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Opinion by Andy Zahn
The difference between the two presumptive nominees and the direction the country will take is very clear. It’s not left vs. right, Democrat vs Republican, it’s Conservative vs Progressive.
Four Justices don’t believe in the separation of powers, that it’s fine for the President to amend laws or write new laws; run the country with a pen and a phone and pay no attention to the congress or the people.
Some believe the Constitution is a “living” document, that it can be construed to mean whatever you want it to mean, leaving the door open to all the activist judges, while in my opinion it is cast in stone. The document provides a way to amend, to change, add, delete parts that a large majority of the congress and of the 50 states agrees to, so on purpose to make it well thought out and not the agenda of one judge or even a large number of judges.
Since Obama appeared on the scene the Conservatives have not been at all happy with him but NEVER have they “protested” and acted as the Liberals, at Trump rallies and even in the House of Representatives; acting like what they are, just plain hoodlums.
The people that voted for Obama and many in that group are not taxpayers with large numbers on welfare, so, whether we like it or not, we are stuck with Obama and HIS agenda. Now, on the Republican side, the people who voted for Trump, I did not, and in a Democracy to dare to nominate other than Trump would be to say “there’s no point to voting anymore”. As Virginians we don’t always get to vote in a presidential primary and so I was pleased to have the opportunity.
My parents were loyal Democrats, my mother secretary of the local Democratic Club but the way the party has changed they would never agree with their agenda. Years ago I was supporting Democratic ideals but now it’s just the same old gun control, taxes, and the whole 9 yards of the Liberal, Progressive, Secular agenda.
In Waco the chickens have come home to roost! As recently as the senate hearings with the FBI director a liberal senator spoke of the event at Fergurson & how that was police brutality. Never, to this day, has any such as Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, or others of that anti-cop bias, including the liberal media told the public it was all a lie & that the police officer was cleared by the DOJ & others & that he was defending his life from an aggressiveattacker.
Obama & the liberals have divided this country every which way. They have us on the verge of a civil war & the best they can offer is that we should be disarmed. Obama has destroyed this country in every way from Obamacare costing jobs and the tax rate with regulations and open borders seeing to it that millions are unemployed and without hope leading to desperation & violence.
We have millions of people with no jobs and “idle hands do the devil’s work”. While they don’t work, they eat; they drive their cars, use their cells & palm pilots, watch flat screen TV, drink, smoke, use drugs, have babies they don’t support as well as not supporting the women they have babies with and many are in gangs owning guns & killing each other.
We are completely out of control & need a new president who will get people working & not sucking up a free college education in some unneeded skill.
When I think of a true Progressive, who comes to mind is not Hillary Clinton, not Barack Hussein Obama, but Teddy Roosevelt, when he was governor of the State of New York.
In the spring of 1900, Teddy Roosevelt, then governor of New York State, pushed for protection of public health with several important initiatives.
He issued an emergency order in March that mandated clean drinking water for residents in Rensselaer, a city directly across the Hudson River from Albany, and set tough punishments for violators.
Circa 1899, Teddy Roosevelt’s second-year agenda as governor of New York carried over much from the previous year, but with a new initiative: to take on the trusts as a way of reining in the runaway power and control of large corporations in collusion.
“Our laws should be so drawn as to protect and encourage corporations which do their honest duty by the public and to discriminate sharply against those organized in a spirit of mere greed, for improper speculative purpose,” Roosevelt said, throwing fuel on the fire raging between himself and Republican Political Boss Thomas C. Platt over the Republican Party’s symbiotic relationship with business.
Platt, known as the “Easy Boss,” was a two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873–1877) and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881, 1897 to 1909, is best known as the “political boss” of the Republican Party in New York State in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Upon his death, the New York Times stated that “no man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he,” but “no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.”
Platt considered himself the “political godfather” of many Republican governors of the state, but as governor Teddy Roosevelt stood up to him.
Hillary Clinton would have been nothing more than a fob dangling from Thomas Platt’s watch pocket.
According to history up this way, Platt gave mixed messages about Teddy Roosevelt being re-nominated as NYS governor.
“I want to get rid of the bastard,” the “Easy Boss” told a crony.
“I don’t want him raising hell in my state any longer.”
“I want to bury him.”
Those sentiments echoed the vociferous objections Platt was receiving from insurance executives and leading business owners to re-nominating Roosevelt as governor for the 1900 campaign.
Those same people would have been very happy to have Hillary Clinton as their governor, for in truth, she is one of them, and she would have fit right in with them, just as she does with all the BIG BANK$ that shoved hundreds of thousands of dollars down her pockets.
In his “New Nationalism Speech,” Teddy Roosevelt said “No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.”
There he was looking forward in time to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, keeping in mind the many promises made by Obama that were never kept, like his plan to double U.S. exports.
Teddy Roosevelt said “Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.”
What a prescient statement that is with respect to the times we are now in with Hillary Clinton representing the corporatist wing of the Democrat party.
Teddy Roosevelt, a true Progressive, said “I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.”
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are for protecting them.
Teddy Roosevelt said “I should be heartily ashamed of any American who did not try to make the American government act as justly toward the other nations in international relations as he himself would act toward any individual in private relations.”
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton act as if they own the world.
In an article on June 14, 2015 by Kasia Anderson in TRUTHDIG, it was stated:
“She took a page from Franklin Delano Roosevelt in her first major campaign speech, but Hillary Clinton is still Wall Street’s woman—a point not lost on some who took in her surreal show at Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park on Saturday.”
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Someone who is Wall Street’$ woman is not a Progressive.
To call Hillary Clinton a Progressive is to render the word absolutely meaningless, and it would be an insult to the memory of Teddy Roosevelt as the Progressive governor of New York state.
Hillary Clinton is not a Progressive.
She is a political chameleon who panders for votes with promises she has no way of keeping, such as offering free college and having a moratorium on student debt.
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With respect to Hillary Clinton and federal judges, especially with respect to filling a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, I would really like to hear someone in the Main-Stream Media ask Hillary Clinton, the Goldwater Girl who has now re-branded herself as a “progressive,” if her choice of picking conservative Republicans for federal judgeships has changed any since Hillary was U.S. senator from New York.
Who would alleged “progressive” Hillary Clinton put on the Supreme Court?
As an American citizen who cares about law and order, especially in these times of turmoil we find ourselves immersed in, I think that is a very important question for all of us to consider before November, and yet, I have never heard it asked.
As to Hillary’s track record while U.S. Senator from New York, experience she touts as qualifying her to be president, with respect to who she already has put on the federal bench here in NYS, we know from the Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 7, Wednesday, January 28, 2004, Pages S304-S307, EXECUTIVE SESSION, NOMINATION OF GARY L. SHARPE TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE, as follows:
Mrs. CLINTON. Madam President, I rise in very strong support of the nomination of Magistrate Judge Gary Lawrence Sharpe who has been nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
I ask all of my colleagues to support this nomination.
I commend my colleague, Senator Schumer, for the important role he has played on the Judiciary Committee.
I second his comment that in New York we have worked together with the administration to nominate and confirm judges who will be a real credit, not only to the bench but to this administration and to our country.
Magistrate Judge Gary Lawrence Sharpe is at the top of that list.
I think he will not only serve with distinction in New York but demonstrate clearly that this is the kind of conservative Republican nominee whom we could be unanimously confirming.
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Think on that for a moment, people, as Hillary Clinton touts her supposed “progressive” credentials: “this is the kind of conservative Republican nominee whom we could be unanimously confirming.”
And then ask yourself, why is a supposed “progressive” who tells us, as if we were all mindless fools, that she is “fighting for us,” putting conservative Republicans on the federal bench as judges over us?
Isn’t that something Trump would be doing?
Then consider this article from the NEW YORK TIMES by BENJAMIN WEISER, dated January 28, 2011, as to how Hillary’s conservative Republican judge then treated the law in NYS after receiving that high praise from Champion Hillary on January 28, 2004:
A federal appeals court in Manhattan overturned a six-and-a-half-year sentence in a child pornography case on Friday, saying the judge who imposed it improperly found that the defendant would return to viewing child pornography “because of an as-of-yet undiscovered gene.”
The judge, Gary L. Sharpe of Federal District Court in Albany, was quoted as saying, “It is a gene you were born with.”
“And it’s not a gene you can get rid of,” before he sentenced the defendant, Gary Cossey, in December 2009.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in ruling on the defendant’s appeal, “It would be impermissible for the court to base its decision of recidivism on its unsupported theory of genetics.”
Judges Amalya L. Kearse, John M. Walker Jr. and Rosemary S. Pooler ruled that a sentence relying on findings not supported in the record “seriously affects the fairness, integrity and public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
The panel ordered that Mr. Cossey be resentenced by a different judge, a step it said was taken only where a judge’s fairness or the appearance of fairness was in doubt.
“This is one such instance,” the panel said.
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Clearly, the MSM can’t be ignorant of any of that, since it is all public record, and since the Grey Lady, the NY Times, is a part of the MSM.
So why didn’t we hear Woof Blitzer confront Hillary with any of that during her debates with Bernie Sanders:
“Ah, Champion Hillary, with respect to that above from the public record, do you think and would you say that your judgment has matured any when it comes to picking federal judges, or would you make the same poor choices?”
“Is this what we can expect from your Supreme Court nominations, judges whose decisions seriously affect the fairness, integrity and public reputation of judicial proceedings?”
Just asking, Hillary.
Inquiring minds would really like to know.
Paul R. Plante, NYSPE
The mainstream media is silent about a lot of very important issues while wasting endless hours on minutia. Then too, many things they rather we don’t know about.
Recently we saw the four liberals on the SCUS agree that the president can rule with a pen and a phone and I shudder to think of adding another liberal to the court. Just imagine the damage if as many as 5 liberals were added during Hillary’s first term.
The Democrats are busy selling votes big time. Free college & a moritorium on college debt AND a $15 an hour minimum wage. From experience I can tell you as soon as workers take home more money taxes & prices will rise and in a year you will never know where the money went. NJ is already in the process of hiking the fuel tax 23 cents a gallon. Conside, I remember paying less than that per gallon & they checked the oil & water & cleaned the widshield, even at some stations the back window & at a few they vacuumed the front floor. Seventy years ago Eisenhower had the Interstate Highway System built & the federal fuel tax was 10 cents a gallon cheaper & now JUST to maintain the roads & bridges they need MORE TAXES.
Besides the Democrats buying votes, using my tax dollars to buy a government I don’t like, they are also wizzards at broadening their base. They brought the 18 year old’s in with an ill thought out amendment which had to be modified a couple times and now our governor has perhaps overstepped his power in granting voting privleges to 200,000 felons in the hope of Virginia being a blue state. The party is licking its lips at the thought of “comprehensive” immigration reform & allowing some 20 or more million aliens to vote.
I am sure the DNC envisions the day when their coalition is so massive there is no other party and they can have their way on each & every item in their “agenda”.
According to what is supposed to be our history in this country as recorded in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, as published in The American Historical Review, vol. 11, 1906, when Ben Franklin was leaving Independence Hall at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked by a woman, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” to which Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Simply stated all these years later, we didn’t keep it.
We didn’t lose it, either.
We surrendered it, instead, literally without a fight.
We are no longer citizens in this country, we are consumers.
As consumers, we need give no thought whatsoever to how the nation is governed, so we don’t.
Whatever line of crap we are fed by those in power over us, we blindly accept.
James Madison, a Virginian who was at the Constitutional Convention and who later became a U.S. president, said “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
Except that is too much trouble, and besides, there is a hell of a Blue-light special sale going on down at the mall with some really great bargains on wide-screen TV’s, so who has time to arm themselves with knowledge, and besides that is somebody else’s responsibility, anyway, I got to get to that sale before somebody else gets there ahead of me.
James Madison said, “The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.”
But when the people are no longer concerned with the Constitution, or as is the case today, do not even know we have one, and how we got one, and why that was, the Constitution becomes like putty.
With respect to the media, James Madison said, “A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
And here we are today.
As to the Constitution itself, James Madison said, “Do not separate text from historical background.”
“If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
Well, Jemmy, you were spot on with that observation, I can tell you, because that is what we certainly have now.
When only a handful of people in the United States of America care enough to keep abreast of what is going on in the world around them, and to raise their voices in opprobrium when opprobrium is called for, then the whole thing turns into a house of cards built on shifting sand, and one morning, like right now, in fact, we wake up and wonder where our Republic went.
We wonder how we went from having a president with a Constitutional duty to US to take care that OUR laws are enforced, to having an imperial president totally free to disregard the law whenever it suits him, and to re-write it as he pleases.
We wonder how we went from having a president with but limited powers pursuant to OUR Constitution to having a Caesar who is a king in every regard but for the diadem.
Well, wonder no longer, people.
We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us.
The latest in Hillary’s pandering is to ask the whites to change their ways. What, pray tell should we do? I truly don’t see white people in general doing much of anything wrong. We have come a long way & have gotten over most bias on our part but the bias is now coming from the black community & most especially the president & other black leaders.
In 10th grade I asked my teacher why the Constitution provided for equal rights & the right to keep & bear arms & yet many states denied these rights. I was told it was because of “State’s Rights”.
Assigned to Ft Gordon & to Ft Benning at times from 1953 to 1956 & seeing the “whites only” or “blacks only” signs it was to me disgusting. We did a training exercise in Agusta, Ga and ate lunch at the ratty Greyhound Bus Terminal & a black Army officer was not allowed to eat there.
We have a number of outstanding black people who I have supported for president such as Dr Ben Carson and many like Herman Cain & Lt Col Allen West who are outstanding.
My best buddy in Alaska was another platoon leader in my company. He was an outstanding officer & he happened to be black. We spent many hours in my room cooking steaks, which was illegal, drinking beer & listening to Mario lanza records on his machine. My platoon sergeant was a huge black Master Sergeant who was adored by the men in my platoon. Like the saying goes, he spent more time in pay lines than I spent in chow lines so I paid attention to his wise counsel. I had the weapons platoon & in addition to the load every rifleman carries we had the 3 mortars & the 3 recoiless rifles & his bringing up the rear with his calling out “choogie-choogie” just spurred the men to keep on going. We had blacks, whites & orientals & mostly we all did our jobs & got along very well & I never saw any bias of any kind.
People with a hatred based on a person’s color or religion or nationality or being a “come here” is due to a severe inferiority complex. If you look at that type person you find he/she has nothing to offer. Very little I Q, no education, no skill, likely making a minimum wage. The ONLY asset they have is the color of their skin or their place of birth.
The Democrats are pandering for votes. Reaching out to the Hispanics, the blacks, the L,G,B,T community and the women who figure the “right to choose” is the right to everything for free. Clearly, they are throwing the white, middle class, straight, working, taxpaying minority under the bus..
She is as Worthless as the Hind-Tit on a Boar-Hog…
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The Attorney General of the United States serves “at the pleasure” of the president of the United States, and serves “at the pleasure of” has been interpreted as “serves to give pleasure to.”
The Attorney General of the United States is the lackey or lickspittle of the president.
It is not an independent office, it is a political office, and Loretta Lynch is hardly independent because of that, and if she were not of proven political reliability in the first place, like Sonia Sotomayor proved herself to be before being appointed to the supreme court, a highly partisan president like Obama never would have picked her for attorney general in the first place.
The same goes for the political puppet Comey, the Director of the FBI, who can also be removed from office by Obama, just like Rodham Clinton’s philandering hubby, Bill “BUBBA” Clinton, did with William S. Sessions back in July of 1993.
So we got a WHITE WASH, which is obviously what just about everybody in America expected according to a July 6, 2015 Washington Times poll on the question of “Poll: Was the FBI probe of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal rigged?” where the last time I checked, 200 respondents had said “Yes,” 16 respondents had said “No,” and 5 respondents said “Not sure.”
Barack Obama, who was quoted in the media at Monticello on Feb. 10, 2014 as saying “That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want,” and who was quoted in his African Union Speech In Ethiopia Transcript on July 28, 2015 as saying “I also stand before you as the son of an African and Africa and its people have helped shape who I am and how I see the world,” has very publicly anointed Hillary Rodham Clinton as his chosen successor.
A military retiree up this way who follows such things noted that when Obama turned the podium over to Hillary at their joint North Carolina love fest recently, the seal of the president was still on the podium when Hillary took it, which the retiree said was a gross breach of protocol, as if protocol still actually meant something in this nation today.
So does anyone really think that two of Obama’s underlings who are there to serve him and give him pleasure were going to challenge his personal choice to succeed him and carry on his political revolution in this country over violations of law?
Can we as a nation have forgotten the “Saturday Night Massacre,” a term used by political commentators to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon’s dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal?
When Cox issued a subpoena to President Nixon, asking for copies of taped conversations recorded in the Oval Office and authorized by Nixon, Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused, and resigned in protest.
Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox.
He also refused and resigned.
Nixon then ordered the Solicitor General, Robert Bork (as acting head of the Justice Department), to fire Cox.
Having been brought to the White House by limousine and sworn in as Acting Attorney General, Bork wrote the letter firing Cox.
If Comey or Lynch even hinted at charging Hillary with crimes, both of them would be gone in a heartbeat.
I personally would suspect that when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac recently, he was carrying water for wife Hillary, and a future political position was promised to Lynch, like a seat on the Supreme Court, if she would be a good girl and keep her mouth shut, which, being politically reliable, of course she would.
As to Comey publicly saying that he personally would recommend not prosecuting Hillary, that was nothing more than political hoo-hah intended to gull the unwitting and unwary, of whom there are a multitude in this country, because as FBI head, Comey does not make the decision as to who gets prosecuted, that is up to a grand jury.
The FBI’s own website, entitled “A Brief Description of the Federal Criminal Justice Process” informs us as follows:
A grand jury is an impartial body of citizens drawn from the community that has the responsibility to investigate whether a crime has been committed and by whom.
In order to make that determination, a grand jury may issue subpoenas to whoever may have evidence relevant to the grand jury’s investigation.
As part of its investigation, the grand jury also has power to compel testimony, including the testimony of a crime victim.
If the grand jury concludes that there is probable cause to believe that a particular individual committed a crime, the grand jury will issue a charging document known as an indictment.
Whenever a grand jury is involved in an investigation, the agents will work closely with an attorney from the U.S. government, either from the local U.S. Attorney’s Office or the U.S. Department of Justice, before making an arrest in order to determine whether a crime was committed and, if so, who is responsible.
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To keep Obama’s anointed successor Hillary in the clear, no matter how many laws she might have violated, Obama and Company simply did a political dog-and-pony show that resulted in Comey telling us he would not recommend prosecuting Hillary, and being stupid, and not knowing anything, the American people all simply accepted that without a peep of protest.
And back under the rug it all went, with Hillary in the clear.
What a surprise.
To close, it is nice to know that this Ed Coet, Major, US Army (Retired), knows the law and cares about the law.
We all should, actually.
But anymore, and especially in the last eight years, knowing about the law and caring about the law by common citizens and majors in the U.S. Army doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when the man who swore an oath to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and the best of his ability, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States doesn’t give a damn about the U.S. Constitution and certainly isn’t going to allow that document to limit his power as imperial president, a king in all regards but for the diadem.
We are being treated like morons & I guess it’s because many of us are morons. I see a huge dumbing down in America. Highly educated people in high places of responsibility don’t know the first thing about their job.
I think there’s a whole lot of things going on. DRUGS! Some say even occasional use of pot causes permanent brain damage. Are our leaders burned out? Permissiveness & lack of discipline. Parents not demanding much of their children and showering them with gifts, excusing poor performance in school. Teachers & professors afraid to give low or failing grades and accepting a lack of basic skills. No discipline in the schools because the principal over rules the teacher & the superintendent the principal & the school board the supt & finally the lawyers step in & destroy everything! Destruction of the family and millions of fatherless children who are being supported by taxpayers and lacking all the essentials. Peope in the workplace goofing off and not being corrected. It’s not by accident that 20 Arabs got on 4 planes & used box cutters to kill the pilots and crashed the planes into buildings or for bad people to pass background checks & buy guns or for bad people with guns to get past security and kill people. NO ONE IS MINDING THE STORE!
When Christie ran for governor in NJ I told my 3 sons who still live there that he was RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. My kids said “no”. They had no choice but to vote for him because the crook, Corzine, who stole his client’s money was totally incompetant. So, now for eight years Chrise has been on the campaign stump in Iowa, Vermont and now today in Virginia Beach; everywhere but in the state of NJ. He wants to get into the W H by the front, side or cellar door!
I am disabled, not 1-A anymore, and so I no longer drive. I went to buy a gun & was shocked to find I needed to buy a photo ID to get a background check; that my expired driver’s license with photo & all my info & my expired carry permit were not good enough. It is a hardship for me to go to DMV because I am mostly home bound. Finally I bent, don’t we always, since the whole country is paranoid with ID’s for the bank, post office & even my doctor’s office where they all have known me for 40 years, and paid the $10. Know what? Identical to what is on my license. Same photo, Same name. Same address. Same height & weight. Same DOB.
Years ago job performance was everything, almost. If you could do the job you were hired. If you could handle the next step up you were promoted. Finally you were the police or fire chief or the school principal. Now it’s all about college; a prestigious college, an MBA or doctorate and parroting what some prof or author preached, even if it’s entirely incorrect. How many have cheated their way through? Now some half-wit is placed over people with 20 years experience and is telling them how to do their jobs.
Case in point. HST vs BHO!
To be an American citizen, andy zahn, all you need do is be born here.
That is it.
You certainly don’t need to know anything, and you don’t even have to be loyal to the United States.
You can be a complete and total moron who knows nothing and is actively plotting the downfall of the United States of America and everything it stands for, and as long as you were born here, you are as much of an American citizen as everyone else in this country, with the same civil rights, and especially voting rights, so long as you are over 18.
We just had a glimpse of that reality in the Associated Press “Dallas sniper was loner; Army sent him home from Afghanistan” on 9 July 2016, wherein we were informed:
The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.
Micah Xavier Johnson, who fatally shot five officers and wounded seven more before police killed him with a remote-controlled bomb on Friday, lived with family members in the blue-collar suburb of Mesquite, where he played basketball for hours at a time.
Friends there said the 25-year-old black man didn’t seem interested in politics, but his Facebook page suggests otherwise: He “liked” black militant groups including the African American Defense League and the New Black Panther Party, which was founded in Dallas.
His photo showed him wearing a dashiki and raising his fist over the words “Black Power,” and his cover shot carried the red, black and green Pan-African flag.
“The suspect said he was upset with white people and wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,” Brown said.
Activists with Black Lives Matter, whose peaceful march police were guarding as he opened fire, repudiated the shootings, and it wasn’t immediately clear if Johnson had any connection to the movement, which has disavowed violence.
But one of the groups Johnson “liked” on Facebook, the African American Defense League, posted a message earlier in the week encouraging violence against police in response to the killing in Louisiana.
“The Pig has shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana!”
“You and I know what we must do and I don’t mean marching, making a lot of noise, or attending conventions.”
“We must ‘Rally The Troops!'”
“It is time to visit Louisiana and hold a barbeque.”
The message was attributed to Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere, a leader in the organization.
Another group Johnson “liked” was the New Black Panther Party, whose leaders have “long expressed virulently anti-white and anti-Semitic opinions,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Johnson also “liked” the Nation of Islam and the Black Riders Liberation Party, which the center described as “hate groups.”
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If you hate America and white people and white cops and you want to kill them, FACEBOOK is there for you, it has your back, it’s your champion fighting for you, and it wants to get your message of hate out there for all the candid world to read and heed, as this Dallas police killer just did, and in America today, that is totally cool.
With respect to our culture today, GOOGLE the bio of United States president Barack Obama on WIKIPEDIA, and this is what you will find:
Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana, and
cocaine during his teenage years to “push questions of who I was out of my
mind”.
Obama was also a member of the “choom gang”, a self-named group of friends
that spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana.
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There is modern culture, andy zahn, staring us in the face.
Cocaine and marijuana are controlled substances in Hawaii, and possession of one ounce or more of any substance that contains cocaine is a Class A felony, but in the case of Barack Hussein Obama, who is now the president of the United States, so what, really?
It’s no big deal because that is just the way it is today – EVERYBODY is doing drugs in America today, so why should we hold that against Barack Obama because he did them too?
So what message does all of that send?
When the president of the United States of America does not have to follow the law, why then should anyone?
When no one has to follow the law because the president of the United States doesn’t have to follow the law, and in fact can openly scoff at it, as Obama did as a drug-using teenager, and as he does now that he is in the White House, wouldn’t you be a chump for following the law?
And of course you would, so why do it?
Right now, we have a man in the White House who was put in there by popular acclaim by a majority of the American people who was a teen-age drug user and a Marxist in college, something Obama has never denied, nor has he ever needed to, since being a Marxist was not a bar to him being qualified to be U.S. president, just as being a hateful, racist moron would not disqualify him from serving as U.S. president.
You just have to be born here, and be over a certain age, and that is that.
As a Marxist, Obama believes in the overthrow of the existing political order by revolution.
As president, his policies have been helping to make that overthrow of the existing order possible, starting with his total rejection of OUR Constitution.
In the new order, which Marxist Obama has ushered in by executive fiat, the Congress of the American people no longer has a role to play in the governing of this country.
It is an anachronism, and so Obama has discarded it, to the cheers of those who applaud his dismantling of our former Constitutional system of government, and those people who support Obama in that endeavor constitute a majority of the population of the United States of America, and in a democracy, majority rules.
While it might not bode well for older white people and especially white cops, we have to face the fact that our time is over and our race has been run.
We are part of the old order, and the old order has been replaced.
As the Marxists say, for there to be progress, somebody has to be hurt, and this time around, that happens to be us.
Such it is, andy zahn, and so it goes.
As American citizens, we have to do what the majority says, and if the majority says it is time to get rid of us old white folks and white cops as well, out the door we have to go.
Right on Mr Plate. All so true & all so sad. Be born here & you are an American. Be over 18, contribute nothing & you can vote, have as much say as a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Be born here, and we foun out in the case of Cruz, that that’s another lie, be over 35 & you can run for & be elected president. It is far harder to get a barber’s license!
Now we are ruled by the Woodstock Generation. Hillary wants a monument to Woodstock.
Obama is a disgrace & I sent many emails to Rep Peter King (R, NY) early on about how Obama was ruining this country. He got elected due to their coalition where all the constituents are waiting for something and for all my life I can’t figure why the Democrats in congress have stood by him & even more an enigma why the Republicans to this day have laid down & played dead. Obama & his wife as well as all his friends have always hated this country & now he’s the president of a country he hates.
When it comes to examples, and this is horrible for the children & the youth, so many in congress, in sports, in entertainment up to & including Bill Clinton have set rotten examples. Not just sexual adventures but so much corruption with even school superintendents going to jail because their $200,000 a year wasn’t enough & they had to embezzle.
All through high school, through college, through active duty and through my teaching career did I even know anyone to use drugs. My friends from the past & myself are like we were from a cookie cutter. All fierce patriots. All conservative in our lives. All devoted to our families. As far as I know all married for 50 or 60 years with no divorces.
Dan Quale was right when he found fault with “Murphey Brown”. We have come to accept bad behaviour and children without marriage. The NYC fire department is the finest in the world, mostly all Irish. Sons & grandsons of firefighters. They can pass the exam to become a member because they worked at it. Paid attention in school, studied and led clean lives. It is difficult to find qualified members of minorities to become policemen & firemen because many have criminal records or have been arrested for drug use or just have not the learning required to pass the exam.
Perhaps the nut case in Dallas should not have received an Honorable Discharge but again maybe his C O was takingan easy way out. The lack of an Honorable Discharge MIGHT have prevented him from LEGALLY buying guns. The “DESERTR” who Obama traded 5 high level terrorists for was booted out of the Coast Guard so why in hell did the Army let him enlist?
That prisoner exchange is another whole act of treachery. First we never let POW’s go free until the hostilities ended. We are letting them out of Gitmo because Obama wants to close the facility and of course they are turning up on the battlefield killing Americans, but we do need gun laws. If a general of ours gets captured we might trade a general of theirs but we would never trade a eneral for one of our grunts. Only a nut or a traitor would do such a thing. Let me get this straight. A PRIVATE deserts and is promoted to SERGEANT. Lots of back pay. While awaiting trial at Ft Hood they don’t restrict him, in fact he leaves the fort on leave.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
– Aldous Huxley
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I think “he” just let 2 more out of Gitmo. I can’t wait for “his” lecture today from Texas. Probably a re-hash of the Crusades & the murderous ways of the hated Christians. We also need to be reminded of our plantation days.
Trump was saying that Hillary would be the first president, if she were elected, to not be able to pass a background check. So, big deal. She doesn’t like guns anyway. At least she will be cleared for TOP SECRET.
CORRUPTION!
We voted with our feet. NJ is a beautiful state with the ocean, the bays, farms, rivers, forests, industry, technology and so much but the system is totally corrupt. Taxes, new taxes, more taxes, bond issues, regulations and never enough money. A governor resigned in disgrace not long ago. A man was appointed to head anti-terrorism & he wasn’t even a U S citizen. Another man was appointed to be the superintendent of the NJ State Police & his background was so unsavory that he was not allowed to carry a sidearm. I retired as early as the law allowed & we were out of there!
As you know NY is a fantastic state. Get rid of NYC & you would really have something! We looked into NY but the taxes & politics set us to looking elsewhere & we settled on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I loved Hy 9W & visiting West Point. Going to Plattsburg & Montreal. The turnpike fromNJ to Albany & then the Northway in the fall is outstanding. The daries and the Chemung Valley, Hy 81 to Plattsburg gives a whole different perspective. Back in the boonies of the Adirandacs the people are like from 100 years ago with their own unique accent.
When it comes to corruption, NY probably tops NJ by a little mainly because it’s larger & there’s more money to steal. Father & son, Mario & Andrew, told the conservatives & taxpayers to move out and that every liberal idea would be the law of the land.
I am a first time reader of this blog, and can now believe we have a community here on the ES, that is interested in National Politics. Our nation is now going downhill very fast and no one seems to care. Those who expect to benefit, think the govt. is made out of a huge pile of money to be used by those non-contributors, non-productive and non-caring population, that when they turn 72 y.o. will wonder what happened to the good old days.
My comments are not needed, I stated my concerns and observations over the past 72 years.
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