surveillance stills having a physical confrontation with a much smaller store employee who tried to lock the doors of the establishment to prevent the men from departing with the stolen item.</p>
<p>The 6’ 4”, 292-pound Brown took the employee by his shirt and pushed him back into some merchandise. As Brown moved toward the door, he then turned around and moved toward the worker “appearing to intimidate him.&#8221; After that Brown disappears from the camera footage.</p>
<p>Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson made the video of the robbery available Friday, explaining that state law forced him to act. Reporters had demanded the footage under the Freedom of Information Act, Jackson said.</p>
<p>The Obama administration sought to suppress the release of the inconvenient footage by pressuring the department not to release it to the public. Pandering for votes, Gov. Jay Nixon said Sunday he &#8220;deeply&#8221; disagreed with the decision by Ferguson police to release the robbery video.</p>
<p>The recording was made public &#8220;Number one to attempt in essence to disparage the character [of Brown] in the middle of a process like this is not right,&#8221; Nixon said on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, first local police were condemned for not being sufficiently transparent; then after they released a key piece of evidence they were condemned for being too transparent.</p>
<p>Gov. Nixon then claimed that releasing the video was too painful for his constituents. &#8220;And secondarily it did put the community and, quite frankly, the region and the nation on alert again,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Of the week-old case, Nixon said, &#8220;These are old wounds, these are deep wounds in these communities and that action was not helpful.&#8221; Of course, by the governor&#8217;s reasoning the local police have no right to make the case that they are not murderers while they are being indicted by the frenzied Ferguson community, media and political Left.</p>
<p>Gov. Nixon again pushed emotional buttons, playing to the mob. &#8220;When you see your son gunned down in the street and then you see a police chief begin an attempt to attack his character, that&#8217;s just not the way to operate and we&#8217;ve made that clear to everyone,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>This means Nixon believes that Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton, who have been making campaign stops in Ferguson, have every right to be heard while the local police at the heart of the case should just remain silent and take whatever abuse is hurled at them.</p>
<p>Sharpton, the perpetrator of the infamous Tawana Brawley hoax and a close ally of President Obama, also weighed in on the release of the video.</p>
<p>&#8220;Michael Brown is gone,&#8221; he said in St. Louis yesterday. &#8220;You can run whatever video you want. He is not on trial. America is on trial!&#8221;</p>
<p>Sharpton continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have never in all my years seen something as offensive and insulting as a police chief releasing a tape of a young man trying to smear him before we even have his funeral.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>However, the more we learn about the nature of the crime and of Brown&#8217;s character, the clearer it is to see who should really be on trial: The likes of Al Sharpton and the race-hate industry, whose lies are fueling a vicious war against civil society in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, an autopsy performed by famed pathologist Dr. Michael M. Baden, former chief medical examiner for New York City, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html?emc=edit_na_20140817&amp;nlid=62431058&amp;_r=0">determined</a> that Brown was not shot in the back as some have claimed. In particular, the autopsy contradicts the &#8220;eye witness&#8221; account of one left-wing media darling, Tiffany Mitchell, who claimed on MSNBC that Officer Wilson was pursuing Brown as he ran away and that Brown was shot in the back as he fled.</p>
<p>The autopsy report concluded that Brown was shot six times. One bullet penetrated his right eye, proceeding through his face, leaving through his jaw and then entering his collarbone. The final two shots in his head were probably the last ones fired.</p>
<p>Brown, who otherwise appeared to be healthy, would have died as a result of the shooting even if he had been transported immediately to a hospital, Baden said.</p>
<p>&#8220;People have been asking: How many times was he shot? This information could have been released on Day 1,” Baden told the <i>New York Times</i> after completing the private four-hour autopsy yesterday. “They don’t do that, even as feelings built up among the citizenry that there was a cover-up. We are hoping to alleviate that.”</p>
<p>Baden stressed that he was not assigning blame for the death or justifying what was done the day of Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>But Benjamin L. Crump, an attorney for Brown’s family, tried to use the new forensic evidence to bolster the case that the young man was a victim of police brutality.</p>
<p>“The sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community,” Crump said. “We want to make sure people understand what this case is about: This case is about a police officer executing a young unarmed man in broad daylight.”</p>
<p>Of course the fact that a suspect was shot repeatedly and all over his body doesn&#8217;t necessarily demonstrate &#8220;brazen disregard&#8221; or that the individual was summarily executed by a police officer. It more likely indicates that the shooter, rightly or wrongly, believed that the suspect posed a danger to his life. And the fact that a suspect was &#8220;unarmed&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily have much probative value in a case in which the individual allegedly tried to gain control of a police officer&#8217;s firearm.</p>
<p>Crump covered travel expenses for Baden and an assistant to Missouri, retaining the two for the procedure. Baden waived his customary $10,000 fee, the newspaper reports.</p>
<p>This autopsy and an official county autopsy apparently aren&#8217;t enough. Now Eric Holder&#8217;s spokesman says the &#8220;extraordinary circumstances&#8221; &#8212; whatever those may be &#8212; require that a federal autopsy be conducted. Forty FBI agents have also reportedly gone door-to-door in Ferguson in an attempt to gather evidence in an ongoing civil rights investigation related to the shooting.</p>
<p>And they&#8217;ll keep digging until they find evidence that vindicates the mob and the left-wing media and the community organizers from Chicago who have descended on Ferguson in order to make an example of the innocent people who live there.</p>
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