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		<title>Ben Shapiro: Katy Perry, Cher and Macklemore All Lie About Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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;">TRANSCRIPT:</p>
<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>Justifying the Rioting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rage is not justice.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246395" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg" alt="sd" width="269" height="201" /></a>Rather than denounce the shameful lawlessness demonstrated by many “protesters” demanding “justice” in the wake of the grand jury decision about Officer Darren Wilson, progressives are doubling down by posting rationalizations for the rioting.</p>
<p>Marc Lamont Hill, for example, author of a book on “hip hop pedagogy” who hilariously <a href="http://www.marclamonthill.com/about">describes</a> <em>himself</em> as “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/537112561221517312">tweeted</a>, “The story of ferguson tonight is way bigger than looting or violence. People are angry. People are hurting. They&#8217;re killing us with impunity.” This is nonsense. People don’t loot and burn down neighborhood businesses because they are angry and hurting; they do so because trumped-up racial controversies give a criminal element the cover to commit crimes against business owners who had nothing to do with the controversy. Rioters steal big-screen TVs and Nike sneakers because they’re hurting? Ridiculous. They steal them because they are opportunistic thieves.</p>
<p>The hugely popular Gawker site, in an <a href="http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918">article</a> claiming that “riots are good,” actually argues that “rioting is economically efficient”: “Since state authorities are always and everywhere most concerned about capital and business interests, threatening to impose costs on them via rioting should have a similar impact on police incentives” – by which it means that destructive rioting now supposedly discourages the police from shooting innocent black males later. What it really dissuades economically is businesses starting up or rebuilding in a neighborhood devastated by looters. The costs it imposes are not on the police, but on the victimized local business owners and their employees. But then, celebrity gossip is Gawker’s strong suit, not economics or common sense.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most unintentionally comical defense of rioting is from <em>Mask Magazine</em>, “an online style + living magazine for antagonist youth.” With a title that could have come straight out of the satiric site <em>The Onion</em>, “Hey, Step Back with the Riot Shaming” explains irrationally that “[People of color] are criminals because we are <em>seen as criminals</em>.” [emphasis in original] So, simply being viewed with suspicion causes people to commit crimes? The writer argues (actually, he doesn’t “argue” anything; he just spews a lot of whiny victimhood) that blacks don’t “own” neighborhoods; there <em>are</em> black-owned businesses, he concedes, but in the next breath he claims that “we don’t have shit,” and so apparently it’s all right to loot and burn the black-owned neighborhood businesses that he says blacks don’t have.</p>
<p>Even before the grand jury decision, as early as August right after the shooting of Michael Brown, a site called the New Inquiry put up a piece with the straightforward title, “<a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting/">In Defense of Looting</a>.” It was Marxist, racist agit-prop written by a guy whose bio identifies him as “a member of the punk band Vulture Shit.” Here’s a sample: “Only if you believe that having nice things for free is amoral, if you believe, in short, that the current (white-supremacist, settler-colonialist) regime of property is just, can you believe that looting is amoral in itself.” Here’s another: “Looters are only stealing from the rich owners’ profit margins. Those owners, meanwhile, especially if they own a chain like QuikTrip, steal forty hours every week from thousands of employees who in return get the privilege of not dying for another seven days.” This sounds like easily dismissed, Occupy lunacy, but unfortunately it is representative of the “thinking” of a depressing percentage of young people.</p>
<p>Also in August, the radical Salon.com posted a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/12/in_defense_of_black_rage_michael_brown_police_and_the_american_dream/">piece</a> “in defense of black rage,” in which the writer states about rioting, “I refuse to condemn the folks engaged in these acts, because I respect black rage… How dare people preach and condescend to these people and tell them not to loot, not to riot? Yes, those are destructive forms of anger, but frankly I would rather these people take their anger out on property and products rather than on other people.”</p>
<p>But what Salon and other riot apologists refuse to acknowledge is that those products and property don’t exist in a vacuum; they belong to people who had nothing to do with the controversy and yet whose lives are seriously damaged, and in some cases ruined, by the looting and burning of that property.</p>
<p>In addition to these intellectually insupportable attempts to justify rioting, other progressive voices took the opportunity to simply fuel the fire. In apparent response to tweets that the rioters should “go back to Africa,” <em>The Atlantic</em>’s popular Ta-Nahisi Coates, perhaps best-known for his recent article supporting slave reparations, <a href="https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/537742938248605697">tweeted</a>, “Not how this works. We are here to run you out, not the other way around.” If he’s saying that blacks are here to run whites out of the country, then that’s a rather militantly racist admission.</p>
<p>Another militant, UPenn’s willfully <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/24/after-reading-her-tweet-youll-understand-why-an-ivy-league-professor-deleted-this-racial-comment-on-the-vmas/">illiterate</a> Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler – whose <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/the-4-most-unhinged-responses-to-the-zimmerman-verdict/">unhinged response</a> to the George Zimmerman verdict I have previously written about – <a href="http://religiondispatches.org/americas-racist-god-meets-miss-celie-darren-wilson-not-indicted/">posted</a> an equally unhinged response this time, an inflammatory article asserting that Michael Brown was a “sacrifice to the god of white supremacy.”</p>
<p>In all fairness, not all the progressive voices attempted to whitewash the rioting or fan the flames. Charles M. Blow of <em>The New York Times</em>, for example, kept a relatively even keel in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/opinion/charles-blow-fury-after-ferguson.html?_r=0">his Wednesday op-ed</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>No one of good character and conscience condones rioting or looting or any destruction of property. Those enterprises aren’t only criminal, they’re fruitless and counterproductive and rob one’s own neighborhood of needed services and facilities and unfairly punish the people who saw fit to follow a dream and an entrepreneurial spirit, and invest in themselves and those communities in the first place.</p></blockquote>
<p>“But people absolutely have a right to their feelings,” Blow continues, “including anger and frustration.” Of course. But what the riot apologists won’t acknowledge is that violent rage is not justice or justification.</p>
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		<title>Leftists Willing to Fight to the Last Drop of Black Blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left-wing lies that precipitated a made-to-order riot.]]></description>
				<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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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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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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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246026" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29-450x298.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Ferguson_Schu(29)" width="350" height="232" /></a>Grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., refused to indict local police officer Darren Wilson yesterday, heroically resisting pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer who fought off a violent attacker.</p>
<p>The decision is infuriating left-wingers across America because it rebuts the underlying assumption they embrace which is that white police racism caused the death of Michael Brown, a young black thug who tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm.</p>
<p>As fresh rioting was already underway in the St. Louis area, the decision also angered President Obama who could barely contain his hostility in a disgraceful, unprecedented television appearance following the release of the announcement about the non-indictments. Obama urged activists to refrain from using violence. The president himself bears direct responsibility for fomenting the combustible situation, however.</p>
<p>The county’s elected prosecuting attorney, Robert McCulloch, calmly explained the process in detail last night that the grand jury employed in choosing not to return indictments in five potential charges from first-degree murder to lesser offenses.</p>
<p>McCulloch is a white Democrat who has come under heavy fire from race-baiting members of his own political party. His partisans hate him because he does not share their antipathy for police officers, and presumably, because he is the wrong color. McCulloch easily secured the Democratic nomination for his office in a primary election four days before Brown was killed. In that contest, he handily beat former state public defender Leslie T. Broadnax, a black woman, by a margin of 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.</p>
<p>McCulloch said many witnesses gave testimony that was not believable. Witnesses fabricated events, admitted they were in error, clung to discredited factual accounts, or gave evidence inconsistent with the physical evidence.</p>
<p>McCulloch said grand jurors were &#8220;the only people who heard every witness &#8230; and every piece of evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,&#8221; he said. The grand jury consisted of nine whites and three blacks and was meeting every week since Aug. 20 to hear evidence in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The panel convened for 70 hours and heard from 60 witnesses.</p>
<p>Perhaps in a conciliatory gesture to those who wanted Wilson strung up, McCulloch referred to the death of Brown and the events surrounding it as tragic. Obama too used the word <i>tragic</i>.</p>
<p>But that is the wrong word.</p>
<p>Recall that Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he attacked Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown&#8217;s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Brown&#8217;s height was 6&#8242; 5&#8243; and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson&#8217;s gun during their fateful altercation.</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s death was not tragic. He was a villain. The evidence shows that he initiated potentially deadly force against an officer of the law and suffered the consequences of his actions. Grand jurors only needed a little bit of evidence to indict Officer Wilson. The evidence needed only to establish that probable cause existed to charge Wilson with a crime. The prosecution couldn&#8217;t even satisfy that low legal bar. The Wilson case may never have made it to a grand jury at all were it not for the antics of left-wing racial grievance groups working with and taking directions from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>The decision not to indict Wilson is not a tragedy. Far from it. The decision is just, proof that the grand jury system that was created to prevent governments from railroading unpopular defendants still works.</p>
<p>The tragedy is that Wilson had to be subjected to a three-month-long circus in which he was wrongfully accused of being a racist, murdering cop. He was demonized in the media day in and day out, a process that continues in the nation&#8217;s newsrooms even after last night&#8217;s announcement.</p>
<p>Petulant, as America&#8217;s childish Commander-in-Chief is wont to be when he fails to get his way, Obama sounded angry that grand jurors failed to indict Officer Wilson. The plot by Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama operative Al Sharpton to lynch Wilson in the courts failed.</p>
<p>Coming across like a Latin American <i>caudillo</i>, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/24/president-obama-delivers-statement-ferguson-grand-jurys-decision"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sounded disgusted</span></a> with Ferguson police and police forces across the nation in a press briefing last night.</p>
<p>Instead of accepting the grand jury&#8217;s wise decision, Obama set about stoking the flames. After spending months stirring up racial antagonism, Obama pontificated as if an innocent bystander of the events.</p>
<p>The decision &#8220;was going to be subject of intense disagreement not only in Ferguson, but across America, so I want to just say a few words suggesting how we might move forward,&#8221; he said, without noting that Wilson&#8217;s use of justifiable force against Brown became a national issue at his instigation.</p>
<p>Ignoring the fact that the death of Michael Brown had everything to do with his threatening, abusive behavior and absolutely nothing to do with his race, Obama implied cops hate minorities.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation,&#8221; Obama said, even though no broader challenges that we face as a nation played a role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color,&#8221; he said, without noting that he and his comrades-in-arms in the world of community organizing have created distrust and disharmony where none previously existed.</p>
<p>Obama then blamed white people for Michael Brown attacking Darren Wilson.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country,&#8221; Obama said even though there is no evidence that the residue of racial discrimination played any role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;And this is tragic, because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The good news is we know there are things we can do to help, and I’ve instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country to help build better relations between communities and law enforcement.&#8221; Obama said this even though the case at hand provided no evidence that there is a problem between communities and law enforcement.</p>
<p>The president then pivoted to make a pitch for affirmative action in police departments:</p>
<blockquote><p>That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference. It means working to train officials so that law enforcement conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody. It means enlisting the community actively on what should be everybody’s goal, and that is to prevent crime.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are mere policing platitudes Obama is lip-syncing as he advances the notion that only black police officers are suited to work in black communities. We do not know that it makes a difference. In fact, enforced diversity can be deadly.</p>
<p>We know that in the rush to furnish communities with cops of the correct skin color corners are likely to get cut and <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-08-27.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">people will die</span></a> as a result. Economist John Lott found in a 2000 study that the apartheid approach to police staffing led to increases in violent crime, especially in black neighborhoods. This is because the forced lowering of standards put less-qualified officers of all skin colors on the streets.</p>
<p>Even though the justice system ultimately worked in Ferguson, Obama pretends there is still a problem because there aren&#8217;t enough blacks in the local constabulary, in his view. He urged communities &#8220;interested in working with this administration and local and state officials to start tackling much-needed criminal justice reform,&#8221; even though the Brown-Wilson saga does not prove any reform of the criminal justice system is needed.</p>
<p>Obama continued ignoring the facts, insisting there is a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the past several decades &#8230; but what is also true is that there are still problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up,&#8221; Obama said, again ignoring that there is no evidence of a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those who are only interested in focusing on the violence and just want the problem to go away need to recognize that we do have work to do here, and we shouldn’t try to paper it over,&#8221; he said without proving there is any work to be done. &#8220;Whenever we do that, the anger may momentarily subside, but over time, it builds up and America isn&#8217;t everything that it could be.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is as if the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/understanding_obamas_ebola_psychosis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">psychosis</span></a> our troubled president suffers from regarding Ebola, the virus Obama is lovingly importing from West Africa, has spread to other issues as well. Only Obama and his fellow travelers say there is a problem in Ferguson.</p>
<p>The mass hysteria over Michael Brown&#8217;s death that Obama and his allies generated continues.</p>
<p>It is yet another success for America&#8217;s first Alinskyite president.</p>
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		<title>Ferguson Braces for Lynch Mob Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Darren Wilson isn't indicted, radical activists promise mayhem.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242814" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM-450x326.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-10 at 2.37.46 AM" width="317" height="230" /></a>Police in Ferguson, Mo. are preparing for the mayhem and deadly violence that radical activists are promising if a grand jury declines to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown two months ago.</p>
<p>A grand jury is expected to determine next month if Wilson, a decorated white policeman, will face criminal charges for killing Brown, an 18-year-old black man who reportedly attacked him minutes after robbing a convenience store. The St. Louis suburb has been plagued by violent demonstrations since the Aug. 9 shooting. Hundreds of people, including individuals police call &#8220;outside agitators,&#8221; have been arrested in nearly continuous protests since Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>The politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, won&#8217;t die. In the minutes before the altercation with Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.</p>
<p>Local agitators connected to the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) <a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are knee-deep</span></a> in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform &amp; Empowerment (MORE) has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest.</p>
<p>The MORE front group&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer Jeff Ordower. Ordower, a vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN. Under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters the Missouri chapter incorporated itself separately as MORE in December 2009.</p>
<p>State authorities are holding two to three meetings a week <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/report-missouri-authorities-planning-for-riots-if-ferguson-cop-not-indicted-in-browns-death/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to draft plans</span></a> to deal with riots should they materialize.</p>
<p>“We know outside groups visited us in August,&#8221; St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. &#8220;We are expecting that different people will come in from outside the St. Louis area.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said he is afraid that “the unrest is going to be far beyond the city of Ferguson” if Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/ferguson-protest-leaders-rally-new-york-michael-brown-shooting">Activists say</a></span> if Wilson is cleared by the grand jury, rioting will follow.</p>
<p>Ferguson protest leader Tef Poe told Reuters to expect &#8220;carnage&#8221; if an indictment is not handed down. “There is a lot of explosive energy.”</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” said Ashley Yates, who co-founded Millennial Activists United. Yates, who spoke at a New York rally alongside activists from Hands Up United and the Organization for Black Struggle, was arrested last week during a demonstration in Ferguson. The rally took place in the same ballroom where Malcolm X was murdered in a hail of gunfire in 1965.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Poe said that although Americans have often expected “casual revolution,” Ferguson may be “the moment when we can’t do that.”</p>
<p>Poe urged his fellow activists to die for the cause, browbeating what he termed the &#8220;intellectual set&#8221; who contemplate race relations but “didn’t show up and didn’t want to get shot when the teargas came out.”</p>
<p>“Don’t come to Ferguson if you aren’t ready to die,&#8221; Yates said. &#8220;Stay at home, as it could happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I can say this with 100 percent certainty: all three of us have had moments in the street where we realized we could die right there,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Answering claims that activists had encouraged rioting, Poe said, “No, you incited a riot by leaving Mike Brown’s body on the street for four and a half hours.”</p>
<p>More protests are expected in Ferguson over this weekend.</p>
<p>Activists are also demanding that Bob McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney in the case, recuse himself. They claim he is biased in favor of the police. They also want the mayor and police chief Tom Jackson to resign for supposedly mishandling the case.</p>
<p>Although they won&#8217;t admit it publicly, Obama administration officials are praying for the worst.</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has been deliberately fanning the flames of racial discontent in Ferguson. It&#8217;s good for revving up the Democrats&#8217; political base in time for the November elections that could hand control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans.</p>
<p>Despite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the shooting of Brown, the Department of Justice has been conducting a race-baiting witch hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson. It is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House.</p>
<p>To add an aura of legitimacy to the witch hunt, the U.S. Conference of Mayors held a symposium on the events in Ferguson at Bill Clinton&#8217;s presidential library in Little Rock, Ark.</p>
<p>Attorney General Holder <a href="http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/slay-joins-holder-clinton-in-calling-for-sensitivity-collaboration-after/article_e1d34c15-c00e-5b9d-8341-2dbfea6441f1.html?mobile_touch=true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">wasn&#8217;t shy about</span></a> discussing the Obama administration&#8217;s rather frightening plans to use the Ferguson crisis as a pretext for bringing local police forces under greater federal control.</p>
<p>&#8220;The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot and must not allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved,&#8221; said Holder who announced his intention to resign his post two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Holder told participants at the conference Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s broad review of police training, techniques, and tactics ought to be expanded &#8220;to provide strong, national direction on a scale not seen since President Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s Commission on Law Enforcement nearly half a century ago.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration never, ever lets a crisis go to waste.</p>
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		<title>The Silent Intifada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arlene Kushner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing wave of violence unleashed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/r.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242406" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/r-450x300.jpg" alt="Palestinians hurl stones during clashes with Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi Joz" width="318" height="212" /></a>The perpetrators in the main of the new silent intifada are male Arabs, mostly young, with Jerusalem residency cards.  They have the right to live in Jerusalem, and receive the perks of citizens, but – tellingly – for political reasons have declined to become full citizens.</p>
<p>With increasing frequency in recent weeks, they are out on the streets of eastern Jerusalem and at key eastern Jerusalem locations, actively participating in violent and destructive behaviors.  Sometimes they wrap scarves around their faces so they cannot be identified.</p>
<p>Some Arab “unrest” occurs from time to time in the city.  Perhaps a demonstration protesting a perceived grievance suddenly turns into a riot.  Molotov cocktails might be thrown, or rocks large enough to kill.  Municipal infrastructure might incur some damage.</p>
<p>None of this is acceptable, but for the most part, these have been intermittent and localized occurrences.  What is happening now is something else: a form of behavior that is more persistently violent and more pervasive.</p>
<p>It comes as a shock to learn, for example, that at least 30% of the cars of the Jerusalem Light Rail are out of commission because of vandalism that takes place at the Light Rail station located in Shu’afat, an Arab neighborhood.  This is not a matter of delinquent kids with time on their hands. This is focused behavior intended to undermine the authority of the municipality.</p>
<p>This past week, on the second night of Rosh Hashana, Chanan Kupietzky, 25, and two others were walking towards the Kotel (the Western Wall) when they were accosted by some four Arabs, who began by calling, “Dirty Jews!”  At a signal from yet another Arab, they approached Kupietzky and his companions and launched a physical attack.  Other Arabs in the area began throwing rocks at the three, and at other Jews who were nearby, wounding one man in the chest.</p>
<p>“It was like an ambush,” Kupietzy said.  One Arab came at him with a two-by-four that had nails protruding from it, which was used to strike him repeatedly; ultimately his hand was so badly fractured that he required surgery.</p>
<p>One of the locations that has been most problematic is Har Hazeitim – the Mount of Olives.  This is the site of Judaism’s most ancient cemetery, with 150,000 graves. This past week, on one night alone, 40 graves were vandalized.</p>
<p>Nearby is Ma’aleh Hazeitim, a Jewish neighborhood that has been the site of stonings.  Arabs – likely from the nearby Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud – target cars on the road that have Jewish drivers.</p>
<p>This past week, however, a new low was reached when Arab stone-throwers made a nursery school the target of an attack.  As rocks pelted the outside of the nursery building, the teacher quickly brought the children into an air-raid shelter for safety and summoned the police.</p>
<p>These stories and many more like them have been insufficiently publicized.</p>
<p>Multiple observers have noticed that the attacks seem organized rather than random, and that there is never one person acting alone.  There are groups operating, under instruction.</p>
<p>According to one very reliable individual with direct connections to the Israeli government, what we are seeing is a limited intifada.  The Palestinian Authority has decided that a wide-scale intifada in Judea and Samaria would not be a good idea now: they have opted for one focused exclusively on Jerusalem instead.</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense. In the struggle between Israel and the PA, Jerusalem is the heart of the matter.</p>
<p>In July 1980, the Knesset passed a bill in Basic Law that reads: “Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.” There is no such place as “East Jerusalem;” there is one, undivided city.  Nonetheless, the Palestinian Authority continues to promote the fiction of “East Jerusalem” as a separate place that is destined to become its capital.  In the end, the sovereignty of Jerusalem – as the sovereignty of any place – is directly connected to control on the ground.  The PA goal is to make eastern Jerusalem so difficult for Jews to live in that they will withdraw.</p>
<p>Were this to happen, it would be an unmitigated disaster, particularly as the very core of Jewish tradition in the city – including the Temple Mount – is in its more ancient eastern part. It would mean relinquishing that core, with all the implications that would follow.</p>
<p>The overriding question now is what is being done to guarantee that this does not happen.</p>
<p>There are many fine police officers at work in Jerusalem, and, in fact, their numbers have been augmented recently. But there remains a persistent unease that what may be happening when the police act is more in the way of containment than enforcement of the law to the fullest extent possible.  Sometimes violent groups are scattered and chased away rather than arrested.  At other times arrests are made but prosecutions do not follow.</p>
<p>While these instances have been observed, what is not clear is whether they are just that – separate instances, or whether they are the result of orders from above, from Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, or police officials.</p>
<p>It is not difficult to understand the inclination to fall back on containment, no matter how ill-advised it is in the long run: The world watches Israel as it watches no other nation. One false arrest, one injury or death of an Arab during attempts to make arrests, will result in headlines and international protests.  It feels safer to go easy.</p>
<p>But it is exceedingly important for Jews to make their presence known in all parts of Israel’s capital; and they must be able to do so free of harassment or physical risk.  Protecting its citizens is a primary responsibility of the government.</p>
<p>In this instance, when the government of Israel acts to protect its citizens, it is also protecting its rights as a sovereign nation and its future in the land.</p>
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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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		<title>The Ferguson Fix Is In</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric holder plays radical politics with a powder keg in Missouri. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-3.55.02-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239096" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-3.55.02-AM-419x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-08-20 at 3.55.02 AM" width="292" height="244" /></a>As mass hysteria over the fatal shooting of a Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown grips the progressive movement, President Obama is sending the most divisive, corrupt race-baiter in his cabinet to the riot-torn St. Louis suburb where the suspect died.</p>
<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has single-mindedly focused on converting the Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, is scheduled to visit Ferguson, Mo., today in an appearance billed as an attempt to restore calm to a community that has erupted in almost daily violence since Brown, a young black man, was shot Aug. 9 by a police officer. Left-wingers who believe as an article of faith that America is racist insist, despite the growing body of exculpatory evidence, that Brown was <i>murdered</i> by a white policeman. They will not be dissuaded no matter how much proof accumulates that the officer fired on Brown because he believed his life was in danger.</p>
<p>The visit comes as the Left&#8217;s narrative that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender, unravels more and more each day. More witnesses are coming forward to identify Brown as the aggressor in a vicious attack on Wilson in which he tried to grab the gun of the six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force and inflicted head injuries so severe that the officer may lose an eye.</p>
<p>Yet the belief that Brown is the real victim remains strong in many circles.</p>
<p>Inane commentary is being churned out by hopelessly affective left-wingers at an impressive clip. For example, leftist lawyer Michelle D. Bernard <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-theres-a-u-s-war-on-black-boys-could-turn-genocide-if-we-dont-stop-it/">told</a> the under-medicated Chris Matthews of MSNBC that in 2014 &#8212; when the U.S. has a black president, black attorney general, black billionaires, and black professionals in probably every field of human endeavor &#8212; legions of Americans still hate black males.</p>
<p>“I don’t have an answer that is palatable to be able to look my children in the face and say there are people in this country who– not only do not like African-Americans, but they despise black men,” Bernard said.</p>
<p>“There is a war on black boys in this country. In my opinion, there is a war on African-American men &#8230; it’s going to turn into a genocide if it doesn’t stop,” she said, echoing recent comments from perpetually offended movie director Spike Lee.</p>
<p>Holder, by the way, reportedly received the findings of the <i>third</i> autopsy yesterday, that is, the superfluous one ordered by the feds after the county autopsy and the family&#8217;s private autopsy. Although the results from the federal autopsy were not publicly available at press time, if memory serves, other high-profile individuals who died of gunshots such as Trayvon Martin, Martin Luther King Jr., and President John F. Kennedy, were autopsied only once.</p>
<p>So it is hard not to be suspicious of Holder&#8217;s motives in requiring that extra postmortem dissection. Keep examining the body over and over again until you find what you want. Just like in close elections. Keep counting the votes over and over again until you win. (<i>See</i>, Al Franken, who succeeded, and Al Gore, who failed.)</p>
<p>But as is always the case with Obama, the lawless attorney general&#8217;s visit is a ruse. Holder, who faces possible impeachment over contempt of Congress charges, will bring a planeload of rhetorical dynamite with him to make sure that the civil unrest continues. It is his job, as he sees it, to rile up people.</p>
<p>A far-left self-described &#8220;activist,&#8221; Holder, like Obama, has an uncanny ability to know exactly what to do to make a situation worse, or as <i>Rules for Radical</i> author Saul Alinsky put it so vividly, to rub raw the sores of discontent. In exacerbating racial tensions and ramping up civil unrest, Holder is truly a virtuoso.</p>
<p>“Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” Holder  pontificates, ignoring the long-recognized fact that an attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not fundamentally transform the nation.</p>
<p>“The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things [and] bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents,” he says, again deliberately misrepresenting the purpose of his high office.</p>
<p>When critics decry his Department of Justice for containing an “activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general — I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and [I am] proud of it,” Holder said.</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/the-arrogance-of-eric-holder/">wrote</a> recently, Holder is the <i>consigliere</i> for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. As a journalist friend of mine likes to remind me, Obama keeps the scandal-prone Holder on because the man &#8220;knows where all the bodies are buried.&#8221;</p>
<p>How do we know that with the Ferguson whistle stop Holder is, as usual, up to no good?</p>
<p>First, because Eric Holder is constitutionally incapable of calming things down, and second, because the signs of a well-crafted con job are there.</p>
<p>The goal is to polarize and enrage and foment even more racial tension and violence to distract from Obama&#8217;s seemingly endless political problems, as well as to energize the Democratic Party&#8217;s base so they vote in droves in November. Democrats who aren&#8217;t in denial are now deathly afraid of the electoral tsunami approaching that seems increasingly likely to leave Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. A GOP recapture of the Senate no longer looks dicey; the only question is how big a majority Republicans will have in that dusty old chamber where good conservative ideas go to die.</p>
<p>This week Holder and Obama&#8217;s Chicagoland enforcer Valerie Jarrett reportedly talked to representatives of what one news article termed &#8220;civic groups.&#8221; They bragged about the hundreds of interviews they have forced scores of FBI agents to conduct in Ferguson in a desperate attempt to bolster the bad-white-cop-murdered-good-black-kid theory.</p>
<p>Among the left-wing activist organizations included on the conference call were the odious National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This fact tells you more or less all you need to know about Holder&#8217;s intentions.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly the usual crew of bad people who hate America, the very worst of the radical left-wing community organizing outfits, also participated in the call. This is the clandestine way the Obama White House has operated since the very beginning. It is more an exercise in conspiracy coordination than in allied group relations.</p>
<p>Apart from the FBI whose agents have been forced to scour Ferguson in search of evidence of imagined civil rights law violations, these groups are connected, if not already actively collaborating, with the criminals doing their best to burn Ferguson to the ground for its supposed sins.</p>
<p>The people on the ground in Ferguson right now, the &#8220;outside agitators&#8221; as a police chief called them, are out there waving protest signs, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, and looting stores. Some of them were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Others are from the New Black Panther Party that Holder holds in such great esteem that he dropped a case against party members who intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008. These insurrectionists have been streaming in from Marxist and other extremist groups in Chicago and beyond. Racial arsonists Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton are there too, making sure they get their cut of the action.</p>
<p>Make no mistake: they are Obama&#8217;s kith and kin. If Obama still had a job at the Gamaliel Foundation or the now-defunct ACORN or any of a number of in-your-face activist groups, he would likely be there right now, knee deep in the blood-covered streets of Ferguson, keeping his radical comrades-in-arms in line, and helping them figure out how to make local residents howl for change.</p>
<p>His goal now, as it was then, is to fundamentally transform the United States of America. As Michelle Obama has said, &#8220;Barack is not a politician first and foremost. He&#8217;s a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.&#8221;</p>
<p>For now Obama won&#8217;t be visiting Ferguson, according to the White House, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s not pulling the strings. Holder will be his trusted emissary.</p>
<p>In fact Holder&#8217;s minions are already on the ground in Ferguson right now causing trouble. News reports indicate that government-employed community organizers are on-site. These outside agitators work for the Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within the Justice Department.</p>
<p>We know what they do. Judicial Watch previously <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">released</a> DoJ documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the community disorganizers of the CRS were dispatched two years ago to Sanford, Fla., after Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black man, was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. For a month and a half after Martin’s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman, who was ultimately acquitted of murder, because they believed quite correctly that the criminal case against him was weak.</p>
<p>In the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.</p>
<p>As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said previously, “These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman. My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”</p>
<p>CRS employees, according to that document dump, were involved in “marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain”; providing “support for protest deployment in Florida”; rendering “technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31”; and providing “technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”</p>
<p>In April 2012, CRS “set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” one of the documents revealed.</p>
<p>We may have to wait a while to find out exactly what the CRS stormtroopers are doing in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the identity politics and cop-hatred that infect the legal system in the St. Louis area have set in motion some race-related intra-party warfare that could turn nasty.</p>
<p>White Democrats want the county&#8217;s elected Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, a Caucasian Democrat who has held the position since 1991, to oversee the case. McCulloch easily secured the Democratic nomination for his office in a primary election four days before Brown was killed. In that contest, he handily beat former state public defender Leslie T. Broadnax, a black woman, by a margin of 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.</p>
<p>Gov. Jay Nixon, a white Democrat, supports McCulloch whom he called &#8220;an experienced prosecutor.&#8221; The governor said &#8220;this is his opportunity to step up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Black Democrats who have taken a public stand on whether McCulloch should have carriage of the case don&#8217;t seem to care that the voters of the county have repeatedly put the man in charge of local criminal prosecutions. These political operatives want him off the case, perhaps because they feel he can&#8217;t be expected to toe the radical line because he&#8217;s not black. Justice, according to Critical Race Theory, is never color-blind.</p>
<p>They <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-prosecutor-has-faced-controversy-for-decades/article_cdd4c104-6086-506e-9ee8-aa957a31fee5.html">say</a> McCulloch, who comes from a family of police officers, should not be handling the prosecution because in their view he is too close to the police. His father, a police officer, was fatally shot in the line of duty by a black man when McCulloch was 12 years old.</p>
<p>St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley, a black Democrat, has asked Missouri Attorney General Jay Koster, a white Democrat, to appoint a special prosecutor to replace McCulloch. Koster says state law does not allow him to do so. Dooley has an obvious axe to grind. Just last week he lost the Democratic nod for his post to Steve Senger, a white county council member who was heavily backed by McCulloch.</p>
<p>Other local elected Democrats say they don&#8217;t trust McCulloch. U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-Mo.) and state senators Jamilah Nasheed and Maria Chappelle-Nadal all wanted McCulloch ousted from the case. All three are black.</p>
<p>Chappelle-Nadal is the state lawmaker who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/maria-chappelle-nadal_n_5689465.html">tweeted</a> &#8220;fuck you&#8221; to Gov. Nixon last week week saying it was justified because she was injured while protesting the death of Brown in Ferguson. She blames the governor who has ordered the state highway patrol to police Ferguson.</p>
<p>&#8220;The reason why I used profane language is because he has allowed us to get tear-gassed for three days,&#8221; she told Fox News. &#8220;I am one of his senators in his party, and he was at the state fair enjoying a country concert while we were getting teargassed and shot at. And yes, anyone who&#8217;s going to get tear-gassed deserves to say a few f-bombs here and there.&#8221;</p>
<p>State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, a black Democrat, created an online petition at MoveOn&#8217;s website calling on McCulloch to &#8220;fully recuse himself and his office from the investigation related to the murder [<i>sic</i>] of Michael Brown.&#8221; It urges McCulloch to appoint a special prosecutor to carry out the investigation.</p>
<p>According to the petition, which had 58,000 signatures at press time, the fact that McCulloch opted not to pursue police officers who killed &#8211;the petition says &#8220;murdered&#8221;&#8211; &#8220;two unarmed African-American men in 2000&#8243; after an independent probe found the officers lied about what they did, ought to disqualify him from overseeing the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;That failure, coupled, with McCulloch&#8217;s recent participation in one of the most racially polarizing elections in the history of St. Louis County, means that his office&#8217;s continued oversight of this tragedy will only sow further distrust and discord in our community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The men who were shot a decade and a half ago were suspected drug dealers. A federal investigation found the officers were justified in shooting because they felt endangered.</p>
<p>Nasheed trashed McCulloch on CNN. In her view, McCulloch &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have the fortitude to do the right thing when it comes to prosecuting police officers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The rest of the Democrats&#8217; local lynch mob also refuses to wait any longer.</p>
<p>Wilson &#8220;should be charged and arrested,&#8221; said Patricia Bynes, the Democratic Party committeewoman who represents Ferguson Township. &#8220;It&#8217;s been over a week now,&#8221;</p>
<p>Evidence about the shooting of Michael Brown is scheduled to go to a St. Louis County Circuit Court grand jury starting today, according to Ed Magee, spokesman for McCulloch. Magee said his boss will not present the case in the grand jury proceeding.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will be handled by the attorney regularly assigned to the grand jury. It will not be by Mr. McCulloch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s funeral has been scheduled for Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be public and it&#8217;s going to be supported by national leaders,&#8221; Brown family lawyer Anthony Gray told the <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/michael-brown-shooting-case-to-go-before-grand-jury-wednesday/article_375eff87-6a6b-534b-abcc-a8664e7d3ba2.html"><i>St. Louis Post Dispatch</i></a>.</p>
<p>In other words, the memorial service appears destined to become a grotesque political rally.</p>
<p>How could this not be the case in a town where ghoulish political operatives have already set up a voter registration tent at the site where Brown died?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black community's distorted view of Ferguson — and how to fix it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239024" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257.jpg" alt="MOSTP352-814_2014_000000_low.jpg-400x257" width="284" height="229" /></a>On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of Americans regarding the guilt or innocence of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old black man Michael Brown six times in Ferguson, Missouri. Those polls show that 57 percent of black adults think that Wilson should be found guilty of murder; 56 percent of whites, by contrast, are undecided on the matter.</p>
<p>The latter position is the correct one. Witnesses, including one Dorian Johnson, claim that Brown was pulled over by Wilson, attacked by him and pulled into the car, ran, stopped when told to freeze by Wilson, held up his hands, and was then shot. Other witnesses — more than a dozen of them, according to local media — say that Brown attacked Wilson, went for Wilson&#8217;s gun, fled before being told to stop, then charged Wilson before being shot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what we do know: Despite original media reports labeling Brown a &#8220;gentle giant,&#8221; Brown and shooting witness Dorian Johnson did participate in a strong-arm robbery of a local convenience store. We know that despite original witness reports suggesting that Brown was shot in the back, he was not. We know that contemporaneous witness accounts caught on tape suggest that Brown charged at Wilson. And we know that a young black man is dead with six bullets in him at the hands of a white cop.</p>
<p>And to huge segments of the black community, that last fact is the only one that matters. The full facts do not matter to extremists in the black community and to their white leftist enablers, particularly in the media. A full 41 percent of black Americans believe that riots and looting represent &#8220;legitimate outrage.&#8221; Not protesting — riots and looting. Just 35 percent of blacks think that looters and rioters are criminals taking advantage of the situation.</p>
<p>There is a pattern here: a widespread belief in the black community that the justice system is rigged against them. That belief is not without basis — there is no question that America has a history of racism within the criminal justice community. By the same token, there is also no question that American law enforcement is the least racist it has ever been, by a long shot, and that racism within the law enforcement community is broadly considered unacceptable and vile.</p>
<p>But the belief in a racist justice system seems to have maintained its stranglehold inside the black community. That belief, taken to its extreme, means support for black criminality. It is no coincidence that during the O.J. Simpson trial, 60 percent of black Americans did not believe O.J. was guilty. It is also no coincidence that many white Americans perceive black support for murderers like O.J. Simpson and riots in Ferguson as support for lawlessness, and therefore pooh-pooh charges of police racism. When crying racism becomes crying wolf, it is hard to take such charges seriously.</p>
<p>The solution, however, lays neither in knee-jerk accusations of racism from the black community nor in immediate dismissals of individual accusations by the white community. It lies in continued targeting and prosecution of individual racists in the police community, of course — and far more importantly, it lies in less criminality within the black community. The high levels of crime in the black community contribute to heavier policing, which in turn reinforces perceptions of racial targeting; those perceptions then create resentment against police than ends too often in violent encounters and failure to report crime. And so the cycle starts anew.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to break the cycle. The only way to do that is to focus on the fact that police have no excuse to shoot anyone unless those people are committing criminal acts. On that we can all agree. Yes, we must arduously insist that police hold to that standard, and we must prosecute those who do not to the fullest extent of the law. But by the same token, we must insist that criminal acts stop — and to do that, we must move beyond simple anti-police sentiment.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How events in Ferguson, MO reflect the Left’s pernicious tradition of exploiting the black community.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238608" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large-423x350.jpg" alt="Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large" width="274" height="227" /></a>The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda.</p>
<p>After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot.</p>
<p>Cries of &#8220;no justice, no peace&#8221; pierce the air as demonstrators hurl Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officials. Some say the police have been responding to the protesters and rioters with excessive force and have been mean by discouraging protests. Some blacks are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown.</p>
<p>Looting and property destruction are rampant. Dozens of people have been arrested. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered aircraft to fly at least 3,000 feet over Ferguson airspace after police said their helicopters were fired on from the ground.</p>
<p>Witnesses give conflicting accounts of what happened to Brown. The young man was apparently walking in the street and then stopped by police. There was a scuffle over a policeman&#8217;s gun and Brown was shot. Local police are investigating as are federal officials and civil rights bureaucrats. Brown could ultimately be found to be a would-be murderer or a murder victim himself. Time will tell.</p>
<p>The name of the police officer who shot Brown has been withheld for the time being by police who quite justifiably fear for his safety.</p>
<p>All this unrest over the death of Brown seems selective, for lack of a better term.</p>
<p>By contrast, when James Boyd, a mentally disturbed, homeless, white man was fatally shot in the back by Albuquerque, N.M. police recently, there were some protests but no riots. In some circles, white victims are apparently less valuable than black victims.</p>
<p>Regardless of what he may say publicly, all this racially motivated anger and violence is fine by President Obama, an extreme-left community organizer by profession.</p>
<p>The Left tells Americans that racist whites kill black people all the time. Blacks just can&#8217;t take it anymore and now it&#8217;s time to burn down buildings and convenience stores, the false narrative goes.</p>
<p>Obama has been instrumental in crafting this narrative. The president wants racial communities and everyone else to be at everyone else&#8217;s throat because, as the now-familiar leftist adage goes, &#8220;you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration has used taxpayer resources in an effort <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">to generate</a> race riots. Eric Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Fla. after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin two years ago in order to foment racial tensions. Race riots benefit the Left, and in particular the Democratic Party, by riling up its staunchest voting bloc.</p>
<p>The Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within DoJ, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford after 17-year-old Martin was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that Zimmerman, described by the media as a &#8220;white Hispanic,&#8221; be prosecuted. The pressure worked. Zimmerman was charged but later acquitted at trial.</p>
<p>Before anyone really has a good grasp of what transpired in the death of Michael Brown, the rabble-rousers of CRS may be on the ground in Ferguson right now demanding that the officer involved be railroaded and lynched.</p>
<p>Sanford wasn&#8217;t the first time President Obama used DOJ employees as his personal Alinskyite stormtroopers. Uniformed field representatives of the CRS also assisted the rape-prone activists of Occupy Wall Street and anarchist activists outside the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012.</p>
<p>At every turn of his entire political career Obama has been the instigator, promoter, and beneficiary of left-wing race hatred. It helped him move up the political ladder.</p>
<p>Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the last election cycle when he volunteered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”</p>
<p>In the Martin case, the Left employed more or less the same race-baiting messaging strategy that helped to inflame racial tensions in the aftermath of the tragic 2006 death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old black boy. After Anderson died during mandatory physical training at a Florida boot camp for young offenders, racial-grievance mongers and politicians claimed he was killed because of the color of his skin and demanded that criminal charges be laid. A racially diverse group of eight defendants (i.e. seven camp guards and a nurse) was eventually acquitted. The jury deliberated a mere 90 minutes after the three-week manslaughter trial.</p>
<p>To no one&#8217;s surprise, the race-baiting ambulance chasers of the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center are already making money off the mob violence in Ferguson. The George Soros-funded group that sees as a major threat the nearly-dead remnants of the Ku Klux Klan that can barely afford scissors to cut holes in their bedsheets, doesn&#8217;t need the cash. This allegedly nonprofit organization reported a staggering $291.2 million in net assets for the year ended Oct. 31, 2013. The self-styled crusaders for social justice of the SPLC also reported having bank accounts in the tax havens of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.</p>
<p>SPLC President Richard Cohen sent out a typically dishonest mass email to supporters last night with the subject line, &#8220;How many more innocents must die?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our entire criminal justice system has mushroomed, in large part because certain politicians have made it a strategy to stoke fear among white people &#8212; fear about young black men,&#8221; Cohen writes. &#8220;Young men like Michael Brown &#8212; and their families &#8212; are paying the price.&#8221;</p>
<p>Setting aside for a moment the question of what Brown did or did not do that fateful night, Cohen ignores the fact that Americans in general, and not just &#8220;white people&#8221; in particular, have good reason to be afraid of young black males, unfortunately.</p>
<p>&#8220;[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,&#8221; African-American John McWhorter, an English professor and linguist at Columbia University, <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/">noted</a> last year.</p>
<p>He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying &#8220;You get what you deserve, white boy&#8217; (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch &#8216;for Trayvon&#8217; (Mobile, Ala.).</p>
<p>[I]t’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.</p></blockquote>
<p>McWhorter, by the way, is no conservative. He describes himself as &#8220;a cranky liberal Democrat &#8230; who supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech &#8230; &#8221;</p>
<p>The Left must accept much of the blame for the growing epidemic of &#8220;knockout game&#8221; attacks by blacks on whites and for black violence generally. To leftists, violence committed by blacks is at best a political statement, and at worst a cry for help from the oppressed. The victims are irrelevant and if blacks get killed or captured by police in the process of committing criminal acts they are martyrs or supposed political prisoners like cop-killer Mumia abu Jamal.</p>
<p>The Left has been organizing in poor black communities for decades, not in an effort to improve anyone&#8217;s plight, but to get blacks to rise up against free enterprise and the American system.</p>
<p>These leftists have enjoyed spectacular success. Apart perhaps from crazed, drunken college sports fans, what group in society riots the most? When was the last time you heard of an Asian-American riot or a Jewish-American riot or an Italian-American riot?</p>
<p>Sociopathic radicals like Van Jones, Jesse Jackson Sr., Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven have been agitating in inner cities for decades, doing everything they can to push blacks to violently revolt.</p>
<p>Cloward, who died in 2001, and his wife Piven objectified blacks, viewing them as cannon fodder in a fifth-column assault on America. They wanted blacks to remain miserable, docile, poor, and angry in black ghettos where left-wing community organizers could easily sacrifice their lives at will, as I wrote in my book, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><i>Subversion Inc.: How Obama&#8217;s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers</i></a>.</p>
<p>In a particularly odious essay titled, “The Case Against Urban Desegregation,” these apostles of depravity wrote, “If the African American is to develop the power to enter the mainstream of American life, it is separatism—not integration—that will be essential to achieve results in certain institutional arenas.” The black American would be better off “consolidating his power within the central city” in order to “have some impact on the environment of the ghetto itself.” Blacks have to “organize as a bloc.” Achieving “effective separatist power” would not be accomplished by arguing “the ghetto must be dispersed.”</p>
<p>It is no secret that radicals want blacks to hate the police because it makes it easier to fan the flames of discontent. The leftist narrative is that the police are &#8220;pigs,&#8221; the armed wing of the white capitalist class that oppresses poor blacks. Cops are legitimate targets in the radicals&#8217; war against what Sixties radicals called &#8220;AmeriKKKa.&#8221;</p>
<p>Echoing a sentiment expressed by Bolshevik barrister William Kunstler—defender of the Chicago Seven antiwar protesters, accused of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention— Piven wrote separately in 1972 that growing numbers of poor blacks viewed police officers as a kind of &#8220;army of occupation in the ghetto.&#8221;</p>
<p>Piven herself argued that this perception of police-as-invaders was a wonderfully useful thing and that it should be encouraged in order to move the leftist counter-revolution forward. Left-wingers like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and President Obama&#8217;s cabinet think otherwise, regard looting not only as an honorable exercise in redistributionism but also as a legitimate form of political protest.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s violent cop-hating demonstrators in Ferguson have an ideological lineage stretching back at least to Cloward and Piven and other race-baiting radicals.</p>
<p>Even worse, you have been subsidizing this civil unrest for the last half century. Under the leftist-designed War on Poverty, the federal government has been handing out taxpayers’ money since 1965 to so-called community groups in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo.</p>
<p>No doubt President Obama will find a way to funnel obscene quantities of taxpayer money to his friends in the radical community before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.</p>
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		<title>Jew-Hatred Flying Like Hamas&#8217; Missiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynne Rabinoff]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, all I can say is that it is déjà vu back to 1933.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Par7935171-e1405882687800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237606" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Par7935171-e1405882687800-402x350.jpg" alt="000_Par7935171-e1405882687800" width="277" height="241" /></a>I am a daughter of Holocaust survivors, and I&#8217;m sad to say, I&#8217;m glad both my parents are no longer living. What they would see, to their horror, is<em> déjà vu</em> back to 1933 with an explosion of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, the UK and even in the U.S. and Canada. Throughout Europe, where Muslim populations have grown substantially along with a left-leaning constituency, out-of-control violence against Jews and Israel has erupted, with the perpetrators using the Israeli-Gaza conflict as an excuse for the &#8220;old hatred.&#8221; This is, in part, a direct result of the media coverage of the conflict. The openly biased written and visual reporting has created a frenzy of anti-Semitism – even though much of this reporting has been, or will be, proven incorrect and to be simple disinformation propaganda.</p>
<p>In country after EU country, there have been violent anti-Israel demonstrations with signs reading such things as “death to Jews” and “no dogs or Jews allowed” (this was a sign seen by an elderly woman in Cologne, Germany who lived through the Holocaust). In France, Jewish businesses have been torched and synagogues attacked. The trend has also been visible in the US at demonstrations in Boston, Chicago and other locations. They have become violent where left-wing constituencies and large Muslim populations prevail. There is also the element of the universities, where anti-Israel sentiment is widespread and becoming a real danger in the United States. In addition, there is almost no outrage voiced by the U.S. administration or from the EU.</p>
<p>This whole situation is not a far cry from Kristallnacht.</p>
<p>Israel left Gaza in 2005 with agricultural and other infrastructure in place. Aid began to pour in from around the world. Hamas showed its gratitude by destroying  the infrastructure left behind and using the supplies meant for new houses (i.e. building materials and cement) to construct an incredible fully-equipped underground tunnel system for attacks on Israel. Shortly after Israel left, the slow pounding of rockets began in the south of Israel – forcing citizens to live in shelters and in a constant state of terror.</p>
<p>Hamas is a terrorist organization, an arm of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood going back to the 3<sup>rd</sup> Reich, and its Charter calls for the destruction of Israel and all Jews. I won’t list all the worldwide media that have assisted in achieving this objective as that would run quite long. Suffice it to say, virtually no unbiased journalism abounds today where Israel is concerned.</p>
<p>Hundreds of rockets and missiles are shot daily directly at Israeli civilians. Hamas is using their own people as human shields, hiding and launching rockets and missiles from homes, hospitals, schools and playgrounds, knowing full well that Israel would have to strike back, increasing the amount of casualties and pressure on Israel.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel risks the lives of their young men to protect Palestinian civilians – warning them to leave areas, delivering aid and treating them in Israeli hospitals. No other country on earth would do this, yet the hate of Israel grows. And the media ignores these facts because they are inconvenient truths.</p>
<p>The use of words like “Holocaust” and “massacre” to describe Israeli actions underscores the anti-Semitism at play. Such word usage doesn’t seem to apply to the deaths of thousands of Muslims at the hands of allied forces and other Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.</p>
<p>Where was the world when the rocket attacks on Israel started? Why is it only Israel that elicits this type of condemnation when it defends itself? Had outrage been voiced and the real situation on the ground noted, this may have already ended without the casualties on either side. Ceasefire after ceasefire has been broken by Hamas – yet who gets blamed?</p>
<p>This is the purest form of anti-Semitism and nothing else.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236993" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2-431x350.jpg" alt="gaza-paris-2" width="265" height="215" /></a>“Here is the new France, the one which is emerging, the one which is beginning, the one of the future. You the inhabitants, Islamic or not, of the housing projects, you are the future of France, you are the rising generation, the one which will save this country from ruin…”   </em></p>
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<li>President Francois Hollande in a speech to residents of an immigrant ghetto before France&#8217;s 2012 national election</li>
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<p>French President Francois Hollande was probably correct when he told the Muslim inhabitants of one of France’s suburban ghettos (known as &#8220;banlieues&#8221;) they were “the future of France.” This community’s high birthrate and his socialist government’s pro-immigration policies will see to that. But if last Saturday’s rioting in the center of Paris is anything to go by, that future will be a bleak and scary one of Clockwork Orange-type violence. And, contrary to the Hollande’s statement, this “new France” will not save the country from ruin, but rather lead to it.</p>
<p>Last weekend, for the second weekend in a row, the French public watched in exasperation while the city that represents the heart of their country and culture to the world was defiled yet again by several thousand rioters of mostly North African and Middle Eastern origin. Demonstrating, allegedly, against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, over several hours and often to shouts of &#8220;allahu akbar&#8221; the rioters smashed store windows, burned vehicles and subjected the forces of law and order to a hail of bottles and rocks, injuring a dozen police officials.</p>
<p>“It was war, in the middle of Paris, in the city that receives the most tourists in the world,” said one upset storeowner, whose shop windows were broken, to the French newspaper <em>Le Figaro</em> the next day. “Why isn’t there a (government) minister here this morning to say that these guys who smashed everything are going to go to prison?”</p>
<p>During another “pro-Palestinian” demonstration the previous weekend, rioters had even attempted to attack two Parisian synagogues. But these failed assaults only served to display the protest&#8217;s true motivation, which was anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred rather than opposition to Israeli policy. Besides the synagogue attacks, the demonstration’s anti-Semitic overtone was also more than evident in the slogans the rioters were yelling, which included such civilized gems as “death to the Jews” and “Hitler Was Right.”</p>
<p>“[H]atred for Israel and for Jews has become a major component of the identity of French of an Arab or African background; it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and director of <em>Causeur</em>, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.</p>
<p>Mihaely states the recent Paris demonstrations, “without a doubt,” are about “hatred of Jews and not the taking of a political position.” He cites the fact these rioters do not demonstrate and become violent about the 200,000 Muslims killed in the Syrian or other ongoing conflicts as further proof that the Paris riots were primarily about anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>“I believe that these demonstrations betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary of Israel and of the Jews,” Mihaely said.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitism was so evident in the first protest that French authorities banned last weekend’s second, anti-Israel &#8220;manif,&#8221; as the French call a demonstration. Nevertheless, several thousand people still gathered to wreak havoc and express anti-Jew hatred, the rioters somehow believing that attacking police in France and sacking a part of central Paris will bring peace to Gaza. It is interesting to note no such rioting is occurring in Islamic North African countries, where many ‘manif’ participants have their origins.</p>
<p>Besides the acts of anti-Semitism and destruction that occurred in their greatest city, law-abiding French citizens were more than disturbed by the fact that a prohibited demonstration actually was able to take place at all. To them, this signals a frightening weakness, even a powerlessness, on the part of President Hollande and his socialist government, from which planners of future, violent mayhem will expect to profit. The French government appears incapable of getting these &#8220;residents &#8230;of the housing projects” to obey the law. Rather, it is the people of Hollande’s “new France” who were dictating to lawful authorities by holding the banned demonstration, telling government officials, in essence, that they are “prohibited from prohibiting.”</p>
<p>Many French were also put out that so few rioters were arrested after so much violent lawlessness. From the demonstration that saw the synagogues attacked, only five people were turned over to the courts, charged with “violence against security forces” and “rebellion.” One of their number was acquitted of the violence charge but was jailed for four months for “rebellion.” The others had yet to have their day in court.</p>
<p>Last weekend’s riot saw 44 arrested, of whom only 19 were kept in police custody.</p>
<p>Some in France regard these numbers as disgraceful, especially when one considers that in 2013, French security forces arrested about 1,000 people protesting at different demonstrations the Hollande government’s pro-gay marriage law. With their children present “in the thousands,” these protesters behaved like angels compared to last weekend’s criminals. Nevertheless, at one anti-gay marriage demonstration alone, in central Paris where the recent anti-Semitic riots occurred, police arrested 293 people.</p>
<p>“Police determined to clear the area seized unarmed people and used brutal violence to force them into vans,” stated one report. “They were taken to police cells where they were left in dirty conditions for as much as 17 hours without charge and access to lawyers.”</p>
<p>It’s a shame that such firmness wasn’t shown towards those gathering for last Saturday’s illegal demonstration before any destruction of private property took place and streets were torn up for projectiles to throw at and wound police.</p>
<p>Besides the small number arrested, the sentences the rioters are expected to receive are already a topic of ridicule among those unhappy with the government’s tepid response to the law-breaking. People can’t understand, for example, why one rioter, as mentioned, received only four months in jail for his violent actions, while a member of the populist National Front Party was sentenced recently to nine months and fined $100,000 for stupidly and inexcusably comparing on Facebook France’s justice minister, who is black, to an ape.</p>
<p>But the discrepancy in numbers concerning those arrested in the recent anti-Semitic riots and last year’s anti-gay marriage law demonstrations is probably a reflection of the political interests and beliefs of France’s ruling Socialist Party. And most likely the same holds true concerning the different sentence lengths meted out to the rioter convicted of “rebellion” and the person who made the asinine, racist comparison.</p>
<p>On the socialist list of unpardonable crimes, racist and anti-gay beliefs probably rank number one and two, and are greater sins in some socialists’ eyes than attacking synagogues and ransacking central Paris. Besides, as indicated in the quote above from Hollande’s 2012 pre-election speech, French socialists regard the Muslim citizens of France’s banlieues as their ideological, and voting, constituency, which may also account for the lenient treatment rioters receive.</p>
<p>“We are encountering in the left of today (the view of) immigrants as being the new face of the group charged with carrying out the downfall of history,” said French philosopher Robert Redeker.</p>
<p>Redeker states immigrants, both legal and illegal, the youth of the banlieues and Roma have replaced the native French proletariat as the socialist weapon to transform French society, because French workers, not being revolutionary enough, were not up to the task. Interestingly, Redeker adds leftist promotion of immigration is also the punishment the Left &#8220;inflicted on the proletariat for having failed in its historic duty.”</p>
<p>This socialist partiality for the Muslims of the banlieues was also evident in Hollande’s statement about the synagogue attacks. While he stated he would not tolerate anti-Semitism, Hollande also said he does want the Israeli-Palestinian conflicted brought to French soil. This reprehensible equating of Israel with the terrorist organization Hamas was probably made with his party’s Muslim constituency in mind.</p>
<p>But Hollande’s opposition to Jew-hatred on the one hand and catering to the Muslim vote on the other will not keep the peace. While he tells France’s national Jewish council he supports it in its fight against anti-Semitism, the Socialist Party is pro-Muslim immigration. This is a recipe for disaster. The only hope for France&#8217;s future, if there still is one, is to restrict such immigration and adopt a tough, zero-tolerance policy toward all civil disturbances, especially those of an anti-Semitic nature.</p>
<p>If the current situation continues, one only has to look at what happened to the Jewish communities in Islamic countries after the Six Day War in 1967 to predict the fate of France’s 500,000 Jews, Europe&#8217;s largest Jewish community. Under severe persecution, their members were forced to flee North African and Middle Eastern states, never to return.</p>
<p>And since Holland and his fellow French socialists do not appear to want to learn from history, then this tragic historical lesson is doomed to be repeated in “the new France,” of which he and his fellow socialists are so proud.</p>
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		<title>A Carter Intervention in Venezuela</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jimmy_carter_2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220098" alt="jimmy_carter_2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jimmy_carter_2-443x350.jpg" width="310" height="245" /></a>Last week Jimmy Carter fired off letters to Venezuela’s fraudulent President Nicolas Maduro and to Venezuela’s defrauded Presidential candidate Enrique Capriles expressing “grave concern” regarding the political turmoil and bloodshed convulsing their nation. From his pulpit at Emory University’s Carter Center, the former U.S. president calls for “dialogue” among the embattled Venezuelan parties and offers to visit the troubled nation &#8212; but not as a formal “mediator.”</span></p>
<p>The news of Carter’s proposed Venezuela visit was only hours old when alarmed Venezuelan anti-socialists sent out an SOS: “Please, desist from your trip,” reads an open letter from Venezuelan blogger/journalist Daniel Duquenal. “You have absolutely no credibility in Venezuela…You have cursed us enough as it is. I can assure you that half of the country has no respect nor credibility for you and the other half (the Castroites) thinks you are a mere fool that they can use <a href="http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2014/02/open-letter-to-jimmy-carter-dont-you.html">and discard as needed.” </a></p>
<p>Venezuelan continues as a veritable battleground between hundreds of thousands of protestors and thousands of Cuban-trained government police and national guardsmen. Fifteen protestors have been shot dead, hundreds arrested and thousands injured. “I feel as if this were a war zone,” said one resident of the far-western city of San Cristobal, long known for it’s anti-Chavista activism.</p>
<p>Desperate to cow that area’s rebellious residents Maduro even sent some of his regime’s Russian-built Sukhoi warplanes to buzz (but not yet bomb) the area. “It doesn’t matter if it takes a month, two months, three months. We have to get rid of this government,” said one desperate protestor.</p>
<p>This is a very unequal battle. The protestors have overwhelming numbers on their side, but the Cuba-puppet regime has the guns, the planes, the tanks, the truncheons and the tear gas. Better still (for the Venezuelan regime) the hands-on tutelage of their repressive apparatus comes courtesy of a regime (Castro’s) that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s<i> </i>during the Great Terror, and murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler‘s murdered Germans during his <i>first six. </i>No “security specialists” in the Western Hemisphere can boast anything close to these credentials on their CV.</p>
<p>So like anyone else with stellar credentials Castro’s military and police advisors demand top price for their services. Last year Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba totaled $10 billion. That’s more than <i>double</i> what the Soviets used to send. No, Castro’s KGB-trained murderers and torturers will not work for peanuts.</p>
<p>Alas, Castro’s “security” assistance to Maduro’s regime has lately been revealed as more than strictly “advisory.” Venezuelan social media (the only type still functioning freely in this Cuban satrapy) is leaking out some tragi-comedies: <a href="https://yrj8p7qye6fzoz3aqjhp.r.worldssl.net/foto-tu-eres-venezolano-cantame-el-himno-nacional-le-decia-la-mujer-al-gnb-en-las-mercedes-esta-tarde/">“You’re not Venezuelan!”</a> yelled a demonstrator to a heavily armed national Guardsman. “Then sing the Venezuelan national anthem!” and of course the man in the Venezuelan Guardsman’s uniform could not.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter has a long and illustrious history of “mediation” in disputed Venezuelan elections, dating back to 1998. In every case his mediation served to legitimize the electoral fraud of Venezuela’s Castroites and socialists. In fact the international legitimacy of Maduro’s fraudulent presidency owes much to Carter himself.</p>
<p>“The voting part” of it was &#8220;free and fair,” declared Jimmy Carter after Maduro “won” the elections of April, 2013 shortly after Hugo’ Chavez death. “Venezuela probably has the <i>most excellent</i> voting system that I have ever known,” he concluded.  Maybe if Jimmy Carter spent less time watching Wayne’s World and more time listening to the Venezuelan opposition he’d know that election was blatantly stolen by Maduro.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter’s relationship with Venezuela’s current colonial overlords may explain his solicitude for the welfare of the Maduro regime. To wit:</p>
<p>“We greeted each other as old friends,” gushed Jimmy Carter regarding his most recent meeting with Fidel Castro in April 2011.</p>
<p>“In 2002, we received him warmly,” reciprocated Fidel. “Now, I reiterated to him our respect and esteem.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Jimmy Carter was the best of all U.S. Presidents,” gushed Fidel’s brother Raul while seeing his American guest off personally and jovially after those ultra-amiable meetings.</p>
<p>But Jimmy Carter’s affection for the Castros amounts to more than smiles, handshakes and love notes. On his most recent Cuban visit he appeared on Cuban TV to denounce the U.S. justice system and plead for the release of Cuban terrorist/spies (The Cuban Five) &#8212; a conviction by U.S. Federal juries upheld all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, by the way. The charges against Castro’s spies included</p>
<p>•Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.</p>
<p>•Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.</p>
<p>•Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command.</p>
<p>•Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans.</p>
<p>•Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts.</p>
<p>•Locating entry points into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Florida for smuggling explosives.</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I believe that there is no reason to keep the Cuban Five imprisoned,” declared Jimmy Carter while being interviewed by a Communist apparatchik on Cuban TV. “I had the opportunity to meet the families of the five Cuban <i>patriots </i>[italics mine], with their wives and with their mothers&#8230;..I&#8217;m well aware of the shortcomings of the U.S. judicial system [but apparently not the Cuban] but hope that President Obama will grant their pardon. He knows my opinion on this matter, that the trial of the Cuban Five was very dubious, <a href="http://www.freethefive.org/updates/CubanMedia/CMCarterArleen33011.htm">that many norms were violated</a>.”</p>
<p>The man hailed as the “Elder Statesman” of America’s <i>majority</i> political party insulted the judicial system of the nation that elected him President while hosted by a regime that imported its judicial system—lock, stock and barrel—<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">from the heirs of Joe Stalin.</a></p>
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		<title>The New Civil Rights Anthem: Fight For Your Right to Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When stopping a nightclub riot is "racist." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/628x4712.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218064" alt="628x4712" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/628x4712-450x327.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>Civil rights has a new troubadour. And a new anthem. Pete Seeger is out. The Beastie Boys are in.</span></p>
<p>Gone are the pastors and protestors holding hands and singing We Shall Overcome. Sometimes at the business end of a fire hose.</p>
<p>In its place is a new spiritual: You Have to Fight For Your Right to Party. Usually accompanied by a cloud of marijuana smoke and whatever kinds of vodka Puff Diddy and 50 Cent are selling these days.</p>
<p>The new Selma is Troy, New York. Just outside of Albany. And the first shot in this new front in the battle for civil rights was fired early Saturday morning a few weeks ago. Not with a bullet, but with a 911 call from a night club called Kokopellis.</p>
<p>“We need the Troy police at Kokopellis,” said the unidentified caller.  “We got a bar fight goin’ on here. It’s inside movin’ out. Someone got hit with a bottle.”</p>
<p>How many people are fighting? asked the operator.</p>
<p>“About a hundred.” That was around 2:30 a.m., just a few days after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, as a local paper reminded us.</p>
<p>Then a bartender called 911 as well:  “I’m a bartender at Kokopellis, we need a few cops down here. We got like a ton of people fighting right now and our bouncers are getting punched in the face and everything.”</p>
<p>The “and everything” included getting hit with bottles and sprayed with pepper spray because the bouncers were trying to eject people from the club for smoking pot on the dance floor. But they did not want to go.</p>
<p>A word about Kokopellis: Most night clubs are easy to pigeonhole, mostly by their crowds. But lately a new kind of club is springing up: They try and do it all. Kokopellis is one of those. One night it will feature hip hop and attract a heavy black crowd. Another night, the DJ markets to gay people. They even have hookahs. The college kids love that.</p>
<p>And on and on.</p>
<p>But this night, videos show the crowd was mostly black. And they mostly did not like it when police arrived to the riot. The local paper called it a “scuffle.” Some scuffle.</p>
<p>Most of the people were there to commemorate the shooting death of a local DJ one year earlier. Local news reporter and talk show host Jim Franco said the killing was gang-related.</p>
<p>Police have since released the calls for help from the first responders: “They are throwing bottles at us,” said one cop. “Whoever is on their way better step it up.”</p>
<p>They did. Videos show when cops arrived in bigger numbers soon after, they were met with defiance, physical resistance, pepper spray and someone even discharged a fire extinguisher at them.</p>
<p>Outside, it wasn’t going any better. “Two of our officers were struck in the head by bottles,” said police captain John Cooney told News 10 in Albany. “One suffering a laceration with bruising to the head. A garbage can was thrown at one of our officers. And after glancing off him, went through the back window of one of our patrol cars.”</p>
<p>Before it was over, six people &#8212; all black &#8212; were arrested. Eight cops were injured, six went to the hospital.</p>
<p>Soon after the real riot ended, the virtual riot began. This was the riot that black ministers insisted had really happened: Cops were beating black people for no other reason than they could. And, oh yeah, they were a bunch of racists.</p>
<p>Cue the Al Sharpton wannabe, Pastor Willie Bacote, backed up by members of the Troy African American Pastoral Alliance. At a community meeting soon after, Bacote was upset at how the police were using excessive force to deny the black people of Troy their right to party. And he was not going to let that happen. Not on his watch.</p>
<p>The Albany Times Union recorded Paster Bacote’s insights for the record: &#8220;Race has to be on the table. We&#8217;ve got a lot of problems to deal with in our city,&#8221; said <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Pastor+Willie+Bacote%22">Bacote</a> of the <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Missing+Link+AME+Zion+Church%22">Missing Link AME Zion Church</a>.</p>
<p>The Troy Record could not get enough of Bacote either. “We have had enough of these incidents here in the city of Troy that keep wanting us to meet like this,” said Pastor Willie Bacote. “We will not tolerate this any longer.”</p>
<p>Bacote was referring to the police responding to several emergency calls involving large scale violence. Not the drunk, high people who attacked the police when they showed up to restore order.</p>
<p>The Tory Record did not point this out, but as police riots go, this was pretty tame stuff: No fractured skulls. No broken arms. No dog bites. No billy club bruises. No bullet holes. No one died. Not like the old days.</p>
<p>One of the men allegedly involved in the brawl and who was later arrested for resisting arrest had a black eye.</p>
<p>The Troy police just hauled several inebriated people off to jail who did not want to go. For Bacote, that meant it was time for the poor and oppressed black people of Troy, New York to go to the mattresses: “We will fight them on the battlefield of justice,” Bacote said.</p>
<p>By now its a familiar act. But fewer and fewer people seem to be buying it, if reader comments are any judge:</p>
<p>“Oh god. I wondered how long it would be before Bacote got his mug in the news demanding police leave black folks alone,” said one reader.  “The bar owners were trying to shut the bar down because stupid idiots decided they were going to smoke pot inside. The unruly patrons didn&#8217;t like being told to leave so they beat up a bouncer. The cops had to be called and the rest is history. Bacote, isn&#8217;t it time for you to head down south like you&#8217;ve been promising for years? Troy doesn&#8217;t need your here pulling your race card at every possible opportunity. We&#8217;re sick of it.”</p>
<p>Even the usually most dependable allies in this civil rights struggle had their doubts about this one:  “Incident At Kokopellis,” began the headline of an NPR story. “Finding Racism Where Some Say There Is None?”</p>
<p>Its a start.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 05:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214146" alt="122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime-280x350.jpg" width="224" height="280" /></a>First came the shock. Then disbelief. Then the questions: Why him? Why now? Why did Attorney General Holder choose to file hate crime charges against a white man in Texas for allegedly playing the Knockout Game against a black man?</p>
<p>And the biggest question of all: When will public officials and the media stop ignoring &#8212; and denying &#8212; the black mob violence and black on white crime that exists exponentially out of proportion?</p>
<p>As examples, many point to recent episodes of large scale black mob violence; smaller but lethal cases of black on white crime; and even more <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">bouts of the Knockout Game.</a></p>
<p>Let’s start in Los Angeles, two weeks before Christmas. At first seemed it like nothing: The Los Angeles Times called it a <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">fraternity brawl among 25 people with no particular racial </a>identity at a local hotel and no one hurt. The local CBS affiliate talked to the fraternity president who also downplayed the violence: It was just a few guys trying to “impress the females.”</p>
<p>By the next day, a different picture emerged: More than 1000 people were fighting in and out of the hotel. Before during and after the party. Video showed one person throwing a large metal table into a crowd of party -goers. People got hurt, at least one person was hospitalized for stitches.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">local ABC affiliate cobbled it together</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to hotel management, the fight broke out between two different fraternities. Police said everything from fists, tables and chairs were thrown. Some witnesses said fights occurred on several floors of the hotel. They also said police used pepper spray on the crowds.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was pretty bad. The whole party was engulfed in pepper spray. You could feel it in your lungs,&#8221; said one witness.</p>
<p>Authorities say the pepper spray was used when the partygoers refused to cooperate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Other hotel residents said the violence and commotion went on all night inside the hotel.</p>
<p>The party was sponsored by a black fraternity at Cal State Long Beach. No one was arrested.</p>
<p>Near Charlotte, North Carolina, four black people are under arrest in the shooting death of Marcus Kauffman, a volunteer firefighter and expectant father. Kauffman died a few days before Christmas.</p>
<p>At the University of Michigan, three black people were charged in December with  the murder of a medical student during a home invasion robbery.</p>
<p>On December 15, Dustin Friedland and his wife were leaving a New Jersey mall when a group of black people allegedly killed him and took his SUV. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">The New York Daily News</a> filled in a few blanks:</p>
<blockquote><p>Friedland, a beloved husband and lawyer from Hoboken, had just finished loading holiday gifts into his silver 2012 Range Rover when two men ambushed him so they could steal the SUV. He never had a chance — the men shot him four times before he had a chance to resist or question his greedy attackers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Police arrested four black people are few days before Christmas and charged them with murder.</p>
<p>Many public officials and members of the media deny there is any kind of systematic problem with black mob violence or black and white crime. Their sympathetic denials do not protect them.</p>
<p>In Washington, D.C.,  in December, several black people severely beat a CNN news producer walking the two blocks from his home to work at 4 a.m. He said he will never walk in that neighborhood again.</p>
<p>In Minneapolis at the Mall of America, several black people beat and robbed one of the area’s more visible liberal politicians. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Just about a month after Mark Andrew finished second</a> in the November race for mayor of Minneapolis, he was sitting in a Starbucks when someone grabbed his phone and ran out of the store.</p>
<blockquote><p>As Andrew ran after the thief, two young women waiting outside the coffee shop tackled him, and one began beating him on the head and face with a club.</p>
<p>Andrew said he jumped back to his feet and physically restrained one attacker while the other continued striking him. They yelled, “We’re going to kill you! We’re going to kill you!”</p></blockquote>
<p>When police arrived, the two black women said they were the victims: Andrew had attacked them. That story did not hold up very well and the two were arrested.</p>
<p>Andrew was taken to the hospital where he received nine stitches. The third person is still at large. They don’t have to worry too much: Andrew is not mad at them: “I think there’s redemption for everybody,&#8221; said Andrew. &#8220;So we’ll try to find a way for them to get in a place where they can turn their lives around.”</p>
<p>So far Andrew and his social reformers have not had much success with that in Minneapolis. The Mall of America has been the site of several examples of black mob violence. Many documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.</a></p>
<p>Here’s how one resident describes the New Minneapolis:</p>
<blockquote><p>Formerly bustling suburbs like Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park have turned into ghettos. Malls, restaurants and shops are few and far between in downtown areas.</p>
<p>Even the Mall of America is under assault. Go there on a Saturday afternoon and you&#8217;ll see gangs of blacks with colors flying and pant legs rolled up.</p>
<p>They ogle, whistle at and harass white women, even following them around. They occupy the food courts, which are a constant source of intimidation and mayhem.</p>
<p>Last January, some 200 blacks got into a violent chair throwing fracas at one of the food courts. It quickly spread to other areas, forcing<br />
stores to close their gates and paying customers to flee. There was cell phone video all over the Internet, showing conclusively that the combatants were black.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll never know if there were any arrests made or charges filed because the print and broadcast media had little to say.</p></blockquote>
<p>And downtown Minneapolis and the campus of the University of Minnesota have been the site of several recent examples of black mob violence and black on white crime.</p>
<p>In December, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Minneapolis police told a Chinese exchange student</a> they were “too busy” to investigate the whereabouts of her stolen computer, even though she had located it using a built-in GPS device.</p>
<p>Several black people had assaulted her, knocked her out, and taken her computer several days before. Campus police followed up on the lead and found the computer. They arrested one person, who said he took the computer but someone else assaulted her.</p>
<p>She is just one of dozens of victims of black on white and black and asian violence near the campus. The University of Minnesota school paper reports that black students are unhappy the assailants are identified by race &#8212; as is required in the Cleary law for reporting violence on college campuses. They say they are being profiled.</p>
<p>Down in Jacksonville, Florida, a “massive” Christmas night fight and riot erupted in and out of a movie theater after 600 black people &#8212; many waiting to see a Nelson Mandela movie &#8212; tried to gain free admission by rushing the ticket taker.</p>
<p>Private security and police used tear gas on the rioters. According to the Florida Times-Union out of Jacksonville:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the young suspects refused orders to leave and began to incite the crowd yelling, “—  — you, crackers, I ain’t going nowhere,” according to her arrest report. Most of the crowd was black, while several officers were white.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to <a href="http://newsone.com/2817326/600-people-involved-in-movie-theater-brawl/">NewsOne.com, a black web site, “the pepper spray</a> is what apparently sparked the brawl that broke out.”</p>
<p>Some would say the riot provoked the pepper spray, not the other way around.</p>
<p>During the 90 minutes it took to get the fighting under control, several of the rioters threatened attacked police, including Jaquade Marquis Miller.</p>
<p>When Miller appeared before a judge, his mother told the court he was a good boy and this was not like him. She later told reporters her son was crying and scared.</p>
<p>Instead of sending him to jail, Miller agreed to take an eight-week course in accountability from a group called <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Save Our Sons. The program teaches accountability,</a> “healthy choices” and “gives them a chance to vent,” said SOS leaders.</p>
<p>Jacksonville has been the scene of several episodes of recent large scale black mob violence.  In 2012, 300 black people stormed a Wal-Mart, looted it, videoed it, and ran away as police arrived. But not before the chaos was captured on video.</p>
<p>On Memorial Day 2013, hundreds of black people were involved in large scale violence at the beach. Much of it on video.</p>
<p>Self-described youth advocate, Donteacia Seymore of Jacksonville, told First Coast News this kind of violence happens a lot in Jacksonville: “But it was a reminder that this is something that&#8217;s common. It&#8217;s prevalent. It&#8217;s not going away,&#8221; Seymore said.</p>
<p>Chicago residents and police report at least two episodes of large scale black mob violence over the holiday season. In the suburb of Orland Park, dozens of black people were fighting and destroying property at a local mall. Five people were arrested. The reporters at the local Patch outlet were careful to avoid the racial issue, but its readers were not:</p>
<blockquote><p>How does one comment on this and NOT sound racist or some stereotype. You can&#8217;t. So I won&#8217;t try.  Though some liberal will say I&#8217;m being racist or stereo typical but I&#8217;m not the ones who named their children &#8220;Shat-I-Vanna&#8221; SERIOUSLY?! Then raised her in a way to think this was an appropriate way to behave. Sadly, all too often stereotypes exist for a reason. You may call it a stereotype or racist while I call it STATISTICS. See, no way to reply to this TRUTHFULLY and not sound like some dumb ass clan member, so I won&#8217;t try. Sorry, if the truth hurts. People are too afraid to speak the truth these days.</p></blockquote>
<p>Over at America’s best cop blog: Second City Cop, readers learned about 500 black people “wilding” at Chicago’s North Riverside mall a few days after Christmas.</p>
<blockquote><p>When the wilding started in the mall. I would have estimated about a 500 hundred Amish thugs fighting and running like savages. Store locked their doors and security waited until about 25 squad cars from the surrounding areas came and cleared the mall.</p>
<p>They were not really Amish. And readers report neither episode received much attention in the local news.</p></blockquote>
<p>In Syracuse over the weekend, eight black people were arrested at the Destiny USA mall after police and security responded to a “large fight.” One of the people arrested, a 14-year-old boy, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">allegedly swung a knife at police</a>.</p>
<p>Many in Syracuse said it reminded them of a similar incident at the same mall last year, when police were called to another large fight involving black people. When police attempted to detain a 15-year-old suspect, he resisted. Two of his friends attacked the officers.</p>
<p>After he was subdued and arrested, police found a sawed-off shotgun in his long coat. Three shotgun shells were found next to the body of an unconscious person at the scene of the fight.</p>
<p>Also over the weekend, police found one man dead when they responded to reports of a large fight of over 100 black people near New Haven, Connecticut. Neighbors said two things: It happens a lot. And it has been going on for a long time.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Indianapolis in December, the last of 11 black people were arrested</a> in connection with a series of home invasion robberies and sexual assaults. A few days before Christmas, two white women were allegedly murdered by a black disgruntled former employee of the family business.</p>
<p>Indianapolis is the site of frequent and intense black mob violence, including mayhem at the annual Indiana Black Expo, documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1388370340&amp;sr=8-1">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it</a>.</p>
<p>No account of the racial violence over the last several weeks would be complete without mentioning the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Knockout Games, and how they are still happening</a>. (Or not, if you work for CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC and other media outlets.)</p>
<p>From <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Brooklyn, Columbus, Rochester, Milwaukee, Harlem, Florence</a> and other places, reports of spontaneous, unprovoked, black on white racial violence continue to come to flood conservative news sites.  And continue to be denied in many &#8212; but not all &#8212; popular press outlets.</p>
<p>Recent <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">large scale black mob violence &#8211;often at night after the clubs close</a>, or in the day at black high schools  &#8212; has also been reported in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tulsa, Washington, Baton Rouge, Middletown (Connecticut), Pittsburgh, Tifflin, Peoria, Oakland, Long Island, Rochester, Roanoke, among others.</p>
<p>What recently received the most attention were the (pick one) 300, 400, 500, or 600 “teens” rampaging through Kings Plaza mall in Brooklyn &#8212; the same neighborhood  where 10 black people surrounded a white couple in a car at a stoplight and beat them in November.</p>
<p>For two hours on the day after Christmas, “the teenagers stole merchandise, assaulted security guards, and broke candy jars. A group of teenage girls were caught on camera fighting and shouting while security guards tried to break them up.”</p>
<p>Merchants reported widespread panic and property damage, so much so that many were forced to close their doors to protect their customers and merchandise.</p>
<p>The New York Post made a perfunctory attempt to convince its readers this was not another example of black mob violence. It reported “A tall white guy with a grey bubble coat was wearing a ski mask and a skull cap and he had his hand under his coat like he was holding a gun.”</p>
<p>But videos, social media and members of law enforcement tell a different story: This was a black crowd at mall with a large black clientele. <a href="http://chicksontheright.com/posts/item/25160-flash-mob-of-400-teenage-lunatics-at-a-brooklyn-mall-hey-here-s-an-idea">Chicks on the Right tracked</a> down some of their Facebook postings.</p>
<blockquote><p>“[Kings Plaza] was on tilt today but n-ggas wasn’t catching me,” Ray Ray Sextana posted on Facebook.</p>
<p>Another teen, Mark Wallace, posted, “S–t was crazy at Kings Plaza. So the security started shutting down the mall and kicking all teens out but it was so much of us they couldn’t get control.”</p>
<p>He added,“F–ked up my middle finger tryna fight them bitch ass security guards.”</p></blockquote>
<p>At least viewer at the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">ABC news affiliate in New York was having trouble figuring it all </a>out: “Just wondering, but why are there so many variations on what happened Thursday? Some say claim that there were hundreds of teenagers, that nothing was stolen or it was just these group of girls fighting.”</p>
<p>A few days later, a group of black people beat and robbed a man for his iPhone. The NBC affiliate posted pictures of the suspects. Law enforcement officials in Brooklyn say this happens every day in their borough.</p>
<p>Cops on the beat in Brooklyn, Chicago, Houston, and other cities laugh when they read the denials or see them on television news: There are too many witnesses, too many videos, too many victims, too much damage, for people to deny the existence of large scale black mob violence and black on white crime, they say.</p>
<p>Many black media outlets are way past the denials &#8212; and now into explaining why it is happening. This article from the Atlanta Black Star is as good as anything you can find in Ebony, Jet, The Grio, One News, Huffington Post Black Voices, The Field Negro, or dozens of other black media outlets: <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/11/26/5-reasons-young-black-men-resort-violence/">5 Reasons Young Black Men Resort To Violence.</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local press reacts to the racist scaremongers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bowtieslk1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207408" alt="bow tie cinema schenectady slk" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bowtieslk1-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>I wish the liberals would make up their minds.</p>
<p>Here is what they ALWAYS say about  the black mob violence documented in the book White Girl Bleed a Lot:</p>
<p>1) It is not happening.</p>
<p>2) Here is why it is happening.</p>
<p>Salon did it. Then CNN. Then MSNBC. The former head of a state-wide NAACP did it on my radio show. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">Now comes Casey Seiler, a reporter at the Albany Times-Union</a>. Seiler does not approve of a recent FrontPage story about black mob violence in Schenectady. He says “the riot has no color.”</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler accuses me of forgetting what is causing all this black mob violence.</p>
<p>You remember, the violence that does not exist.</p>
<p>Seiler insists White Girl Bleed a Lot ignores the “tangled sociological reasons for those statistics, such as the economic and cultural aftereffects of hundreds of years of white racism.”</p>
<p>It’s nice catching liberals in unguarded moments. In between name calling, that is.</p>
<p>What touched off Seiler’s ire was a recent episode in a Schenectady movie theater, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">documented in FrontPage.com</a>. The local paper picks up what happened to a father and his two daughters. The group of black people</p>
<blockquote><p>ran up and down the aisle yelling and banging a plastic garbage can near the entrance to the theater.</p>
<p>As the credits rolled at the end of the movie, one of the young men accosted the victim from behind, punching him in the head, District Attorney William Sanderson said. A second male did the same thing, he said.</p>
<p>After the second punch, the man stood and blocked the third punch before the whole group attacked him, the prosecutor said.</p>
<p>They knocked the man to the ground, repeatedly punched and kicked him and dragged him on his knees, Sanderson said.</p>
<p>When one of the victim’s 15-year-old twin daughters tried to help her father, she also was hit. One of the assailants ran off with her cellphone.</p>
<p>It’s unclear how long the assault lasted, but no one inside the theater tried to help the victim.</p></blockquote>
<p>All of the 8 alleged assailants were black.</p>
<p>Seiler says I could not possibly know that because two of the people arrested are juveniles and the court records are sealed.</p>
<p>I know that from the same people who told me about the incident in the first place: People who belong to Schenectady area law enforcement agencies. They texted me. The same people who said a hell of a lot more than 8 black people were involved in that beating.</p>
<p>There were witnesses to this assault &#8212; and other episodes of racial violence in Schenectady. They write about it in Schenectady web sites. They wrote me emails. I also talked to them.</p>
<p>It’s called reporting. The same skills that allowed me to show how a black man accused of trying to kill his white girl friend was unjustly convicted. His name was Kelvin Wiley. That story got out him out of prison and was featured on NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Court TV and about a gajillion other places.</p>
<p>And, by the way, Mr. Seiler, the father and two daughters who were beat in the movie theater are not OK. Thanks for not asking.</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler says I ignore white mob violence, and he produces an example of it from two years ago. He obviously missed my story on the (disappointingly tepid) white riot from a few weeks ago. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">It’s happened! An all-white riot</a>.</p>
<p>In Mr. Seiler’s defense, let it be known: I drew first blood. One of my readers wrote him an email asking him why he did not cover racial violence, such as the example in Virginia where a black mob beat two reporters and their own paper buried the story for two weeks. I included his response in an article for WND.com:</p>
<p>“A riot made up primarily of black people wouldn’t be a ‘race riot’ any more than a <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">post-championship riot at Penn State made up primarily of white people</a> would be a ‘race riot.’”</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">White Girl Bleed a Lot documents more than 500</a> examples of recent black mob violence. And Mr. Seiler wants to dismiss it with mythical accounts of Penn State football and two counter-examples of some unruly teenagers who were probably just  “just blowing off some steam.” That’s what a community activist told a Temple University medical journal about black mob violence in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>The issue is not whether black mob violence exists. But whether it exists exponentially out of proportion.</p>
<p>Let’s check it: I&#8217;ll see those two white riots from the last few years, and raise you dozens of examples of black mob violence and black on white crime from over the last few months. Some fatal. Some on video.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">San Leandro, California in September</a>, a black man punched the manager of a Safeway store in the face. He’s in critical condition. On video.</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler may not be aware of the Knockout Game. And how this version of black on white violence happens all over country. Sometimes in mobs. Sometimes not. Sometimes fatal. Sometimes not. A St. Louis judge recently said one man in that town alone is responsible for 300 such attacks. Some on video.</p>
<p>A viewer at the ABC affiliate in San Francisco filled in nicely for Mr. Seiler. He said the beating was justified because the store manager was a racist:</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe just maybe he didn&#8217;t take to kindly to being racially profiled and hmm hit the manager. If you have never been racially profiled you don&#8217;t know how you would react.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks for making that up.</p>
<p>If that reader ever wants to go into the newspaper racket, I predict a long and glorious future for him, as long as he does not mind being a predictable mouthpiece for liberal politicians in east coast state capitals.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">Denver, five black people were captured in September</a> on video beating and kicking a man at a light rail station. Some locals are upset they did not hear about this episode of racial violence for three weeks. It happened about the same time as the San Leandro beat down.</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler is upset they heard about it all.</p>
<p>“The people in Denver and Schenectady did not hold signs, or issue a press release or shout racial epithets,” said Taleeb Starkes, author of the Amazon best selling book, Uncivil War. “So legally, this is not a hate crime. But to ignore the racial aspect of this violence is foolish. And dangerous.”</p>
<p>“By itself, this incident was not earth shaking. But when looked at with thousands of other similar episodes across the country, it is part of an tide of black mob violence that is exponentially out of proportion. Which people like Seiler cannot explain. Only ignore. Deny. Distort. Mock. Anything but tell the truth. All the while making sure they stay out of places where they may be subject to similar racial violence. That is called hypocrisy. And that is why hate crime numbers seriously understate the epic levels of black mob violence.”</p>
<p>Earlier this month, a <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">Marine Corp veteran on a cross country run</a> for charity was the victim of a the Knockout Game in Wilmington, Delaware. Or, as Fox News put it: The assailant &#8220;without provocation, allegedly punched O’Toole in the face.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few nights before at the same corner &#8212; the corner where your humble correspondent worked for one year during high school, across the street from a head shop owned by the mother of Bob Marley &#8211;  three people were shot while dozens of black people were waiting in line for the release of the new Air Jordan basketball shoes.</p>
<p>These events happened about a mile from where, two months before, 10 black people allegedly watched as two of their friends raped two women in a Wilmington park.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this month</a>, a car full of black people stopped a white woman to ask for directions. They were wearing wigs. They grabbed her, beat her, robbed her, pulled her down by her hair, removed her pants,  then pissed on her.</p>
<p>Then laughed.</p>
<p>Says KTSP TV news: &#8220;The woman reported she thought she was going to get raped. She heard one man say, “Mitch you took that white b****’s phone.”</p>
<p>Former prison psychologist Marlin Newburn says sadism is a common feature of black mob violence:</p>
<p>“Black predators commonly humiliate their victims, regardless of race, and it is a black criminal cultural trait as is getting revenge,” Newburn said.  “I&#8217;ve evaluated black murderers who made their victims beg prior to killing them. A lone survivor of one such trauma reported this in court. The killers were remorseless, and like all the others, the only regret they had was getting caught.”</p>
<p>“Sadism is also a demonstration of the absence of a conscience while gaining primitive sense of personal power. This is the lowest and most brutal form of anti-social personality disorder. There is great satisfaction for the psychopath in harming others, physically and/or emotionally, and it borders on an addiction, a pathological beast that must be fed,” Newburn said.</p>
<p>Or, as one person put it as he was participating in a black mob beat down in Philadelphia: “It’s not our fault you can’t fight.”</p>
<p>Were the father and his two daughters at fault, Mr. Seiler? For their racism? Or their inability to fight off large groups of black people?</p>
<p>Stay tuned.</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler is probably not aware that St. Paul and Minneapolis and Denver and Wilmington are the scenes of more than 100  examples of black mob violence over the last several years alone. Including earlier this summer in St. Paul, where  Ray Widstrand ran into a mob of 100 black people near his apartment in the black part of town.</p>
<p>He is recovering from a fractured skull and other injuries.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">Fresno earlier this month, 13 people were shot </a>and one died during an after-party for the largest gathering of black bikers on the West Coast. The Washington Post even did a story on it, somehow forgetting to mention the racial nature of the gathering.</p>
<p>There were 5000 black bikers in town for this semi-annual event. Many of their activities on are video.</p>
<p>Outlets like the Washington Post and the Times-Union regularly publish stories about black caucuses, black colleges, black churches, black TV, black radio, black newspapers, black magazines, black professional groups and on and on and on. But when it comes to epidemic levels of black mob violence, Mr. Seiler comes down with a sudden case of being color-blind.</p>
<p>Or he says has no evidence that crime was “racially motivated.”</p>
<p>How about something closer to home for Mr. Seiler: Rochester also has a long history of frequent and intense bouts with racial violence. From downtown to the city’s Lilac Festival, black mob violence is now an accepted feature of life in that town.</p>
<p>For those who still live there, that is.</p>
<p>City Councilman <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">Adam McFadden explained  black mob</a> violence at a popular holiday gathering thusly: “&#8221;It&#8217;s just that you had a lot of people there who are not used to that culture and got to witness it personally.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some moved to the suburbs to escape it. That did not last long: In September, police from four agencies were called to neighboring Irondequoit to break up fights in and out side of a movie theater involving 400 to 500 black people from Rochester. Some of it on video.</p>
<p>The chief of police blamed the violence on a scary movie. No one was arrested.  When the fighting died down, police called the local bus company and everyone went back to Rochester. Local say this happens a lot.</p>
<p>In Buffalo, after a series on black mob attacks on students at a local university, the police chief said the college students were from rural areas and needed to get used to life in the big city. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">For Mr. Seiler’s benefit, let’s get the exact quote with a link</a>: &#8220;The City of Buffalo is an urban environment, and if you come from a rural section of the state, this is a different setting,&#8221;</p>
<p>That happens a lot, blaming the victim. In Columbia, South Carolina, the police chief blamed a series of black mob beat downs on white kids who drink too much.</p>
<p>In between scribbling down these non-sensical quotes, not one reporter asked “Really?”</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>In Utica, black mob violence is an almost daily occurrence over the last six months. Mr. Seiler does not have to believe me. The Utica police department Tweets about it. As do the people involved.</p>
<p>I also get email from Seiler-town itself, Albany: “Don&#8217;t go to McDonalds on lower Central Avenue in Albany NY if your white,” said one of my readers. “You will be harassed and called racial slurs by the mostly black customers! I am serious; if you value your physical and mental wellbeing, don&#8217;t go inside!”</p>
<p>Mr. Seiler may deny black mob violence exists. But the people who create  it often brag about it. Make music videos of it. Tweet it. Create hip hop songs glorifying it.</p>
<p>My own favorite is “Start a Riot” by 2Chainz. Last I looked it had 11 million viewers on YouTube. Sorry, that was a month ago: Now it is up to 12 million.</p>
<p>And of course, let&#8217;s not overlook teenage hip hopper Chief Keef. The New York Times celebrated Chief Keef in a review. They said his songs about drugs, violence, murder, more drugs and more violence were keeping it real.</p>
<p>His video &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Like&#8221; has a combined 40 million views. But the lyrics are so insane that the New York Times could not even quote one or two lines. Check them out yourself. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">▶ Kanye West &#8211; I Don&#8217;t Like ft. Pusha T, Chief Keef, Jadakiss &amp; Big Sean (Explicit) &#8211; YouTube</a></p>
<p>Don’t forget about lots of black mob violence in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, Saratoga Springs and other places in New York too. No matter how much Mr. Seiler wishes we would.</p>
<p>In Syracuse, a black mob killed a man at a bus stop earlier this year. They kicked his eye out. After fleeing, they realized he was helpless. So they returned and beat him some more. Days later, a Syracuse father wrote me an email &#8212; <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">published at WND</a> &#8212; about how his son was a victim of black mob violence a few days later.</p>
<p>In North Carolina, Whiteville over the weekend, police used Tasers to break up a large fight. Cops say an increasing number of interactions with black people involve defiance and physical challenges.</p>
<p>Several of which are documented in <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/liberal-take-down-of-white-girl-bleed-a-lot-again/">White Girl Bleed a Lot</a>. On video. Many in North Carolina. Every been to Raleigh, Durham, Winston-Salem, Wilmington, or Greensboro, Mr. Seiler?</p>
<p>If you ever go, let me know: I’ll be happy to supply you with some maps as to where you can conduct your own investigation.</p>
<p>This is a very, very long list, Mr. Seiler. Mobs big and small. Cities big and small. Ever hear about Beat Whitey Night at the Iowa State Fair? Three nights of black mob violence in and out of the fairgrounds. When reporters asked Lori Lavorato if black mobs were beating up white people, she told the truth.</p>
<p>Then got fired.</p>
<p>That’s why I wrote the book. For deniers like Mr. Seiler.</p>
<p>Post Script: As I prepared to ship this article off to FrontPage, readers from around the country alerted to me two more events over the weekend: Michigan Live reports a man “died at the hospital following his involvement in a large fight.”</p>
<p>Downtown Grand Rapids has been the scene this year of several cases of black mob violence &#8212; many when the bars close. As was the case here.</p>
<p>And in New Jersey, six black teenagers were arrested for “rampaging” through a commuter train from Newark to Hoboken. They sent four people to the hospital after beating and robbing them.</p>
<p>Stay tuned.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong> on the epidemic of black mob violence &#8212; and the media&#8217;s cover-up:</em></p>
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		<title>Muslim Days of Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/969259_490381994363159_1817867293_n.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191870" alt="969259_490381994363159_1817867293_n" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/969259_490381994363159_1817867293_n.jpg" width="304" height="198" /></a>One night back in the summer of 1990, I traveled by train from Munich to Berlin. The Wall had come down, in the sense that the borders between East and West could now be crossed at will, even though the two Germanys had yet to become one and the actual physical Wall itself was still largely intact. (In Berlin, I would find natives and tourists alike busily chopping away at it.) When, in the dead of night, the train stopped at a dilapidated, seemingly deserted station somewhere in the East, there appeared on the platform an aging, grim-faced woman, dressed in an extremely shabby military (or military-style) uniform and holding a clipboard, who, making her way along the length of the train, meticulously copied down the numbers on the sides of the carriages, performing a task that, I suspected, she had been carrying out for years, most likely decades, as a compliant tool of the totalitarian state. Her efforts were now utterly pointless, but she had plainly not been issued new orders, and so here she was, at the dawn of a new era, still robotically going through her Soviet-era motions.</p>
<p>I was reminded of that woman the other day when I saw the photograph (which by now, I gather, has been pretty widely distributed) of another woman, this one calmly writing up parking tickets for the skeletal remains of cars destroyed by the jihadist arsonists in Stockholm. Although this woman, unlike that German frau all those years ago, appeared to be young and slim, and wore a well-fitting, immaculate uniform, she, too, looked every bit the relic of a dying order – a functionary confronted with a new reality, but unprepared to do anything other than mindlessly copy down numbers, just as she had been trained to do. The image seemed to me instantly iconic – succinctly capturing the utter inability of official Europe to confront, and act upon, the horrific reality right before its eyes.</p>
<p>Then, the other day, I read the closest thing I&#8217;ve yet seen to a textual counterpart to that picture. Mind you, I thought I&#8217;d already read the most foolish, self-deluding possible responses to the chaos in Stockholm. But then the website of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) ran a long <a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/oppror-i-sverige-1.11046899">article</a> by respected (as they say) social psychologist Arnulf Kolstad. “If one wishes to understand a riot,” Kolstad began, “one should listen to the rioters.” And if we&#8217;d only listened to the Stockholm rioters, he continued, we&#8217;d perhaps have grasped “that the riots in Stockholm have a cause. And that they were perhaps even necessary.”</p>
<p>Kolstad went on to echo the official line that the rioters are “marginalized,” that “nobody listens to them or takes them seriously,” and so on. Even if you accept (as I most certainly do not) the proposition that the disturbances in Stockholm have been a cry of desperation by marginalized and ignored youth, this argument makes no sense. What teenager or twenty-something (except maybe Justin Bieber or that whizkid who just had a billion-dollar-plus payday selling Tumblr) <i>doesn&#8217;t </i>feel marginalized and ignored? What happened to the idea that one should earn one&#8217;s right to be noticed? Besides, isn&#8217;t it infinitely better to feel marginalized and ignored in Stockholm, enjoying endless supplies of free welfare goodies, than in some Pakistani hellhole?</p>
<p>These are my questions, naturally, not Kolstad&#8217;s. He was too busy wondering aloud why many Scandinavians who, after all, “have viewed the rebellion against dictatorial regimes in North Africa and in the Middle East as legitimate and necessary, and defended the throwing of stones at police and the setting of cars on fire,” are now unsettled because Muslims who “aren&#8217;t being heard and are without hope” are throwing stones and burning cars in Stockholm. Far from feeling uneasy about the riots, Kolstad suggested, we should “welcome an insurgency against injustice, differential treatment, and the lack of influence many experience in our parliamentary democracies.” In short: “it&#8217;s high tide” for this insurgency.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;ve quoted Kolstad at length, it&#8217;s because he, like that parking warden in Stockholm, seems an emblematic figure of our time – the very model of the respected, credentialed dhimmi who, not unlike his ethical and ideological counterparts in the days of Robespierre and Stalin, will be cheering on his country&#8217;s conquerors right up to the moment they drag his clueless, quivering carcass to the guillotine or firing squad or, in this case, stone him to death in a public square.</p>
<p>I would submit that a people who respond as Kolstad does to a massive show of force by a savage immigrant cohort (which, far from feeling powerless, has become increasingly aware of its own brutal power relative to that of its morally enervated hosts and benefactors) fully deserve to lose their country. But I don&#8217;t believe – I can&#8217;t believe – that Kolstad speaks for the people of Western Europe. Both Stockholm and London, after all, have now experienced well-nigh unprecedented public displays of enraged reaction against jihadist barbarity. In Stockholm, after days of Muslim tumult, no small number of Swedes – a people, note well, who (unlike the French, say, who will start a revolution over a stale baguette) are disinclined to take dramatic, decisive action of any kind (see: World War I, World War II, the Cold War, etc.) – angrily took to the streets, determined to take <i>back </i>the streets. In London, similarly, ordinary citizens publicly demonstrated their fury over the slaughter of Lee Rigby.</p>
<p>Yes, all this activity was relatively limited in scale. Still, it felt like a watershed moment. Could it be that – even as the likes of Kolstad persist in modeling the art of denial, and even as the picture of that parking warden so unforgettably captures the official refusal to face up to reality – there&#8217;s reason to hope that a significant number of Europeans have, as a result of the recent international confluence of major jihadist atrocities – Boston, Stockholm, London, plus a failed murder attempt in Paris – moved significantly closer to the moment when they&#8217;ll decisively throw over dhimmitude, hand the elite, pusillanimous Kolstads their hats, and set about undoing the ruinous work of multiculturalism before it&#8217;s too late?</p>
<p>Or, alternatively, has Europe simply taken a small but fateful step closer to the grim future that Lars Hedegaard, the Danish writer and free-speech champion, predicted many years ago, when, in answer to a question of mine over dinner about where he thought the Islamization of Europe was leading, he dourly described a continent ever more neatly divided into mutually hostile Muslim and non-Muslim areas – kind of like medieval Germany, with its patchwork of duchies, principalities, and so forth? At the time, intensely aware though I was of the inroads Islam had already made in Europe, Lars&#8217;s dystopic vision strained my imagination. It doesn&#8217;t now.</p>
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		<title>No Future for France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why even the French are giving up on their own country. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pb-130307-france-protest-ps6.photoblog900.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189567" alt="pb-130307-france-protest-ps6.photoblog900" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pb-130307-france-protest-ps6.photoblog900-450x322.jpg" width="270" height="193" /></a>An atmosphere of insurgency hangs over France. Month after month, demonstrations against the legalization of gay marriage bring together hundreds of thousands of people, and mobilization is not weakening. Members of the government are harassed by disgruntled crowds during each trip they make. Bankrupt factories are stormed by angry workers who sometimes occupy the streets to erect barricades made of burning tires. Leftist groups hold rallies and accuse the government of not being radical enough. Rightist groups hold other rallies and suggest that French civilization is threatened and must fight back. Rabid feminists attack Catholics by stripping naked in public and shouting obscene slogans in churches and cathedrals.</p>
<p>Financial scandals are accumulating and slowly discrediting the entire political class. One month ago, Jerome Cahuzac, a Secretary of Finance, center left, who was in charge of the fight against tax evasion, was indicted for tax evasion. Now, Claude Gueant, a former Secretary of the Interior, center right, is accused of bleaching &#8220;black money&#8221; coming from the former Libyan dictatorship. François Hollande was elected President just one year ago, but he is already discredited and on the ropes: none of his predecessors had fallen from grace so fast. Seventy-six percent of the French express a negative or very negative opinion of him, and the number continues to rise. Mainstream magazines describe him with an unforgiving ferocity: &#8220;The Mediocre President,&#8221; says one, &#8220;He shames us,&#8221; adds another.</p>
<p>Articles appeared recently comparing the situation to the 1789 Revolution and Hollande to Louis XVI, a weak King who ended up on the guillotine. Others drew comparisons to February 1934, a time when extremist groups attempted to seize the National Assembly in a context of widespread corruption and political decay. Some analysts, trying to find a ray of light amid the darkness, have spoken of a &#8220;French Spring.&#8221; But apart from the fact that the calendar says it&#8217;s spring in France, it is difficult to see anything that resembles &#8220;spring&#8221; in what is occurring.</p>
<p>France is a democratically unstable country. In two hundred and twenty years, she underwent eleven regime changes, and has seen innumerable riots. But in the past, rioters were carriers of hopes and dreams, even if their hopes and dreams were often tinged with illusion. Today, hopes and dreams are essentially absent. Pessimism among the French is frighteningly massive:  Seventy-one percent of the French think that the future will be much worse than the present.</p>
<p>France is a country where belief in a providential man capable of rehabilitating the country and able to deal with chaotic situations has persistently permeated citizens&#8217; minds. Napoleon the First remains a virtually undisputed hero, although he sowed war throughout Europe; Marshal Petain keeps many admirers; General de Gaulle is often presented as a man who liberated France largely alone and &#8220;restored pride.&#8221; Today, there is no one to play this role. Hollande was a default candidate, chosen by his party only because Dominique Strauss Kahn (the front runner) had been involved in a sordid case of rape in New York, one year before the election. Nicolas Sarkozy was beaten by Hollande because he had disappointed those who supported him initially. No other leader of national stature has emerged, and those who rise and protest, no matter who they are and what they think, have no leader.</p>
<p>France is a country in decline, and for the first time, a large part of the population discerns that the decline is for real.</p>
<p>It is also a country where intellectual debates are suffocated and where the long march of the left through the institutions has produced results, marginalizing or eliminating any non-socialist idea from education, culture, politics and the media. And the consequences are plain to see.</p>
<p>Many French discern the immensity of the problems. How could they do otherwise? The economy has been stagnant or in recession for several years, the unemployment rate has been rising steadily and is now well above ten percent according to official figures, or much higher if those who have given up looking for a job are reintroduced in the statistics. Poverty affects more than twenty percent of the population. Slums have reappeared on the outskirts of Paris. Violent attacks are multiplying. Each week, dozens of women are raped, students are stabbed in the courtyard of high schools and passersby are slain. The lawless areas dominated by gangs and radical imams proliferate.</p>
<p>Most French feel frustrated and want solutions.</p>
<p>Most of them are in favor of tougher penalties for crime, but see that politicians, left or right, talk, but do not act and seem overwhelmed by an out-of-control situation.</p>
<p>All of them would want a rapid return to growth and job creation, but almost all of them blindly believe that growth and job creation will come from government decisions.</p>
<p>A majority of the French want protectionist measures, the survival of the welfare state as it is, higher taxes for the rich and a strong and omnipotent State.</p>
<p>They refuse to see that the coffers are empty, that deficits are abysmal, that the government can no longer afford to waste money, that socialism is a dead end, and that the decline they fear and the chaos they see coming are a direct result of decades of socialism.</p>
<p>Their anger is presently directed against socialists because socialists govern. It is directed against François Hollande because he looks incompetent. It is directed against a pro-gay marriage law perceived as a futile provocation and an attempt to destroy the family in a time when the country seems on the verge of collapse. It is directed against politicians unable to save the country from the fate that emerges, and who instead seem to aid the fulfillment of that fate.</p>
<p>Their anger is an expression of anxiety, powerlessness, and despair.</p>
<p>One century ago, Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, used a word that could adequately define French society as it is today: &#8220;anomie.&#8221; He wrote, &#8220;A society is in a state of anomie when the rules that allow it to function dissolve.&#8221;</p>
<p>The rules that allow French society to function are dissolving. People see that the present in France is bleak and that what is coming is even bleaker. They look for solutions, but they see that the solutions in which they could place their hopes don&#8217;t work or seem out of reach. They mistrust politicians, any and all politicians.</p>
<p>What will happen? The latent insurgency will probably last. Demonstrations and riots will take place here and there. Governments will replace governments. The future will be bleaker than the present. Anger, anxiety, powerlessness and despair will increase. Anomie will reign. There will be no coup, no regime change, no uprising.</p>
<p>It is indeed difficult to see anything that resembles a &#8220;spring&#8221; in what is occurring in France. It is difficult to see anything that resembles a spring in what has been occurring for months in Greece and Spain, Italy and Portugal.</p>
<p>In his last book, &#8220;After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent,&#8221; Walter Laqueur asked the right question: &#8220;Does Europe still have a future, will it still exist a decade or two from now? Or will it revert to what it had been before &#8211; a mere geographical concept?&#8221;</p>
<p>What is occurring in France is a French tragedy. But it is part of a wider tragedy that must be faced and analyzed, without looking away.</p>
<p>Viewing the French tragedy as anything less than part of a wider tragedy would be an even more tragic mistake.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[After recent violence, the Gray Lady provides a platform for those calling for a third intifada. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/new-york-times-encourages-attacks-against-jews/retro-israel-intifada-palestinians/" rel="attachment wp-att-181824"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-181824" title="RETRO-ISRAEL-INTIFADA-PALESTINIANS" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/intifada2.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="181" /></a>The New York Times has crossed the line this weekend by encouraging Palestinian Arabs to embark upon a “third intifada” against Israel with an article by Ben Ehrenreich titled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">If There is a Third Intifada, We Want to be the Ones who Started It</a>.” This article is tantamount to calling upon the Arabs to kill Jews.  Against the backdrop of Thursday’s rock attack where a two-year-old Israeli was severely injured with brain injuries when the car she was in veered off the road as a direct results of Arab youth throwing rocks, one wonders where is the decency of the NYT? Rock attacks have caused deaths and serious injuries on Israel’s roads for decades.</p>
<p>The New York Times Magazine celebrated the people who consider their rock attacks “non-violent,” defining them as “peaceful protestors.” Rock-throwers aren’t “peaceful” – anywhere in the world. To even allow Ehrenreich to write an article, rather than an op-ed shows the inherent bias of this outlet.</p>
<p>A few years ago, Ehrenreich wrote an article for The Los Angeles Times called “<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich15-2009mar15,0,6684861.story">Zionism is the Problem</a>” where he attacked “the Zionist tenets on which the state [of Israel] is founded.” He continued, “The problem is functional &#8211; Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion or to wholesale ethnic cleansing. Put simply, the problem is Zionism.” He continued, “If two decades ago comparisons to the South African apartheid system felt like hyperbole, they now feel charitable.”</p>
<p>He doesn’t believe in Zionism, considers Israel worse than apartheid South African – yet is writing a cover story for supposedly non-biased media. Israel is portrayed in this spiteful article as the superpower – rather than the underdog surrounded by Arab Muslims. One wonders what would happen if a group of teenagers threw rocks, boulders, and homemade explosive devices at police in the streets of London, Tokyo or New York. Would they not be shot by police, as they should be?</p>
<p>Why is it that in Israel the authorities are painted as the bad guys for enforcing the law against rock-throwers?</p>
<p>As CEO of a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">PR firm</a> that works with worldwide media, I was outraged at Ehrenreich’s propaganda, which included the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>“A framed image of Jerusalem&#8217;s Al Aqsa Mosque hung above the television (more out of nationalist pride than piety: Bassem&#8217;s outlook was thoroughly secular).”</p></blockquote>
<p>Jerusalem is the center of Israel, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.  As Ehrenreich proves (yet doesn’t state), these so-called protestors want to destroy Israel “piece by piece.” They don’t want peace.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Taking up arms wasn&#8217;t, for Bassem, a moral error so much as a strategic one. He and everyone else I spoke with in the village insisted they had the right to armed resistance.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Taking up arms means blowing up buses of innocent Jews – and these people don’t condemn it.  As Israel has repeatedly said, there’s essentially no difference between Hamas and the PLO.  Their desire remains the destruction of the Jewish state.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]hey formed what is known as the &#8216;popular resistance,&#8217; a loosely coordinated effort that has maintained what has arguably been the only form of active and organized resistance to the Israeli presence in the West Bank since the end of the second intifada in 2005. &#8216;If there is a third intifada,&#8217; he said, &#8216;we want to be the ones who started it.&#8217;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Intifadas kill thousands and encourage violence.  As a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said, these protests are &#8220;violent and illegal rioting that take place around Judea and Samaria, and where large rocks, Molotov cocktails, improvised grenades and burning tires are used against security forces. Dubbing these simply demonstrations is an understatement[.]&#8221; The Times is simply encouraging this violence.</p>
<blockquote><p>“It was strange, asymmetric combat: a few dozen masked shebab ranging in age from 8 to 38, armed with slings and stones, against 20 or more soldiers in armored vehicles and on foot, dressed in helmets and body armor, toting radios and automatic weapons. The shebab put a great deal of thought into tactics, trying to flank and surprise the soldiers.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These words seem lifted from a Palestinian action book. Ben Ehrenreich and his socialist, atheist mother Barbara Ehrenreich live on the West Coast in the US – Why don’t they gather some friends and throw rocks at soldiers in the city of their choice out there?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;We see our stones as our message,&#8217; Bassem explained. Yet, he &#8216;didn&#8217;t worry over whether stone-throwing counted as violence.&#8217; Bassem said, &#8216;Our sign is the stone.&#8217;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As the new Israeli Cabinet member Naftali Bennett said, “Rocks kill… Some people take rock throwing lightly, and prevent action against them. Rock throwers are trying to murder and they need to be treated accordingly.” Rock-throwers are indeed terrorists who should be treated as such in Israel – and everywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>Articles like Ehrenreich&#8217;s lead to Jews being killed. While the Arabs are masters of <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">Public Relations</a> they stage protests to damage Israel and continue to use violence against Israel.  They are brainwashing people and these words have grave consequences.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Arabs have massacred Jewish men, women and children before there was a state of Israel, and they don’t need the media to encourage them to continue to do so.  After all the pogroms, crusades, and the Holocaust, can’t the Jew just live without media encouraging attacks against them?</p>
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