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    Buchanan: Holder Has Obsession With Race




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    Pat Buchanan calls clamor to arrest Officer Wilson ‘anti-American’

    (Pat Buchanan) – Among the demands of the “protesters” in Ferguson is that the investigation and prosecution of police officer Darren Wilson be taken away from St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

    McCulloch is biased, it is said. How so? In 1964, his father, a St. Louis police officer, was shot to death by an African-American.

    Moreover, McCulloch comes from a family of cops. He wanted to be a police officer himself, but when cancer cost him a leg as a kid, he became a prosecutor.

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    Yet, in 23 years, McCulloch has convicted many cops of many crimes, and has said that if Gov. Jay Nixon orders him off this case, he will comply. Meanwhile, he is moving ahead with the grand jury.

    As for Gov. Nixon, he revealed his closed mind by demanding the “vigorous prosecution” of a cop who has not even been charged and by calling repeatedly for “justice for [Brown's] family” but not Wilson’s.

    What has been going on for two weeks now in Ferguson, with the ceaseless vilification of Darren Wilson and the clamor to arrest him, is anti-American. It is a mob howl for summary judgment, when this case cries out, not for a rush to judgment, but for a long tedious search for the whole truth of what happened that tragic day.

    For conflicting stories have emerged.

    The initial version was uncomplicated. On August 9, around noon, Brown and a companion were walking in the street and blocking traffic when ordered by Wilson to move onto the sidewalk.

    Brown balked, a scuffle ensued. Wilson pulled out his gun and shot him six times, leaving Brown dead in the street. Open and shut. A white cop, sassed by a black kid, goes berserk and empties his gun.

    Lately, however, another version has emerged.

    Fifteen minutes before the shooting, Brown was caught on videotape manhandling and menacing a clerk at a convenience store he was robbing of a $44 box of cigars.

    A woman, in contact with Wilson, called a radio station to say that Brown and Wilson fought in the patrol car and Brown had gone for the officer’s gun, which went off.

    When Brown backed away, Wilson pointed his gun and told him to freeze. Brown held up his hands, then charged. Wilson then shot the 6’4,” 292-pound Brown six times, with the last bullet entering the skull.

    St. Louis County police then leaked that Wilson had been beaten “severely” in the face and suffered the fracture of an eye socket.
    Brown’s companion, Dorian Johnson, says Brown was running away when Wilson began to fire.

    But, according to the autopsies, all of the bullets hit Brown in the front. ABC now reports that Dorian Johnson has previously been charged with filing a false police report.

    If the first version is true, Wilson is guilty. If the second is true, Brown committed two felonies before being shot, and Darren Wilson fired his weapon in defense of his life.

    If there is any public official who should recuse himself from any role in this investigation, it is not Robert McCulloch but Eric Holder.
    Holder has a lifelong, almost Sharpton-like, obsession with race.

    Three weeks in office, he declared America a “nation of cowards” for refusing to discuss race more. Arriving in St. Louis, he declared, “I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.”

    Query. What is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, who is heading up the federal investigation of the shooting of a black teenager by a white cop, doing declaring his racial solidarity?

    Holder then related several incidents that have stuck in his craw:
    “I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. Pulled over. … ‘Let me search your car.’ … Go through the trunk of my car, look under the seats and all this kind of stuff. I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me.”

    Holder also spoke of being stopped by a cop in Georgetown when he was running to the movies.

    Fine. The Great Man is outraged by such indignities. But the mindset exhibited here raises a grave question as to whether Eric Holder can objectively lead an investigation of a white cop who shot a black teenager. In Eric Holder’s mind, the verdict already seems in.

    Any defense attorney would have Eric Holder tossed out of a jury pool, as soon as he started to vent like this.

    If Holder has made up his mind about what happened in Ferguson that Saturday, fine. He is entitled to his opinion. But someone who has already decided officer Wilson’s actions are consistent with a racist police pattern he has observed personally should not be passing judgment on whether officer Wilson goes on trial for his life.

    President Obama says he does not want to put “my thumb upon the scales” of justice. He should take Eric Holder’s thumb off.
    http://buchanan.org/blog/race-based-justice-6903


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    Police lobbies pressure Congress to keep their military equipment

    By The Free Thought Project on August 22, 2014
    As lawmakers in Washington, DC, consider ways to stem the flow of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, police lobbies and organizations are firing back at the possibility.

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    In fact, the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) – which lobbies for 1,600 different SWAT teams in the United States – has already sent emails to all congressional staffers urging them to keep in place the Pentagon program responsible for sending armored vehicles, body armor, and more to police departments around the country.
    “The police have to be one step ahead of the criminal element, have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario. You don’t want a community to be taken over by one or many criminals,” NTOA Executive Director Mark Lomax said to the Daily Beast. “We’re definitely for equipping our law enforcement officials out there properly, with proper training and proper policies.”
    The move comes as protests against police in Ferguson, Missouri, continue weeks after the officer-involved shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown was unarmed when he was shot multiple times by Officer Darren Wilson, sparking allegations of police brutality and excessive force.
    Protesters have been met with an overwhelming show of force by police at various times over the last couple of weeks, with many shocking images featuring tear gas, police in riot gear, and hulking armored vehicles in the city’s streets.
    Although the use of armored trucks such as those that are mine resistant (MRAP) has drawn heavy criticism from observers as well as some policy makers, organizations representing law enforcement have balked at the idea of removing them.
    “The presence of an MRAP for defensive positioning should not unnerve a law-abiding citizen,” Jon Adler of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association told the Beast. “Police officers are human and bleed like everyone else. They deserve the best protection from violent assaults, and providing them with MRAPs or advanced body armor minimizes their exposure to serious injury or death.”
    However, recent moves from Congress seem to suggest that policy makers are growing uncomfortable with the kind of equipment making its way to police, and several are reportedly planning bills that would stop or restrict the 1033 program. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is hoping to introduce a bill limiting the transfer when Congress is back in session in September, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) may propose a bill banning the practice altogether.

    There are also rumblings that House Republicans will defund the program, while Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) issued a statement saying the Armed Services Committee would review it.
    “Congress established this program out of real concern that local law enforcement agencies were literally outgunned by drug criminals,” he said. “We will review this program to determine if equipment provided by the Defense Department is being used as intended.”
    So far, these proposals aren’t drawing praise from police organizations. Lomax said that if there’s a compromise to be had, it should involve improved training, which is not currently part of the 1033 program.
    New training procedures could certainly help in some ways, something that was highlighted by the American Civil Liberties Union back in June. In a report on police militarization, the group specifically pointed to many training programs that urge officers to think of themselves as warriors on the frontlines of a battlefield.
    “The militarization of American policing is evident in the training that police officers receive, which encourages them to adopt a ‘warrior’ mentality and think of the people they are supposed to serve as enemies,” the report reads. It goes on to add that, moving forward, law enforcement should avoid any kind of program that encourages this mindset going.


    Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pol...bVOlm1uStfJ.99

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    All one big set up folks... What we are seeing on the news is all being done to incite riots!!! They want to enforce martial law!



    CNN CRISIS ACTOR EXPOSED!!


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    Published on Aug 20, 2014
    FMR. Sergeant Dan Page of the St.Louis County Police Department participating in a CNN Psychological Operation mainly targeting black Americans. What is more interesting is a lecture Page gave in 2012, where he gave in good detail plans of the NWO takeover. Obviously he is STILL involved in Military Intelligence/Psychological Warfare, but now, within the St.Louis Police Department. Once again the Most High reveals all that's done in the dark. The Matrix continues to unravel.



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    America Is a War Zone where the People Are the Enemy — John W. Whitehead

    August 22, 2014

    Guest Column by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute

    Turning America Into a War Zone, Where ‘We the People’ Are the Enemy
    By John W. Whitehead
    August 20, 2014


    “If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?” -— Sunil Dutta, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years


    Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the end of a loaded gun: don’t talk back to police officers, don’t even think about defending yourself against a SWAT team raid (of which there are 80,000 every year), don’t run when a cop is nearby lest you be mistaken for a fleeing criminal, don’t carry a cane lest it be mistaken for a gun, don’t expect privacy in public, don’t let your kids walk to the playground alone, don’t engage in nonviolent protest near where a government official might pass, don’t try to grow vegetables in your front yard, don’t play music for tips in a metro station, don’t feed whales, and on and on.

    For those who resist, who dare to act independently, think for themselves, march to the beat of a different drummer, the consequences are invariably a one-way trip to the local jail or death.

    What Americans must understand, what we have chosen to ignore, what we have fearfully turned a blind eye to lest the reality prove too jarring is the fact that we no longer live in the “city on the hill,” a beacon of freedom for all the world.

    Far from being a shining example of democracy at work, we have become a lesson for the world in how quickly freedom turns to tyranny, how slippery the slope by which a once-freedom-loving people can be branded, shackled and fooled into believing that their prisons walls are, in fact, for their own protection.

    Having spent more than half a century exporting war to foreign lands, profiting from war, and creating a national economy seemingly dependent on the spoils of war, we failed to protest when the war hawks turned their profit-driven appetites on us, bringing home the spoils of war—the military tanks, grenade launchers, Kevlar helmets, assault rifles, gas masks, ammunition, battering rams, night vision binoculars, etc.—to be distributed for free to local police agencies and used to secure the homeland against “we the people.”

    It’s not just the Defense Department that is passing out free military equipment to local police. Since the early 1990s, the Justice Department has worked with the Pentagon to fund military technology for police departments. And then there are the billions of dollars’ worth of federal grants distributed by the Department of Homeland Security, enabling police departments to go on a veritable buying spree for highly questionable military-grade supplies better suited to the battlefield.

    Is it any wonder that we now find ourselves in the midst of a war zone?

    We live in a state of undeclared martial law. We have become the enemy.

    In a war zone, there are no police—only soldiers. Thus, there is no more Posse Comitatus prohibiting the government from using the military in a law enforcement capacity. Not when the local police have, for all intents and purposes, already become the military.

    In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do. Whether the perceived “threat” is armed or unarmed no longer matters when police are authorized to shoot first and ask questions later.


    In a war zone, even the youngest members of the community learn at an early age to accept and fear the soldier in their midst. Thanks to funding from the Obama administration, more schools are hiring armed police officers—some equipped with semi-automatic AR-15 rifles—to “secure” their campuses.

    In a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you’re being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you’re being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you’re charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. And when you’re a prisoner in your own town, unable to move freely, kept off the streets, issued a curfew at night, there can be no mistaking the prison walls closing in.

    This is not just happening in Ferguson, Missouri. As I show in my book, A Government of Wolves, it’s happening and will happen anywhere and everywhere else in this country where law enforcement officials are given carte blanche to do what they like, when they like, how they like, with immunity from their superiors, the legislatures, and the courts.

    You see, what Americans have failed to comprehend, living as they do in a TV-induced, drug-like haze of fabricated realities, narcissistic denial, and partisan politics, is that we’ve not only brought the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan home to be used against the American people. We’ve also brought the very spirit of the war home.

    This is what it feels like to be a conquered people. This is what it feels like to be an occupied nation. This is what it feels like to live in fear of armed men crashing through your door in the middle of the night, or to be accused of doing something you never even knew was a crime, or to be watched all the time, your movements tracked, your motives questioned. This is what it’s like to be a citizen of the American police state. This is what it’s like to be an enemy combatant in your own country.

    So if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, by all means, stand down. Cower in the face of the police, turn your eyes away from injustice, find any excuse to suggest that the so-called victims of the police state deserved what they got.

    But remember, when that rifle finally gets pointed in your direction—and it will—when there’s no one left to stand up for you or speak up for you, remember that you were warned.

    It works the same in every age. Martin Niemoller understood this. A German pastor who openly opposed Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in a concentration camp, Niemoller warned:


    “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”


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    How Tyranny Arises — Paul Craig Roberts

    August 22, 2014


    How Tyranny Arises


    Paul Craig Roberts


    Law & Order Conservatives continue to shill for police as goon thugs continue to
    violate constitutional protections and abuse the public:

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/cr...ng-their-homes

    http://www.campaignforliberty.org/na...nt-irrelevant/


    Gullible Americans have been trained to be fearful of crime, blacks, Muslims, terrorists, “domestic extremists,” and now Russia. These fears result in the public accepting illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral actions by police and government. With the passage of time the wrongful police and government behavior become institutionalized as the young are born into the system and know no different and the old who remember accountable government and liberty pass away. This is how liberty and freedom die, citizens become serfs, and the rise of tyranny is accomplished.


    The transformation of the US into a tyranny is far advanced. It is a revolution that owes its success to the gullibility, ignorance and unconcern of the majority of the American people and to a corrupt and cowardly national media that betrays liberty and fosters tyranny.

    As a voice against this Revolution of Tyranny, I am under constant attack. This website has grown dramatically in US and international readership. Its continuation depends on your support.

    Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
    was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014...craig-roberts/

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