It has been clear since slav­ery that blacks were not going to receive any­thing in America they are not pre­pared to fight and die for. For sev­er­al years now I have been lament­ing that the sac­ri­fices made by great Martyrs like Malcolm X and King among oth­ers are being squan­dered. I the­o­rized that this would come back to haunt Black-America. Unfortunately that time is here.
President Obama wants cops to wear body cam­era, as a way for America to see what Police offi­cers are doing in their name. As much as I sup­port the pres­i­den­t’s ini­tia­tive, I won­der what effect it will have when Prosecutors and Grand Juries take it upon them­selves to cir­cum­vent the law.
Eric Garner was killed on cam­era, in broad daylight.
Daniel M. Donovan Jr. Staten Island District Attorney indict­ed the young man who record­ed the killing on his cell-phone. Cops con­ve­nient­ly arrest­ed him pass­ing a gun to a woman. 
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner will not be asked to answer in a state court for his actions.
Ramsey Orta, 22, was alleged­ly arrest­ed out­side a known drug loca­tion on Staten Island by nar­cotics offi­cers who claimed Orta placed a hand­gun in his com­pan­ion’s waist­band, the New York Police Department said. Orta report­ed­ly told cops “You’re just mad because I filmed your boy,”.
Fast track to Ferguson Missouri, There was active talk about indict­ing the step-father of Michael Brown who was heard on tape say­ing “lets burn this B$#@!& down”, in response to the news that Darren Wilson would not be indicted. 
These are the char­ac­ter­is­tics of a Police-state. Whenever cit­i­zens are not allowed to ques­tion or oth­er­wise demand answers of police, or hold them account­able, they are in a police state.
Police depart­ments are not laws onto them­selves. They are duty bound to obey the laws, even as they enforce them.
We are at crit­i­cal mass when peo­ple who pho­to­graph or record police crimes and fam­i­ly mem­bers already in griev­ing are tar­get­ed while killer cops walk free.

At this time there is much empha­sis on police depart­ments and indi­vid­ual offi­cers, the prob­lem is much deep­er than cops . There seem to be a sys­tem­at­ic effort on the part of pros­e­cu­tors to cov­er for cops. Some are con­vinced some Prosecutors are even crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it in the way they han­dle pros­e­cu­tion evi­dence involv­ing cops in the grand jury process. Prosecutors are sup­posed to be ser­vants of the peo­ple. There is much talk about the grand jury process and what may have occurred or not in these secret proceedings.
lost in this noise is the fact that pros­e­cu­tors have the pow­er and indeed a duty to pros­e­cute crimes, irre­spec­tive of who the offend­er is sep­a­rate from the grand jury process.
When Prosecutors decide to go the route of the grand-jury in cas­es like the Eric Garner’s , they are abdi­cat­ing their respon­si­bil­i­ty to their oath at best. Worse case they are doing all in their pow­er in assist­ing cops who break the laws to escape prosecution.
All Americans have a stake in what is hap­pen­ing present­ly. Blacks Whites and and every­one else.

There is much to be said about black lead­er­ship, or more impor­tant­ly the absence of one. As young peo­ple take to the streets demand­ing a new direc­tion for their coun­try, old civ­il rights func­tionar­ies are still stuck using the old talk­ing-points about jobs.
This fight is not a fight about jobs right now, it is a fight for jus­tice and fair­ness. In some cas­es it is an exis­ten­tial fight. Lets fight this fight and not con­fuse this fight with oth­er issues.

So let me get this straight the St. Louis Police was con­sid­er­ing pros­e­cut­ing the

step-father of slain teen Michael Brown for shout­ing “lets burn this *&^$# down” after the non-indict­ment but killer cop Darren Wilson is walk­ing around free?
What am I miss­ing here? 
What pow­er does this man have to influ­ence the actions of a mob ? How do they prove this? The Police brass and the entire sys­tem of IN-jus­tice in that state can­not con­trol it’s killers in uni­form but wants to use the very same sys­tem to pros­e­cute peo­ple for uti­liz­ing their free speech in a high­ly charged environment .

We under­stand Michael Brown’s step­fa­ther, Louis Head, apol­o­gized Wednesday.

“Something came over me as I watched and lis­tened to my wife, the moth­er of Michael Brown Jr., react to the gut-wrench­ing news that the cop who killed her son wouldn’t be charged with a crime,” Head said in a state­ment to CNN. “My emo­tions admit­ted­ly got the best of me.

“This is my fam­i­ly,” Head said. “I was so angry and full of raw emo­tions, as so many oth­ers were, and grant­ed I screamed out words I shouldn’t have screamed in the heat of the moment. I was wrong, and I humbly apol­o­gize to all those who read my anger and my pain as a true desire for what I want for the community.”

We will await the apol­o­gy from the real crim­i­nals in all this, the sys­tem which had it’s Agent kill an-unarmed man,then pull out all the stops to make sure he does­n’t even have to answer for his actions. Always remem­ber that a black man has no rights a white man is bound to respect. I would not hold my breath if I were you. They have no shame, no con­science , no humanity.

IN THE MEANTIME:

Some St. Louis Rams play­ers exer­cised their con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly guar­an­teed right to free speech Sunday when they came out with “hands up don’t shoot” hand-signs in sup­port of mur­dered Michael Brown. 
This of course drew the ire of the bul­ly­ing boys in blue in the St Louis Police Officers Association . The asso­ci­a­tion issued a release

press­ing the NFL do quote dis­ci­pline the play­ers who exer­cised their right. 
Who dis­ci­pline cops when they mur­der citizens

But I digress, as I write this a secret Staten Island Grand Jury decid­ed the mur­der­ing cop Pantaleo who choked Eric Garner to death would not face charges.

Back to the state­ment of the Saint Louis police offi­cers Association.

The St. Louis Police Officers Association is pro­found­ly dis­ap­point­ed with the mem­bers of the St. Louis Rams foot­ball team who chose to ignore the moun­tains of evi­dence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a dis­play that police offi­cers around the nation found taste­less, offen­sive and inflammatory.
Five mem­bers of the Rams enIered the field today exhibit­ing the “hands-up-don’t‑shoot” pose that has been adopt­ed by pro­tes­tors who accused Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson of mur­der­ing Michael Brown. The ges­ture has become syn­ony­mous with asser­tions that Michael Brown was inno­cent of any wrong­do­ing and attempt­ing to sur­ren­der peace­ful­ly when Wilson, accord­ing to some now-dis­cred­it­ed wit­ness­es, gunned him down in cold blood.

SLPOA Business Manager Jeff Roorda said, “now that the evi­dence is in and Officer Wilson’s account has been ver­i­fied by phys­i­cal and bal­lis­tic evi­dence as well as eye-wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny, which led the grand jury to con­clude that no prob­a­ble cause exist­ed that Wilson engaged in any wrong­do­ing, it is unthink­able that home­town ath­letes would so pub­licly per­pet­u­ate a nar­ra­tive that has been dis­proven over-and-over again.”

Roorda was incensed that the Rams and the NFL would tol­er­ate such behav­ior and called it remark­ably hyp­o­crit­i­cal. “All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department ask­ing for assur­ances that the play­ers and the fans would be kept safe from the vio­lent pro­test­ers who had riot­ed, loot­ed, and burned build­ings in Ferguson. Our offi­cers have been work­ing 12 hour shifts for over a week, they had days off includ­ing Thanksgiving can­celled so that they could defend this com­mu­ni­ty from those on the streets that per­pet­u­ate this myth that Michael Brown was exe­cut­ed by a broth­er police offi­cer and then, as the play­ers and their fans sit safe­ly in their dome under the watch­ful pro­tec­tion of hun­dreds of St. Louis’s finest, they take to the turf to call a now-exon­er­at­ed offi­cer a mur­der­er, that is way out-of-bounds, to put it in foot­ball par­lance,” Roorda said.

The SLPOA is call­ing for the play­ers involved to be dis­ci­plined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliv­er a very pub­lic apol­o­gy. Roorda said he planned to speak to the NFL and the Rams to voice his organization’s dis­plea­sure tomor­row. He also plans to reach out to oth­er police orga­ni­za­tions in St. Louis and around the coun­try to enlist their input on what the appro­pri­ate response from law enforce­ment should be. Roorda warned, “I know that there are those that will say that these play­ers are sim­ply exer­cis­ing their First Amendment rights. Well I’ve got news for peo­ple who think that way, cops have first amend­ment rights too, and we plan to exer­cise ours. I’d remind the NFL and their play­ers that it is not the vio­lent thugs burn­ing down build­ings that buy their advertiser’s prod­ucts. It’s cops and the good peo­ple of St. Louis and oth­er NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it’s not the NFL and the Rams, then it’ll be cops and their supporters.”

The state­ment start­ed out rea­son­able it did not take long how­ev­er for the true mind­set of the Organization to become clear. Bully-ish, Thuggish, threat­en­ing, enti­tled, above being questioned.
I nev­er quite under­stood their claim that they pro­vide secu­ri­ty so that cit­i­zens can oper­ate in safety>
Here’s a clue, People pay you to ensure their safe­ty and secu­ri­ty, if you feel above doing what they pay you for give up the job and find anoth­er job that you are qual­i­fied to do. You do not have a right to being a Police Officer. 

There is also a grow­ing sense that in far two many cas­es Police offi­cers actions are indis­tin­guish­able from the actions of the KKK. There is also a crys­tal-clear per­cep­tion that a cer­tain sec­tion of the Caucasian com­mu­ni­ty is quite pleased with the actions of killer cops, Irrespective of their actions. In the 60’s it was admit­ted that many Police Departments like the LAPD and oth­ers had large amounts of mem­bers who were active mem­bers of the Klan.
If this was true for PD’s like the LAPD and oth­er large depart­ments what do you think is the case in small Lilly-white com­mu­ni­ties with all white police depart­ments and cor­rupt jus­tice sys­tems still invest­ed in the con­cept of racial superiority?

There were sup­posed attempts to change the make up of some of those Departments, bet­ter edu­cat­ed offi­cers and in some cas­es diver­si­ty. What they were not able to do is to remove the scourge of racism from the hearts of many who are still join­ing the ranks of police departments.

On Monday, Time Out Sports Bar & Grill post­ed on its Facebook page that it would no longer sup­port the foot­ball team “due to the bone head­ed ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ act by the num­ber of Rams play­ers.” The post said all signs and pho­tos of the Rams would be removed from the walls. “We need to stand up to thugs who destroy our com­mu­ni­ty and burn down local busi­ness­es, and boy­cott the oth­er thugs/​organizations who sup­port them,” the post read. The restau­rant lat­er post­ed again, say­ing it was “not tak­ing sides in the Ferguson tragedy” and sup­ports peace­ful protest and free speech, but dis­agreed with the Rams “bring­ing the protest to a nation­wide pro­fes­sion­al sport­ing event.” A few dozen pro­test­ers gath­ered at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday out­side one of Time Out’s loca­tions in St. Louis. Wearing Rams jer­seys and hats, the pro­test­ers chant­ed “We are Rams fans” and “We want ser­vice.” Protesters said a man who iden­ti­fied him­self as a co-own­er of the bar came to the door dur­ing the demonstration.
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As President Obama asks Congress for funds to kick off a cam­paign for body cam­eras for cops, I am not sure what cam­eras will do to reduce this prob­lem of police abuse and extra-judi­cial killings. 
The entire killing of Eric Garner was cap­tured on Camera. Garner could clear­ly be heard on Camera say­ing “I can’t breathe< I can’t breathe” I can’t breathe”. Daniel Pantaleo did not think of releas­ing his death-grip on the man until the life drained out of him.
White Staten Island res­i­dents to whom cops can do no wrong, decid­ed not to break their tra­di­tion of pro­tect­ing killer cops. They sup­pos­ed­ly looked at the evi­dence of the case on the basis that there was no intent to kill, despite the Medical Examiner, rul­ing the death a homicide.
Even though the grand jury’s job is not to decide inno­cence or guilt the Staten Island Jury decid­ed to lit­er­al­ly try the case and decid­ed there was no case to answer. No “prob­a­ble cause”, no mur­der, no manslaugh­ter, no assault, no stran­gu­la­tion, no nothing.….….….

After Eric Garner stopped mov­ing they all stood around, they took no steps to ren­der CPR or any oth­er life sav­ing pro­ce­dure. They knew they had killed him.
They did noth­ing because they knew they did not need to.
There was no rea­son to care.
No rea­son to wor­ry about consequence.

In the ongo­ing debate after the death of Michael Brown the 18 year old Ferguson youth and oth­er killings of black men by police, every­one seem to have tak­en sides based on col­or and or life experiences.
Many blacks who are exposed to the dai­ly abuse and dis­re­spect of Police are enraged by the fact that yet anoth­er unarmed black man was killed by a white police offi­cer and the offi­cer was not even made to defend his actions in a court of law.
Many includ­ing this writer fer­vent­ly believe that St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch used his office and bent over back­wards to ensure that the cop in ques­tion, Darren Wilson would face no charges , at least at the State level.
Many are pin­ning their hopes to a pos­si­ble Federal Indictment of Wilson. Of course that indict­ment would have to come from new evi­dence yet unheard. The stan­dard for a Federal Indictment is much high­er than at the state level.
Of course McCulloch has already poi­soned that well with his pre-ver­dict press diatribe.
Federal Prosecutors would have to prove that Wilson killed Brown because he was black or any oth­er Federally pre­scribed char­ac­ter­is­tic that would neces­si­tate an indictment.
An uphill task at best.

I thought I would talk about the rash of killings by police, of large­ly, but not total­ly con­fined to unarmed black men.
Years ago despite what many thought were worse times for race rela­tions, it was rare to hear of a police offi­cer killing some­one, black or white.
This leads us to won­der at the rea­son for this rash of aggres­sive behav­ior on the part of police.
Once even an armed sus­pect would be giv­en mul­ti­ple chances to drop his weapon, some­times police would spend hours nego­ti­at­ing with armed assailants , hop­ing to have a blood­less resolution.
Many will argue offi­cers were nev­er that lenient with black offend­ers, I dis­agree. Yes race does play a part in how some cops behave but there are times depend­ing on the offi­cers of course,in which sit­u­a­tions involv­ing black assailants are resolved with­out lethal forced being employed.
However the soon­er peo­ple come to the real­iza­tion that there are some real­ly bad actors out there wear­ing police uni­forms the clos­er we are to fix­ing this prob­lem. Unless of course some do not want a fix. For some apol­o­gists cops can do no wrong, regard­less of the glar­ing abuse of pow­er some cops com­mit against cit­i­zens. There are those who find ways to ratio­nal­ize away their crim­i­nal actions.
You know for some they are the buffer between the big bad black-man, and the white race. Just ask FOX television.

Which brings us to why cops are so quick on the trig­ger today ?

♦If offi­cers know they will be held account­able for their actions, they would be much more cir­cum­spect in the way they car­ry out their duties
♦The mil­i­ta­riza­tion of police depart­ments have cre­at­ed mod­ern day Rombos who gets to act out their blood-lust fan­tasies with the toys giv­en them.

Cops these days are dressed like sol­diers pre­pared for bat­tle, full mil­i­tary regalia in too many instances and semi-auto­mat­ic weapons. They have become sol­diers look­ing for war.
To under­stand this phe­nom­e­non we must first look at the ill-advised war on drugs waged by this coun­try, a war which has cost the lives of thou­sands, dev­as­tat­ed the lives of count­less oth­ers, hun­dreds of thou­sands incar­cer­at­ed and tril­lions of dol­lars spent in what is wide­ly believed to be a los­ing effort.

Ever politi­cian run­ning for office wants to be a big shot so he/​she runs on law and order. Don’t get me wrong I fun­da­men­tal­ly believe in the rule of law, notwith­stand­ing, this pos­tur­ing has cre­at­ed a sce­nario in which we are now wound into a cocoon-like police state , one from which we do not have the will to extri­cate our­selves. Politicians from the Alderman to the President are behold­ing to law enforce­ment and their Unions. Some are pet­ri­fied of even crit­i­ciz­ing out­right police abuse out of fear of police back-lash.
This cre­ates even worse behav­ior by police. Unfortunately this is where we now find ourselves.

Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by a Cleveland police offi­cer respond­ing to a 911 call sev­er­al days ago. The 12 year-old was killed just sec­onds after police drove up. The cop dri­ving did not even have a chance to exit the vehi­cle before his trig­ger-hap­py part­ner gunned down the 12 years old child who was armed with a pel­let gun. What lit­tle 12 year old boy does not play with fake guns? What lit­tle boy does not fan­ta­size that he is a cow­boy, or cop? Who knows what young Tamir was think­ing as he played in the park by him­self ? maybe, just maybe he was fan­ta­siz­ing he was a cop before he was gunned down two bul­lets to his tarso.

Kajieme Powell … A 25 year-old St. Louis man was killed 23 sec­onds after police arrived . Powell who had a small knife was walk­ing around on the pave­ment and on a grassy embank­ment , hands swing­ing at his side, he ignored police com­mands to drop the small knife he had in his hands. Powell was more of a com­ic spec­ta­cle to passers-by than a threat. Seconds lat­er Powell lay dead 9 police bul­lets punc­tur­ing his body, some as he lay dying on the ground.

Is it a‑okay to kill some­one sim­ply because you know the ele­ments are there to guar­an­tee that you will not be held accountable?
He had a knife.…
He refused our com­mands to drop the knife»…
He was mov­ing toward us»>
He was swing­ing his arms in a threat­en­ing way»>
He was shout­ing shoot me now, kill me now.….

The ele­ments are there for you to kill, yes, but did you have to use lethal force. When ques­tioned the St Louis Police Chief said cops want to go home to their fam­i­lies. Pressed fur­ther on the pos­si­ble use of Tasers he came up with the lame excuse that Powell was wear­ing a Jacket so Tasers may not have worked.
Hockey great Wayne Gretsky famous­ly said “you miss a hun­dred per­cent of the shots you do not take” . Of course we will nev­er know whether it would have worked, the two cops could­n’t both­er using non-lethal force , why should they ‚who was going to defend this men­tal­ly impaired black man with a knife ?

Do you kill sim­ply because you are told you are going on a gun run ? Police Brass in Cleveland said there was no con­fronta­tion between 12-year-old Tamir Rce and cops who arrived on the scene after some­one called that the young­ster was wav­ing around a gun. The caller twice told the dis­patch­er that the gun may have been a fake, she was how­ev­er too busy ask­ing whether the kid was black or white to assim­i­late that lit­tle nuisance.
Arriving cops did not both­er to stop with weapons drawn from a safe dis­tance. Observe the sequence of events as the car raced up to the lit­tle boy and instant­ly he was lay­ing on the ground two bul­lets in his body. It almost seem that some cops are look­ing for rea­sons to kill rather than enforce the laws.

♦Militarization of police depart­ments have made cops over­ly aggressive.
♦Heavy weapons and equip­ment makes them believe they are at war.
♦Not pros­e­cut­ing them vig­or­ous­ly when they break the law,emboldens them to be more dis­re­spect­ful and abusive.
♦Blind sup­port and cov­er-ups per­pet­u­ates and encour­ages bad behavior.

Some com­mu­ni­ties are at war with the police which is sup­posed to ser­vice their needs. There are Fergusons all across America. In far too many com­mu­ni­ties police are not ser­vants of the peo­ple but oppres­sors. Police Oppression may not be in the form of killings but in false tick­et­ing and arrests on con­coct­ed rolling stops by Police in the Town of Poughkeepsie New York, and myr­i­ad oth­er local­i­ties. In many local­i­ties peo­ple just keep their mouths shut and pay the fines, while police lie to fill quo­tas and the cof­fers fill up so the Politicians can spend and spend some more, all too often using the ill-got­ten monies to hire more police and the cycle continues.

Vassar Professor Kiese Laymon in a bril­liant piece writ­ten for Ghawker titled My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
Wrote:
I was dri­ving down Hooker Avenue. When the white police offi­cer, whose head was way too small for his neck, asked if my truck was stolen, I laughed, said no, and shame­ful­ly showed him my license and my ID, just like Lanre Akinsiku. The ID, which ensures that I can spend the rest of my life in a lush state park with fat fear­less squir­rels, sur­round­ed by enlight­ened white folks who love talk­ing about Jon Stewart, Obama, and civil­i­ty, has been washed so many times it does­n’t lie flat. After tak­ing my license and ID back to his car, the police offi­cer came to me with a tick­et and two lessons. “Looks like you got a good thing going on over there at Vassar College,” he said. “You don’t wan­na it ruin it by rolling through stop signs, do you?” I sucked my teeth, shook my head, kept my right hand vis­i­bly on my right thigh, rolled my win­dow up, and head­ed back to cam­pus. One more tick­et. Two more con­de­scend­ing lessons from a lame armed with white racial suprema­cy, anti-black­ness, a gun, and a badge. But at least I did­n’t get arrest­ed. Or shot six times.
Rolling stops, ha,ha , I was not amused when a cop pulled me over near my home right there in the Town of Poughkeepsie a few years ago, dri­ving my old­er but shiny black Mazda Mellinia to work. I drove the same route to work every­day, that route took me to Dunkin Donuts where they made my large reg­u­lar as soon as I walked in. I was a reg­u­lar and my order was the same, they all knew it.
The Young cop who shall remain name­less for this arti­cle was sit­ting at the stop sign in the squad-car ‚there was no way to miss him , there was nowhere for him to hide. I came to a stop and con­tin­ued on my way as soon as it was safe. Even if I was pre-dis­posed to rolling through it would have been a bad idea that morn­ing with a cop sit­ting right there.
Knowing I had done noth­ing wrong I was mys­ti­fied when his lights came on and he pulled up behind me. I asked him what the stop was for? He respond­ed that I had crept through the stop sign ! Stunned I asked whether he was seri­ous? Why the hell would I have rolled through the stop sign when you are sit­ting right there? By this time you could see he was uncom­fort­able in the lie, he said noth­ing further.
Thankfully the Judge lis­tened when I explained it was a bla­tant lie and threw out the ticket.
Whether it was the quo­ta sys­tem or the black man dri­ving a shiny car , I may nev­er know , what I do know as a for­mer cop is that it was wrong.
I have had sev­er­al expe­ri­ences with them all of which con­vinced me they are real­ly not very bright. Yet they are real­ly quick on the lights.
On anoth­er occa­sion a cop was at a dead stop at a traf­fic light , the right fil­ter lane has a yield sign to traf­fic head­ing in the direc­tion he was head­ed. I drove through while he sat at the red, in a mat­ter of sec­onds he pulled me over. I asked him what was the rea­son for the stop? , He said quote “you did not stop” , I asked him “why should I have stopped”? He point­ed to the yield sign, I duti­ful­ly informed him the sign read yield , not stop. He said “you did not yield”! I asked him who should I yield to? He said me you should yield to me ! I asked him why should I yield to you when you are at a dead stop at a red light?
He looked at me then broke into a stu­pid grin then told me “you have good night sir”.
There are so many sto­ries I could relate and every­one left a bit­ter taste in my mouth. Imagine the expe­ri­ences oth­ers have had all across America at the hands of these weak mind­ed peo­ple with guns and badges.

In my next Article I will attempt to address some of the things Police and oth­er peo­ple face from black thugs.

I spent 10 years of my life as a front line Police Officer in Jamaica, one of the tough­est Countries to Police in the world.
Tough because the frame­work for the rule of law is not clear­ly estab­lished. The Island Nation is still mak­ing baby steps toward mov­ing toward a sys­tem of laws, even as it holds on tena­cious­ly to the sys­tem of the big-man which has char­ac­ter­ized it’s exis­tence since it’s Independence in 1962.

Jamaica has a record of Police extra-judi­cial killings as deter­mined by the United States, Britain and Canada. Western coun­tries with the worst his­to­ry and record of state abuse of their eth­nic minori­ties, yet the most vocal and demon­stra­tive fin­ger point­ers on the issue.. 

I have been shot at on more occa­sions than I care to remem­ber, I have been shot once, yet I have nev­er killed anoth­er human being. I have recov­ered count­less weapons and yes, that includes tak­ing ille­gal weapons from the per­son of known crim­i­nals with­out fir­ing a sin­gle shot.
Which brings us to the issue on the minds of most blacks and con­sci­en­tious oth­ers. I refer to the on-going issue of Police killing of unharmed black men. We begin on the premise that Police Officers are hired to pro­tect the pub­lic not to intim­i­date and or kill mem­bers of the public.

Unless of course there are issues far deep­er and much more sin­is­ter influ­enc­ing the way Cops approach their jobs across America. Issues like Race, or that cer­tain sec­tions of the pop­u­la­tion has no rights they have to respect. How about an amal­ga­ma­tion of both?
It must be under­stood that not all Police Officers are bad, not by any stretch of the imagination.
As human beings we have a nat­ur­al pre­dis­po­si­tion to cir­cle the wag­ons when we feel chal­lenged, attacked or criticized.
I chal­lenge my fam­i­ly mem­bers, friends and all good Police offi­cers not to feel besieged when the police come under scruti­ny. I was one of those peo­ple who would get high­ly indig­nant when we were crit­i­cized, even years after I left law-enforce­ment. I still jump to the defense of police offi­cers when crit­i­cisms come from some quar­ters. Some peo­ple will crit­i­cize law enforce­ment just for the sake of doing so.

Police offi­cers are trained to save lives. Police offi­cers are trained to be restrained when it comes to the use of force. On the instances a police offi­cer is forced to use force to effect an arrest, the lev­el of force employed must not exceed the lev­el of resis­tance which neces­si­tat­ed the force. Since it is not always easy or prac­ti­cal for a cor­rect assess­ment of force lev­el employed to be done, Police offi­cers are giv­en wide lat­i­tude to com­plete an arrest.
The use of lethal force may only be used when an offi­cer rea­son­ably believes his/​her life, or that of anoth­er is in immi­nent dan­ger. The fear must be rea­son­able. It can­not be fear con­coct­ed to cov­er up the killing of an inno­cent person.
It is not unrea­son­able to assume that for many police offi­cers there may not be a need to un-hol­ster a weapon for the dura­tion of their ser­vice. I have spo­ken to many offi­cers from dif­fer­ent depart­ments, par­tic­u­lar­ly in New York State, a racial­ly diverse state,who have nev­er point­ed their weapon at anyone.

The lat­i­tude giv­en cops seem to get wider and less dis­tin­guish­able when Police come in con­tact with African-Americans. Of late there is a long list of unarmed black men killed by police. In lit­er­al­ly all of those cas­es no cop have been held account­able. Have the laws gov­ern­ing the use of lethal force changed? If so ‚who changed them? If they haven’t been changed how come killer cops are not held accountable?
Trey Ellis Novelist, Screenwriter, and Associate Professor at Columbia University sums it up this way. Quote:

In the 1970s, when I was first learn­ing this les­son, the spilt blood of the Civil Rights movement

was still fresh. Today, in a world of black pres­i­dents, elec­tric cars and talk­ing iPhones, it’s so hard to con­vince young black men, like my 13-year-old son, that if a police offi­cer mere­ly per­ceives you are a lethal threat, he is explic­it­ly allowed to shoot you dead. However, since the mere com­bi­na­tion of your sex, race and age ensures that you are per­ceived as a threat, police offi­cers are autho­rized to kill you Q.E.D. So what I have to drill into him, since I want him to con­tin­ue to live, is to lis­ten to his Guardian Slave and be preter­nat­u­ral­ly polite and respect­ful no mat­ter how ugly and unrea­son­able the police­man’s demand. Then at least he’ll prob­a­bly only be tased. Huffingtnpost​.com

Professor Ellis’ pre­scrip­tion for his 13 year-old son is one of survival.Why should this be, 50 years after Dr, King, Malcolm X and oth­ers fought and paid the ulti­mate price for this land? This land their ances­tors slaved in and died for. This land that is inher­ent­ly and exclu­sive­ly theirs. Why should a black man now have to teach his son how to stay alive after all the black blood which has drenched and fer­til­ized these soils?

The first order of busi­ness for Blacks is that they take own­er­ship of their coun­try. That comes with respon­si­bil­i­ties. I have spo­ken at length about those respon­si­bil­i­ties here. I will con­tin­ue to expand on those respon­si­bil­i­ties . That may include but not con­fined to drop­ping the idiom African-American.
How about American?
The term African-American gives oth­ers the belief you are not an equal own­er here! They do not go around call­ing them­selves Dutch, Irish, British, Spanish or any oth­er type of American. Why do you?
No race has more right to this land than you, except Native Americans of course. No race have paid even close to the price you have paid for this land. When the Criminal Columbus came here our ances­tors were already here , over two hun­dred years pri­or to them real­iz­ing they would not fall off the face of what they believed was a flat earth.

When your Ancestors got here they nev­er claimed to dis­cov­er a place peo­ple had set­tled hun­dreds, maybe thou­sands of years before they arrived.
Once you have dis­pelled that myth­i­cal lie, now stand tall and take charge of your own destiny.

There are some who have nev­er walked in the shoes of a black per­son, nev­er been exposed to the indig­ni­ties and the dis­re­spect expe­ri­enced by black peo­ple. Disrespect at the hands of peo­ple they pay a salary to. Whatever you say about the respon­si­bil­i­ties blacks have to under­take, no one deserves to be killed because a cop feels he/​she can get away with it.

Whatever Michael Brown may have done pre­vi­ous­ly, the fact is he did not deserve to have 12 bul­lets fly­ing toward him . He absolute­ly did not deserve to have the sys­tem rape and dehu­man­ize him with a faux inves­ti­ga­tion, the out­come of which was pre­de­ter­mined before it began.
How stu­pid do they real­ly believe we are? It was the same Faux-inves­ti­ga­tion/pros­e­cu­tion they did in the Trayvon Martin case. An indict­ment done sole­ly to quell pub­lic out­cry. Never mind that Zimmerman was no cop, but a vig­i­lante wannabe cop. If the sys­tem can­not or more pre­cise­ly, will not con­vict a non-cop-vig­i­lante how can the black com­mu­ni­ty trust that same sys­tem to pros­e­cute it’s own functionaries? 

How much more black blood do they need? How much longer will the black com­mu­ni­ty fight over lin­gerie on black Fridays while in the streets black-blood is being washed from pave­ment after pave­ment, after pavement?

Lets lis­ten to what Melissa Harris Perry ‚pro­fes­sor of pol­i­tics and inter­na­tion­al affairs at Wake Forest University, and a pletho­ra of oth­er dis­tinc­tions includ­ing Host of her own show on MSNBC and oth­ers, have to say.

As a New York grand-jury goes over the evi­dence in the Police killing of Eric Garner, news Organizations report that they jury is near­ing a deci­sion. I nev­er quite under­stood what that meant. Is near­ing a deci­sion based on the length of time they have been impan­eled? Is it based on reveal­ing a pre-deter­mined ver­dict, as the one in Ferguson was. Done at night, after thou­sands of cops and National Guards-men were first strate­gi­cal­ly placed to sti­fle the peo­ple’s out­rage? I nev­er quite under­stood what it meant​.It is either you have reached a ver­dict or you haven’t . I stand to be informed and edu­cat­ed on this.

As a trained offi­cer I nev­er quite fig­ured out how I would explain killing an unarmed sus­pect. I do under­stand that each case is dif­fer­ent. I do under­stood that offi­cers must have some lee­way when we ask them to bring dan­ger­ous offend­ers to justice.
Giving cops carte-blanche to kill mem­bers of one com­mu­ni­ty we hate is dan­ger­ous and unten­able. Make no mis­take about it that is what’s at issue here. Whether you feel com­fort­able with my assess­ment is of no con­cern to me. 

With the so-called Black Friday sales con­clud­ed, I took the lib­er­ty to reflect a lit­tle on what it meant for the aver­age person. 

My first incli­na­tion was dis­dain, as a small busi­ness own­er I offer my cus­tomers a fair price all year round. I hate to hag­gle back and forth over prices, I have always believed it demeans me, demeans the cus­tomer and well,.…… my business.

So I looked at some of the peo­ple who own large cor­po­ra­tions, like Wal-Mart, Best ‑Buy, Sears, to name a few . These are peo­ple who are real­ly wealthy, mak­ing mon­ey is a game to them. A recent expose revealed that each of Sam Walton’s four chil­dren give to char­i­ty, the equiv­a­lence of a sin­gle pen­ny, when their wealth is com­pared to the Average American.

Why then would these peo­ple pay their work­ers min­i­mum wage salaries and run pho­ny sales which shop­pers can only access imme­di­ate­ly after they have swal­lowed the last bit of Thanksgiving Turkey ? Or worse yet, being made to stand in line at un-Godly hours of the night/​morning to get a price discount.

Where are these filthy rich own­ers at that time of the night/​morning while peo­ple are camped out wait­ing to be fed a bone?
Then I had a change of thinking.
What would hap­pen if these stores offered these deals and no one showed up to their stores at 2:am in the morning?
Is it at all pos­si­ble that they would have to revert to respect­ing their customers ?

How can the major­i­ty 99% allows itself to be manip­u­lat­ed in this way ?
Then it occurred to me that they basi­cal­ly get some of us to vote against our own self- inter­est among oth­er things, so why not insult us with these false sales attain­able only in the dead of night and at great per­il to life and limb.
If we are stu­pid enough to leave our fam­i­lies to stand in line in the dead of night to save a few bucks then maybe we deserve the dis­dain and dis­re­spect their mar­ket research sug­gest they heap on us.

I would guess that the wealthy 1% and their fam­i­lies were com­fort­ably tucked away in warm beds at the time these peo­ple are wait­ing patient­ly in sub zero tem­per­a­tures or fight­ing with their fel­low cit­i­zens over some­thing as triv­ial as a piece of garment.

Despite my dis­gust on Friday one woman actu­al­ly made my day . She was my first cus­tomer, she walked in and want­ed to know about the deals my busi­ness had for black Friday.
I lov­ing­ly told her I respect­ed her too much to play num­bers games with her. We had a good laugh, then she told me she had vis­it­ed and seen a phone which she want­ed . The price in my store was $189.00 so she admit­ted that she was on QVC shop­ping and the price of the phone was $189.00 for a few hours, after which the price went back to .….…
Wait for it.….….
$279.00, wow !
She asked to pur­chase the phone.
I thanked her for her hon­esty and gave her an extra $20 off.

I do agree that as a small busi­ness own­er I am biased against the large box stores. Nothing that I said how­ev­er is meant to be inju­ri­ous, they are just fac­tu­al statements.
It’s time that we the 99% stop allow­ing the 1% to manip­u­late us like string puppets.

St Louis County pros­e­cu­tor Robert McCulloch pulled off one of the biggest three-card*monty on the Justice sys­tem in America in mod­ern history.
McCulloch was able to defy com­mu­ni­ty calls to step aside in the Michael Brown mur­der out­rage stay on and sub­vert the course of justice.
Robert McCulloch used and abused the pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al pow­ers vest­ed in him turn­ing those pow­ers on the very peo­ple who empow­ered him. The cha­rade of a Grand-jury inves­ti­ga­tions staged my McCulloch fooled only those who want­ed to be fooled. The Prosecutor’s office was coun­sel for Darren Wilson.
His actions were so egre­gious it was shame­ful that in a coun­try which claim to have the best jus­tice sys­tem, this kind of banana-repub­lic the­atrics could be per­pet­u­at­ed, in a homi­cide case no less.

Case in point .
McCulloch’s pros­e­cu­tors Kathi Alizadeh and Sheila Whirley made no bones about being defense attor­neys for Darren Wilson.
The entire Transcript of the pro­ceed­ings are so dis­gust­ing it is beyond me that this could pass with­out McCulloch and the two lack­eys not pros­e­cut­ed for per­pet­u­at­ing fraud.
One does not need to be a lawyer to come to terms with the enor­mi­ty and the mag­ni­tude of the fraud they pulled off on the fam­i­ly of Michael Brown, Brown’s mem­o­ry, and on the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.

Michael Brown was on tri­al. There was no attempt to indict Darren Wilson.

Here is how Lisa Bloom saw it.

A cur­so­ry read of the ques­tions posed to Dorian Johnson by Whirley the Prosecutor , reveals Whirley the wolf in sheep cloth­ing act­ing on Darren Wilson’s behalf.
The Transcript made me sick to my stomach.
As a for­mer police offi­cer who spent untold hours in court­rooms lis­ten­ing to evi­dence and giv­ing evi­dence, I was stunned that this kind of thing could happen.
It made me angry.
It made me sad for humanity.
It filled me with rage that any person.
Any system.
Anyone with a shred of decen­cy , a shred of human­i­ty ‚could be that hate­ful of it’s own cit­i­zens that it would go to such lengths to cov­er for their murderers.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/us/evidence-released-in-michael-brown-case.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar

A National out­cry erupt­ed in the black com­mu­ni­ty after Darren Wilson fired 12 shots at 18 year-old Michael Brown killing him on the spot in Ferguson Missouri. A Federal inquiry was com­menced, par­al­lel local inves­ti­ga­tions were sup­pos­ed­ly underway.
Now I am not a Lawyer,so I defer to the legal lumi­nar­ies on this, but I do believe local and fed­er­al author­i­ties do share what infor­ma­tion they gather.

I also believe that both fed­er­al and local should be after the same thing, justice.
You see I ask these ques­tions because at the off­set one of the Ferguson com­mu­ni­ty’s com­plaint was that they want­ed St Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch off the case. Several elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives and reg­u­lar res­i­dents of the com­mu­ni­ty argued that McCulloch had a record of par­tial­i­ty toward the police.

In fact they argued that he was over­ly chum­my and def­er­en­tial to law enforce­ment. They point­ed to the fact that.
(1 Robert McCulloch’s father was a police Officer.
(2 That his father was killed, alleged­ly by a black assailant.
(3 That there are sev­er­al oth­er glar­ing instances where Police have killed or oth­er­wise abused mem­bers of the black com­mu­ni­ty and McCulloch has been neg­li­gent in pros­e­cut­ing any officer.

As a result of the fore­gone they stat­ed he could not be trust­ed to be fair, impar­tial or dili­gent in bring­ing jus­tice to this case, in which they thought clear­ly, a crim­i­nal act was com­mit­ted by the cop.
Bob McCulloch refused to recuse him­self from the process, a move which would have paved the way for an inde­pen­dent pros­e­cu­tor to col­lect, Marshall and present the evi­dence to an impar­tial grand jury, so that jus­tice would be served.

Such a move would have tak­en from the com­mu­ni­ty any poten­tial alle­ga­tions of impro­pri­ety, neg­li­gence or lack of due dili­gence it would lev­el at pros­e­cu­tors pur­su­ing the Investigations.
Residents demand­ed that Governor , Jay Nixon step in and remove McCulloch in order that there may be trans­paren­cy and more impor­tant­ly con­fi­dence in the process.
Jay Nixon cow­ard­ly or duplic­i­tous refused to remove McCulloch.

Bob McCulloch open­ly crit­i­cized Jay Nixon the Governor for bring­ing in a State Police Captain to take over secu­ri­ty after vio­lence erupt­ed over the shoot­ing. He open­ly chal­lenged the Governor to remove him and replace him with a spe­cial prosecutor.
McCulloch must have known that the Governor did not have the balls to do whats right. He must have cal­cu­lat­ed that Nixon’s cow­ardice would grant him cov­er to do what he wanted.
McCulloch com­menced the process, then dumped all of the crap he col­lect­ed at the feet of the 12 per­son grand-jury.

It should be not­ed that it required 9 mem­bers of the 12 per­son jury to indict.
Quite by coin­ci­dence McCulloch’s grand-jury just hap­pened to have had a veto-proof 9 whites and 3 token blacks [sic].
McCulloch has always main­tained that he was impar­tial, that he would col­lect the evi­dence and present it all to a grand jury so the jury could make a deci­sion which would absolve him of any wrongdoing.
The only prob­lem with McCulloch’s asser­tions is, that is not what is required of a com­pe­tent pros­e­cu­tor who wants an indictment.

Grand jury pro­ceed­ings are much more relaxed than nor­mal court room pro­ceed­ings. There is no judge present and fre­quent­ly there are no lawyers except for the pros­e­cu­tor. The pros­e­cu­tor will explain the law to the jury and work with them to gath­er evi­dence and hear tes­ti­mo­ny. Under nor­mal court­room rules of evi­dence, exhibits and oth­er tes­ti­mo­ny must adhere to strict rules before admis­sion. However, a grand jury has broad pow­er to see and hear almost any­thing they would like. 

It should also be not­ed, that it is pure­ly up to the pros­e­cu­tor what he/​she presents to the grand-jury. Grand jury pro­ceed­ings are kept in strict confidence. 
(1 It encour­ages wit­ness­es to speak freely and with­out fear of retaliation.
(2 It pro­tects the poten­tial defen­dan­t’s rep­u­ta­tion in case the jury does not decide to indict.
So we are good right? 
A Prosecutor who wants a poten­tial killer brought to jus­tice is going to active­ly pur­sue a path with the grad-jury that will give him/​her the best chance at an indict­ment right?
But what if the Prosecutor real­ly only want the appear­ance that he/​she is doing his/​her job?
What is the for­mat, how is evi­dence , argu­ments , tes­ti­monies pre­sent­ed? Is it done in a way that makes it impos­si­ble for the grand ‑jury to indict?
Remember that the grand ‑jury process is sup­posed to be secret for the rea­sons laid out above. So what made Bob McCulloch decide to do a doc­u­ment dump on the pub­lic by releas­ing all of the tes­ti­monies to the public?
In fact with a Federal inves­ti­ga­tions ongo­ing why would the pros­e­cu­tor come out and berate the very wit­ness­es who he as the pros­e­cut­ing Attorney depend­ed on to gain an indictment?
To gain a Federal Indictment the stan­dard is even high­er than that which a local grand-jury need­ed to indict. 
So why did Bob McCulloch come out lam­poon­ing the very wit­ness­es both his office and the Feds need­ed for a poten­tial prosecution.
Well let me allow you to lis­ten to Bob McCulloch in per­son then we continue.

You see there are times when peo­ple do things and they pre­tend that all is above board. 
It’s not too dif­fi­cult to miss things if you aren’t pay­ing attention.
Here’s the truth, these peo­ple have zero respect for the black community.
They con­trol pow­er, this is insti­tu­tion­al­ized racist pow­er which allows them to game the sys­tem while mak­ing it seem to an unsus­pect­ing sec­tion of the pop­u­la­tion that they are doing all they can to deliv­er jus­tice when they are actu­al­ly doing the exact opposite.

The Prosecutor in the case has a duty to present the evi­dence which will lead the grand ‑jury to the result he/​she wants. 
If how­ev­er the Prosecutor does not real­ly want an offend­er indict­ed the pros­e­cu­tor can present the evi­dence in a way that cast doubt on the wit­ness­es and even present an inor­di­nate amount of what appears to be excul­pa­to­ry evidence.
Let me pause here because the legal hawks are going to jump in and remind me that it is only fair that excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence is presented.
I agree , in the inter­est of jus­tice it should be presented.
However the duty of the grand-jury is not to decide inno­cence or guilt, it is mere­ly to decide that a defen­dant has a case to answer.

When asked whether there was any­thing he could have done dif­fer­ent­ly that would have pre­vent­ed that killing from hap­pen­ing? Darren Wilson repeat­ed­ly said .
No.
I did my job!
No emo­tions, no remorse,no sor­row, cold dispatch.
Yet revealing.
This is the way they are trained nowa­days it appears, weapon or not , lethal force is justified.

Justice can­not be one-sided, or lopsided.
It can­not be what you say it is , it must be what all peo­ple say it is.
It can­not be that a white man pre-med­i­tat­ed­ly ambush cops, killing one and injur­ing anoth­er, at a Barrack in Pennsylvanian and is arrest­ed with­out being shot or oth­er­wise harmed 6 weeks lat­er. While Christopher Dorner,ex mil­i­tary, ex-cop who did basi­cal­ly the same thing was burned to a cin­der in the California mountains.

There are just too many instances of this for peo­ple of sound mind to turn away any longer.
As my nephew a young police offi­cer said recently.
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Not all cops are bad.
Not all whites are racist.
Not all black peo­ple are criminals.
There are some peo­ple who speak about these issues with­out the ben­e­fit of know­ing what it feels like to be black in America.
This is not a prob­lem cre­at­ed by black people.
It is a prob­lem cre­at­ed and per­pet­u­at­ed by wicked and igno­rant peo­ple for over four hun­dred years.
The end of that era of un-earned priv­i­lege and oppres­sion is com­ing to an end.
Before you speak on these issues walk awhile in a black man’s shoes.

Bob McCulloch the Prosecutor who refused to recuse him­self from the process which would hear the evi­dence in the Micheal Brown case announced what most black peo­ple already knew.

That Darren Wilson the Ferguson Cop who fired 12 bul­lets at the unarmed Michael Brown will not have to answer in a State court why he used lethal force to kill an unarmed 18 year old youth.

The hopes of the Ferguson com­mu­ni­ty is now pinned to the Federal Investigations which is still on-going. This is not new , in fact it is par­tic­u­lar­ly dif­fi­cult for black fam­i­lies to receive jus­tice in state courts when police are the aggressors.

This brings into seri­ous ques­tion the grand jury process, when cops are involved. For some rea­son grand

juries are reluc­tant to indict cops even when there seem to be an abun­dance of evi­dence point­ing to the offi­cer’s guilt.

It is a process which fer­til­izes itself .Cops com­mit crimes they are sent on leave with full pay , a sham inves­ti­ga­tion is done after which there is an announce­ment that the cop act­ed appro­pri­ate­ly, Cops go out and com­mit more atroc­i­ties. It feeds on the acqui­es­cence of the grand jurors.

Something will have to give, police kill black and brown peo­ple almost with wan­ton dis­re­gard .It appears some­times cops are total­ly uncon­cerned that they poten­tial­ly may be asked to account for their actions.

We learned that Darren Wilson got mar­ried last month, we also learned he was shop­ping for a net­work tele­vi­sion inter­view to his liking. 

Doesn’t seem like a man who was par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about being indict­ed. In the end the St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch rigged the sys­tem to get the result he wanted .

A non-Indictment for Darren Wilson. Bob McCulloch was a Defense Attorney for Darren Wilson, not a Prosecuting Attorney.

Where this will end I do not pre­tend to have the answer.

Main stream Media are report­ing that the Jury con­sid­er­ing the Michael Brown case in Missouri have reached a deci­sion. It is report­ed that the Grand jury will announce it’s deci­sion at 9:pm tonight. In the mean­time Authorities are brag­ging they will be pre­pared to deal with what­ev­er emanates from the deci­sion. They tell News Organizations they have over a thou­sand police in place to quell unrest and if that is not enough the state’s Democratic Governor Jay Nixon have already acti­vat­ed the state’s nation­al guard.

Protesters are lin­ing up for the ver­dict all across the coun­try, whether Officer Darren Wilson is guilty or not we don’t know, how­ev­er Wilson does not seem too wor­ried about the out­come of the case we learned Wilson recent­ly mar­ried. According to a report from the New York Times’ Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson, Wilson man­aged to get mar­ried in October to a fel­low offi­cer in the Ferguson Police Department, Officer Barbara Spradling, 37, with­out any­one find­ing out.

We don’t want to pre­judge what is going on in the mind of Darren Wilson, how­ev­er it seem he is not par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried one way or the oth­er about the out­come of this case.

Conventional wis­dom dic­tates that he would have stayed low and away from the lime-light. Salon​.com reports.

The cou­ple obtained their mar­riage license in Clayton, Mo., out­side St. Louis, in the recorder of deeds office on the fourth floor of the Lawrence K. Roos admin­is­tra­tive build­ing, steps away from the cour­t­house where the grand jury has been meeting.

While secu­ri­ty guards ques­tion peo­ple going in and out of the build­ing, the deeds office itself is a bland­ly bureau­crat­ic place where clerks sit in open cubi­cles. A clerk at the mar­riage license desk said on Monday that she was sur­prised that Officer Wilson went there, as opposed to anoth­er coun­ty or state — pos­si­bly Las Vegas, she said — where he could have filled out paper­work with a greater guar­an­tee of privacy.

Authorities seem tone deaf to what cit­i­zens in Ferguson are say­ing, some peo­ple are hap­py to tell the President he is not a King. The same peo­ple are woe­ful­ly inca­pable of under­stand­ing that black peo­ple are Americans. They are going nowhere. The soon­er they lose the sense of sole own­er­ship the bet­ter every­one will be.

There will need to be a lot more of the hand hold­ing than the guns and mil­i­ta­riza­tion . The soon­er they real­ize that the better.

Recently I wrote that Elections to fill the seat made vacant by the pass­ing of Roger Clarke in cen­tral Westmoreland would be a lit­mus test on whether Jamaicans are turn­ing around from entrenched alle­giances to the PNP and are final­ly ready to embrace new ideas even if they are com­ing from the oth­er par­ty, or even a new party.

Many peo­ple dis­agreed with me argu­ing that if the JLP los­es the seat in the com­ing by-elec­tions it was not a good indi­ca­tor of whether the JLP has the winds to it’s back. 

The cen­tral Westmoreland seat has been under the con­trol of the PNP for almost 55 years . The seat switched hands in 1980 under the tidal-wave which swept the PNP from office.

I under­stand that irre­spec­tive of what the JLP does in the cen­tral Westmoreland con­stituen­cy they may still have an up-hill task because of what could be a mea­sure of sym­pa­thy for Roger Clarke who was a well liked Politician.

Notwithstanding we have seen the Jamaican elec­torate swing mas­sive­ly in one direc­tion or the oth­er when they ful­ly feel their inter­est are not being met. It may be ill-advised to assume they are beyond mov­ing from trib­al politics. 

During the elec­tion cycle of 1980 hun­dreds of Jamaicans were killed in what was almost a civ­il war. Over the last cou­ple of elec­tion cycles Jamaicans of both both polit­i­cal par­ties have adopt­ed an almost car­ni­val like atmos­phere to the process, an almost one hun­dred and eighty degree turn from what obtained before.

Roger Clarke was pop­u­lar we agree, how­ev­er mis­ter Clarke is no longer with us, vot­ers in Central Westmoreland must decide whether they allow nos­tal­gia and sym­pa­thy of the past, to neg­a­tive­ly impact how they pre­pare for the future.

I believe how they respond will tell the Labor Party whether vot­ers , at least these vot­ers, are feel­ing enough of a pinch , or whether they are pre­pared to con­tin­ue in their mis­ery and with the evil they know.

That is the test,only time will tell.

AS JAMAICA con­tin­ues to make prepa­ra­tions and put struc­tures in place to deal with the dead­ly Ebola if it lands on local soil, one gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er who is also a prac­ti­tion­er in alter­na­tive and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, is urg­ing health offi­cials to incor­po­rate indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers, com­mon­ly called obeah man/​woman, into their Ebola sen­si­ti­sa­tion exercise.

Dr Sonia Davidson has argued that, with no con­ven­tion­al med­ical cure for Ebola, it is not improb­a­ble that some­one affect­ed with the dis­ease could seek help from indige­nous tra­di­tion­al healers.

“I do think that, as part of the Ebola momen­tum, we should make it our busi­ness to find out every tra­di­tion­al heal­er any­where … . Find out who they are; have dis­cus­sions with them, because peo­ple can slip into the coun­try and go down to Clarendon, St Ann, St Thomas or Portland to see their obeah man and, don’t think is just poor peo­ple who do that, you know,” Davidson reasoned.

“This is the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do what the World Health Organization has been telling us to do all along, find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them reg­is­tered,” she outlined.

Educate About Symptoms

According to Dr Davidson, it is crit­i­cal that these tra­di­tion­al heal­ers know about the symp­toms of Ebola because “by the time every­body goes down there and touch up and vom­it, him must know that there is a thing called Ebola and is not dup­py, and how Ebola is transmitted.”

She said a lot of health pro­fes­sion­als have told her that the first place an Ebola vic­tim would go after arriv­ing into the island would be the obeah man.

“If that is the case, how are you hav­ing all these meet­ings and train­ing and you don’t include the tra­di­tion­al heal­ers? We have to get off this elit­ist men­tal­i­ty,” the senior med­ical prac­ti­tion­er said.

Commenting on indige­nous tra­di­tion­al prac­tices in the con­text of alter­na­tive or com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, Dr Davidson said the for­mer is a sub­group of the lat­ter. “It is a part of the cul­ture; you can’t dig it out — a part of the cul­ture where peo­ple go to obeah man.”

Discussing the deep-root­ed con­nec­tion between this indige­nous cul­ture and espe­cial­ly rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, Davidson stressed that the peo­ple are like­ly to con­sult these “heal­ers” first.

She said about 70 per cent of the world’s pop­u­la­tion look to the tra­di­tion­al groups for their care, but the per­cent­age of Jamaicans who vis­it these per­sons is not con­sid­ered to be very high in Jamaica.  http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​4​1​1​2​4​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​1​.​h​tml

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Note to Dr, Davidson , I do not think that was what the World Health Organization had in mind when it said quote.

“find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them registered,”.

Just say­ing !!

Maybe the good­ly Dr, have been inhal­ing too much of that tra­di­tion­al chron­ic , no words.

Giuliani: Black vio­lence is rea­son for white cops in Ferguson.

Just when you thought this Racist Napoleonic turd was final­ly under a rock where he belongs , he opens his mouth sticks his foot in it and proves just how much of a jack-ass he still is.

After 8 years as Mayor of New York City, in which this creep pig­gy-backed on Dave Dinkins’ safe City, safe streets pro­gram. Eight years in which he placed the City’s com­mand cen­ter in the twin tow­ers, result­ing in the loss of thou­sands of lives . This ego-mani­a­cal mon­grel has the nerve to open his food-trap about race?

This is the guy who presided over per­haps the worst peri­od of Police/​citizen rela­tions in New York city’s history!This was a peri­od which saw him using the Police Department as his pri­vate Army as he fan­ta­sized and oper­at­ed as a mod­ern day El Deuce. Pitting one sec­tor of the city’s mul­ti-eth­nic pop­u­la­tion against each oth­er for polit­i­cal mileage.

In a con­ver­sa­tion Sunday on “Meet the Press” with oth­er guest, George Town Professor Dr Michael Eric Dyson the dimwit Giuliani stat­ed quote ” I find it very dis­ap­point­ing that you’re not dis­cussing the fact that 93% of blacks in America are killed by oth­er blacks. We’re talk­ing about the excep­tion here.” There is not much to say about this jack-ass, beyond that he did his time and dam­age in new New York city. During which time many peo­ple have been killed , maimed and oth­er­wise assault­ed by the NYPD.

Most well think­ing peo­ple are glad that this piece of garbage will not have any pow­er to do any more dam­age polit­i­cal­ly. We would hope he would sim­ply crawl under a rock and nev­er be heard from again.

What a freak of nature and an absolute dis­grace to the human race.

It’s been months since Ferguson erupt­ed in violence.

Chaos and vio­lence erupt­ed because, as it has on so many pre­vi­ous occa­sions a black man was gunned down by the very peo­ple paid to pro­tect and serve them.

The prob­lem for black res­i­dents of Ferguson and all across America is that many cops do not see their roles as pro­tec­tors, but rather see them­selves as con­querors. Their own com­ments are a damn­ing indict­ment on how they view the peo­ple they are paid to pro­tect. This cre­ates a ten­sion filled rela­tion­ship between minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties and the police which the com­mu­ni­ty pays to pro­tect them

In far too many instances the police and their white sup­port­ers act as though the police is there to keep the black com­mu­ni­ty in check against their prop­er­ty, their coun­try. This sense of own­er­ship on the part of some can be traced to the dis­re­spect some cops express and show to the black community.

It requires tremen­dous effort for black Americans to see the val­ue of police to their com­mu­ni­ties. They can­not relate to the deep ded­i­ca­tion and good­ness of some offi­cers, because of the actions of some cops. This places the lives of good offi­cers at risk, it erodes trust and defeats the pur­pose of laws in a demo­c­ra­t­ic free society.

As long as one sec­tor of soci­ety sees itself enti­tled to a dif­fer­ent set of rules, which caus­es it to embrace police crim­i­nal­i­ty the streets are going to be unsafe for all. Criminal cops should have no safe haven in any eth­nic group. Neither black nor white. Even as I write this, a young man was gunned down in New York City by police offi­cers who are unable to point to any wrong-doing by the vic­tim. The young man just hap­pened to be walk­ing down the stair­well as cops walked up. One cop report­ed­ly lost his nerve and fired killing the young man.

Michael brown was slain by Ferguson cop Darren Wilson, the streets of the small sub­ur­ban town erupt­ed in what many say was the straw which broke the prover­bial camel’s back.

Report after report bears out cit­i­zens com­plaint which point­ed to the inap­pro­pri­ate behav­ior of police, and dis­grace­ful racist jus­tice sys­tem which is sup­posed to work for the pro­tec­tion of all citizens.

Damning evi­dence sur­faced of tick­et­ing blitz on black cit­i­zens by white cops for the most minor traf­fic infrac­tions. Fines and court costs exact a ter­ri­ble finan­cial bur­den on the strug­gling people,who were already find­ing it dif­fi­cult to make ends meet. http://​www​.democ​ra​cynow​.org/​2​0​1​4​/​8​/​2​7​/​i​s​_​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​_​f​e​e​d​i​n​g​_​o​n​_​t​h​e​_​p​oor

The sys­tem is rigged to favor dirty cops. No one under­stands the need to give our law enforce­ment offi­cers the ben­e­fit of the doubt more than I do, nev­er­the­less the ben­e­fit of the doubt can­not be blan­ket refusal to indict and con­vict cops who bla­tant­ly and wan­ton­ly abuse their authority.

As the Grand jury pre­tend to con­tem­plate the evi­dence in the case against Darren Wilson , cer­tain ques­tions begs answers.

(1 What is the Grand Jury wait­ing on to announce it’s decision?

(2 How will the jury arrive at a deci­sion as it telegraphed it would with­ing days, if it could not arrive at the same deci­sion months ago ?

(3 Why is there a process to allow Darren Wilson the oppor­tu­ni­ty to resign on his terms, if he is in jeop­ardy of being indict­ed, or is he?

( 4 Why did Prosecutor McCulloch not recuse himself?

(5 Why did Governor Jay Nixon not remove McCulloch when it became clear that McCulloch would not recuse himsel? 

It would have been the cor­rect thing to do in the inter­est of jus­tice, which would leave those who want­ed him out with no one to blame, in the event of a non-indictment !

Many observers black and white insist offi­cer Wilson will not be indict­ed. Whether or not he is indict­ed is prob­a­bly not as impor­tant as the dis­par­i­ty which exist in this coun­try which will even­tu­al­ly cul­mi­nate into some­thing rather ugly if it is not cor­rect­ed soon.

There can­not con­tin­ue to be two set of rules in a coun­try which takes it onto itself to lec­ture oth­ers about civ­il and human rights when it’s own house is in dire need of cleansing.

White acqui­es­cence is the fuel which fires police mis­treat­ment of non-white cit­i­zens. There are close to forty mil­lion black peo­ple liv­ing in America. By every mea­sure that is a huge Country with­in a coun­try. Sooner or lat­er peo­ple will come to their sens­es, that day is fast approach­ing and it will not be pret­ty. The police can­not kill forty mil­lion people.

This injus­tice must stop , it will only stop when the peo­ple make it stop. I make no judge­ment on the guilt or inno­cence of Darren Wilson. We also know that Michael Brown was not total­ly above reproach.

Notwithstanding, the 18 year old Brown did not deserve to die. We know offi­cer Wilson was not privy to any­thing Brown may have done pri­or to their encounter. This makes it dou­bly dif­fi­cult to jus­ti­fy killing some­one who had no weapon.

Police offi­cers are grant­ed wide pow­ers, includ­ing the lat­i­tude to kill in fur­ther­ance of the law. The tak­ing of a life is a seri­ous deci­sion to take. Officers should not take a life sim­ply because they are vest­ed with the pow­ers to do so, or because they can.

One of the pri­ma­ry func­tion of a police offi­cer is to save lives, not to end life. Too many cops seem unable to grasp that concept.

In all of this there is a mes­sage, no one is sug­gest­ing that blacks change to be accept­ed. No one is sug­gest­ing that blacks adjust to the ways that white America wants them to. What I sug­gest is that Blacks change to fit into right America.

With the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther clash­es in Ferguson hing­ing on the immi­nent deci­sion from a grand jury, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon issued a stern warn­ing Tuesday after­noon: If the police are unable to con­trol protests in the St. Louis area, then the National Guard will.

Nixon and St. Louis law enforce­ment are prepar­ing for a grand jury deci­sion that could reignite smol­der­ing unrest in Ferguson, on the out­skirts of St. Louis. Later this month a St. Louis County grand jury is expect­ed to rule on whether police offi­cer Darren Wilson should be pros­e­cut­ed for the Aug. 9 shoot­ing death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American 18-year-old. If Wilson is not pros­e­cut­ed for the shoot­ing, which ignit­ed some­times vio­lent protests, many see fur­ther demon­stra­tions as all but inevitable.

“The National Guard has been and will con­tin­ue to be part of our con­tin­gency plan­ning,” Nixon said Tuesday at a news con­fer­ence. “The guard will be avail­able when we deter­mine it is nec­es­sary to sup­port local law enforce­ment.”http://​amer​i​ca​.aljazeera​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​2​0​1​4​/​1​1​/​1​1​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​-​g​u​a​r​d​-​o​n​c​a​l​l​i​n​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​.​h​tml

In addi­tion to mar­shal­ing the National Guard and enlist­ing the assis­tance of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, state and local offi­cials have pro­vid­ed more than 1,000 law enforce­ment offi­cers with thou­sands of hours in train­ing, accord­ing to the governor’s office. Fire and emer­gency med­ical ser­vices will also be at the ready in the event of new unrest.

PUBLISHERS NOTE:

From the looks of this it appears Missouri Governor Jay Nixon already knows what the out­come of the Grand Jury’s deci­sion will be. Nixon had the author­i­ty to remove Prosecutor Robert McCulloch when cit­i­zens demand­ed that he remove him. Nixon cir­cum­vent­ed the will of the peo­ple and now he is pre­pared to use all nec­es­sary force to crush the peo­ple if they dare protest against what they see as an injus­tice if Darren Wilson is not indict­ed. It is sur­pris­ing that the peo­ple could be demand­ing just an indict­ment any­way they demand­ed an indict­ment in the Trayvon Martin case , what did that get the Martin fam­i­ly? George Zimmerman is a free man doing what he does ‚what­ev­er that is.

Had Jay Nixon acqui­esced to the demands of the cit­i­zens of his state by remov­ing McCulloch ‚Black res­i­dents of Ferguson would have no choice but to live with the deci­sion of the Grand Jury, what­ev­er that deci­sion end up being. Governor Nixon in stub­born obsti­na­cy, not want­i­ng to capit­u­late to the blacks, either did not think through his deci­sion , or he is not very smart.

There are a lot of eyes on Ferguson as the storm clouds gath­er. Whether or not there will be an avalanche of fury if the res­i­dents do not get the results they desire is yet to be seen. One thing is cer­tain this Country is not much dif­fer­ent than it was in 1962 , or 1942 for that matter.

White Americans are loathe to sup­port black caus­es , sub­se­quent­ly Racism per­sists. It is rather dif­fi­cult to expect the descen­dants of the peo­ple who enslaved you, raped you, beat and muti­late you , imprison and kill you , to turn around and sup­port your right to be treat­ed fair­ly by the peo­ple who ensure their privilege.

That is why Grand juries do not con­vict cops who kill black peo­ple. That is why there are two sep­a­rate ways in which laws are applied to whites and blacks. That is why police shoot with­out wor­ry­ing about the con­se­quence when a black per­son is at the busi­ness end of their weapon.

Those who think racism is a thing of the past because they have a cou­ple of white friends need to have their heads exam­ined. They can­not even bring them­selves to respect their own darn President, even when he is on for­eign soil. They would rather sup­port a sworn ene­my of the United States than stand for their own President and coun­try-men , sim­ply because they are black.

That kind of ran­cid igno­rance have per­me­at­ed their brain and occu­pied the very innards of their bio­log­i­cal make­up for gen­er­a­tions. I believe it is now genet­ic , the hate they have for blacks in this the land of the free , home of the brave.

This is what is play­ing out in Ferguson Missouri. Rather than fix the atti­tude of the Police by putting strict pro­tec­tions in place for the cit­i­zens , they give the police more guns to abuse and kill the very peo­ple who pay their salaries.

The sharks are cir­cling, there is blood in the water, this is huge. An American Icon is about to fall. 

Bill Cosby was America’s dad. Largely because of the NBC 1980’s hit, the Cosby show.

Reports are that mul­ti­ple women have come for­ward claim­ing that Cosby now 77, have drugged and had inap­pro­pri­ate sex­u­al con­tact with them. Thus far Bill Cosby have refused to com­ment on the allegations. 

These alle­ga­tions have dogged Cosby for years. In 1977 Cosby con­fessed to an extra-mar­tial affair with a woman named Shawn Upshaw . Upshaw claimed that her daugh­ter Autum Jackson was Cosby’s child. Paternity of Jackson was nev­er proven. Upshaw lat­er spent two years in Prison for try­ing to extort mon­ey from the Comedian.

Andrea Constand, the for­mer direc­tor of oper­a­tions of Temple University’s women’s bas­ket­ball pro­gram, sued the come­di­an, claim­ing he slipped her “herbal med­ica­tion” for stress when she vis­it­ed his Philadelphia man­sion in 2004. 

After tak­ing the “med­ica­tion,” she said Cosby touched her breasts and gen­i­tals and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her. Constand had met Cosby sev­er­al years ear­li­er and con­sid­ered him a men­tor but when she con­tact­ed offi­cials, the dis­trict attor­ney declined to press charges. At the time, Cosby’s lawyer calls the accu­sa­tion “utter­ly preposterous.”

In 2006 Constand and 13 oth­er women filed a law suit against the Cos, the suit was set­tled out of court for an undis­closed sum of money.Unfortunately for Cosby the alle­ga­tions seem to be inten­si­fy­ing, not going away. Now there is a grow­ing list of women who claim that they too were drugged and assault­ed by Cosby.

♦California lawyer Tamara Green, who had appeared on the “Today Show” in 2005 alleg­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her in the 1970s in a fash­ion sim­i­lar to the one Constand alleges.

♦In 2005, Beth Ferrier claims she had a sex­u­al rela­tion­ship with Cosby — who has been mar­ried for 50 years to wife Camille — which she said end­ed after he alleged­ly drugged and groped her.

♦Barbara Bowman, tells Philadelphia mag­a­zine that Cosby threw her on a bed and attempt­ed to force­ful­ly dis­robe her as she yelled and begged him to stop.

♦Another accuser, Joan Tarshis, comes for­ward on November 16, claim­ing Cosby drugged and assault­ed her twice in 1969. Two days lat­er, for­mer super­mod­el Janice Dickinson says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982.

Women seem to be com­ing out of the wood­work, all claim­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed them. Tv Networks have begun to take notice, shows are being can­celled and all because Black Comedian Hannibal Burris said this in his rou­tine in October.

“It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f – king smuggest old black man pub­lic per­sona that I hate,” Burress, who is also black, tells a crowd. “‘ Pull your pants up, black peo­ple. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a suc­cess­ful sit­com.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a cou­ple notch­es. ‘I don’t curse on stage.’ Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of moth­erf — ers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist.”

The feed­ing fren­zy has begun, many in the media and around social media are sali­vat­ing about this mas­sive take-down , after all it’s the American way right? Build them up ‚then take them down?

We make no judge­ment call, we just have one observation.

Since Mister Cosby has­n’t yet been con­vict­ed of any­thing. Could you please stop with the use of the old hag­gard-look­ing, beard­ed, con­vict-resem­bling por­trait ? We do get the sub­lim­i­nal mes­sage you are sending.

Oh, one more thing, those of you American blacks who despise Bill Cosby, you don’t hate him because you know that he is guilty of any crime. You hate him because he tells you about your­selves and you resent that. Some of you would rather sit and make excus­es rather than get up and make a way for you and your families.

Whether Bill Cosby is guilty or not, does not ren­der his crit­i­cisms any less true. We will with­hold judge­ment on Bill Cosby until the facts are prop­er­ly aired in a court of law, if at all.

The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Rev. Myles Munroe, pres­i­dent of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, and his wife, Ruth Munroe, were among the pas­sen­gers on a pri­vate jet that crashed into a crane at a ship­yard as it approached Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. The news­pa­per said two oth­er pas­tors with Munroe’s orga­ni­za­tion were also on the flight. The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Munroe, his wife and the oth­er pas­sen­gers were trav­el­ing from Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, the Bahamian cap­i­tal, to Grand Bahama for a lead­er­ship forum that opened on Monday.

Immediately after the crash and before Doctor Monroe’s rel­a­tives can grieve his loss one homo­sex­u­al sup­port­ing web­site had this to say.

While some media out­lets are describ­ing the death of “Dr” Myles Munroe, and his wife Ruth Munroe, in a plane crash this week­end as the loss of a promi­nent faith leader, the ugly real­i­ty is that Munroe and his Bahamas Faith Ministries were major forces sup­port­ing homo­pho­bia and vio­lence against Gays in the Bahamas, a nation I’ve vis­it­ed a num­ber of times and which deserves far bet­ter than the igno­rance and big­otry which are the stock in trade of the “god­ly folk” like Munroe. I don’t mean to speak ill of the dead, but in report­ing on Munroe’s “min­istry,” lets at least be hon­est about what the man was real­ly all about. The Washington Blade has details on the death of these homo­phobes (Note the pan­der­ing — dare we call it self-pros­ti­tu­tion — of gov­ern­ment offi­cials to this mer­chant of bigotry):

It is clear that those who engage in homo­sex­u­al prac­tices and their sup­port­ers will not be sat­is­fied until every per­son who dis­agrees with their nasty per­vert­ed lifestyle is dead. I mean who is beyond crit­i­cism? Why are Gays so afraid of crit­i­cism? Is it that they know in their hearts that les­bian­ism and Homosexuality is a degen­er­ate unholy, unright­eous lifestyle that is counter to the laws of nature and the laws of God?

Daring to dis­agree with them brings a fierce and sav­age back­lash designed to destroy. Heterosexual dis­senters are labeled Homophobic and hate­ful. The vit­ri­ol which spews from Homosexuals far out­weigh any­thing Heterosexuals say in dis­sent. The Monroes and their friends bod­ies weren’t even cold when the sav­age attacks started.

Doctor Monroe has spo­ken out against Homosexuality, par­tic­u­lar­ly in his native Bahamas. In fact a Gay Pride event sched­uled for last week­end was scrapped because Dr Monroe slammed the pride event and the LGBT move­ment say­ing the LGBT move­ment has “hijacked” and “raped” the civ­il rights movement.

As head of Bahamas Faith Ministries International. Dr Myles Monroe spoke out against sin. He spoke elo­quent­ly on the need for the Church to preach an unvar­nished Gospel, not one that will please, but a Gospel which will con­vict sin­ners , bring­ing them to repentance.

Homosexuals believe that the love of God will cov­er them even as they con­tin­ue to wal­low in the filth of homo­sex­u­al devian­cy. They are woe­ful­ly wrong. God does love the sin­ner but he hates sin. As I have said in these blogs, we can­not sim­ply claim Grace even as we con­tin­ue in sin presumptuously .

The prob­lem is that Homosexuals do not want to accept that Homosexuality is abnor­mal and sin­ful. The Homosexual com­mu­ni­ty is wag­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare on the rest of the world. They do not want to hear that Homosexuality is abnor­mal, so they demo­nize any­one who dare dis­agree with them.

It is becom­ing rather dan­ger­ous, sui­ci­dal even ‚to speak out against them. Economic sabotage,blacklisting, and even more seri­ous weapons are in their Arsenal.

Make no mis­take they have pow­er­ful friends in high places . From Obama and Biden in the White house to Francis in the Vatican. Powerful peo­ple line up ready to wage war in their defense.

Pope Benedict crit­i­cized Homosexuality and soon after announced his retire­ment. Obama was quick to vis­it the Homosexual sup­port­ing Pope Francis.

Just recent­ly American Cardinal Raymond Burke was tak­en off the church’s high­est court to become the chap­lain of the Knights of Malta, a Vatican char­i­ty group. Demoted for speak­ing out against Francis’ lib­er­al­ism with the Gospel of God and Homosexuals.

The high­ly placed Political and Religious sup­port Gays receive pales in com­par­i­son to the amount of peo­ple with mon­ey who are will­ing to use eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage as a blud­geon­ing tool to cow their opponents .

Countries which stand on their prin­ci­ples of not accept­ing Homosexuality as a way of life are threat­ened with Economic sab­o­tage for their stance. So we ask, “Is it coin­ci­dence that Doctor Monroe who spoke out against Homosexuality just recent­ly, his wife and friends are all dead?

Was this an accident?

Was this just an unfor­tu­nate plane crash ‚or was this some­thing much ugli­er. Was Myles and Ruth Monroe silenced for dar­ing to speak out against the bur­geon­ing can­cer of Homosexuality as Cardinal Raymond Burke was demot­ed for dar­ing to stand on prin­ci­ple chal­leng­ing Pope Francis for try­ing to change Gods word to accom­mo­date homosexuals?

We may nev­er know the truth, or the truth may come to light some­how. It is obvi­ous how­ev­er, that speak­ing out in defense of one’s prin­ci­ples may mean seri­ous loss of rights or worse.

Already some Christian denom­i­na­tions are afraid to preach God’s word out of fear they may lose tax exemp­tion if they speak the truth about homosexuality.

It is not uncom­mon to see Homosexuals as part of the cler­gy as a result.

Here in America States like South Carolina are fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle against a ris­ing crescen­do of gay sup­port as it fights to pro­tect the sanc­ti­ty of mar­riage between man and woman.

There is some­thing sin­is­ter in these deaths. Maybe I’m para­noid, maybe I’m right. What is clear is that we are fast approach­ing a time when crit­i­cism of Homosexuality will land one in prison.

As Myles Monroe argued, Homosexuality has hijacked and raped the Civil Rights Struggle” . Speaking out against some­thing God’s word labels an Abomination is not abus­ing any­one’s Civil Rights.

It is the cor­rect thing to do, regard­less of what President or Pontiff say otherwise.