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The Ferguson Fix Is In
FrontPage Mag
Matthew Vadum
8/20/2014
Excerpt:
As mass hysteria over the fatal shooting of a Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown grips the progressive movement, President Obama is sending the most divisive, corrupt race-baiter in his cabinet to the riot-torn St. Louis suburb where the suspect died.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has single-mindedly focused on converting the Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, is scheduled to visit Ferguson, Mo., today in an appearance billed as an attempt to restore calm to a community that has erupted in almost daily violence since Brown, a young black man, was shot Aug. 9 by a police officer. Left-wingers who believe as an article of faith that America is racist insist, despite the growing body of exculpatory evidence, that Brown was murdered by a white policeman. They will not be dissuaded no matter how much proof accumulates that the officer fired on Brown because he believed his life was in danger.
The visit comes as the Left’s narrative that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender, unravels more and more each day. More witnesses are coming forward to identify Brown as the aggressor in a vicious attack on Wilson in which he tried to grab the gun of the six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force and inflicted head injuries so severe that the officer may lose an eye.
Yet the belief that Brown is the real victim remains strong in many circles.
Inane commentary is being churned out by hopelessly affective left-wingers at an impressive clip. For example, leftist lawyer Michelle D. Bernard told the under-medicated Chris Matthews of MSNBC that in 2014 — when the U.S. has a black president, black attorney general, black billionaires, and black professionals in probably every field of human endeavor — legions of Americans still hate black males.
“I don’t have an answer that is palatable to be able to look my children in the face and say there are people in this country who– not only do not like African-Americans, but they despise black men,” Bernard said.
“There is a war on black boys in this country. In my opinion, there is a war on African-American men … it’s going to turn into a genocide if it doesn’t stop,” she said, echoing recent comments from perpetually offended movie director Spike Lee.
Holder, by the way, reportedly received the findings of the third autopsy yesterday, that is, the superfluous one ordered by the feds after the county autopsy and the family’s private autopsy. Although the results from the federal autopsy were not publicly available at press time, if memory serves, other high-profile individuals who died of gunshots such as Trayvon Martin, Martin Luther King Jr., and President John F. Kennedy, were autopsied only once.
So it is hard not to be suspicious of Holder’s motives in requiring that extra postmortem dissection. Keep examining the body over and over again until you find what you want. Just like in close elections. Keep counting the votes over and over again until you win. (See, Al Franken, who succeeded, and Al Gore, who failed.)
But as is always the case with Obama, the lawless attorney general’s visit is a ruse. Holder, who faces possible impeachment over contempt of Congress charges, will bring a planeload of rhetorical dynamite with him to make sure that the civil unrest continues. It is his job, as he sees it, to rile up people.
A far-left self-described “activist,” Holder, like Obama, has an uncanny ability to know exactly what to do to make a situation worse, or as Rules for Radical author Saul Alinsky put it so vividly, to rub raw the sores of discontent. In exacerbating racial tensions and ramping up civil unrest, Holder is truly a virtuoso.
“Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” Holder pontificates, ignoring the long-recognized fact that an attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not fundamentally transform the nation.
“The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things [and] bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents,” he says, again deliberately misrepresenting the purpose of his high office.
When critics decry his Department of Justice for containing an “activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general — I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and [I am] proud of it,” Holder said.
As I wrote recently, Holder is the consigliere for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. As a journalist friend of mine likes to remind me, Obama keeps the scandal-prone Holder on because the man “knows where all the bodies are buried.”
How do we know that with the Ferguson whistle stop Holder is, as usual, up to no good?
First, because Eric Holder is constitutionally incapable of calming things down, and second, because the signs of a well-crafted con job are there.
The goal is to polarize and enrage and foment even more racial tension and violence to distract from Obama’s seemingly endless political problems, as well as to energize the Democratic Party’s base so they vote in droves in November. Democrats who aren’t in denial are now deathly afraid of the electoral tsunami approaching that seems increasingly likely to leave Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. A GOP recapture of the Senate no longer looks dicey; the only question is how big a majority Republicans will have in that dusty old chamber where good conservative ideas go to die.
This week Holder and Obama’s Chicagoland enforcer Valerie Jarrett reportedly talked to representatives of what one news article termed “civic groups.” They bragged about the hundreds of interviews they have forced scores of FBI agents to conduct in Ferguson in a desperate attempt to bolster the bad-white-cop-murdered-good-black-kid theory.
Among the left-wing activist organizations included on the conference call were the odious National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This fact tells you more or less all you need to know about Holder’s intentions.
Undoubtedly the usual crew of bad people who hate America, the very worst of the radical left-wing community organizing outfits, also participated in the call. This is the clandestine way the Obama White House has operated since the very beginning. It is more an exercise in conspiracy coordination than in allied group relations.
Apart from the FBI whose agents have been forced to scour Ferguson in search of evidence of imagined civil rights law violations, these groups are connected, if not already actively collaborating, with the criminals doing their best to burn Ferguson to the ground for its supposed sins.
The people on the ground in Ferguson right now, the “outside agitators” as a police chief called them, are out there waving protest signs, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, and looting stores. Some of them were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Others are from the New Black Panther Party that Holder holds in such great esteem that he dropped a case against party members who intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008. These insurrectionists have been streaming in from Marxist and other extremist groups in Chicago and beyond. Racial arsonists Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton are there too, making sure they get their cut of the action.
Make no mistake: they are Obama’s kith and kin. If Obama still had a job at the Gamaliel Foundation or the now-defunct ACORN or any of a number of in-your-face activist groups, he would likely be there right now, knee deep in the blood-covered streets of Ferguson, keeping his radical comrades-in-arms in line, and helping them figure out how to make local residents howl for change.
His goal now, as it was then, is to fundamentally transform the United States of America. As Michelle Obama has said, “Barack is not a politician first and foremost. He’s a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.”
For now Obama won’t be visiting Ferguson, according to the White House, but that doesn’t mean he’s not pulling the strings. Holder will be his trusted emissary.
In fact Holder’s minions are already on the ground in Ferguson right now causing trouble. News reports indicate that government-employed community organizers are on-site. These outside agitators work for the Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within the Justice Department.
We know what they do. Judicial Watch previously released DoJ documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the community disorganizers of the CRS were dispatched two years ago to Sanford, Fla., after Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black man, was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. For a month and a half after Martin’s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman, who was ultimately acquitted of murder, because they believed quite correctly that the criminal case against him was weak.
In the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mat...son-fix-is-in/
FrontPage Mag
Matthew Vadum
8/20/2014
Excerpt:
As mass hysteria over the fatal shooting of a Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown grips the progressive movement, President Obama is sending the most divisive, corrupt race-baiter in his cabinet to the riot-torn St. Louis suburb where the suspect died.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has single-mindedly focused on converting the Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, is scheduled to visit Ferguson, Mo., today in an appearance billed as an attempt to restore calm to a community that has erupted in almost daily violence since Brown, a young black man, was shot Aug. 9 by a police officer. Left-wingers who believe as an article of faith that America is racist insist, despite the growing body of exculpatory evidence, that Brown was murdered by a white policeman. They will not be dissuaded no matter how much proof accumulates that the officer fired on Brown because he believed his life was in danger.
The visit comes as the Left’s narrative that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender, unravels more and more each day. More witnesses are coming forward to identify Brown as the aggressor in a vicious attack on Wilson in which he tried to grab the gun of the six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force and inflicted head injuries so severe that the officer may lose an eye.
Yet the belief that Brown is the real victim remains strong in many circles.
Inane commentary is being churned out by hopelessly affective left-wingers at an impressive clip. For example, leftist lawyer Michelle D. Bernard told the under-medicated Chris Matthews of MSNBC that in 2014 — when the U.S. has a black president, black attorney general, black billionaires, and black professionals in probably every field of human endeavor — legions of Americans still hate black males.
“I don’t have an answer that is palatable to be able to look my children in the face and say there are people in this country who– not only do not like African-Americans, but they despise black men,” Bernard said.
“There is a war on black boys in this country. In my opinion, there is a war on African-American men … it’s going to turn into a genocide if it doesn’t stop,” she said, echoing recent comments from perpetually offended movie director Spike Lee.
Holder, by the way, reportedly received the findings of the third autopsy yesterday, that is, the superfluous one ordered by the feds after the county autopsy and the family’s private autopsy. Although the results from the federal autopsy were not publicly available at press time, if memory serves, other high-profile individuals who died of gunshots such as Trayvon Martin, Martin Luther King Jr., and President John F. Kennedy, were autopsied only once.
So it is hard not to be suspicious of Holder’s motives in requiring that extra postmortem dissection. Keep examining the body over and over again until you find what you want. Just like in close elections. Keep counting the votes over and over again until you win. (See, Al Franken, who succeeded, and Al Gore, who failed.)
But as is always the case with Obama, the lawless attorney general’s visit is a ruse. Holder, who faces possible impeachment over contempt of Congress charges, will bring a planeload of rhetorical dynamite with him to make sure that the civil unrest continues. It is his job, as he sees it, to rile up people.
A far-left self-described “activist,” Holder, like Obama, has an uncanny ability to know exactly what to do to make a situation worse, or as Rules for Radical author Saul Alinsky put it so vividly, to rub raw the sores of discontent. In exacerbating racial tensions and ramping up civil unrest, Holder is truly a virtuoso.
“Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” Holder pontificates, ignoring the long-recognized fact that an attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not fundamentally transform the nation.
“The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things [and] bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents,” he says, again deliberately misrepresenting the purpose of his high office.
When critics decry his Department of Justice for containing an “activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general — I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and [I am] proud of it,” Holder said.
As I wrote recently, Holder is the consigliere for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. As a journalist friend of mine likes to remind me, Obama keeps the scandal-prone Holder on because the man “knows where all the bodies are buried.”
How do we know that with the Ferguson whistle stop Holder is, as usual, up to no good?
First, because Eric Holder is constitutionally incapable of calming things down, and second, because the signs of a well-crafted con job are there.
The goal is to polarize and enrage and foment even more racial tension and violence to distract from Obama’s seemingly endless political problems, as well as to energize the Democratic Party’s base so they vote in droves in November. Democrats who aren’t in denial are now deathly afraid of the electoral tsunami approaching that seems increasingly likely to leave Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. A GOP recapture of the Senate no longer looks dicey; the only question is how big a majority Republicans will have in that dusty old chamber where good conservative ideas go to die.
This week Holder and Obama’s Chicagoland enforcer Valerie Jarrett reportedly talked to representatives of what one news article termed “civic groups.” They bragged about the hundreds of interviews they have forced scores of FBI agents to conduct in Ferguson in a desperate attempt to bolster the bad-white-cop-murdered-good-black-kid theory.
Among the left-wing activist organizations included on the conference call were the odious National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This fact tells you more or less all you need to know about Holder’s intentions.
Undoubtedly the usual crew of bad people who hate America, the very worst of the radical left-wing community organizing outfits, also participated in the call. This is the clandestine way the Obama White House has operated since the very beginning. It is more an exercise in conspiracy coordination than in allied group relations.
Apart from the FBI whose agents have been forced to scour Ferguson in search of evidence of imagined civil rights law violations, these groups are connected, if not already actively collaborating, with the criminals doing their best to burn Ferguson to the ground for its supposed sins.
The people on the ground in Ferguson right now, the “outside agitators” as a police chief called them, are out there waving protest signs, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, and looting stores. Some of them were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Others are from the New Black Panther Party that Holder holds in such great esteem that he dropped a case against party members who intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008. These insurrectionists have been streaming in from Marxist and other extremist groups in Chicago and beyond. Racial arsonists Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton are there too, making sure they get their cut of the action.
Make no mistake: they are Obama’s kith and kin. If Obama still had a job at the Gamaliel Foundation or the now-defunct ACORN or any of a number of in-your-face activist groups, he would likely be there right now, knee deep in the blood-covered streets of Ferguson, keeping his radical comrades-in-arms in line, and helping them figure out how to make local residents howl for change.
His goal now, as it was then, is to fundamentally transform the United States of America. As Michelle Obama has said, “Barack is not a politician first and foremost. He’s a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.”
For now Obama won’t be visiting Ferguson, according to the White House, but that doesn’t mean he’s not pulling the strings. Holder will be his trusted emissary.
In fact Holder’s minions are already on the ground in Ferguson right now causing trouble. News reports indicate that government-employed community organizers are on-site. These outside agitators work for the Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within the Justice Department.
We know what they do. Judicial Watch previously released DoJ documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that the community disorganizers of the CRS were dispatched two years ago to Sanford, Fla., after Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black man, was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. For a month and a half after Martin’s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman, who was ultimately acquitted of murder, because they believed quite correctly that the criminal case against him was weak.
In the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.
.......................................
View the complete article at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mat...son-fix-is-in/