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		<title>The Police Brutality &#8216;Epidemic&#8217; Lie</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Police-IMG_4105.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248432" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Police-IMG_4105-397x350.jpg" alt="Police-IMG_4105" width="330" height="291" /></a>Recently, I claimed that everyone—politicians, academics, and media commentators—who promoted the idea that police brutality is a national “epidemic,” or even a “growing concern,” as one self-styled libertarian put it, share some culpability for the murders of the two NYPD officers who were gunned down in their vehicle right before Christmas.</p>
<p>More specifically, they are responsible, obviously, not for intending or consciously encouraging the murder of police, but for creating a climate for police officers that’s even more hostile than that in which officers must spend their days and nights.  After all, we don’t need Richard Weaver to inform us that “ideas have consequences.”  Even simpletons and liars will concede this much.</p>
<p>And only simpletons and liars can deny that this idea—the idea of a “pandemic” of police brutality sweeping the nation—has the consequence of endangering police officers.</p>
<p>Yet this idea isn’t just dangerous.</p>
<p>It is also a lie.  And it is a huge lie at that.</p>
<p>“Police brutality” is an all-purpose piece of rhetoric that, as such, can mean anything and everything—and, thus, nothing at all. When anti-police misologists—a “misologist” was the word that the 18<sup>th</sup> century philosopher Immanuel Kant used when referring to an enemy of reason—sound off about “police brutality,” they are referring to the police’s unjustified use of force.</p>
<p>Now, all but anarchists concede that police are authorized to use force when necessary and when it’s proportionate to the situation in question. When, however, the force deployed is unnecessary and/or excessive, then the force is unjustified. This—the unnecessary and/or excessive use of force—is “police brutality.”</p>
<p>So, is this a growing national phenomenon, an epidemic?</p>
<p>Not even close.</p>
<p>According to the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), in 1999, of 44 million people who had face-to-face interactions with police officers, less than one-half of one percent was “threatened with or actually experienced force.”</p>
<p>Notice, the assertion here isn’t that less than one-half of one percent—it bears repeating: one-half of one percent!—was subjected to the use of unjustified force; the claim is that of 44 million, this miniscule fraction of people were either threatened with—threatened with—or subjected to the use of force per se.</p>
<p>What this in turn means is that the number of people who were “brutalized” by police is even smaller than “less than one-half of one percent.”</p>
<p>According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), of a national population estimate of roughly 240, 000,000 comprised of people of 16 years of age or older, of those who dealt with the police in some capacity in 2002, 2005, and 2008, 1.5%, 1.6%, and 1.4%, respectively, were either threatened with or subjected to force by the police.</p>
<p>In 2008, 22% of those falling into the latter group admitted that they “argued with, cursed at, insulted, or verbally threatened the police.”  Twelve percent reported that they were “disobeying” and/or “interfering” with police.</p>
<p>Of the 84% of people who felt that the threat or use of police use force was “improper,” only 14% filed a complaint.</p>
<p>To further underscore just what a whopper of a lie is the notion that “police brutality” is a nationwide epidemic, consider this: Among those included in the class of people who have had to deal with police are those who have called on the police for assistance.  And among those who have done so, about 85 percent claimed to have been “satisfied with the police response.”  Moreover—shocker of shockers!—Hispanics (86%) and blacks (85%) were slightly more satisfied than were whites (83%). Finally, about 90 percent of people who requested police assistance said that they would do so again.</p>
<p>Only in the fevered imagination of the cop-hating ideologue is “police brutality” a national crisis, or any sort of crisis.</p>
<p>Of course, none of this is to deny that there are bad cops.  Genuinely abusive police officers, like those who abuse their power and authority anywhere, deserve to be crucified.  But there is zero justification for abstracting from these relatively few instances a rule encompassing police officers generally.</p>
<p>Numbers aside, just some rudimentary common sense—a rare commodity nowadays, and practically nonexistent among the police-hating ideologues—should determine that in this Age of the Camera—a time in which everyone and their mother is armed with surveillance apparatus—the police have no real option but to be better behaved than ever before.</p>
<p>Jeremy Bentham described the doctrine of “natural rights” as “nonsense on stilts.”  The dogma—and make no mistakes about it, for the anti-police misologists, this is nothing less than a dogma—that “police brutality” is an epidemic, a crisis, blah, blah, blah, is indeed nonsense on stilts.  But it is more than this: It is nonsense that kills.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to a panel discussion on the new Freedom Center initiative &#8220;<a href="http://www.ctghq.org">Change the Game</a>,&#8221; which was featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>About four years ago I met my political soulmate.  We were young.  We knew nothing.  We came straight from the ghetto, and we saw the problems in our community.  And we fell under our elders, as youths should do, and we listened to their advice, and we did what they said until we said, you know what?  Y’all don’t know what y’all doing.  It’s time for us to start doing something on our own.</p>
<p>For four years when I need prayer, when I need counsel, when I’m down, when I’m knocked out, when I have no breath left, when I feel like I can’t fight anymore, I call this man, and he prays with me, he counsels me, he gives me advice, and then in the end he says, it’s your job now and lays everything on my footsteps.  And because he did that, I feel strong enough to take it on.  Mr. Kevin Daniels.</p>
<p><strong>Kevin Daniels: </strong>When I met Sonnie four years ago, she was right, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but it’s something, when you find someone that you believe in so much, that God gives you the foresight to see not what that person is but what that person could become, and I walk with her side by side with what she is trying to do.  She has a huge vision, and she’s going to share it, and everyone else is going to share their pieces in it.  But being able to walk with her through this journey has been great for me.  And she is a jewel.  She is a diamond in the rough.  And with the vision that she laid out for Change the Game, I’ll just give a brief overview of it, then I’ll step aside.</p>
<p>It’s an ambitious vision.  A lot of people said that it can’t be done.  A lot of people said that we shouldn’t do it.  And when you look at, from the right and from the conservatives and Republican movement, they talk a lot about not engaging this population of people because they’re not going to support us anyway. It’s a waste of time, it’s a waste of money.  Sonnie disagrees with that, as well as I, because in these communities that we’re going after, that we’re targeting, there’s a lot of people that are like Sonnie and I, that may not have gotten the right start, but the finish, the potential, the possibilities that they all have is something that we’re really going to push with Change the Game.</p>
<p>When we launched this project &#8212; we launched in September, September 2, right, Tracy?  September 2 we launched the web site.  Three months later when you go on the Internet and you look at the organizations that have similar structures that we do, we are ranked No. 2 in the nation in that, and we haven’t even gotten started yet.  So far our activities have been web site primarily.  We do radio interviews, well, they do radio interviews, and you won’t see me doing any of that stuff.  I’m a behind the scenes guy.  But when we leave here, we are going to implement a ground game where we are going into these historically black colleges and universities, we’re going into these inner city neighborhoods, and we’re going to push the twin pillars of freedom and liberty everywhere that we go.  And we’re going to be very strategic and deliberate in our actions.  I’m not a big fan of activity with no goals.  So we’re setting goals.  We’re going to be very targeted in our efforts.  But not only that, the umbrella of the Freedom Center, there’s a lot of projects that are up underneath it, and we want to make sure that we don’t operate independently of them.  So we’re going to connect with TruthRevolt, we’re going to work with FrontPage, we’re going to work with everyone that’s up underneath that umbrella to try to undergird them so we can all reach that same goal.  David is here now, and he has a great vision with the Freedom Center, and we’re going to connect with all those different organizations so we can move the needle forward.</p>
<p>Now when people say that this thing won’t work, they look at Sonnie, they see how she’s dressed, they look at Kevin, they see how he’s dressed, they look at the suits and the dresses, but someone had to engage us.  Someone had to empower us.  Someone had to give us the information that we needed in order for that light to be turn on in our lives, in our eyes, so that we can understand what conservative principles are and what they mean, and then how to apply it to our lives and live it.  My background is, I was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, lived in Section 8 housing for the first 17 years of my life, parents separated when I was six, my mother died of AIDS when I was 15 years old.  I attempted to go to college, didn’t work out that well.  I didn’t have a great foundation.  How many more people in these inner cities have a similar story?  How many people in these inner cities have a similar story to myself and Sonnie, as well as the other panelists that are up here?</p>
<p>So before we launched the web site September 2, a week prior we launched a Liberalville video.  We’re not going to call Chicago, Illinois &#8212; there’s too many cities out there to name.  But what Sonnie did four years ago, and it’s ironic that she mentioned four years ago when we met, because she created this video called Liberalville that we didn’t actually release until August of this year.  And so when we look at Liberalville, Sonnie says something very powerful in there.  She says I want to show you what I see when you remove the Democratic elite.  She goes on to talk about eight individuals, eight characters in the Liberalville video, and she doesn’t look at what they are and what they’re doing. She looks at the possibilities that this individual has, and that’s what we’re looking at doing when we look at people.  We have initiatives &#8212; taking people to street corners, to corner offices &#8212; that&#8217;s an initiative that we have where we’re going to push entrepreneurship, we’re going to push small business to these communities because these communities need an economic base.  We’re going to push education, school of choice, and I can run down a list of things that we’re going to do, but we’re going to have an aggressive, ambitious agenda.  So I encourage you all to go to the web site that Tracy’s going to talk about soon, but look at this video Liberalville.  It’s about three minutes long, and it’s a spoken word piece.  And look at the foresight that Sonnie had back then, and then look at what’s happening in these inner cities and these communities now.  There’s one that just came to mind.  She’s talked about the politician, and we all know what’s going on in Ferguson right now.  But she said back then, she said the politician has no desire until shots are fired and people need someone to blame.  Sonnie was talking about this years ago.  The vision that she is laying out for Change the Game, what we’re going to do when we leave this Restoration Weekend is going to be impactful, and we are No. 2 now, but we’re coming for that No. 1 spot.  So that organization that is there, they got to move to the side.  So thank you for your time.  I think you all for your support.  Appreciate what you’re doing, and thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>Okay. About two years ago or three years ago I was in Providence, Rhode Island, just one of my kind of very first events that I went to, and I really didn’t know anyone so I was kind of always by myself, and I’m walking down this hall, and I hear, “Sonnie freaking Johnson!”  And it stopped me in my tracks.  I stopped in my tracks.  And I turn around, and this girl is standing there, and she said, “We’re going to be best effing friends,” but she used the word.  And I, oh my gosh, this big bubble of personality, this big bubble of light, and for the last three years she has helped to sharpen me mentally.  We talk about everything.  Hardly do we ever agree, but we are friends first and foremost before anything started with us working together.  Last year she had the chance to operate her panel, and she said I want you to come and be on my panel.  It took me less than two seconds to say of course, if you need it, you got it.  Now, we work together with Change the Game, and she is going to show you the awesomeness that is Ms. Tracy Connors.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy Connors: </strong>All right.  I wanted to give everybody a brief tour of the site. If you haven’t been there, I suggest going.  You might not like everything that you see, but that’s not the point.  David came to me and said, “Hey, I hear there’s a web site called Buzz Feed.  Could we get something like Buzz Feed going on?”  I still don’t think he’s ever visited Buzz Feed, but we said okay, we can do something like that.  I apologize about the dimensions on this right now, but this is our main page.  So you can see, hang on, this is unacceptable.  Yeah, it’s cutting off part of the page.  All right there we go.  Now you can see the page.  All right.  Now I’ll make it bigger.  There we go.  Okay.  So as you can see, you probably don’t think you’re on a political web site at all, right?  Anyway, so we’ve got stories about pop culture mixed in with stories about news and issues that we care about and we think we can reach our readers with and the audience that we’re bringing in.  So the people that care that the BET just cancelled one of their favorite shows, they’re going to go and read this story, and then over on the side they’re going to find commentary by Sonnie, which you can’t see over here, where it’s talking about Jimmy Fallon insulting Mia Love, but not in the way that you would think.  So it’s a way to get people into our world that would never come and visit to begin with.</p>
<p>When you get to go to the site &#8212; which is ctghq.org, or for those who struggle with initials, it’s changingthegame.org as well you can get there &#8212; you search around and you’ll see that on the sides, you can catch it kind of a little bit, you’ll be confronted with our issues section and our knowledge section of the site.  And this is where we’re really pushing the things that Kevin touched on and Sonnie talked about.  So we find stories that we can put an entertaining spin on but to deal with these kind of issues.  And then for people that aren’t totally familiar with everything we’re talking about we’ve started to build out a whole section where they can learn some history that they might not have known, understand basic economics, read speeches, read our founding documents, learn more about the progressive movement, and if they don’t understand the language we’re using, I put together an entire dictionary of political words and phrases, and it’s linked back in articles, and we use stuff that we think, hey, the average person might not know what that means.  So let’s never talk down to our audience.  Let’s make sure they have all the information we can possibly share with them.</p>
<p>And we’ve got a great selection of videos too so if you’re looking for that Liberalville video that Kevin talked about, you’ll find it in the videos section.  And now, speaking of videos, I’ve got one to show all of you guys to catch you up on what we’ve been doing.</p>
<p><b>[Video Recording]</b></p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I have to share a moment of clarity with you real quick.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the moment should have came,<br />
When my brain was lit on fire with facts and names,<br />
I had never known.<br />
I’m guessing you will all question the lesson I learned,<br />
To turn me to the right side or the white side,<br />
Depending on who asks.<br />
I’m guessing that’s why you look surprised,<br />
That instead of pulling out a prerecorded line,<br />
From my talking points bag,<br />
I rhyme instead.<br />
I’m guessing some are saying, &#8220;She’s on a college campus.<br />
She should be serious.&#8221;<br />
I am.<br />
So serious in fact, to give you my moment of clarity,<br />
First I have to give you all of me.<br />
Poetry.<br />
I stopped one step short of asking for a beat.<br />
Now back to this moment of clarity of which I speak.<br />
I always get asked the same question.<br />
What made you a conservative?<br />
I hate that damn question.<br />
Apathy, indifference or frustration,<br />
Five years later God speaks, revelation,<br />
Time has been wasted on irrelevant procrastination,<br />
Because my moment didn’t come from man.<br />
My moment didn’t come from the church.<br />
My moment didn’t come from politics.<br />
My moment didn’t come from culture.<br />
My moment started with the people.<br />
How much death could we take?<br />
How much poverty could we embrace,<br />
Where hopes and dreams are at stake?<br />
How many God-given talents would we waste,<br />
And the only place that I can find,<br />
Voices that sound like mine,<br />
That cry the same tears,<br />
Experience the same fears,<br />
With the same goals and aspirations,<br />
The same drives and calculations,<br />
The same observations,<br />
That make hope and change negligible as an actual destination,<br />
Are in hip-hop.<br />
So I rhyme because I’m serious,<br />
I rhyme because I’m furious.<br />
I don’t care who doesn’t like it.<br />
I need young ones to hear this:<br />
We are dying.<br />
Whether we kill our babies in the womb,<br />
Or follow drugs to the tomb,<br />
Or lay unemployed in our mother’s living room,<br />
Whether we pull triggers and kill our own reflection,<br />
Or use the haves and have-nots in our selection,<br />
Or destroy the lives of others due to our own depression.<br />
If you want to talk police brutality,<br />
Then stop pushing gun laws that lessen citizens&#8217; protection,<br />
Because we are dying.<br />
And that’s my moment clarity.<br />
And if I had to say it without rhyme,<br />
There would be tears in my eyes and a frog in my throat,<br />
And I wouldn’t be able to cope,<br />
Because when I say that we’re dying,<br />
I don’t mean it as a political trope,<br />
We are dying,<br />
Leaving our streets blood soaked.<br />
Enough.</p>
<p>And that’s why I do what I do.  That’s why I created Change the Game.  To me this isn’t about politics.  This isn’t about garnering political favor.  I am tired of seeing people I love die.  I am tired of seeing people I love incarcerated.  I am tired of seeing people who look like me don’t feel like they’re a part of the America that I know blood has been split for them to be a part of.  That is why this is so important.  I don’t care if you like hip-hop.  It is not meant for you to like. It is meant for me to take a conservative message into the black community and show them there is a methodology to stopping the death in our communities.  And that’s what I will do until I have no more breath in my body.</p>
<p><strong>[End of video recording]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And so as you can see, I have my right hand and my left hand thoroughly taken care of.  Two of my favorite people in the entire world, Kevin Daniels and Tracy Conners.  So I’m going to take a few minutes to speak now, and then we’re going to go ahead and introduce the rest of the panel, and we’re going to have some fun.  But I want to take a few minutes to speak on some things before we go.</p>
<p>I guess we’re in a celebratory mood.  We got to see the Republicans take over the Senate, and we got to see a lot of House seats, state House seats, change over.  We got to see Republicans become governors in states we never thought we would never see a republican governor in.  Even though I’m sad that Maryland went red, and I live in Virginia and we’re still blue.  So I was a little upset and hurt by that.  If we are getting close to Maryland I’m scared, and I might be looking for a place to relocate.  West Palm Beach is very nice this time of year.</p>
<p>So we have a lot of things to celebrate, but I want to question how we celebrate.  So please indulge me for a moment, and I want to talk about Mia Love.  Let’s see if you’ll be clapping when I finish.  I love Mia Love.  I had the opportunity of meeting her and speaking with her and hearing her conservative principles, and last time when she ran she told me the struggle she was having with having conservatives come and back her, getting help for her race.  She lost.  So instead of giving up, she said I’ll do it, and I’ll do it my way.  I’m not going to wait until campaign season.  I’m going to keep going from where I finished and never stop.  So this year when she ran, we all cheered.  Until the next morning.  And I got up, and I scrolled through my Facebook page, and I scrolled through Twitter, and there was not a mention of her conservative principles.  There was no mention of what she had fought for and how hard she had fought to get where she was.  There was no mention of her story.  There was no mention of her fight.  There was no mention of her tactics.  The only mentioned about Mia Love was she was black, she was a woman, she was a Mormon, and she was a Republican.  And everybody cheered.  And then they say, I’m glad we’re not the party of identity politics.</p>
<p>I don’t believe we are the party of identity politics.  What we are is reactive.  Whatever progressives do, we react.  So they ignore Mia Love, so we take it upon ourselves to make sure that everyone knows her name.  And that’s cool because if we don’t do it, who is going to do it?  But we don’t talk about her principles. We don’t talk about any of those things.  No, we stay on the identity of it because we want them to know that we are not racist.  Guess what?  They’re still calling you racist.  It does not work.  It is a fallacy that I have watched for four years, time and time again.  And it’s very funny because we have their playbook.  We have Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals.&#8221;  We know what they’re going to do before they do it.  So what have we done to Mia Love?  And that’s a serious question.  What have we, as conservatives, done to Mia Love.  We have painted a bull&#8217;s-eye on her back.  All they have to do now is destroy her because it’s not about her policies, it’s not about her principles, it’s not about her fight, it’s not about her struggle, it’s not about her tactics, it is about her.  What do they do?  They target, they ridicule, they separate, they demonize and they destroy, and we give them the targets.</p>
<p>I’ll give you an example of this from something that happened in the last two years with Cliven Bundy.  Instead of making it about government against the people, which was the issue, instead of making it about private property, which was the concept, instead of making it about liberty and justice and big government coming in and crushing the individual &#8212; no.  We didn’t make it about those things.  We made it about Cliven Bundy.  So as soon as Cliven Bundy opens his mouth and says something stupid, we lose everything.  Because it’s no longer about what we’re fighting for. Now they have someone to demonize.  Do you remember how many times they put his face everywhere?  And they took what we had as a perfectly good message, and they destroyed us with it.  And the funny part was yet again we gave them the target by making it about the individual.  In this we know what they’re going to do, and we must become the people that no longer play by their rules and their game, hence change the game.</p>
<p>See?  I told you all.  It’s a question of whether or not you’ll like it at the end.  Because it’s an uncomfortable truth.  You want to feel good.  You have this joy.  You want it expressed, but we have to understand how we’re expressing it.  We can’t be them and beat them.  We can’t do it.  So we know what happens next.  Everyone knows what happens next.  The road will be paved for Hillary, and we will have a war on women, and we will have a war on race, and there will once again be a war on poverty, and we’re going to have more separation.  They&#8217;re going to say again that you hate the rich.  As soon as a Republican dares decide that they want to cut something: &#8220;You will hate the rich! you hate them!&#8221; I mean the poor.  [Laughter.]  You hate the poor. But it turns into, &#8220;You hate the poor! You hate minorities! You hate women! You hate dogs!&#8221;  I’m guessing they’re going to tell you you hate whatever it is they want to throw at you at that moment. So we know what’s coming.  Do we wait and do we react to this?  Or do we say not this time?  Because I’m on the not this time bandwagon.  I can&#8217;t sit by and watch it anymore when I know what happens next.  So if no one else is going to say it, then I’ll be the one to say it.  If I say it alone, I’ve done it before.  It doesn’t bother me one bit.</p>
<p>They’re coming at us, and instead of this time us saying &#8212; anyone remember Andrew Breitbart?  Andrew &#8212; if you have ever seen Hating Breitbart, he has this excellent piece in Hating Breitbart, and he has all these progressives standing around him, and they’re yelling in his face, they’re calling him racist, they’re calling him this, they’re calling him that, and Andrew, cool as a cucumber, said, “And?”  One word had never been so powerful to me in my entire life because I knew what he meant.  I’m not wasting my time playing these games with you.  You still never answered my question about whatever it was he was asking at the time.  I’m not going to sit here and play your games.  You can call me all the names you want.  Still, would you like to answer my question anytime in that response?  What that does is it takes away their argument because you don’t care.  In order for them to be effective, you have to care.  So when they call you names, you have to get offended.  When they call you out of character, then you have to say, &#8220;But I’m not!&#8221;  &#8220;All Republicans are racist!&#8221;  &#8220;We have Mia Love!&#8221; The same point still applies.  We aren’t moving the needle.  We aren’t changing anything.  Didn’t we have Clarence Thomas before?  Didn’t we have Condoleezza Rice?  Did any of that change anything?  What makes you think mere Love is going to change something?  Not politically speaking.  Good gracious, I love the woman. Go to Congress, do what you do.  I’m talking from the progressive point of view.  It’s not going to change them.  So we know their tactics, we know where they’re coming at.  So this is what we’re going to do for next year.  Trust this little bit of this vision for you guys.  We love capitalism and we’re not running from it.  You say we love the rich, yes we do.  So those of us who are not rich yet, we’re on our way.</p>
<p>We have some stuff we got to make up, and we’re not there yet, but I tell you one thing, we’re hustling every day of the week to get there.  And you’re not going to make us feel bad about it.  You’re not going to make me feel sad about it.  You’re not going to make me cry about it.  People who want to live in the situation of poverty, people who want to live in public housing, people who want food stamps, people who want welfare, you are perfectly fit to be a Democrat.  We don’t want you.  You can stay all day long, and it’s fine with us.  What we want is the get up, get out and get something generation.  We want the ones who are not satisfied with what they have.  We want the ones who say, you know what?  This isn’t going to be my life.  One day, I’m going to be in the governor’s office like Kevin Daniels.  One day I am going to run The Blaze, and I’m going to do investigative work, and I’m going to shake up Texas.  One day I am going to start writing a blog that makes everyone stand up and take notice so when my Karen Davis piece comes out it’s 2,000 hits instantly.  Those are the people we want.  Those are the people we’re going after.  And this is how we’re doing it.  Come and eat at our table.</p>
<p>You say we’re the party of the rich.  Think about how good the food tastes over here.  And we’re not asking you to bring anything, just yourself.  We don’t care about your past.  We don’t care about your situation.  We don’t care about any of that.  We got a place open at our table for you to sit down and eat.  The only condition that we put on to you coming and eating at our table is that next time we’re coming to your house to eat at your table because that’s what we do.  You come eat with us, you become part of a family.  You get a network.  You get a backdrop.  You get not just politics, you get prayer.  You get acceptance.  You get people who care about what’s going on in your family life, not just what’s going on in the polls.  You get something that a lot of us in the black community definitely don’t get from Democrats, that’s why they didn’t show up in this last election.  We have the table, and we’re opening that table for you to come and eat with us.  Our table starts with Change the Game at the web site.  Come and eat from our politics.  Come and eat from our culture.  Come and eat from our history.  Come and eat from our economics.  Come and eat from our spoken word.  Come and eat until you are so full you have no choice but to say get up and let somebody else come and have a seat.  That’s how we want you to eat because then we know you walk away feeling inspired, feeling empowered.  So what do you do?  You go make your own table.  And then you start feeding the people around you.</p>
<p>Do you know the best way to cut welfare?  Make people not want to be in poverty.  That way there’s no congressional vote, there’s no demonization, it’s none of that because you have people who willingly leaving the system because they want something more.  They see the American dream, and now they know that they can be a part of it.  Where they saw no route before, they saw no way before, impossibility like they told me a thousand times it can’t be done &#8212; ha-ha.  We got our table.  It can be done.  Those doubts should not exist.  Come and eat with us.  The simplicity of it.  And that’s what we’re going to do next year as far as our overall mission and our overall focus.  We know they’re going to demonize us, we know they’re going to hate us, we know that some people like where they are and they’re going to want to stay where they are.  But we know that a lot of black people like money, a lot, especially when you didn’t have it growing up.  So that’s our message, an economic message, a platter full of food to eat, a family that you become a part of, an American dream realized.  And to me that encompasses what Change the Game is.</p>
<p>So that’s what we plan on doing going forward, and that’s my vision of how we’re going to do this, not distracted when they want to call us names.  We’re going to stand in their face and say, and you still haven’t answered my question about school choice, you’re just a show for the conservatives.  You still didn’t answer my question.  We’re not going there.  If that’s the conversation you want to have then you can go to your table and have that conversation.  Don’t come over here with that.  So that’s what we’re going to do.  I’m going to stop because you all know how I get if I don’t.</p>
<p>So what I want to do now is in addition to my right and my left hand, I started to build a tent.  And I love the idea of &#8212;  Tracy created this wonderful graphic for  me, and I absolutely adore it, so I wanted to make sure everyone got to see it.  That’s our Change the Game tent.  That’s our table.  It signifies to me, I loved it the moment I saw it, but I said I have to start filling this tent.  So I had to pick some of my favorite people, and I wanted people who were already active, I wanted people who had already been beaten down, I wanted people who had already took their strikes and were still fighting.  Those that didn’t give up, those that refuse to give up, come to eat at my table.  Those are the kind of people that I love.</p>
<p>So I’m going to introduce to you all them one by one.  I’m going to let each one of them talk, and then we’re going to have some fun.  First up, I want to, from Washington D.C., he is PopGlitz, he is DC Pundit, and he’s one of my favorite people because his favorite place to go is Democrat headquarters, Javonni Brustow.</p>
<p><strong>Javonni Brustow: </strong>Hello, everyone.  I wanted to go over the reason why I’m a Republican because I felt that I am the elephant in the room, and that needed to be addressed.  As we know, Sonnie Johnson’s project, Change the Game, is about minority outreach, and I felt who else would be better than the super minority in the room to go over there.  So I live in liberal Washington as we know.  I’m a writer and a conservative that is pretty visible in both conservative circles and in Democrat headquarters.  Why I put myself through that, sometimes I have no idea.  I get beat up on a daily basis, but such is life.  That’s what I chose.  For starters, I am a Republican based on my hard work.  It’s not something that’s taught by the left.  If I were to listen to Democrats, I feel that they would let me know that by myself being in DC and where I am, I wouldn’t be able to hang around there for long.</p>
<p>I was able to spend the last couple days with Ann Coulter, and for me to be around her as I took pictures and sent it back through social media over the last few days, the responses that I got were absolutely unbelievable.  If I were to listen to my liberal followers, they would let me know that Ann would have flown up here on the dais on her broom with her witch hat, and I probably would have been shot and wouldn’t make it out of Florida.  I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen.  I work out every day, I think I could take her, a couple pounds give or take, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I have beaten every Democrat stereotype.  I have to deal with the question of how did you end up in the Republican Party?  What went wrong?  I know so many liberal politicians, and it’s the same thing, and they’re like, okay, when that’s done, you can come over here.  It hasn’t happened yet.</p>
<p>My thing is that I have &#8212; when I was a teenager I worked three jobs in order to move into my first place, which was a luxury apartment building.  Again, that was not easy.  Hard work is just one of my things.  For anyone who’s ever questioned what type of work ethic that I have, I feel like that is the basis or the crux of the Republican Party.  It’s about hard work.  I had a very hard-ass family.  They were very tough, and if anyone were to question if I actually work, those are like fighting words for me.  Aside from Change the Game, I do have an entertainment site, a political site.  I just joined Hip-Hop Republican, I’m with the Examiner.</p>
<p>I’m working 24 hours a day, and as for any of the arguments about racism and discrimination, they’ve never played any part in life for me.  I’ve never accepted excuses.  They don’t make any sense because I’m always too busy working.  I don’t have time to go over statistics.  Thank you.  When I turn on MSNBC and I see Al Sharpton speaking and I’m hearing about how awful things are &#8212; number one, I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed if I listened to him.  It’s too depressing.  But with that being said, I don’t have the time to look at it.  I have things to do. I work with staff, I have staff, and again, 24 hours a day.  I don’t drink coffee until 1:00 in the morning for nothing every night.</p>
<p>So that’s that, hard work, and the other thing, I wanted to mention: gay marriage.  Now, I don’t want to be shot up here.  I know that’s a form of profanity, and be nice because I can hear gag reflexes.  What I wanted to mention is that, in case no one’s noticed, I don’t think that I have to go over that, but I think that I would like to have a long-term relationship, and one of the arguments that I tend to have is, they say, well, you’re in a party that doesn’t like you.  And I said well, what are we, 12?  I think that I last stopped caring about anyone’s opinion in high school.  And I just explained to someone earlier, I said I went to four schools.  One closed for money laundering.  I moved around a couple times.  And I have never seen any of these people since then, which means that I am pretty sure that I have come out successful.  I think that’s really all that matters, and I don’t think that the government has any type of say in the end result of my life or anyone else’s life, period.  So a sheet of paper for anything really does not make that much of a difference.  If you decide to do something, I can have an attorney and say at the end of the day this is my shit, this is yours, when it is over you don’t touch my shit over here, and I will not touch yours over there.  End of discussion.  No one’s opinion mattered, and, again, the government, it didn’t matter.  I didn’t care.  In fact, I was engaged before, and I don’t think I even ever looked up to find out if it were legal.  I didn’t care.  I said I guess whenever it happens, hey, I have an attorney on speed dial.  That will be it.  But I just wanted to explain myself and how I’ve become a Republican, and that there is a myriad of people in demographics that are within the party.  So wanted to thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>The very first time I met with Javonni I didn’t know what to expect.  He had me laughing for three hours.  He is one of the funniest people that I have ever met in my entire life, and I am so proud to have him part of our team.</p>
<p>Now, our cowboy, because I told him, I said you kind of fit the stereotype, Billy.  Your name is Billy, dude, come on.  But if you don’t know this man, you might remember that some Obamacare people down in Texas got their money revoked. Obamacare &#8212; what are they called? &#8212; the navigators.  They got all of their financing snatched.  That’s my cowboy.  And now you can see him as a regular on Dana Loesch&#8217;s TV show on The Blaze, and he’s one of my favorite people in this entire world, Lawrence Billy Jones III.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Thank you for having me, and I want to thank my big sis for just inviting me to break bread with you guys and just talk about some issues.  I’m going to be very brief because we want to have some fun.  Years ago Frederick Douglass had given a speech, and he was really rallying the people in Washington DC to make a difference, and there were a lot of young people there.  And one of them, after the speech was over, Frederick Douglass, he was tired, and he was just ready to get back home, and that one child came up to him.  He said, Mr. Douglass, &#8220;Mr. Douglass, what can I do? How can I get involved? How can I make a difference?&#8221;  And Frederick Douglass gave him three words &#8211; agitate, agitate, agitate.</p>
<p>And when I joined my big sis’ organization I was pretty skeptical about joining any organization, but I knew that she knew what the real mission was, and she said, Lawrence, your name is going to be the community agitator.  And that’s exactly what I do.  I come from a background, my mom was 16 when she had me.  We had never had anything the easy way.  Everything was about working hard.  Ninth grade I was recruited by the Democratic Party to work for Obama.  They flew me out to DC.  We laid the groundwork to get him elected, working with Organizing for America, and they told me, sir, I don’t care what you believe, but you can never be a conservative because you are black.  Even though I agreed with the ideology, you could never be a conservative.</p>
<p>Well, we never had anything easy.  I had my first job when I was 15.  I was working at a leasing agency, and my godmother was white, and I said look, you’re different.  Well she said, I’m a Republican, and you see things just like me.  It was at that moment that I opened myself to what Republicans in the conservative movement were doing, and I figured out that I was lied to.  Oh, I was pissed.  I was mad as hell.  Y’all don’t understand, when I worked for the Democrats I did research.  I’m a private investigator by trade, and I dug up dirt.  I went after conservatives because I thought they were on the other side.  But when I got mad at liberals, they had something coming.</p>
<p>I spent two years traveling with organizations like Freedom Works trying to get the conservative message out there, and I was speaking from my investigative skills that we have to expose the left for what they really are.  We know what they’re about.  It’s about power, money and greed and whatever they need to do to deceive you to believe that Republicans and conservatives are against you, they will do it.</p>
<p>And I’m speaking this speech, and the crowd is like, what is he talking about?  And this man comes up to me, and he says, I need to really introduce you to somebody, and he introduces me to James O’Keefe.  I spent the next year undercover in the Democratic Party in Battleground Texas, and because of that we shut down the whole Navigator program in the state of Texas.  You can have Obamacare, but you can’t sign up in Texas.</p>
<p>And so back to my mission.  And been on cable news.  And that’s all fine and dandy.  Giving speeches is all fine and dandy, but if we cannot attract a different generation of leaders, if we cannot go to all communities across America, then we have done nothing.  And so what I do, I don’t come with my suit and tie on to those communities. I come with my Jordans, my Nikes, I come with sweats sometimes on, my cowboy boots and my hat, and I agitate the community because what is the problem today?  And we see this in Ferguson.  People are angry, but they’re mad at the wrong people.  And so it’s time for a new generation of leaders that aren’t afraid to go into different types of communities.  You know, I didn’t accept the RNC job because, like I told them, y’all trying to have a one night stand with black voters, and game recognize game.  You will never get them to vote for you if you just come during election time.  And so I go into these communities, and I agitate them.  You see what your congressman is doing?  Yeah, he’s black, too.  Do you realize he’s voting against your community?  What?  I got it on tape, you want to see it?  Do you see that when they sign you up for Obamacare they are storing your personal information then selling it out for political purposes?</p>
<p>What we have to realize is that we have a group of people that once they get sick and tired of being sick and tired, they will change the way they vote.  Once they get tired of being on food stamps, on housing, when they get tired of the government taking their money, when they get tired of staying in failing schools, they will change the way they vote.</p>
<p>It was when I realized that my parents worked for every single thing that we had and that my 16-year-old mother married my father and they built the family together, and nobody was going to rob me from that, that I changed the way I believed.  We got to get it, conservative, because we’re hooraying about this conservative victory that’s just taken place, but like I said on The Blaze the other day, we didn’t do anything.  We did absolutely nothing.  Candidates went around the country campaigning against Obama.  We didn’t really present our proposal.  That’s what we have to do conservatives.  The battle is not over yet.  We have to go into these communities, agitate, let them know who’s really against them, and once we expose the Democratic Party, the liberals and progressives for the frauds they are, it’s game over.  Time to change the game.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And they keep trying to tell me I’m the only one.  All right, Ms. Kira. I bonded with her in a cornfield.  It’s true.  Look, everybody would laugh when they hear that.  No, we bonded in a cornfield, literally out in the middle of nowhere, and I found that just like me and Tracy, me and Kira don’t agree on everything.  But she is my favorite person on this earth to disagree with. Five minutes after our disagreement, we have a scotch in hand.  That’s my Kira Davis.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>Yeah, you can clap for that.  Okay, thank you, Sonnie.  Yes, we did.  That’s a true story.  We did meet in the middle of a cornfield, and maybe I’ll tell that to you to you later if you want to hear it.  But one of the reasons that we don’t always agree on everything, my background’s a little different.  I’m actually an immigrant.  I immigrated from Canada at the age of 17.  I was born to a black American father and a white Canadian mother, and I was raised in eastern Canada for most of my life.  I didn’t meet my own father until I was ten years old.  He had left before my mother even knew she was pregnant.</p>
<p>But when I was ten, I had the opportunity to travel to the United States for the first time, a place I had only ever seen on TV.  I knew there were other black people, I just didn’t know where they were.  So I was really excited.  I flew by myself, and my dad’s family picked me up in Boston.  I got off the plane at Boston Logan Airport.  First time I ever set foot on American soil.  And I will never forgot how it smelled and felt and looked.  It was so different than where I had come from, a rural kind of fishing community, and it was vibrant.  There were so many different types of people I had never seen, black and brown and orange and yellow, and yeah, people with &#8212; and I was so amazed at how you could go anywhere and buy anything.  I know a lot of people are surprised to hear a Canadian say that, but Canadians don’t have the same kind of freedom that Americans have.  This brand of freedom we have in this country is very unique.  It’s unique to us.  It really does need to be protected.  I don’t think you realize that until you travel outside, but I remember that moment of all of those sights and sounds and smells coming down on me and thinking to myself, I’m going to be an American someday.</p>
<p>And from that moment on, it was my goal in life to become an American.  And I left home as soon as I could.  I came to school here in the U.S. and went to school in Iowa.  I met my husband there.  We married.  It still took ten years and thousands of dollars to get my citizenship, but I did it the right way.  It’s a privilege to be an American.  I can’t emphasize enough how honored I am to be American, and when I began serving in the black community, my husband and I had an after-school program, we would invite children to come and use computers, and we would tutor them and mentor them for free.  And I was, even though I was very passionate about America, I still was a socialist liberal because you’re in Canada you’re just by default hockey and socialism, they just go together.</p>
<p>And I realized, I’m serving this community, I’m realizing, all these policies that I have supported my whole life, I’m watching how they work, and they don’t.  And I just thought one day, I can’t do this anymore.  I’m not helping these kids, I’m distancing them from success with the politics of victimization and by telling them that white people don’t want you in their places.  I wasn’t incentivizing them, they were just becoming cogs in the machine.  And so it was during that time that I realized, no, I really am a conservative.  This is what I believe.  I started studying American history, and when I read the constitution for the first time, mind blown, like this is one of the most inspired documents on the face of the planet, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States of America.  Which is not an accident, which is not an accident.  They go hand in hand.</p>
<p>But I want to wrap up because we want to do some Q&amp;A. We want you guys to know how we view things as black Americans so that you might not be able to do what we do, but that you know what we want to do so you can at least support us, and that’s who we’re going to win this battle, that’s how we’re going to win back this country, by understanding we can’t all be on all fronts.  This is a war, but you have to know which battle you’re in.  Pick that battle, and do it.  So we’re in this battle, and so we want you to know a little bit about what we want to do. But before I go, this is what I want to say.  When I came here, even though as a teenager I was still pretty liberal, I still had the innate sense that there was something very special about the brand of freedom that is America, and now I tell my kids, look, just by being born in this country you are already five steps ahead of the game.  You’re already five steps ahead simply by accident of birth.  You need to nothing more than be born here to have more than almost everybody on this planet.  I don’t care if you live in the hood or the suburbs, it’s the same thing.  I say this all the time.  America doesn’t owe you an opportunity, America is the opportunity.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>One think I would ask is that you have a menu because in the beginning you said when you started this that we really need to know how to address the attacks, and you have given us some good examples today, and I appreciate that immensely.  So I would say at that table you need a menu for us, something that perhaps the Horowitz group can continue to share with us on how to handle some of these situations and issues.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I will gather all my blog posts because basically that’s what I write about.  Continuously, personally, me, I have no choice but the two-pronged  approach because while I’m talking to the black community, I also have a conservative base, and my base doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the community, and my community doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the base.  So I always do a two-pronged approach.  I always will make sure that I have an argument that’s framed that fits the black community, and I have an argument that’s framed that conservatives can understand.  The problem is when people hear this they call it pandering.  No.  It’s knowing who your audience is.  It is the first step of owning any business or running any venture or anything else you do.  If you don’t know who your audience is, you will fail.  So I always take into account who it is I’m talking to.  It doesn’t matter, you’re going to get Sonnie Johnson either way.  That part of it isn’t going to change.  But I am aware and alert enough to understand that, and I will do that.  I will make that something that I do and make sure that, I guess I’ll work with David to see how we can make it available for everyone to be able to grab hold of it.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>In the next few years it’s going to be really important, there’s going to be a lot of these young groups, these kids coming up, groups like us that will need your support.  So yeah, you might not be able to go into the hood and walk in and talk to people, and that’s fine, that’s okay.  But to find the people who are doing that and support them, that support is as valuable as a dynamic personality like a Sonnie Johnson.  So just keep that in mind as we move forward.  Find someone you like and can support and throw everything behind them.  It’s going to be more important than ever.  The field is ripe for the picking, and we’re on our way to a big win in 2016 if we can hold that.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Kira has been nice, but some conservatives just need to shut up when it comes to &#8212; seriously, and this is where Sonnie’s little bro comes into effect.  There are a lot of conservatives, some of them are black conservative, that are screwing it when it comes to race relations and going into these different communities because they do not know what to say.  If you don’t know what to say, shut up, it’s okay.  Get behind organizations that know exactly what they’re doing.  The RNC is not one.  They fail.  Okay.  So what we need is for people all across that are in Freedom Center to continue to support this movement.  It is proven, there’s a track record there where people are beginning to change their minds.  They’re listening in whether it’s a podcast, radio show or TV show because they want to know what these type of conservatives are talking about.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>As you can see, I am a lucky girl.  I am a happy girl, and David wasn’t here to hear this, but I am a sharp girl.  We look forward to 2015, and we’re going to show America how restoration starts with Change the Game.  Thank you all for coming.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Black Leader Al Sharpton</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our politically correct host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the disturbing history of the Reverend Al Sharpton &#8211; called reverend because he is revered, by Al Sharpton. 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;">Everywhere you look these days, there’s Al Sharpton&#8230; it’s strange, even after you wake up screaming, he’s still there.  It’s like one of those Blumhouse movies.  If he’s not in some city calling for protests because a cop killed a thug who was resisting arrest, he’s in some other city calling for protests because another cop killed another thug who was also resisting arrest.  He’s even been meeting with Barack Obama as if the president of the United States were just some hapless loser who can’t find anyone else to talk to.  So it’s about time we asked ourselves:  who is Al Sharpton&#8230; and why?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Al Sharpton has dedicated his life to the improvement of the black man Al Sharpton.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">He first flushed himself to fame in 1987, when a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley concocted a lie about being raped by a group of white men. Reverend Al Sharpton — called Reverend Al Sharpton because he’s revered by Al Sharpton — became one of Tawana’s so-called advisors.  He falsely accused a young police officer of participating in the alleged rape, and after the already troubled officer committed suicide, Sharpton accused another man of murdering him to cover up the crime.  Sharpton and his cronies organized daily protests using viciously inflammatory language &#8211; even though one of Sharpton’s top aides says Sharpton suspected all along Tawana’s story was false. Finally a Grand Jury investigation exposed the girl’s hoax, leaving Sharpton looking almost exactly like a race baiting charlatan.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Unless you happened to be a leftist or a journalist or some other sort of gullible buffoon.  In that case, Al Sharpton was now a “black leader.”  And sure enough, wherever a tragedy could be misconstrued as a case of racism, black leader Al was there leading blacks to false conclusions and violence.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">There was Crown Heights Brooklyn for instance.  When a black child was accidentally killed by a car driven by a Hassidic Jew there in 1991, a small gang of local blacks responded by murdering  an innocent Jewish man. But that wasn’t good enough for Al. His furious rhetoric helped stir days of anti-Jewish riots in what’s been called one of the worst anti-semitic incidents in American history.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And Al wasn’t done.  In 1995, he helped incite a vicious name-calling boycott of a Jewish storeowner in Harlem — and inspire protests that only ended when one of the protestors shot four whites in the man’s store and set the place on fire, killing seven workers, most of them Hispanic.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">More recently, Sharpton has accused three white LaCrosse players from Duke University of raping a black girl, which they didn’t; made out that Trayvon Martin was the victim of a racist murder, which he wasn’t; and suggested Michael Brown was a gentle innocent shot dead by an evil cop — wrong again — and he managed to do it all while owing the government 4.5 million dollars in taxes.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Which brings us back to our original question:  Why do corrupt, opportunistic knuckleheads get elevated to black leadership?  Maybe that wasn’t our original question.  I can’t remember.  But I mean, you don’t see white people accepting leaders like this.  If someone like Hillary Clinton had been shown to lie outright again and again about everything from her husband’s infidelities to being shot at in a war zone to the reasons behind the terrorist attack in Benghazi, would white people accept her as a leader?  Okay, maybe that’s not a good example.  Well, then, if Teddy Kennedy left his mistress to drown so he could fashion an alibi&#8230;  Okay, wait.  If fools like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi&#8230;</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Okay.  Look, black people, the point is:  don’t elevate demagogic flim-flammers to leadership in your community.  Don’t be like white people.  You’re better than that.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left has become America’s biggest hate group.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247109" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/protest-425x350.png" alt="protest" width="328" height="270" /></a>Did you bury a teenage girl alive after shooting her? Are you on death row after a string of crimes too gruesome to describe? Or are you just a member of Al Qaeda dedicated to destroying America?</p>
<p>If so progressives will fight for you. Just dial 1-800-IAM-VICTIM and the leftist waiting to take your call will insist on your presumption of innocence. Its activists, reporters and lawyers will exploit every pretext to get you off the hook and they will call that justice.</p>
<p>The judicial process, they will say, matters more than public safety, public outrage or the victims.</p>
<p>When the crime wave set loose by their own activism flooded the country they clung to Blackstone’s formulation of “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”  As murders, rapes and robberies rose, the value of that formulation went up from ten to ten thousand.</p>
<p>But it had to be the right ten thousand.</p>
<p>Leftist lynch mobs rioting in Ferguson, marching through Manhattan and screaming in Oakland assert that the presumption of innocence doesn’t apply to police officers or white Hispanics. Their poses of victimization with their cries of “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe” disguise what they really are.</p>
<p>They were protesting before the case moved forward. They have continued protesting after the verdict was in. That’s not a call for justice. It’s a lynch mob that knows what the verdict should be and seeks to intimidate the authorities into giving it to them by taking the law into their own hands.</p>
<p>Rolling Stone’s rape story was cooked out of the same ingredients; a presumption of guilt and a lynch mob demanding its own brand of justice. The facts never mattered.</p>
<p>The assistant managing editor at the University of Virginia’s student paper admitted that when she argued, &#8220;To let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was never about the facts. It was about the narrative. And the narrative was not only the guilt of a few men, but the way that their guilt stood in for the guilt of all men or all white people. The factual question of whether Officer Darren Wilson or a few UVA students committed a crime was a technicality.</p>
<p>Since the racist and sexist narrative states that all white people or all men are inherently guilty, the factual question of whether a few men actually raped someone doesn’t matter. The factual question of whether a police officer is actually guilty under the law is so obscure that it isn’t worth discussing.</p>
<p>Fact checking just obstructs the narrative that all white people or all men are guilty.</p>
<p>The old lynch mobs presumed that a black man was guilty on account of his race. So do the new lynch mobs.</p>
<p>Wilson’s crime wasn’t shooting Michael Brown. It was shooting him while being white. If he had been black, we wouldn’t be talking about it now. If the black sergeant supervising the takedown of Eric Garner had been the one to restrain him, there would be no protesters shouting “I can’t breathe”.</p>
<p>Subtract the race of the perpetrator and the case wouldn’t exist. That’s what makes the case racist.</p>
<p>A lynch mob brought into existence by the race of the man they want lynched is a racist lynch mob.</p>
<p>At Ferguson and the University of Virginia not only was the crime assumed into existence before the verdict was in, but the action of one police officer in Ferguson was used to indict all police officers and then all white people. The actions of a few men at the University of Virginia were used to indict the entire fraternity and then all fraternities and then all men.</p>
<p>Classic lynch mobs treated the actions of one black rapist as a justification for repressing all black people. The leftist lynch mobs at Ferguson and the University of Virginia used the accusation of an individual crime to call for the repression of entire groups, to attack all white people and all men.</p>
<p>Even if these crimes had turned out to be substantiated, indicting hundreds of millions of people for the actions of a few is the narrative of a hate group. And that’s what progressives have shown that they are; a respectable establishment hate group that demonizes millions of people and leads lynch mobs.</p>
<p>One of the greatest lies of the left is that it believes in civil liberties. The ACLU’s civil libertarian colors were a convenient costume. It never existed to protect the rights of the people against leftist governments. It existed to protect the privileges of leftists.</p>
<p>That’s a direct quote from its co-founder.</p>
<p>Roger Nash Baldwin wrote, “If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship, it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties&#8230; When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever.”</p>
<p>When Baldwin wrote these words, he was speaking of a Soviet Union led by Stalin which was maintaining its dictatorship of the proletariat through a secret police, torture and mass murder.</p>
<p>The co-founder of the ACLU was not only endorsing Stalin’s crimes, but he was also looking forward to an American Stalin rounding up enemies of the state and shooting them with the support of the ACLU.</p>
<p>The presumption of innocence is an idea that leftists only believe in when they aren’t in power.</p>
<p>When the left isn’t in power, then it may protect civil liberties to protect itself. When one of its own radicals is sitting in the White House, then it leads lynch mobs through the streets. The protests aren’t acts of weakness by victims, but signs of strength by oppressors.</p>
<p>The left is rejecting the democratic results of the midterm elections and turning to street violence. Their confidence is derived from the support of the establishment from the White House to the media. Never have lynch mobs received such universal acclaim from all the powers of the United States of America.</p>
<p>The progressive lynch mobs in Ferguson and at the University of Virginia contend that some crimes are too hurtful to a particular population to be protected by the presumption of innocence. Some suspects should be presumed guilty because of the combination of their race and gender with a national crisis.</p>
<p>After fighting for Al Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo, the left hypocritically decided that the presumption of innocence should apply to Muslim terrorists but not to police officers. The civil libertarians of the left went from championing the rights of criminals over those of victims to embracing the conservative position of victim rights… as long these rights are reserved for only the right sorts of victims.</p>
<p>The activists of the left must be forced to admit whether they are for or against the presumption of innocence. If they want to dispense with the presumption of innocence when it comes to enemies of the people like police officers and fraternity members, it will also go away for Islamic terrorists and violent thugs. Not to mention Weather Underground terrorists teaching at prestigious progressive colleges.</p>
<p>We cannot have a presumption of innocence for some people and not others. The left is not entitled to create two justice systems for two types of people. One group will be lynched with a formality of a trial manipulated to produce a verdict that not only damns one defendant, but also his entire race or gender. The other will receive every possible defense no matter how obvious his guilt may be.</p>
<p>America is a nation of laws, not of racist lynch mobs. Its trials are based on facts, not on narratives. The presumption of innocence matters more than the narrative and the social justice hashtag. Without it all we have left are racist lynch mobs with smartphones marching through Manhattan.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247055" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge-263x350.jpg" alt="police-badge" width="234" height="311" /></a>In an era where public debate is replete with Big Lies, we are routinely treated to examples of shallow, insipid journalism dedicated to propping up the most nonsensical fictions imaginable. A case in point is a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">piece</span></a> that appeared in the far-left periodical <i>Mother Jones</i>, titled “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” Purporting to explain the root causes of the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the article&#8217;s author, <i>Mother Jones</i> editorial coordinator Jaeah Lee, presents a smattering of statistics—utterly devoid of context or analysis—as evidence that “the killing of Michael Brown by police … was no anomaly.”</p>
<p>For instance, Lee cites a 2007 <a href="http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/11/killed_by_the_cops.html"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a><i> </i>which found that in ten major cities “there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims,” and <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&amp;tid=703"><span style="color: #011480;">another</span></a> which concluded that “black people are more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience a police officer&#8217;s threat or use of force.” To buttress these allegations, the author <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">quotes</span></a> Missouri ACLU official Jeffrey Mittman&#8217;s lamentation that “unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate,” and NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks&#8217; claim that a destructive “culture of policing” is “rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds” by targeting black people with “overwhelmingly major, often lethal &#8230; force.”</p>
<p>Apparently it never occurred to Ms. Lee, or to these other voices in her echo chamber, that there might be some significance in the fact that blacks, who are 13% of the U.S. population, themselves <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">commit</span></a> many more homicides than white and Hispanic perpetrators—<i>combined</i>. Young black males in particular commit homicide at nearly <i>ten times</i> the combined rate of their white and Hispanic counterparts. As Manhattan Institute scholar <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">Heather Mac Donald</span></a> explains, “That astronomically higher homicide-commission rate means that police officers are going to be disproportionately in black neighborhoods to fight crime, where they will more likely encounter armed shooting suspects.” Blacks nationwide are also dramatically <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43"><span style="color: #011480;">overrepresented</span></a> in the commission of other serious crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault—precisely the types of offenses most likely to trigger a confrontation with police that could result in a fatality.</p>
<p>In her <i>Mother Jones</i> piece, Ms. Lee devotes considerable attention to New York City, where “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">more</span></a> black people have been shot by NYPD officers &#8230; than have Hispanics or whites.” But this begs an obvious question: “So what?” The same principle that applies to the United States as a whole, applies also to New York: W<span style="color: #272727;">hile blacks constitute 23% of the city&#8217;s population, they <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0514hm.html">commit</a> </span>two-thirds of all its violent crimes, including nearly 70% of all robberies and 80% of all shootings. And whites, who are 35% of the city’s population, commit just 5% of its violent crimes and a mere 1.8% of its shootings. Thus, blacks are statistically far more likely to be involved in volatile situations demanding police intervention. It&#8217;s really not very complicated.</p>
<p>The <i>Mother Jones</i> article also presents a chart with a racial breakdown of those who were shot and killed by New York City police between 2000 and 2011. Yet remarkably, the author makes no mention of the glaring <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">fact</span></a> that instances of police-on-Asian shootings are nearly invisible in this chart—indeed, <i>blacks, Hispanics, and whites alike</i> are far more likely than Asians to be shot in police encounters. What could explain this? If we were to apply Ms. Lee&#8217;s line of reasoning, we&#8217;d have no choice but to conclude that New York police officers, for some reason, feel less racial animus against Asians than they feel against everyone else. A more realistic explanation is that Asians in the city have very low crime rates and thus have comparatively little contact with police.</p>
<p>The most comprehensive information we have on the issue of police shootings and race in recent years comes from a 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a> that covers the period from 2003 to 2009. Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by law-enforcement officers during that time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic. Also during that period, blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes—i.e., the types of crimes most likely to lead to a potentially fatal confrontation with police. These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they suggest the exact opposite.</p>
<p>Funny how the real world rarely conforms to the certainties of the race-obsessed Left, isn&#8217;t it?</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>Who&#8217;s Really Responsible for Violent Crime in St. Louis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/crime.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246795" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/crime-450x253.jpeg" alt="crime" width="270" height="152" /></a>Violent crime in St. Louis is a black thing. And like the t-shirt says, we wouldn’t understand it.</p>
<p>But we can observe it.</p>
<p>And this much we know: The level of black violent crime is astronomically out of proportion. So is the denial. Not just in St. Louis, but also in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland: This is a very long list of cities big and small across the country.</p>
<p>Pick a crime: Black violent crime is 6, 10, 30, 50, 100 times greater than white crime. And if you want to throw Asians into the mix, multiply that by 10 times.</p>
<p>This is hardly a surprise to readers of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FrontPageMag.com</span></a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938067061/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1938067061&amp;adid=1CSGX3303WSHKNEXMZXN&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2Fasians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing%2F"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>White Girl Bleed a Lot:</i></span></a><i> The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it</i>.</p>
<p>But as we saw in Ferguson, talking heads insist the opposite is true: That black people are the victims of racial violence, not the perpetrators.</p>
<p>“Open season on black people,” anyone?</p>
<p>The recent murder of the immigrant from Bosnia by a group of hammer-wielding black people is just the latest example.</p>
<p>When the mayor and police chief of St. Louis rushed to tell us the killing of Zemir Begic was “not racially motivated,” they meant the killers were not carrying signs that said “Down with Whitey.”  Nor did they issue a press release. Or start quoting Louis Farrakhan during interrogation.</p>
<p>Absent that, public officials insist, there is no evidence of this thing they call “racial motivation.” (Even that is not true, more on that in a minute.)</p>
<p>And besides, they say, crime is color blind, blah, blah, blah.</p>
<p>This is how mayors, police chiefs and editors around the country alternately deny, then explain, the elevated levels of black mob violence and black criminality: They ignore the evidence. Then say the evidence does not exist.</p>
<p>And there is no stronger piece of evidence than the pattern. Recent immigrants are especially vulnerable to this pattern of black violence, though some may not realize it.</p>
<p>If all they knew about racial violence in America came from local or European media, then they would know that black people are constant victims of relentless white racism and violence.</p>
<p>But even a stream of stories and videos showing black mob violence (though not acknowledging it) does not prevent the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC from constantly repeating this false claim.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Oh yeah, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/">that is called lying</a>.</span></p>
<p>In Rochester, New York, earlier this year, the local media broke a five-year embargo to report that <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent Asian refugees were victims of more than 1000 cases of black mob</span></a> violence and black on Asian crime.</p>
<p>The black former police chief said that was no big deal: All new immigrants experience violence. A black community activist agreed, saying the “naivete” of the newcomers explained how they could become victims of so much black crime.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, <em>The Chronicle</em> called a wave of black-on-Asian violence that town’s “dirty little secret.”</p>
<p>In New Jersey and New York, police say illegal aliens are the victims of hundreds of such attacks on day laborers, who do not report the violence because they fear deportation.</p>
<p>In St. Louis, local media refuses to connect the dots and report on dozens and dozens of examples of black mob violence and black crime directed at immigrants from Bosnia.</p>
<p>A few minutes before the group of black people surrounded the car of Zemir Begic, another immigrant from Bosnia was sent to the hospital after suffering a similar hammer attack.</p>
<p>St. Louis police may be mystified, but Bosnians say black crime is a regular feature of life in their neighborhoods. Reporters and mayors want us to believe it is random.</p>
<p>“In the last few weeks, there were several crimes against Bosnians,” said <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/hammer-attack-not-1st-violence-against-st-louis-bosnians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Sadik Kukic, a Bosnian business leader, to WND</span></a>. “All the crimes were by the black community.”</p>
<p>Curiously missing from most of the local coverage was a video account of the aftermath, showing the dead man being wheeled away on a gurney and loaded into an ambulance.</p>
<p>Prior to the attack, said the person making the video, large groups of black people had been rampaging up and down that street, <a href="http://youtu.be/fqTRV-z5J68?list=UUkffs7dlQWuM3HKUM4LeMVA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">saying, “F* the white people, kill the white people.”</span></a></p>
<p>In St. Louis, black mob violence happens regularly in the downtown, it happens near the arch and near the Delmar Loop entertainment district. It even happened the other night in a cop bar when three black people tried to rob it. Six people were shot and one is dead.</p>
<p>Random?</p>
<p>You might want to ask a mathematician about that. Or any high school student of statistics.</p>
<p>One last thing about St. Louis: Racial violence has been happening there a long time. You don’t have to understand it. But denying it can be downright fatal.</p>
<p><strong>Colin Flaherty is the author of the top selling civil rights book in America, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938067061/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1938067061&amp;adid=1CSGX3303WSHKNEXMZXN&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/asians-bleed-lot-rochester-media-apologizes-noticing/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">White Girl Bleed a Lot.</span></a> For a FREE video and preview chapter from <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/ebook3november202104"><span style="color: #0433ff;">his next book, click here</span></a>.</strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ben Shapiro breaks down the witness testimony from the St. Louis County Police Investigative Report of the shooting of Michael Brown and demonstrates that, contrary to President Obama&#8217;s assertions, the black community in Ferguson did in fact make up the story of the racist cop murdering a teenager with his hands up. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">The evidence shows that Michael Brown was an 18-year-old, 6’4”, 289-lb. black criminal who robbed a convenience store and attacked a police officer while high, then got shot – that’s what the grand jury determined when they decided not to indict Darren Wilson.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But evidence has never stopped people like Cher, who tweeted, “Something must b done 2 protect innocent young blk men.” Or Moby, who tweeted that “Darren Wilson chased Michael Brown and murdered him.” Or Serena Williams, who tweeted, “Wow. Just wow. Shameful. What will it take???” Or Katy Perry, who said, “praying for an equal America,” or Macklemore, who said “No justice,” and tried to block the I-5 in Seattle. Or Rihanna, who tweeted out a photo of this <a style="color: #0066cc;" href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/celebrities-respond-ferguson-decision">sign</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Or LeBron James, who tweeted this <a style="color: #0066cc;" href="http://t.co/VTe0rwXeek">image</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Or the St. Louis Rams, five of whom walked onto the football field on Sunday in the “hands up, don’t shoot” pose.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Obama, of course, jumped in, too. He said this:</p>
<blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: #8f8f8f;"><p>&#8230;There are still problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #000000;">That’s a lie, at least with regard to Michael Brown. Grand jury testimony shows that the community of Ferguson, Missouri did make this problem up. In fact, they lied, they intimidated witnesses, and they pressured others to lie – all to put an innocent man behind bars for the rest of his life in the name of social justice.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">According to the St. Louis County Police Investigative Report, the mob mentality began immediately. A huge crowd formed at the scene of the shooting almost instantaneously; that crowd included both Brown’s mother and his stepfather, according to witness testimony. The police report states:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The investigation of the scene was interrupted several times by death threats directed toward police officers and gunshots being fired by unknown persons around the crime scene.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">One witness told police she didn’t want to “get involved for fear of retaliation.” She said, “I have to live here.” An adult male near the scene “commented to detectives as they walked by that he witnessed the incident and the officer was ‘in the right’ and ‘did what he had to do.’ He added the statements being made by bystanders in the complex were inaccurate… The male indicated he was not making any further comments or identifying himself.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Two more witnesses, one male and one female, “said they were afraid to speak about what they witnessed. Both said they were worried about retaliation from people who live in the area.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Still another witness said “threats… had been made to the residents of Canfield Green Apartment Complex. He said notes had been posted on various apartment buildings threatening people not to talk to the police, and gunshots were still being fired every night.” He said “there were at least 10 other people who were outside and saw exactly what happened.” He said Wilson told Brown to get down and that Brown never raised his hands.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In FBI interviews, witnesses repeated such accusations. Witness 10, whose account backed Wilson’s story, said, “I just wanted to come forward and just tell it how I seen it. Because I feel like it’s very rare that somebody’s gonna come forward and tell actually what happened.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Witness 14, stated:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">You have to understand the mentality of some of these young guys, they have nothing to do. When they can latch on the something they embellish it because they want something to do…The majority of them do not work. They all they do is sit around and get high all day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Witness 14 added that within one minute of the shooting, there were 70 or 80 people “saying things that didn’t happen,” and they “started embellishing it when the stepfather showed up.” That would be this stepfather, <a style="color: #0066cc;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/us/michael-brown-stepfather-video/">Louis Head</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Witness 14 said witnesses were lying when they said the officer “ran up behind him shot him in the back.” Witnesses lied, he said, when they said he had “his hands straight up in the air.” Witnesses lied, he said, when they stated that Brown was shot while down. He continued. “They are set they are looking for a reason to explode, that’s what they, ‘cause they don’t have anything to do…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The original witness who started all of this, Dorian Johnson, helped Brown rob the convenience store. He then went on television and lied about Brown having his hands up and being shot from behind. He then had to change his story multiple times to fit the autopsy results. Still, there he was with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last week, telling his lies.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And those lies had quickly become the prevailing wisdom. At least 12 witnesses claimed that Brown was shot from behind, which was factually false. At least 16 witnesses said Brown’s hands were up when he was shot, which was factually false. One witness said Wilson used a Taser, then a gun: false. Another said she witnessed the events, but admitted she was blocks away when the events occurred. Still another witness said there were two officers involved in the shooting, and admitted she couldn’t tell what she’d seen and what she’d read about the case. One witness admitted in testimony to changing his story to “coincide with what really happened.” Another witness said that he was friends with Brown, and that Brown was shot while on his knees. When informed that such a story contradicted all physical evidence, the man admitted that he had not seen the shooting and then asked if he could leave because he was “uncomfortable.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is evil. An entire community conspiring to put an innocent man in prison for the rest of his life based on his race is evil. But then again, so is “social justice” – the notion that individual lives and decisions don’t matter, so long as the narrative of American racism is forwarded. Truth is the first casualty of the social justice mob. And in Ferguson, and now across America, that mob runs wild.</p>
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		<title>Ferguson Lynch Mob Leaders Convene at the White House</title>
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<p>A week after grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., did their civic duty and resisted pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer, Al Sharpton and Ferguson riot leaders gathered at the White House yesterday to make plans to further exacerbate the racial tensions they created in order to cripple the economy and attack civil society.</p>
<p>These domestic subversives refuse to accept the official finding Nov. 24 that no probable cause existed to charge police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown, who was black.</p>
<p>The finding of &#8220;no true bill&#8221; contradicts the Left&#8217;s preferred narrative that racist white cops are gunning down innocent blacks with impunity. The failure to indict Wilson, who has since resigned from the Ferguson police department, has driven left-wingers and racial grievance mongers into an exquisite state of apoplexy. They refuse to accept that the evidence considered by the grand jury overwhelmingly, indisputably demonstrated that Brown tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm. To put it more bluntly, there is proof that in their fateful 90-second encounter Brown tried to kill Wilson, even though the media has consistently identified Wilson as the aggressor.</p>
<p>But facts are rarely obstacles when left-wingers set their minds on something.</p>
<p>At the initial White House meeting of the Michael Brown truther brigade, Obama <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1201/Ferguson-day-at-the-White-House-What-did-Obama-accomplish"><span style="color: #0433ff;">proceeded</span></a> from the demonstrably false assumption that a tragic injustice was done to the late teenaged thug. The president <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/01/remarks-president-after-meeting-elected-officials-community-and-faith-le"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. The sense that in a country where one of our basic principles, perhaps the most important principle, is equality under the law, that too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly.</p></blockquote>
<p>To remedy this problem that was far less of a problem before Obama was inaugurated, the president announced he was appointing two left-wing establishment puppets to head a useless task force</p>
<blockquote><p>to reach out and listen to law enforcement, and community activists and other stakeholders, but is going to report to me specifically in 90 days with concrete recommendations, including best practices for communities where law enforcement and neighborhoods are working well together &#8212; how do they create accountability; how do they create transparency; how do they create trust; and how can we at the federal level work with state and local communities to make sure that some of those best practices get institutionalized.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Darren Wilson, police officers are going to receive stricter scrutiny. Obama also proposed spending $263 million to put body cameras on cops.</p>
<p>Much of this soothing, focus group-tested Washington-speak sounds fairly innocuous until the guest list for the event is revealed. The same people who instigated the riots and looting in Ferguson <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12/unreal-obama-meets-with-ferguson-riot-organizer-at-white-house-to-discuss-police-brutality/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were in attendance</span></a> listening to the Community Organizer in Chief. Among the attendees were: Ashley Yates, Millennial Activists United; Rasheen Aldridge, Young Activists St. Louis; Brittany Packnett, St. Louis educator and activist; T-Dubb-O, St. Louis hip-hop artist; James Hayes, Ohio Students Association; Phillip Agnew, Dream Defenders; and Jose Lopez, Make the Road New York.</p>
<p>These people are the problem, not the solution. They had no business being at the table (but then again, neither does Obama).</p>
<p>Yates went so far as to go on record the month before the grand jury decision as saying violence would be a legitimate response to a non-indictment in the Darren Wilson case.</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” Yates said at the time.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” he said.</p>
<p>New York&#8217;s radical mayor Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, whose racist, hate-filled rants <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have gotten Americans killed</span></a> on more than one occasion, were also in attendance at the White House yesterday.</p>
<p>The day before, Sharpton was in Ferguson pledging more violent protests. &#8220;You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but don&#8217;t take your gloves off,&#8221; Sharpton said. &#8220;Justice will come to Ferguson.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna stop marching and protesting until we do,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Sharpton isn&#8217;t even the most radical member of the leftist lynch mob screaming for Wilson&#8217;s blood.</p>
<p>The most explicit of the fire-breathing racist filth-purveyors in the Brown saga has to be professional white-hater and anti-Semite <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Louis Farrakhan</span></a>. Before an audience at Baltimore&#8217;s Morgan State University he <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">promised</span></a> a violent uprising. If the demands of demonstrators who want Wilson dead are not met, “we’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”</p>
<p>Peaceful protests are only in the interest of “white folks,” said Farrakhan, who himself ought to be under constant FBI surveillance. “We going to die anyway,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let’s die for something,” the Nation of Islam (NOI) head said to enthusiastic applause.</p>
<p>The parents of teenaged children need to show their kids how to lob Molotov cocktails, said Farrakhan, who is essentially the Islamic version of Obama&#8217;s longtime preacher Jeremiah Wright. “Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight,” he said, gesturing as if throwing an incendiary device.</p>
<p>Farrakhan said there is a “law of retaliation” in both the Bible and the Koran that demands the use of deadly force. “A law for retaliation,” he repeated while holding what appeared to be the NOI version of the Koran.</p>
<p>White Americans will only start taking black concerns seriously if blacks begin killing them, he said.</p>
<p>“As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us,” said Farrakhan, who openly supports Islamic terrorist regimes abroad. “But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”</p>
<p>Although President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder and their confederates in the media set the stage for the Ferguson-related civil unrest, publicly urging restraint and nonviolent protest on the one hand while claiming that police departments are hotbeds of racism that need to be reformed, Farrakhan attacked the two men for their perceived willingness to compromise.</p>
<p>Obama, Holder, and other black leaders show how out of touch they are with young blacks when they embrace what Farrakhan called &#8220;compromise.&#8221; By urging calm these leaders are betraying blacks and doing the bidding of “white people.”</p>
<p>“Tonight in Ferguson everybody is on edge,&#8221; Farrakhan said, implying the terror innocent citizens feel at the prospect of mob violence is a wonderful, useful thing.</p>
<p>In a way his comments echo those made a century earlier by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police. &#8220;We stand for organized terror &#8212; this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whatever makes whites nervous furthers the fundamental transformation of the United States, as the Left sees it.</p>
<p>&#8220;White folks have never been on edge after they killed a black man. Tonight they’re on edge; so on edge that our president has come out from behind the curtain to ask young black people: ‘Cool it. That’s not our way.’” Farrakhan said. “I heard you, Mr. President; and I asked myself a question: What brings you out of the shadows?&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyone who has followed Farrakhan knows he is dangerously mental unstable even on a good day but his lack of sound mind has never prevented him from spreading his gospel of hate or from winning fans on the Left. Anyone who is honest will acknowledge that the American activist Left has a long history of embracing deranged cult leaders from Rev. Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple in Guyana and Charles Manson to Revs. Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>Insanity is not in short supply on the topic of Michael Brown. Following the announcement of the non-indictment a week ago, Michael Brown’s stepfather <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urged an angry mob</span></a> consisting of several hundred protesters to “Burn this bitch down!” This incitement to riot committed by Louis Head was captured on video.</p>
<p>Head, by the way, <a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-michaelbrown-stepfather-inciting-ferguson-race-riot-blood-gangbanger/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is a member</span></a> of the notorious criminal street gang known as the Bloods. This may help to explain why photos exist showing Brown flashing Blood gang signals and why Brown&#8217;s family wore red, the Bloods&#8217; color, to his funeral. Head has two felony narcotics convictions. When released on parole, he violated probation and was remanded to state prison.</p>
<p>Strong-arm robbery is apparently a favorite crime in Brown&#8217;s family. Both Head and Brown&#8217;s mother Lesley McSpadden are themselves <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Michael-Brown-family-merchandise-brawl-687543"><span style="color: #0433ff;">being investigated</span></a> by Ferguson police for the Oct. 18 robbery and assault of three vendors who were selling &#8220;Justice for Mike Brown&#8221; merchandise. A police report indicated 20 to 30 people rushed the sellers, taking $400 in cash and $1,500 in goods. McSpadden herself reportedly punched one of the vendors, Brown&#8217;s grandmother Pearlie Gordon.</p>
<p>The night of the announcement a minimum of 10 businesses and two police cars were destroyed or damaged by fire in Ferguson, and police arrested 61 individuals. Inexplicably on Nov. 24 Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to stand down. Nixon had mobilized the Guard to deal with potential post-announcement unrest. Perhaps Obama&#8217;s people, who believe that blacks are entitled to riot at perceived injustices, got to him.</p>
<p>On the evening of the announcement, a 20-year-old man named Deandre Joshua <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19621-was-murdered-ferguson-man-a-grand-jury-witness"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was killed and set on fire</span></a> in his car, mere feet from where Brown died months before. Joshua, a friend of Brown&#8217;s robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson, may have been a grand jury witness who corroborated Wilson&#8217;s story. One theory is he was killed in retaliation for his testimony.</p>
<p>Johnson is the recidivist lowlife who gave birth to the Big Lie that Brown tried to surrender to Wilson and was then gunned down by the police officer in cold blood. Even though Johnson&#8217;s false testimony was ultimately demolished by the evidence, scientific and otherwise, it helped to spur the &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; protest movement.</p>
<p>It could be argued that Johnson is at least as morally culpable of attempting to murder Wilson as Brown was because Johnson tried to frame Wilson. If Wilson had been convicted of murder he could have faced the death penalty for murder. Supporters of Wilson are <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/11/26/Darren-Wilson-Allies-Want-Perjury-Charges-For-Dorian-Hands-up-Don-t-shoot-Johnson"><span style="color: #0433ff;">trying to obtain</span></a> a least a small measure of justice by having Johnson indicted for perjury but these efforts seem pointless in the current political climate.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Left is now trying to inflict as much pain as possible on black Americans in order to drive them to open revolt. The more black businesses are burnt to the ground, the better, in their view. Anyone killed in the process can be celebrated as a martyr for the cause.</p>
<p>Citing the purchasing power of black Americans, activists have been urging blacks and others to boycott retailers. Those involved in the Black Friday protests at big-box stores and sophomoric &#8220;die-ins&#8221; in major cities across the country four days ago are the same people who show up at Occupy Wall Street protests and demonstrations supporting minimum wage increases. The Left excels at recycling its activists. More actions were scheduled for yesterday, informally dubbed Cyber Monday, supposedly the biggest e-commerce sales day of the year.</p>
<p>Profit-generating businesses that communities need in order to survive are fair game in this effort to stamp out the parts of civil society that the Obama junta hasn&#8217;t gotten around to obliterating yet. This sick vengeance directed against people who had nothing to do with the demise of Michael Brown is justified because, as a Sixties radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” To left-wing sociopaths, innocent people are mere pieces on a chessboard.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky-inspired groups have been busy agitating this holiday season.</p>
<p>As this writer <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">previously reported</span></a>, the remnants of the ACORN activist empire have been deeply involved in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), a nonprofit group, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). President Obama used to work for ACORN, and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>We now learn that an ACORN successor group was involved in recent post-grand jury decision unrest in Brooklyn, N.Y. New York Communities for Change (NYCC), another offspring of ACORN, <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/48/dtg-downtown-ferguson-protest-2014-12-05-bk_37_48.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was involved in</span></a> disruptive demonstrations alongside Al Sharpton’s group, National Action Network. The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson-related actions.</p>
<p>But there is some good news.</p>
<p>There is evidence that ordinary Americans are beginning to fight back against all this mindless, destructive activism by left-wingers who want to hurt blacks and the American system as a whole.</p>
<p>An Internet video that has gone viral shows angry employees trying to get to work last Wednesday <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/11/29/Driver-Confronts-Ferguson-Protesters-for-Making-Him-Late-to-Work-Deal-With-it-the-Right-F-ing-Way"><span style="color: #0433ff;">giving activists</span></a> blocking a highway a major dressing-down.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gotta go to Ross right now, homie,&#8221; Tyree Landrum said on Interstate 5 near San Diego. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t get there, I&#8217;m gonna get fired. I got six f***ing kids to feed, I gotta get this car off the&#8230; Day goes on homie. M*****f***ers get shot every f***ing day. Deal with it the right f***ing way, not like this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum appears in the video yelling at a road-blocking protester. &#8220;I&#8217;m about to lose my f***ing job, and you guys are f***ing out here protesting?&#8221;</p>
<p>A woman wearing medical scrubs was shown leaving her vehicle and joining in the yelling. &#8220;Arrest them!&#8221; the nurse shouted. &#8220;We have doctors and nurses that have to save lives here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum told reporters he works three jobs. When an activist put a megaphone in his face, Landrum fought back.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like get this bullhorn out of my face,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At that point I was confused, frustrated, and completely angry.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nobody special,&#8221; Landrum said. &#8220;Just doing what I thought was right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tyree Landrum&#8217;s expletive-laden protest against demonstrators trying to deprive black men like him of a living is eloquent testimony to the desperation that normal Americans feel in the face of the crazy race-hatred and chaos that the Left has unleashed in this country.</p>
<p>If righteous explosions like Landrum&#8217;s start breaking out more regularly on the fruited plain, the Left won&#8217;t have a chance.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246160" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2-444x350.jpg" alt="Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2" width="347" height="273" /></a>The riot in Ferguson reminds me, I hate criminals, but I hate liberals more. They planned this riot. They stoked the fire, lied about the evidence and produced a made-to-order riot.</p>
<p>Every other riot I&#8217;ve ever heard of was touched off by some spontaneous event that exploded into mob violence long before any media trucks arrived. This time, the networks gave us a countdown to the riot, as if it were a Super Bowl kickoff.</p>
<p>From the beginning, Officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s shooting of Michael Brown wasn&#8217;t reported like news. It was reported like a cause.</p>
<p>The media are in a huff about the prosecutor being &#8220;biased&#8221; because his father was a cop, who was shot and killed by an African-American. What an assh@le!</p>
<p>Evidently, the sum-total of what every idiot on TV knows about the law is Judge Sol Wachtler&#8217;s 20-year-old joke that a prosecutor could &#8220;indict a ham sandwich.&#8221; We&#8217;re supposed to be outraged that this prosecutor didn&#8217;t indict the ham sandwich of Darren Wilson.</p>
<p>Liberals seem not to understand that they don&#8217;t have a divine right to ruin someone&#8217;s life and bankrupt him with a criminal trial, just so they&#8217;re satisfied.</p>
<p>The reason most grand jury investigations result in an indictment is that most grand juries aren&#8217;t convened solely to patronize racial mobs. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was basically demanding an indictment of Wilson before Big Mike&#8217;s body was cold. It was only because of racial politics that this shooting wasn&#8217;t dismissed without a grand jury, at all.</p>
<p>Obama says anger is an &#8220;understandable reaction&#8221; to the grand jury&#8217;s finding. Why? And why &#8212; as almost everyone is saying &#8212; are we supposed to praise the &#8220;peaceful protests&#8221;?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing to protest! A cop shot a thug who was trying to kill him. The grand jury documents make perfectly clear that Big Mike was entirely responsible for his own death. Can&#8217;t the peaceful protesters read?</p>
<p>The night of the riot, Obama said the law &#8220;often feels as if it is being applied in discriminatory fashion.&#8221; Maybe, but not in this case &#8212; except toward Officer Wilson.</p>
<p>I know liberals were hoping they had finally found the great white whale of racism, but they&#8217;re just going to have to keep plugging away. They might want to come up with a more productive way to spend their time, inasmuch as they&#8217;re about 0:100 on white racism sightings.</p>
<p>Anyone following this case has seen the video of Big Mike robbing a store and roughing up an innocent Pakistani clerk about 10 minutes before being shot by Officer Wilson. They&#8217;ve seen him flashing Bloods gang signs in photos.</p>
<p>They know Brown&#8217;s mother was recently arrested for clubbing grandma with a pipe over T-shirt proceeds. They&#8217;ve seen the video of Brown&#8217;s ex-con stepfather shouting at a crowd of protesters after the grand jury&#8217;s decision: &#8220;Burn this bitch down!&#8221;</p>
<p>Liberals will say none of that is relevant in court, but apparently they don&#8217;t think actual evidence is relevant either. It&#8217;s certainly relevant in the court of public opinion that the alleged victims are a cartoonishly lower-class, periodically criminal black family.</p>
<p>TV hosts narrated the riot by saying it showed &#8220;the community&#8221; feels it&#8217;s not being listened to. Only liberals look at blacks looting and say, See what white Americans made them do?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s their proof of injustice &#8212; look at how blacks are reacting! (While I don&#8217;t approve of the looting part, I do approve of the whole throwing-bottles-at-CNN part.)</p>
<p>The looters aren&#8217;t the community!</p>
<p>The community doesn&#8217;t want black thugs robbing stores and sauntering down the middle of its streets. The community doesn&#8217;t want to be assaulted by Big Mike. The community didn&#8217;t want its stores burned down.</p>
<p>That community testified in support of Officer Darren Wilson. About a half-dozen black witnesses supported Officer Wilson&#8217;s version of what happened. One was a black woman, who saw the shooting from the Canfield Green apartments. Crying on the stand, she said, &#8220;I have a child and that could have been my son.&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet, she confirmed all crucial parts of Wilson&#8217;s account. She said &#8220;the child&#8221; (292-pound Big Mike) never had his hands up and the cop only fired when &#8220;the baby&#8221; was coming at him. &#8220;Why won&#8217;t that boy stop?&#8221; she asked her husband.</p>
<p>I always want to know more about the heroic black witnesses. They are put in a position no white person will ever be in and do the right thing by telling the truth &#8212; then go into hiding from &#8220;the community&#8221; being championed by goo-goo liberals.</p>
<p>White people don&#8217;t feel any obligation to defend some thug just because he&#8217;s white. Only blacks are expected to lie on behalf of criminals of their own race.</p>
<p>But real heroism doesn&#8217;t interest liberals. They only ooh-and-ahh over blacks with rap sheets. The only meaningful white racism anymore is the liberal infantilization of black people.</p>
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		<title>Obama and the Roots of the Ferguson Rage</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246094 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992-450x337.jpg" alt="ap_ferguson_4_kb_141125_2_4x3_992" width="362" height="271" /></a>And so the whirlwind, cultivated by Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, the mainstream media and the army of thugs they enabled, is now being reaped. As the result of a St. Louis County grand jury <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/24/ferguson-grand-jury-deliberations/19474907/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">refusing</span></a> to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO has become Ground Zero, in what irresponsible Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadali <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/24/State-Senator-This-Is-St-Louis-Race-War"><span style="color: #1255cc;">referred</span></a> to on MSNBC as “St. Louis’s race war.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One of the race war’s architects <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848308/Obama-begs-calm-rioters-set-fires-attack-police-cars-Ferguson-grand-jury-refuses-indict-police-officer-Michael-Brown-case.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">pleaded for calm</span></a> shortly after the decision was announced. Yet even as Obama spoke about that &#8220;need for calm” and that there was “no excuse for violence,” he insisted, “We have to try to understand&#8221; the anger of those who demanded nothing less than a murder charge absent an ounce of evidence as an &#8220;understandable reaction&#8221; from people who believe &#8220;the law is being applied in a discriminatory fashion.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Where did those people get that belief? Leave it to Obama to omit that critical information &#8212; the same President Obama who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/groups-in-ferguson-prepare-for-grand-jury-decision.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> with protest leaders and Sharpton on Nov. 5 at the White House. It was at that unscheduled meeting the president was ostensibly &#8220;concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating,&#8221; according to Sharpton. &#8220;He said he hopes that we’re doing all we can to keep peace.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to marvel at one of two realities. Either we have a president so utterly naive he believes a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/sharpton-cant-admit-tawana-brawley-hoax/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">hoax-perpetrating</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/rev-al-caught-protest-tape-called-mart-owner-white-interloper-article-1.693222"><span style="color: #1255cc;">riot-inciting</span></a> Al Sharpton, who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/al-sharpton-high-alert-ferguson-decision/story?id=27025757"><span style="color: #1255cc;">denigrated</span></a> the grand jury process, <i>pre</i>-organized <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/heres-agitator-al-sharpton-just-revealed-will-spread-protests-far-beyond-ferguson/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">protest rallies</span></a> in 25 American cities, and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/25/al-sharpton-s-conflicting-roles-in-the-trayvon-martin-case.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">uses</span></a> his MSNBC platform to fire up racial unrest, is a man of peace. Or the president, who once <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/25/obama-tells-latinos-to-punish-our-enemies-the-gop/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">urged</span></a> his Latino followers to “punish our enemies,” remains as wedded to the same racial &#8220;us against them&#8221; mentality as America’s foremost racial arsonist. Is it really possible to believe the former?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite Obama&#8217;s superficial condemnations of violence, at least 25 businesses were set ablaze, many of which are total losses—and most of which were <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/25/Most-Businesses-Destroyed-in-Ferguson-Minority-Owned"><span style="color: #1255cc;">minority owned</span></a>.  Ten cars were burned at a dealership, and a &#8220;lot of gunfire,” as Ferguson Asst. Fire Chief Steve Fair put it, made maintaining control of the streets highly problematic, if not impossible. Reporters were <a href="http://deadline.com/2014/11/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-verdict-networks-cut-primetime-1201292322/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assaulted</span></a>, the store Michael Brown robbed prior to his confrontation with Wilson was <a href="http://deadline.com/2014/11/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-verdict-networks-cut-primetime-1201292322/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">looted</span></a>, and at least 61 people have been <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/in-ferguson-police-cars-businesses-on-fire-much-worse-than/article_47fc89b3-b0d2-5c41-a1fa-f4636673aac0.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">arrested</span></a>. “What I&#8217;ve seen tonight is probably much worse than the worst night we ever had in August, and that&#8217;s truly unfortunate,” said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar Monday at a 1:30 a.m press conference. Belmar further noted that there was “nothing left” along West Florissant between Solway Avenue and Chambers Road, that he heard at least 150 gun shots, and that he was surprised he and Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who “got lit up,” as they drove through the area, weren’t hit by that gunfire.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“We talked about peaceful protest, and that did not happen tonight,” Johnson said. &#8220;We definitely have done something here that&#8217;s going to impact our community for a long time&#8230;that&#8217;s not how we create change.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sharpton continued to stir the pot, criticizing <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/prosecutor-democrat_819853.html">Democratic</a></span> Prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s handling of the case, and <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/25/sharpton-grand-jury-announcement-an-absolute-blow/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">demanding</span></a> to know who voted for or against indicting Wilson, even though the law prohibits that information from being released. Sharpton’s motives are transparent. The grand jury was <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/24/366370100/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-michael-brown-case"><span style="color: #1255cc;">comprised</span></a> of nine white and three black jurors, seven of whom were men, and five of whom were women. Agreement by nine of 12 jurors was necessary to file criminal charges, and there is no doubt Sharpton was attempting to exacerbate the racial divide with the implication that race was the over-riding, if not sole, factor in the decision.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The grand jury <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-case-of-ferguson-officer/2014/11/24/de48e7e4-71d7-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> 25 times over the course of three months and heard testimony from 60 witnesses. They contemplated charges ranging from first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter, and the bar for indictment was &#8220;probable cause,&#8221; not the far more onerous standard of determining &#8220;beyond a reasonable doubt” whether a crime had been committed. A plethora of evidence from the proceedings was released, demonstrating how the jury came to the conclusions it did. It included testimony from Wilson himself, physical evidence, and other eyewitness testimony, including some from black Americans who corroborated Wilson’s version of events. ”They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against Officer Wilson, and returned a ‘No True Bill’ on each of the five indictments,” <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/24/ferguson-police-officer-darren-wilson-not-indicted/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explained</span></a> McCulloch.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">None of it mattered to the mob—or seemingly the media either. McCulloch faced a hostile press during his post-announcement interview, one that has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/bob-mcculloch-ferguson_n_6215986.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">characterized</span></a> that interview as “bizarre,” no doubt in response to his contention the media&#8217;s &#8220;insatiable appetite for something, for anything to talk about, following closely behind with the non-stop rumors on social media,” contributed to the firestorm surrounding this case.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same media that initially lionized Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, whose thoroughly debunked eyewitness testimony about Brown being <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michael-brown-and-dorian-johnson-the-friend-who-witnessed-his-shooting/2014/08/31/bb9b47ba-2ee2-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">shot in the back</span></a> while holding his hands up in surrender, epitomized the sensationalism that ignited the national firestorm. Johnson’s lie propelled much of the violence and unrest that followed, initiating the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” meme that remains prevalent to this day. It was the same media that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/15/Robbery-Tape-Humiliates-Media-Gentle-Giant-Narrative"><span style="color: #1255cc;">perpetrated</span></a> the “gentle giant” meme to <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/18943-ferguson-s-michael-brown-the-tall-tale-of-the-gentle-giant"><span style="color: #0433ff;">describe</span></a> the 6’4’’ nearly 300-pound Brown, only to see it undone by his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z5-H8NSGA"><span style="color: #1255cc;">participation</span></a> in a strong-arm robbery of a much smaller store owner just prior to his confrontation with Wilson. It was the media who <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/doj_denounces_irresponsible_leaks_in_ferguson_police_shooting_case"><span style="color: #1255cc;">leaked</span></a> information during the grand jury proceedings, drawing a rebuke from an “exasperated” Holder, despite the reality that <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shakeup-ferguson-police-force-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">MSNBC</span></a>, The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=2"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>New York Times</i></span></a> and the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/eric-holder-to-ferguson-leakers-shut-up-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Daily Caller</span></a> all cited the administration and the Justice Department itself as sources of those leaks. That would be the same Eric Holder who ginned up mistrust of the police when he spoke to 50 community leaders, not just as Attorney General of the United States, but “as a black man” who remembers how “angry&#8221; he was when police stopped him for speeding on the New Jersey Turnpike.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would also be the same Eric Holder, who like his efforts in the Trayvon Martin case, initiated <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848622/Federal-investigation-Ferguson-cops-ongoing-says-Attorney-General-Holder.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">two separate</span></a> DOJ investigations, one of potential civil rights violations allegedly committed by Wilson, and the other regarding practices of the Ferguson police force. &#8220;While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department’s investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing,” he said. &#8220;In addition, the Department continues to investigate allegations of unconstitutional policing patterns or practices by the Ferguson Police Department.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for social media, the Twitterverse is currently <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/11/25/twitter-lynch-mob-calls-for-murder-of-officer-darren-wilson/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">inundated</span></a> with calls for the murder of Officer Wilson.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it is unsurprising the protests have spread beyond Ferguson. In Oakland, CA, hundreds of protesters bearing signs that read &#8220;The People Say Guilty!&#8221; and &#8220;Missouri, Palestine, Justice Now!” (an illuminating linkage to say the least) <a href="http://abc7news.com/news/group-marches-on-i-580-to-protest-ferguson-decision/409119/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">blocked</span></a> a major highway and other streets, starting fires, breaking the window of a bank, and spray painting a police cruiser with graffiti. In New York City, three bridges were <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/thousands-rally-ferguson-decision-article-1.2022628"><span style="color: #1255cc;">blocked</span></a>, there were marchers in Times Square and the Police Commissioner had fake blood thrown at him. A total of 90 cities across the nation were <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848203/Protesters-gather-90-cities-U-S-grand-jury-decides-Officer-Darren-Wilson-won-t-charged-death-Michael-Brown.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">besieged</span></a> by protesters who were seemingly united by a trio of themes: Michael Brown was innocent, Darren Wilson was guilty, and police departments deliberately and disproportionately target black America.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And once again, a mainstream media still interested in fanning the racialist flames is leading the way. The same CNN that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/19/damned-if-they-do-tapper-rips-ferguson-police"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ripped</span></a> the heavy police presence in Ferguson last August is the CNN whose morning co-anchor Michaela Pereira <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/11/25/ferguson-riot-media-live-blog"><span style="color: #1255cc;">spoke</span></a> about the community’s &#8220;frustration the police didn&#8217;t do more to protect those businesses.” Vox columnist Ezra Klein, who apparently considers himself more knowledgable than the grand jury, penned a column whose title says it all: “Officer Darren Wilson’s story is unbelievable. Literally.” Why? &#8220;None of this fits with what we know of Michael Brown,” Klein <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/11/25/7281165/darren-wilsons-story-side"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insists</span></a>, even as he admits the encounter with Wilson happened shortly after the aforementioned robbery. <a href="http://salon.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Salon.com</span></a> pushed the envelope to the max, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/206293-lib-rag-salon-calls-america-a-white-supremacist-state-over-ferguson-decision/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">declaring</span></a> the jury’s decision “reaffirmed what we already knew: America is a white supremacist state.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even Brown’s immediate family, who initially <a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/ferguson-verdict-grand-jury-decides-not-to-charge-darren-wilson-over-killing-michael-brown/story-fnh81jut-1227134388237"><span style="color: #1255cc;">expressed</span></a> “profound disappointment with the decision, but asked that the protests “be kept peaceful,” had their wishes <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056"><span style="color: #1255cc;">undermined</span></a> by stepfather Louis Head. Shortly after the decision was reached, he urged the crowd 10 times to “burn this bitch down.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those four words aptly describe the agenda of those with a vested interest in keeping Americans divided, angry and completely convinced the nation is a cesspool of racism where law enforcement must be considered the “enemy.” A nation where there are no longer irrefutable facts backed by witnesses and evidence, but a nation where reason and truth can only be determined after the filter of race is applied. One where the narrative must be served, even when that narrative assumes the characteristics of a lynch mob calling for the death of a police officer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a narrative that dismisses the reality of a disproportionate amount of <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">homicides</span></a> and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/family-secret-what-the-left-wont-tell-you-about-bl/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">other crimes</span></a> committed by black Americans (overwhelmingly against other black Americans) relative to their population, even as it has <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-01-17/news/0601170177_1_black-men-countdown-kimberly-jones"><span style="color: #1255cc;">long glorified</span></a> the thug culture that engenders most of it. It is the narrative that <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/new-black-panthers.jpg"><span style="color: #1255cc;">demands</span></a> police forces who “reflect the racial demography of the community,” even as many black Americans have been &#8220;taught from the time that you could speak, from the time that you could understand speech, that police are to be feared and that they’re part of an occupying force that is there to circumvent the democratic processes and to strip you of your rights,” <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/14/achieving-diversity-among-police-ranks-not-easy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">according</span></a> to Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Saddest of all, it is the narrative supported by a president whose track record extends from his past with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his racist rantings and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assertions</span></a> the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” when they arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to his efforts to exacerbate racial discord <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/19/obama-goes-full-race-baiter/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">during and after</span></a> the Trayvon Martin saga. He is joined by an Attorney General who believes Americans are a “nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race, one who insists voter ID is <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-holder-voter-id-used-to-depress-the-vote-of-people-who-dont-support-gop/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">tantamount</span></a> to “black disenfranchisement,” and continues to run the most racially polarized DOJ in recent history.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even worse, both men have <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-headline-al-sharptons-nan-conference"><span style="color: #1255cc;">unduly elevated</span></a> the status of race huckster Al Sharpton, showing up at National Action Network (NAN) galas to sing his praises. That odious reality is tantamount to a Republican president showing up at a meeting of the <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/52672"><span style="color: #1255cc;">European-American Unity and Rights Organization</span></a> and singing the praises of its white supremacist founder, David Duke. The fact that such as comparison is never made obscures the depths of the racial polarization embraced by the nations’s top two law enforcement officials. It is both an ongoing tragedy and a national disgrace that will only be assuaged when Sharpton and every other person who profits from the misery of millions is ejected from the national stage.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Until then, America will seethe. Well-meaning Americans on both sides of the color line will tread warily, remaining ultimately distrustful of each other, lest they be branded sellouts to “the cause.&#8221; The mob and its media enablers will continue to foment violence, looting, death and destruction, based largely on the notion that such mayhem is a “reasonable” price to be extracted from an irredeemably racist nation in need of “fundamental transformation.” One family will mourn for a son who could not resist the siren song of thug culture, while another family will continue to live in terror perhaps forever, or at least until the mob finds another bogeyman at whom it can channel its orchestrated blood-lust. The thin blue line that separates America from the anarchists will be stretched to its limits.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And the promise of a post-racial society that once propelled this president into the White House now more closely resembles the division and racialist bean-counting that epitomizes the community organizer mindset. In short, hope and change is going up in flames in Ferguson, MO.</p>
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		<title>The Ferguson Days of Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why violence will be the outcome in the St. Louis suburb whether Wilson is indicted or not.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245585" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-mike-brown-450x300.jpg" alt="ferguson-mike-brown" width="333" height="222" /></a>This week, America held its collective breath as it waited on the grand jury indictment verdict for Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson, you&#8217;ll recall, had the misfortune to run into 6&#8217;5&#8243;, 289-lb. Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who had just finished strong-arm robbing a convenience store. Wilson pulled Brown over as he and his accomplice walked in the middle of the street; all available evidence shows that Brown then pushed himself through the driver&#8217;s side window, punched Wilson, went for his gun, was shot in the hand, ran, turned around, charged Wilson, and was shot to death.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t matter. And it has never mattered. Because facts do not matter to those attempting to rectify what they perceive as an unjust universe. For those utopian visionaries &#8211; and, yes, violent thugs who rob stores are minions of the utopian visionaries — individuals do not exist. Individuals are merely stand-ins for groups. Wilson was a white cop; therefore, he was the Racist White Establishment. Brown was a black teenager; therefore, he was the Innocent Black Victim. The parts have already been written; Wilson was merely unlucky enough to land the starring role.</p>
<p>And so we expect riots no matter what the outcome of the indictment. Should Wilson escape indictment due to complete lack of evidence, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will attribute that acquittal to the Racist White Establishment. Should he be indicted, the utopians and their rioting henchmen will cite Wilson as merely the latest example of the Racist White Establishment. No matter the antecedent, the consequence has been determined in advance: rage, riots, recriminations.</p>
<p>If all of this sounds familiar, that&#8217;s because it is.</p>
<p>Alongside the anti-Racist White Establishment protesters taking to the streets in Ferguson in recent weeks, anti-Israel and pro-ISIS protesters have appeared. All utopian visionaries fighting the status quo — self-perceived victims — love their Days of Rage. And these Ragers don&#8217;t require evidence to incite their emotions. Evidence regarding individuals is for the reasonable; false stories of victims and villains are the fodder for Ragers.</p>
<p>Whether we&#8217;re watching thousands of Muslims across the world protest and riot over cartoons of Mohammed, or whether we&#8217;re watching hundreds of people in Ferguson riot over a media-manufactured story about a racial killing, Days of Rage provide the outlet for delusional anger. Radical Muslims need an external enemy to justify their own brutality; protesters in Ferguson need an external enemy to justify their own failure to make good in the freest country in the history of humanity.</p>
<p>Every society has its Ragers. The West&#8217;s suicidal impulse to humor those Ragers, however, spells the end of the West. When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn&#8217;t value truth cannot survive. Calling out the National Guard in Ferguson while lending a sympathetic ear to the Ragers does little good, long-term. It merely staves off the inevitable surrender of the reasonable to the Ragers.</p>
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		<title>Racial Quota Punishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's war on discipline in education -- and who really suffers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2512878_orig.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245404" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2512878_orig-450x337.jpg" alt="2512878_orig" width="332" height="249" /></a>If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.</p>
<p>Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.</p>
<p>Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in each of the following years. In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.</p>
<p>If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.</p>
<p>When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one set of students gets punished more than others is because the people who are doing the punishing are picking on them?</p>
<p>Politically — which is the way the Obama administration looks at everything — any time they can depict blacks as victims, and depict themselves as their rescuers, that means an opportunity to get out the black vote for Democrats.</p>
<p>On the surface, this may look like a favor to blacks. But only on the surface.</p>
<p>Anyone with common sense knows that letting a kid get away with bad behavior is an open invitation to worse behavior in the future. Punishing a kid for misbehavior in school when he is 10 years old may reduce the chances that he will have to be sent to prison when he is 20 years old.</p>
<p>Other schools in other cities, which have also caved under pressure from the federal government, and agreed to lighten up on black kids who misbehave, have reported an increase in misbehavior, including violence.</p>
<p>Who would have thought otherwise?</p>
<p>Letting kids who are behavior problems in schools grow up to become hoodlums and then criminals is no favor to them or to the black community. Moreover, it takes no more than a small fraction of troublemakers in a class to make it impossible to give that class a decent education. And for many poor people, whether black or white, education is their one big chance to escape poverty.</p>
<p>The people in the Obama administration who are pushing this counterproductive policy are not stupid. They are political, which is worse. They know what they are doing and they are willing to sacrifice young blacks to do it.</p>
<p>This punishment issue made me think back to the 8th grade, when I was punished by being kept after school, more often than any other kid in the class — black, white, Hispanic or whatever. I was bored in school and did various pranks to liven things up.</p>
<p>One day, after school, as I sat alone among the empty chairs in the classroom, the teacher said, sarcastically: &#8220;Well, here we are again, Sowell, just the two of us!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Good grief, Miss Sharoff,&#8221; I said. &#8220;If we keep staying in after school together all the time, people will begin to talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will just have to live with the scandal,&#8221; she said, without even looking up from the papers she was correcting.</p>
<p>Thank heaven there was no Obama administration to exempt me from punishment. Who knows how I might have ended up?</p>
<p>Years ago, there was a study of a working class community where there were black, Hispanic and Italian kids, and where many of the cops were Italian. When a black or Hispanic kid broke the law, the police took him down to the station and booked him. But, if an Italian kid did the same thing, they reacted differently.</p>
<p>The Italian cop would take the Italian kid out into an alley and rough him up. Then he would take him home to his family, tell them what had happened and leave him there — where the kid could expect another beating, instead of the wrist-slap punishment of the law. Those cops understood the realities of life that politicians ignore. And they were doing a favor to their own.</p>
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		<title>Life Under the Victimocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest and angriest whiner wins.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/victim.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245171" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/victim.jpg" alt="victim" width="298" height="241" /></a>In America there are two types of people; the oppressed and the oppressors.</p>
<p>The oppressed oppress the oppressors. And everyone including the oppressors agrees that this is only fair because the oppressors deserve to be oppressed. After all they are the oppressors.</p>
<p>They deserve to have the money they earn taken away. They deserve to be sent to the back of the line when applying to a college or looking for a job. They deserve to be beaten, robbed, raped, and taunted with slurs that would lead to national outrage if it were directed at the oppressed.</p>
<p>But they’re the oppressors. They deserve it.</p>
<p>If they complain, they deserve to have their speech censored. They are the oppressors. There’s no telling how much oppression they might dish out if the oppressed don’t keep them down.</p>
<p>That’s just life in the Victimocracy.</p>
<p>With one sob story too many, one whine too great, one more PBS special, special report about the plight of the oppressed and episode of Donahue, the country changed. The oppressors still had the democratic refuge of elections where they could by sheer numbers vote to retain their civil rights, but most of the other mechanisms of governance had ceased to be democratic and instead became victimocratic.</p>
<p>To have real power you had to be a victim or one of their protectors.</p>
<p>The Victimocracy is a lot like any other tyranny. In an aristocracy, power belongs to the nobles, in a theocracy, power belongs to the clergy, in a meritocracy, to anyone with skill and a work ethic.</p>
<p>But in a Victimocracy the biggest and angriest whiner wins.</p>
<p>In a Victimocracy, suffering is the exclusive privilege of the elites. No one else is allowed to suffer except them. No one else has ever been oppressed, has felt pain, been insulted, abused, degraded, enslaved and ground down into the dirt except the very people who are grinding you into the dirt now.</p>
<p>Victimhood is what entitles them to special privileges, it’s what ennobles them as a superior class of people and gives them the right to rule over you. They are the victims. What they say goes.</p>
<p>Victimization is the currency of their power. They have 1/16 Cherokee blood and high cheekbones. They are ‘triggered’ by loud noises and differing opinions. They spent their twenties “coming to terms” with something because of the lack of sitcom role models for their favorite sexual preferences or skin color. They are all survivors of something or other. They were activists and someone once said mean things to them. And if all else fails, they are deeply passionate about the plight of the oppressed.</p>
<p>Like, seriously.</p>
<p>Now stop oppressing them and educate yourself by recognizing their right to oppress you.</p>
<p>The Victimocracy is based around the superior moral power of their suffering. That is why no one else is allowed to suffer except them. Their convoluted theories of social justice eliminate the very possibility that the source of their exclusive moral power can be experienced by anyone else. They have strived to warp language around their political narcissism to define suffering as an experience unique to them.</p>
<p>They will assert, for example, that anti-white racism cannot exist because racism is not interpersonal but a structural product of power relations. Since everyone knows that America is a white male patriarchy, white people cannot be oppressed. They can only be the oppressors. Because of the patriarchy, men cannot be sexually assaulted. Christians cannot be religiously discriminated against. Americans can’t be blown up by Muslims. Any claim otherwise is a lie intended to oppress our oppressed oppressors.</p>
<p>Victimocrats are narcissistically infuriated by the suffering of others. Many tyrannies applied the whip and the lash, the prison cell and the gulag, but they at least left those they abused in possession of their suffering. The Victimocracy denies its victims even their suffering. Victimocrats reject the humanity of their victims as thinking and feeling beings with the same needs and boundaries as themselves.</p>
<p>The Victimocracy rations empathy. Empathy is the election of its system. The biggest victim wins and his suffering licenses his abuses. The bigger the victim, the bigger the abuses he is entitled to commit. If the empathy flows the wrong way, then power shifts and the entire system collapses. To take over a society, the Victimocrats must control its education and entertainment to structure its empathy flow their way.</p>
<p>Victimocrats must appear weak to gain power. They must always seem beleaguered, under siege, abused and threatened from a thousand different directions. They must be made to seem underdogs. Even if a Victimocrat sits in the White House, unilaterally dispensing with the lives and fortunes of a nation with phone and pen, he must remain a vulnerable victim of a terrible history of racism.</p>
<p>The Victimocrat must always be seen as a weak victim in need of rescue from those he oppresses.</p>
<p>Never able to argue a thing on its merits, the Victimocrats shift the debate to the moral high ground of their own oppression.  It is impossible to disagree with them without somehow invoking stereotypes, flashbacks and the return of the white male patriarchy riding back into town on the last thing you said.</p>
<p>The Victimocrats are always in need of rescuing. No matter how much power they have, someone is always abusing them. And once that happens people of good will are called upon to condemn the abuse and to reinforce their power structure of the oppressed oppressor and the oppressive oppressed.</p>
<p>Victimocrats don’t win arguments. They convince others that they are entitled to avoid the argument.</p>
<p>In the Victimocracy the illusion of weakness is power. The weak are entitled to disproportionate power to protect themselves from the rest of us. The weaker they are, the more power they need. And the more power they get, the weaker they grow until we live under a tyranny of the absolutely powerless who wield absolute power.</p>
<p>Sometimes the oppressors wonder where their incredible power is supposed to be. They don’t have all that much money and no one seems to have taught them the secret handshake that will unlock the heavy iron doors of the heteronormative patriarchy where the patriarchal plutocrats sit around the table drinking the tears of Obama, Oprah and various Hollywood celebrities from human skulls.</p>
<p>Their oppressors tell them about their privilege, an invisible power to oppress others that they never even knew they had, but the privilege never really explains why they have to work harder, die sooner and be berated constantly for even existing. And they die and their oppressors take what they have.</p>
<p>There is no end to the oppression because the Victimocracy has to grow. America is always more bigoted than it was last year because the Victimocrats need more power this year. The more oppressed Americans become, the more they must be denounced for victimizing all the nice people running their lives and robbing them blind.</p>
<p>The Victimocracy rules by manufacturing an urgent crisis of oppression. It demands special measures to deal with the crisis. The temporary measures become permanent. Rolling them back would be an act of oppression. The permanent measures turn out to be insufficient. They must be redoubled.</p>
<p>Each Victimocrat victory is “a significant step forward” but there is always “more work to be done.”</p>
<p>And like all lust for power, the work never ends.</p>
<p>The oppressed want more. The oppressors make do with less. The protectors of the oppressed, who actually run the Victimocracy, announce that more speech must be censored, more wealth redistributed and more must be made unequal to achieve equality. A better world is around the corner, but first the one we have must be destroyed. Only when the balance shifts permanently and the new world is born, will the oppressors be allowed to see for the first time that they had been the oppressed all along.</p>
<p>And then it will be too late.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<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>Judge Rejects the &#8216;Disparate Impact&#8217; Fraud</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General hopeful Tom Perez's race-based justice scheme surfers a major setback. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-244578 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327-450x262.jpg" alt="113_2014_thomas-perez8201_c0-112-3670-2251_s561x327" width="352" height="205" /></a>On Monday, one of the Obama administration’s foremost racial arsonists was given his comeuppance by a federal judge. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, who is on the American left’s short list for replacing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, was informed by Judge Richard J. Leon that his effort to find housing discrimination where none existed <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/222690-judge-tosses-hud-discrimination-rule"><span style="color: #1255cc;">amounted</span></a> to “wishful thinking on steroids.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez sought to apply the policy of “disparate impact” to housing. Judicial Watch <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-sues-hud-for-records-of-obama-administration-involvement-in-controversial-minnesota-new-jersey-disparate-impact-discrimination-cases/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a> this contemptible concept. &#8220;Under the theory of &#8216;disparate impact,&#8217; a defendant can be held liable for discrimination for a race-neutral policy that <i>statistically</i> disadvantages a specific minority group even if that negative ‘impact&#8217; was neither foreseen nor intended,” they write. &#8220;In such cases, defendants can be forced to pay for harm caused not by their own actions, but by economic and statistical realities, even if beyond their control.” (italics original)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leon wasn’t buying it. He characterized the attempt to legitimize disparate impact as a vehicle to expand the possibility of filing discrimination cases as “hutzpah (sic) (bordering on desperation).” “This is yet another example of an administrative agency trying desperately to write into law that which Congress never intended to sanction,” he wrote, adding that the arguments made by Obama administration attorneys were “nothing less than an artful misinterpretation” of the law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The law to which Leon referred is the <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/FHLaws/yourrights"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Fair Housing Act</span></a>, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In February 2013, HUD <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/281997-hud-finalizes-discriminatory-lending-rules-opposed-by-financial-industry"><span style="color: #1255cc;">made</span></a> disparate impact a policy tool, one the administration employed to build discriminatory cases against mortgage lending institutions that garnered them hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In July of that year, Wells Fargo paid a $175 million settlement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the bank of discriminating against thousands black and Hispanic borrowers—based on loan analyses made by the bank and its independent brokers from the years 2004 and 2009. Wells Fargo admitted no wrongdoing, claiming it was settling to avoid even costlier litigation expenses. That windfall was topped by a record-setting $335 million settlement made by Bank of America in 2011, following allegations of discrimination by Countrywide Lending, purchased by Bank of America in 2008. Once again the feds used disparate impact to allege that minority borrowers had received less favorable borrowing terms than whites.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez is an <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/051211-572091-holders-anti-bank-witch-hunt.htm?p=2"><span style="color: #1255cc;">old hand</span></a> at this shakedown racket. In 2011, the DOJ created the Fair Lending Unit staffed with more than 20 lawyers, economists and statisticians, determined to ferret out discriminatory lending practices at the more than 60 banks that were targeted at the time. The man in charge of that division was Special Counsel for Fair Lending Eric Halperin. Halperin ultimately answered to none other than Tom Perez, who headed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same Tom Perez who compared bankers to KKK Klansmen, insisting the only difference between the two groups was that bankers discriminate &#8220;with a smile&#8221; and &#8220;fine print,” but were nonetheless &#8220;every bit as destructive as the cross burned in a neighborhood.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would also be the same Tom Perez who in 2010 <a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/06/23/perez-calls-for-reining-in-wild-wild-west-in-lending/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">railed</span></a> against the housing meltdown &#8220;fueled in large part by risky and irresponsible lending practices that allowed too many Americans to get unsustainable or unaffordable home loans.” It was then he promised that once the Fair Housing Unit was up and running, it &#8220;will use every tool in our arsenal, including, but not limited to, disparate impact theory.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez is determined to protect disparate impact theory from being adjudicated by the Supreme Court. On Nov. 7, 2011 the Court agreed to hear <i>Magner</i> v. <i>Gallagher, </i>a case about racial discrimination in housing. As the Weekly Standard <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/thomas-perez-makes-deal_724692.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a>, a Supreme Court decision on the theory was utterly anathema to Perez, whose effort to make the case “go away” became his self-admitted “top priority.” The case was about several property owners who alleged that St. Paul, Minnesota’s ramped up enforcement of the city’s housing code for rental units reduced the availability of low-income rentals, creating a disparate impact affecting black Americans. The district court tossed the suit, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated it, complete with the concept of disparate impact. The city appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, which was poised to decide for the first time whether disparate impact cases pursued under the auspices of the Fair Housing Act can be brought before the courts.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez, who has referred to disparate impact as the “lynchpin” of his civil rights agenda, didn’t want to take that chance. He managed to get the city to drop its case from the Supreme Court docket. Judicial Watch provided some of the sordid details, noting they had obtained documents &#8220;under the Minnesota Data Practices Act, showing that St. Paul City Attorney Sara Grewing arranged a meeting between the then-chief of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, current Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and Mayor Chris Coleman a week before the city’s withdrawal from the case, captioned <i>Magner v. Gallagher</i>. Following Perez’s visit, the city withdrew its case and thanked DOJ and officials at HUD for their involvement.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In June of 2013, the Supreme Court agreed to hear another case revolving around disparate impact. <i>Township of Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens</i> concerned the town’s efforts to redevelop a blighted neighborhood. A group of renters <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323566804578551270111594516"><span style="color: #1255cc;">filed suit</span></a> alleging the move violated the FHA because the majority of the renters were non-white and they were unable to afford the new mid-priced, single-family dwellings. The district court dismissed the argument ruling all the renters were equally affected. The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed that ruling, basing their decision on disparate impact.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Once again Perez prevailed, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mount-holly-settlement-spares-fair-housing-act-for-now"><span style="color: #1255cc;">getting</span></a> Mt. Holly to drop the case, and once again preventing the Supreme Court from issuing a ruling on disparate impact.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Judge Leon noticed. In a stunning rebuke of Perez himself, Leon accused the Labor Secretary of gaming the system, timing cases and arranging the aforementioned settlements he found “particularly troubling.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It ought to trouble every American that the Obama administration remains determined to codify racial discrimination based on the idea that statistics can be a viable substitute for actual intent. To image how absurd this theory truly is, one need only apply it to the National Basketball Association where a “disproportionate&#8221; number of black American athletes, relative to the percentage of the nations’s overall population, earn a living.  Should white college basketball players who weren’t drafted by the NBA be able to file a lawsuit alleging discrimination, based on nothing more than that statistical discrepancy? Absent the necessity of proving intent to discriminate, the power of the government to file discrimination charges become virtually unlimited.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leon noted there was nothing in the wording of the FHA or anything he read regarding Congress’s intent when it passed the FHA that supported HUD’s interpretation of the law. He further noted that complying with disparate impact theories would force various entities to compile information on a number of factors, including race, religion, gender, etc., that those entities are often banned from obtaining under state law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perez may be forced to work overtime yet again. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear <i>Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project.</i> State officials have been <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/texas-housing-bias-case-gets-u-s-supreme-court-review.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sued</span></a> by the Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas-based group advocating integrated housing. The ICP alleges the state allocated a disproportionate number of federal low-income housing tax credits to minority neighborhoods, a practice that “makes dwellings unavailable in particular areas, thereby perpetuating residential segregation in the Dallas area,” the group said in court papers. The federal appeals court that ruled in favor of the plaintiffs is one of 11 that have determined the Fair Housing Act allows disparate-impact claims. Texas officials, led by Attorney General Greg Abbott, are eager to have the Supreme Court hear the case. “The far-reaching scope of disparate-impact liability makes this a question of exceptional importance,” they said in their appeal.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Equal Credit Opportunity Act used to hammer Wells Fargo and Bank of America may also be affected by the ruling. Miami attorney Paul Hancock, who filed a brief backing the Lone Star state on behalf of business groups led by the American Bankers Association, illuminated the implications if the Court decides to leave the theory of disparate impact intact. “It really pushes more toward advancement of racial quotas as the only way to avoid legal claims,” he said in a phone interview.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Disparate impact may do <i>far</i> more than that. After the election, the Obama administration intends to push its “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” agenda. It requires HUD to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/obama-administration-using-housing-department-to-compel-diversity-in/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">gather data</span></a> on segregation and discrimination. That data that will be used to racially diversify every city and suburb in America, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/26/obamas-plans-for-a-secret-radical-agenda-after-the-elections/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">superseding</span></a> all local zoning ordinances and forcing those cities and suburbs to accept subsidized housing. “Geospatial data” will pinpoint alleged segregation hotspots that will be forced to comply with HUD&#8217;s efforts to racially balance the entire nation. &#8220;Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. This is simply wrong,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan when he unveiled the federal rule at the NAACP convention in July.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That’s nothing less than an <i>exponential expansion</i> of the disparate impact theory.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By the time you read this, it is likely we will know which party controls the Senate. If it is Republicans, one of the first orders of business should be making it clear that Tom Perez’s chance of succeeding Eric Holder are zero. It will send a clear message that racial huckstering based on dubious legal theories will no longer be tolerated. After that, pruning as many race-addled zealots from HUD as possible would be a nice follow up.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumored attorney general replacement Tom Perez would be an Eric Holder clone -- or worse. ]]></description>
				<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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		<title>Eric Holder, A Legacy of Race-Based Radicalism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's body man calls it quits.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241853" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold-413x350.jpg" alt="hold" width="291" height="247" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder is at long last relinquishing his cabinet post after nearly six unprecedented, catastrophic years of racial demagoguery and gangsterism.</p>
<p>Holder, who announced yesterday that he will leave office when a replacement is selected, will leave behind what is probably the most ugly and toxic legacy of any attorney general ever in the history of the republic.</p>
<p>Although he has all the moral authority of disbarred Duke Lacrosse prosecutor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Nifong%20Disbarred%20Now%20How%20About%20Some.html">Mike Nifong</a>, Holder knows he is immune to criticism because he is black and a radical leftist. He is a protected, pampered member of the ruling class and his arrogance knows no bounds. He ignores court orders and gives congressional overseers the finger.</p>
<p>Holder has transformed the U.S. Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, an intensive care unit for kooky, authoritarian ideas that should have died after the 1960s. The DoJ, especially its rotten, totally corrupt Civil Rights Division, is a lawyerly commune for revolutionaries who oppose the very idea of the rule of law. Critical Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory govern much of what goes on in the department.</p>
<p>It is no exaggeration to say that Holder leaves death and destruction behind after saturation-bombing the Constitution, orchestrating criminal activity in order to whip up public support for policy changes, fomenting racial tension and violence, persecuting political opponents and disfavored industries, obstructing justice, and enforcing laws arbitrarily and capriciously and in a manner calculated to benefit his friends and allies.</p>
<p>It was all too predictable. Holder was the official assigned to vet President Bill Clinton&#8217;s 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. Among those pardoned were former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. He was deeply involved in Clinton&#8217;s pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists. Holder is an archetype, a living, breathing embodiment of American political corruption.</p>
<p>&#8220;The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law,&#8221; <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/25/goodbye-eric-and-goodridance/?singlepage=true">says</a> <em>Injustice</em> author J. Christian Adams, a lawyer who used to work at the DoJ.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm. Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder’s time in office &#8220;represents the beginnings of a post-Constitutional era, where the chief law enforcement officer of the United States serves to dismantle legal traditions,&#8221; according to Adams.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Holder is the first attorney general to whom law seemed to be an option, a suggestion on the way to a progressive future. Most folks, and most lawyers, who didn’t devote daily attention to him might not have noticed the ground shifting during his tenure. But shift it did, and very deliberately.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Activism, as opposed to enforcing the law, is the proper role of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, according to Holder. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” he pontificated earlier this year.</p>
<p>Holder is about race, race, and race. It&#8217;s what gets him up in the morning. His sick fixation on skin color is notable even in an administration jam-packed with racial obsessives and identity politics-driven Marxists. He brands those who oppose him as racists. This is usually enough to shut up most Republican lawmakers.</p>
<p>Holder has called America “essentially a nation of cowards,” because most Americans don’t share his radical left-wing multiculturalist views on race.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation’s history, this is in some ways understandable…. This nation has still not come to grips with its racial past … ”</p></blockquote>
<p>So America remains a deeply racist nation, just as 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>As attorney general, Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party members who openly brandished weapons at a Philadelphia polling station in 2008 in order to intimidate white voters. He also refused to enforce electoral integrity laws and ferociously opposes voter ID laws because he alleges they discriminate against minorities. He supports affirmative action programs, which by definition, of course, are racist because they discriminate against white Americans. He stood behind the egregious &#8220;Pigford&#8221; settlement, a vote-buying scheme that handed out government cash to black farmers whether or not they suffered discrimination at the hands of federal agriculture officials.</p>
<p>Justice isn&#8217;t blind with Holder. It has rose-colored eyeglasses.</p>
<p>Under Holder, the Department of Justice sent taxpayer-paid community organizers down to Sanford, Florida, to generate mobs to agitate against the so-called white Hispanic, George Zimmerman, since-acquitted of the murder of black juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin. The agency has done the same thing in the case of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man shot dead after accosting a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Of course, Holder is the first black U.S. attorney general, a fact he loves to repeat over and over again in speeches and media interviews, as if his race were a <em>bona fide</em> job qualification.</p>
<p>But he is also the first U.S. attorney general in memory to openly declare that he works only to protect the interests of what he calls &#8220;my people,&#8221; or those who share his skin color. White Americans with civil rights complaints are not a priority in Holder&#8217;s Justice Department.</p>
<p>Holder possesses an off-putting 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 that refuses to report on his many, many misdeeds.</p>
<p>Holder is not We The People&#8217;s lawyer. He is a talented political fixer who would be perfectly at home in Al Capone&#8217;s Chicago. He serves as a personal <em>consigliere</em>, or mob lawyer, to President Obama, the highest elected gangster in the land. And he will never double-cross the <em>capo di tutti capi</em>. He will bend and twist any statute into pretzels, torture any legal precedent into obedience, and strong-arm anyone who gets in his way.</p>
<p>Holder is the legal ringleader for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 –the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history– 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 he has committed against the American people.</p>
<p>A formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411 accuses Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal (that reportedly left hundreds of Mexicans and a U.S. border patrolman dead), 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>This morally bankrupt racketeer ought to spend the rest of his life in prison. Probably nothing will happen to him. Rumor around Washington has it that President Obama wants to put Holder on the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Holder ally and professional racial huckster Al Sharpton <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-says-hes-helping-pick-the-next-attorney-general-2014-9">boasts</a> that he is playing a significant role in selecting Holder&#8217;s successor.</p>
<p>He says his so-called civil rights group, the tax-evading National Action Network, is &#8220;engaged in immediate conversations&#8221; with the Obama White House as officials consider a replacement for Holder.</p>
<p>Sharpton drooled over Holder, calling him the &#8220;best&#8221; attorney general ever on civil rights-related issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community,&#8221; said the Jew-hating man who orchestrated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax years ago.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that racial arsonist Sharpton holds Holder in such high regard speaks volumes.</p>
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		<title>Of Racial Delusions and Riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's holding America back from preventing the next Ferguson. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/76934022_76934021.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240121" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/76934022_76934021-450x321.jpg" alt="_76934022_76934021" width="320" height="228" /></a>Last week, as riots in Ferguson, Missouri decrescendoed and the country held its collective breath over the question of the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, rappers Diddy (formerly P. Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy, formerly Sean Combs), 2 Chainz, The Game, and Rick Ross, along with 10 of their fellows, released a song: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Game explained why he felt the necessity to record the song: &#8220;I am a black man with kids of my own that I love more than anything, and I cannot fathom a horrific tragedy like Michael Brown&#8217;s happening to them. This possibility has shaken me to my core.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lyrics of the song speak to a perverse view of race in America — a view reinforced day after day by a media dedicated to the proposition that American law enforcement maliciously targets black men at random. To this point, nobody knows the facts of the case in the Brown shooting. Nonetheless, the rappers label the shooting cold-blooded, first-degree murder. Because facts are unnecessary; only feelings are real. &#8220;God ain&#8217;t put us on the Earth to get murdered, it&#8217;s murder,&#8221; says one rapper, TGT. Another, The Game, raps, &#8220;They killin&#8217; teens, they killin&#8217; dreams, it&#8217;s murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>Next, Diddy launches into a listing of various black men killed under controversial circumstances. Some, like Emmett Till, were murdered in acts of pure and evil racism. But Diddy lumps together Till with Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown — and even Ezell Ford. Last week, the Los Angeles Police Department released the identities of the two police officers who shot Ford. One was Asian; the other was Hispanic. The Huffington Post did not even cover their races. The Los Angeles Times buried that relevant fact in paragraph 13 of their comprehensive story. But again, facts do not matter: Only a feeling of persecution matters.</p>
<p>Then Rick Ross sums up the generalized view of America created by media-stoked racial conflagrations like the Michael Brown situation: &#8220;Black men, we pay the toll, the price is your life, Uncle Sam want a slice, black dress code now we looting in the night, now we throwing Molotovs in this Holocaust.&#8221; A grand total of just under 100 young black men are killed by white police officers each year, according to statistics provided to the FBI by local police.</p>
<p>To compare police treatment of young black men to the Holocaust is not only statistically idiotic, but also morally dangerous.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, that is the view of police for many blacks: police as paramilitary white force out to target black men. When I was recently in the CNN green room with former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones, he and I got to talking about the Ferguson situation. I asked him why he believed there was such a racial gap in the interpretation of the situation. His answer: &#8220;You&#8217;re Jewish, right? Wouldn&#8217;t you jump to conclusions if you heard that the Nazis or Hamas had killed a Jew?&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, not even Van Jones, Diddy, 2 Chainz, and the rest truly believe what they say about the police. All those who spout about a &#8220;Holocaust&#8221; by police against blacks would call 911 in approximately 3.5 seconds if their houses were robbed. But if we truly believe that America&#8217;s police forces are akin to Nazis or Islamic terrorists, there can be no decent solution. Fighting police would be a moral imperative, not a moral evil.</p>
<p>And therein lies the problem. The only real answer to the antipathy between large segments of the black community and police is threefold: first, taking seriously fact-based allegations of racism against the authorities, and investigating and prosecuting such allegations if well-founded; second, not jumping to conclusions about non-fact-based allegations; and third, lowering crime rates among young black men, thereby lowering interactions between police and young black men.</p>
<p>But those are not solutions backed by the racially delusional. Instead, they suggest an unending and circular &#8220;conversation&#8221; about race that goes something like this: Police sometimes shoot young black men; that&#8217;s because police are racist; therefore, those who resist police are not morally unjustified; rinse, wash, repeat.</p>
<p>Sadly, America&#8217;s media backs this second approach. And so we end up with damaging foolishness like &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; infusing our pop culture and the snarky but empty-headed racial guilting of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert invading our news. And nothing gets solved. We just get more hate, more rage and more violence.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about racial preferences in higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239669" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity-442x350.jpg" alt="diversity" width="327" height="259" /></a>Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, <em>My Beloved World</em>. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative action made a difference in her life, and believes it’s still necessary.”</p>
<p>Stephanopoulos continued,</p>
<blockquote><p>“There’s been a lot of scholarly work that says it’s not the best way to insure diversity in schools, and maybe if you focus on where people live, and how much money they make, you can get the same results, in a way that is less fractious.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To which the Justice responded,</p>
<blockquote><p>“…the problem with that answer is that it doesn’t work….it’s not that I don’t believe that it doesn’t work, it’s that the statistics show it doesn’t work.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sotomayor, as you may recall, read a lengthy dissent in Schuette v. Coalition, the case which determined that states may ban racial preferences in higher education – a conclusion Sotomayor vehemently disagreed with.</p>
<p>Unmentioned in this discussion were the words &#8220;quotas&#8221; or &#8220;Bakke.&#8221; After being twice rejected by UC Davis medical school, Allen Bakke sued. His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act.</p>
<p>UC Davis medical school had two separate admissions programs: a regular program, and a special program intended to help disadvantaged students. Applicants to the special program would compete against each other, and would not be compared to regular applicants.  Importantly, the special program accepted applicants with college GPA’s below 2.5.</p>
<p>Ostensibly intended for the disadvantaged of all races, the special program had never accepted a white applicant, although many had applied. Also, racial minorities composed a majority of the committee members who determined admission to the special program. UC Davis also denied that the special admissions program operated as a quota; the Supreme Court disagreed.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court found UC Davis’s admissions scheme to be unconstitutional, and ordered UC Davis to admit Allen Bakke to medical school. The court’s ruling explicitly stated that both quotas and two-tiered systems were unconstitutional &#8212; something confirmed by future Supreme Court rulings.</p>
<p>The court did allow an exception to this general prohibition on the use of race or ethnicity. Colleges could consider race as a factor, if they used it in the same manner as they did other factors. Colleges could not reserve spots for different ethnic or racial groups, but they could consider the value that a student from an under-represented group would bring. This would be the fig leaf that allowed colleges to pursue their racial and ethnic balancing schemes.</p>
<p>At the 2013 University of Michigan “Future of Campus Diversity Symposium,” the fig leaf came right off. Attorney Mark Rosenbaum – fresh from convincing the Sixth Circuit court of appeals that Michigan’s ban on racial preferences violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment – delivered the <i>second </i>keynote address.<i> </i></p>
<p>After telling his audience that “diversity is about how one lives a life,” and “is about respecting the dignity of every single person,” he got down to brass tacks. Bans on racial and gender preferences in higher education had reduced the enrollment numbers of some ethnic and racial groups. According to Rosenbaum, Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in admissions caused African American freshman enrollment to decline from 8.1% to 5.2% at the University of Michigan. “In a state where the number of African American’s are between fifteen and twenty percent,” Rosenbaum informed his audience.</p>
<p>And this isn’t just talk. Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radcliffe studied admissions preferences at both public and private institutions. Although they wouldn’t characterize it this way, their data clearly shows that both public and private institutions employ admissions preferences for the purpose of balancing their racial and ethnic demographics.</p>
<p>When comparing similar applicants to highly selective private schools, being black instead of white is worth the equivalent of 310 extra SAT points, being Hispanic instead of “non-Hispanic white” is worth the equivalent of 130 SAT points, and being Asian instead of white costs you the equivalent of 140 SAT points.</p>
<p>At public institutions, being Hispanic instead of non-Hispanic white doesn’t help your odds much, the equivalent of .3 ACT points. But at these same institutions, being black instead of white increases your odds of acceptance by the equivalent 3.8 ACT points, and being Asian instead of white decreases the odds of acceptance by the equivalent of 3.4 ACT points.</p>
<p>These statistics can only be explained as deliberate efforts at demographic balancing.</p>
<p>The numbers become even more disturbing when one considers social class. At public institutions, socio-economic factors play little role in admissions, but the same cannot be said for private ones. Non-white applicants from lower class backgrounds enjoy considerable class-based affirmative action; not so for whites. Whites are the only group where lower class applicants have less chance at being admitted than middle class applicants; in this case, the numbers are 8% and 28% respectively. For comparisons sake, 81% of lower class, and 50% of middle class, black applicants are accepted.</p>
<p>Elite private institutions, all of which receive federal and state money, offer class-based admissions preferences to every group except one: whites. While offering financial aid and admissions preferences to low-income people of other races, these institutions treat poor white kids as an unwanted financial burden. Imagine the outrage if government benefits granted to everyone else were denied to any other group aside for whites. In his Bakke opinion, Justice Powell specifically cited the denial of surplus food stuffs to African Americans as an example of unequal treatment.</p>
<p>When we debate race-conscious admissions, we have to debate such programs as they exist, not as we would like them to be. When a college administrator says that it is unacceptable for the proportion of under-represented groups to fall below a certain threshold, for all intents and purposes, he is calling for a quota. To those who support these programs, do you support quotas?</p>
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