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Ann Coulter Letter: “Sanctimony and Grandstanding are More Fun than Free Speech”

Authored by Ann Coulter | Wednesday Mar 18, 2015 4:33 PM

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://humanevents.com/2015/03/18/sanctimony-and-grandstanding-are-more-fun-than-free-speech/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

After police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, the media erupted in terror at the prospect of young black men being gunned down by over-excitable white cops.

The New York Times’ Charles Blow wrote that the “central issue” of Ferguson was that an “officer shot an unarmed teenager who witnesses claim had raised his hands in surrender when at least some of the shots were fired, which the family and its attorneys called ‘a brutal assassination of his person in broad daylight.’”

Over at Salon, Brittney Cooper said the Brown shooting proved that black people “are prey” — a charge so moronic even a Starbucks barista wouldn’t discuss it with you.

In a TV segment The Huffington Post called “searing,” a few weeks after the shooting, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry exposed the racism of contemporary America by quoting from Dred Scott — an 1857 Supreme Court opinion written by Roger Taney, appointee of the father of the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson.

With pictures of Ferguson cops flashing on a screen behind her, Harris-Perry repeatedly quoted Taney’s statement — in 1857 — that black men have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

Oh, to be there when Harris-Perry finds out about the 13th Amendment!

After two separate, wide-ranging, phenomenally expensive, months-long investigations, including one by Eric Holder’s Justice Department, it turned out: Brown had attacked Officer Wilson, he did not have his hands up, he was charging the officer when he was shot, and Wilson acted in justifiable self-defense. Instead of the “brutal assassination” of a black man, Holder’s big indictment of white America is that cops in Ferguson give blacks too many traffic tickets.

Even that feeble proof of racism is clearly false. The only two serious studies of driving habits by race ever conducted — one in New Jersey and one in North Carolina — found that blacks are far more likely to speed than whites, and at much higher speeds. Indeed, the entire country is snickering at any report that treats as news the fact that blacks are arrested at higher rates than whites, whether in Ferguson the Upper West Side of Manhattan or anyplace else. Blacks have a higher crime rate than whites, ergo, they have higher arrest rates. Ice skaters have more skating injuries than tennis players.

Even New York City’s liberal former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, responded to complaints about the city’s “stop and frisk” policy by saying that, based on witness and victim descriptions of the suspects, the police were stopping “whites too much and minorities too little.” In liberal Santa Monica, blogger Steve Sailer reports, blacks are arrested at about three times the rate as in Ferguson.

Frustrated at their inability to locate evidence of the endemic racism in America we keep hearing so much about, liberals have turned with a vengeance on the kids. Instead of armed policemen gunning down blacks, we got a secretly recorded video of few drunk 19- and 20-year-olds at the University of Oklahoma singing the n-word. (Everyone assumes the students were racists, but my theory is they were trying to record their own rap video.)

Apparently, the new national sport is destroying the lives of young people.

Today’s adults are held responsible for nothing. The president and attorney general aren’t held accountable for ginning up frenzied mobs based on a lie, leading to two cops being assassinated in New York City and two cops being shot in Ferguson, in addition to the $250 million in property damage.

Hillary Clinton isn’t responsible for Americans being murdered at our embassy in Benghazi as a result of her incompetence.

Democratic senators aren’t accountable for passing Obamacare without reading it, and Republican senators aren’t accountable for promising voters they’d stop Obama’s amnesty and then voting to fully fund it.

Even people who commit violent crimes are given a second chance — especially if they’re athletes at the University of Oklahoma, as the Daily Caller has reported.

But 19- and 20-year olds must be punished without mercy for their drunken song using an ugly word. To quote Hillary Clinton, WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?

Mr. Third Chance, David Boren, president of the university, proudly rushed to violate the First Amendment rights of these students. Even observers who condemned Boren’s laughably unconstitutional move felt compelled to vilify the louts.

Protesters have shown up at the kids’ homes in Texas to rail against their parents. (As always, I marvel at the protesters’ ability to get so much time off of work.)

I don’t remember adults caring this much about what college kids said when we were trying to get their attention with pompous editorials, manifestos and lists of demands. This wasn’t a college thesis — and even a college thesis wouldn’t be worth so much national angst. This was drunk college kids singing on a bus.

Is this the kind of society we want to live in, where a student can record his intoxicated friends singing a nasty song, and the whole country applauds the Nazi block-watcher and joins in the denunciation of his marks?

Liberals were hopping mad about Linda Tripp secretly recording Monica Lewinsky, but at least she was exposing the wildly felonious obstruction of justice by the president of the United States in a sex discrimination case. She wasn’t recording Monica to prove the president had used a bad word.

But no one objects to the aspiring Stasi member recording his friends’ drunken song, then broadcasting it to the world, allowing us a joyous round of universal condemnation.

Instead of judging society by the inebriated songs of 19- and 20-year olds, perhaps we should judge it by how cultural and political elites treat their young people.

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Ferguson: A Murderous Mob Incited by Holder and Obama

by Joel B. Pollak12 Mar 2015

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/12/a-murderous-mob-incited-by-holder-and-obama/

Two police officers in Ferguson, MO were shot at a protest early Thursday against alleged racism in the department and the city itself. It was not enough that the chief of police had just resigned. It was not enough that a local judge had quit. It was not enough that the Department of Justice had exonerated former officer Darren Wilson. No–the mob, told by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that Ferguson was still guilty of racism, wanted “justice.”

The violence is the direct result of incitement by the federal government on the basis of trumped-up accusations, based on the faulty notion that a city that enforces traffic tickets vigorously as a means of raising revenue is inherently racist. (By that standard, my own ultra-progressive town of Santa Monica, California would be akin to a Ku Klux Klan headquarters.)

Racist emails discovered from a few employees implicated those individuals alone–but Obama and Holder wanted more. They, and serial inciter Al Sharpton, wanted the humiliation of the town, wanted the division of America, wanted it to be clear that white public officials could never represent a black population, wanted middle America to know that the federal government could nullify self-government at a whim.

On the basis of the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie, they let black businesses in Ferguson be torched and sowed rage across the country that took the lives of two police officers in New York. Now the campaign of terror against police has come back to where the great lie started. Obama and Holder will not finish until they have destroyed Ferguson–destroyed it, in the oft-mocked parlance of the Vietnam era, in order to save it, razed it to rebuild it in the stylized image of Selma 1965, razed it in order to fit the delusions of an Attorney General who thinks we have made no progress since the era of Malcolm X and a President who once promised–incredibly!–to unite America.

This protest has been updated to reflect the fact that while the protest began Wednesday evening, the shooting was reported Thursday morning.

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#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Smash Up Oakland Christmas Tree

by Steve Watson | Infowars.com | December 26, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.infowars.com/blacklivesmatter-protesters-smash-up-oakland-christmas-tree/

Vandals say cops should have ‘No Time Off’ in violent demonstrations

Rioters once again de-legitimized anti-police brutality protesters by pointlessly smashing up a festive display in Oakland on Christmas day.

The rioters also smashed shop windows, set dumpsters on fire, and injured a journalist who was attempting to report on the gathering.

Because nothing is more fitting at this time of the year than trashing a Christmas tree and vandalizing private property, right?

The manager of a local store told reporters that he witnessed demonstrators using stolen liquor bottles to smash windows.

“So it looks like they smashed them on that end, grabbed some of the wine bottles and started throwing them at the other windows to break them,” he said. “We have glass shattered all the way to the back of the store.”

The so called ‘protesters’ gave the gathering the title of “No Time Off,” an inflammatory reference to the police having to maintain the peace during the holidays.

“The idea is to give no time off to police in the context of racial discrimination and state violence happening every day,” a demonstrator told a local NBC News affiliate.

The ‘protest’ was also heavily influenced by individuals identifying themselves as with the ‘Occupy Oakland’ movement. They had advertised the gathering as the “Best Xmas party of the year.”

As we have previously reported in recent weeks, Oakland has been the location of several violent altercations and even racist attacks on white people who were either trying to protest peacefully or simply get home.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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Violent protests after St. Louis County police officer kills man who pulled gun, authorities say

Published December 24, 2014, FoxNews.com

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/24/st-louis-county-police-officer-kills-man-who-pulled-gun-authorities-say/?intcmp=latestnews

Violent protests broke out Tuesday night after a suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him at a gas station, police said. Scuffles broke out early Wednesday between police officers and a vocal crowd of several hundred people who taunted the officers at the scene. One officer was injured after he was stuck with a brick and police reported several small explosives being used by protesters. There were four arrests.

Berkeley is just a few miles from Ferguson, where a white police officer fatally shot black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. The suspect on Wednesday was also 18.

Theodore Hoskins, the mayor of Berkeley, said the surveillance video appears to show that the teen did raise the gun at the police officer. Hoskins, however, said it was a preliminary evaluation and called on a full investigation.

“You couldn’t even compare this with Ferguson or the [Eric] Garner case in New York,” Hoskins, who is African American, said.

Authorities have not released any information about the identity or ethnicity of the man killed but The St. Louis Dispatch reported that the victim’s name as Antonio Martin. Fox2Now.com obtained surveillance video from the scene.

According to a statement from St. Louis County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman, a Berkeley police officer was conducting a routine business check at a gas station around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when he approached two men.

The nearly two-minute video clip shows two young men leaving the store at about the time a police car rolls up. The officer gets out and speaks with them. About a minute-and-a-half later, the video appears to show one of the men raising his arm, though what he is holding is difficult to see because they were several feet from the camera. Belmar said it was a 9mm handgun.

The other man ran away, and police are searching for him.

The 34-year-old white police officer, a six-year veteran of the Berkeley Police Department, is on administrative leave pending an investigation, Jon Belmar, the county police chief, said.

“He will carry the weight of this for the rest of his life, certainly for the rest of his career. So there are no winners here.”

Toni Martin, who identified the suspect as her son, told the newspaper that he was with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting.

The protesters who gathered early Wednesday milled around the gas pumps at the station, some yelling at police officers. Some wore strands of yellow police-line tape draped around their neck, with others using it as a headband. Authorities from multiple agencies, some in riot gear, stood among the protesters.

Across the street, the glass doors of a convenience store were shattered, one of the doors left hanging from a single hinge. Police stood guard, turning people away.

The crowd dispersed but police officers remained at the scene as dawn approached.

Orlando Brown, 36, of nearby St. Charles was among the protesters. He said he didn’t have all the details about the shooting but said he wondered if it was a case of police aggression.

“I understand police officers have a job and have an obligation to go home to their families at the end of the night,” he said. “But do you have to treat every situation with lethal force? … It’s not a racial issue, or black or white. It’s wrong or right.”

Brown said he was pepper-sprayed during the protest as police tried to separate him from a friend whose hand he was holding. He said his friend was arrested for failing to disperse. The shooting sparked a protest of 200 to 300 people, authorities said.

Brown’s death led to weeks of protests and some looting in the St. Louis area, actions that were renewed last month when a grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the killing.

“We had several bricks thrown at officers,” Belmar said. There were reports of explosives used and one officer was injured after getting hit by a brick. Four protesters were arrested.

Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche and The Associated Press contributed to this report

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School district distributes lesson plan that compares Ferguson protests with Boston Tea Party

By Howard Portnoy on December 4, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/12/04/school-district-distributes-lesson-plan-compares-ferguson-protests-boston-tea-party/#xlqYWMgtEUZzkAfu.99

I was under the impression that the Boston Tea Party was no longer taught in the nation’s schools because it is insulting to American Indians. Obviously I was mistaken:

After protesters in Ferguson, Missouri looted shops, burned police cars, and harassed reporters in the wake of a grand jury decision they disagreed with, the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin circulated a guide to teachers offering tips about how to talk about Ferguson with students.

Calling the Ferguson riots “a teachable moment for our students,” the Madison teacher’s guide encourages educators to use the resources and articles linked in the document, “to help frame the issues in Ferguson in a historical perspective.”

One of the resources linked in the document is a blog post by a Michigan teacher from August that compares the Ferguson riots and looting to the Boston Tea Party. Another resource linked was an article from The Atlantic titled “Reparations for Ferguson” that compared police officers to predators. [Emphasis added]

OK, let’s back up here and take a closer look at this comparison. The Boston Tea Party was a carefully planned and organized protest by the Sons of Liberty against a scheme by the British Crown to impose unfair taxes on the colonists. The Ferguson protests were a spontaneous, if predictable, mob reaction to a shooting death, egged on by “community organizers,” that resulted in the wholesale destruction of property in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb. About the only thing the two events have in common is that both can fairly be described as protests.

While we’re on the subject of education, this protester in New York City could certainly stand to do some work in remedial spelling:

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No Justice And No Peace

Posted on December 4, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/no-justice-no-peace/

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Obama Hosts a Meeting of Race Hustlers

Posted by Michael Becker — December 1, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://joeforamerica.com/2014/12/obama-hosts-a-meeting-of-race-hustlers/

We know, you’re shocked. We were certainly shocked. President Obama, the same guy who said, “If I had a son, he’d be ~~a gangsta wannabe punk~~ just like Trayvon…” is holding not one, not two, but three meetings today in Washington about Ferguson and the state of race relations in the US. He’s doing that at the same time prominent members of the ~~race hustler~~ black community are threatening “more Fergusons.”

According to the White House schedule, the first afternoon meeting will be a talk with members of Obama’s Cabinet “to discuss federal programs and funding that provide equipment to the state and local enforcement agencies.” Vice President Joe Biden will also be in attendance.

Obama is then scheduled to meet with local and national civil rights leaders.

The third session will take place among elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders “to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country.”

Federal programs and funding. Let’s see. We’ve already spent $22 trillion on the “War on Poverty” and poverty is at the same level today it was when Democrats and a group of stupid Republicans decided the federal government could eliminate poverty. “Midnight basketball for all!!” perhaps?

So far the federal government has destroyed the black family, consigned generations of young black men to grow up in “single parent homes” without fathers, and is shocked when those young black men – and little kids these days – turn to street gangs for role models. We would suggest cutting off welfare, remove the incentive to have children out-of-wedlock and work to eliminate “single parent homes,” because a “single parent home” is not a “home” it’s just a “crib.” Somehow I doubt that the guy who will leave office leaving American taxpayers (a dying breed) $20 trillion in debt is going to care about our opinion.

We love the single line treatment for the second meeting, “Obama is then scheduled to meet with local and national civil rights leaders.”

He’s not meeting with “civil rights leaders” he’s meeting with a room full of race hustlers whose lifestyles depend on events like Ferguson and a compliant media willing to allow them to make up their own set of facts. Frankly, if you want to improve race relations in the US, the President should arrest them on charges of domestic terrorism and ship them to Syria to work on the racial and religious problems in the Muslim world. They would fit right in.

And last but not least, he’s going to get the cops and robbers together to make peace. Probably over a beer.

How about we start with the admission that Trayvon Martin was a gangsta wannabe punk who was in the process of murdering George Zimmerman when Zimmerman, in self-defense, shot and killed him. Like the jury ruled. It’s called due process and the rule of law.

After that, we could all agree that the gentle giant, Michael Brown, attacked a police officer after robbing a store and assaulting the owner. He tried to take the officer’s gun and when he couldn’t get it he ran. When the officer gave chase Brown turned on him and charged him and officer Wilson, defending himself from a man twice his size, shot and killed him. There were seven black witnesses who corroborated that account, as did the physical evidence. A mixed race grand jury found no reason to indict Wilson. Again, due process and the rule of law.

Here’s the problem with race relations. Charles Ogletree on Meet the Press.

Ogletree wants his own set of facts. Trayvon was murdered, Michael Brown was murdered. White cops, and white people in general are responsible for dead black kids. Ogletree, and the race hustling community in general, will not address the fact that over the last 10 years the ratio of blacks killed by other blacks outnumbers the blacks killed by cops by 50 to 1.

That’s a consistent ratio across the nation. But God forbid we talk about that.

Maybe President Obama will bring that up today, we’re sure some midnight basketball will fix the problem.

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A Dream to A Nightmare

Posted on December 2, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/dream-nightmare/

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As ISIS Attempts to Recruit Black Men in Ferguson, It Appears As if Obama’s Buddy Beyonce is Helping

December 1, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

During the initial weeks following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, a chilling sign was seen behind CNN’s Jake Tapper as he reported from Ferguson. A man was holding a sign that read “ISIS here.” Since the announcement last week that the grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in that shooting, ISIS has ramped up their efforts to recruit black men out of Ferguson. Therefore, it is a bit shocking that Beyoncé, one of the biggest stars in the music industry, would film a video that could be construed as both propaganda for ISIS and for the violent rioting in Ferguson.

In a promo for her Superpower duet with Frank Ocean, Beyoncé sported a niqab, a Muslim headdress for women, along with an outfit not even fit for a club, that no Muslim woman could ever wear. Her short skirt is paired with a short mid-drift bearing top that also exposes the lower part of her breasts.

The singer, who appeared on this year’s Grammy’s with the word FEMINIST behind her as she performed a sexual act with a chair wearing a scantily clad outfit while her husband, Jay-Z watched, was criticized by both Muslims and feminists on Twitter.

Karesa Warner said on Twitter, “Dear Beyoncé: Do you think you’re going to get away with wearing a version of Islamic head-dress, niqab, while promoting your Demonic music?”

Dina said, “Quoting our holy Quran and dressing in a niqab isn’t a fashion statement you dumb beyonce.”

Feminists also chimed in chastising Beyoncé for her hypocrisy in wearing the niqab.

Dana Yager said, “Sorry, Beyonce. Probably not in the best interest for women’s rights to make the niqab fashionable. Just sayin’.”

In watching this video, given the volatile situation in Ferguson, including massive destruction of personal property, and the Muslim terrorist group ISIS actively recruiting blacks in Ferguson via social media, one has to wonder what exactly is Beyoncé trying to accomplish?

WATCH the Ferguson rioting style video, which also appears to promote Islam, promoted by Beyoncé.

H/T Pamela Geller

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I enjoy Doug Giles, and his writing. However, I do not agree with some of his expressions. So, please be aware that some of Doug’s expressions might be offensive.

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Written by Doug Giles on November 30, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://clashdaily.com/2014/11/jesus-rioters-dare-black-ministers-read-church/

Last week, as I was watched the Ferguson fiasco go down, I kept bouncing back and forth between CNN and MSLSD to see how the Left was pitching this massive destruction of personal and private property on behalf of the “innocent” and “gentle giant”, Michael Brown.

Both networks had black ministers on throughout the week that basically justified the riots. Yes, some pooh-poohed the extreme acts of violence, however several of them didn’t really crap on the “protestors”.

Chief amongst the “ministers” who didn’t seem to care what chaos was created was the Reverend Al Sharpton and his spirit-twin the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

As I watched these “men of God” cheerlead this mess, I started thinking to myself, “Self … what Bible do they read? … ‘The Race-Baiters Grievance Edition?’ “; because no one who’s ever traipsed through an unadulterated New Testament would think that such mayhem, for such a flimsy — no … farcical — reason is remotely justifiable. That is if, and that’s a big “if”, Jesus is the standard for a person’s behavior.

Indeed, if one read just a smidgen of Jesus’s teachings they would quickly deduce that if Christ were the blueprint for the believer, then the behavior of these looting morons is contemptible and worthy of a true minister’s rebuke and wide spread public condemnation. But, eh … not so much for the likes of the Reverend Sharpton and Jackson, which left me thinking that they must revere something else other than the Jesus of The Gospels because the Christ of the Scripture wouldn’t back their race-baiting and destructive behavior or anyone that fans those hideous flames.

That said, please allow me to inject at this juncture that Jesus was not above kicking some butt and breaking stuff if need be. Look, Jesus was no wussy. For example, one of the first snapshots we have of Jesus in John’s account of his ministry was his turning water into wine and cleansing the temple, two things the teetotalers and the timid would not like being in the sacred text.

Check it out in John 2:13-17:

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

And here’s Matthew’s account of Jesus’ opening up a can of whup ass: Matthew 21: 12 “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you make it a den of robbers.’ “

Let’s break it down, shall we?

First off, please take note of the offense that got Jesus in a bad mood: Religious hucksters had turned God’s house into a cash cow for religious goobers. In other words, it was a clear-cut, irrefutable offense, with empirical evidence, that got Christ’s dander up. Ponder that nugget before you burn down an innocent couple’s grocery store, por favor.

This lead, as stated, to Jesus’ going postal on the place. But what I’d like to point out was how Jesus released his rage as an example to us schleps that follow his lead, if and when it comes to dusting up against some true injustice. Are you ready? Well, alrighty then.

Herewith are the various particulars regarding how the Holy One rolled.

Jesus made a whip, which screams to moi, that he was patient and methodical and it wasn’t belligerent, out of control, frenzied rage he sported.
Jesus only vandalized the evil SOBs’ stuff that were desecrating God’s house. Please note, he didn’t morph into a crazy vandal.
Jesus didn’t steal their stuff after condemning their actions. Hello!
Jesus had a clear biblical mandate that God’s house was to be a house of prayer and that zeal for its purity drove his legit wrath.
Jesus, didn’t cleanse the temple incognito. He wasn’t anonymous. He wore no weird mask, or a bandana over his face, or a hoodie and shades. People who do that are nutless wonders. If you’re so bold and so in the right, then like Jesus, represent … stand up and be counted.
Jesus didn’t make a living off grievance based temple-tossing. He didn’t form a non-profit that went around making life miserable for everyone he thought sucked. Also, he acted alone, without some massive posse and there are only two examples of him ever engaging in such acts.
Jesus never said to his disciples lets “burn this bitch down”. Please note, he also didn’t call them “mother—kers” as his wrath was bridled.

And that, my little children, is how Christ threw a holy fit. Anything else is … well … uh … un-Christlike and must be repented of and condemned especially by “reverends” who lead the flock of God, of which I bet the majority of the Ferguson protestors go to church. So I’m a thinkin’ the aforementioned should apply.

Finally, for the slow amongst us who claim Christ as their captain please note in Jesus’s example of opening up a can of whup ass that …

There was no stealing.
There was no arson.
There was no stoking of a phony revolt based on lies. Empirical evidence drove Jesus’ cleansing of the temple.
There was no labeling of the folks as “Jewish-devils.”
There was no unnecessary destruction of property.
There was no inciting to riots.
He didn’t do it in defense of some teenaged criminal.
He didn’t threaten to rape and/or murder his enemies’ women and kids.
And he wasn’t impulsive in his anger and reduced to animalistic destruction.

Jesus was an example on how to deal with egregious wrongs without losing one’s holy head.

Now, here’s my challenge to my black brethren: I dare black ministers to read this in their churches.

Oh, and one more thing: the only religion that allows for the kind of destruction and chaos that we witnessed this past week in Ferguson and other places is Islam and not Christianity. So you might ought to think about either converting to Islam or repenting for missing Christ’s example by a flippin’ mile. Amen.

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Posted on November 29, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/11/dream/

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Ann Coulter Letter: Liberals willing to fight to the last drop of black blood

By: Ann Coulter 11/26/2014 05:36 PM

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://humanevents.com/2014/11/26/liberals-willing-to-fight-to-the-last-drop-of-black-blood/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Liberals willing to fight to the last drop of black blood

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.

Every other riot I’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.

From the beginning, Officer Darren Wilson’s shooting of Michael Brown wasn’t reported like news. It was reported like a cause. The media are in a huff about the prosecutor being “biased” because his father was a cop, who was shot and killed by an African-American. What an assh@le!

Evidently, the sum-total of what every idiot on TV knows about the law is Judge Sol Wachtler’s 20-year-old joke that a prosecutor could “indict a ham sandwich.” We’re supposed to be outraged that this prosecutor didn’t indict the ham sandwich of Darren Wilson.

Liberals seem not to understand that they don’t have a divine right to ruin someone’s life and bankrupt him with a criminal trial, just so they’re satisfied. The reason most grand jury investigations result in an indictment is that most grand juries aren’t convened solely to patronize racial mobs. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was basically demanding an indictment of Wilson before Big Mike’s body was cold. It was only because of racial politics that this shooting wasn’t dismissed without a grand jury, at all.

Obama says anger is an “understandable reaction” to the grand jury’s finding. Why? And why — as almost everyone is saying — are we supposed to praise the “peaceful protests”?

There’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’t the peaceful protesters read?

The night of the riot, Obama said the law “often feels as if it is being applied in discriminatory fashion.” Maybe, but not in this case — except toward Officer Wilson. I know liberals were hoping they had finally found the great white whale of racism, but they’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’re about 0:100 on white racism sightings.

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’ve seen him flashing Bloods gang signs in photos.

They know Brown’s mother was recently arrested for clubbing grandma with a pipe over T-shirt proceeds. They’ve seen the video of Brown’s ex-con stepfather shouting at a crowd of protesters after the grand jury’s decision: “Burn this bitch down!”

Liberals will say none of that is relevant in court, but apparently they don’t think actual evidence is relevant either. It’s certainly relevant in the court of public opinion that the alleged victims are a cartoonishly lower-class, periodically criminal black family.

TV hosts narrated the riot by saying it showed “the community” feels it’s not being listened to. Only liberals look at blacks looting and say, See what white Americans made them do?

That’s their proof of injustice — look at how blacks are reacting! (While I don’t approve of the looting part, I do approve of the whole throwing-bottles-at-CNN part.)

The looters aren’t the community!

The community doesn’t want black thugs robbing stores and sauntering down the middle of its streets. The community doesn’t want to be assaulted by Big Mike. The community didn’t want its stores burned down.

That community testified in support of Officer Darren Wilson. About a half-dozen black witnesses supported Officer Wilson’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, “I have a child and that could have been my son.”

And yet, she confirmed all crucial parts of Wilson’s account. She said “the child” (292-pound Big Mike) never had his hands up and the cop only fired when “the baby” was coming at him. “Why won’t that boy stop?” she asked her husband.

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 — then go into hiding from “the community” being championed by goo-goo liberals.

White people don’t feel any obligation to defend some thug just because he’s white. Only blacks are expected to lie on behalf of criminals of their own race.

But real heroism doesn’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.

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#FERGUSON PROTESTORS: Threaten to Rape and Kill Wives and Children of Police

Posted on November 28, 2014

URL of Original Posting Site: http://clashdaily.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-threaten-rape-kill-wives-children-police/

loot But it’s OK… they’re black and blacks can get away with saying such things because we’re living in Obamaland now.

Protesters in Ferguson have been threatening to rape the wives of front line police and kill their children during the latest clashes, the wife of one officer has claimed.

The unnamed woman said that her husband has been ‘screamed at’ as he faced off with the angry crowds amid heightened tensions in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri.

She told Fox 2 News that they threatened a home invasion in an apparent attempt to provoke the officers.

The wife claimed the protesters said: ‘We’re going to go to your house. ‘We`re going to rape your wives then we`re going to kill them and we`re going to kill your children’.

The allegations comes after many police officers’ families in Ferguson, Missouri, were reported to be in hiding or running from town amid death and assault threats.

One police wife told KTVI that she’s received threats over the phone and she’s been paranoid for her and her young daughter’s safety ever since.

‘Did they follow me here?’ she told the station. ‘Did I do a good enough job after work today of taking different routes, on my way home?’

SHOCK REPORT: St. Louis Bomb Plot Fails Because of Maxed Out EBT Card

by Warner Todd Huston 26 Nov 2014

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/26/St-Louis-Men-Planned-to-Kill-Prosecutor-McCulloch-Chief-Jackson-Bomb-the-Gateway-Arch

Sources say the men planned to kill St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, and also planned to bomb the famed Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the men bought what they believed to be a pipe bomb from undercover police but could not afford more bombs “until one suspect’s girlfriend’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished.”

The two men were arrested on November 21 and accused of attempting to purchase explosives that they planned to use during the Ferguson protests. They were also brought up on gun charges.

But this week, we are learning a bit more about what these men were allegedly planning to do with the explosives.

Sources close to the ongoing investigation have revealed that the men, Brandon Orlando “Muhammad” Baldwin, age unreported, and Olajuwon Ali Davis, 22, were nabbed in an undercover gun sting. The pair were initially arrested after misrepresenting who the firearms were being purchased for, authorities say. Sources also say that the pair intended to kill the St. Louis prosecutor as well as Ferguson’s police chief and also wanted to place their pipe bombs on the upper deck of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Both pleaded not guilty at their Tuesday hearing. The two also waived their rights to a bail hearing and are being held pending further proceedings.

Olajuwon Ali Davis was a recent speaker at a meeting of the New Black Panther Party held at the Greater St. Mark Family Church in Ferguson in October and has been identified as the Panthers’ “minister of law.”

Authorities would make no further on-the-record statements about the case.

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Civil Disobedience in Ferguson Was Planned and Choreographed Beforehand, Not a Spontaneous Riot

November 26, 2014 Windows Media

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/11/26/civil_disobedience_in_ferguson_was_planned_and_choreographed_beforehand_not_a_spontaneous_riot

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RUSH: I tried yesterday to make a point about this business in Ferguson, and I did not spend enough time actually thinking about how I wanted to say it in order to be the most clearly communicable and understood. The artificiality of this, and I do mean artificiality. These were not riots. These were planned, staged, predicted, counted on incidents of civil disobedience.

This was not a riot. This did not happen spontaneously. It did not happen because of something that happened unexpectedly that caused people to lose their mind. They planned it. It was a strategic plan, and the media fell right in line, predicting it, and counting down to it and heightening tensions. And so when it happens, it was expected, and therefore it can’t be a riot. The fact that it was expected and still happened, what does it say about the civility of our culture? What does it say about the overall civilization that we have?

Something about this has just not seemed right to me and I haven’t been able to put my finger on it. But it’s the same way I felt in the days leading up to the Obama announcement on amnesty, the executive amnesty for the five million illegals. Here we were told what was gonna happen and the media, in the pre-days and hours leading up to the event, heightened the tension, the anticipation. We had a countdown to an event we all knew was coming, and that was the Constitution being violated.

When you get right down to it, that’s what the event was. And it seemed, even though it happened and we knew it was gonna happen, it just seemed surreal. Everything seemed to happen on a media schedule, on a media timetable. Everything seemed to happen because of the media.

In other words, it was real, and what Obama did was real, there’s no question about that. But the same thing here in Ferguson. We knew the grand jury was gonna have a report at some point and we knew that no matter what that grand jury report was, there was gonna be a riot. So we all sat down and we expected and waited for it. And the only question was how big was it gonna be, as though now it’s just common. We sit by, almost idly, and accept the idea that we’re going to have civil unrest, civil disobedience, call it a riot if you want, and that it is justified and we’d better try to understand it. It’s now part of the American fabric, instead of being something spontaneous that is an actual reaction to something.

This riot was planned. It was gonna happen no matter what. How bad it was gonna be was the only thing unknown. The actions of the authorities to stop it or not stop it, that was an unknown, but we knew it was gonna happen. Rodney King was not like this, for example. The Watts riots in the sixties were not like this. Trayvon Martin was not like this. This has all been staged. I’m not saying conspiratorially. I’m not saying the Wizard of Oz is behind the screen, behind the curtain pulling marionette type strings on puppets and this kind of thing. It’s just that there are now certain destructive aspects of the American culture, civilization, that we have just accepted. We have resigned ourselves to the fact that they’re gonna happen, in a way, legitimizes them, is the problem here.

And the way the media focuses attention on and counts down, builds the anticipation. And the media leading up to it was not, “Will there or won’t there be a riot?” There was no question there was going to be a riot. The only question was, how bad. And here come the experts predicting the degree of badness of the riot based on whatever the grand jury said. And while it happened, I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m not saying it isn’t real, but at the same time there was nothing spontaneous about this. It was orchestrated. It was planned. It was going to happen no matter what.

It was going to happen independent of events. We knew the trigger. All we had to do was wait for the trigger. That was the grand jury decision and the report and the announcement, and that was it, and we all knew what was gonna happen. It’s almost as though we’ve come to expect it, and in a way it’s therefore justified, justifiable. I don’t know, folks. I can’t put my finger on this. And again, I’m not alleging conspiracy. Don’t misunderstand. I wish I could find a way to — my problem here is I have feelings about this, and I’m not good at describing the feelings I’ve got. I’m trying to turn the feelings, convert them into thoughts, which is what I rely on.

There’s something about it that, even though it happened and even though I saw it and even though it was real, there’s something about it that seems illegitimate to me. (interruption) Well, it was a stunt. It was preventable. But nobody made any effort to stop it. That’s another thing about this that kind of troubles me in the deep, dark crevices of my mind, is this acceptance, okay, it’s gonna happen, it’s justified, whatever, there was no effort to stop it. The president didn’t even make an effort. The president fed the rage when he had his 20-minute little speech, when he was split screened with the riots.

There’s a story out there today, by the way, that that split screen shot is gonna haunt Obama for the rest of his — who in the world believes that? How in the world is that gonna haunt Obama? If anybody thinks that that split screen TV shot, here’s Obama on one half of the screen supposedly railing against riots and trying to ask for calm, which is not what he really did. On the other half of the screen is Ferguson burning and people I guess cannot give up the traditional way of looking at politics and political figures in this country.

If that would have been George W. Bush or George H. W. Bush, maybe even Clinton, it might be something that would haunt. But what was happening on the screen was not something that troubles Obama. There’s no way that he could be haunted by this. Haunted by it means it’s harmful. Haunted by it means he has no credibility. Well, there he is out demanding and asking for calm and right next to him on the other side of the screen is Ferguson in flames. That’s not gonna be a problem for Barack Obama. A, he’s not responsible for it. B, he wishes it didn’t happen; but, C, his call for calm was perfunctory.

But even without all of that, that split screen image you could practically do that every day with some sector of life in this country in chaos and say that’s gonna haunt Obama. I mean, why isn’t Fast and Furious gonna haunt him? Why isn’t Benghazi? I mean, those things are not gonna haunt. Why isn’t using the IRS against the Tea Party, why is that not gonna haunt him? Why is violating the Constitution not gonna haunt Obama? None of this is gonna haunt Obama because it’s all working, from his standpoint. All of these are elements of his “success” story in terms of his ultimate agenda of transforming the country.

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RUSH: Look, let me clarify something. When I say, “There’s no conspiracy,” of course there is conspiracy between all of the groups that were organizing to protest in Ferguson and all over the country. Of course that was a conspiracy. What I’m trying to say was that there was not a conspiracy between all of this and the timing of the grand jury announcement and what the grand jury announcement was gonna be. I’m trying to make a really, really fine point here and I’m not doing it. I haven’t gotten there yet.

I’m talking about fake versus real, artificial versus substance — and a lot of this is not real. Politics. People think politics is about the way things are, and it isn’t. Politics is about the way things appear. And that’s one of the things that bothers me the most. What’s happening in our… Look at this Darren Wilson interview, the cop. Do you realize that to whatever group of people we’re talking about on the other side, it doesn’t matter a hill of beans what the facts are? The truth and what is real doesn’t matter.

There’s no way you can convince them. There’s no way you can convince them to care about the truth and what is real. It doesn’t matter. It’s a pointless effort. And to me — the mayor of Realville and somebody consumed and obsessed by the idea of getting truth out and having people understand it and act on it and believe it and behave according to it — it’s really frustrating to know that, to a large segment of this country, none of that matters. They don’t care what the truth is.

The agenda is all it is. The appearance, the fake, whatever it takes in order to advance the agenda.

I’m telling you, it’s destructive. Liberalism is a poison that is rotting this country, every element of it where it is dominant or growing.

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RUSH: Let me try this another way. I’m sitting down, Kathryn and I, in front of the TV on whatever the night the grand jury announcement happened. This is Wednesday, so it must have been Monday. The days run together in a short week, I get confused. Whatever night it was. And we turned on Fox at nine o’clock, and we’re expecting the announcement at nine o’clock, and by 9:20 there’s no announcement. No, we tuned in at eight o’clock thinking the announcement was — we were off by an hour.

Anyway, the announcement finally came, and I looked at Kathryn, I said, “Listen to all these people on TV. They’re just vamping and filling time and they’re just trying to flap their gums until the real news is made.” The whole thing, to me, made me feel like I was watching a scripted event. Now, one of the allures supposedly of reality TV is that it’s real, that there isn’t a script. That’s why audiences really like it, like The Real Housewives of whatever, or whatever reality TV show. But let me tell you, there is no such thing as improvisation or reality TV. It’s all scripted.

The only difference in reality TV and other TV is that the writers in reality TV are not members of unions, and that’s it. The whole thing feels like a scripted event that I know in advance the outcome. And, therefore, it isn’t news. And none of it was spontaneous. We tuned in all knowing what was gonna happen. We tuned in expecting what was going to happen. There was not any thought given by anybody to stopping it. And what happened? Sheer barbarism. People’s businesses were destroyed. That’s real. Real live bullets were fired at people. Real live Molotov cocktails were used.

A woman who saved up everything because her hobby, her passion in life is baking cakes, and she’s black, and she has a place in I think a little strip mall or some street in Ferguson near where all this happened. It was totally destroyed. She had nothing to do with any of this. She was in tears the next day. From her own neighborhood, people from her own neighborhood and who knows where else, showed up and destroyed her little cake shop.

Now, there’s a great campaign on to refund and donate to her to rebuild, and she’s collected, I think before the program started, over 70 grand and she’s happy as she can be, and thank God for that. But everybody knew this was gonna happen, maybe not that specific thing, but everybody knew it, the governor knew it. Where was the National Guard? The governor knew it. Every law enforcement official knew what was gonna happen. There was no effort to stop it. The only thing that we speculated about was how bad was this gonna be, how big was it gonna be, and we all tuned in to see that.

We all tuned in to see how bad the destruction, how big the flames, how chaotic. There wasn’t an effort made to stop it. We were witnesses to barbarism, scripted barbarism that was designed to tear apart the fabric of an American community, and we sat and watched. And we had pre-advance knowledge. They could have put the listings in TV Guide. Your DVR could have scheduled this because that’s how much in advance we knew it was gonna happen. Just like any other scheduled television show, which is what this was, except it’s not.

Lives were at risk. People’s businesses were destroyed. Barbarism was on display. All-out assaults on the American culture and civilization were taking place. And there was no effort to stop it. None, nowhere. The governor of Missouri, in preparing the state, made it look like it was London in World War II on the eve of the German blitz. That’s the degree to which he made preparations.

And then for some reason the National Guard was not deployed, and we were told that, well, maybe Obama called on the governor, fellow Democrats, “Keep the Guard out of this. I don’t want militarized pictures during my Regime. I want to do what I want to do without anybody figuring it out with the pictures, so keep the Guard out of there.” Who knows. But we’re left to speculate.

But there wasn’t any effort to stop it. And then the next day we got questions on television, which should be absurd, but instead they were legitimate: “Did authorities let Ferguson burn?” It was a legitimate question, sadly. “Did authorities let Ferguson burn?” Why? There was no effort to stop it. When the Rodney King riots, the Watts riots of the sixties, when those things started, there were efforts to stop them. I mean, they played out to a certain point, and I don’t know if you could call ’em great TV or what have you, and they were structured and planned and so forth. Again, nothing is brand-new in 2014. Everything has a precedent. But this is destructive in ways way beyond the riot itself.

This is destructive in ways way beyond the damage to Ferguson, Missouri. This is destructive because there are a lot of casualties here. Truth, reality, fact, all casualties. None of that mattered. None of it matters today to a significant portion of the population, which is hell-bent on tearing down the modern-day order. And nobody appears to be willing or knowledgeable enough or whatever to stop it. Instead, it becomes a television show, a scripted television show. There was not even a cliffhanger. We knew who shot J.R. before watching the episode.

The whole thing, I don’t know, folks, it just seems we’re being manipulated in ways that we haven’t been before. We are really being manipulated by a media complex, in its association with the American left and the Democrat Party, and I think I’m instinctively reacting and objecting to and pushing back against that manipulation and saying, “I’m not gonna fall for it. You’re not gonna get me. I am not gonna be manipulated by it. I’m not gonna get emotionally caught up in this because I know that what I’m seeing on TV is not what this is really all about.”

And that’s the bottom line. None of this is really, when you get down to brass tacks, you strip all this away, this is not about the grand jury. It’s not about Darren Wilson. It’s not even about the Gentle Giant. It’s about entirely different things that they don’t show you, that you don’t see. And it’s the ease with which people are being manipulated and the ease with which people are falling for it, to me, is a problem, and it’s very troublesome. I look all of this, and I think I understand the purpose of it. I don’t “think” I know; I know what the ultimate objective to all this is. You know what it is?

At the end of all this, the real objective is to make you think that it’s ludicrous and ridiculous to oppose any of this or speak out against it ’cause you can’t stop it. The grievances are too real. The country is too unjust. The country is illegitimate and immoral, and it’s taken 250 years for this to come to light. But you’d better learn to accept that, and you’d better learn to accept that if you’ve been on the wrong side, i.e., in the majority in this country since it was founded, your day is coming. That’s what this is about. And all of these events are just steps taken in that direction.

I mean, listen to Obama and his speech in Chicago. Here’s the Breitbart story: “Obama Lectures America About the Justified Anger Towards Law Enforcement in Minority Communities — Tuesday at Copernicus Community Center in Chicago, IL, President Barack Obama addressed the riots and protests going on throughout the country in reaction to the grand jury announcement that Ferguson police officer,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that’s just BS. What he did was he went before a black audience, and this is what he said. “A grand jury made a decision yesterday that upset a lot of people. And as I said last night, the frustrations that we have seen, are not just about a particular incident.” So, you see, it’s not just about that.

And, by the way, the grand jury decision upset a lot of people, they’re justified being upset. Not because this decision might have been wrong, but because of all the previous ones where people got screwed. You have to understand. We have to step back and understand what happened, those businesses being destroyed, that barbarism, we had better understand that it is legitimate, because a lot of people were upset. Maybe this decision, the grand jury got it right, but that doesn’t erase all the wrongs that happened before it which still breed all kinds of frustration.

“As I said last night, the frustrations that we have seen, are not just about a particular incident.” See, it’s about a lot of stuff that came before this. “They have deep roots in many communities of color,” the frustrations do, “who have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly.” In other words, even though the facts of the Brown case do not support any claims of an unjust shooting, the anger over all the previous injustices is enough to legitimize the anger this week in Ferguson.

And that’s the problem, folks. There’s no reason for feeling screwed. There’s no reason, the facts of this case do not support any claims that the shooting was unjust. “Okay, fine. Well, what about last year? What about Trayvon Martin? What about OJ?” And on and on and on. What about Emmett Till? And it never ends. So this incident is used to justify and permit all of this barbarism, not based on what happened this week, but all of the years prior, about which nothing can be done now, see. The events in the years prior, they’re over and done with, and they have deep roots in many communities of color, who have a sense that our laws are not always being endorsed uniformly or fairly. Even though they might in this case, that doesn’t erase what happened in years past.

Like the Trayvon Martin case, in fact, which ended up not being supported by the facts either. But that doesn’t matter. The facts of the Trayvon case have been forgotten just as the facts here will be forgotten. The news media’s early lies will be remembered. The Duke lacrosse case is a case is reverse. If anybody ought to be mad about anything and an injustice and so forth, look at that case. But were there riots? Was there barbarism? Was there any kinds of acts of destruction that took place over that injustice?

No, sir, no, ma’am, there were not. And that was a gross miscarriage of justice. But, you see, that was also justified because, well, they’re white and they played lacrosse? Come on. That means they’re rich. Come on, even if these guys didn’t do it, you know they wanted to. Even if these guys didn’t, you know it’s happened before. So these guys pay the price, except they didn’t.

So all of this adds up to this country has a lot to account for, it has a lot of prices to pay, it has a lot of forgiveness, it has a lot to make up for, and you better just get used to it. And they’re getting so accustomed to it now they’re writing a script of all these events in advance. We know what’s gonna happen. Nobody tries to stop it because everybody, “Yeah, you know, we do kind of suck. Yeah, we were kind of bad back then. Yeah, I guess we do kind of justify this. We deserve this.”

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RUSH: I finally want to get to the point I’m trying to make here about how we’re being manipulated, set up, and staged. We’re watching scripted events portrayed to us as real and really what I think I’m getting at, I know it will never happen, but if you want to reduce some of the incidents of this stuff, get the cameras out of there. Get the cameras out of there. Get the media out of there. In a real protest, in a real riot, the media doesn’t know it’s gonna happen before it starts. They show up afterwards.

Everything that happens is real. But when you have a riot that everybody knows is coming and you’ve got the cameras and you’ve got the journalists and you’ve got blithering idiots like Don Lemon — do you realize what he did yesterday? He inadvertently tear gassed himself. Putting on his mask he ended up tear gassing himself. There’s a piece in the New York Daily News — I hope CNN doesn’t get rid of him because we love Don Lemon. We need him here. But there’s a really, really critical piece of Don Lemon, a media review in the New York Daily News today, about how out to lunch he is. They even mention he’s the guy that asked the transportation official could a black hole have swallowed up the Malaysian airliner.

But, at any rate, you get the cameras out of there, you get the script writers out of there, get the media out of there, who knows what would have happened; that’s the point. But we knew it’s gonna happen, cameras show up, and it just makes what happens after, I’m sorry, unreal. Even though it was real, this is where it becomes a real challenge to communicate what I’m really talking about here, but if the cameras are not there — now, in this case it probably would have worked the other way. If the cameras weren’t there, the media not being there, the protestors would have torched even more to get ’em to show up. I understand that.

But when you’ve got an event that everybody knows is gonna happen, you take the cameras out there, it’s not real, folks, when it’s all done for the cameras. And that’s the point, all this is done for the media. Michael Brown was not shot because he’s black. Trayvon Martin did not die because he’s black. Now, you can’t convince anybody else of this on the other side. If they accept that, then everything they’re doing is illegitimate, and they’re not going to agree with that point.

So the whole thing is unreal. The whole thing is not based on reality. Everything is a set up. We’re being manipulated to participate in it and we’re told that what we’re watching is real, but you get the cameras out of there, you get the media out of there and stop all the prepub, same thing might have happened, but I’m telling you it would have felt different, it would have had a whole different set of consequences to it.

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RUSH: Glenn Reynolds runs a website called Instapundit. He’s a law professor at the University of Tennessee and has a theory on why Ferguson happened post-election. You can understand Trayvon Martin, you can understand all these other things about black turnout, but he thinks that Ferguson, Missouri, has nothing to do with any of that.

“It’s not about swing voters. It’s about the base. And it’s not about the Democratic Party’s base, but about certain leaders’ base within the Democratic Party. This may be best understood as an intra-party struggle. Obama is the champion of the urban-black wing of the party, and because of him that wing has been on top. But his star is fading, black voters are beginning to realize that they haven’t benefited economically, and the next Dem nominee — whether it’s Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, or Elizabeth Warren — will be from the white gentry-liberal wing of the Democratic Party.”

So he’s talking about the different factions within the Democrat Party. Obama runs the urban black wing, which would be the Congressional Black Caucus and people that are concerned with the inner city, and that Hillary or Elizabeth Warren, Jim Webb, they’re from the white gentry liberal wing of the Democrat Party.

“The riots, the marches, the traffic-blocking are a way of telling them –” the Hillarys, the Elizabeth Warrens, and the Jim Webbs “– that the Sharpton,” and Jackson, “wing is still a force to be reckoned with,” and that this is all about the Sharpton wing of the Democrat Party demonstrating its power and strength to the Hillary Clintons, the Elizabeth Warrens, as a means of “bargaining power between now and 2016.”

And Reynolds says “that’s the only way this — not at all spontaneous — street theater makes sense.” And folks, this was scripted! Everybody knew it was coming. Nobody made an effort to stop it. It was portrayed as spontaneous, but it wasn’t. And there’s politics at the end of the rope on it anyway, so there you go.

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Since Michael Brown Died, 981 Black Babies Have Died in Abortion in Missouri, But There are No Riots

by Steven Ertelt | Jefferson City, MO | LifeNews.com | 11/26/14

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.lifenews.com/2014/11/26/since-michael-brown-died-981-black-babies-have-died-in-abortion-in-missouri-but-there-are-no-riots/

Riots are taking place across the country in response to a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson, Missouri police officer for shooting a black teenager. The decision not to bring charges has renewed difficult racial tensions nationwide.

Yesterday, LifeNews reported how the Planned Parenthood abortion business fanned the flames of racial divide by aggressively opposing the decision in Ferguson.

Though the events in Ferguson have nothing to do with abortion, Planned Parenthood and its pro-abortion CEO Cecile Richards have been very active on Twitter condemning the decision and stoking the racial divide. Ironically, as the abortion giant jumps in the debate, it makes no mention of the fact that it preys on black Americans and aborts black babies at alarming rates.

Today, a pro-life advocate from Missouri put Planned Parenthood’s targeting of black babies in abortion into perspective. She says that while there are riots over the controversial death of a black teen in Missouri, there are no riots over the death of 981 black babies who have died in Missouri since Michael Brown died. She wonders why no one is speaking up for those black victims of violence via abortion.

From Reverend Katherine’s blog:

Today, my native city of St. Louis is under siege; one black man was shot dead by a police officer because he feared for his own life while on duty. The people of Ferguson and surrounding municipalities including St. Louis are looting, setting fires, rolling cars, etc., because of one person.

Since the day that Michael Brown died [Aug 9, 2014], another 981 Black Missourians have died; 9 per day, every day since then. These Black Missourians were unarmed, innocent, and had no ability to defend themselves and died in plain sight. But there is no outrage, no riots, not one protest.

So, while these rioters are trying to destroy my native city of St. Louis because of the death of one Black man, the rioters overlook the fact that just a couple of miles away at Planned Parenthood on Forest Park Avenue, another 109 Black babies have died since Michael Brown.

Why aren’t the rioters at Planned Parenthood defending themselves and their future generations? Why do they allow themselves to be essentially exterminated by abortion but riot over one?

Everyone’s life has value regardless of how many people die or in what circumstances. Michael Brown’s life had value in the same manner as the lives of black babies killed in abortion, yet we’re outraged by the taking of one life and not the other.

What do you think?

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Mark Levin on Ferguson: ‘What We Are Witnessing Now Is the Left’s War on the Civil Society’

by Breitbart News 25 Nov 2014

Ferguson burns and violence has been unleashed thanks to the reckless liberal media, the lawless administration (especially Eric Holder) exploiting the shooting to smear police departments across the nation, phony civil rights demagogues, race-baiting politicians, and radical hate groups.

The lies about why and how Officer Darrin Wilson shot Michael Brown started on day one and never ended. The indisputable facts are that Brown was shot because he assaulted a police officer, attempted to take the officer’s pistol resulting in two close range gun shots in the police cruiser, and then turned around and charged the officer as he was being pursued. The entire event was precipitated by Brown earlier stealing cigars from a local store and assaulting the owner.

What we are witnessing now is the left’s war on the civil society. It’s time to speak out in defense of law enforcement and others trying to protect the community and uphold the rule law.

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How Some Islamist Supporters Are Reacting to the Ferguson Unrest

Nov. 25, 2014, Posted by Sharona Schwartz

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/25/how-some-islamist-supporters-are-reacting-to-the-ferguson-unrest/

Following the eruption of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, some apparent supporters of Middle East Islamists added their voice to the debate, accusing the U.S. of being a “fake” democracy, likening the U.S. to a terrorist group, and calling for Shariah law to be implemented in the U.S.

It all came as a result of the no indictment of police officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Journalist Jenan Moussa with the Dubai-based Al Aan television first reported Tuesday morning that supporters of the Islamic State group and others were actively commenting on the Ferguson developments using Arabic hashtags which translate to “America burning” and “America collapsing.”

The vast majority posted their thoughts in Arabic, but some posted in English.

One Twitter user took the opportunity to criticize the U.S. military’s use of drones in pursuit of terrorism suspects.

The same user also called for the flag of Allah to be raised at the White House:

This photo montage was added to the Twitter conversation accompanied by the Arabic headline “America collapsing.”

Reporter Moussa’s tweet about the existence of the Arabic hashtags on the Ferguson strife also elicited responses, including these:

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My Own Two Cents About the Results of the Officer Wilson Verdict

The news is full of reporting on what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, last night after the Grand Jury issued their results of three months of testimony, questions and carefully considering their decision.

Rather than join the crowd of regurgitating the reports of the riots, including those in many other cities, please allow me to give you some other thoughts about the entire subject;

“Never argue, or try to reason with, nor bother to ask questions of delusional people. You are NOT the DONKEY (Leftist/Marxist/Socialist/Extreme-Liberal/Full-of-Hate/Democrat followers) whisperer.”
Most of the rioters you saw last night could care less about Michael Brown, or how he died. They just wanted to riot, destroy, pillage and make a fuss. No matter the verdict, they were determined to riot.
They wanted free stuff. Noticed the businesses they targeted; Cell Phone stores, liquor stores, auto parts stores (McDonalds I really don’t understand).
They wanted to destroy. They hate anyone who actually makes something of their lives. They do not understand, nor do they want to understand, how someone starts and builds a business. This is largely due to the Professional Pot-Stirrer-Thugs of Sharpton/Jackson. As long as these humans remain convinced that the world hates them, owes them, has oppressed them, they will remain victims and never think for themselves. The Sharpton/Jackson’s will continue to get filthy rich off their victims supposed oppression, and laugh all the way to a lifestyle their victims only dream of having. Adding to the wrong is the Sharpton/Jackson’s not paying taxes like good citizens.
Race relations will never heal as long as these vicious Pot-Stirrer Thugs continue to poke at the bruises they have inflicted on their victims. You can never extinguish the firestorm of hate with more fuel.
These victims are so drunk with their hatred, and perceived oppression, that reasoning will never be possible. They will continue to hate, riot. destroy and murder at exponential numbers. Black on black crime will continue to grow in exponential numbers. Black on black hatred will continue as independent-thinking black people seek to escape their perceived bondage and become successful like Dr. Ben Carson, Condoleezza Rice, Allen B. West and other like people. They actually started thinking for themselves. They were raised by parents that encouraged them to get a great education, and do something with that education. They were taught to not follow the crowd, or cave into the stereotypes thrust on them by the Sharpton/Jackson Professional Pot-Stirrer Thugs. Isn’t it odd that they all became conservatives?
More evidence of all this was the riots in other cities. No one can possibly give a righteous reason for their conduct. All they wanted to do was riot, they didn’t care what opportunity they had to do so.
All the pundits that FOX and others interviewed live that are died-in-the-wool Leftist/Marxist/Socialist/White-Hating/America-Hating/Democrat’s that had the same talking points; The prosecutor failed in his job because he took the right steps in going to the Grand Jury first. Their claims that Office Wilson was not cross examined, and that they didn’t have any of the information of the evidence, was all a canard (Definition of CANARD: a false or unfounded report or story; especially : a fabricated report b : a groundless rumor or belief) Their real reason for their complaint was that they didn’t get to have MORE “ammunition” to yell and complaint about, giving them MORE reasons to riot.
Another reason they wanted a public trial was so they would have faces of jurors they could intimidate and punish. The Grand Jury is private and unknown.

Unfortunately these acts will not end. More than ever before in history is the United States been in a head-on collision with a Race War. Stoked by the Islamist, and all those profiting from keeping the fires burning and the Pot Stirring, these perceived victims will get bolder, grow in numbers, and anything can flip the switch.

As long as the Evangelical Church in America remains content with playing church, instead of being the Salt and Light Jesus said we are to be, our country will continue its downward spiral into destruction. Waiting at the bottom are the Sharpton/Jacksons, the Islamist and all the other Leftist/Marxist/Socialist/America-Hating/Freedom-Hating/Christian-Hating/Politically-Correct-Worshiping/Democrats. America as designed by God the Father through His instruments of peace, our founding fathers, will completely cease to exists. What rises from the ashes will be the totalitarian, Socialist, Tyrannical, Marxist, Saul Alinsky Designed, Cloward-Piven planned oppressive government these thugs have wanted all along.

I’m still going to fight to the end. How about you?

Jerry Broussard of WhatDidYouSay.org

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Ferguson Waits Uneasily for Grand Jury’s Decision

By JULIE BOSMAN and MONICA DAVEYNOV. 7, 2014

URL Of Original Posting Site: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/us/ferguson-missouri.html?_r=1

: The Dellwood Lounge, off West Florissant Avenue, whose owners boarded the windows when they heard that insurance would not cover the cost of replacing broken glass. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times

FERGUSON, Mo. — Walk down West Florissant Avenue, and the scars of the summer are still there. The door and display window of a beauty supply store remain covered with plywood; a glued-up poster, “Beauty Town Is Back,” is the one hopeful sign of the life inside. A cellphone store, too, still has the plywood up from when riots and confrontations with the police shook this neighborhood. And the Family of Faith Baptist Church uses its billboard to proclaim, “Join us as we pray for peace.”

But few are expecting peace as this St. Louis suburb prepares for a grand jury decision, expected in the next few weeks, on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in August, inciting months of protests and putting Ferguson at the center of a national debate over the police and race.

Here, where heavily fortified police officers faced the demonstrators and the nights sometimes turned violent, even those shopkeepers who put in new windows are boarding up again.

“I hate this,” said Dan McMullen, the president of Solo Insurance Services, as he sat behind his desk on Thursday. During the course of a 20-minute conversation, his phone did not ring; no customers walked through the door. “Business is terrible,” he lamented. “The customers don’t want to come here anymore. We all know the grand jury is going to come back in the next couple of weeks, and everyone knows there won’t be an indictment. This time around will be a lot more violent.”

What Happened in Ferguson?

: Why did the police shoot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb, and what has unfolded since then? Here’s what you need to know about the situation in Missouri.

Mr. McMullen, a former police officer who is white, opened his desk drawer to show the loaded revolver that he keeps there.

“I don’t anticipate having to use it,” he said, but added that he was prepared to do so if necessary to defend his business.

All around this small suburb, people are bracing for the grand jury’s decision, with the wide expectation that the officer, Darren Wilson, will not face serious charges for shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown six times.

Government officials have said that forensics tests showed Mr. Brown’s blood on Officer Wilson’s gun, giving credence to the officer’s account that at one point he was pinned in his vehicle and engaged in a struggle over his gun with Mr. Brown. He told investigators that he had feared for his life, and police officers are typically given wide latitude to defend themselves if they feel their safety is threatened.

Nor are civil rights charges expected. Federal officials have said that while their investigation is continuing, the evidence so far does not support such a case against Officer Wilson.

But people protesting police tactics, who have continued to hold marches here since the shooting on Aug. 9, say they envision larger, angrier demonstrations should Officer Wilson not be charged. Fearing renewed unrest, the police in the region have bought new riot gear, called meetings with nearby departments and held special training seminars.

School leaders are reviewing emergency contingency plans and urging officials to announce the grand jury finding outside of school hours — perhaps on a Sunday, so that children returning home are not caught in a melee.

Behind the scenes, government officials at various levels have been struggling with how to orchestrate and blunt the effects of the grand jury announcement. Investigators in Missouri want the Justice Department to announce the results of its civil rights investigation at the same time, according to several people briefed on the case, who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential conversations. Yet Justice Department officials, who have promised that their investigation will be independent, do not want to coordinate announcements.

Other government officials have been privately discussing whether they can pressure the Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, to step down, or somehow substitute the St. Louis County police for the local force. The county prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, has said that if the grand jury does not indict Officer Wilson, he will take the unusual step of releasing the evidence for public scrutiny if a judge approves.

Mr. Brown’s parents are preparing to call on the people of Ferguson not to react violently to the grand jury’s decision, even though they have little faith in the prosecutor, according to their lawyer, Benjamin L. Crump. “We want people to pray that the system will work, but the family doesn’t have much confidence at all,” Mr. Crump said. Nor, he added, are they confident that the local police will deal properly even with peaceful protesters.

Regardless of what the grand jury decides, Mr. Crump said the Browns would dedicate themselves to pressuring the federal government and states to pass “Michael Brown laws” that would require officers to wear video cameras.

“The real change they want is for people to use their frustration and turn it into legislation,” he said. “If you get the Mike Brown law passed, nobody will have to deal with something like this and the insult to injury afterwards.”

Some protest groups have said that they are urging demonstrators to be peaceful. The Don’t Shoot Coalition, which formed in the aftermath of the shooting, is pressing local officials for coordination in advance of the grand jury’s return so that members can adequately prepare for the announcement. The coalition, which represents about 50 groups, said this week that it was promoting “a peaceful response” from demonstrators.

Elected officials have tried to soothe nerves in recent days, even as some police departments have bought more pepper-spray balls, flexible handcuffs and batons, and, in the case of at least one department, decided to delay repairing police vehicles until any unrest is over. Anxious business owners filled part of a banquet hall here the other night, brimming with worries.

At the meeting, billed as a “disaster preparedness seminar,” they peppered city officials with questions: If Officer Wilson faces no charges, will Ferguson be able to manage the ensuing protests? Should they be stocking up on fire extinguishers, in case someone tries to burn down their stores? Should they arm themselves? Yon Kim, a clerk at a beauty supply store, later described the growing tension. “I know it’s not going to be smooth,” she said. “The customers are already scared. And if something happens, we don’t know if insurance is going to cover it.”

“There’s going to be protests,” Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff, an assistant Ferguson police chief, told the business owners, while urging them to be careful how they respond. “Once you pull that trigger,” he warned, “you cannot pull that bullet back.”

Among the other bits of less-than-reassuring guidance for business owners: Empty your trash often, fire officials said, so it is not set aflame during protests. And Mayor James Knowles III suggested that people steer clear of the area in the evening if protests break out. “By 8, 9 o’clock, nothing good is going to happen out on the streets,” Mr. Knowles said. “When the gremlins come out, you’re just going to get caught in the crossfire.”

And the protests go on. Nearly every night, demonstrators gather in front of Police Headquarters on South Florissant Road, chanting and confronting police officers with expletive-laden cries and promises to shut the streets down.

On Wednesday evening, an unusually large crowd of more than 100 protesters was there, many with garish Guy Fawkes masks of white faces. The police, wearing riot gear and armed with plastic handcuffs, warned the protesters that if they continued to block the road, they would be arrested. The group defied the police, marching down the middle of the street and leaving a traffic jam behind them. Some pounded on cars whose drivers were trying to maneuver through. One driver, a white-haired older woman, turned onto South Florissant, saw the protesters and did a hasty U-turn to avoid being trapped by the crowd.

At times, officers appeared to struggle to remain calm in the face of insults. “You’re three-fifths of a person,” one woman taunted a black police officer, who turned his back and walked in the opposite direction.

The leaders of at least three police departments — the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Police Department — have held regular meetings as part of an effort at unified preparation. “We’re focused on the preservation of life and property,” Jon Belmar, the chief of the county police, said in an interview. His department spent $37,741 in October on helmets, shields, batons and shin guards.

A central goal, some law enforcement officials said, is to ensure that peaceful demonstrators are able to voice their views while also preventing violence.

The St. Louis Police Department has spent $325,000 on new equipment, including riot gear; sent 350 officers to training sessions on how to manage civil disobedience; and met with police chiefs from other communities around the nation that have dealt with unrest. Still under consideration are canceled days off for officers and 12-hour shifts. “We’ll be prepared to respond,” said D. Samuel Dotson III, the chief in St. Louis.

Capt. Ronald S. Johnson, the Missouri State Highway Patrol official who became the public face of law enforcement here after early clashes, said he had spoken to school groups and church panels about long-term changes needed in Ferguson. Still, the grand jury’s looming decision comes up regularly.

“I tell them that we’re going to make it through whatever happens,” Captain Johnson said in an interview. “I also tell them that it is my belief that whatever happens is not going to be as bad as we believe it’s going to be. I also tell them that I believe we’ll be better for it. But I tell them that I look at each day for each day.”

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WND – http://www.wnd.com – Stone-throwing Muslims bloody Christians in Michigan

Posted By Bob Unruh On 10/27/2014

URL to article: http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/christians-bloodied-by-stone-throwing-muslims-in-michigan/

Dearbornistan32 The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has decided to review a First Amendment complaint brought by Christians who were assaulted by a rock-throwing Muslim mob at an Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan.

The case arose from the annual Arab International Festival in June 2012 when Wayne County sheriff’s deputies stood by while a Muslim mob threw rocks at Christians, bloodying them.

The officers then threatened the Christians with arrest if they didn’t leave the event.

The Christians brought a lawsuit against Wayne County over its officers’ actions, and a three-judge panel dismissed it.

But a majority of 6th Circuit judges has agreed to re-hear the case.

The case, shepherded by the American Freedom Law Center, isn’t the first time that Muslim mob violence has erupted at the Arab festival. Earlier, a group of Christians was awarded more than $100,000 in damages because of attacks there.

In the latest case, Robert J. Muise, senior counsel for the AFLC, called the decision to re-hear “great news for religious freedom and the freedom of speech.”

“The panel’s [overturned] decision rewards violence over protected speech and thus incorporates into the First Amendment what is known as a ‘heckler’s veto.’ We are confident that the full court will reverse this ‘dangerously wrong’ decision,” he said.

The 6th Circuit’s rules note that granting such a re-hearing is rare.

“A petition for rehearing en banc is an extraordinary procedure intended to bring to the attention of the entire court a precedent-setting error of exceptional public importance.”

The dissent from the panel’s decision that earlier had dismissed the case said: “The majority’s first error is its conclusion that the First Amendment did not protect [the Christians’] speech. This is not only wrong, it is dangerously wrong.”

AFLC co-founder David Yerushalmi said the First Amendment “is under assault by both Muslim supremacists and Islamists on the one hand and progressives advocating ‘hate-speech’ crimes on the other.”

“The result is a shrinking arena of free speech with government bureaucrats and cultural and civilizational jihadists dictating what is and is not acceptable speech,” he said. “Maybe, just maybe, the Sixth Circuit has decided to draw the line in the sand to protect against any further encroachment upon the sphere of this First Amendment freedom.”

AFLC said the rock-throwing incident left members of the evangelism team bloodied while deputies from the Wayne County sheriff’s office stood by. Then, when Ruben Israel, the leader of the evangelists, asked officers to enforce the law so that Christians could speak, he was told to either leave or be arrested.

“Whether you agree or disagree with the Christians’ message, there is one issue to which there is no dispute: no citizen should be stoned in a city street in America for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of speech,” Muise said when the case developed.

“And what makes this case so egregious is that law enforcement officers were present and made the conscious choice to allow the Muslim mob to silence the Christian speakers through violence. Indeed, the video of the incident looks like something you would see in the Middle East, not in the United States,” he said.

“While it is shocking to see video of Christians being stoned in the United States for criticizing Islam, it is not necessarily surprising that this incident occurred in Dearborn, Michigan, a city where the mayor and law enforcement have consistently violated Christians’ free speech rights in favor of appeasing a large Muslim population and where, in line with the Islamic legal dictates of Shariah, the Christian Gospel is treated as criminally offensive speech, and violence ‘for the sake of Allah’ is reinforced by arresting or removing the Christians. What you are witnessing on the video is the enforcement of Shariah by a hostile mob and law enforcement aiding and abetting,” Yerushalmi added.

WND reported only a few months before the stoning incident that a court had found local officials in Dearborn liable for $100,000 in damages for arresting a Christian pastor who wanted to hand out Christian tracts at the same festival in 2009.

Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen then recommend fees and costs totaling $103,401.96 be awarded in the case, which was handled by attorney Muise on behalf of Christian pastor George Saieg.

Muise, at the time, was with the Thomas More Law Center.

Muise also won acquittals on charges of “disturbing the peace” brought by Dearborn against a group of Christians after they were arrested in 2010 for a similar kind of speech activity.

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An Open Letter to Captain Ronald S. Johnson; A Perspective You Have Not Heard Before.

http://www.lawofficer.com/article/lifeline-training/open-letter-captain-ronald-s-j

From a former St. Louis Metro Area police chief

Chief Ed Delmore | Sunday, August 17, 2014

“I have to call you out.’

“I don’t care what the media says. I expect them to get it wrong and they often do. But I expect you as a veteran law enforcement commander—talking about law enforcement—to get it right.’

“Unfortunately, you blew it. After days of rioting and looting, last Thursday you were given command of all law enforcement operations in Ferguson by Governor Jay Nixon. St. Louis County PD was out, you were in. You played to the cameras, walked with the protestors and promised a kinder, gentler response. You were a media darling. And Thursday night things were better, much better.”

“But Friday, under significant pressure to do so, the Ferguson Police released the name of the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown. At the same time the Ferguson Police Chief released a video showing Brown committing a strong-arm robbery just 10 minutes before he was confronted by Officer Darren Wilson.’

“Many don’t like the timing of the release of the video. I don’t like that timing either. It should have been released sooner. It should have been released the moment FPD realized that Brown was the suspect.’

“Captain Johnson, your words during the day on Friday helped to fuel the anger that was still churning just below the surface. St. Louis County Police were told to remain uninvolved and that night the rioting and looting began again. For much too long it went on mostly unchecked. Retired St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch tweeted that your “hug-a-looter” policy had failed.’

“Boy did it.’

“And your words contributed to what happened Friday night and on into the wee hours of Saturday. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, you said the following regarding the release of the video: “There was no need to release it,” Johnson said calling the reported theft and the killing entirely different events.’

“Well Captain, this veteran police officer feels the need to respond. What you said is, in common police vernacular—bullshit. The fact that Brown knew he had just committed a robbery before he was stopped by Officer Wilson speaks to Brown’s mindset. And Captain, the mindset of a person being stopped by a police officer means everything, and you know it.’

“Let’s consider a few examples:

On February 15, 1978 Pensacola Police Officer David Lee conducted a vehicle check. He didn’t know what the sole occupant of the vehicle had recently done, but the occupant did. Who was he? Serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy attempted to disarm Lee. Lee was able to retain his firearm and eventually took Bundy into custody.’

“On April 19, 1995 Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hangar stopped a vehicle for minor traffic violations. He didn’t know that 90 minutes earlier the traffic violator, Timothy McVeigh, killed 168 people with a truck bomb at the Murrah Federal Building. But McVeigh sure knew it, didn’t he? Fortunately, given his training and experience Hangar was able to take McVeigh into custody for carrying a concealed firearm. It was days later before it was determined that McVeigh was responsible for the bombing.’

“On May 31, 2003 then-rookie North Carolina police officer, Jeff Postell, arrested a man digging in a trash bin on a grocery store parking lot—an infraction that would rise to about the level of jaywalking. Postell didn’t know that he had just captured Eric Rudolph, the man whom years earlier had killed and injured numerous people with bombs and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.’

“So now, let’s consider Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson’s stop of Michael Brown. Apparently Wilson didn’t know that Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery. But Brown did! And that Captain, is huge.’

“Allegedly, Brown pushed Wilson and attempted to take Wilson’s gun. We’re also being told that Officer Wilson has facial injuries suffered during the attempt by Brown to disarm him. Let’s assume for a moment those alleged acts by Brown actually occurred. Would Brown have responded violently to an officer confronting him about jaywalking? Maybe, but probably not.’

“Is it more likely that he would attack an officer believing that he was about to be taken into custody for a felony strong-arm robbery? Absolutely.’

“Officer Wilson survived the encounter with Brown as did Lee, Hangar, and Postell. Michael Brown didn’t survive and it’s too soon to say if Officer Wilson’s use of deadly force was justified and legal. You and I both know that not all officers survive such confrontations. Officers die in incidents like this Captain Johnson, including a couple that I remember from your own organization:’

“On April 15, 1985 Missouri Trooper Jimmie Linegar was shot and killed by a white supremacist he and his partner stopped at a checkpoint; neither Trooper Linegar nor his partner were aware that the man they had stopped had just been indicted by a federal grand jury for involvement in a neo-Nazi group accused of murder. The suspect immediately exited the vehicle and opened fire on him with an automatic weapon.’

“Just a month before, Missouri Trooper James M. Froemsdorf was shot and killed—with his own gun—after making a traffic stop. When the Trooper made that stop he didn’t know that the driver was wanted on four warrants out of Texas—But again the suspect knew it.’

“So Captain Johnson, I guess the mindset and recently committed crimes of the suspects that murdered those Missouri Troopers didn’t mean anything. The stops by the Troopers, as you have said, are entirely different events right?’

“Bullshit.”

Some information contained in this article came from the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP

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The Ferguson, Missouri Story: Drive-By Politicians, Drive-By Agitators and Drive-By Media Attempting to Cash in on Narratives

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/08/15/the_ferguson_missouri_story_drive_by_politicians_drive_by_agitators_and_drive_by_media_attempting_to_cash_in_on_narratives

August 15, 2014

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have I told you that there is no news in the news? And how many times have I told you that what you see on the TV news you should always be suspicious of? You should always suspect that there’s something else. You should always suspect that it may be entirely wrong. You should always suspect, with major network news, that there is a political agenda attached to everything they do. I use the term here “Drive-By Media.” It’s been awhile since I offered the full-fledged definition of what Drive-By Media is.

The true definition of the Drive-By Media is: They fly into a situation; they arrive on the scene of major breaking news; they make up stuff. They stir up emotions to a frenzied fever pitch. They spread lies, and then, after a few hours or a few days when the real facts emerge, they’re gone. They’re down the road doing it again on the next story, while everybody else is left in their wake with a mess that real Americans have to clean up. And that is exactly what has happened in Ferguson, Missouri.

And before you start shouting at me, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Rush, the media didn’t do anything wrong here because they didn’t know about the video and the pictures at the convenience store with the cigar robbery.” Yes, they did. Don Lemon on CNN today actually admitted, “Some of us have heard rumors of a robbery involving the ‘gentle giant.'” Why didn’t you tell us of those rumors? Rumors have never stopped you before. They had heard.

Everybody asking, “Why did the cops hold this information all this time, why did they not release it?” I don’t know. But I’ll tell you, in one sense, they really set up the media well. I mean, they allowed the media to establish their narrative. In the process, a lot of violence took place at the same time. But, regardless, if you are just tuning in and if your station has not preempted us for the press conference that’s going on now in St. Louis — by the way, we’re gonna be repeating this, folks, when this press conference is over. Maybe not immediately but, for example, our affiliate in St. Louis is covering what’s happening there and the audience there is not hearing the program, so I don’t want them to miss this. So later on in the busy broadcast today there will not be a formal repeat of this. I’ll just go through this all again. Because, of course, until I’ve said something, it hasn’t really been said.

And in this case, all this time, what has been the assumption? And there was one eyewitness. The assumption has been that an 18-year-old ‘gentle giant,’ Michael Brown, was walking down the street minding his own business, bothering nobody, much like I do this program, bothering nobody, minding my own business, and he was set upon by a police officer. Yes, the gentle giant was unarmed. Yes. Of course. Gentle giants, by definition, are unarmed.

The gentle giant was unarmed, his friend was unarmed, and out of the blue here comes a cop, and the cop eventually shoots the gentle giant. The town erupts, thinking this is typical. The gentle giant hasn’t done anything. The gentle giant hasn’t provoked anybody, neither had his buddy. They were just walking down the street and as is typical, a white cop, black gentle giant, bammo. Shot with his hands up. Oh, yes, he was surrendering, he was surrendering.

And this caused night after night of tumult and chaos in Ferguson, Missouri. You know the rest of the story. I don’t need to go through the details, the timeline. But now what we have learned, as announced today, let’s listen to the police chief, Tom Jackson. The police chief held a press conference to talk about the shooting death of Michael Brown. The purpose was to announce the name of the cop that shot the gentle giant with his hands up, surrendering. We have two bites. This is the first.

CHIEF: I’m going to be releasing information about a robbery that occurred on August 9th immediately preceding the altercation and shooting death of Michael Brown. What we’re making available today are the dispatch records and the video footage of a robbery, a strong-arm robbery, with use of force that occurred at a local convenience mart. I cannot discuss the investigation about the attempted apprehension of the suspect in that strong-arm robbery.

RUSH: Strong-arm robbery? Strong-arm robbery? What’s this, video footage of a robbery, strong-arm robbery, use of force? Local convenience mart? What’s this? Nobody heard anything about this, except the media had. There were rumors floating around, as it turns out.

Here’s more from the chief.

CHIEF: The officer that was involved in the shooting of Michael Brown was Darren Wilson. He’s been a police officer for six years, has had no disciplinary action against him. He was treated for injuries which occurred on Saturday. I won’t be taking any questions at this time but the packets will be handed out by my officers.

RUSH: And he promised a press conference later today, which is going on now. And speaking at the press conference now is the governor who came in yesterday and took the county cops off case, which drew a lot of criticism from people. But the governor, Jay Nixon, pulled the county cops off and put the state police, the highway patrol, in charge. Captain Johnson is heading up that command.

He’s from Ferguson. He’s African-American. He joined the protest march. He brought peace and tranquility to the streets of Ferguson last night. He is beloved there. He is now participating in actually conducting the press conference along with the governor, and I assume the police chief. But Captain Johnson did indeed bring peace and calm to the situation last night.

And he said things like, “If people get scared of a person in uniform, that’s not good and we’ve gotta fix that. We cannot have just the sight of people in uniform scaring citizens. That’s not good.” There’s been a lot of talk, folks, about demilitarizing the police, demilitarizing the police force. Not just in Ferguson, but all over the country. Rand Paul has picked up on this movement to demilitarize the cops.

We learned yesterday that the defense department distributes leftovers and hand-me-downs that they don’t need anymore to local police all over the country. Armored personnel carrier-type vehicles, powerful weapons, and the ammunition go in those powerful weapons. I want to offer you an explanation for why this is happening, because I think maybe a lot of people have forgotten this.

In the nineties, in California, do you recall the bank robbery in which the robbers were wearing vests? They had AK-47s, massive… They had hand grenades; they had mortars. They had all kinds of things, and the cops are firing with nine millimeter whatevers? And everybody was wringing their hands, “My God, look at this gang of crooks! My God, they’re overpowering the cops! The cops can’t even compete.”

The cops were carrying, you know, pistols, basically, because that was all was thought that beat cops needed to keep the peace. Any more would be unnecessary show of force. The cops were overwhelmed and overrun by this one gang. It was a bank robbery in California. I forget specifically when and what the bank was. But ever since then there were calls that the cops had to have more powerful weapons.

It was not just one incident. There were a whole bunch of them where the bad guys — and of course the left started using these events to advance their whole gun control agenda. “My God, look at what the bad guys got out there! Look at all the weapons the bad guys have. We gotta have gun control.” (laughing) I said, “Look, those are not the kind of weapons that you just walk in off the street and buy.

“No matter what gun control law you pass, these kind of bad guys, if they want weapons like that, are gonna be able to find them.” So that began the rethinking of how the cops should be armed. It was actually real world. It was not a desire to militarize police departments. It was a reaction to the kind of weapons that bad guys were able to arm themselves with. It was the “AK-47 Bandits.” It was a Hollywood robbery.

Here’s Don Lemon. I want you to hear this. He was on CNN today. He’s on the scene in Ferguson, and he was reporting from the press conference after the police chief had announced (summary), “Hey, we’ve got video inside the convenience store of the gentle giant essentially robbing the place of a box of cigars.” It turns out, Swisher Sweets. Do you know what…?

Have you ever smoked a Swisher Sweet, Snerdley? (interruption) Well, I have. They’re actually good for when you’re 16 and 17 and just starting to smoke. They’re sweet. It’ll cigarillos and stuff. (interruption) Oh, yeah, I smoked them for real. (interruption) No, no, no. I didn’t make blunts out of ’em. I smoked them for real. But the Swisher Sweet today is purchased by people that love marijuana.

They get the Swisher Sweets. They’re cheap, and they come in a number of different cigarillo shapes and lengths. The longer the better, and you take a razor blade, as I understand… I’ve never done this. You take a razor blade, and you cut it open lengthways, put all the Swisher Sweets tobacco out of it, and then you refill it/rewrap it with your marijuana.

If you want to, you can mix the real tobacco, the Swisher Sweets tobacco, back in with the marijuana to add a sweet taste to it, and then it’s not called a blunt. It’s called a “split” or some such thing, as I’ve been told, and they roll it back up. That’s why people buy Swisher Sweets these days, or why some people do. That was the box of cigars being stolen from the convenience store.

By the gentle giant. The video changes everything. Folks, it totally changes the story. MSNBC went to paid programming while they had editorial conferences to figure out how to deal with this! CNN almost decided to leave the story and go back to covering the missing airplane. It took the wind totally out of the media’s sails. It totally, totally changed the template and the narrative.

The template and narrative was, yet again, “A racist white cop in a racist white America had fired at a gentle giant harmless black man — with his hands up in surrender — for no reason whatsoever. And when are these horrible events going to stop? And when is Obama going to do something about it? And when is the governor gonna act? When are we going to love each other again?” and all of this.

It turns out now, with the release of the video and the accompanying still shots of the robbery, that the police officer, whose name is Darren Wilson, was stopping the gentle giant, Michael Brown, because he was a suspect. The gentle giant made a move for the cop’s weapon. That’s not what you do.

If you’re arrested, if you are ever stopped for a moving violation in your car, you do nothing but what the cop tells you to do — and you certainly don’t try to grab the cop’s gun. You do not. I don’t care how big you are, there just certain things that you just don’t do. So the entire complexion of this thing changed in a matter of minutes. Here’s Don Lemon acknowledging they had heard a rumor of this.

LEMON: Some of us had heard about it earlier, the possibility of a videotape of a robbery, and believed to be Michael Brown. We did not get confirmation from police on that, so it — it was not reported. That was just a rumor. But now we’re finding out from the Ferguson police chief that they do believe that they have video, and they think that in that video that it is Michael Brown, um, stealing cigars, punching the store clerk.

RUSH: Oh. No longer a gentle giant now. It just totally changes it. But they knew. They had heard about it, and they say (mumbling), “Well, it’s unconfirmed. The police had an unconfirmed rumor; we can’t report that.” They deal in rumors all the time, if they like what the rumor is.

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RUSH: The attorney for the family of the gentle giant. Now, let me read this as it’s written by the Associated Press. This just cleared the wire. “The attorney for the family of an unarmed teenager fatally shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb says police are trying to assassinate the victim’s character by saying he committed a robbery that day. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Friday identified Darren Wilson as the officer who shot 18-year-old [gentle giant] Michael Brown last Saturday.” (interruption) Well, the media called him the gentle giant, why can’t I? The media did, over and over again.

“The attorney, Benjamin Crump –” is this the same attorney that represented the Trayvon Martin family? I think it is. “The attorney, Benjamin Crump, says Brown’s parents are ‘incensed’ by what he calls ‘the old game of smoke and mirrors.’ He says the family was blind-sided by Friday’s announcement. Crump says ‘it’s bad enough they assassinated him, and now they’re trying to assassinate his character.'”

So now the attorney for the gentle giant’s family is, I guess, implying that the cops are committing character assassination. Is he denying the videotape? Is he saying that that’s not a gentle giant on the videotape, or is he saying that pointing it out is character assassination?

You knew this was gonna happen, too. And you know why you knew this was going to happen? Because nobody can figure out why the cops waited all this time. If they knew this four days ago, why didn’t they have it and use it and say it? Why did they let all this time go by before they announced this? Did it take all this time to get the video, analyze it, and confirm it was the gentle giant? Why do it only on the day they announce the name of the cop?

So it’s kind of understandable here that the attorney for the family of Michael Brown would now say that the cops are trying to assassinate his character by saying he committed a robbery that day. Now, based on the story I have here, the lawyer is not denying that the gentle giant participated in a robbery. That’s not what he’s saying.

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RUSH: We’re gonna get to the phone calls immediately here. Just one observation. I had a chance just now during the obscene profit break to listen to a little bit of press conference going on in St. Louis. And at the time I was able to listen to it, the highway patrol captain, Ron Johnson, was answering questions, and he was… I think the guy’s great. He’s done masterful job.

This guy’s gonna be the next governor. It’s in the cards. Just wait ’til he announces that he’s a fan of Jay-Z and Robin Williams and it’s over. The Republicans don’t even have to nominate anybody; it’s over. He’s the next governor. He’s answering all these question; he’s doing a great job. But the people asking them are really mad. They are really mad, folks.

He was calm and cool and collected in answering the questions, and he wasn’t saying anything more than what’s already been said. He was assuring them that calm can continue, that there’s no need to protest, that he’s going to be there. As long as they stay on the sidewalks, everything’s gonna be fine and dandy and cool and all that. But the people asking the questions were mad.

I’m not gonna attach a meaning to it.

I’m not even gonna make a prediction.

It’s just an observation, and it’s understandable. Look at what’s happened here. For whatever number of days, the whole week, the people of that town have believed the story that’s been out there. People generally believe what’s in the media, sadly, and the narrative and template of this story is the narrative and template that always accompanies an incident like this.

“An entirely innocent young African-American male — who in this case was just walking the street, even attempting to surrender, had his hands up — was nevertheless shot in cold blood by a white cop. This is because of the ancient racism and discrimination and bigotry that was inculcated into this country from its founding and it’s never gotten any better.”

The people of Ferguson, African-American population, thought they’d be jobbed again. It’s the same old thing, and this was reported for days, and then all of a sudden at the press conference this morning and the chief says (summarized), “Well, you know, there was a strong-arm robbery that happened before this incident. We’ve got video, and it looks like the suspect, Michael Brown, is in this video stealing a box of cigars.

“And, by the way, he’s got an accomplice. The accomplice happens to be his big buddy that was the sole eyewitness to what the cop did to Michael Brown.” So now the witness may be compromised in terms of credibility, and the people of Ferguson who thought that they had justice on their side — not in what had happened, but in what was going to happen — all of a sudden feel like they’ve had the rug pulled out from under them.

“Oh, no! What are you trying to tell us? The gentle giant was committing a crime?” and here comes the lawyer for the family saying that the family says the cops are trying to assassinate the victim’s character by saying he committed a robbery that day. “The attorney, Benjamin Crump, says Brown’s parents are ‘incensed’ by what he calls ‘the old game of smoke and mirrors.’

“He says the family was blind-sided by Friday’s announcement.”

So was the whole community, and so they’re all now… I’m telling you, I heard anger in the questions being asked. I didn’t hear any satisfaction at the answers. That’s just an observation. Pure and simple. Here’s Lieutenant Governor Missouri, Peter Kinder, who was on Fox this morning. Bill Hemmer said, “When you have people in the streets of Ferguson for the past six nights, why is this information about the robbery just coming out now? What explains that?”

KINDER: That’s a good question to put to the responsible law enforcement authorities on the scene. I assume… I have not asked them that question or spoken to them about that, but I assume they had their reasons. Their reasons can be questioned. It’s a fair question to ask them, and it should be put to those folks who’ve been there on the line the last six days.

RUSH: Nobody knows. The lieutenant governor doesn’t know. He thinks he should know, thinks we all should know, but he doesn’t know. He thinks he should ask and he’s gonna ask ’em. He doesn’t know what they’re gonna say when he asks but we gotta ask anyway because we should ask these questions. It’s perfectly permissible to ask these questions. We don’t know the answers.

Bottom line.

So while the media is deflated — and they are. The media is just… I mean, you talk about the wind going out of a bunch of people’s sails? It has, and you can see it. You watch MSNBC, watch CNN. Read some of the blog posts. I mean, they thought they had… I don’t know what they thought they had here. But since everything to these people is political, they just think they’ve had a setback in whatever political agenda they thought was gonna be advanced here.

It’s just… It’s clear as day.

But once they collect themselves, ’cause they’re all saying… I mean, they’ve got their legal analysts, “Oh, well! Oh, man! This totally changes the complexion of this case. Why, this just changes everything! Everything we thought we knew is out the window.” This is on CNN. MSNBC, like I said, practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation.

So I suspect the next focal point is gonna be, “Wait a minute. Why all this time before the cops revealed this detail?” Even though Don Lemon of CNN said (paraphrased), “Oh, no, no. It’s been rumored all week long. We didn’t report it ’cause it was just a rumor.”

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RUSH: Now, this is interesting. This is interesting. The highway patrol commander Ron Johnson, Ronald Johnson, he’s saying that he wishes that the Ferguson cops would have consulted with him before releasing the name of the officer. So more drama here. That is very interesting. The guy now in charge of peace on the streets in Ferguson, the highway patrol commander, says he wishes the cops had consulted with him before the release of the officer’s name. What does that tell you? That tells you he thinks maybe the release of the name is gonna give him some problems keeping the peace.

I saw a bit of the video. I didn’t see it all and I didn’t hear anything accompanying the video, but if what I saw is what I saw, it was Michael Brown looking like grabbing a box cigars and giving it to his buddy, with no question that it was Michael Brown, no question it was the gentle giant. And if I saw what I saw, the family lawyer can say whatever he wants to say and it isn’t gonna matter.

Also, I got an interesting e-mail. “Rush, it sounds like you’re defending rioting and looting.” Defending rioting? “Yeah, you’re saying that they had a reason to because the cops didn’t announce that they had the video of the robbery.”

No, no. No. That’s actually a good point. I’m not justifying. I wasn’t even trying to explain the looting and all of the violence that went on. I don’t think that’s ever called for. In fact, there could be a reasonable answer to the question, “Why didn’t they release the video?” Because there’s an investigation ongoing. Maybe they’re gonna say, “Hey, this is what we do in every case like this. We don’t release evidence piecemeal, under no circumstance.” I think it’s a slippery slope, folks, if we start going down that street where we say rioting and looting is acceptable because it’s understandable, because we must understand the rage. We don’t want to go there.

You never want to send a signal that that’s okay. And I didn’t mean to do that.

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RUSH: So what do we have here, folks? I tell you what we have. We have Drive-By politicians, we have Drive-By agitators, we have Drive-By Media, all trying to cash in on narratives and templates as opposed to facts. “You see, the facts weren’t in yet, and we couldn’t wait for the facts, so we had to advance our agendas based on our narratives,” and now they all look like fools.

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it’s Open Line Friday!

RUSH: Now everybody involved in this thing looks like an agitator. The politicians that got all worked up look like agitators. The agitators don’t have to look like agitators ’cause they were agitators. The media, the Drive-By Media look like agitators. All of that looting! Cashing in on a phony narrative, too. All of it was so unnecessary, and all of it serves to make Americans think their country is not so hot.

What an absolute travesty this week has been. It was totally unnecessary. The looting was all based on a phony narrative. The violence was all based on a phony narrative. Drive-By politicians, Drive-By agitators, Drive-By Media, all trying to cash in on narratives as opposed to facts. “The facts weren’t in yet, you see, and we couldn’t wait for the facts. Do you know why we couldn’t wait for the facts?

“Because we didn’t need them! We knew what happened. The media knew what happened,” because they know what a rotten place this country is. That’s right. The media knew what happened. The agitators knew what happened, too, because they’ve been told for all these years what a rotten country they live in. The politicians? They never wait for the facts.

They act on narrative to advance the agenda whenever there is crisis on the scene.

So a bunch of fools, agitators all — with looting and violence totally unnecessary — and that’s what the president weighed in on last night. All of this just ’cause nobody can wait for the facts, because everybody thought they knew them. They didn’t need to wait, because everybody’s prejudice had already told ’em what had happened there and why it had happened and who was guilty and who was innocent and all of that.

I meant to mention this yesterday. I had a friend send me an Internet page that he thought was brilliant. It was one of these websites that analyzes foreign affairs, foreign events. He said, “You know, I don’t send you stuff.” Most of my friends know not to do that, ’cause they have learned I see it on my own. They don’t need to send me stuff. So when they do, it’s rare.

When they do, they think they’ve really spotted something and I’m going to appreciate it. They’re trying to be helpful, don’t misunderstand, and I’m not gonna identify the website. It’s not the point. What was sent to me was gobbledygook. It was foreign policy analysis that didn’t say anything. I’m gonna tell you what it said, and I’ll tell you what I wrote the guy back.

I said, “You know what? This is brilliant! I agree wholeheartedly. Obama might do that. But he meant not — and if he does, we won’t know why, and we won’t know when. So we just have to wait for him to do or not do whatever he doesn’t want to do. Things could go that way or the other way or the way over there, or some way we can’t predict! It’s really bad out there. There are some really mean, bad people out there — I mean, really mean.

“We wish they weren’t there, but they are there, or they’re over there. Or maybe they’re behind us waiting while we look over there. But while we wait — because that’s all we can do! Because we don’t know anything, except we think we know Obama doesn’t care. But we know we care, but about what? And why? Well, who knows? No one knows except for the ones who do know.

“But we don’t know who they are, and neither do they, because they can’t be sure that we don’t know who they are, and what they’re gonna do, or when, if ever. We just don’t know. We wish we did, and we happily charge people hundreds of dollars a year for this.” So he wrote back, “Okay, okay! I get it. I get it. I get it.” I said, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I’m just trying to be, in my own way, illustrative, ’cause we really don’t know.”

Yet the Drive-By Media tells us, and one of the things that I have often asked people to do is to just understand that there is politics and an agenda to everything that you see on the news. Folks, it is hard not to get sucked in by it. It’s hard. It takes a daily application. It takes a seasoned veteran. Even Snerdley walked in to me today and he said, “You know, I got caught up in it, Rush. I actually believed it.

“I actually believed what I was hearing on TV. I bought the whole thing. I just I did because, I mean, the way they made it look it was impossible not to.” Now look. The video has been released, the evidence so forth! Snerdley found out everything he thought had just been blown to smithereens, and he felt embarrassed that he fell for it. (interruption) “And betrayed.” Exactly.

He felt betrayed because he had, by quirk of fate, believed what he had seen and been told in the media about this.

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Detroit police urging calm after cops shoot suspect, unruly crowd gathers

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George Hunter

The Detroit News

August 14, 2014

Detroit — In light of clashes between citizens and police in Ferguson, Mo., Detroit police officials are taking steps to quell unrest in the city following an incident Wednesday in which an unruly crowd here had to be dispersed after officers shot a suspect.

A crowd gathered near Berkshire and Nottingham on Wednesday after Detroit police officers opened fire on a pair of men when they reportedly tried to run the officers down with their SUV. Police say the officers witnessed the men illegally purchasing a gun.

One of the suspects was shot in the arm and taken to an area hospital. The other man was arrested.

In the wake of the incident, the crowd reportedly became so unruly that other units had to be called in to help. Some in the crowd, upset because officers shot one of the suspects, reportedly invoked the situation in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where tensions are high after officers shot and killed a man some witnesses say was unarmed and trying to surrender. Police there say the man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, tried to grab an officer’s gun.

Protesters in Ferguson on Wednesday threw Molotov cocktails at officers, who used tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse the crowd.

During Wednesday’s situation in Detroit, one man crossed the yellow police line and allegedly tried to attack an officer, who used pepper spray to stop him. The man was taken into custody.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig said he’s taking steps to calm citizens, considering what’s happening in Missouri.

“My view is to keep dialogue with the community open,” he said Thursday morning. “There may have been some upset over Ferguson and expressed their frustration during our investigation (Wednesday).”

Craig said he will instruct his neighborhood police officers to reach out to the community. In March, the chief launched the NPO program, with help from a Skillman Foundation grant, to strengthen ties between police and the community.

“Our plan is to ensure our NPOs are in the neighborhoods maintaining communication,” Craig said Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Detroit Police Department is nearing the end of federal oversight, which the city agreed to in 2003 to avoid lawsuits alleging police misconduct including brutality and deplorable conditions of confinement. Prior to the agreement, there were several shootings by officers that some say hadn’t been properly investigated.

U.S. Department of Justice officials say the police department has since made significant steps toward fixing the issues that necessitated the three consent decrees.

Last week, Detroit law officials and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a joint motion in federal court asking a judge to terminate the oversight, and Justice entered an 18-month transition agreement with the police department, in which federal authorities would review Detroit police internal audits and conduct onsite visits to ensure police department reforms are sustained.

Ron Scott, director of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, who was instrumental in bringing federal oversight to the city, said there’s still a rift between many citizens and police.

“I think the situation in Ferguson could easily happen here,” he said. “We saw the tip of the iceberg last night, where the smallest thing could spark an incident. People feel disrespected, with the stop-and-frisk policy, and all these militarized raids.

“It happened in ’67, and it could happen now. I’m not hoping for it; I’m not advocating for it, but I’m just saying there’s tension in the street.”

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Update on Venezuela

The news has been flooded with what has been happening in the Ukraine, as if that is so very important to the citizens of the United States. In fact, what is MORE important is what is happening to a near neighbor (only 1,366 miles from Miami Beach, Florida), Venezuela, is far more important.

It’s past dictator, Hugo Chavez, was a monster, and had very close ties with China. He purchased missiles from China that are capable of reaching the United States. True, they did not work after they got them installed. However, I have not heard what has happened to them lately.

So here are the three latest’s news reports from FOX NEWS.

Jerry Broussard

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Venezuela revokes press credentials for 4 CNN journalists over coverage of protests

Published February 21, 2014

Associated Press

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A photographer takes pictures of barricades set up by anti-government protesters in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Violence is heating up in Venezuela as an opposition leader faces criminal charges for organizing a rally that set off escalating turmoil in the oil-rich, but economically struggling country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s government has revoked the press credentials of journalists from CNN after President Nicolas Maduro blasted the television network’s coverage of political protests.

CNN says Friday that four of its journalists were notified by the Information Ministry that they are no longer allowed to report in the country. They include CNN en Espanol anchor Patricia Janiot

Maduro on Thursday threatened to expel CNN from Venezuela if it doesn’t “rectify” its coverage of unrest that he says is part of a campaign to topple his socialist government. Colombian news channel NTN24 was suspended from Venezuelan cable TV packages a week ago.

The government’s near-complete control of domestic broadcasters has made CNN en Espanol a source of information for many Venezuelans trying to follow the unrest.

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Army sending paratroopers to restive Venezuela area as security forces try to quell protests

Published February 21, 2014

Associated Press

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Objects placed by opposition protesters block a road in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Violence is heating up in Venezuela as an opposition leader faces criminal charges for organizing a rally that set off escalating turmoil in the oil-rich, but economically struggling country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

Members of a pro-government “colectivo,” or “collective,” march in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters say the escalating protests against his socialist government in the oil-rich but economically struggling country are part of an attempted coup sponsored by right-wing and “fascist” opponents in Venezuela and abroad, particularly the United States. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

Demonstrators stand at a barricade during an opposition protest in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Venezuelan opposition leaders condemned the government Thursday for its heavy-handed attempt to subdue a protest movement with nighttime sweeps that have turned many parts of the country into dangerous free-fire zones. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

An opposition demonstrator holds a poster that reads in Spanish “They are killing us” outside the Venezuelan Military Industries (CAVIM) in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Venezuelan opposition leaders condemned the government Thursday for its heavy-handed attempt to subdue a protest movement with nighttime sweeps that have turned many parts of the country into dangerous free-fire zones. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra) (The Associated Press)

A woman walks next to a graffiti with the portrait of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and a phrase that reads in Spanish:”They will call me dictator”, downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. After a chaotic and tense night, with gunfire echoing through the streets of many neighborhoods, violence is heating up in Venezuela as an opposition leader faces criminal charges for organizing a rally that set off escalating turmoil in the oil-rich, but economically struggling country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (The Associated Press)

CARACAS, Venezuela – Paratroopers are heading to a Venezuelan border area torn by fierce clashes between police and anti-government protesters, while security forces are being accused of turning many parts of the country into free-fire zones in their bid to silence a rejuvenated movement challenging socialist rule.

President Nicolas Maduro’s opponents charged Thursday that he has unleashed the military, police and civilian militias against those who blame the administration for hardships in a country that is rich in oil but struggling with overheated inflation and one of the world’s worst homicide rates.

Violence has escalated across Venezuela since a Feb. 12 opposition rally that was followed by clashes between young activists and the National Guard in which three people died. At least three more deaths and dozens of injuries have occurred in protest violence since then.

Leopoldo Lopez, the jailed opposition leader who organized the mass rally, was ordered early Thursday to remain in detention to face charges that include arson and criminal incitement.

The unrest has been particularly high in Tachira state, on Venezuela’s western border with Colombia, where anti-government protesters have clashed with police and National Guard units, disrupting life in its capital, San Cristobal.

Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres announced Thursday that a battalion of paratroopers was being sent to Tachira to help bring calm.

“These units will enable the city to function, so food can get in, so people can go about their normal lives. It’s simply meant to restore order,” he said.

San Cristobal Vice Mayor Sergio Vergara, a member of the opposition, disputed that. He said that the government caused the troubles by cracking down on what had been peaceful protests and that as part of its campaign had cut off vital services in the city, including public transportation and the Internet.

Sending 3,000 paratroopers to a city of 600,000 people is “effectively part of an effort at repression being played out by the government across the country,” Vergara said.

National Guard troops and members of pro-government militias have swarmed through the streets of Caracas and other cities firing volleys, at times indiscriminately, in repeated spasms of nighttime violence in recent days.

Henrique Capriles, the two-time presidential candidate of an opposition coalition, said the government is engaging in “brutal repression,” in some cases breaking into apartment buildings to arrest people authorities accuse of being part of a plot for a coup against Maduro.

“What does the government want, a civil war?” Capriles asked at a news conference.

While several large demonstrations by thousands of people have been peaceful, smaller groups of protesters have lobbed fire bombs and rocks and blocked streets with flaming barricades of trash. Troops and police have responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and blasts from water cannons — as well as raids by gun-firing men from motorcycles.

The clashes with authorities as well as the pursuit of anti-government activists by troops and militias take place in darkness. During the day, Caracas has largely operated as normal, with businesses and schools open and people going about their business, while stocking up on groceries in case of further unrest.

Tensions could be high Friday in the city of Valencia, where a funeral was scheduled for a local beauty queen who was killed by a bullet this week while participating in a protest. The death of Genesis Carmona, a 22-year-old university student who had been Miss Tourism 2013 for Carabobo state, reverberated in this country that prizes beauty queens.

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Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez and Andrew Rosati in Caracas and Vivian Sequera in Bogota, Colombia, contributed to this report.

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Venezuela braces for large opposition, pro-government rallies after days of violence

Published February 22, 2014

Associated Press

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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelans are bracing for trouble as both supporters of the government and the opposition prepare for major rallies in a country that has been roiled by violence in recent days.

Women supporters of President Nicolas Maduro are planning a march Saturday in the capital of Caracas. The opposition says it will also hold large rallies throughout the country.

Opposition Gov. Henrique Capriles says these are intended as peaceful protests to show public discontent over high crime, food shortages and other problems facing Venezuela. President Maduro has said the wave of protests and violent clashes that began Feb. 12 are part of a right-wing attempt to topple his socialist government.

Political violence is blamed for at least eight deaths and more than 100 injuries on both sides.

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Venezuelan Journalist Rightly Wonders Why American Media Ignores Unfolding Crisis

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by Andrew Kirell | 4:54 pm, February 20th, 2014

As we reported earlier, the unfolding situation in Venezuela is not pretty. The protests against Chávez successor Nicolás Maduro‘s regime have reportedly turned violent, similar to the chaos seen in Ukraine.

At least six protesters have been shot, homes have reportedly been raided, and government efforts to suppress the gatherings are underway. Wednesday night was a particularly violent night.

Venezuelan journalist Francisco Toro noticed that as the pandemonium unfurls before his country’s eyes, it has barely registered with the international media. In a post for Caracas Chronicles, Toro took major outlets to task for ignoring what has become a slow-motion crumbling of the Latin American country.

What the media have represented as “street clashes,” he wrote, are actually “state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.” He explained:

Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries onmotorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting. People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street. And that’s just what came out in real time, over Twitter and YouTube, before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has been taken off the internet amid mounting repression, and this blog itself has been the object of a Facebook “block” campaign.

Seems pretty awful, right?

While conceding that there is a much more “photogenic” upheaval taking place in Ukraine, Toro lamented that major news outlets have either outright ignored or relegated Venezuela to the b-list of news items.

Scanning each of those media outlets’ websites on Thursday morning, Toro observed:

The New York Times “World” section has “nothing.”
The Guardian world page “has some limp why-are-you-protesting? piece that made some sense before last night’s tropical pogrom, but none after it. So… basically nothing.”
The BBC led its Latin America section with a story on the old news of the detained Venezuelan opposition leader, “as though [the violence] last night had been just business as usual.”
CNN, he noted, was also “chasing the thing that was the story in the old Venezuela,” i.e., the detained leader and not the violent government crackdown on protesters.
“Al Jazeera English never got the memo,” he added, with a screenshot of a website full of Ukraine headlines.
And showing Fox News’ webpage, Toro wrote: “Even places that love to hate the Venezuelan government are asleep at the wheel.”

As of 4:30 p.m. ET, Fox still has nothing about Venezuela on its front page. Al Jazeera has one story that requires some scrolling to notice. CNN’s front page has a small side-bar link, and CNN World has a link to a gallery of protest images. Guardian has several links, mostly towards the bottom of the page. And the Times still has nothing but a small link to a video.

“Venezuela’s domestic media blackout is joined by a parallel international blackout, one born not of censorship but of disinterest and inertia,” Toro concluded. “It’s hard to express the sense of helplessness you get looking through these pages and finding nothing. Venezuela burns; nobody cares.”

UPDATE: Several tipsters have pointed out that ABC-owned network Fusion has had an on-the-scene reporter in Mariana Atencio, putting them leagues above the other cable outlets. Check out one of her reports below:

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Obama To Egyptian Christians: Stop Protesting Muslim Brotherhood

by Tim Brown // http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/06/obama-to-egyptian-christians-stop-protesting-muslim-brotherhood/#ixzz2XpND2EtD

As millions of Egyptians take to the streets in protest against President and co-conspirator in the Benghazi attacks Mohamed Morsi, one American journalist has already been killed and no doubt there is much we are not being told. However, American supporter of terrorism Barack Obama, via U.S Ambassador Anne Patterson, has told Egyptian Christians to not engage in protesting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This comes on the heels of him sending US troops to Egypt to quash protests against the Muslim Brotherhood.

FrontPage Mag reports:

As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi’s rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted Mubarak. Among other influential Egyptians, Morsi recently called on Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to urge his flock, Egypt’s millions of Christians, not to join the June 30 protests.

While that may be expected, more troubling is that the U.S. ambassador to Egypt is also trying to prevent Egyptians from protesting—including the Copts. The June 18^thedition of Sadi al-Balad reports that lawyer Ramses Naggar, the Coptic Church’s legal counsel, said that during Patterson’s June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she “asked him to urge the Copts not to participate” in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood.

The Pope politely informed her that his spiritual authority over the Copts does not extend to political matters.

Regardless, many Egyptian activists are condemning Patterson for flagrantly behaving like the Muslim Brotherhood’s stooge. Leading opposition activist Shady el-Ghazali Harb said Patterson showed “blatant bias” in favor of Morsi and the Brotherhood, adding that her remarks had earned the U.S. administration “the enmity of the Egyptian people.” Coptic activists like George Ishaq openly told Patterson to “shut up and mind your own business.” And Christian business tycoon Naguib Sawiris—no stranger to Islamist hostility—posted a message on his Twitter account addressed to the ambassador saying “Bless us with your silence.”

Morsi has already attempted to promote himself as the new Pharaoh of Egypt, but that was quickly brought to a halt.

Of course, the Obama administration is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and has welcomed them into the White House on many occasions, as well as funded them in Egypt with millions of dollars, aircraft and u-boats. His own State Department has even sought to recruit jihadists who are partial to the Muslim Brotherhood at conferences.

Egypt is the United States enemy and that’s not what I’m saying, it’s what their own politicians are saying, as evidenced by Magdi Ahmad Hussein, chairman of the Islamic Labor Party, when he was caught on a hot mic saying just that.

Raymond Ibrahim, who broke the story on Libyan intelligence confirming that Morsi was involved in the Benghazi attacks, writes that “under Morsi’s rule, the persecution of Copts has practically been legalized, as unprecedented numbers of Christians—men, women, and children—have been arrested, often receiving more than double the maximum prison sentence, under the accusation that they “blasphemed” Islam and/or its prophet. It was also under Morsi’s reign that another unprecedented scandal occurred: the St. Mark Cathedral—holiest site of Coptic Christianity and headquarters to the Pope Tawadros himself—was besieged in broad daylight by Islamic rioters. When security came, they too joined in the attack on the cathedral. And the targeting of Christian children—for abduction, ransom, rape, and/or forced conversion—has also reached unprecedented levels under Morsi.”

The ones who truly have concerns of legitimate human rights in Egypt are the Coptic Christians under the current Muslim Brotherhood led regime and here is the United States, in the person of Ambassador Patterson. She’s calling on them not to stand up to the regime.

Americans should not be silent in the face of the Islamic threat here in America either. We already know these savages have infiltrated some of the highest positions of power in our own government, including these positions:

Arif Alikhan – Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Mohammed Elibiary – Homeland Security Adviser.

Rashad Hussain – Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Salam al-Marayati – Obama Adviser, founder of Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director.

Imam Mohamed Magid – Obama’s Sharia Czar, Islamic Society of North America.

Eboo Patel – Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

Our own head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Brennan, is a Muslim convert.

In other words, in keeping with Barack Obama’s shady Muslim history, when it comes to Islamist raping, engaging in cannibalism, attacking innocent Christians and Jews, waging jihad on various world leaders and societies, the Obama administration gives them a thumbs up. Islamists have a supremacy complex. They think non-Muslims are their servants and nothing but chattel and as a result they need to be removed from any power, including Egypt and the United States government.

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Arab Spring

While listening to the news today, I heard the phrase, “Arab Spring” and realized I did not know what that was or could give an explanation of why “Arab Spring” is so important. I may be the last person on earth to gain this understanding, but just in case I am not the only one ignorant of the meaning of the phrase, here is some quick reference information from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring);

Arab Spring

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Arab Spring

Clockwise from top left: Protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo; Demonstrators marching through Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis; Political dissidents in Sana’a; Protesters gathering in Pearl Roundabout in Manama; Mass demonstration in Douma; Demonstrators in Bayda.

Date	18 December 2010 – present (1 year, 9 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Arab world (see list of countries)
Causes	Authoritarian states Demographic structural factors Government corruption Human rights violations Inflation Kleptocracy Sectarianism Unemployment
Goals	Democracy Free and fair elections Human rights Regime change
Characteristics	Civil disobedience Civil resistance Defection Demonstrations Internet activism Protest camps Revolution Riots Self-immolations Sit-ins Strike actions Urban warfare Uprising
Status	Ongoing Tunisian President Ben Ali ousted, and government overthrown. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ousted, and government overthrown. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi killed after a civil war with foreign military intervention, and government overthrown. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh ousted, and hands power to a national unity government. Syria experiences a full-scale civil war between the government and opposition forces. Civil uprising against the government of Bahrain, despite government changes. Kuwait, Lebanon and Oman implementing government changes in response to protests. Morocco, Jordan implementing constitutional reforms in response to protests. Ongoing protests in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Mauritania and some other countries.

Casualties

Death(s)

50,000–60,000 (International estimate; see table below)

The Arab Spring, also known as the Arab Revolution^[1] (Arabic: الثورات العربية‎, al-Thawrāt al-ʻArabiyyah), is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010.

To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia,^[2] Egypt,^[3] Libya,^[4] and Yemen;^[5] civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain^[6] and Syria;^[7] major protests have broken out in Algeria,^[8] Iraq,^[9] Jordan,^[10] Kuwait,^[11] Morocco,^[12] and Sudan;^[13] and minor protests have occurred in Lebanon,^[14] Mauritania,^[15] Oman,^[16] Saudi Arabia,^[17] Djibouti,^[18] and Western Sahara.^[19] Clashes at the borders of Israel in May 2011,^[20] and the protests by the Arab minority in Iranian Khuzestan erupted in 2011 as well.^[21] Weapons and Tuareg fighters returning from the Libyan civil war stoked a simmering rebellion in Mali, and the consequent Malian coup d’état has been described as “fallout” from the Arab Spring in North Africa.^[22] The sectarian clashes in Lebanon were described as a spillover violence of the Syrian uprising and hence the regional Arab Spring.^[23] Most recently, in September 2012 a wave of social protests swept Palestinian Authority, demanding lower consumer prices and resignation of the Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad.

The protests have shared techniques of mostly civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches, and rallies, as well as the effective use of social media^[24]^[25] to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and Internet censorship.^[26]^[27]

Many Arab Spring demonstrations have met violent responses from authorities,^[28]^[29]^[30] as well as from pro-government militias and counter-demonstrators. These attacks have been answered with violence from protestors in some cases.^[31]^[32]^[33] A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world has been Ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām (“the people want to bring down the regime”).^[34]

Some observers have drawn comparisons between the Arab Spring movements and the pro-democratic, anti-Communist Revolutions of 1989 (also known as the Autumn of Nations) that swept through Eastern Europe and the Communist world, in terms of their scale and significance.^[35]^[36]^[37] Others, however, have pointed out that there are several key differences between the movements, such as the desired outcomes and the organizational role of (internet) technology in the Arab revolutions.^[38]^[39]^[40]

Background

Causes

Numerous factors have led to the protests, including issues such as dictatorship or absolute monarchy, human rights violations, government corruption (demonstrated by Wikileaks diplomatic cables),^[41] economic decline, unemployment, extreme poverty, and a number of demographic structural factors,^[42] such as a large percentage of educated but dissatisfied youth within the population.^[43] Also, some, like Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek attribute the 2009 Iranian protests as one of the reasons behind the Arab Spring.^[44] The 2010 Kyrgyzstani revolution might also have been one of the factors, which influenced the beginning of the Arab Spring.^{[citation needed]} The catalysts for the revolts in all Northern African and Persian Gulf countries have been the concentration of wealth in the hands of autocrats in power for decades, insufficient transparency of its redistribution, corruption, and especially the refusal of the youth to accept the status quo.^[45] Increasing food prices and global famine rates have also been a significant factor,^[46]^[47] as they involve threats to food security worldwide and prices that approach levels of the 2007–2008 world food price crisis.^[48] Amnesty International singled out Wikileaks‘ release of US diplomatic cables as a catalyst for the revolts.^[49]

In recent decades rising living standards and literacy rates, as well as the increased availability of higher education, have resulted in an improved human development index in the affected countries. The tension between rising aspirations and a lack of government reform may have been a contributing factor in all of the protests.^[45]^[50]^[51] Many of the Internet-savvy youth of these countries have, increasingly over the years, been viewing autocrats and absolute monarchies as anachronisms. A university professor of Oman, Al-Najma Zidjaly referred to this upheaval as youthquake.^[45]

Tunisia and Egypt, the first to witness major uprisings, differ from other North African and Middle Eastern nations such as Algeria and Libya in that they lack significant oil revenue, and were thus unable to make concessions to calm the masses.^[45]

The relative success of the democratic Republic of Turkey, with its substantially free and vigorously contested but peaceful elections, fast-growing but liberal economy, secular constitution but Islamist government, created a model (the Turkish model) if not a motivation for protestors in neighbouring states.^[52]

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Yes, I believe that these riots and demonstrations will show up here in America. Yes, I believe that it will be American Islam radicals doing the demonstrating. Already we’ve seen many efforts to get Sharia Law adopted into our courts, and as more and more Muslims make demands on American business and facilities, riots and demonstrations are not far behind.

It is all the more important that we elect leaders that will stand up to them and deny them their special privileges. Encourage everyone you know to vote prayerfully, being well-informed on the issues and void of the hype. 2012 elections are indeed the most important of all elections in our history. Truly, may God Save the United States of America.

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What Happens When the Pot Overflows?

I have known several “pot stirrers” in my life. People who get great joy out of watching people enraged because their “buttons” were pushed. One such man I know does this just to see what kind of reaction he is going to get. Sometimes for fun, other times from a motivation of extreme dislike for the person. He never considers what will happen if the pot he’s stirring overflows.

Recently the news has been filled with story’s of people, especially young people, who have been so harassed (their pot stirred) that when their pot overflows, death is the result. They either take their own life, or the life, or life’s, of others. Spouses pots overflowing and people get hurt, and sometimes those pots overflow over the children. I know you grieve like I do when you hear those reports. How often is the “pot-stirrer” arrested, tried and convicted?

When it comes to the professional “pot stirrers” I am convinced their stirring is with a deliberate conscious knowing what will happen when the pot overflows. I am also convinced that they stir that pot just to get the desired result. They know that pot so well, have seasoned it just so, filled it with just to right ingredients and set the flame exactly where they want it to get the result they’ve deliberately planned. Yes, they know exactly what will happen when the pot over flows. That is what they wanted from the beginning of putting that pot on the fire.

Over the years there have been people who have stepped in and removed the pot from the fire, thus removing the results of the overflow. Hatred was replaced by peace, understanding replaced discontent and fear was replaced with faith. Where are the Peacemakers of our time? Who will step forward and remove the smoldering pots from the fires?

When you consider the many pots boiling now, finding a Peacemaker with the courage to approach those pots is one thing, but to have the strength of character to actually remove the pots will need incredible faith in God. One thing is for sure, that person will not be someone who talks the issue to death, which is what we have now. All the talk has produced is more wood on the fires, more stirring of the pots, a higher boil of the ingredients and pushing the contents to a quicker overflow.

I know that there is only one way to produce that Peacemaker. God must raise that person up. The Bible does teach us that the Anti-Christ will be such a person. I don’t plan to be here if that’s who it will be. I’ll be with Jesus. However, I will still pray that God raises up His Peacemaker before Jesus return. I’d sure like to see peace in my time. How about you?

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Posts tagged ‘riots’

Authored by Ann Coulter | Wednesday Mar 18, 2015 4:33 PM

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://humanevents.com/2015/03/18/sanctimony-and-grandstanding-are-more-fun-than-free-speech/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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by Joel B. Pollak12 Mar 2015

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/12/a-murderous-mob-incited-by-holder-and-obama/

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by Steve Watson | Infowars.com | December 26, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.infowars.com/blacklivesmatter-protesters-smash-up-oakland-christmas-tree/

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Published December 24, 2014, FoxNews.com

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/24/st-louis-county-police-officer-kills-man-who-pulled-gun-authorities-say/?intcmp=latestnews

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By Howard Portnoy on December 4, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/12/04/school-district-distributes-lesson-plan-compares-ferguson-protests-boston-tea-party/#xlqYWMgtEUZzkAfu.99

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No Justice And No Peace

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/no-justice-no-peace/

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Posted by Michael Becker — December 1, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://joeforamerica.com/2014/12/obama-hosts-a-meeting-of-race-hustlers/

How about we start with the admission that Trayvon Martin was a gangsta wannabe punk who was in the process of murdering George Zimmerman when Zimmerman, in self-defense, shot and killed him. Like the jury ruled. It’s called due process and the rule of law.

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A Dream to A Nightmare

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/dream-nightmare/

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December 1, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.tpnn.com/2014/12/01/as-isis-attempts-to-recruit-black-men-in-ferguson-it-appears-as-if-obamas-buddy-beyonce-is-helping/?utm_source=Newsletter+12%2F1%2F14+4pm+&utm_campaign=Newsletter+12%2F1%2F14+4pm&utm_medium=email

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I enjoy Doug Giles, and his writing. However, I do not agree with some of his expressions. So, please be aware that some of Doug’s expressions might be offensive.

Jerry Broussard of WhatDidYouSay.org

Written by Doug Giles on November 30, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://clashdaily.com/2014/11/jesus-rioters-dare-black-ministers-read-church/

There was no stealing.

There was no arson.

There was no stoking of a phony revolt based on lies. Empirical evidence drove Jesus’ cleansing of the temple.

There was no labeling of the folks as “Jewish-devils.”

There was no unnecessary destruction of property.

There was no inciting to riots.

He didn’t do it in defense of some teenaged criminal.

He didn’t threaten to rape and/or murder his enemies’ women and kids.

And he wasn’t impulsive in his anger and reduced to animalistic destruction.

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Dream

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/11/dream/

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By: Ann Coulter 11/26/2014 05:36 PM

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://humanevents.com/2014/11/26/liberals-willing-to-fight-to-the-last-drop-of-black-blood/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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Posted on November 28, 2014

URL of Original Posting Site: http://clashdaily.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-threaten-rape-kill-wives-children-police/

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by Warner Todd Huston 26 Nov 2014

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/26/St-Louis-Men-Planned-to-Kill-Prosecutor-McCulloch-Chief-Jackson-Bomb-the-Gateway-Arch

Only days before a grand jury released its decision on whether there would be a trial for the August shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the FBI arrested two men who were allegedly looking to buy supplies to make a pipe bomb.

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by Steven Ertelt | Jefferson City, MO | LifeNews.com | 11/26/14

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.lifenews.com/2014/11/26/since-michael-brown-died-981-black-babies-have-died-in-abortion-in-missouri-but-there-are-no-riots/

From Reverend Katherine’s blog:

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by Breitbart News 25 Nov 2014

From Mark Levin’s Facebook page:

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Nov. 25, 2014, Posted by Sharona Schwartz

URL of Original Posting Site: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/25/how-some-islamist-supporters-are-reacting-to-the-ferguson-unrest/

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By JULIE BOSMAN and MONICA DAVEYNOV. 7, 2014

URL Of Original Posting Site: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/us/ferguson-missouri.html?_r=1

What Happened in Ferguson?

A central goal, some law enforcement officials said, is to ensure that peaceful demonstrators are able to voice their views while also preventing violence.

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Posted By Bob Unruh On 10/27/2014

URL to article: http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/christians-bloodied-by-stone-throwing-muslims-in-michigan/

The case arose from the annual Arab International Festival in June 2012 when Wayne County sheriff’s deputies stood by while a Muslim mob threw rocks at Christians, bloodying them.

The officers then threatened the Christians with arrest if they didn’t leave the event.