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		<title>Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism</title>
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<p><strong>Rioting. Slander. The wanton personal destruction of people known by their accusers to be innocent. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows how events like the rioting in Ferguson do not occur in a vacuum, and how Progressives not only tolerate this lawlessness, this New Barbarism &#8212; they teach it. The video and transcript are below:</strong></p>
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<p>THE NEW BARBARISM</p>
<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of the acquittal of the police officer involved in the Michael Brown shooting, the town of Ferguson erupted into riots. Hardly surprising when the former Attorney General, Eric Holder – presumably fully informed of the same evidence that the Grand Jury saw before declining to press any charges against the officer – went all in and decided to literally make a Federal Case out of the incident. President Obama, prior to the decision, met with leaders of the so-called protest movement, telling them to stay the course – he too, needless to say, was fully informed about what actually happened that day on the streets of Ferguson and knew that an officer of the law was innocent. Lawlessness is nothing to these two reprehensible individuals. But power – power is everything. We’ll come back to them in a minute.</p>
<p>This case was manufactured from the ground up, by Holder, Obama, and other evil people, to hold political power. Stealing a television set does not undo injustice – not even a trumped-up one; walking out of a looted store is not a civil rights act. It’s lawlessness, it’s violence, it’s chaos and it’s brutality, and that’s all it is. It’s Barbarism. None of those peaceful protestors on that bridge in Selma Alabama were caught doing this:</p>
<p>((SURVVEILLANCE VIDEO))</p>
<p>shoving a small, innocent shopkeeper for having the impertinence to challenge Michael Brown’s casual barbarism, his theft of cigars; his wanton lawlessness. This isn’t Civil Rights. This is strong arm robbery.</p>
<p>And Michael Brown wasn’t shot for being black. He was shot because he attacked a police officer investigating that crime, tried to take his gun, and then charged him, head down, after being warned.</p>
<p>But the Barbarism and Lawlessness we saw on the streets of Ferguson, and all around the country, do not exist in a vacuum. They are not only tolerated by the by the left-wing leaders of the Democratic Party and the media-entertainment complex… they are encouraged by them.</p>
<p>Let’s start with Al Sharpton, one of the most vocal of those calling this a civil rights issue. Sharpton rose to national fame for his defense of Tawana Brawley, a 15 year old black woman who in 1987 accused law enforcement officials of raping her and stuffing her in a trash bag covered with racial slurs. Serial Rapist Bill Cosby helped raise money for her legal defense. Despite numerous inconsistencies, Al Sharpton made this an indictment of white America and law enforcements targeting of blacks.</p>
<p>Which would, indeed, be horrible. If it were&#8230; you know… actually true. But it wasn’t true. Brawley made up the story to avoid a beating from her mother. Despite the fact that she named and slandered an innocent man, Assistant DA Steven Pagones (who eventually was awarded $345,000 for defamation), in 1991Legal scholar Patricia j. Williams wrote that Brawley &#8220;has been the victim of some unspeakable crime. No matter how she got there. No matter who did it to her—and even if she did it to herself.”</p>
<p>We clear on that? Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School and current law professor at Columbia University, said that Tawana Brawley – who slandered an innocent man with the most vile charges imaginable to avoid a beating from her own mother – was not the perpetrator of an unspeakable crime, but the victim of one.</p>
<p>These are the new barbarians. Truth doesn’t matter. Law doesn’t matter. Individual lives do not matter. All that matters is Progressive politics, Progressive intimidation and Progressive power.</p>
<p>Just a few days ago, Brietbart reporter John Nolte traveled to Oberlin college to look into widely-read rape allegations on the part of Progressive darling Lena Dunham. Dunham, you may remember, was called on by Barack Obama personally to help get out the youth vote. Truth Revolt’s own Ben Shapiro published a withering critique of what is nothing but infant sexual molestation which Dunham brags about in her best-seller, “Not That Kind of Girl” – allegations utterly unremarked upon by Dunham’s admirers on the Left.</p>
<p>Nolte went to her Alma Mater, Oberlin College &#8212; which I can tell you from personal experience is where reason and logic go to die – to investigate Dunham’s claim that she was raped by a prominent Republican, the “campus’ resident Conservative,” a mustachioed man named “Barry” who wore purple cowboy boots, had a Barry White low voice, and hosted a radio show called Real Talk With Jimbo.</p>
<p>A search of school records showed only one person named Barry who was self-described as a Republican. He never wore a moustache, he never wore purple cowboy boots, he spoke in a normal voice, he was not the host of a talk show, he has never met Lena Dunham, but, like Steve Pagones, he feels he has been slandered in the most vicious way by a barbaric, cruel, deeply disturbed attention junkie.</p>
<p>How did Dunham, and Brawley, and millions of other New Barbarians get this way? They were taught, that’s how. While trying to find the identity of this famed mustachioed, purple-boot wearing, Conservative Republican Racist named Barry, John Nolte spoke with Sophie Hess, manager of the on-campus radio station, about searching the records for Real Talk with Jimbo.</p>
<p>When he explained that he was only searching for the truth, this college administrator suddenly turned cold and said, “Asking whether or not a victim is telling the truth is irrelevant. It&#8217;s just not important if they are telling the truth.” When Nolte explained he was simply trying to clear the name of an innocent man, this Progressive Barbarian retracted her offer to search the archives and asked him to leave.</p>
<p>George Santayana wrote, &#8220;In every generation we face a barbarian threat in our own children.&#8221; Not a threat TO our children. A threat FROM our children.</p>
<p>From the rioters on the street stealing car rims under the Progressively-sanctioned cover of so-called social justice; to inhuman attention-junkies who are perfectly happy to ruin the lives of people they perceive as political enemies, knowing full well they are innocent; through Leftist college professors who teach them that the truth and the law do not matter so long as the Progressive goals of identity politics are advanced; and right on up to the President and Attorney General, who use IRS intimidation of political enemies and simply dictate laws they cannot get passed – Progressivism is a philosophy of lawlessness, disregard for truth, contempt for individual lives and individual freedom. It is utter, total barbarism.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Obama&#8217;s Black Skin Privilege</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it. The American people are letting Barack Obama destroy this country through illegal executive orders for one reason and one reason only. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle has the courage to speak out and make the case that no one else will make. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">Well, Barack Obama has proclaimed amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Conservative pundits have called this act illegal, saying the President does not have the power to unilaterally circumvent Congress on any issue, let alone one of this magnitude. Senators and Representatives have called his act illegal. Saturday Night Live called it illegal, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show called it Illegal, and President Obama himself, on two dozen occasions, said he did not have the Constitutional authority to do this and was therefore illegal.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">He didn’t care. He did it anyway.</p>
<p>Many of us knew before his election what he really thought of the American people, but for those who didn’t we have Jonathan Gruber, one of the Chief Architects of Obamacare, saying repeatedly on camera that they had intentionally mislabeled what was obviously a bill-killing tax on the American people. He then told his elitist, left-wing audience that the entire sham depended on the stupidity of the American voter. Furthermore, Gruber has stated, on camera, that the President was not only well aware, from the beginning, that they were  lying to the American people – Obama actually led the discussion of how this could be done.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We will set aside, for a moment, the fact that Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote – so when Gruber and Obama say they are depending on the stupidity of the American voter, they are really saying they are depending on the stupidity of the half of the country that votes Democrat. The bottom line is that there can no longer be any question of the contempt in which this President holds the American people. Do we suddenly think that now, after dictating amnesty into law, this man is suddenly going to constrain himself out of respect for the American people and the Constitution?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Please. A few days before his election he said we were on the verge of fundamentally transforming the United States of America. He has fundamentally transformed it. When a man can dictate law…that’s a dictatorship. It’s pretty simple really. Any questions?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Both Gruber and Obama are wrong about the American people. We’re not stupid.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We’re scared. In fact, we’re not just scared – we’re scared senseless. We see the American nightmare of not just single-party rule but actual illegal dictatorship unfolding before our eyes, and we are as paralyzed as cavemen frozen in fear, eyes closed, as the leopard growls quietly, inside the fire and the sentry.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Many Americans think Obama is the problem. Obama is not the problem. Our Constitution was written for one purpose and one purpose only: to prevent the rise of a dictatorship. So what failed? How did we build this tyranny?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When the Progressive Left began their takeover of academia in the 1960’s, they began inculcating their radical worldview all across the spectrum – and we let them get away with it. Three generations later, journalism students are no longer encouraged to seek out the truth, whatever the cost – they are taught which stories to promote, and which to suppress, in order to advance the Larger Truth of left-wing utopian philosophy.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When a President that they despise – such as Richard Nixon – acted illegally they hounded him out of office. With a President they adore – like Barack Obama – they see to it that stories such as Gruber and his multiple on-camera admissions of deception never see the light of day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why? We know why. Everybody knows why.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We are allowing Barack Obama to get away with this because he is black. That’s it, and that’s all. To say if he were white he would have been impeached already is a non-sequitor; if he were white a man of his inexperience and radical background would never have been elected in the first place. America voted for him to prove they were not racist, and now we will let him destroy this government for the same reason.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt that paralyzes us – this Progressive Obama dictatorship is built on guilt over the original sin of slavery.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt – and also fear. That’s why Obama and Eric Holder have been encouraging the Ferguson protestors to stay the course. “We don’t give a fuck about your laws,” said one of them, and the President and the disgraceful Attorney General obviously don’t either. They need Ferguson to remind the American people of what will happen should they decide to hold the first black President accountable to the same rules as the previous forty-four.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As for me… I know what people have said, and will say about me, and I’d love to tell you that I don’t care but I do care. Charges of racism only work against people who are not racist. Real racists revel in the name.</p>
<p>((MARTIN LUTHER KING)))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So I am going to stand with this man. I believe that Barack Obama and his multiple, flagrant and impeachable illegal actions should be judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.</p>
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		<title>Eric Holder&#8217;s Perfect Successor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at Loretta Lynch's obsession with race.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #12171b;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244989" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea-381x350.jpg" alt="141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea" width="335" height="308" /></a>It would be difficult to imagine any Attorney General nominee who could guarantee a more seamless transition from the Eric Holder years than Loretta Lynch, who has been the </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York since 2010. Her uncanny ability to detect phantoms of white racism lurking ominously around every corner is proof-positive of her fitness to serve as Holder&#8217;s successor in the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p>Lynch believes that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666">voter ID</a> laws are part of a racist effort to suppress minority turnout at the polls. “Fifty years after the civil rights movement,” she <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">avers</a>, “we stand in this country at a time when we see people trying to take back so much of what Dr. [Martin Luther] King fought for … and [to] reverse the [gains] that have been made in voting in this country.” Consequently, Lynch is eminently “proud” that the Justice Department has filed suit against states which have enacted voter ID laws “seek[ing] to limit our ability to stand up and exercise our rights as citizens.” <span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Lynch also <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php"><span style="color: #12171b;">supports</span></a></span> efforts<span style="color: #1b1b1b;"> to restore the voting rights of (disproportionately black) convicted felons who “have served their debt to society”—a measure that would “en[d] the chain of permanent disenfranchisement that visits many of them.”</span></p>
<p>By Lynch&#8217;s <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">reckoning</a>, school discipline policies that result in higher rates of suspension and expulsion for nonwhite children than for whites, are racist as well. “Zero-tolerance programs,” she told a mostly black audience in 2013, “are often used [to] take our babies, minority children, black children, Hispanic children, and they put them out of school before they have a chance to learn.” Building on this theme, Lynch praised the Justice Department for having “gone into the South, although we’re looking further, and brought the first &#8230; &#8216;school-to-prison pipeline&#8217; cases against school districts in Alabama.” The question of whether black youth exhibit disproportionate levels of disruptive behavior in the classroom—perhaps partially as a consequence of the black community&#8217;s high rate of father-absent households—did not spark Lynch&#8217;s curiosity in the least. The tidy, all-purpose explanation of racial insensitivity was sufficient for her purposes.</p>
<p>In April 2014, <span style="color: #000000;">Lynch participated in a <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-participated-controversial-race-panel/"><span style="color: #011480;">panel</span></a> titled “Strengthening the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color” alongside Eric Holder and none other than <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #011480;">Al Sharpton</span></a>, who has never been known to squander an opportunity to depict white police officers as trigger-happy bigots when dealing with black suspects. One of the panel&#8217;s “action items” stated authoritatively: “Remember that racial bias is pervasive. Research has shown that people who are not consciously mistrustful of African Americans or intentionally racist can still behave in a way that is influenced by racial bias.” In other words, even well-meaning whites in law-enforcement are little more than unwitting Klansmen.</span></p>
<p>Lynch recently <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php">spoke</a> about the need<span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">to “eliminate,” from the American criminal-justice system, all forms of “racial discrimination” against “the most vulnerable members of society.” Lamenting that the U.S. “currently … imprisons approximately 2.2 million people” who are “disproportionately people of color,” she emphasized the need to “reform &#8230; this aspect of our criminal justice system.” In particular, Lynch applauds the recently enacted “reduction in the sentencing <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1632">disparity</a>” that once existed between crimes involving crack cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">a drug most often used by poor blacks) </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">and powder cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">whose users are typically more-affluent whites). Conspicuously absent from Lynch&#8217;s assessment, however, is any mention of the fact that in 1986, when the strict, federal anti-crack legislation was first being debated, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7126"><span style="color: #680900;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a>—deeply concerned about the degree to which crack was decimating black communities across the United States—strongly <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_2_my_black.html"><span style="color: #680900;">supported</span></a> the legislation and actually pressed for <i>even harsher penalties</i>.</span></p>
<p>Lynch has long <a href="http://gotnews.com/read-lorettalynch-hates-death-penalty-leads-dead-blacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">opposed</span></a> capital punishment because of its alleged bias against blacks and Hispanics. “Apply the death penalty to securities fraud prosecutions [committed mostly by whites] and [you'll] wipe out [the racial disparity] just like that,” she said sarcastically during a 2002 roundtable discussion. But even if someone could convince Lynch that capital punishment could be applied without any racial bias whatsoever, she would nonetheless view it as immoral because of the disparate impact it would continue to have on nonwhites, who commit homicides—i.e., the crimes that are subject to the death penalty—at much higher rates than whites. “That, to me, has always been the problem with the death penalty,” says Lynch. “Because you can be as fair as possible in a particular case, but the reality is that the federal death penalty is still going to hit harder on certain groups.”</p>
<p>In recent years Lynch<span style="color: #272727;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/loretta-lynch-attorney-general_n_6058252.html">collaborated</a> with Attorney General Holder in a high-profile Justice Department investigation that ultimately forced Citigroup to pay a $7 billion fine for having made so many “subprime” mortgage loans with a high probability of default, thereby helping to trigger the 2008 financial crisis that, as Lynch puts it, “</span>devastated the nation and the world’s economies.” Content to depict corporate greed and insufficiently regulated markets as the principal causes of the economic calamity that struck six years ago, Lynch makes no mention of the various <i>government</i> policies<span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—most notably </span>the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=809">Community Reinvestment Act</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—</span>which, in the name of “social and economic justice,” required banks to knowingly lend money to underqualified borrowers, particularly nonwhite minorities, and thereby set the stage for crisis.</p>
<p>Myopic vision. Distrust of the free market. Obsession with race. This is Loretta Lynch, President Obama&#8217;s new Attorney General. It&#8217;s a job she was born for.</p>
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		<title>Holder Pushing to Oust Ferguson Police Chief?</title>
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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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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our host, best-selling crime author Andrew Klavan, tells the hard-hitting cop-story of the nation&#8217;s top law officer &#8211; Attorney General Eric Holder: Federal Dick. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">America’s chief law officer has decided to step down and so it’s time to take a farewell look at the career of&#8230;</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Eric Holder, Federal Dick!”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In 2008, Eric Holder Federal Dick became the first black Attorney General of the United States.  But that’s all right &#8211; there are plenty of decent, honest African Americans too.  There’s one who lives right down the road from me.  Seems like a great guy.  So you can’t blame all of them for one man.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Shortly after taking office, Eric Holder Federal Dick declared that he would not prosecute the fascist thugs of the new Black Panther party who had paraded in front of a polling place carrying weapons.  Holder said the panthers’ actions weren’t as bad as the sort of voter intimidation once practiced against [quote] “my people,” by which I guess he meant fascists, or thugs, or just any bunch of evil schmucks in leather and dark glasses.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Eric Holder Federal Dick also helped improve people’s lives by refusing to enforce laws like the Defense of Marriage Act because he didn’t agree with them.  Thus he effectively stripped our elected representatives of their constitutional power to make meaningful legislation.  Which improved people’s lives in more lawless countries like Burundi, because now they don’t have to feel so bad when they compare their governments to ours.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But Eric Holder Federal Dick always took Americans’ first amendment rights seriously and went out of his way to insure they would not be overused.  He tapped the phone calls and emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen, and secretly obtained phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.  Whenever people criticized the attorney general’s actions, he accused the critics of “racial animus,”&#8230; then he hid his face in his hands and said, “Ha, ha, ha, I’m black so no one can see me.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And then there was Fast and Furious, a brilliantly conceived operation in which American law officers were forced to stand idly by while nearly 2,000 weapons were sold to Mexican mobsters.  Who could have ever foreseen that the mobsters would use these weapons to commit crimes, including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent? Certainly not Eric Holder, Federal Dick.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When Congress attempted to investigate the Attorney General’s role in this scheme, Eric Holder Federal Dick testified under oath that he had only found out about Fast and Furious recently; when memos were produced showing he’d known about it for nearly a year, he said he hadn’t read the memos; when Congress tried to subpoena more documents, the president shielded Holder by declaring the documents were protected by executive privilege. When congress held the Attorney General in contempt, he hid his face in his hands and said, “Ha, ha, ha, I’m black so no one can see me.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It was because of actions like these that in a recent poll, Eric Holder was rated less favorably than Barack Obama, the Republican Party, hives, toothache, and a suspicious looking sore that breaks out on your lip unexpectedly before a big date.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So today we lift the tattered pages of what used to be our constitution to wave a fond farewell to Attorney General Eric Holder.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What a Federal Dick.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-THOMAS-PEREZ-LABOR-SECRETARY-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242127" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-THOMAS-PEREZ-LABOR-SECRETARY-facebook-450x300.jpg" alt="Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General" width="306" height="204" /></a>President Obama is considering nominating his far-left labor secretary to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, according to media reports.</p>
<p>Illegal alien enabler Thomas Perez would not be an improvement over Holder, the scandal-plagued left-wing attorney general who has taken the Department of Justice to new lows of corruption and lawlessness. Perez, who previously ran the DoJ&#8217;s civil rights branch, would likely be a Holder clone or worse.</p>
<p>“Perez fits all the qualities that Eric Holder had: A lack of ethics, disrespect for the rule of the law, and placing ideology first,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.</p>
<p>“Tom Perez was one of the reasons we need civil rights investigation at the civil rights division,” Fitton said. “He was the point man in terms of enforcing law in [a] racially biased manner.”</p>
<p>Perez hasn&#8217;t won friends outside of his radical circles during his time at the Labor Department.</p>
<p>“Perez has been charged with enforcing existing labor law. Unfortunately, he’s chosen only to enforce the law when it applies to employers, not to the Administration’s union allies,” according to Ryan Williams of Worker Center Watch. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>While the politicization of federal agencies is running critique of the Obama administration, the Justice Department is the one agency that should remain above the fray of politics, and Perez has demonstrated that he is incapable of serving as a neutral arbiter of the law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation, said that he didn&#8217;t think Perez was capable of enforcing the law impartially.</p>
<p>“Tom Perez as Attorney General is a scary thought,&#8221; Semmens said. &#8220;If Perez is allowed to operate the Department of Justice the way he has run the Labor Department, he will consistently put the priorities of the president’s key political backers ahead of the rights of regular Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>A former top aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Perez became labor secretary last year only after barely surviving a confirmation vote in the Senate. Before that he served as the nation&#8217;s top civil rights enforcer at the DoJ. Like Barack Obama, Perez graduated from Harvard Law School, long a hotbed of radical leftist activity.</p>
<p>He told AFL-CIO leaders that if Martin Luther King were alive today, “He would join with you … in calling for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act” — legislation that would drastically tilt workplace elections in favor of labor. He said the “civil rights movement and the labor movement are … essentially the same.”</p>
<p>Perez sides with America&#8217;s enemies in the Global War on Terror. He apparently supports Islamic terrorists and the imposition of Shariah law in America.</p>
<p>Perez seems to favor Saudi-style anti-blasphemy laws. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries offenders are condemned to death merely for insulting Islam.</p>
<p>Disturbingly, at a congressional hearing Perez pointedly refused to rule out bringing such laws to America. At a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee’s panel on the Constitution in 2012, Perez would not say whether he would uphold the religious speech protections in the First Amendment in the future.</p>
<p>“Will you tell us … that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?” Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) asked four times to no avail.</p>
<p>Perez, like so many Obama administration officials, believes that America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the Muslim religion. He has worked with hardcore Islamist groups such as the terrorist-linked Islamic Society of North America and applauded Islamists for lobbying against airline security measures.</p>
<p>Like Holder and Obama, Perez is obsessed with race.</p>
<p>“I wish discrimination were a thing of the past,&#8221; Perez said in 2012 when he headed the DoJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. &#8220;I wish we were living in post-racial America. I wish my phone were not ringing. But regrettably, it’s ringing off the hook in the voting context. It’s ringing off the hook in the hate crimes context and in so many other contexts.”</p>
<p>During his time at DoJ, members of the Civil Rights Division <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/12/19/DOJ-Conspiring-with-ACORN-Connected-Project-Vote"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conspired</span></a> with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote to weaken electoral integrity-related law enforcement. Voter ID laws, in his twisted view, are racist, calculated to deprive people of color of their voting rights.</p>
<p>While at DoJ, Perez led the Obama administration’s assault on voter ID laws leading up to the 2012 election. As a member of the Montgomery County, Md. Council in 2003 he tried to compel governments to accept fraud-prone <i>matricula consular</i> ID cards issued by Mexican consular offices.</p>
<p>Perez is also a past president of Casa de Maryland, a notorious advocacy group for illegal aliens funded by George Soros and the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. As director of clinical law programs at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, in 2003 Perez whined about the difficulty he claimed illegal aliens and new legal immigrants have getting welfare benefits. “Many people remain eligible for S-CHIP and Medicaid who don’t get access because of language barriers,” he said.</p>
<p>Under Perez, the DoJ refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He was reportedly instrumental in the Justice Department’s dismissal &#8211;over the objections of the government attorneys handling the matter&#8211; of a case involving two Philadelphia-based members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished weapons and intimidated white voters on Election Day 2008.</p>
<p>An inspector general <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/watchdogs-slam-presidents-perez-power-play/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found</span></a> that Perez believed voter protection statutes “did not cover white citizens.” A House Oversight Committee investigation determined he used his private email account to do government business, a practice that allows the user to evade transparency laws. Perez was also criticized for nixing a $200 million whistle blower lawsuit because it could undermine so-called &#8220;disparate impact,&#8221; a controversial legal principle regarding discrimination.</p>
<p>Perez believes the government should require racial discrimination in order to benefit those the Left deems to have been historically oppressed. He favors the use of affirmative action in hiring at higher education and healthcare facilities. Perez appeared to argue that medical doctors should push for racial quotas in the hiring process because racial diversity among physicians somehow improves healthcare outcomes.</p>
<p>Perez believes that medical schools should lower admission standards for black applicants because they are more likely to practice in so-called underserved communities than whites.</p>
<p>He played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, legislation based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists.</p>
<p>He has targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio for legal harassment because he doesn’t like Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach, especially with respect to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Perez is proud of his role in inflating the mortgage bubble. He’s a fierce defender of financial affirmative action programs that forced banks to lend money to uncreditworthy borrowers.</p>
<p>Perez openly holds business people in contempt, treating them as morally inferior. He likens bankers to Ku Klux Klan members, arguing that racial discrimination is afoot whenever a member of a minority group is turned down for a loan. The only difference between bankers and Klansmen is that bankers discriminate “with a smile” and “fine print,” but they are “every bit as destructive as the cross burned in the neighborhood,” he said.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a radical leftist hellbent on fundamentally transforming America, Perez should be your choice to succeed Eric Holder as the nation&#8217;s attorney general. For the rest of America, however, Perez would be a poor pick to ensure that anything resembling justice and fairness is returned to the DoJ.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/holder-leaks-.jpeg-1280x9601.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/holder-leaks-.jpeg-1280x9601-382x350.jpg" alt="holder-leaks-.jpeg-1280x960" width="332" height="304" /></a>The &#8220;<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283335-obama-this-is-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history"><span style="color: #1255cc;">most transparent administration in history</span></a>&#8221; is once again revealing the rank hypocrisy of President Obama&#8217;s assessment. In a motion filed Monday night, lawyers from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/09/holder-presses-delay-on-fast-and-furious-documents-195556.html?hp=r7"><span style="color: #1255cc;">asked</span></a> U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to delay the transfer of documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, until after her rulings requiring that transfer can be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. If their bid is successful, it could push the appeals process past the Obama administration&#8217;s time in office. In short, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to run out the clock.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last July, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-court-orders-obama-administration-release-fast-furious-information/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ordered</span></a> the DOJ to turn over a &#8220;Vaughn index&#8221; of all Fast and Furious-requested documents sought by Judicial Watch, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in June 2012. The records sought by Judicial Watch were those withheld from the Oversight Committee when President Obama cited executive privilege in a transparent effort to protect his Attorney General. U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates lifted the 16-month delay, despite contentions by the DOJ that turning over the records would interfere with litigation between the agency and the Oversight Committee, which had subpoenaed the same documents.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Bates&#8217; ruling was clear:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">In the [February 15, 2013] order granting the stay, this court explicitly noted that the DOJ ‘does not seek, and the court will not award, an indefinite stay pending ultimate resolution of the House Committee litigation,’ and  that ‘the benefits of delaying this case might well [become] too attenuated to justify any further delay …Because many of the issues to be resolved in this case do not overlap with the House committee, and because resolving those issues will not risk upsetting the delicate balance of powers in subpoena disputes between the political branches, the Court will require DOJ to produce a Vaughn index here.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Bates also noted that no court has ever “expressly recognized” the executive privilege claims made by Obama preventing these documents from being seen by Congress and the American public.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A month later, with the dispute now being adjudicated by Berman, the DOJ was also ordered to turn over a &#8220;privilege log,” a.k.a. a list of the documents being withheld. Both orders were supposed to be fulfilled by Oct. 1, 2014.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On Monday the DOJ made it clear they will make yet another attempt to defy both orders. &#8220;The Department respectfully submits that it would be preferable for the parties, this Court, and the D.C. Circuit — if an appeal were taken — to have any injunctive order await the conclusion of the district court litigation to allow for orderly and complete appellate proceedings,&#8221; DOJ lawyers wrote.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The additional documents run to 64,000 pages and relate directly to the operation that saw as many as 2000 firearms &#8220;walked&#8221; into Mexico &#8212; and into the hands of drug cartel leaders. These weapons have shown up at as many as <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Murdock/Fast-and-Furious-Mexico-Terry-guns/2012/07/11/id/445080/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">200 crime scenes</span></a> in Mexico, and are responsible for the murder or wounding of approximately 300 Mexicans, including 14 Mexican teenagers who were killed, along with 12 wounded, during a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez in January 2010. F&amp;F weapons were also used to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/us/fast-and-furious-sentence/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">murder</span></a> Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed December 14, 2010 while on night patrol in the Arizona desert near the Mexican border, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata, who was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/request-to-justice-department-ig-investigate-ice-agent-zapata-murder/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">killed</span></a> on Feb. 15, 2011.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is critical information about this trail of carnage the DOJ is desperately trying to suppress. Furthermore, as seen in the <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2014/09/16/holderfandfnondisclosurerationale.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">filing</span></a>, The DOJ may withhold the documents regardless of the court order, claiming that because it &#8220;is clearly injunctive in nature, the Department would be entitled to appeal it as a matter of right.&#8221; The DOJ further insists that such an appeal was a &#8220;temporal request&#8221; aimed at avoiding &#8220;intermediate injunctive orders that could generate multiple piecemeal appeals.&#8221; If the Court doesn&#8217;t buy it, Holder and company want an extension to December 15, 2014, using the rationale that the Court has extended the deadline for producing the log until November 3, 2014.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It should be noted that the mid-term elections occur on Nov. 4. It should also be noted that the DOJ has stonewalled the Fast and Furious investigation for three years, despite numerous subpoenas issued by Oversight Committee chairman Darryl Issa (R-CA), who began issuing them shortly after the GOP gained control of the House in the 2010 election. By June 2011 the DOJ&#8217;s delaying tactics were so transparent, Issa began threatening Holder with contempt citations. On June 28, 2012, Holder became the first sitting Cabinet member in history to be <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77988.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">held</span></a> in contempt of Congress. The vote of 255-67 included 17 Democrats who supported the criminal contempt resolution.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Twenty-seven months later, nothing has changed. The DOJ continues to subvert the law, even as Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media continue to insist &#8212; as they do with every scandal afflicting the Obama administration &#8212; that the investigation amounts to little more than a politically-motivated witch hunt.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is approaching the problem in a different way. On Wednesday, he proposed <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/17/top-goper-says-its-time-dissolve-atf/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">completely eliminating</span></a> the agency at the heart of the scandal. The <a href="http://sensenbrenner.house.gov/uploadedfiles/atf_elimination_act_bill_text.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ATF Elimination Act</span></a> seeks to &#8220;abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, transfer its functions relating to the Federal firearms, explosives, and arson laws, violent crime, and domestic terrorism to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and transfer its functions relating to the Federal alcohol and tobacco smuggling laws to the Drug Enforcement Administration, and for other purposes.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sensenbrenner believes the benefits of the bill will be twofold, as in a chance to streamline government, and clean up a scandal-ridden agency. &#8220;Washington should be responsible stewards of the American taxpayers’ money,” he said in a statement about the bill. He continued:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">While all too often that is not the case, this is a good government bill to streamline agency activity at DOJ—increasing effectiveness while decreasing cost. The ATF is a largely duplicative, scandal ridden agency that lacks a clear mission. It is plagued by backlogs, funding gaps, hiring challenges and a lack of leadership. For decades it has been branded by high profile failures. There is also significant overlap with other agencies. At a time when we are approaching $18 trillion in debt, waste and redundancy within our federal agencies must be addressed. Without a doubt, we can fulfill the role of the ATF more efficiently.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Eliminating a chunk of the Executive branch might be a cathartic response for the kind of stonewalling routinely employed by Holder and company, but it doesn’t eliminate the problem. The Obama administration abides one rule of governance above all else: we’re going to do whatever we want, and we dare someone to stop us.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Pick any scandal, be it Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the lies at the heart of ObamaCare, the dropping of the Black Panther voter intimidation case, the seizing of AP reporter files, etc., etc., and the common thread is transparent. Aided and abetted by an in-the-tank mainstream media and see-no-evil Democrats, the Obama administration has employed an avalanche of lies, stonewalling, and disinformation aimed at producing one outcome: “scandal fatigue” among the American public.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Tragically, that strategy has been enormously successful. For the last six years, this administration has completely avoided anything resembling genuine accountability. For six years, everything has been &#8220;someone else’s fault.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Three hundred dead and wounded Mexicans and two murdered American agents deserve better. Much better.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Eric_Holder.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240827" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Eric_Holder-450x330.jpg" alt="Eric_Holder" width="315" height="231" /></a>In a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239206082/Issa-Letter-to-Eric-Holder-About-Brian-Fallon"><span style="color: #1255cc;">letter</span></a> written to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Issa reveals there was an attempt to coordinate media spin regarding the IRS investigation between the DOJ and the staff of the Committee&#8217;s Ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). How did Issa find out? A DOJ official in the Office of Public Affairs who thought he was calling Cummings’ office, mistakenly phoned Issa&#8217;s office instead.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“I write with serious concerns stemming from a telephone call my staff received late on Friday afternoon from the Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA) about the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants,” Issa states.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">A senior OPA official—under the apparent mistaken belief he had called the staff of Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings—asked if the Committee would release Committee documents to the media so that the Department could publicly comment on the material. I am extremely troubled by this attempt to improperly coordinate the release of Committee documents with the Minority staff. This effort to preemptively release incomplete and selectively chosen information undermines the Department’s claims that it is responding in good faith.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">The senior OPA official to whom Issa refers is Brian Fallon, a former <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/09/Letter-Holder-Aide-Accidentally-Calls-Issa-For-Help-Spinning-IRS-Scandal"><span style="color: #1255cc;">senior aide</span></a> to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Although his name was not mentioned in the letter, he confirmed that he made the call, which took place last Friday at 5:01 p.m. EST. As Issa indicates, he believes Fallon thought he was talking to members of Rep. Elijah Cummings staff.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">(Fallon) then asked the Committee employee if the Committee would agree to release the material to selected reporters and thereby allow the Department an opportunity to publicly comment on it.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">The subject of the conversation was attorney Andrew Strelka, who is defending IRS commissioner John Koskinen in litigation initiated by the pro-Israel group Z Street. Prior to his job in the DOJ’s civil trial section, Strelka <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383336/defending-irs-eliana-johnson"><span style="color: #1255cc;">worked</span></a> for Lois Lerner in the IRS’s Tax Exempt Organizations Division—where Z Street’s alleged mistreatment occurred. Documents indicate Strelka was kept in the loop about the IRS’s targeting practices.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Committee wants to talk to Strelka about this apparent conflict of interest, but the DOJ has refused the request, prompting a Sept. 3 <a href="http://jordan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2014-09-03_jordan_to_holder-doj_-_andrew_strelka.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">letter</span></a> to Holder from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) accusing the DOJ of “conspiring with Mr. Strelka to prevent the American people from learning the truth.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Issa spokesman Frederick Hill, who took Fallon&#8217;s call on a speaker phone in the presence of two other senior Committee employees, told him that Oversight Committee staffers would have to first examine the material—which is when Fallon apparently realized he was calling the office he was intending to undermine. After “abruptly” placing the call on hold for three minutes, an “audibly shaken” Fallon stated there would be a “change in plans,” with no effort to release the material early. Instead, the Department would “defer to the Chairman.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Fallon then made an effort to cover his tracks, insisting that the reason for the call was to improve relations between the DOJ and Committee Republicans, who should “help one another.” When Fallon was subsequently asked if the material he had offered earlier would still be delivered Friday evening, he “attempted to walk back his earlier statement.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Issa wasn’t buying any of it, noting that while communications are sometimes &#8220;erroneously shared,” he remains “disturbed to receive confirmation through this incident of apparently long-standing collaboration between the Obama Administration and Ranking Member Cummings’ staff to obfuscate and prejudice the Committee’s work through under-the-table communication.” Issa further insists that Fallon’s contention about improving relations with the Committee is “inconsistent” with the comments he made prior to putting the call on hold, and that it “strains credulity” to believe the DOJ would “seek to begin to improve relations via a telephone call between two individuals who had never spoken to each other before 5:01 p.m. on a Friday afternoon…”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In closing, Issa requested “a detailed explanation for each of the Department’s <i>ex parte</i> communications with the Minority Members or staff about Committee strategies for blocking and undermining oversight,” as well as &#8220;information about the number of times the Department has communicated with Minority staff to the exclusion of Majority staff.&#8221; Issa wants a DOJ response, “no later than Monday September 15, 2014.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those familiar with the stonewalling of the Holder-led DOJ know that such a request will likely be ignored. That reality was driven home once again on Tuesday when Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz <a href="http://www.justice.gov/oig/testimony/t140910.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testified</span></a> before the House Committee on the Judiciary. “The FBI and some other department components &#8230; have refused our requests for various types of documents. As a result, a number of our reviews have been significantly impeded,” he revealed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while Horowitz said he appreciated the efforts of Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole to intervene on behalf of the IG, such intervention is “inconsistent” with the “clear mandate” of the law and “compromises our independence.” Horowitz further noted that absent a resolution of the issue, “our struggles to access information relevant to our reviews in a timely manner continue to cause delays to our work and consume resources.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That same day, Fallon dismissed Issa’s allegations in an <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/217129-issa-accuses-doj-of-under-the-table-coordination-with-house-democrats"><span style="color: #1255cc;">interview</span></a> with The Hill, claiming there was “nothing out of the ordinary” about his conversation with GOP Oversight Committee members. “There is nothing inappropriate about department staff having conversations with both the majority and minority staff as it prepares responses to formal inquiries,” Fallon said. “That includes conversations between the spokespeople for the department and the committee.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An Oversight Democratic staffer dodged a question about whether Cummings had ever had a conversation with the DOJ as described by Issa, insisting that the Representative and his staff  “make their own independent decisions about when to release information to the public and do not improperly coordinate with any executive branch agency.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That last bit is, quite simply, a lie. Last April <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FN-Combined.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">emails</span></a> released by the Oversight Committee revealed that Cummings and his staff communicated with the &#8220;executive branch agency&#8221; known as the IRS multiple times in 2012 and 2013, with regard to the conservative group True the Vote. The Committee <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/04/09/new-emaisl-show-lois-lerner-fed-information-about-true-the-vote-to-democrat-elijah-cummings-n182"><span style="color: #1255cc;">documented</span></a> communications between Cummings’ staffers and Lois Lerner—communications Cummings denied during a Subcommittee hearing the previous February. That would be the same Elijah Cummings who, despite being caught in a blatant lie, has labeled the ongoing investigation of the IRS as a “witch hunt,” and a waste of time and money.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On the same Friday Fallon made his call, the IRS <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/05/irs-says-emails-from-five-more-workers-have-been-lost/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> that emails from five other IRS workers involved in the investigation had also been lost. One of those workers was a senior aide to Lerner, and like the loss of her emails, the IRS blamed it on computer problems, further insisting there was no indication that any evidence had been deliberately destroyed. “To the contrary, the computer issues identified appear to be the same sorts of issues routinely experienced by employees within the IRS, in other government agencies and in the private sector,” the IRS said. “In addition, each of the five hard drive issues resulting in a probable loss of emails substantially predates the onset of the investigations in 2013.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus the scandal with “not even a smidgeon of corruption” <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/02/02/obama_on_irs_scandal_not_even_a_smidgen_of_corruption.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">according</span></a> to President Obama, takes another curious turn. Today the Democratically-controlled Senate is <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/report-to-criticize-watchdog-irs-tea-party-probe-110619.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">expected</span></a> to release a report authored by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. It will reportedly claim the 2013 report by J. Russell George, Treasury IG for Tax Administration concluding that conservative groups were targeted for additional scrutiny, is “unfair.” It will further allege the scandal amounts to nothing more than “mismanagement” by the IRS.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s going to be an uphill climb for Democrats. In a Fox <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/24/fox-news-poll-voters-think-irs-emails-were-deliberately-destroyed/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">poll</span></a> taken in June, a whopping 76 percent of Americans, including 90 percent of Republicans, 74 percent of independents and 63 percent of Democrats said they believed that Lois Lerner’s emails were &#8220;deliberately destroyed&#8221; by the IRS. The gaffe committed by Fallon would be amusing were it not for the reality that it is yet another indication of the endemic corruption that infests the Obama administration, their Democrat colleagues and a willfully somnambulant mainstream media. All of them seemingly prefer to run interference for one of the most powerful agencies in government, than allow the truth, no matter how inconvenient, to come out.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eric-holder-finger-in-air.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240331" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eric-holder-finger-in-air.jpg" alt="eric-holder-finger-in-air" width="303" height="226" /></a>Despite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the police shooting of Michael Brown, the Department of Justice will be conducting a race-baiting witch-hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson, Mo., Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday.</p>
<p>The new investigation 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. Statistics, by the way, suggest Ferguson is far from the hotbed of crime the media has <a href="http://localwiki.net/st-louis/Ferguson_Police">portrayed</a> it as. Ferguson reportedly has an average level of crime.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I visited Ferguson two weeks ago, I promised that the U.S. Department of Justice would continue to stand with the people there long after the national headlines had faded,&#8221; Holder said, <a href="http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2014/ag-speech-140904.html">according to</a> the text of prepared remarks. Egged on by violent left-wing mobs and racial tension profiteers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr., federal officials were already conducting what will almost certainly prove to be a fruitless civil rights-centered investigation of Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;</b>Today, with our investigation into the Ferguson Police Department and our reform efforts in St. Louis County, we’re taking significant steps to keep that promise,&#8221; Holder said. &#8220;As these efforts unfold, my colleagues and I will keep working with the people in Ferguson to ensure that a fair, thorough investigation occurs; to see that dialogue can be translated into concrete action; and to facilitate lasting, positive change – that brings together police officials, civil rights leaders, and members of the public – to bridge gaps and build understanding.&#8221;</p>
<p>Except perhaps for what some critics said was an initially heavy-handed and overly militaristic approach to crowd control used by Ferguson police, there is no evidence much, if any, change is actually needed in the St. Louis-area township.</p>
<p>To repeat, this expanded federal investigation of a local incident has absolutely nothing to do with justice and everything to do with electoral politics. Although at least 40 federal agents have reportedly been on the ground in the St. Louis area desperately searching for proof of racial animus on the part of Darren Wilson, a decorated Ferguson police officer who shot Brown Aug. 9 after the 18-year-old suspected gang member beat him and tried to take his handgun, such evidence remains elusive.</p>
<p>That figure of 40 agents is apparently more than the Obama administration has assigned to all the other major scandals embroiling the administration combined. Those other scandals include Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Benghazi bungling, IRS persecution of conservative groups, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation charges, the Fast and Furious gun-running episode, and the NSA&#8217;s domestic spying.</p>
<p>All the racial grievance-community organizing complex currently has to go on is the fact that the decedent was black and the policeman was white.</p>
<p>It is, of course, no coincidence that the investigation was announced as President Obama&#8217;s approval rating with the public <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx">dipped</a> to record lows. At an anemic 38 percent according to Gallup&#8217;s three-day rolling average, it is now descending into President Nixon territory. Obama is anxious to change the conversation to issues that don&#8217;t matter like raising the minimum wage and income inequality.</p>
<p>The announcement of an expanded federal investigation in Ferguson comes three weeks <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/214911-lawmakers-call-on-doj-to-expand-probe-of-slain-missouri-teen">after</a> the race-baiting members of the far-left Congressional Black Caucus demanded a federal lynch mob be assembled to put the mostly white Ferguson police department in its place.</p>
<p>In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), who heads the CBC, Reps. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), and John Conyers (D-Mich.) demanded the political persecution of Ferguson cops because in their view Brown&#8217;s killing &#8220;may be part of a continuing pattern of the use of deadly force by police against unarmed African-Americans.”</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s shooting raises “potentially serious concerns&#8221; about law enforcement in St. Louis, the lawmakers wrote. Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice should take over the probe because, they claim, the St. Louis County Police Department “may not be the most objective or credible body to investigate civil rights matters involving law enforcement given evidence of racial profiling by that department in the recent past.”</p>
<p>“Only the federal government has the resources, the experience, and the full independence to give this case the close scrutiny that the citizens of Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area deserve,” the letter said.</p>
<p>While Brown&#8217;s body was still warm, Democrats set up a voter registration booth where Brown died, as if the suspected gang member were some kind of martyr. They are now trying to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/getting-ferguson-majority-to-show-its-clout-at-polls.html?_r=0">leverage</a> his death nationally for partisan purposes.</p>
<p>“This is going to go past Ferguson,” said John Gaskin III, a spokesman for the St. Louis County, Mo., NAACP and a member of the group&#8217;s national board of directors.</p>
<p>“What I’ve told people is I want them to be aware that there’s a Ferguson near you, near every city,” he said. “I don’t think people will run out of steam on this one.”</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s announcement also <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/michael-brown-funeral-prelude-to-a-cop-lynching-1/">comes days after</a> Brown was laid to rest following a grotesque political rally led by the abominable racial arsonist Al Sharpton.</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 police officer Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, <span style="color: #222222;">refuses to die.</span></p>
<p>In the minutes before he attacked 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>The image of a huge robber manhandling a much smaller victim won&#8217;t run out of steam anytime soon, either.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-3.55.02-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239096" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-3.55.02-AM-419x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-08-20 at 3.55.02 AM" width="292" height="244" /></a>As mass hysteria over the fatal shooting of a Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown grips the progressive movement, President Obama is sending the most divisive, corrupt race-baiter in his cabinet to the riot-torn St. Louis suburb where the suspect died.</p>
<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has single-mindedly focused on converting the Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, is scheduled to visit Ferguson, Mo., today in an appearance billed as an attempt to restore calm to a community that has erupted in almost daily violence since Brown, a young black man, was shot Aug. 9 by a police officer. Left-wingers who believe as an article of faith that America is racist insist, despite the growing body of exculpatory evidence, that Brown was <i>murdered</i> by a white policeman. They will not be dissuaded no matter how much proof accumulates that the officer fired on Brown because he believed his life was in danger.</p>
<p>The visit comes as the Left&#8217;s narrative that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender, unravels more and more each day. More witnesses are coming forward to identify Brown as the aggressor in a vicious attack on Wilson in which he tried to grab the gun of the six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force and inflicted head injuries so severe that the officer may lose an eye.</p>
<p>Yet the belief that Brown is the real victim remains strong in many circles.</p>
<p>Inane commentary is being churned out by hopelessly affective left-wingers at an impressive clip. For example, leftist lawyer Michelle D. Bernard <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-theres-a-u-s-war-on-black-boys-could-turn-genocide-if-we-dont-stop-it/">told</a> the under-medicated Chris Matthews of MSNBC that in 2014 &#8212; when the U.S. has a black president, black attorney general, black billionaires, and black professionals in probably every field of human endeavor &#8212; legions of Americans still hate black males.</p>
<p>“I don’t have an answer that is palatable to be able to look my children in the face and say there are people in this country who– not only do not like African-Americans, but they despise black men,” Bernard said.</p>
<p>“There is a war on black boys in this country. In my opinion, there is a war on African-American men &#8230; it’s going to turn into a genocide if it doesn’t stop,” she said, echoing recent comments from perpetually offended movie director Spike Lee.</p>
<p>Holder, by the way, reportedly received the findings of the <i>third</i> autopsy yesterday, that is, the superfluous one ordered by the feds after the county autopsy and the family&#8217;s private autopsy. Although the results from the federal autopsy were not publicly available at press time, if memory serves, other high-profile individuals who died of gunshots such as Trayvon Martin, Martin Luther King Jr., and President John F. Kennedy, were autopsied only once.</p>
<p>So it is hard not to be suspicious of Holder&#8217;s motives in requiring that extra postmortem dissection. Keep examining the body over and over again until you find what you want. Just like in close elections. Keep counting the votes over and over again until you win. (<i>See</i>, Al Franken, who succeeded, and Al Gore, who failed.)</p>
<p>But as is always the case with Obama, the lawless attorney general&#8217;s visit is a ruse. Holder, who faces possible impeachment over contempt of Congress charges, will bring a planeload of rhetorical dynamite with him to make sure that the civil unrest continues. It is his job, as he sees it, to rile up people.</p>
<p>A far-left self-described &#8220;activist,&#8221; Holder, like Obama, has an uncanny ability to know exactly what to do to make a situation worse, or as <i>Rules for Radical</i> author Saul Alinsky put it so vividly, to rub raw the sores of discontent. In exacerbating racial tensions and ramping up civil unrest, Holder is truly a virtuoso.</p>
<p>“Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” Holder  pontificates, ignoring the long-recognized fact that an attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not fundamentally transform the nation.</p>
<p>“The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things [and] bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents,” he says, again deliberately misrepresenting the purpose of his high office.</p>
<p>When critics decry his Department of Justice for containing an “activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general — I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and [I am] proud of it,” Holder said.</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/the-arrogance-of-eric-holder/">wrote</a> recently, Holder is the <i>consigliere</i> for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. As a journalist friend of mine likes to remind me, Obama keeps the scandal-prone Holder on because the man &#8220;knows where all the bodies are buried.&#8221;</p>
<p>How do we know that with the Ferguson whistle stop Holder is, as usual, up to no good?</p>
<p>First, because Eric Holder is constitutionally incapable of calming things down, and second, because the signs of a well-crafted con job are there.</p>
<p>The goal is to polarize and enrage and foment even more racial tension and violence to distract from Obama&#8217;s seemingly endless political problems, as well as to energize the Democratic Party&#8217;s base so they vote in droves in November. Democrats who aren&#8217;t in denial are now deathly afraid of the electoral tsunami approaching that seems increasingly likely to leave Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. A GOP recapture of the Senate no longer looks dicey; the only question is how big a majority Republicans will have in that dusty old chamber where good conservative ideas go to die.</p>
<p>This week Holder and Obama&#8217;s Chicagoland enforcer Valerie Jarrett reportedly talked to representatives of what one news article termed &#8220;civic groups.&#8221; They bragged about the hundreds of interviews they have forced scores of FBI agents to conduct in Ferguson in a desperate attempt to bolster the bad-white-cop-murdered-good-black-kid theory.</p>
<p>Among the left-wing activist organizations included on the conference call were the odious National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This fact tells you more or less all you need to know about Holder&#8217;s intentions.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly the usual crew of bad people who hate America, the very worst of the radical left-wing community organizing outfits, also participated in the call. This is the clandestine way the Obama White House has operated since the very beginning. It is more an exercise in conspiracy coordination than in allied group relations.</p>
<p>Apart from the FBI whose agents have been forced to scour Ferguson in search of evidence of imagined civil rights law violations, these groups are connected, if not already actively collaborating, with the criminals doing their best to burn Ferguson to the ground for its supposed sins.</p>
<p>The people on the ground in Ferguson right now, the &#8220;outside agitators&#8221; as a police chief called them, are out there waving protest signs, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, and looting stores. Some of them were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Others are from the New Black Panther Party that Holder holds in such great esteem that he dropped a case against party members who intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008. These insurrectionists have been streaming in from Marxist and other extremist groups in Chicago and beyond. Racial arsonists Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton are there too, making sure they get their cut of the action.</p>
<p>Make no mistake: they are Obama&#8217;s kith and kin. If Obama still had a job at the Gamaliel Foundation or the now-defunct ACORN or any of a number of in-your-face activist groups, he would likely be there right now, knee deep in the blood-covered streets of Ferguson, keeping his radical comrades-in-arms in line, and helping them figure out how to make local residents howl for change.</p>
<p>His goal now, as it was then, is to fundamentally transform the United States of America. As Michelle Obama has said, &#8220;Barack is not a politician first and foremost. He&#8217;s a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.&#8221;</p>
<p>For now Obama won&#8217;t be visiting Ferguson, according to the White House, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s not pulling the strings. Holder will be his trusted emissary.</p>
<p>In fact Holder&#8217;s minions are already on the ground in Ferguson right now causing trouble. News reports indicate that government-employed community organizers are on-site. These outside agitators work for the Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within the Justice Department.</p>
<p>We know what they do. Judicial Watch previously <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">released</a> DoJ documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the community disorganizers of the CRS were dispatched two years ago to Sanford, Fla., after Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black man, was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. For a month and a half after Martin’s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman, who was ultimately acquitted of murder, because they believed quite correctly that the criminal case against him was weak.</p>
<p>In the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.</p>
<p>As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said previously, “These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman. My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”</p>
<p>CRS employees, according to that document dump, were involved in “marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain”; providing “support for protest deployment in Florida”; rendering “technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31”; and providing “technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”</p>
<p>In April 2012, CRS “set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” one of the documents revealed.</p>
<p>We may have to wait a while to find out exactly what the CRS stormtroopers are doing in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the identity politics and cop-hatred that infect the legal system in the St. Louis area have set in motion some race-related intra-party warfare that could turn nasty.</p>
<p>White Democrats want the county&#8217;s elected Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, a Caucasian Democrat who has held the position since 1991, to oversee the case. 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>Gov. Jay Nixon, a white Democrat, supports McCulloch whom he called &#8220;an experienced prosecutor.&#8221; The governor said &#8220;this is his opportunity to step up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Black Democrats who have taken a public stand on whether McCulloch should have carriage of the case don&#8217;t seem to care that the voters of the county have repeatedly put the man in charge of local criminal prosecutions. These political operatives want him off the case, perhaps because they feel he can&#8217;t be expected to toe the radical line because he&#8217;s not black. Justice, according to Critical Race Theory, is never color-blind.</p>
<p>They <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-prosecutor-has-faced-controversy-for-decades/article_cdd4c104-6086-506e-9ee8-aa957a31fee5.html">say</a> McCulloch, who comes from a family of police officers, should not be handling the prosecution because in their view he is too close to the police. His father, a police officer, was fatally shot in the line of duty by a black man when McCulloch was 12 years old.</p>
<p>St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley, a black Democrat, has asked Missouri Attorney General Jay Koster, a white Democrat, to appoint a special prosecutor to replace McCulloch. Koster says state law does not allow him to do so. Dooley has an obvious axe to grind. Just last week he lost the Democratic nod for his post to Steve Senger, a white county council member who was heavily backed by McCulloch.</p>
<p>Other local elected Democrats say they don&#8217;t trust McCulloch. U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-Mo.) and state senators Jamilah Nasheed and Maria Chappelle-Nadal all wanted McCulloch ousted from the case. All three are black.</p>
<p>Chappelle-Nadal is the state lawmaker who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/maria-chappelle-nadal_n_5689465.html">tweeted</a> &#8220;fuck you&#8221; to Gov. Nixon last week week saying it was justified because she was injured while protesting the death of Brown in Ferguson. She blames the governor who has ordered the state highway patrol to police Ferguson.</p>
<p>&#8220;The reason why I used profane language is because he has allowed us to get tear-gassed for three days,&#8221; she told Fox News. &#8220;I am one of his senators in his party, and he was at the state fair enjoying a country concert while we were getting teargassed and shot at. And yes, anyone who&#8217;s going to get tear-gassed deserves to say a few f-bombs here and there.&#8221;</p>
<p>State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, a black Democrat, created an online petition at MoveOn&#8217;s website calling on McCulloch to &#8220;fully recuse himself and his office from the investigation related to the murder [<i>sic</i>] of Michael Brown.&#8221; It urges McCulloch to appoint a special prosecutor to carry out the investigation.</p>
<p>According to the petition, which had 58,000 signatures at press time, the fact that McCulloch opted not to pursue police officers who killed &#8211;the petition says &#8220;murdered&#8221;&#8211; &#8220;two unarmed African-American men in 2000&#8243; after an independent probe found the officers lied about what they did, ought to disqualify him from overseeing the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;That failure, coupled, with McCulloch&#8217;s recent participation in one of the most racially polarizing elections in the history of St. Louis County, means that his office&#8217;s continued oversight of this tragedy will only sow further distrust and discord in our community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The men who were shot a decade and a half ago were suspected drug dealers. A federal investigation found the officers were justified in shooting because they felt endangered.</p>
<p>Nasheed trashed McCulloch on CNN. In her view, McCulloch &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have the fortitude to do the right thing when it comes to prosecuting police officers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The rest of the Democrats&#8217; local lynch mob also refuses to wait any longer.</p>
<p>Wilson &#8220;should be charged and arrested,&#8221; said Patricia Bynes, the Democratic Party committeewoman who represents Ferguson Township. &#8220;It&#8217;s been over a week now,&#8221;</p>
<p>Evidence about the shooting of Michael Brown is scheduled to go to a St. Louis County Circuit Court grand jury starting today, according to Ed Magee, spokesman for McCulloch. Magee said his boss will not present the case in the grand jury proceeding.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will be handled by the attorney regularly assigned to the grand jury. It will not be by Mr. McCulloch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s funeral has been scheduled for Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be public and it&#8217;s going to be supported by national leaders,&#8221; Brown family lawyer Anthony Gray told the <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/michael-brown-shooting-case-to-go-before-grand-jury-wednesday/article_375eff87-6a6b-534b-abcc-a8664e7d3ba2.html"><i>St. Louis Post Dispatch</i></a>.</p>
<p>In other words, the memorial service appears destined to become a grotesque political rally.</p>
<p>How could this not be the case in a town where ghoulish political operatives have already set up a voter registration tent at the site where Brown died?</p>
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<p>Attorney General Eric Holder argues in a new interview that activism is the proper role of the nation&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer &#8212; and it is precisely this radical conceit that by itself ought to disqualify him from holding the office.</p>
<p>“If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/juan-williams/214174-juan-williams-holder-exclusive-proud-to-be-an-activist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">he told</span></a> left-wing journalist Juan Williams.</p>
<p>“Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,&#8221; Holder pontificated, skating over the long-recognized fact that an attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not fundamentally transform the nation. (For a full profile of Holder, see <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2357"><span style="color: #0433ff;">DiscoverTheNetworks</span></a>.)</p>
<p>&#8220;The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things [and] bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents,” he said, again deliberately misrepresenting the purpose of his high office.</p>
<p>It is especially galling that Holder invokes the nation&#8217;s founding documents, which to him are mere pieces of parchment to be ignored or overcome depending on the political exigencies of the moment.</p>
<p>When critics decry his Department of Justice for containing an “activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general — I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and [I am] proud of it,” Holder said.</p>
<p>This is not mere hubris.</p>
<p>Holder is the legal ringleader for today&#8217;s Democrats and their culture of corruption. After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 &#8211;the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history&#8211; he is just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors his detractors say he has committed against the American people.</p>
<p>Twenty House members have introduced a formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411. The resolution’s four articles of impeachment accuse Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal, refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.</p>
<p>First and foremost, Holder is a whiner. When in trouble, he cowers under a tarpaulin-sized race card. It is all so tedious.</p>
<p>He bristled when lawmakers dared to question him in various congressional hearings. When he got into hot water for withholding documents on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, his arrogance burned brightly.</p>
<p>“What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?” he asked disingenuously.</p>
<p>Holder hates conservatives with a passion.</p>
<p>He calls conservatives “defenders of the status quo, afraid of the future, and content to allow to continue to exist all but the most blatant inequalities.” They “put the environment at risk for the sake of unproven economic theories, to play to the fears of our citizens, and not to their hopes, and to return the nation to a time that in fact never existed.” The hallmarks of the “conservative agenda” include “social division, mindless tax cutting, and a defense posture that does not really make us safer.”</p>
<p>Clearly, this, coming from a member of the most divisive administration in memory, is a case of psychological projection.</p>
<p>Moreover, Holder surrounds himself with unsavory people.</p>
<p>His former top civil rights enforcer, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/tom-perez-obamas-radical-labor-secretary-nominee/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Thomas Perez</span></a>, is a former top aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and possibly a perjurer. At DoJ, Perez, a former president of illegal alien support group Casa de Maryland, led the Obama administration’s assault on voter ID laws. Before heading off to become Obama&#8217;s Secretary of Labor, Perez played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, legislation based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists. He targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio for legal harassment because he didn&#8217;t like Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach, especially with respect to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Perez, like so many Obama administration officials, believes that America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant rubes who irrationally fear the Muslim religion. He has worked with hardcore Islamist groups such as the terrorist-linked Islamic Society of North America and applauded Islamists for lobbying against airline security measures.</p>
<p>Holder backed President Obama’s nominee to replace Perez, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/mumia-abu-jamals-lawyer-to-obamas-justice-department/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Debo Adegbile</span></a>, a race-obsessed lawyer who tried to permanently free unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. A former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Adegbile is a staunch affirmative action supporter who doesn’t appear to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection. In a rare victory for common sense, the Senate rejected Adegbile&#8217;s nomination.</p>
<p>If there is any justice, after the Obama era mercifully draws to a close, Holder will be prosecuted for a litany of abuses that have been ably documented by J. Christian Adams in <i>Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department</i> and by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky in <i>Obama&#8217;s Enforcer: Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department</i>.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for justice to be done.</p>
<p>Like President Barack Hussein Obama, Holder knows he is largely inoculated from criticism because he is black. Holder possesses an ugly combination of creepy self-righteousness, cockiness, hatred of country, and racist contempt for white Americans that makes him the darling of the activist Left and the mainstream media which refuses to report on his many, many misdeeds.</p>
<p>Holder is an invaluable member of the Obama cabinet because he knows where the bodies are buried. Chances are he buried the bodies. He is not We The People&#8217;s lawyer but instead serves as a personal <i>consigliere</i>, or mob lawyer, to the highest elected gangster in the land, President Obama. And he will never cross the <i>capo di tutti capi</i>. He will bend and twist any statute into pretzels, torture any legal precedent into docility, and intimidate and persecute anyone who gets in his way.</p>
<p>Like all the other identity politics-focused neo-Marxists in the Obama administration, Holder is obsessed with race.</p>
<p>This psychopathology presents itself prominently more or less every time Holder makes a speech. Instead of thinking of himself as an unhyphenated American, Holder speaks of &#8220;my people,&#8221; when referring to blacks. And although Americans talk about race constantly and often to the point of nausea, Holder thinks more needs to be said. Because most Americans don&#8217;t share his race-based resentments and sense of racial entitlement, they are bad people in this view. This helps in part to explain his infamous claim that America is &#8220;a nation of cowards&#8221; on race.</p>
<p>America remains a deeply racist nation, just as systemically biased against blacks as it was in the Jim Crow era, as Holder sees it. Government-mandated racism such as affirmative action programs and other special treatment for minorities is desperately needed, in his view.</p>
<p>Holder loathes Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;s eminently sensible formulation that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like the racial hucksters of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Holder acts like a Klansmen is hiding under every bed, ready to terrorize the nation&#8217;s blacks.</p>
<p>“There are still [racial] issues we as a society are working our way through,” Holder said. “And the lack of desire to do that, I think, undermines the ability that I think is inherent in the American people to make progress. But it also does not prepare us for demographic changes, the likes of which this country has never seen.”</p>
<p>Some of those projected demographic changes are largely nonexistent, of course, accomplished by rejiggering definitions of various races, for example, of Hispanics, a group whose membership ebbs and flows depending on which party controls the Census Bureau.</p>
<p>“The justice system is part of the larger society and to the extent there are racial issues we are still grappling with, it is not a shock that you are going to see them in the justice system … [There is] a whole range of ways the justice system, if it is run properly, can make this country the country it wants to be.”</p>
<p>How Holder knows what the country &#8220;wants to be&#8221; is unclear. What is clear is that he is willing to foment racial tension and hatred that get people killed in order to change society. Under Holder, the Department of Justice sent taxpayer-paid community agitators down to Sanford, Florida, to whip up hysteria against the so-called white Hispanic, George Zimmerman, since-acquitted of the murder of black juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s idea of justice consists of letting thugs go free &#8212; provided that they have the right skin color. He has steadfastly refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He presided over the DoJ&#8217;s dismissal of an otherwise open-and-shut case involving two members of the New Black Panther Party who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008.</p>
<p>Interviewer Juan Williams writes that &#8220;Holder remains indifferent to conservative protests that he is an ‘activist’ looking for trouble by digging into what he calls &#8216;policies [with] disproportionate impact on communities of color.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Disparate racial outcomes “are not only shameful and unacceptable – they impede our ability to see that justice is done,” according to Holder. “And they perpetuate cycles of poverty, crime and incarceration that trap individuals, destroy communities and decimate minority neighborhoods.”</p>
<p>Setting aside the seductive sociobabble, it needs to be stated that decades of social studies show pretty conclusively that blacks violate these so-called policies with disparate impact, also known as &#8220;the law,&#8221; more than whites and other groups do and grossly out of proportion to their numbers. By Holder&#8217;s reasoning, laws against honor killings have a disparate impact on Muslims &#8212; even though Muslims commit most honor killings in Western civilization. The only reasoning progressives like Holder understand is circular logic.</p>
<p>Again, as America’s first black U.S. attorney general, Holder knows that whatever he does in office, he is likely never going to be held to account. His misdeeds will not see the light of day because the Obama-worshipping media and opposition party lawmakers are either sympathetic to Obama’s agenda or are too afraid to confront the president and Holder out of fear of being tarred as racist.</p>
<p>&#8220;The havoc Holder has created goes far beyond corruption on any single issue,&#8221; according to J. Christian Adams.</p>
<p>&#8220;The damage he has done crosses all components of the Department of Justice, and has trickled down to infect the systems of law and legal jurisprudence throughout the country. He has tried to transform the federal agency intended to be above politics into an institution advocating radical change and extreme remedies.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Eric Holder doesn&#8217;t give a damn who gets hurt in the process.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eric-holder1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236473" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eric-holder1-450x350.jpg" alt="eric-holder" width="271" height="211" /></a>While being interviewed recently by ABC News’ Pierre Thomas, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his belief that he and Barack Obama have been subjected to a measure of “vehemence” unlike that with which other public figures have had to reckon.</p>
<p>Anyone who’s been alive for more than a few years doesn’t need this spelled out for them, but Holder couldn’t resist the impulse to make explicit the point at which he’s always driving: For Obama’s and Holder’s critics who are always “talking about taking their country back,” there is “a certain racial component,” “a racial animus,” that animates them.</p>
<p>To put it more bluntly, Holder is accusing his opponents of being a bunch of “<i>racists.</i>”<i> </i></p>
<p>Of course, no one should be in the least bit surprised by this.  Holder, like his boss, has always been a “Johnny One-Note” when it comes to the issue of race.  But rather than go on the defensive, as whites generally and white conservatives always do, let us instead pose some questions to the AG.</p>
<p>First, by “racial animus” you presumably mean “racism.” But what does <i>this </i>mean, Mr. Holder?  In spite of—or maybe because of—the ease with this term is hurled about, “racism” has come to mean all things to all people: Adolph Hitler, Nazis, Klansmen, Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, John Wayne, Southerners, Germans, American police officers and military personnel, slave masters and abolitionists, the Union and the Confederacy, America’s Founders, elderly whites, middle class whites, our judicial system, our political arrangements, academia, Hollywood, “the media,” and so forth and so on, have all been accused of “racism.”</p>
<p>However, as we say, if everyone is “racist,” then no one is “racist.” Or, if you will, if “racism” means anything and everything, then it means nothing.</p>
<p>Yet maybe, Mr. Holder, by “racist” you have in mind simply someone who dislikes black people, like yourself and the President, simply and solely because they are black. Given the context of your comments, I suspect that this is probably your meaning.</p>
<p>The unanimously acknowledged “father” of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, identified as an axiom of reason the proposition that “something can’t come from nothing.” And since, sir, you and those of your ilk are forever looking for “root causes” whenever it comes to accounting for the dysfunctional conduct of which America’s “ghettoes” are ridden, I am inclined to think that you too believe it is self-evident that from nothing, nothing comes.</p>
<p>So, <i>if, </i>as you’re so certain, your critics dislike you and Mr. Obama only because you both are black, answer me this: From whence springs this sentiment of theirs?  Why would anyone, white or otherwise, dislike black people?  In other words, what are the “root causes” of white “racism?”</p>
<p>Bear in mind, sir, that the stock replies—“That’s just how white ‘racists’ were raised;” “Whites entertain ‘racist’ stereotypes about blacks,” etc.—are alike viciously question-begging (to say nothing of sounding “stereotypical” themselves).  Each in its own way simply rephrases the claim that whites are “racist.”</p>
<p>And if you resolve, Mr. Attorney General, to concede that some of these negative “stereotypes” about blacks do indeed have a basis in reality but are nevertheless a “legacy” of white “racism,” please note that, once more, you beg the question by restating your original assertion: whites are/were “racist.”</p>
<p>It’s ok, though, if you can’t answer this query Mr. Holder.  If I was a betting man I’d bet my house that never, ever have you had to give it any thought at all.   Of real logical axioms like that identified by Descartes’ I’m sure you couldn’t care less.  What you <i>do </i>care about, however, and care about more than anything else, is the proposition that whites are “racists” and blacks are unqualified victims.  <i>This </i>you treat as a first principle of reason.</p>
<p>And this brings me to my next question: It’s true, isn’t it Mr. Holder, that you <i>like </i>crying “racism” precisely <i>because </i>blacks are widely portrayed (by people like yourself) as victims?</p>
<p>Contrary to what many of your critics claim, I for one most definitely do <i>not </i>believe that you charge them with “racism” simply and solely for the purpose of immunizing yourself and the President against criticism (though this certainly is <i>a </i>consideration some of the time).  I believe that you work long and hard at convincing <i>yourself</i> that the two of you—the two most powerful human beings on the planet, mind you—really <i>are</i> victims of “racism.”</p>
<p>To put it another way, your charges of “racism” are not just politically motivated, are they?  Ideologically and even psychologically, you and Mr. Obama—children of “privilege,” the two of you—<i>need </i>to believe that you are both “authentically black”—i.e. “oppressed”—and “down with the struggle”—i.e. “oppressed.”</p>
<p>Your interests are served well by the perception that you and Mr. Obama are unpopular because of your skin pigmentation, aren’t they Mr. Holder?</p>
<p>The problem, however, is that this lie in which you and Obama have invested your whole being is a great <i>disservice</i> to the interests of the rest of us—regardless of our skin color.</p>
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		<title>The Obama Administration&#8217;s Homeland Security Hypocrisy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With thousands of foreign nationals allowed to infiltrate the U.S., Eric Holder warns of terrorist threat. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usa-obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usa-obama-450x295.jpg" alt="usa-obama" width="285" height="187" /></a>After years of working hard to comfort America&#8217;s terrorist enemies and erase U.S. borders, the nation&#8217;s perpetually embattled attorney general is suddenly concerned that Middle Eastern jihadists are working together to create undetectable explosives that could be used to blow up U.S. airliners.</p>
<p>Intelligence reports suggest Islamic terrorists in Yemen and Syria have joined forces to make the stealthy bombs and this development is &#8220;more frightening than anything I think I&#8217;ve seen as attorney general,” Eric Holder said on ABC’s “This Week.”</p>
<p>The collaboration between Islamist militants in the two Muslim countries is a “deadly combination” of those who have technical skills and &#8220;people who have this kind of fervor to give their lives in support of a cause that is directed at the United States and directed at its allies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that gives us really extreme, extreme concern,&#8221; Holder said.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s comments come as the U.S.Department of Homeland Security announced it was ratcheting up security measures at international airports. Individuals will now be made to demonstrate that their electronic devices such as cellphones and laptop computers are not bombs by turning them on at security checkpoints.</p>
<p>Such measures are &#8220;prudent steps that are necessary to protect the flying public,” Holder said.</p>
<p>Yet while Holder pretends to be a responsible adult, at the same time evidence has surfaced that security measures have been all but suspended at U.S. airports for newly arrived illegal immigrants in the southern states.</p>
<p>Breitbart Texas reports that illegals are being allowed to board commercial airliners without valid ID. “The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” said Hector Garza, a spokesman for Local 2455 of the National Border Patrol Council. (NBPC is the labor union representing about 17,000 Border Patrol agents and support personnel assigned to that law enforcement organization.)</p>
<p>“This is not the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] or another federal agency renting or leasing an aircraft, these are the same planes that the American public uses for domestic travel,” said Garza.</p>
<blockquote><p>This just adds insult to injury. Not only are we releasing unknown illegal aliens onto American streets, but we are allowing them to travel commercially using paperwork that could easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer. The Notice to Appear form has no photo, anyone can make one and manipulate one. They do not have any security features, no watermark, nothing. They are simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth.</p></blockquote>
<p>Added Garza:</p>
<blockquote><p>We do not know who these people are, we often have to solely rely on who they say they are, where they say they came from, and the history they say they have. We know nothing about most of them, ICE releases them into the American public, and now they are boarding aircraft at will with a simple paper document that anyone can easily alter or reproduce themselves.</p>
<p>Central Americans are not the only people crossing our border and being released. Does anyone actually think that cartels and others criminal or possible terrorist organizations are not taking advantage of the fact that we are having to leave our border wide open while we reassigning the majority of our agents to process family units and minors? Of course this situation is being exploited by such threats.</p></blockquote>
<p>NBPC Vice President Shawn Moran told Washington, D.C. radio station WMAL&#8217;s Larry  O&#8217;Connor yesterday that the ongoing invasion by illegal aliens is straining Border Patrol resources.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t normally have these large groups of people trying to surrender to us,&#8221; Moran said. &#8220;They are tying up officers in the field and we believe this is being orchestrated for the benefit of the drug cartels.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Border Patrol has caught plenty of illegal immigrants from countries that the U.S. regards as state sponsors of terrorism, he said, adding he is concerned that terrorists are &#8220;trying to fit in with the groups that we&#8217;re catching.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama administration officials like Holder are now giving Oscar-worthy performances, posing as public servants deeply worried about the nation&#8217;s porous southern border. They are providing political cover for the president who has been trying ever since his January 2009 swearing-in to generate disorder at the border.</p>
<p>President Obama gave a green light to the current wave of illegal immigrants when he indicated he has no interest in enforcing U.S. immigration laws.</p>
<p>Obama has provided executive amnesty and work permits for illegal immigrants covered by the proposed “DREAM Act” that Congress has repeatedly rejected. That legislation, if enacted, would cover individuals who claim to have entered the U.S. as minors under their parents’ guidance.</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive in August 2013 expanding that amnesty to illegal immigrant relatives of “DREAM Act” beneficiaries. DHS issued another directive in December 2012 reinforcing the existing policy under which almost all immigration offenses were deemed unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction.</p>
<p>Throughout all of this, Holder has functioned more as Obama&#8217;s consigliere than as the American people&#8217;s lawyer.</p>
<p>And just last week Holder met with officials in Oslo, Norway and London in an effort to get European allies to do more to stem the the possible flow of terrorists into their countries. The meetings were an opportunity to &#8220;exchange information in the way that you can&#8217;t if you&#8217;re not present&#8221; and &#8220;come up with techniques to thwart those who would try to do us all harm.”</p>
<p>It is unclear if the foreign dignitaries laughed in the face of Holder, who has long worked to frustrate policy initiatives aimed at making Americans safe from terrorist attacks and invasions.</p>
<p>Every month tens of thousands of illegal aliens, some of whom may be terrorists or part of organized crime, are now streaming unimpeded into the southern United States from Mexico. Some of these illegals are being allowed on domestic airline flights without providing proper identification. And everyone knows that in Democrat-administered regions these illegal immigrants won&#8217;t be asked for ID when they try to vote for Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren for president in 2016.</p>
<p>After all, Holder is a poster child for &#8220;man-caused disasters,&#8221; the Obama administration&#8217;s hideous euphemism for acts of terrorism. He is the top law enforcement official serving a president who has provided military and other support to Islamic totalitarians in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Holder orchestrated or at least silently assented to the Obama administration&#8217;s Fast and Furious gun-running operation that cost Border Patrol officer Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican nationals their lives. This Reichstag fire-like piece of political theater that provided firearms to drug cartels was designed to cause an outbreak of violence and mayhem in an effort to whip up public hysteria against the Second Amendment.</p>
<p>Holder himself has done more to undermine U.S. national security than just about anyone else in the Obama administration, except perhaps for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Janet Napolitano, and President Obama.</p>
<p>The ultimate political fixer, Holder has a long history of aiding, and in some cases, abetting terrorists. Like Obama, he appears to have a soft spot for bombers in particular, and also like Obama, he has become the envy of sociopaths the world over for his impressive lying and obfuscation skills.</p>
<p>While serving as deputy attorney general, Holder was a principal figure in the vetting of the Clinton administration’s infamous 176 last-minute clemencies in January 2001. Those benefitting from Holder&#8217;s questionable recommendations included former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. Rosenberg was a suspect in the deadly 1981 armed robbery of an armored car and was given a 58-year prison sentence for possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives and an arsenal of illicit weapons. Evans received 40 years for harboring a fugitive from the robbery and using false identification to purchase firearms. She also received five years in connection with eight bombings. (Note: July 18 is the first anniversary of the untimely passing of Larry Grathwohl, a Vietnam War veteran who infiltrated the Weather Underground and later provided evidence against Evans.)</p>
<p>Holder was also involved in President Clinton’s 1999 pardon of 16 members of FALN, Armed Forces of National Liberation—a violent terrorist organization (as designated by the FBI) that was active in the U.S. from 1974 to 1983. The Marxist-Leninist group detonated almost 130 bombs in government and corporate buildings in Chicago, New York, and the nation&#8217;s capital in a failed bid for Puerto Rican independence. FALN bombs killed six individuals — including Chile&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S. —and wounded at least 80 others. Congress subsequently condemned the acts of clemency by votes of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House.</p>
<p>An enabler of Islamic terrorists, former lawyer Lynne Stewart was released from prison last year after serving only three years of a 10-year prison sentence for terrorism-related offenses. The premature return to society of Stewart, who has terminal cancer, was made possible after Holder&#8217;s Justice Department relaxed the criteria for early release on compassionate grounds.</p>
<p>During George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency, Holder was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington &amp; Burling, which represented Islamic terrorists. At one time he condemned the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay as an “international embarrassment.” As U.S. attorney general, Holder has sought to try Muslim terrorists in civilian courts instead of military tribunals and has lauded Supreme Court decisions that undermine what the previous administration called the Global War on Terror.</p>
<p>With policies like these, more Holder-made disasters are a dead certainty.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Because You&#8217;re Black, Mr. Holder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Attorney General's lame attempt to paint his critics as racists.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236284" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377-435x350.jpg" alt="article-2690696-1F9D532800000578-182_634x377" width="286" height="230" /></a>In his Sunday interview on ABC’s <i>This Week</i>, Attorney General Eric Holder <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition"><span style="color: #011480;">showed</span></a> with crystal clarity that he is an ugly, contemptible demagogue. “There&#8217;s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that&#8217;s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” he said. “You know, people talking about taking their country back&#8230;. There&#8217;s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there&#8217;s a racial animus.” So, since Mr. Holder insists on pretending that he&#8217;s too stupid to understand the very simple fact that <i>every single one</i> of his critics can quite easily cite a lengthy list of very legitimate<i> </i>reasons to denounce him in the strongest possible terms, let&#8217;s play along, shall we? Let&#8217;s explain to the poor, bewildered Attorney General why—for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with race—many Americans say they wish to “take their country back.”</p>
<p>First, a few words about Holder&#8217;s disgraceful track record in the years before he joined the Obama administration: For example, he was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration’s 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. The beneficiaries of those pardons included former <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808"><span style="color: #011480;">Weather Underground</span></a> members <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1806"><span style="color: #011480;">Susan Rosenberg</span></a> (involved in a deadly 1981 armed robbery) and Linda Evans (who was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985).</p>
<p>Holder played a particularly significant role in Clinton&#8217;s infamous pardon of the billionaire financier Marc Rich, a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4FF4B454-D5C0-4941-B357-19C6C96E6F5C"><span style="color: #011480;">fugitive oil broker</span></a> who had illegally purchased oil from Iran during the American trade embargo, and had then proceeded to hide more than $100 million in profits via dummy transactions with off-shore corporations. Rich later renounced his American citizenship and fled to Switzerland to <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=/www/story/06-18-2008/0004834952&amp;EDATE="><span style="color: #011480;">avoid prosecution</span></a> for <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/morris/Eric_Holder_obama/2008/06/05/101922.html"><span style="color: #011480;">51 counts</span></a> of <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/holder_gun_control/2008/11/21/153808.html"><span style="color: #011480;">racketeering</span></a>, wire fraud, tax fraud, tax evasion, and the illegal oil transactions with Iran.</p>
<p>Holder was also intimately involved in President Clinton’s August 11, 1999 pardon of 16 members of the FALN—a Marxist-Leninist Puerto Rican terror group that was active in the U.S. during the 1970s and &#8217;80s, when it detonated nearly 130 bombs in military and government buildings, financial institutions, and corporate headquarters located mainly in big U.S. cities.</p>
<p>In 2004 Holder <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266657/holder-vs-holder-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #011480;">filed</span></a> an amicus brief on behalf of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #011480;">al Qaeda</span></a> terrorist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=703"><span style="color: #011480;">Jose Padilla</span></a>, who had been dispatched to the United States by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690"><span style="color: #011480;">Osama bin Laden</span></a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=745"><span style="color: #011480;">Khalid Shaikh Mohammed</span></a> to carry out a post-9/11, second wave of terrorist attacks. By Holder’s reckoning, Islamic terrorists like Padilla have a right to be <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266657/holder-vs-holder-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #011480;">treated as criminal defendants</span></a>, not enemy combatants, if they are not captured on a traditional battlefield.</p>
<p>When Barack Obama in 2007 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eric-holder/gIQAF5RR9O_topic.html"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a> Holder to join his presidential campaign as a legal adviser and strategist, Holder&#8217;s law firm was, at that very moment, representing 18 Islamic terrorists who were being detained in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=135&amp;type=issue"><span style="color: #011480;">Guantanamo Bay</span></a>.</p>
<p>In 2008, Holder <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33694"><span style="color: #011480;">argued</span></a> that “the Second Amendment did not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms,” but only protected government militias’ rights to guns.</p>
<p>Holder has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/20/obama-try-terror-suspect-nyc-gitmo-detainee-brought/"><span style="color: #011480;">repeatedly</span></a> maintained that the world&#8217;s most dangerous terrorists should be tried in <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/13/khalid.sheikh.mohammed/index.html"><span style="color: #011480;">civilian courts</span></a> rather than in military tribunals that permit prosecutors to bring more evidence to bear.</p>
<p>In December 2009, Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20965"><span style="color: #011480;">elected to Mirandize</span></a> the so-called “Christmas bomber,” a Nigerian-born <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #011480;">al Qaeda</span></a> operative who had tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet with explosives hidden inside his underwear. Informed of his right to remain silent, Abdulmutallab promptly <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jlaksin/defending-the-indefensible/"><span style="color: #011480;">chose</span></a> to exercise it.</p>
<p>When testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2010, Holder <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026287.php"><span style="color: #011480;">refused</span></a> to acknowledge that radical Islamic beliefs might have played a role in motivating several recently attempted terrorist attacks against U.S. interests: (a) the aforementioned “underwear” bombing aboard a plane; (b) Major <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2433"><span style="color: #011480;">Nidal Malik Hasan</span></a>&#8216;s November 2009 shooting of 13 fellow U.S. soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas; and (c) Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s attempted car bombing in New York&#8217;s Times Square on May 1, 2010.</p>
<p>When Arizona enacted a 2010 law deputizing state police to check the immigration status of criminal suspects, Holder, <i>without even having </i><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0510/Holder_hasnt_read_Ariz_immigration_bill.html"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>read</i></span></a><i> the bill</i>, spoke forcefully against it and indicated that the federal government might challenge it. Eventually, Holder&#8217;s Justice Department filed suit against Arizona to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/22/eric-holders-lawlessness/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">block key portions</span></a> of the law from taking effect. By November 2011, the DOJ would file <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/22/eric-holders-lawlessness/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">similar suits</span></a> against <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/14/eric-holders-corrupt-agenda/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">three</span></a> additional states that likewise had passed laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration.</p>
<p>On Election Day of 2008, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/tag/jerry-jackson-jr/"><span style="color: #011480;">two</span></a> <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/04/meet-phillys-new-black-panther-party-leader/"><span style="color: #011480;">members</span></a> of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7556"><span style="color: #011480;">New Black Panther Party</span></a> menaced white voters with racial slurs and threats of violence at a Philadelphia polling place. Bartle Bull, a former civil rights attorney and campaign aide to the late Robert F. Kennedy, <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/0909/ferris.php3"><span style="color: #011480;">called</span></a> it “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen. In 2009 the Obama administration inherited a lawsuit that the outgoing Bush administration had brought against the perpetrators, and when the defendants failed to answer the suit, a federal court in Philadelphia entered a default judgment against them. But the Holder Justice Department <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295919/new-black-panthers-unpunished-threats-john-fund?pg=2"><span style="color: #011480;">responded</span></a> by suddenly dropping the charges.</p>
<p>In July 2010, Holder&#8217;s DOJ released the former Marxist terrorist Marilyn Buck from prison, where she was serving an 80-year sentence that began in the 1980s. Buck had: <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/08/04/leftist-activists-convince-eric-holders-doj-to-set-violent-marxist-free/"><span style="color: #011480;">helped</span></a> the <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Black_Liberation_Army"><span style="color: #011480;">Black Liberation Army</span></a> member and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur escape from prison in 1979; helped the BLA acquire weapons and ammunition; <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Marilyn_Buck"><span style="color: #011480;">participated</span></a> in the deadly 1981 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink's_robbery_(1981)"><span style="color: #011480;">Brink&#8217;s armored-car robbery</span></a>; and played a role in a number of big-city <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/Marilyn_Buck"><span style="color: #011480;">bombings</span></a>. Explaining the rationale for Buck&#8217;s release, Justice Department officials said that Buck had “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/01/shocking-new-documents-detail-dojs-reasons-for-releasing-marxist-bomber/"><span style="color: #011480;">expressed a dramatic change</span></a> from her previous political philosophy.”</p>
<p>In an October 2010 meeting that was arranged by the chief of the Justice Department&#8217;s Public Integrity Section, Holder&#8217;s DOJ <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-justice-department-pushed-lois-lerner-to-help-build-criminal-case-against-nonprofits/article/2548787"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a> IRS official Lois Lerner to help the Department build criminal cases against conservative nonprofit groups that were conducting political activity. This was part of the massive <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1935"><span style="color: #011480;">IRS political-targeting scandal</span></a> that eventually began to make headlines in May 2013. When news of the scandal broke, the DOJ <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/8/feds-pick-obama-supporter-lead-irs-tea-party-probe/"><span style="color: #011480;">selected</span></a> an avowed political and financial supporter of President Obama to head a criminal probe into the matter.</p>
<p>In 2011 Holder&#8217;s Justice Department <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">pushed</span></a> to maximize Democratic voter turnout for the 2012 elections by filing <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">“motor voter” suits</span></a> across the country, complaining that state agencies had not been circulating voter-registration forms in welfare offices. By contrast, the DOJ made <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/12/01/president-obamas-justice-depar"><span style="color: #011480;">no effort to enforce</span></a> another section of the law requiring states to purge voter rolls of dead persons and ineligible felons. In fact, the Department demanded that Florida discontinue a purge it had already begun. When the state refused to comply, the DOJ filed a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/14/eric-holders-corrupt-agenda/print/"><span style="color: #011480;">lawsuit</span></a>.</p>
<p>Holder has consistently <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/young-white-activist-proves-that-without-voter-id-law-ag-eric-holders-ballot-easy-to-obtain/"><span style="color: #011480;">opposed</span></a> efforts to pass voter-ID laws designed to combat voter fraud. Asserting that such laws have the effect of disenfranchising nonwhite minorities, whom Holder obviously views as too feeble-minded to do something as simple and as inexpensive (actually, it&#8217;s free) as procuring a government-issued ID card, the Attorney General once <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70400.html"><span style="color: #011480;">asked</span></a>: “Are we willing to allow this era—our era—to be remembered as the age when our nation’s proud tradition of expanding the franchise ended?”</p>
<p>An exhaustive <i>PJ Media</i> <a href="http://pjmedia.com/every-single-one-pj-medias-investigation-of-justice-department-hiring-practices/"><span style="color: #011480;">report</span></a> reveals that, without exception, every attorney hired by the Civil Rights Division of Holder&#8217;s DOJ has a leftist or Democrat activist pedigree. Similarly, the <i>American Spectator</i> <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2013/03/12/thomas-perez-should-be-blocked"><span style="color: #011480;">notes</span></a> “the unprecedentedly naked politicization of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division,” as evidenced by the fact that “every one” of the 100+ people the Division has hired for supposedly non-political civil-service positions are “demonstrably liberal activists.”</p>
<p>In the fall of 2011, controversy arose over Holder&#8217;s role in endorsing “Fast and Furious,” a program which the <a href="http://www.atf.gov/"><span style="color: #011480;">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, &amp; Firearms</span></a> (ATF) had administered during 2009-10. In <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45398"><span style="color: #011480;">that initiative</span></a>, the ATF sold some 2,500 guns to “straw purchasers” in the U.S. who agreed to subsequently smuggle them into Mexico and put them in the hands of cartel leaders, who supposedly were to be arrested at some subsequent point. The entire “Fast and Furious” operation ended with <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/does-fast-and-furious-put-impeachment-table"><span style="color: #011480;">only 20 indictments</span></a> of straw purchasers—all of whom were already familiar to U.S. authorities from the outset. Moreover, the program was linked directly to two weapons <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/08/atf-shake-up-comes-fast-and-furious/"><span style="color: #011480;">found on the scene</span></a> where U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered in Arizona in December 2010. By the fall of 2011, the weapons that had been transferred as part of “Fast and Furious” had been used in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279176/fast-furious-and-loose-facts-editors"><span style="color: #011480;">at least 200 murders</span></a> in Mexico. They also had been identified at <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/does-fast-and-furious-put-impeachment-table"><span style="color: #011480;">11 additional crime scenes</span></a> in the United States.</p>
<p>When questioned <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">under oath</span></a> during a Judiciary Committee hearing on May 3, 2011, Holder indicated that he had known nothing about “Fast and Furious&#8217; until about April 2011. But soon thereafter, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">evidence</span></a> surfaced demonstrating conclusively that Holder had been aware of the operation since at least <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/04/house-republicans-to-request-special-counsel-to-probe-holder-on-fast-and/"><span style="color: #011480;">July 2010</span></a>.</p>
<p>In 2011 the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/20/house-committee-votes-to-hold-attorney-general-eric-holder-in-contempt.html"><span style="color: #011480;">subpoena</span></a> instructing Holder to turn over all internal Justice Department documents related to the “Fast and Furious” program. As of late June, 2012, DOJ had supplied <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/27/team_obamas_brother_sharpton_moment"><span style="color: #011480;">fewer than 8%</span></a> of the 80,000 documents the congressional investigators sought, and had <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/27/team_obamas_brother_sharpton_moment"><span style="color: #011480;">blocked</span></a> 48 of the 70 Justice Department officials who were involved in “Fast and Furious” from testifying. House Republicans continued to pressure Holder to turn over the remaining documents, but he refused. Eventually he became the first U.S. Attorney General had ever been held in contempt by a chamber of Congress, when the House of Representatives <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-eric-holder-contempt-vote-fast-furious-probe/?page=all"><span style="color: #011480;">voted</span></a> overwhelmingly to hold him in both criminal and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/house-eric-holder-contempt-vote-fast-furious-probe/?page=all"><span style="color: #011480;">civil</span></a> contempt.</p>
<p>Detecting racism virtually <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/27/holder-targets-school-discipline-practices-unacceptable-destructive/"><span style="color: #011480;">everywhere</span></a>, Holder laments that “students of color” are “disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled” from school—a state of affairs that “is, quite simply, unacceptable.” “These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed,” he demands. It doesn&#8217;t occur to Holder that disparities in school expulsion rates could possibly be due to something other than subliminal racism.</p>
<p>Similarly, Holder has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/28/holder-announces-nationwide-study-of-race-based-arrests/"><span style="color: #011480;">announced</span></a> that the Justice Department, in an effort to reduce racial bias in the criminal-justice system, will begin collecting racial data about stops, searches, and arrests made by police. “[The] overrepresentation of young men of color in our criminal justice system is a problem we must confront,” says Holder. “&#8230; Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime.” Clearly, Holder has chosen to ignore the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1627">mountains of evidence</a> demolishing the notion that America&#8217;s criminal-justice system is racist.</p>
<p>In April 2012, Holder delivered a speech at the 14th annual convention of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #011480;">Al Sharpton</span></a>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7642"><span style="color: #011480;">National Action Network</span></a>. In the course of his remarks, he <a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/04/11/prepared-remarks-of-attorney-general-eric-holder-at-the-national-action-network-convention/"><span style="color: #011480;">thanked</span></a> Sharpton—one of the most dishonorable racists in living memory—“for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve.” Stating that he felt “honored to be included” in Sharpton&#8217;s gathering, Holder praised those in attendance for having “been on the front lines of our nation&#8217;s fight to secure security, opportunity, and justice for all.”</p>
<p>In May 2013, it was <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html"><span style="color: #011480;">learned</span></a> that Holder&#8217;s DOJ—in blatant violation of its own rules—had secretly obtained the records of all calls which had been routed through some 20 separate Associated Press (AP) telephone lines in April and May of the previous year. Moreover, even some <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130513/DA68MMQ82.html"><span style="color: #011480;">personal</span></a> phone lines belonging to AP staff were subjected to DOJ surveillance.</p>
<p>A week later, it was revealed that the DOJ<i> </i>had also: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamas-war-on-fox-news-reporters/"><span style="color: #011480;">seized</span></a> the phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen; used Rosen&#8217;s security badge to access records tracking his movements at the State Department; obtained a search warrant to access Rosen&#8217;s personal emails; seized the phone records of Rosen&#8217;s <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/05/23/nbc-eric-holder-signed-off-on-criminal-investigation-of-fox-news-james-rosen/"><span style="color: #011480;">parents</span></a>; and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamas-war-on-fox-news-reporters/"><span style="color: #011480;">targeted</span></a> two more Fox News staffers—reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine.</p>
<p>And all this is really just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>So rest easy, Mr. Attorney General, your critics&#8217; displeasure with you has nothing at all to do with your being an African American. It&#8217;s entirely due to the easily demonstrable fact that you are a certifiable menace to our country. Doesn&#8217;t that make you feel better?</p>
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		<title>Remember When Democrats Booted Parentless Hispanic Children From the U.S.?</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-1.24.43-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236023" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-1.24.43-PM-450x343.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 1.24.43 PM" width="269" height="205" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder can hardly contain his tears when explaining his program titled “Justice AmeriCorps,” to provide emergency legal representation for the tens of thousands of Central American minors crashing our southern border.</p>
<p>“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” Holder said while detailing his program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for the minors.</p>
<p>And yet it was (then) Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder who concocted the “legal” cover for the INS to mace, kick, stomp, and gun-butt their way into the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) on the morning of April 22, 2000, wrench a bawling 6-year-old child from his family at machine-gun point and bundle him off to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom, leaving 102 people (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) injured, some seriously.</p>
<p>Even as the mace dispersed and Elian’s custodians sought medical help for their injuries, FoxNews Andrew Napolitano already had Eric Holder’s number:</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell me, Mr. Holder,” <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/06/13/obama-vp-committe-member-helped-enable-2000-elian-gonzalez-seizure">Judge Napolitano asked on April 23, 2000</a>,</span> &#8220;why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy [Elian Gonzalez]?&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Holder:</b> Because we didn’t need a court order. INS can do this on its own.</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy.</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>We didn’t need an order.</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn’t need one?</p>
<p><b>Holder:</b> [Silence]</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>The fact is, for the first time in history you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it. When is the last time a boy, a child, was taken at the point of a gun without an order of a judge…Unprecedented in American history.”</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>“He was not taken at the point of a gun.”</p>
<p><b>Napolitano:</b> “We have a photograph showing he was taken at the point of a gun.”</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>“They were armed agents who went in there who acted very sensitively…”</p>
<p>The nature of this “sensitivity,” I’ve already mentioned, including the number injured by the mace, gun-butts and jackboots. Thanks to the ritual MSM-Castroite collusion most people forget (or missed) the crucial legal and ethical details of the Elian circus/tragedy — which were mostly established during the first week after the boy&#8217;s rescue at sea, after his heroic mother’s drowning.</p>
<p>The “son-belongs-with-his-father” crowd, for instance, “missed” (with the help of the MSM-Democratic complex) that Elian’s father was initially <i>delighted</i> that his motherless son was in the U.S. and in the loving arms of his uncles and cousins.</p>
<p>The evidence — frantically buried by the MSM-Democratic complex — was overwhelming. Mauricio Vicent, a reporter for Madrid newspaper <i>El Pais</i>, wrote that during that first week he’d visited Elian’s home town of Cardenas and talked with Elian’s father, Juan Miguel, along with other family members and friends. All confirmed that Juan Miguel <i>had always longed for his son Elian to flee to the United States.</i> Shortly after Elian’s rescue, his father had <i>even applied for a U.S. visa!</i></p>
<p>Elian’s Miami uncle, Lazaro, explained it repeatedly and best: “I always said I would turn over Elian to his father, when Juan Miguel would come here and claim him. But I [along with practically everyone with experience under communism from Cambodians to Hungarians and from Lithuanians to Cubans] knew such a thing was impossible. He couldn’t do that. I knew it wasn’t Juan Miguel requesting Elian–<i>it was Fidel</i>.”</p>
<p>The legal-weasels forgot (or missed) that on Dec. 1st, 1999 the INS (ostensibly under the jurisdiction of Janet Reno’s and Eric Holder’s Justice Department) asserted that Miami-based uncle Lazaro<i> was indeed Elian’s legal custodian and Florida’s family court indeed the place to arbitrate further issues</i>.</p>
<p>Then on Dec. 5th, 1999, Castro clapped his hands. Instantly the Clinton team and their MSM minions snapped to attention. Within weeks Clinton’s INS had turned its initial decision on its head. Shortly thereafter Clinton’s lawyer chum Gregory Craig was in Havana meeting with Fidel Castro. A few weeks later the INS was kicking down Lazaro Gonzalez’s door, pummeling camera men and elderly ladies to the ground with jackboots and wrenching a screaming Elian from his legal custodians in a blaze of pepper gas and machine guns. When asked for the legal authority for this, they brandished either a search warrant to seize evidence that didn’t exist (and would not have been hidden anyway) or an arrest warrant to seize someone who no one claimed was a criminal or even a lawbreaker.</p>
<p>“They never made it clear just what kind of warrant” it was. &#8220;And neither would it have been legal,” patiently explained Alan Dershowitz (no less!).</p>
<p>So why did Elian’s father change his tune?</p>
<p>Remember Godfather II? Remember the Senate hearings where Frankie Pentangeli, under FBI protection, was prepared to testify against Michael Corleone? The stage was set. Looked like a done-deal for the Feds. Then Frankie looks up and sees his bewildered brother Vincenzo from Sicily, sitting next to Mikey.</p>
<p>Whoops! Frankie sure changed his tune, didn’t he?</p>
<p>Think of Juan Miguel as Frankie Pentangeli. The gun <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/fidel.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fidel Castro</span></a> held to Juan Miguel’s head was as invisible (to those without experience with Communism) as the one Mikey held to Pentangeli’s head was to most spectators at those hearings.</p>
<p>All that stomping and macing and firepower in the dawn hours of April 22, 2000 horrified and enraged many people for sure – it also amazed. Why such overkill? Why such “Shock and Awe,” many wondered?</p>
<p>Well, it appears that those INS agents <i>genuinely</i> feared that they were on a mission fraught with deadly peril from massive firepower. Fidel Castro himself, you see, had confided to Bill Clinton via his lawyer friend Gregory Craig that Lazaro Gonzalez’s house was crammed with typical Cuban-American right-wing maniacs, all heavily armed, foaming at the mouth, and ready to rumble.</p>
<p>Given that American liberals pretty much share Castro’s view of Americans <i>citizens</i> of Cuban heritage, the Stalinist dictator’s warning was warmly received –and scrupulously acted upon.</p>
<p>But it turned out that the only blasting that morning came from mace and tear gas into the faces of ladies (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) holding infants and rosaries.</p>
<p>A U.S. Justice Dept. that accepted the word of a State-Sponsor-of-Terror whose lifelong dream is to nuke the U.S. (Fidel Castro) over that of lawful U.S. citizens (Cuban-Americans who claimed that from day one Fidel Castro was the one orchestrating Elian’s return, but who mostly register Republican)—such action by a federal agency should really give <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">more U.S. citizens more pause.</span></a></p>
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		<title>Leftist Hate Crime Hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1bc8e0c3372bf7fef786b8663aad173c0e22a391.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224457" alt="1bc8e0c3372bf7fef786b8663aad173c0e22a391" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1bc8e0c3372bf7fef786b8663aad173c0e22a391-450x315.jpg" width="315" height="221" /></a>Two Democratic Congressman and Attorney General Eric Holder are spearheading equally disturbing efforts to monitor and control the behavior of Americans—even if the Constitution and the truth get trashed in the process.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) have </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/big-chill-feds-want-to-scour-net-media-for-hate-speech/">introduced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a bill known as the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2014-04-08_HateCrimes_Legislation1.pdf">The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. It would require a relatively obscure government agency, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to “update a report on the use of telecommunications, including the Internet in the commission of hate crimes.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“We have recently seen in Kansas the deadly destruction and loss of life that hate speech can fuel in the United States, which is why it is critical to ensure the Internet, television and radio are not encouraging hate crimes or hate speech that is not outside the protection of the First Amendment,” </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/-sen-markey-and-rep-jeffries-introduce-legislation-to-examine-and-prevent-the-promotion-of-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-in-media">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Senator Markey. “Over 20 years have passed since I first directed the NTIA to review the role that telecommunications play in encouraging hate crimes. My legislation would require the agency to update this critical report for the 21st century.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jeffries heartily concurred. “The Internet has proven to be a tremendous platform for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. However, at times it has also been used as a place where vulnerable persons or groups can be targeted,” he said. “I commend Senator Markey for his longstanding leadership with respect to combating Hate Crimes in America. He understands that in the digital era it is important to comprehensively evaluate the scope of criminal and hateful activity on the Internet that occurs outside of the zone of First Amendment protection. With the introduction of Senator Markey’s bill, we have taken a substantial step toward addressing this issue.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As it is with so many leftist agendas, it remains up to the bureaucrats at the NTIA to determine what constitutes unacceptable speech that falls outside the purview of First Amendment protections. The bill leaves such interpretations up to the Justice Department (DOJ) and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who will “analyze information on the use of telecommunications, including the Internet, broadcast television and radio, cable television, public access television, commercial mobile services, and other electronic media, to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Civil liberties lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate clarifies the agenda here. “This proposed legislation is worse than merely silly. It is dangerous,” he explained. “It is not up to Sen. Markey, nor to the federal government, to define for a free people what speech is, and is not, acceptable.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One might think it is also unacceptable for the federal government to define racial bias based on the number of police stops and arrests of Hispanic and black Americans relative to those of whites. One would be wrong. On Monday, the Eric Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/April/14-ag-445.html">announced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the DOJ would begin collecting data on such police activity in five American cities in order to address possible racial bias within the criminal justice system.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;This overrepresentation of young men of color in our criminal justice system is a problem we must confront—not only as an issue of individual responsibility but also as one of fundamental fairness, and as an issue of effective law enforcement,” Holder said in a video address </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/376735/another-day-another-obama-doj-attempt-politicize-and-racialize-criminal-justice">released</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Monday. &#8220;Racial disparities contribute to tension in our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal of reducing crime.” Thus, the DOJ has aligned itself with the the NAACP and the ACLU both of whom contend that higher arrest rates for blacks and Hispanics demonstrates racism.”</span></p>
<p>Holder cites familiar statistics to back up his claim, noting that half of black American men have been arrested at least once by the age of 23 and that black men were 6 times more likely, and Latino men were 2.5 times likely, to be imprisoned than white men in 2012.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, as is often the case with Holder and his ongoing efforts to use the DOJ to advance an agenda, truth is the first casualty. The reason blacks and Hispanics are arrested and imprisoned at higher rates than their white counterparts is because they commit crimes at much higher rates. For example, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicides at ten times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If Holder wants to collect data, he might begin with data already collected by the NYPD using their crime fighting analytical tool known as CompStat. In 2010, when civil rights activists began complaining about the disproportionate amounts of pedestrian stops of black New Yorkers relative to the representation in the population&#8211;55 percent stops in a community that comprises 23 percent of the city’s population—CompStat data popped a giant hole in the activists’ balloon, when the kind of statistics Holder cherishes revealed what occurred in the Big Apple in 2009. From the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Based on reports filed by victims, blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crime in New York in 2009, including 80 percent of shootings and 71 percent of robberies. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of reported gun assaults. And the vast majority of the victims of violent crime were also members of minority groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Non-Hispanic whites, on the other hand, committed 5 percent of the city’s violent crimes in 2009, 1.4 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Stats <a href="http://crimeinchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/2011-chicago-statistics-on-murder-and.html">released</a> for the city of Chicago’s 2011 homicide rates tell a similar story. In the Windy City that year, 94.8 percent of homicides were committed by blacks and Hispanics—and 94.2 percent of their victims were black and Hispanic as well.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Furthermore in 2012, the year Holder cites as the impetus behind his agenda, even more inconvenient realities are revealed. According to the FBI’s 2012 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf">Uniform Crime Reports</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, black Americans committed more than 49 percent of all homicides, and 55 percent of all robberies, despite representing less than 13 percent of the nation’s overall population. This compares to 48 percent of homicides and 43 percent of robberies perpetrated by whites and Hispanics combined. </span></p>
<p>None of this matters to racialist bean-counters like Eric Holder. Thus he will proceed with <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/28/us/holder-race-arrests/">launching</a> a new National Center for Building Community Trust and Justice, a $4.75 million pilot program funded by taxpayers that essentially starts out with the assumption that police are being over-zealous (read: biased) in their efforts to combat crime.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tellingly Holder’s real agenda is revealed by what he contends motivated him to undertake this initiative: the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting teenager Trayvon Martin. “Last July, following the verdict in the case involving the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, President Obama spoke out about the need to promote better understanding between law enforcement and young men of color,” Holder stated. &#8221; He specifically directed the Justice Department to work closely with state and local law enforcement agencies to develop training and other innovative tools that can help to reduce discord and restore trust.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Such discord and distrust is regularly ginned up by race hustlers like Al Sharpton, who played a major role in turning the death of Trayvon Martin into a national referendum on race. One so transparently dishonest, it required the media to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/cnn-white-hispanic_n_3588744.html">label</a> George Zimmerman a “white Hispanic” to maintain the fiction. Even Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal was insufficient to blunt the DOJ’s agenda: more than a year and a half after they began investigating him, Zimmerman <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/15/as-justice-pursues-civil-rights-case-against-zimmerman-fbi-documents-show-no/">remains</a> in the agency’s cross-hairs for possible civil rights prosecution connected to the case.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The thinking behind both of these efforts is clear. Democrats and the Obama administration believe there is nothing wrong with using the federal government as a club to advance a progressive agenda that threatens free speech on one hand, and the ability to effectively fight crime on the other. In a time when the American left is attempting to promote the idea that America is cesspool of hate and racism—due in large part to “white privilege”—the public might be forgiven for being highly suspicious of how the NTIA might determine when the Internet is being used to commit hate crimes, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">and</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> how they would prioritize their pursuit of ostensible violators. As for Eric Holder, he has made it painfully clear he is willing to use the DOJ to pursue a racialist narrative, even when the facts get in the way. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Republicans need to make it clear that another hate crimes bill has no chance of passing. Americans need to make it clear they are tired of an Attorney General willing to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2009/ag-speech-090218.html">call</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">them</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a &#8220;nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race, even as </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">his</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> latest effort implies that America’s top law enforcement official believes his fellow law enforcement officials are motivated by racial prejudice, rather than the pursuit of crime.</span></p>
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		<title>What Eric Holder Doesn’t Want to Talk About</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Left made a dialogue about the “yellow complex” off-limits. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eric-holder-600x350.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223361" alt="eric-holder-600x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eric-holder-600x350-450x262.jpg" width="315" height="183" /></a>Remember when Attorney General Eric Holder called Americans a “nation of cowards” who put “certain subjects . . . off limits”? Holder, of course, was referring to “subjects” that in fact we do nothing else but talk about non-stop – the refusal of whites to admit the persistence of white racism and its responsibility for all the ills afflicting the black underclass. To quote Paul Krugman for this received wisdom, “Race is the Rosetta Stone that makes sense of many otherwise incomprehensible aspects of U.S. politics.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet Holder was unwittingly accurate, for there is a subject the mainstream culture and political discourse never touches: what Harlem Renaissance novelist Claude McKay called the “yellow complex.” This is the psychological condition of light-skinned blacks that was explored in novels of the 1920s like McKay’s </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Home to Harlem</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and Wallace Thurman’s </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Blacker the Berry</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  Back then, the mulatto or light-complexioned black, especially the well educated, lived in a social and psychological limbo, excluded by racism from the white world, and forced by segregation to live among darker blacks whom they often despised and looked down on. Yet darker blacks themselves experienced conflicting emotions, at once attracted to and resentful of the light-skinned who scorned them.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thurman’s Emma Lou is a sympathetic portrait of this complex from the perspective of a woman whose mother is a mulatto, but who inherited her father’s black skin: “Emma Lou had been born in a semi-white world, totally surrounded by an all-white one, and those few dark elements that had forced their way in had either been shooed away or else greeted with derisive laughter.” When she matriculates at an exclusive Negro college, she despises Hazel, another dark-skinned girl who attempts to befriend her, as “just a vulgar little n***** from down South.” Emma Lou “was determined to become associated only with those people who really mattered, northerners like herself or superior southerners, if there were any, who were different from whites only in so far as skin color was concerned.” What she discovers, however, is that most of the light-skinned students to whom she is attracted despise her as much as she despises Hazel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A creation of racism and segregation, the psychology explored in this persistent theme of classic black literature was supposedly transcended by the “black is beautiful” movement of the 1960s. In black identity politics the poles of value were reversed: the snobbish mulattoes or blacks who lived by so-called “white” values were attacked for “acting white,” and authentic black identity comprised everything that separated blacks from the white majority, whether complexion, accent, or especially political ideology, morality, and virtue. Blacks of any shade who adopted proper English, social decorum, or traditional virtues were scorned as “Uncle Toms” and “race traitors.” Though millions of American blacks rejected much of this ideology, it reshaped public discourse and popular culture, and created today’s racial orthodoxy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Partly because of the understandable commitment to racial solidarity among the majority of blacks who just want to live their lives and get ahead like everybody else, publicly the melodrama of white racism has overshadowed all the other complexities of black American life. Yet those issues still exist, and no doubt are still alive among black people who are loath to break ranks in front of white people. The presidency of Barack Obama, however, has exposed how detrimental to our collective political life and race relations has been the refusal honestly to confront these issues, mostly by empowering a race industry that benefits the black elite and middle class, even as it worsens the plight of the black underclass.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obama’s public career reflects some dimensions of the “yellow complex” that persist today. At the beginning of his political rise there was briefly some talk that he wasn’t “black” enough. After all, he was raised by whites in Hawaii, one of the whitest states, where he attended an exclusive prep school before moving on to exclusive, white-dominated universities. Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag when he said in 2007 that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” A year later Harry Reid was amazed that Obama was “light-skinned&#8221; and had “no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” In other words, not “black.” Jesse Jackson also revealed this tension in the black community when he responded to candidate Obama’s “moral lectures” to blacks by saying, “I wanna cut his nuts out” for “talking down to black people.” Perhaps Jackson heard the snobbery of Emma Lou in Obama’s scolding. But the media and race-industry quickly snuffed out these modern evocations of the “yellow complex,” with Biden, Reid, and Jackson all issuing groveling apologies. Ever since then, Obama’s public persona is of an authentic “black man,” that is, a victim of white racism (“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”) fighting to improve the lives of his struggling “brothers” and “sisters.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet is it just a coincidence that Obama has been surrounded by so many lighter-skinned blacks who, like himself, come from middle or upper class backgrounds? There’s Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s trusted counselor until he had to be thrown under the bus when his racist sermons were exposed. His father was a Baptist minister, his mother a high school teacher and a vice-principal. Obama’s senior advisor and closest confidante is Valerie Jarrett. Her father is a pathologist and geneticist, and she spent her early life in Iran and London. She is a Stanford graduate with a J.D. from Michigan law school. Eric Holder’s father and maternal grandmother were immigrants from Barbados. His father was a real-estate broker. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. and J.D. Susan Rice’s father was a Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve, and her mother is a fellow at the Brookings Institute. Her grandparents emigrated from Jamaica. Rice is a Stanford and Oxford graduate. In other words, all of them are untypical of the lives of ordinary black Americans whose ancestors were slaves or lived under legal segregation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All of this should be irrelevant, and would be if Martin Luther King’s dream that blacks be judged by character rather than color had been realized. But the racial orthodoxy created by identity politics assumes a Jim Crow one-drop rule that bestows on every black in America – no matter how privileged, no matter if their parents and ancestors, like Obama’s, never suffered through American slavery and legal segregation – the mantle of victim of racism, which qualifies them to be spokesmen and less threatening proxies for millions of other black Americans who lack their advantages. By this ahistorical and incoherent racialist calculus, the child of a Kentucky coal miner or a Dust Bowl migrant has more social capital by virtue of a genetically endowed “white skin privilege” than a half-white Harvard-trained lawyer. The immense advantages bestowed by parents with college degrees and non-ghetto zip codes are invisible. Many middle and upper class blacks enjoy what David Horowitz and John Perazzo </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=KD25VC00LEHE">call</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “black skin privilege,” even as in the sixth year of Obama’s presidency millions of their underclass fellows remain mired in unemployment, dependence, crime, addiction, and broken homes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The “yellow complex” is just one of the necessary topics of the adult conversation about race in America we should be having. Of course, after the Civil Rights movement, affirmative action programs, and the expansion of the black middle class, complexion has not been as important as socio-economic class, education, and especially politics. But it still is a factor, and one necessary to address if we want a dialogue on race that, rather than trading in crude simplifications of “black” and “white” identity, instead acknowledges those nuances and complexities that liberals claim to love so much. But don’t hold your breath waiting for those “embarrassing” subjects, as Holder called them, to go public. Too many people get too many economic and political benefits from keeping things just as they are, no matter how many generations of black Americans have to be sacrificed.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Eric-Holder-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223191" alt="Eric Holder" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Eric-Holder-AP-450x315.jpg" width="315" height="221" /></a>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder played the race card in front a friendly audience at the annual convention of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, held in New York on April 9</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  He complained that members of Congress seeking to hold him accountable for his gross dereliction of duty were engaging in “unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive” attacks on him and the Obama administration.  He delivered this poppycock a day after he sparred with Republican congressmen over his truth-challenged behavior.</span></p>
<p>“The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity,” Holder said. “If you don’t believe that, you look at the way — forget about me, forget about me. You look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee — has nothing to do with me, forget that. What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?”</p>
<p>Holder has only himself and the president whom he serves to blame. Their stonewalling makes Richard Nixon look like an amateur.</p>
<p>Holder wears a chip on his shoulder, using the excuse of race that he thinks entitles him and his boss to be insulated from any accountability. Indeed, Holder set his race-baiting tone very early in President Obama’s first term when he accused the American people of being &#8220;essentially a nation of cowards&#8221; in dealing with the race issue – just three months after the American people elected the nation’s first black president.</p>
<p>In 2011, during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the voting rights case involving members of the New Black Panther Party who had intimidated voters at a polling location in Philadelphia, Holder justified the decision not to pursue their prosecution in racially charged terms:  “When you compare what people endured in the South in the ‘60s to try to get the right to vote for African-Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia … to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for <i>my </i>people,” Holder said. (Emphasis added.)  Silly us for thinking that Holder was supposed to serve all of the American people as their Attorney General.</p>
<p>Holder has stonewalled any inquiries into what led to this decision, including refusing to address allegations that his Deputy Assistant Attorney General had instructed her subordinates to focus their civil rights investigations on black victims while ignoring white victims of racist acts.</p>
<p>Holder’s pattern of stonewalling has extended beyond just race-related cases. Operation Fast and Furious, the botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation which had put guns into the hands of members of drug cartels in Mexico, is a case in point. It was conducted in the hope that the ultimate destination of the guns could be traced. Instead, the guns were turned loose, resulting in the death of at least one U.S. federal agent, Brian Terry.</p>
<p>Holder first denied in 2011 that he or other senior staffers at the Justice Department had any prior knowledge of the operation. However, when evidence began to surface that he had in fact received memos about the operation as early as 2010, Holder began his evasive tactics that impeded a full-scale congressional investigation as to what exactly happened and at what levels of authority the operation had been sanctioned.</p>
<p>Holder was cited for contempt of Congress in 2012 for failing to turn over subpoenaed Justice Department internal emails relevant to a possible cover up of its knowledge of the Fast and Furious operation. Nearly two years later, he still nurses bitterness on how he was treated. During a testy exchange with Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on April 8<sup>th</sup>, after Gohmert alluded to Holder’s seeming dismissal of the significance of a contempt citation as his Justice Department continues to hinder congressional investigations, Holder angrily protested.</p>
<p>“You don’t want to go there, buddy,” Holder said with contempt of his own directed at a sitting congressman fulfilling Congress’s responsibility for legislative oversight of the Executive Branch. “You don’t want to go there, OK? You should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. I think it was inappropriate. I think it was unjust. But never think that was not a big deal to me. Don’t ever think that.”</p>
<p>Gohmert reminded Holder that his Justice Department “has still not been forthcoming in producing the documents that were the subject of the contempt.” Holder could not hold back his derision, sarcastically referring to a trivial gaffe that Gohmert had made at a hearing nearly a year ago rather than deal with the substance of his own continued failure to come clean about what he and his senior staff knew and when they knew it about the Fast and Furious operation and other matters.</p>
<p>“The American people have not been told the truth about what happened in Fast and Furious,” House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday, denying that race had anything to do with Holder’s frosty reception at House hearings. He noted that the Obama administration has also not been “forthcoming” about other scandals. “We’ve been going through all of these hearings, having to hold people in contempt because they’ve made it impossible to get to the documents. They owe the American people the truth.”</p>
<p>To add insult to injury, Holder has been sitting on a supposed criminal investigation into the IRS scandal involving the alleged unfair targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny of their applications for tax exempt status. Following the playbook of his decision not to appoint a special counsel to scrutinize what happened with regards to Benghazi, including the alleged “talking points” cover-up, Holder has refused to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate the IRS’s shenanigans. Holder continues to claim that the investigation of former IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner and others, who may have been involved in the decision-making behind the targeting, is still on-going. He refuses to comment on any aspect of the investigation, including possible discussions between the Department of Justice and Lerner’s attorney regarding the grant of immunity for her testimony. Noting the criminal referral letter regarding Lerner that the House Ways and Means Committee decided to send Holder, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) advised Holder: “If you want to be taken seriously as a top law enforcement official in the country, you better handle this investigation in a way that generates public confidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>The problem with Representative Gowdy’s advice is that Holder’s boss, President Obama, had no such concern about an honest investigation of the IRS when he told Bill O’Reilly, during an interview held on Super Bowl Sunday, that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption.”  Had Obama already been briefed on the conclusions of the Department of Justice investigation or, alternatively, was he sending a message to his subordinate as to how he wanted the investigation to come out?  Either way, Holder’s refusal to appoint an independent special prosecutor is almost as scandalous as the IRS scandal itself.</p>
<p>Eric Holder has long gone past the date when he should have left office. This isn’t at all about race. It is about integrity and competence, applying the same high standard to all attorneys general, no matter what his or her race may happen to be. Holder has failed this test miserably and is a disgrace to the office of U.S. Attorney General.</p>
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		<title>White Teachers Thought They Were the Solution</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/students.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221788" alt="George Mason University" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/students-446x350.jpg" width="312" height="245" /></a>Nobody works harder or spends more money to elect liberals than teachers and their labor unions.</p>
<p>But these same elected officials are now asking the one question that teachers never thought they would hear: “Why are you so racist?”</p>
<p>The question was posed last week following a Department of Education study about the educational and disciplinary differences between white and black students. &#8220;This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well-documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool,&#8221; said Attorney General Eric Holder. &#8220;This Administration is moving aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Department of Education has held since 2009 that any disparity in discipline or education achievement between white and black students is the result of racial discrimination. The President often refers to this racial disparity.</p>
<p>But here’s the catch: Most teachers are white, female, liberal and supporters of President Obama. They thought they were the solution. Turns out they were the problem.</p>
<p>Glenn Singleton is one of the people in charge of solving the problem of racial disparity. In hundreds of school districts around the country, his company has been hired to show this cohort of young, white, liberal and female teachers how they are racist; how their racism is responsible for the achievement gap; and how they have to admit their own racism in a series of “Courageous Conversations” if they ever want to be successful educating black students.</p>
<p>Or if they want to keep their jobs.</p>
<p>To his credit, Singleton is not shy about identifying the problems or solutions: “Racism” plays a primary role in the struggle of black students to achieve at higher levels, he says.</p>
<p>And for all the well-meaning folks who insist on explaining racial differences in education with all the usual socio-economic factors &#8212; such as income, family structure, school finance, class size, black culture and on and on and on &#8212; Singleton has a message: Get real.</p>
<p>“We have found this kind of blaming to be insufficient at best and destructive at worst when trying to address racial achievement disparity,” he said in his best-selling book <i>Courageous Conversations</i>. “The racial achievement gap exists and persists because fundamentally, schools are not designed to educate people of color.”</p>
<p>There are 300 more pages of that. And dozens of others who write similar books about similar ways to eliminate white racism as the cause of black disparity. These books act as manuals for consultants in hundreds of school districts across the country.</p>
<p>In Washington, D.C. in December, an official of a teachers union tried to explain to a national gathering of black elected officials why white teachers are so problematic for black students:</p>
<p>“We can’t just give them six weeks of training and think they are able to educate our children,”  said Marietta English, president of the Baltimore teachers union and vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. “There’s a lot of cultural differences that they don’t understand. If you don’t grow up in the neighborhood, you don’t understand it when we say ‘WASSUP.’ They don’t understand that.”</p>
<p>Singleton says that white teachers have a hard time reaching black students because black people talk about “racial matters daily, if only among themselves.” But white people “are conditioned not to do that.”</p>
<p>When Eric Holder became Attorney General in 2009, he famously said that Americans were cowards about race. Many people did not really know what he meant. But Glenn Singleton did: White people have to be courageous enough to admit how much their racism has ruined black people by giving them an inferior education.</p>
<p>Thus the title of his book: <i>Courageous Conversations.</i></p>
<p>Some white teachers have a different point of view: They see black school officials ignoring black violence and lawlessness in schools because they do not want to “criminalize” students. Trayvon Martin is the most famous example of that.</p>
<p>Trayvon was caught with stolen goods and burglary tools but was never arrested because of that policy. In South Philadelphia High School, black students harassed, assaulted and tortured Asian students every day for years. The black principal said they did not alert police because they did not want to criminalize the students.</p>
<p>For all the talk about the so-called disparity in punishment black students receive in school, no one was talking about the victims. The students who could not learn. The students who suffered the assaults. And the teachers from schools all over the country who every day try to create order out of constant chaos. Sometimes at risk to their own safety.</p>
<p>Including this teacher who recently decided to call it quits:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am a white teacher working in an almost exclusively black middle school.  In May of 2012, I left my classroom in an ambulance after two fighting students ran around the room at full speed and plowed into me, knocking me to the ground.</p>
<p>I sustained permanent back injuries and had a knee operation.  This year, instead of remedial reading classes (I am a reading teacher), I was assigned full classes. From mid-September, I have been subjected to almost daily race baiting, racial and sexual taunts, threats, and attacks.</p>
<p>Students chase me and each other around the room with table legs, threaten to kill my “three ugly little niggers,” follow me to my car in groups shouting racial epithets and “get in a white school, bitch.”  Requests to sit in a seat are met with, “Oh, it’s cause I’m black” or “Why you hate black people?”  I often hear, “Imma gonna slap this white bitch”, etc.</p>
<p>On Oct 30, a 7th grade girl with a history of incidents against me had just returned from suspension (she had sprayed me in the face with perfume after telling me that I “smell like old white pussy”) and got angry when I changed her seat.</p>
<p>She said, “Oh, this damn bitch is all up in my face startin’ her shit. Imma gonna kick her fuckin’ white ass”. She then got up and gave a long racially charged diatribe about how she “can do whatever I want to the white bitch and the school can’t do nothin’. It’s just a damn school and I’m about to kick this bitch’s white ass ‘cuz I am DONE with the damn bitch”.</p>
<p>She ended her rant by shoving past me and shoving me to the floor.</p>
<p>Incidents such as these are written off as “poor instruction” or “poor planning”.  When I discussed this situation with my (Black) principal, she said, “I doubt they even know you are white”.  She also said, “I have to wonder of you are able to really ENGAGE the young people – to they LIKE the work you give?” (sic)</p></blockquote>
<p>Many teacher beat-downs at the hands of black students are caught on video: <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/top-100-black-mob-violence-videos-155-upper-darby-high-school/">Here’s one from Upper Darby from October:</a> More than 70 black students were fighting and when the teacher tried to break it up, the students turned on him.</p>
<p>Frederick Douglass high school in Rochester is the scene of regular and large scale black mob violence. The latest came last week, when five black students were arrested after being part of a large fight on campus.</p>
<p>Regular and frequent black mob violence in schools is documented in <i>White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It</i>, as well as at the popular video site WorldStarHipHop.com. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/black-violence-schools/">Many examples are gathered at WhiteGirlBleedalot.com.</a></p>
<p>That does not mean much to the president of the Chicago teacher’s union. She says any problems with student learning are due to racism. “When,” she asks, “will we address the fact that rich white people think they know what’s best for children of African American or Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level?”</p>
<p>The secret of disproportionate levels of black violence in schools is no secret. It is the subject of frequent stories at black web sites including the TheGrio.com, Huffpo Black Voices, The Root.com, Ebony, Jet and others.</p>
<p>Glenn Singleton is way past trying to deny it. But he does explain it:</p>
<p>“White educators are prone to wondering why black and brown boys are prone to fighting in school,” he writes. “They question why violence is taught in homes of color. Missing from this analysis however is how these boys might be affected by growing up in a White-governed country which threatens young men of color at will, distrusts their ability to succeed and follow the law, and allows daily racial stress to mount in neighborhoods, schools and classrooms.”</p>
<p>With the release of the recent Justice Department report, it is not missing any more.</p>
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		<title>Uganda&#8217;s Anti-Gay Laws and Leftist Silence</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/uganda-gays.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219932" alt="uganda-gays" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/uganda-gays-450x328.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>On Monday, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/world/africa/ugandan-president-to-sign-antigay-law.html">signed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> into law harsh, anti-gay legislation. The law </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/uganda-newspaper-names-200-39-homos-39-anti-000139038.html;_ylt=AwrSyCOHxwxT.ywAxevQtDMD">includes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> provisions that would jail repeat offenders for life, outlaw any promotion of homosexuality, and require the Ugandan people to denounce it. In the face of genuine persecution of gay people, </span>of<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> course, the LGBT community and their supporters are conspicuously silent. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And while the Obama administration has released a statement criticizing the law, most black activists remain completely MIA as well, including the man leading the charge against the anti-gay marriage agenda in America, Eric Holder. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This largely non-reaction to the far more serious developments in Uganda stands in stark contrast to the efforts by both entities on the home front. Holder, who wholeheartedly embraces the selective law enforcement agenda that has become the trademark of the Obama administration, has extended that agenda to the gay marriage debate. Speaking to the National Association of Attorneys General on Tuesday, Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022614-691398-holder-tells-states-not-enforce-laws.htm">advised</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> his state counterparts that they needn&#8217;t defend the laws of their states they consider discriminatory. </span></p>
<p>Holder cited his own experience with the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as the template state attorneys general should apparently follow. &#8220;Any decisions &#8212; at any level &#8212; not to defend individual laws must be exceedingly rare,&#8221; Holder said at the meeting. &#8220;And they must never stem merely from policy or political disagreements&#8211;hinging instead on firm constitutional grounds.&#8221; He then added that his own view is that &#8220;we must be suspicious of legal classifications based solely on sexual orientation.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One is left to wonder how those constitutional grounds are determined if a state attorney general can simply refuse to defend a challenge to any law they themselves deem to be discriminatory before a trial takes place. Moreover it is hard to see how the refusal to defend the rule of law would be anything </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">but</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a political act. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange of the Republican Attorneys General Association eviscerated this dangerous nonsense. &#8220;A state attorney general has a solemn duty to the state and its people to defend state laws and constitutional provisions against challenge under federal law. To refuse to do so because of personal policy preferences or political pressure erodes the rule of law on which all of our freedoms are founded. A government that does not enforce the law equally will lead our society to disrespect the rule of law,&#8221; he said in a statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Political pressure is a specialty of the LGBT community whose most recent focus has been a religious protection law </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-arizona-gay-bill-20140227,0,3872369.story#axzz2uY2OKkJk">proposed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the state of Arizona, which was recently vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer in light of an enormous public </span>outcry<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The purpose of pointing out what happened in Arizona is not to evaluate the pros or cons of Brewer&#8217;s recent veto. It is to demonstrate the enormous power of a mobilized LGBT community that apparently feels no similar compulsion to mobilize against Museveni in Uganda. Even as they remained focused on Arizona, the Red Paper, a Ugandan tabloid, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/uganda-newspaper-names-200-39-homos-39-anti-000139038.html;_ylt=AwrSyCOHxwxT.ywAxevQtDMD">published</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a list of 200 people it accused of being gay under the headline &#8220;Exposed!&#8221; &#8220;Uganda&#8217;s 200 top homos named,&#8221; the paper declared. &#8220;In salutation to the new law, today we unleash Uganda’s top homos and their sympathisers,&#8221; it added, compiling a list of those who had declared their sexuality and those who hadn&#8217;t. The list included activists, priests and music stars.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Frank Mugisha, director of the group Sexual Minorities Uganda, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/02/26/282568084/gays-and-lesbians-seeking-asylum-in-u-s-may-find-a-hard-road">illuminated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the implications of the new law. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to see people getting beaten on the streets, we&#8217;re going to see people thrown out by their families, we&#8217;re going to see people being evicted by their landlords, we&#8217;re going to see people losing jobs, we&#8217;re going to see people thrown out of school, because they are  perceived or not as homosexuals,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;Even the suspicion will get someone in trouble.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is trouble </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/africa/469431-uganda-muslims-laud-anti-gay-bill.html">welcomed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Uganda&#8217;s Muslim leaders. “It takes a courageous leader to defy all the western powers who have gone as far a threatening to cut off aid to Uganda in case the president signs the anti-gay bill,&#8221; said Hajji Nsereko Mutumba, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) Public Relations Officer, in a statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Perhaps it takes no courage at all, either for Museveni </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">or</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the LGBT community and Eric Holder. Forbes Magazine contributor Cedric Mohammed </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/cedricmuhammad/2014/02/26/ugandas-anti-homosexual-law-doesnt-matter-to-obama-countering-china-and-russia-with-africom-does/">explains</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that geo-political concerns take precedence over human rights issues. &#8220;Despite the strong rhetoric coming from the Obama administration over the signing of an anti-Homosexual law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, there is no way President Obama will allow the issue to compromise long-standing American military interests in the region and there’s little chance the LGBT political establishment will ask him to&#8230;.Militarization trumps everything else as evidenced by the influential LGBT-rights group, The Human Rights Commission’s lack of lobbying on the issue,&#8221; he writes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No doubt that decision is made easier by the left&#8217;s general contempt for Christian values and Western civilization. Yet the outpouring of vituperation against the &#8220;cartoonish&#8221; bigotry or &#8220;vile&#8221; exclusivity of Christians opposed to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">endorsing</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the gay agenda stands in odious contrast to the LGBT calculated silence surrounding Uganda&#8217;s unquestionably reprehensible &#8212; and possibly deadly &#8212; treatment of homosexuals. That hypocrisy goes double for Eric Holder, whose sense of outrage for any injustice directed at homosexuals </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">and</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> people of color apparently fails to extend itself beyond the borders of the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thus, barring a sudden change of heart, the genuine persecution of gays in Uganda will not be impeded by the self-professed champions of tolerance and human rights. In short, if the LGBT community and Eric Holder didn&#8217;t have double-standards, they&#8217;d have no standards at all.</span></p>
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