Opinion by PAUL PLANTE: Is Reckless and Inflammatory Hate Speech Fueling Violence?

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1. Returning to the July 8, 2015 press release of Democrat New York State Governor Andy Cuomo entitled “Governor Cuomo Signs Executive Order Appointing NYS Attorney General as Special Prosecutor in Cases Where Law Enforcement Officers Are Involved in Deaths of Civilians” which predated by nine (9) months Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in April of 2016 where she told them that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them,” it was further stated therein as follows with regard to inflammatory and reckless rhetoric with respect to white police officers:

   Dr. Hazel N. Dukes, President of NAACP New York State Conference said: “This is a significant executive order that will ensure that communities of color including African Americans, Latinos and other minorities are protected from police misconduct.”

   “We thank Governor Andrew Cuomo for his vision and commitment to protect all our communities.”

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   There we have the drumbeat of hatred again: Protected from police misconduct.

   BA DOOM, BA DOOM, the police are in the wrong!

   Forget facts, forget evidence, forget rule of law, it is opinions and feelings and perceptions which matter now.

   Andy Cuomo, the Democrat governor of New York says the police are guilty of misconduct, and that “communities of color” need him to protect them from the police, and that is all anyone needs to know.

   Getting back to the national implications of this, in that Cuomo press release, Russell Simmons said: “This show of leadership by Governor Cuomo should spark a shift across the entire country, where every state has special, impartial prosecutors that investigate these cases.”

   What Russell Simmons is talking about is doing away with citizen grand juries, because of Hillary Clinton’s premise that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”

   Until they are “cured” by Hillary Clinton’s community programs, they simply cannot be trusted to serve on citizen grand juries in cases of alleged police misconduct.

   Instead, according to this Cuomo plan which Russell Simmons says should spark a shift across the entire country, politically-connected special prosecutors appointed by state governors will replace citizen grand juries.

   Thus, the process will become more politicized and polarized, which does not bode well for our future, and the future of race relations in this country, as well.

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2. With respect to New York State Governor Andy Cuomo, and why people in Virginia or elsewhere for that matter, should be concerned about his policies, it is a matter of public record that until he got a call from Barack Obama as head of the Democrat party here in America asking Andy to step aside and let Hillary Clinton have her turn at it, Andy was thinking very seriously about making the run himself and challenging Hillary in the process.

   If one goes to Ballotpedia- The Encyclopedia of American Politics, for example, one finds the following statement:

   Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957, in Queens, New York) is the 56th and current Governor of New York.

   A Democrat, he was first elected on November 2, 2010, and was re-elected to a second four-year term in 2014.

   He was also rumored to be a potential candidate for president in 2016.

   An April 2013 list of the 100 most powerful players in Albany by the newspaper, City and State, ranked Cuomo as number one.

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   More recently, in the February 22, 2016 NEW YORK POST article “Cuomo ready to run if Hillary or Bernie doesn’t take White House” By Fredric U. Dicker, we find as follows:

   Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sent the strongest signal yet that he’s ready to run for president if a Democrat fails to win in November, even as top Democrats confide that Cuomo’s presidential campaign is already under way.

   Senior state Democrats who have known Cuomo for decades told The Post that a speech in Buffalo last week was proof positive that the governor, once widely described as a political centrist, is seeking to use his Bernie Sanders-like “progressive’’ agenda of the nation’s highest minimum wage and a costly family leave mandate as a springboard to the presidency.

   Cuomo, in a fiery speech to Democratic officials and union activists, claimed his plans for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and a family leave requirement were badly needed reforms the entire nation should emulate.

   “It’s not just a New York agenda; this is a national agenda,’’ declared Cuomo.

   “We want to get this done in New York for New York, but then we are going to take this justice agenda, this fairness agenda, and we are going to say to this nation, ‘We did it in New York.'”

   “‘You can do it anywhere in this country,’ ’’ Cuomo said.

   A source with strong ties to Cuomo’s inner circle outlined to The Post the game plan he said the governor already has under way.

   “Hillary may not implode, but if she does, Andrew is already making course corrections to position himself more favorably to the national Democrats in light of the rapid leftward turn of the grass roots,’’ said the source.

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   So why didn’t Andy run?

   What was the quid pro quo offered him if he stayed out of the race to let Hillary Clinton have the show?

   Yes, people, you guessed it – a national profile as Hillary Clinton’s Attorney General, where Andy would then be able to force his New York agenda with regard to law enforcement on every state in the union.

   Afterall, Andy was New York state attorney general before he became governor, so it would be logical for him to repeat that at the national level, leapfrogging from the attorney general position into the oval office in the White House.

   That is why, when we read the July 8, 2015 press release of Democrat New York State Governor Andy Cuomo entitled “Governor Cuomo Signs Executive Order Appointing NYS Attorney General as Special Prosecutor in Cases Where Law Enforcement Officers Are Involved in Deaths of Civilians,” we find Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham; Iris Baez, mother of Anthony Baez; Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah; Margarita Rosario, mother of Anthony Rosario and aunt of Hilton Vega telling us, “While New York takes national leadership with this reform, there remains much work to be done to ensure our children and family members are no longer unjustly killed by police in the first place.”

   There is that term, “national leadership.”

   Start in New York, and then impose it on the nation from the federal level.

   That is why we see Russell Wendell Simmons, an American entrepreneur, producer and author who is Chairman and CEO of Rush Communications where he cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris with a net-worth estimate of $340 million in 2011 telling us in the Cuomo press release, “This show of leadership by Governor Cuomo should spark a shift across the entire country, where every state has special, impartial prosecutors that investigate these cases.”

   That is why we also see Michael Hardy, Executive Vice President & General Counsel of National Action Network telling us in the Cuomo press release: “I want to applaud Governor Cuomo for taking this step, because it is one that our state – and our nation – needed greatly.”

   “Next, I hope that other states will follow our lead to bring trust back to the judicial system.”

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   The National Action Network is a group founded by Barack Obama’s top civil rights advisor the Reverend Al Sharpton who is most noted for this following speech at Kean College in 1994 on race relations in America:

   “White folks was in caves while we were building empires….”

   “We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and those Greek homos ever got around to it.”

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   When that is the height of our national dialogue on race relations in this country, when that is the man who is the top civil rights advisor to the President of the United States of America, can anyone be possibly surprised at the hatred and divisiveness and racial violence we are witnessing today in this country?

   Something to think about, anyway, when this same man is telling us, “When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout, and unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.”

   Again, that broad-brush smear of police all across America.

   But when the person who will likely be at the top come January of 2017 to provide that intervention is telling us “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them,” what kind of reform and retraining throughout can we expect?

   A question for our times if there ever was one.

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3. The pandering that Hillary is spewing forth. Michael Brown’s mother will be an honored guest at the Democrat National Convention. She is to be pitied having lost a son but many mom’s have lost sons including one whose son was killed at Bengazi and others whose sons were killed defending America and those mothers will not attend, only the mother of a boy who was attacking a police offcer who was doing his sworn duty.

   Back in 1953 General of the Army, Dwight D Eisenhower became president, Commander-in-Chief of the U S Armed Forces and he ENDED discrimination in the military. There were thousands of black officers, thousands of black NCO’s & hundreds of thousandsof black enlisted men, both enlisees & draftees & everything from my view point went smoothly. I did not see any bias. Coln Powell, a black officer rose to four star general in the Army & was the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff.

   A few years later the schools were integrated. Much of what was bad was ending and by the time we started coming to the Eastern Shore we all were getting on very well. Many of our new black friends had know things to be far different in the past but seemed to hold no grudge & just wanted to get on with life.

   There was very little racism until Obama & Holder. In every case from day one of their being in office, in every conflict between a white cop & a black person, with no facts to go on, the cop was always wrong.

   The whole thing really came to a head in Fergurson, Mo when Obama & Holder immediately found the cop guilty of cold-blooded muder. There was a LIE out there that the boy had his hands up & was saying “Don’t shoot”. The left wing media ran with the LIE over & over & over & naturally everyone was angry. At one time I was an MP and I was armed & I was very upset at hearing the news. It finally came out the scenario was a lie, the cop was acting in self-defense & he was cleared of all wrong doing by the Missouri authorities and the U S Department of Justice, Holder’s mob.

   The problem exists to this day & in the “protests” now going on in Cleveland they are still shouting “Hands up, don’t shoot!”

   If Obama were a man he would go on TV & tell everyone to chill out, that the whole thing is bogus, a shame but the boy was comitting suicide by cop. The liberal networks should tell the truth for the first time since their inception & broadcast every hour for a month that they presented a false story and that the cop was not a murderer.

   A lot of these “protests” make no sense & are nothing but anarchy & violence waiting for a time & place to happen. What sense does it make to “protest” the results of an election, either a primary or a general election? What sense does it make to “protest” Wall Street? Look how much the taxpayers have been forced to pay for police at these “protests” and look how thin the police are stretched protecting against terrorism. We have leadership in the W H & in congress encouraging all this upheval & expense. A lot of groups who organize these events are not as interested in civil rights as in stirring up trouble, Final thought. How would you like to be a cop in Cleveland & be sitting on a powder keg?
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   When it comes to mothers losing sons, four mothers lost sons at Benghazi and when more protection was requested for that embassy, Hillary was AWOL.
   Black on black killings as in Chicago & other urban areas, thousands of mothers have lost sons.
   Five mothers in Dallas & 3 mothers in Baton Rouge lost sons who happened to be standing between anarchy & civilization, eight police officers. Two NYC officers were murdered sitting in their squad car & another two mothers grieving. A deputy murdered, shot in the back while fueling his police vehicle. I believe we have lost 29 officers so far this year.
   BLUE LIVES MATTER! All lives matter. Of course black lives matter but don’t use that as a call to do violence. Extremely rare that a cop kills a suspect and even far more rare it is done with intent. Most often the cop is justified and in a very few cases a mistake is made such as in combat some are hurt or killed by “friendly fire”. Most trouble can be avoided by not arguing or resting but doing as an officer tells you to do.

   You can bet that in EVERY case where a cop is murdered THAT officer has never in HIS life done anything bad to anyone. This is why we have a legal system, to sort it all out and if there’s a crime that only the guilty person be punished. It’s not perfect but is working & bad cops are coming to justice, I recently saw two first responders & I thanked them for their service.
   Laws are being passed right & left requiring police to get into driver’s & boater’s faces all too often and it’s not good. The father or mother are responsible for the health & safety of THEIR kids & themselves & the government should butt out! Seat belts, car seats & now a ban on smoking. We raised our kids without that jazz, survived & did fine, thank you!

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4. There are indeed many issues all coming together here, andy zahn, all at the same time, so that it is now like what once was an orderly ball of yarn after a cat got into it – a real big mess.

   Forty-seven (47) years ago, when I was in Viet Nam, my infantry battalion commander, who I had a great deal of respect for as a human being, and from whom I have a personal letter of commendation, was what would be called today a “person of color.”

   I called him “SIR!”

   I also had sergeants who today would be called “persons of color,” or “African-Americans”, and I called them sergeant.

   But that was forty-seven (47) years ago now, and those times are long since gone.

   Since then, at least two more generations have come into the world, with no living experience of those times, which were times of blissful racial harmony, compared to today, and what once was has been swept away by the passage of time and changes in generations and values.

   That you or I could get along with people of all different ethnic backgrounds or racial backgrounds or cultural backgrounds when we were in the military, or that we can get along with all of those people now, doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, because we are not important people with a public soapbox like Barack Obama, his chief civil rights advisor Al Sharpton, who is quoted as saying “I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time,” and Hillary Clinton and New York state governor Andy Cuomo, and Albany, New York mayor and Democrat Kathy Sheehan, who was quoted on local TV Channel 10 in her 2016 State of the City address as follows:

   She also said the police department would undergo more training in order to build trust and legitimacy with the people they serve.

   “I will hold myself and our command staff accountable for learning from hindsight and for making sure we are providing our officers with the tools and skills that they need to police fairly in our city, to build trust, and to finally shake the legacy of racism that we have earned and that was reprehensible,” she said.

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   As she is saying that, it is important to note that one of the two commanders of the Albany Police Department, the next rank down from chief, happens to be what people today would call a “person of color” or an “African-American.”

   I was there when he was promoted, and I shook his hand and congratulated him on his success.

   Why on earth wouldn’t I?

   Because he looked “Afro-centric,” and because as a “white” person, I, according to Hillary Clinton, am a “racist because I have white skin and therefore I suffer from ‘implicit bias’?”

   What a load of horse crap that is, and yet, NOBODY utters a peep in protest, outside of what people likely consider to be two old fools in here longing for the good old days when it did not matter what you looked like, if you were a FELLOW AMERICAN!

   So what exactly is this sickness or malady or genetic disorder Hillary Clinton is peddling in her bid to be our next president that causes all people with white skin to be racists?

   How do we find out?

   How do we educate ourselves, given that Hillary Clinton, a U.S. presidential candidate, tells us we need to be cured from it?

   For that answer, among other places I have researched, I went to the Kirwan Institute For The Study of Race and Ethnicity, because that seems to be the source of the “retraining” that Democrat Albany, New York Mayor Kathy Sheehan was referring to in her 2016 State of the City address, where she smeared the entire Albany, New York Police Department with the broad-brush charge of being racists.

   What we are informed of there, under the heading “Defining Implicit Bias,” is that Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder, Jr’s “implicit bias,” also known as implicit social cognition, refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.

   Note that phrase “affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner,” with emphasis on “unconscious.”

   In other words, if you are a white person, according to Hillary Clinton and Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., you are a racist, but because it is in your unconscious, you probably don’t really know you are a racist.

   That view is reinforced in these next three sentences from the Kirwan Institute For The Study of Race and Ethnicity which form the basis for Hillary Clinton’s ridiculous, but nonetheless reckless, inflammatory and very dangerous public statement that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them”:

   These biases, which encompass both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual’s awareness or intentional control.

   Residing deep in the subconscious, these biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to conceal for the purposes of social and/or political correctness.

   Rather, implicit biases are not accessible through introspection.

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   In other words, according to that, Hillary Clinton’s “implicit bias” resides deep in the subconscious, and most importantly to this discussion, is not accessible through introspection.

   Which is to say, since a person’s supposed “implicit biases” are not accessible through introspection, that person, or any person or ALL persons can never know they have them.

   And if they reside deep in the subconscious, and are not accessible through introspection, then how can Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and his chief civil rights advisor Al Sharpton and New York state governor Andy Cuomo, and Albany, New York mayor and Democrat Kathy Sheehan even know they exist?

   And that answer is, they can’t!

   But they don’t need to know they exist to say they do as they pander for votes, which equate to political power, because no one is going to challenge them in the main stream media.

   Nor do they need proof they exist, for the same reason.

   Hillary says “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them,” then that is that.

   Hillary said it, so it has to be so.

   Said another way, Hillary lies, and white cops die.

   For her, that is a small price to pay for her gaining the highest office in this land.

   But what about the rest of us?

   What do we get from Hillary Clinton destroying the fabric of our society with her lies?

   Another question for our times, it would seem.

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5. My wife is from Canada, an American citizen & probably knows more American history that most young people. Since we have African-Americans she would be an American-American!
   I left active duty in 1958 & the Army had only been integrated for 5 years so the highest ranking black officer I knew was a Captain. We had a number of black Lts & many were my good friends. My closest buddy was a great officer & another, last I heard was a lt Col at the Army Command & General Staff College. My platoon sergent was a black Master Sgt, adored by the men & the very best.
   Mario was a good dues paying Democrat so they had to find a spot for Andrew. Welcome to HUD! Andy’s future in the party was secure when he started his job by favoring gun control. We wish gun control would work but, alas. We need criminal control & the Democrats have no interest in this. The Republicans want law & order which to a Democrat is like showing a cross to a vampire.
   I will not watch any part of the DNC because I have endured 8 years of lies & Hillary is a proven liar among other things. Tim Kaine is one of my senators & a while ago he sent an email about his wanting MORE gun control. I took the time to go to his web site, answer all the questions, select from the drop down & enter my email TWICE so I could tell him why I oppose gun control & my reasoning and for my effort the reward is the usual. BE IGNORED!
   I admire Sheriff Joe & saw him at the RNC. Like me, married for 59 years and a veteran of the Korean era. One damn good cop as is Ray Kelly and because they are doing a great job protecting the public they are hated by Obama & Holder. Those two pandering frauds are out to destroy anyone who is upholding their oath of officewhen it interferes with minorities who are breaking the laws.

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6. When I was on the plane flying away from Viet Nam in January of 1970, I had a cup of coffee sitting on the tray in front of me, and all of a sudden, I saw the coffee hanging there in the air a good foot and a half above the tray, and the cup down below the coffee about a foot above the tray, at the same time I realized we were going pretty much straight down.

   Today, as I ponder what is going on in the world around me, I would swear that we went down a rabbit hole, plane and all, and where we finally landed, God only knows, because it has been BIZARRO-VILLE in so many ways since then, that like the little girl in the Wizard of Oz, I can only shake my head and say “Toto, this sure isn’t Kansas, anymore,” and you know what, perhaps it never was.

   Perhaps “America” and the “land of the free and the home of the brave” were never anything more than a pipe dream we infantrymen would think about when we would think about leaving Viet Nam and “going back to the world.”

   But as some poet or philosopher or song writer said, “you can never go back home again,” which certainly seems to be so in my case, anyway.

   Where is the “Republic” for which the American flag stands?

   Where is the “one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all?”

   And that answer is, not here, anyway, as this nation becomes like a sheet of ice that has suddenly fractured into a bunch of floes.

   We are now a nation at war within itself, a house that is very much divided.

   We are back to Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal, except we didn’t go back to it, we came forward to it, and with Day Two of the Democrat Convention looming out ahead of us, we are about to become even more divided, and the lives of white police officers are likely to be placed in even more danger than they are today because of it, which I find simply incredible.

   I say that after reading the July 15, 2016 Press Release of the Democrat Party entitled “DNCC Announces Headlining Speakers For Democratic National Convention In Philadelphia – Convention Will Showcase A Diverse, United, Energized Democratic Party Rallying Around Hillary Clinton in the Fight for an America That Is “Stronger Together,” wherein we are informed:

   PHILADELPHIA – Ahead of the Democratic National Convention being held in Philadelphia from July 25th to July 28th, Hillary for America and the Democratic National Convention Committee announced today headlining speakers for each night of the program.

   While Republican leadership continues to run away from Donald Trump, and refuse to participate in the upcoming Republican convention, the Democratic convention will showcase enormously popular national leaders, rising stars from across the country and a diverse range of everyday Americans who will inspire the nation.

   Just days after Donald Trump’s divisive convention in Cleveland full of dangerous ideas that would pose a danger to our economy and national security, Democrats will lay out the clear stakes in this election between building walls and tearing people down or an optimistic unifying vision for an America that is stronger together.

   Through narrative storytelling utilizing innovative technology, Hillary Clinton’s vision that we are stronger together will come into strong focus for the American people.

   A vision that America is at its best when we work together to solve our problems.

   We are stronger together when we build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.

   We’re stronger when we work with our allies around the world to keep us safe at home.

   And we’re stronger when we respect each other and really listen to each other – when we lift each other up instead of tearing each other down.

   Here is a preview of each night:

   Tuesday: A Lifetime of Fighting for Children and Families

   Featuring President Bill Clinton and Mothers of the Movement

   Gavel time expected at 4:00pm

   Tuesday will feature the roll call vote and how Hillary has spent her entire career working to make a difference for children, families, and our country.

   The Mothers of the Movement participating include Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin; Maria Hamilton, Mother of Dontre Hamilton; Lucia McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis; Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown; Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, Mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Geneva Reed-Veal, Mother of Sandra Bland.

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   If you scroll back up to the top post in this thread, you find Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton visiting the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in April of 2016 where she told them that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”

   If you read through the July 8, 2015 press release of Democrat New York State Governor Andy Cuomo, who will be one of the speakers at the Democrat Convention next week, entitled “Governor Cuomo Signs Executive Order Appointing NYS Attorney General as Special Prosecutor in Cases Where Law Enforcement Officers Are Involved in Deaths of Civilians,” you find Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, telling us, “While New York takes national leadership with this reform, there remains much work to be done to ensure our children and family members are no longer unjustly killed by police in the first place.”

   “We hope to work with Governor Cuomo and other leaders in moving New York forward to build upon today’s important step to end the discriminatory and abusive policing that threatens our families and communities.”

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   As she is a key speaker on Tuesday at the Democrat National Convention, along with New York State Governor Andy Cuomo, it seems very likely that people all across America, and the world, for that matter, are going to be hearing a lot about ending “the discriminatory and abusive policing that threatens our families and communities” along with “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”

   And that takes us to Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown, one of the other keynote speakers on Tuesday at the Democrat National Convention, which in turn takes us back to Andy Cuomo’s July 8, 2015 press release where we have New York State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson said:

   “From Ramarley Graham to Michael Brown, our nation has seen too many deaths at the hands of law enforcement.”

   “Thanks to Governor Cuomo’s leadership, New York is making the statement that these tragic cases will be handled with independence and fairness.”

   “Just one death is too many, and by appointing a special prosecutor, this state is taking a courageous step in the right direction.”

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   And that takes us to a CBS News video of this very same Michael Brown robbing a convenience store and manhandling a person much smaller than himself just before he tried to take the gun away from a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, which takes us to a MARKETWATCH article entitled “Justice Department finds no evidence for ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’” by Steve Goldstein published March 4, 2015, wherein is stated in relevant part as follows:

   “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” became a rallying cry in protests last year over racially motivated police brutality — but a Justice Department report released Wednesday says the facts don’t support the alleged incident at its heart.

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   Keep in mind that this was at a time when there was a person of color at the helm of the Justice Department, and another person of color in the White House.

   That article continued by saying:

   The Justice Department released a report on the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson.

   To be sure, the report finds “widespread racial bias” in the department and unreasonable use of force, as well as a focus on revenue over public safety.

   But it did not back the narrative that helped spur the protests in the city and around the country — namely, that Brown had effectively surrendered peacefully to Wilson.

   As the report states: “Although there are several individuals who have stated that Brown held his hands up in an unambiguous sign of surrender prior to Wilson shooting him dead, their accounts do not support a prosecution of Wilson.”

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   As to all the “eyewitnesses,” the Justice Department Report continued as follows:

   “As detailed throughout this report, some of those accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence; some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witness’s own prior statements with no explanation, credible or otherwise, as to why those accounts changed over time.”

   “Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it, despite what they initially reported either to federal or local law enforcement or to the media.”

   While some witnesses say Brown held his hands up at shoulder level with his palms facing outward “for a brief moment,” the same witnesses said Brown then charged Wilson, according to the report.

   The prosecutors “concluded that Brown did in fact reach for and attempt to grab Wilson’s gun, that Brown could have overpowered Wilson, which was acknowledged even by Witness 101, and that Wilson fired his weapon just over his own lap in an attempt to regain control of a dangerous situation.”

   “Witness 101” said Brown was shot in the back, but three autopsies concluded Brown had no entry wounds in his back, the report said.

   Even clearer was this footnote: “The media has widely reported that there is witness testimony that Brown said, ‘Don’t shoot’ as he held his hands above his head.

   In fact, our investigation did not reveal any eyewitness who stated that Brown said, ‘Don’t shoot.’”

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   Despite all of that, to garner political support for himself, Andy Cuomo has picked out the “tragic” death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as the basis for his Executive Order 147, and next Tuesday, at the Democrat National Convention, that is the narrative we are going to get, that Michael Brown is a martyr to police violence.

   And that takes us to a NEW YORK DAILY NEWS article entitled “Michael Brown’s mom may face robbery charges: report” by Marc Weinreich from November 7, 2014, where we are informed:

   The mother of Michael Brown could be charged with felony armed robbery for allegedly attacking people in a Ferguson, Mo., parking lot because they were selling T-shirts honoring the late teenager.

   The Ferguson Police Department is currently investigating claims that Lesley McSpadden brought a group of people “including her own mother” to beat vendors and rob them of their “Justice for Mike Brown” merchandise Oct. 18, The Smoking Gun has learned.

   One person was hospitalized in the reported attack and another unidentified alleged victim was reportedly beaten with a pipe.

   McSpadden’s former mother-in-law, Pearlie Gordon, was among those beaten by “a large group of about 20-30 subjects” who had “jumped out of vehicles and rushed” the group of sellers, according to the police report.

   Gordon, 54, was allegedly knocked to the ground and repeatedly struck in the head.

   More than $1500 in merchandise and $400 in cash was allegedly stolen by the attackers.

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   That, people, is one of the “diverse range of everyday Americans who will inspire the nation,” according to the Democrat National Committee.

   What it is going to “inspire” us to, outside of more violence, the Democrat National Committee does not say.

   Nor do they bother to tell us how someone beating and robbing her former mother-in-law fits in with the narrative that “we’re stronger when we respect each other and really listen to each other – when we lift each other up instead of tearing each other down.”

   I guess we just have to wait til Tuesday comes around to find that all out.

   In the meantime, is there anyone out there who can tell me what kind of caterpillar smokes a Hookah?

   I just saw one outside my window sitting on a mushroom, and it has me wondering, where did that plane really land when we left Viet Nam.

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7. The whole thing is awful! I hear towns are havig trouble getting people to want to become police officers. Ocean City, Md & Seaside Heights, NJ I just heard from my trucker son has blacks hanging out & making people feel insecure to be there, and why are they there when neither place has many black residents? Why do thousads “protest” at these convenntions & Trump rallies other than to disrupt order and cost millions for a huge police presence?
   Mr Plante is so right about our leaders lacking common sense. He is also right about “you can never go home again”. Every time I returned to my once beautiful town of Irvington, NJ it was different, a little seedier, a little more run down. The liberals had their way & now the town is in ruins. Houses borded up. The general hospital closed. The great area amusement park with rides, concesions, free circus, free band concert, picnic tables, huge swimming pool; closed, abandonded. The merry-go-round is at Orlando, the roller-coaster probably collapsed & fell. Crime, murders, drugs, prostitution. If I wouldgo home I would be taking my life in my hands & I would be heart broken. It was entirely safe 50 years ago. Kids could play and roam freely anywhere with no danger.
   This election is our last chance to get our country back and under control. The liberal media has already begun their anti-Trump campaign with more time devoted to Trump’s wife’s speech than to the deal with Iran & that’s how it will go until November & if Trump wins beyond.
   I had sent two contributions to Dr Carson & now I gave to Trump’s campaign. These Democrats are all joined at the hip with executive orders and a disregard for the constitutions & the laws. Thank God the Va Supreme Court just knocked down my governor’s order to grant a mass pardon to 200,000 felons which would allow them to vote (for Hillary) & run for public office.

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8. Getting back to the subject of this discussion, “Is Reckless and Inflammatory Hate Speech Fueling Violence,” because there is no “getting our nation back,” there is only going forward to wherever that next takes us, just as was the case in Rome when Julius Caesar and his legions crossed the Rubicon and brought on civil war and the end of the Roman Republic, in the CNN article “Bill Clinton spars with Black Lives Matter protesters” By Eric Bradner, April 8, 2016, just over three (3) months ago now, we were told:

   Bill Clinton traded verbal shots in a feisty 15-minute exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia on Thursday, as he defended his wife’s presidential bid.

   The protesters shouted that “black youth are not super predators,” taking issue with a phrase then-first lady Hillary Clinton used in a 1996 speech about violent crime committed by young people.

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   This was happening at the same venue where Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was visiting the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in April of 2016 where she told them that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”

   Returning to the CNN article, we were informed that the protesters heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays.

   “You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter,” the former president told protesters.

   “Here’s the thing.”

   “I like protesters, but the ones that won’t let you answer are afraid of the truth.”

   “That’s a simple rule,” Clinton said.

   “I talked to a lot of African-American groups.”

   “They thought black lives mattered; they said take this bill because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs.”

   “We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals,” Clinton said.

   He also defended Hillary Clinton’s use of the phrase “super predators.”

   “I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack, and sent them out in the streets to murder other African-American children,” the former president said.

   “Maybe you thought they were good citizens — she didn’t.”

   Hillary Clinton was confronted by protesters earlier this year over the use of the term.

   “They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super predators,'” Clinton said in a 1996 speech, when crime was a major public concern, according to polls at the time.

   “No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”

   After the protest incident in February, Clinton’s campaign put out a statement saying she shouldn’t have used those words.

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   With respect to reckless and inflammatory hate speech fueling violence in this country, pay special attention to that last sentence – the person who may well will be our next president with responsibility for taking care that OUR laws are enforced was saying she was wrong in calling people “super predators” at the same politi8cal event where she said “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”

   Talk about an about-face and shifting the blame for where the problems are coming from in this country, that takes the cake.

   The same day Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary and a former U.S. president took on those hecklers, April 7, 2016, we were informed in a trade publication, THE WRAP, in an article “Russell Simmons Demands an apology From Bill Clinton Over Black Lives Matter Comments” by Debbie Emery on April 7, 2016, as follows:

   Russell Simmons was not impressed with Bill Clinton’s comments about the Black Lives Matter movement — and let the former president know it.

   “The small drug users who were diseased and locked away deserve it?”

   “Bill Clinton u owe the black community and black lives matter an apology,” the Def Jam Recordings co-founder and Phat Farm founder tweeted Thursday night.

   Simmons also linked out to a report on NPR detailing the former president’s heated exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters earlier in the day at a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Philadelphia, where he was forced to defend his 1994 crime bill and his wife’s past statements regarding race.

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   This, of course, is the same Russell Wendell Simmons, an American entrepreneur, producer and author who is Chairman and CEO of Rush Communications where he cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris with a net-worth estimate of $340 million in 2011 who we see in the July 8, 2015 press release of Democrat New York State Governor Andy Cuomo congratulating Andy Cuomo for taking the law into his own hands, ignoring our laws and Constitution while forsaking his oath of office in the process, as follows: “This show of leadership by Governor Cuomo should spark a shift across the entire country, where every state has special, impartial prosecutors that investigate these cases.”

   When I speak above about a nation divided, there is an example of it right there – one set of laws for one group, an entirely different set of laws for another, all at the whim of a Democrat governor.

   The following day after Russell Wendell Simmons, Chairman and CEO of Rush Communications, demanded that former president Bill Clinton apologize to the hecklers who were disrupting his speech at Hillary’s political event where she told the world “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them,” we read in the New York Times article “Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Showdown With Black Lives Matter Protesters” by AMY CHOZICK, APRIL 8, 2016, as follows:

   Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that he regretted drowning out the chants of black protesters at a rally in Philadelphia the day before, when he issued an aggressive defense of his administration’s impact on black families.

   His reaction thrust a debate about the 1990s into the center of his wife’s presidential campaign, one that has focused heavily on issues of race and criminal justice.

   “I know those young people yesterday were just trying to get good television,” Mr. Clinton said Friday of the Black Lives Matter protesters who had accused him and Hillary Clinton of supporting policies that devastated black communities.

   “But that doesn’t mean that I was most effective in answering it.”

   His statement did not quiet a raging storm of criticism.

   Still, it was a remarkable reversal for Mr. Clinton, who occupies a singular role in his wife’s campaign as a spouse and a popular former president who can sometimes make himself into a lightning rod.

   He has had to campaign for his wife in an era when signature policies of his administration have been repudiated both by Mrs. Clinton and her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

   None of those issues has been more central to the 2016 campaign than the 1994 crime bill, which created tougher penalties for nonviolent drug offenders, erected dozens of new prisons, banned certain types of assault weapons and sent 100,000 more police officers to American cities.

   Today, Black Lives Matter protesters have pointed to the effects of that legislation as contributing to the high rates of incarceration of black men and the current tensions between police officers and black communities.

   Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders supported the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and have had to answer to Black Lives Matter protesters at their events.

   Both candidates will face tough questions on racial issues next week at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network annual convention, less than a week before the April 19 New York primary.

   Indeed, most Democrats now believe that the bill, which many black leaders supported at the time, did go too far.

   But on Thursday, when confronted with protesters over the issue, the former president refused to silently listen as a signature policy of his presidency was trampled upon.

   The video and accounts of his remarks ignited a fierce backlash and came as Mrs. Clinton seeks to solidify the support of black voters, who have voted for her overwhelmingly in primary contests across the South and Midwest.

   In her current campaign, Mrs. Clinton has been a fierce advocate of overhauling the criminal justice system, often campaigning alongside the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland and others who have lost children to gun violence or clashes with the police.

   His clash with black protesters on Thursday also underscored the drastically different political landscape Mrs. Clinton faces from the centrist wave that swept her husband to power.

   When Mr. Clinton ran for president in 1992, crack cocaine was ravaging American cities and the Willie Horton ad that the elder George Bush had used in 1988 to portray Michael Dukakis as soft on crime had wounded the Democratic Party.

   “You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter,” Mr. Clinton said Thursday to protesters who held up signs that read “Clinton Crime Bill Destroyed Our Communities” and “Black Youth Are Not Super Predators,” a reference to a term used by Mrs. Clinton in 1996 to describe gang members and which she has said she regretted using.

   “Tell the truth,” Mr. Clinton told them.

   His reaction prompted wide criticism online.

   “Bill Clinton Reached Peak White Mansplain in a Face-Off Against Black Lives Matter Protesters,” read a headline in Jezebel.

   Salon called his response “cringe worthy.”

   “He just did to an entire generation what he did to Sister Souljah a generation ago,” Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P. who is supporting Mr. Sanders, said in an interview, referring to Mr. Clinton’s forceful rebuttal of the activist and rapper in 1992 for remarks he deemed hateful.

   By Friday, Mr. Clinton said, “I almost want to apologize.”

   But Clinton allies said he should be putting into context his record and the landscape he confronted at the time.

   In 1993, violent crime had more than tripled in the previous three decades and law enforcement had not caught up.

   By the time Mr. Clinton left office, crime had dropped to a 25-year low and the homicide rate had declined by more than 40 percent, according to F.B.I. data.

   Median family income for African-Americans increased by 33 percent in the Clinton years, according to census data, a statistic he often cites when facing criticism of the 1996 overhaul of the welfare system.

   Representative James E. Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, voted for the 1994 crime bill.

   “There’s no question one of the biggest issues confronting the country at that time was the whole phenomenon of crack cocaine, which had precipitated tremendous anxiety through the African-American community,” Mr. Clyburn, who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said in an interview.

   But others say that the crime bill and the welfare overhaul, which cut federal spending on assistance for the poor by nearly $55 billion over six years, were done for political expediency at a time when the Democratic Party had lost five out of the last seven presidential campaigns and had to shift to the center to survive.

   “What Clinton did well was to stop the erosion of a certain class of Democratic voters who were fleeing to the Republicans,” said Nicholas Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice.

   “You can’t think about crime policy in this country at that time without thinking about the politics of it.”

   As for Mr. Clinton’s defense of the crime bill, Mr. Turner said, “I think the correct answer was simply, ‘I was wrong.’”

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   There, people, is a look at our vastly changed political landscape in this country today.

   Tonight, that same Bill Clinton who felt he should apologize to hecklers critical of his law and order policies while president is going to be on the same stage at the DNC with the mother of the convenience store robber and thug named Michael Brown from Ferguson, Missouri who tried to take a policeman’s gun away from him while using his fists on the police officer, and got blown away in the process, making Michael Brown a “martyr” to police violence in the eyes and minds of many, starting with Democrat presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton.

   What will be said tonight remains unknown, but if Bill Clinton does in fact issue a public apology for his law and order policies while president, at the same time Democrat New York State Governor Andy Cuomo is taking the law into his own hands to undo those policies, we shall have entered into a whole new era here in the United States of America.

   And it very well might not be a pretty one at all as the pendulum swings back in favor of those Hillary Clinton once called “super predators,” who certainly have not gone away in Andy Cuomo’s capitol city of Albany, New York.

   So stay tuned for further developments, because come tonight, they are on the way.

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9. The violence which became manifest in the last 50 years is due to many socital changes in all areas of our lives. With “single moms” we are becoming a nation of Amazon warriors. A great number of these women are subsidized with large welfare payments and benefits, often with a father who may or may not be an ex-husband also providig stipends, in some cases very large payments. What I am saying is that our laws pertaing to the financial support from the government for having children out of wed-lock and the no-fault divorce laws has created millions of ticking time bombs, fatherless undisciplined teens and adults.
   A man on Fox Business this morning was saying how the Democrats bring new people into the party & how he was a Republican but switched due to his anger with the war in Viet Nam. That is a valid reason and some switch the other way.
   What I find great fault with is the Democrats, almost since 1776, bringing everyone into the tent including those purposedly excluded by the Founding Fathers with GOOD reason. They knew that if people who paid no taxes and illiterates were allowed to vote we would “out democrat” our selves & we would choke on our own rights. We just saw how close to Socialism this nation was & how the Democratic Party is now actually a Socialist Party.
   We are drowning in debt & the average American doesn;t know or care. The average person has no clue where wealth comes from and how to budget their own pay check much less the budget of the United States. We are getting to the point where the taxpayers are in the minority & the majority thinks the taxpayers are not paying their “fair share”. Wonder where they got that idea. Maybe from the same place where they got the idea the cops are killing good black boys because they are racists.
   So, over the years the Democrats got it so non-property owners could vote and they no longer need to know how to read & write. They got the 18 year old Amendment through. Now Hillary & the gang is trying to allow the illegal aliens a way to vote. We just saw in Virginia how the Democrat governor tried, & he may not be done yet, to allow 200,000 felons to vote (for Hillary).
   In every case it is, and has been to greatly increase the base of the Democrat Party. In the end they want one party rule as was the case in the USSR & in Nazi Germany.

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10. BULLETIN:
    In her first 100 days Hillary, if elected, will legalize all the illegal aliens. I thought Obama tried that & that the Supreme Court narrowly threw it out. Do the laws change in March to accocomodate Hillary?

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11. As we consider the subject of violence in America in here, especially violence towards women, it is interesting how the wheel of time and fate does turn here in the United States of America, formerly known as the “land of the brave and home of the free,” but now the land of the weird and molesters and gropers of women.

    Above here, we were reading that the same day Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary and a former U.S. president took on some Black Lives Matter hecklers, April 7, 2016, we were informed in a trade publication, THE WRAP, in an article “Russell Simmons Demands an apology From Bill Clinton Over Black Lives Matter Comments” by Debbie Emery on April 7, 2016, as follows:

    Russell Simmons was not impressed with Bill Clinton’s comments about the Black Lives Matter movement — and let the former president know it.

    “Bill Clinton u owe the black community and black lives matter an apology,” the Def Jam Recordings co-founder and Phat Farm founder tweeted Thursday night.

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    And today, this is what we are reading about that same Russell Simmons, who incidentally is quite tight with New York state governor and progressive Democrat Young Andy Cuomo in the MARKETWATCH article “Three women accuse Russell Simmons of rape: report” by Jeremy C. Owens published Dec 13, 2017 6:37 p.m. ET:

    Music-industry legend Russell Simmons has been accused of rape by three women in a report released Wednesday afternoon.

    Four women spoke on the record to The New York Times about violent sexual experiences dating back to the late 1980s involving the hip-hop mogul, who founded the seminal Def Jam Records label.

    Former Def Jam A&R executive Drew Dixon, performer Tina Baker and former music journalist Toni Sallie levied the most serious accusations, of forcible rape.

    Simmons, who stepped down from the helm of the businesses he still ran in November after earlier reports of sexual misconduct, denied the rape allegations in a statement to the Times.

    “I vehemently deny all these allegations,” he said.

    “These horrific accusations have shocked me to my core and all of my relations have been consensual.”

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    Does Russell Simmons, who told Bill “Bubba” Clinton, HILLARY’S husband, that he owed an apology to Black Lives Matter, owe an apology to anyone?

    It doesn’t sound like it, does it.

    And we wonder why we have so much violence in this country.

    Go figure.

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