Election Watch

It’s quite easy to be dis­in­ter­est­ed in American Elections which are due in less than two months.
Understandably, some peo­ple (not Americans) may feel removed or even dis­in­ter­est­ed in the process.
Nevertheless, giv­en the ever increas­ing inter­con­nect­ed nature of the world in which we live we may be doing our­selves a dis­ser­vice by ignor­ing what is play­ing out in front of our eyes.

Regardless of our nation­al­i­ty or our sense of patri­o­tism to wher­ev­er, what hap­pens in America shapes what hap­pens wher­ev­er we come from across the globe.
It is easy to find this fact objec­tion­able but that inter-con­nect­ed­ness makes an American President almost a de-fac­to world pres­i­dent of sorts.

Certainly, an American pres­i­dent as com­man­der-in-chief has vast reach­es across the planet.
He/​She has under his/​her con­trol the most pow­er­ful mil­i­tary in the his­to­ry of mankind, and deliv­ery sys­tems which makes the amaz­ing weapon­ry of the American Armed Forces deliv­er­able with ter­ri­fy­ing accu­ra­cy and effectiveness.

TEMPERAMENT

That is why it is impor­tant than an American President has the right tem­pera­ment ‚not some­one whose wound­ed ego may trig­ger a nuclear apocalypse.
Lets set aside the silli­ness about busi­ness deals which went wrong or e‑mail servers which could have been hacked, reveal­ing low lev­els of clas­si­fied mate­ri­als (at best).
Lets set aside failed Universities which was nev­er even a third rate col­lege to begin with. We may even dis­re­gard all the talk about Foundations or pay for play.
Far more sub­stan­tive is the exis­ten­tial threat a Donald Trump Presidency would pose for the secu­ri­ty of our planet.

On the issue of war and peace. On Immigration. On trade. Religious lib­er­ty. On Global move­ment of peo­ple as a result of wars and nation­al dis­as­ters, Donald Trump has demon­strat­ed that he would re-write the world order and it would not be pretty.
Donald Trump’s cam­paign began years ago because of his mon­ey or the medi­a’s belief that he has lots of it. It may rea­son­ably be said he is a media cre­ation. As if that was not enough they gave him a real­i­ty show to build a media pro­file and name recog­ni­tion which formed the cat­a­lyst for his White House run.

DISRESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT

His ‘show me your papers’ assault against the nation’s first African-American pres­i­dent has re-ener­gized the smol­der­ing embers of racial ani­mus result­ing in expo­nen­tial increas­es in hate groups (accord­ing to the Southern Poverty Law Center and oth­er groups which track hate groups).

IMMIGRATION

Trumps wants to build a wall on America’s south­ern bor­der with Mexico, stat­ing he will make Mexico pay for it. Of course when face to face with the Mexican President he made no men­tion of it. He wants to deport over 11 mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing in the shad­ows and even revoke cit­i­zen­ship of chil­dren born to undoc­u­ment­ed residents.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

Donald Trump wants to ban all Muslims enter­ing the United States. He also wants to kill rel­a­tives of ter­ror suspects.
That means any­one who has an errant rel­a­tive is at risk of being killed by the United States Government under a President Trump. Imagine the impli­ca­tions of that.
 WARS

He declares that he would fire at Iranian war­ships if they came too close . General Barry McCafferya man who knows what he is talk­ing about-told NBC on Saturday that those deci­sions are brava­do . The General said those deci­sions would be arrived at by US Naval Officers; not by Donald Trump.
He promised to engage China aggres­sive­ly on trade a move which could poten­tial­ly see a trade war devel­op between the two coun­tries, dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for both coun­tries, and poten­tial­ly push both coun­tries clos­er to armed conflict.

RACE RELATIONS

On race rela­tions and the exist­ing dis­trust and ten­sion between com­mu­ni­ties of col­or and police, Donald Trump’s response is to empow­er and throw more sup­port behind police. He has not offered a solu­tion to the con­flict which means his actions as pres­i­dent would fur­ther stoke the fires of resent­ment, dis­trust, and ten­sion which could poten­tial­ly see America’s streets become war zones or on the oth­er hand an approx­i­mate­ly 35 – 40 mil­lion Black peo­ple returned to a state of sec­ond class-sta­tus on par with the Jim Crow era.

IGNORANCE

In all my years as a polit­i­cal observ­er I have nev­er seen anoth­er can­di­date for the Presidency of the United States which has and should evoke fear and trep­i­da­tion as does Donald Trump.
His absolute igno­rance of the most impor­tant issues are shock­ing. His lack of grasp of the most basic issue is stunning.

Yet despite this, the guy is less than two months away from the pres­i­den­cy, and the most potent nuclear arse­nal in the world.
The fright­en­ing real­i­ty is that despite his demon­stra­ble lack of under­stand­ing of the most crit­i­cal areas which a poten­tial pres­i­dent ought to have, his sup­port­ers clam­or for him with cult-like fervor.

HIS SUPPORT BASE

Hillary Clinton the Democratic nom­i­nee says half of Trump’s sup­port comes from a group she calls the “bas­ket of deplorables.” Racist, sex­ist, homo­pho­bic, xeno­pho­bic, Islamaphopic-you name it, accord­ing to her.
By Saturday September 10^th Clinton walked the “half“com­ment back, fear­ing she may have com­mit­ted her “47% moment” in elec­tion his­to­ry or maybe then Senator Barack Obama’s guns and reli­gion com­ment in his ini­tial bid for the presidency.
The dif­fer­ence between the com­ments of Clinton and that of Romney and Obama is that Clinton made her state­ment pub­licly theirs were made in pri­vate events.
Clinton of course is held to a dif­fer­ent stan­dard than Donald Trump . In fact many have labeled him Teflon.
He brags he could shoot some­one on Fifth avenue and he would not lose a sin­gle supporter.
 SO WHO ARE THEY ?

Well Hillary Clinton got it exact­ly right!
Clinton was absolute­ly not say­ing that half of all Republicans are deplorable, she cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly said half of Trump’s sup­port­ers are.
To begin with, he is a big admir­er of Vladimir Putin the Russian strong­man. He admires the late Iraqi strong­man Saddam Hussein. He tells the thugs at his ral­lies to hit peo­ple, take their coats and turn them loose in the cold.
He sur­round him­self with a bul­lies and wannabe strong­men like Rudolph Giuliani, and anoth­er wannabe tough guy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

He hired Paul Manafort, a man with alleged ties to the Russians. After fir­ing Manafort, he went even deep­er into the bot­tom of the bar­rel dig­ging out Breitbart’s Stephen K Bannon from the extreme right fringe to run his campaign.
At Trump cam­paign they sell T‑shirts call­ing for the impris­on­ment of Hillary Clinton.
They demand that she be killed. They dis­play con­fed­er­ate flags. For all intents and pur­pos­es, Trumps ral­lies are glo­ri­fied Klan Rallies.

Yes-the media does a ter­rif­ic job of try­ing to san­i­tize Donald Trump. Why not? It was the media which made made him a celebrity
If he becomes pres­i­dent we have the media to thank for it.
It is said his sup­port comes from une­d­u­cat­ed white work­ing class peo­ple. They have no inter­est in facts. They care noth­ing about the fact that he is dan­ger­ous for and to the rest of of the world. He rep­re­sents their point of view and what they care about is all that mat­ters to them.
“I could stand in the mid­dle of Fifth Avenue and shoot some­body and I would­n’t lose any of my supporters” .
Yes he absolute­ly could; that does not speak to Trump it speaks to those who sup­port him.

A poten­tial pres­i­dent Donald J. Trump will be vast­ly con­se­quen­tial for America and it will be equal­ly as con­se­quen­tial for the rest of the world.

As the United States enters the final nine weeks of its presidential election campaigning, some of the issues front and center are National security , Immigration and the Economy.
Within each of those subject areas are significant debates about how to best improve the lives and security of Americans.

There is much mis­in­for­ma­tion com­ing from the polit­i­cal right with­out the appro­pri­ate lev­els of push­back from Democrats, con­sid­er­ing that it was under President George W Bush and the lead­er­ship of Dick Cheney that America got entan­gled in a war in Iraq many will agree should nev­er have been waged.

Out of that entan­gle­ment arose Al Qaeda and the most recent ter­ror­ist group ISIL.
It bears men­tion­ing that what is being con­sid­ered a colos­sal fail­ure of for­eign pol­i­cy lead­er­ship by the Obama Administration, is relent­less drone war­fare on ISIL the group Obama inher­it­ed , a draw-down of American troops from Iraq, as was agreed to and signed by President George W Bush. Significant sta­bi­liza­tion of Afghanistan as can be expect­ed , and the killing of Osama Bin Laden. 

In addi­tion to that there is the lit­tle issue of no new wars start­ed by this sit­ting pres­i­dent, a fact which seem to get lost in the blan­ket litany of lies and mis­in­for­ma­tion which seem to be the new normal.
This fol­lows what we have seen over the pre­vi­ous two elec­tion cycles , repub­li­cans would adopt talk­ing points which every­one knows are lies and they would flood the air­waves with sur­ro­gates who like robots, repeat the lies, com­plete­ly obliv­i­ous to fact check­ers or jour­nal­ists who push back with the facts.
This is the new Republican par­ty, a par­ty of liars, the par­ty of Donald Trump.
One would have thought that truth and hon­or would be the guid­ing prin­ci­ples which would inspire the next gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers? Not so if the Republican par­ty gets it way. It’s win at all cost .
This sup­posed peri­od of rel­a­tive calm and lack of out­right con­flict which is being mis­in­ter­pret­ed as a fail­ure will most cer­tain­ly be looked back at with long­ing and a sense of nostalgia.

The Immigration debates are legit­i­mate but must be viewed with­in the con­text of Republican intran­si­gence on the issue, and all oth­er issues. Not just against pres­i­dent Obama but against the last Republican President George W Bush . Republicans refusal to address the issue may have impact­ed the can­di­da­cy of Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and John Kasich for president.
Additionally senior repub­li­can lead­ers like John McCain have been forced to run away from find­ing a fix for immi­gra­tion, even though they are quite aware that it is an issue which needs urgent attention.

Republicans have cor­rect­ly tak­en the posi­tion that ille­gal immi­gra­tion is seri­ous and must be addressed. Unfortunately they have offered no mean­ing­ful solu­tions out­side dra­con­ian break­ing up of fam­i­lies and uncon­sti­tu­tion­al tac­tics which are anti­thet­i­cal to the stat­ed val­ues of America.
They argue that once the south­ern bor­ders are secured, then the ques­tion of the mil­lions of undoc­u­ment­ed peo­ple will be addressed.
In the same breath they say there will be no path to cit­i­zen­ship for these mil­lions of peo­ple. Some have gone even fur­ther, sug­gest­ing that chil­dren born to undoc­u­ment­ed peo­ple should not be afford­ed auto­mat­ic American cit­i­zen­ship, and those who already are, should have their cit­i­zen­ship revoked. !!!

The shock­ing impli­ca­tions of this, were it ever to become real­i­ty is that there would be tens of mil­lions, and an ever increas­ing num­ber of peo­ple who are effec­tive­ly an under­class of sec­ond class serfs who are unable to vote, or active­ly par­tic­i­pate in the only coun­try many of them have ever known.
The unfore­seen impli­ca­tions of those actions are stun­ning, and can only be viewed as reck­less­ly short­sight­ed and dangerous .
One has to look no fur­ther than France and the way North Africans are ghet­toized and mar­gin­al­ized then extrap­o­late from that how America could be neg­a­tive­ly impact­ed should those demands become law.

Which begs the ques­tion . Are the Republicans blind to the con­se­quences of the demands they make?
If not what are the dri­ving forces behind their demands?
Before we delve into the rea­sons it must be under­stood that our cur­rent pres­i­dent has deport­ed more peo­ple than any pres­i­dent in mod­ern history.
It bears men­tion­ing that he has also hired more bor­der guards than any oth­er president.
And prob­a­bly more impor­tant­ly accord­ing to experts, the num­ber of peo­ple seek­ing to come through the nation’s south­ern bor­der is almost negligible.
I high­light­ed the term south­ern bor­der because Republicans have made no men­tion about any­one com­ing into the coun­try ille­gal­ly through the north­ern bor­der with Canada. Neither is there any men­tion of Israelis, Chinese, Russians or any Europeans for that mat­ter who come and sim­ply stay.
In fact some Republicans have open­ly said those are the peo­ple they want.
When those com­ments are jux­ta­posed with their argu­ments that Latino Immigrants vote demo­c­ra­t­ic the dri­ving force behind the heat­ed immi­gra­tion bat­tle becomes clear.
It is polit­i­cal but more than that it goes straight to the brown­ing of America .
It is the heart of Donald Trump’s can­di­da­cy and the rise of the Nativist dog­ma which has dom­i­nat­ed this elec­tion cycle.

My final thought is on the econ­o­my which is still claw­ing it’s way back from the rav­ages of the Bush presidency.
No it’s not perfect !
When was it ever perfect?
Imagine if Republicans had set par­ti­san and Racial atti­tudes aside on the night President Barack Obama was being inau­gu­rat­ed. Imagine if on that very night they gath­ered in that DC Restaurant to dis­cuss sab­o­tag­ing his pres­i­den­cy, they were gath­ered to dis­cuss ways of work­ing with the pres­i­dent for the good of the American people.
Imagine if Mitch McConnell’s sole pur­pose was not ded­i­cat­ed to mak­ing the pres­i­dent a one term president.
Imagine if the America peo­ple liv­ing in some of the most depressed red states had shunned the divi­sive rhetoric of a blovi­at­ing come­di­an who want­ed the pres­i­dent to fail.
When a pres­i­dent fail don’t we all fail? Why would we bet against our­selves for polit­i­cal and racial rea­sons? It makes no sense.
Imagine if Republicans had not ded­i­cat­ed the almost eight years of the Obama Presidency to blan­ket obstructionism.
Imagine if they had passed a Transportation bill which would have cer­tain­ly seen Main street reg­is­ter­ing mon­u­men­tal gains as Wall street has .
Despite all of the sub­ver­sion and obstruc­tion Obama is enor­mous­ly pop­u­lar, more pop­u­lar than Ronald Reagan was at this time in his pres­i­den­cy. History will judge Obama one of the great­est pres­i­dents and he did it with no Republican help.
They talk enor­mous­ly about Reagan , but Tip O’neill worked with Ronald Reagan> Even Newt Gingrich worked with Bill Clinton. What will be John Boehner and Mitch McConnell’s story?

Political par­ties are run by peo­ple . People are immoral, cor­rupt self-serv­ing and arro­gant . As such it’s not out of the ordi­nary to see polit­i­cal par­ties go through seri­ous tran­si­tions . In some cas­es becom­ing relics of their for­mer selves, until they get the mes­sage vot­ers want them to get, that it can­not be busi­ness as usual.

The Republican par­ty in the United States would prob­a­bly be a region­al par­ty were it not for the unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic prac­tice of ger­ry­man­der­ing . A prac­tice which cre­ates grotesque­ly shaped dis­tricts to keep them with­ing the par­ty in con­trol of the leg­isla­tive branch.

In my native Jamaica the Jamaica Labor Party has gone through it’s own learn­ing cure, a curve of it’s own cre­ation , made pos­si­ble by arro­gance, self­ish­ness ‚elit­ism and infighting .
As such the peo­ple grav­i­tat­ed to what they viewed as their least worse choice, the PNP. Through it all, the JLP con­tin­ued on a self destruc­tive path which allowed the PNP to hold pow­er for an unprece­dent­ed 14 ¹⁄₂ years unbro­ken tenure in office.
Yes there was vote buy­ing, yes there were oth­er meth­ods used by the PNP to keep power.
Nevertheless none of that mat­ters when the Jamaican peo­ple make up their minds that they want a cer­tain par­ty out of office, as we wit­nessed in the last nation­al elections.
In that unbro­ken peri­od of time in office Percival James Patterson, Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller and com­pa­ny not only wrecked the Island’s econ­o­my , they ush­ered in a pop­u­lar cul­ture which places no val­ue on human life, A gen­er­a­tion which large­ly eschews moral­i­ty. A gen­er­a­tion which has com­plete­ly rede­fined what it meant to be Jamaican.
In the process the PNP, it’s lead­er­ship and dyed-in-the-wool sup­port­ers took on the mantra Jumeka a pnp kun­try , and actu­al­ly believed it.

The PNP took our coun­try from the pearl of the Caribbean to the pari­ah of the region. Our peo­ple are ridiculed and shunned across the region and beyond. Our coun­ty which oth­er Caribbean natives pri­vate­ly claimed as their own is now pub­licly cas­ti­gat­ed and disrespected.
Through it all I prayed and hoped for two things, the rebirth of the con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty Alexander Bustamante cre­at­ed and the total destruc­tion of the can­cer we know as the PNP.

I believe I may be the only Jamaican not in a quandary about the tur­moil with­in Norman Manley’s par­ty today.
Why ?
Because I have con­sis­tent­ly prayed and argued for the demise of that polit­i­cal par­ty. As such I can­not be dis­mayed that my prayers are being answered.
I look at the PNP as a stu­dent of his­to­ry. I con­sis­tent­ly remind myself that Bustamante a found­ing mem­ber of the PNP left it and formed the JLP , rec­og­niz­ing that the par­ty he helped to form was becom­ing too rad­i­cal for his liking.
If the par­ty was too rad­i­cal then imag­ine now..
When we look at Jamaica and how she could have been posi­tioned on the glob­al stage today , what with the indomitable spir­it of our peo­ple , our entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it , our intel­li­gence, we could be the nation the world point to, as it points to Israel today, minus the oppres­sive occu­py­ing boots on the neck of anyone.

Despite this, in areas where the PNP has not sti­fled our coun­try , eg, ath­let­ics, our ath­letes have con­sis­tent­ly demon­strat­ed what a tiny nation can accom­plish when they are allowed to soar and the cor­ro­sive cor­rupt­ing influ­ences of pol­i­tics have not infect­ed their abilities.
No nation even remote­ly close to our size and pop­u­la­tion have accom­plished what our ath­letes have, even up to the Rio Olympics.
Our young stu­dents con­tin­ue to defy con­ven­tion­al wis­dom, tear­ing down men­tal bar­ri­ers as they demon­strate the pow­er of the mind academically.
Juxtapose that with the areas where pol­i­tics have dom­i­nat­ed and we can see who the true ene­mies of the Jamaican peo­ple are.

Our dias­po­ra com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­ue to be tremen­dous sources of growth, devel­op­ment and sup­port, not just for their respec­tive adopt­ed coun­tries but for Jamaica land we love as well.
To my fel­low Jamaicans I humbly sug­gest, let Rome burn. If you can, give them some gaso­line , give them some matches.
It’s time the mem­bers of the PNP and it’s lead­er­ship be remind­ed that Jamaica is our coun­try, not PNP not JLP , it’s our country.
Not their pri­vate pig­gy bank to be plun­dered . Not for them to sell off to the high­est bid­der. Not for them to use to fat­ten their pock­ets and our peo­ple are cer­tain­ly not there for them to hold in contempt.

(1)“For the first time I saw hum­ble­ness”[sic]
(2)“He sound­ed script­ed but I still believe it was from the heart”

Couple of quotes from parish­ioners from the Detroit church Donald Trump vis­it­ed on Saturday. We cer­tain­ly are a peo­ple of vary­ing opin­ions and beliefs , not sure how he could be per­ceived as script­ed while being gen­uine and from the heart but I digress.

Look we are a for­giv­ing peo­ple, we are a lov­ing peo­ple, we are a peo­ple pre­dis­posed to giv­ing peo­ple the ben­e­fit of the doubt even when they haven’t earned it.
Sometimes to a fault…

Trust is earned, you do not get to spend sev­en decades dis­parag­ing and dis­crim­i­nat­ing against me and then show up talk­ing about many peo­ple don’t know Lincoln was a repub­li­can because you want their vote.

Then again that may very well be just me, that may be attrib­ut­able to that fierce and indomitable Jamaican spir­it , that Ashanti blood which cours­es through my veins.

You go to a black church talk­ing about “some peo­ple don’t know that Lincoln was a repub­li­can” , when did Trump learn this.
Don’t come to us talk­ing about Lincoln as if black folk should be eter­nal­ly grate­ful to the repub­li­can par­ty because he signed the eman­ci­pa­tion procla­ma­tion, he did so because he was forced to.
Lincoln need­ed bod­ies for the war effort​.Lincoln need­ed to keep the French from get­ting involved in the war to pro­tect their ter­ri­to­ry of Louisiana.The eman­ci­pa­tion procla­ma­tion accom­plish­es both goals tac­ti­cal­ly for Lincoln
Secondly this repub­li­can par­ty has­n’t been the par­ty of Lincoln since the 1968 sign­ing of the civ­il rights act.

I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised said one parish­ioner who heard Trump in Detroit Saturday” it was like it was a new Donald Trump ” .
Ha ha ha ..I real­ly don’t mean to laugh.
As a kid grow­ing up in rur­al Jamaica we loved to throw rocks and every­thing we could find at the numer­ous chameleons that graced the trees we loved to climb. We sim­ply called them green lizards. Back then we thought they were mad at us when we threw rocks at them. As we got old­er we learned they changed from that beau­ti­ful green to make them­selves less con­spic­u­ous when they face danger.

So even though it was the very same rep­tile it was able to change itself to suit what­ev­er sit­u­a­tion it was in .
That is vin­tage Donald Trump.

Trump the rel­a­tive­ly sane-look­ing wannabe pres­i­dent try­ing to appear pres­i­den­tial stand­ing next to Mexican pres­i­dent Enrique Pena Nieto was expo­nen­tial­ly dif­fer­ent than the much dark­er Trump who threw out red meat to a rav­en­ous right-wing crowd in Arizona after leav­ing his meet­ing with Pena Nieto.

So of course the Donald Trump who have Blacks sum­mar­i­ly kicked out of his events, would be dif­fer­ent than the Trump who turned up in Detroit on Saturday to change his appear­ance with white voters.
What the hell, why not use these props to his advan­tage , to get his point across to his real tar­get audience.
Hey , he may even get a few of the negroid props to vote for him , why not, a vote is a vote right, noth­ing wrong with using one stone to kill two birds?

SELF LOATHING.…

It’s not an over­ly bril­liant strat­e­gy , nei­ther is it a sil­ly strat­e­gy . It is a strat­e­gy which could actu­al­ly work under nor­mal cir­cum­stances, but for it’s trans­par­ent nature.
It could absolute­ly have worked had Trump not had such a sor­did his­to­ry of racist bigotry.
Trump will get a few black votes , not many . Much the same way he will get some Hispanic votes despite his caus­tic bar­rage of hate­ful rhetoric against their entire race.
Because there are Mexican immi­grants who refer to Mexicans as “Illegals”, one went as far as to say the Mexicans must be stopped or “soon there will be a taco truck on every corner”.

Wow !!!
You absolute­ly can­not make that kind of stuff up.
There will always be the likes of Marco Gutierrez, and of course the black apos­tate who parades as a pas­tor, Mark Burns the fire-breath­ing liar who ped­dles reli­gion, his lips drip­ping with perdition .
Lied about serv­ing in the Army National Reserve. (Served in his state nation­al reserve). Said he over­stat­ed his accom­plish­ments. No Mark you speak often about not being polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect, so let me help you with this non-polit­i­cal assess­ment, you did not over­state your accomplishments.
You straight out lied and that makes you a damn lying fraud.
Lied about com­plet­ing a bach­e­lors of sci­ence degree from North Greenville University.
Lied about being a fra­ter­nal mem­ber of Kappa Alpha Psi. Lies, lies, lies, yet you pur­port to be a man of God, no you are a fraud and a charlatan.

When exposed in a lie by a black CNN Anchor Victor Blackwell the huck­ster said he did it so he would be tak­en seriously!
No fake pas­tor, the path to respectabil­i­ty begins with respect,truthfulness, hon­or, let­ting your word be your bond.
You weren’t seek­ing to be tak­en seri­ous­ly, you were seek­ing hype, you were seek­ing atten­tion and not the kind of atten­tion you should have craved . The atten­tion of God Almighty.
But Burns was not done , he accused Blackwell and CNN of try­ing to , get this , “I thought we were doing a pro­file, and all of a sud­den you’re here to try to destroy my char­ac­ter,”
Did this lying bas­tard just say “char­ac­ter”?
No faux-pas­tor Burns the inter­view­er was sim­ply doing his job, he can­not destroy that which does not exist.
You did that to your­self when you decide to fake a resume’.

How appro­pri­ate that this lying huck­ster would be aligned to anoth­er huck­ster try­ing to con his way into the Presidency?
Notice in his tweet how he couched him­self in the word of the lord to pull the wool over the eyes of those who sit and lis­ten to him in tweet below.

I’M SO THANKFUL FOR A GOD WHO LOOKS BEYOND OUR FAULTS AND MEETS OUR NEEDS..I LOVE YOU ALL.

Lying decep­tive bastard.

Word of unsolicited advice and maybe a question to and for the African-American community, the Latino-community and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, what made you think a Leopard would change it’s spot?

What is it about the record of Donald Trump that made you want to give him the ben­e­fit of the doubt? I’m not about to re-lit­i­gate Trump’s record of big­otry , xeno­pho­bia, misog­y­ny, divi­sive­ness, and fascism.
In today’s world a sim­ple google search is enough to shine a light on pret­ty much any subject.

I am at pains in my efforts to find a ratio­nale for Black Americans sup­posed desire to have Donald J Trump meet with them . To begin with Donald Trump had no use for blacks through­out his sev­en decades on the plan­et. In fact he did not have any use for blacks even up to through the repub­li­can pri­maries. Black were sum­mar­i­ly expelled by his goons, a black man was suck­er punched by an old trail­er trash , and of course the white police attacked the vic­tim. A young black woman was phys­i­cal­ly and ver­bal­ly assault­ed and kicked out to Trump’s glee­ful cheering,.
“Knock the hell out of them will you,I love the old days , in the old days they would have been out­ta here on a stretcher” .
More con­se­quen­tial, his attempts to dele­git­imize the Nation’s first African-American pres­i­dent, sug­gest­ing that the pres­i­dent was not born in the United States, a demand to see the pres­i­den­t’s birth cer­tifi­cate , which is the equiv­a­lent of the show me your paper rules of years gone by.
The fact is that this tanned buf­foon is an unmit­i­gat­ed racist bigot.

So what about this his­to­ry that say to American Blacks , maybe we should care about this buffoon?
I mean this is a guy who spent $85​.ooo to dem­a­gogue and defame 5 young black and Latino youths ages 14 – 15 who were wrong­ly arrest­ed by NYPD cops and con­vict­ed of rape in 1989. The youths were con­vict­ed , thanks to Trump’s full page ads in local papers call­ing for the death penal­ty for the juve­niles, the poi­soned jury pool returned a guilty ver­dict result­ing in a 13 year incar­cer­a­tion before they were even­tu­al­ly exonerated.
Trumps unequiv­o­cal sup­port for police, regard­less of their abuse of the laws today was the same for the cops who framed the five juve­niles in 1989.
Donald J Trump the land­lord refused to rent to black ten­ants, those are facts.

In light of his char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of Mexicans as rapists and mur­der­ers, what was it about those state­ments which endeared Trump to the sup­posed Hispanic advi­so­ry coun­cil, before they were shamed into quitting ?
What bet­ter way to judge some­one than the words they utter ?
I’m remind­ed about this lit­tle gem.…

The scor­pi­on want­ed to hitch a ride across the riv­er begged the frog for a ride.
The frog adamant­ly refused cit­ing the dead­ly con­se­quences of the scor­pi­on’s sting.
The scor­pi­on asked ‚why would I sting you when you are giv­ing me a ride?
The frog relented .
Mid-stream the scor­pi­on struck .
The frog feel­ing the life drain­ing from him asked, why did you, you promised not to?
The scor­pi­on replied , I am a scor­pi­on that’s what I do..

What did Enrique Peña Nieto expect to gain from hav­ing Trump in Mexico city ? We are now hear­ing that the invite by Enrique Peña Nieto was just cur­so­ry and not real­ly intend­ed for Trump to take up, it was along the line of come vis­it with us and speak to us , get to know us before dis­re­spect­ing us kind of invite.
The same invite was extend­ed to for­mer sec­re­tary of state Hillary Clinton.
Clinton under­stands pro­to­col, clin­ton has not dis­par­aged Mexicans, Clinton has a life­time of meet­ing with world lead­ers, she under­stood the invite was diplo­mat­ic cour­tesy, kin­da like a neigh­bor say­ing we should get togeth­er some­time. You know you are not going to their house , they know they aren’t com­ing to your house, but it’s some­thing to say.

Not to Trump and his cam­paign, they saw mileage , much like his attempts to extract mileage from the clue­less Black Pastors who pros­ti­tute the gospel, their dig­ni­ty and their con­gre­ga­tions all for a chance to gain some spot­light and a chance to see their stu­pid faces on television.

Trump has no use for nei­ther Black nor Latino vot­ers . He is using the Black church as he has the Hispanic advi­so­ry coun­cil, as he has used Enrique Peña Nieto to show white peo­ple with con­science that the alle­ga­tions of racism against him are unfound­ed. That is the strat­e­gy of the new­ly appoint­ed Kellyanne Conway.
You don’t have to speak to them, speak at them and over their heads to our tar­get audi­ence which must turn out in record num­bers if we are to win.
The prob­lem for Enrique Peña Nieto whose approval rat­ings are in the tank, is that he missed a gold­en oppor­tu­ni­ty to embar­rass the blovi­at­ing bigot.
He erred egre­gious­ly in ele­vat­ing Trump to an equal, giv­ing Trump that plat­form ele­vat­ed him to states­man­ship Trump has earned but des­per­ate­ly craves. However Enrique Peña Nieto could have made lemon­ade from the lemon he dealt him­self. He could have stood up for Mexico and the Mexican peo­ple by high­light­ing the mutu­al ben­e­fits which exist between his nation and the United States.
He could have chid­ed Trump for being a unin­formed big­ot , he choked , as a result Trump emerged from that vis­it as the vic­tor , leav­ing Enrique Peña Nieto to flail away using his twit­ter account,. He had a chance to crush Trump and he did not , advan­tage Trump.

Donald Trump is Donald Trump he will not change a damn thing about who he is, as such the Hispanic and Black man­nequins who allow them­selves to be used as props to dress up the pres­i­den­tial ambi­tions of a big­ot should feel shame.
The prob­lem is that the need to rub shoul­ders with mas­sa may “TRUMP” sense for these blacks and his­pan­ic props.

During the last nation­al elec­tion cycle the People’s National Party’s (PNP) lead­er­ship refused to engage in debates with the then Opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP).
In what has now been revealed to be a shock­ing case of irony, the log­ic for the PNP’s refusal, was that the then leader of the Opposition and now Prime Minister Andrew Holness, had com­pared the then Prime Minister, now oppo­si­tion leader Portia Simpson Miller to a con artist.
I will get back to the irony later.

Manley’s Son Joseph :“Holness House Vulgar And Over-sized”: Confirms Envy.…

Within that irony was anoth­er irony, it was Simpson Miller who first labeled Holiness’s tax cut plan a con-job.
If Holness’s plan was a con-job, by infer­ence it could rea­son­ably be con­strued that the archi­tect Holness was being labeled a con-artist. Yet Miller refused to engage in debates with Holness, she fur­ther threat­ened legal action through one of the ambu­lance chasers who parade as con­sti­tu­tion­al experts.

It was on that flim­sy excuse that the then Prime Minister thumbed her nose at the nation’s 2.8 mil­lion peo­ple by refus­ing to tell them what plans she had for them going for­ward in tele­vised debates. Clearly Simpson Miller and her han­dlers mis­cal­cu­lat­ed in their belief that they would have been reward­ed with a new man­date after refus­ing to answer any pol­i­cy ques­tions dur­ing their term in office.

Holness’s House A Product Of Envy Manley Sowed.….

More shock­ing than the refusal to debate, was the par­ty’s curi­ous fix­a­tion with a house under con­struc­tion which is the prop­er­ty of the then oppo­si­tion leader Andrew Holness.
In order to have the issue of his finances out of the way so he could con­cen­trate on the task of win­ning the elec­tion, Holness was forced to reveal the sources of fund­ing for the pala­tial man­sion he had under construction.

Even after reveal­ing his fund­ing sources, the PNP kept up the attack on Holness, in a way which could only be defined in plain Jamaican col­lo­qui­al ver­nac­u­lar as “bad mind and grudge­ful” . The gen­er­al infer­ence from the line of attack was that there was some­thing unto­ward, some­thing nefar­i­ous , some­thing uneth­i­cal, some­thing crim­i­nal even, about the Holness’s abil­i­ty to afford a home of that size.

THE IRONY

It has now become crys­tal clear that the fix­a­tion with Holness’s house, was to cov­er up the mas­sive cor­rup­tion and graft which was hap­pen­ing in their own party.
It was a ruse designed to deflect atten­tion from where the nation’s atten­tion ought to have been focused.
This writer has con­sis­tent­ly point­ed to the cor­rup­tion which has defined the PNP and yes the JLP .
However as I have said con­sis­tent­ly, the lev­el of cor­rup­tion with­in the PNP has demon­stra­bly been con­sis­tent with sub-Saharan African and tin-pin South American klep­to­ma­ni­ac regimes .

This may be defined by the many scan­dals under it’s lead­er­ship, scan­dals high­light­ed by the con­trac­tor gen­er­al’s depart­ment. The TRAFIGURA scan­dal. Cuban light bulb scan­dal. Iran sug­ar deal. OUTAMENI. Refusal to decon­struct gar­risons. Using tax-pay­ers mon­ey as their own. and the shame­ful and dis­gust­ing abus­es of pow­er which are not seen in any oth­er nation in the hemi­sphere. This has had con­se­quen­tial neg­a­tive reper­cus­sions for Jamaicans in the way they are treat­ed par­tic­u­lar­ly in the CARICOM region.
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It is no sur­prise then that this scan­dal of pay-for-play involv­ing Chinese Contractors oper­at­ing on the Island has now come to the fore.
What per­son who knows about Jamaica is sur­prised by this?
The fact that the Chinese are alleged to have been forced to pay extor­tion mon­ey is not only shock­ing , it is criminal.
This is TRAFIGURA 2.0 on steroids.
It is impor­tant that even though the Dutch Company TRAFIGURA could not give mon­ey to a polit­i­cal par­ty of a for­eign coun­try accord­ing to Dutch laws , it was done any­way and the PNP took that money.

Yes that mon­ey was returned, but only after the Dutch Government launched it’s own probe to deter­mine whether TRAFIGURA had bro­ken Dutch laws. To date no pub­lic offi­cial with­in the PNP has been held account­able for those crimes.
To date there has been no expose’ , no clar­i­ty, no res­o­lu­tion in a case which was clear­ly a crim­i­nal accep­tance of mon­ey by the PNP from a for­eign enti­ty with which it was doing state business.
There was no ambi­gu­i­ty, it was graft. It was cor­rup­tion. It was crim­i­nal. Yet like all of the oth­er atro­cious crimes com­mit­ted by PNP func­tionar­ies ‚no one has been held account­able , no one has paid for those crimes.

It is instruc­tive that the leader of the oppo­si­tion feign igno­rance of the specifics of the trans­ac­tions even as her par­ty is engulfed in the tsuna­mi of charge and counter charge of graft-tak­ing not from out­side but from fac­tions with her own party.
She may be igno­rant in gen­er­al but not about this issue.
If ever there was a need for a spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor , this is it. We will not see a spe­cial­ly impan­eled enti­ty with pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al pow­ers how­ev­er, there is no mileage to be extract­ed by Miller as she thought was avail­able from the fraud­u­lent Tivoli inquiry.

In the same breath that Miller feigns igno­rance of the graft alle­ga­tions she is high­ly crit­i­cal of par­ty mem­bers who have leaked the scan­dal to the public.
It is absolute­ly shock­ing yet total­ly under­stand­able that this woman, who has built her­self a career as defend­er of the poor, the same woman who pre­sent­ed a fraud­u­lent finan­cial dis­clo­sure to the coun­try, would want to cov­er up this scandal.

Where is Portia Simpson-Miller’s sense of Nationalism, where is her sense of lead­er­ship, where is her sense of duty to our coun­try over her loy­al­ty to party?
Whether or not mon­ey was paid to spe­cif­ic high­ly placed PNP Ministers of the then Government and was not hand­ed over to the par­ty is hard­ly the issue here.
Even if the mon­ey was intend­ed for the par­ty , there is some­thing rad­i­cal­ly wrong with a for­eign enti­ty giv­ing mon­ey to any polit­i­cal par­ty or the other.
In fact Chinese Authorities have stri­dent­ly main­tained that Chinese laws are suf­fi­cient­ly clear . That they express­ly pro­hib­it Chinese com­pa­nies from donat­ing to any for­eign polit­i­cal parties.
Cash alters elec­tions , large infu­sions of cash alters elec­tions in fun­da­men­tal ways. . If the cash was giv­en as bribes, then it is far worse far more com­plex. On the face of it it is crim­i­nal for Government offi­cials to accept bribes ‚peri­od. To accept bribes from for­eign agents is far more consequential.

It is impor­tant now, that the present Government take the nec­es­sary steps to con­vene an appro­pri­ate inves­ti­ga­tion into what tran­spired, . It can­not be left up to the inept police and the show-boat­ing Director of Public Prosecution.
It can­not be left up to Simpson Miller’s so-called integri­ty com­mis­sion to fig­ure this one out.
It can­not be left up to a spe­cial fox to make sure that the oth­er fox­es do not eat the chick­en. It can­not be that these pub­lic ser­vants break the laws with such dar­ing and brazen dis­re­gard and not be held accountable.
The present Government can no more talk about cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal col­lu­sion in pol­i­tics if it fail to act , it is no longer in oppo­si­tion , it has the pow­er to act and it must act.

It’s elec­tion cam­paign sea­son in the United States and the talk about immi­gra­tion as a cam­paign issue seem to only be on the polit­i­cal right.
The Democratic nom­i­nee for President Hillary Clinton has thus far remained quite on the issue and cor­rect­ly so in my estimation.

On Wednesday the Republican nom­i­nee for pres­i­dent Donald Trump head­ed to Mexico to gain cred­i­bil­i­ty with white sub­ur­ban vot­ers who are not sup­port­ing his candidacy.
This is part of a des­per­ate strat­e­gy of flail­ing away at cer­tain groups in ways which are con­de­scend­ing and dis­re­spect­ful even as he claim to want their vote.
( You’re liv­ing in pover­ty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 per­cent of your youth is unem­ployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”)
Just the type of con­de­scend­ing shit one needs when con­sid­er­ing who to vote for. Well let me not be hasty, many blacks have actu­al­ly swal­lowed these over­tures at the same time they swal­lowed their dig­ni­ty, pride and self-worth.
It’s impor­tant to note that the fish whom have most dis­cernibly swal­lowed Trump vile words, drip­ping with perdition,are the impos­tors who fleece the gullible and the vul­ner­a­ble in the Black church­es on Sunday mornings.
Isn’t it remark­able how game rec­og­nizes game?
One con-man rec­og­niz­ing the con-game of the black apos­tates who pros­ti­tute and pimp the word of God on the altar of finan­cial gain and world­ly prosperity.

Lets get some­thing straight which the main stream media will not tell you, Donald Trump has not gone to Mexico because he cares about Mexicans.

(“When Mexico sends its peo­ple, they’re not send­ing their best. They’re not send­ing you. They’re not send­ing you. They’re send­ing peo­ple that have lots of prob­lems, and they’re bring­ing those prob­lems with us. They’re bring­ing drugs. They’re bring­ing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good peo­ple.”)..

Trump sees peo­ple of col­or the same way his white une­d­u­cat­ed, so-called mid­dle class blue col­lar peo­ple does.
His response to police vio­lence against peo­ple of col­or is the same as theirs .

Much of his sup­port comes from the nether reach­es of the most Nativist realm.
His record deal­ing with black and brown peo­ple is unequiv­o­cal in it’s disdain .
He can­not hide from it , that is why it’s impor­tant to under­stand that his sup­port­ers and black and brown peo­ple could nev­er exist in the same space.

The pri­ma­ry argu­ment of the black-bird-brained sell­outs is that Donald Trump told them at his Trump tow­er meet­ing that he intends to empow­er the black com­mu­ni­ty by rebuild­ing inner cities.
Okay, so there is so much we can talk about when some­one makes such a vague statement .
In the first instance the vast major­i­ty of suc­cess­ful black peo­ple do not live in inner city ghet­tos . The mas­sive hous­ing projects which house so many poor inner city res­i­dents are reser­va­tions of a dif­fer­ent name.

The Church Lady Exclusive: Did. Dr. Michael Freeman Orchestrate the Ousting of Pastor Joel Peebles from Jericho City of Praise?

Blacks hard­ly own these pub­lic hous­es, in many cas­es the term urban renew­al com­ing from white peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly some­one with a back­ground in real estate and con like Donald Trump means gentrification.
In which case they will be worse off than when the urban renew­al started.
Ask the black peo­ple who lived in down­town Brooklyn and parts of Harlem how those renewals worked out for them.
Don’t get me wrong it is great when cities are revived, but in the con­text of poor blacks it is cold com­fort when they can­not afford a place to live.

Trumps eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy, if one does exist, is no dif­fer­ent than that of Reagan, Bush, and Bush. It is sim­ply tax cuts for the rich­est peo­ple and a wish that some of their crumbs will fall from their tables to feed the rest of us.
Secondly the con­cept that Trump will be able to bring jobs back into the coun­try is the biggest lie of all.
Trump him­self makes his tacky ties and shirts in Asia and lit­er­al­ly every­thing else in which he has a fidu­cia­ry interest.

If these black-skinned sell­outs want to be tak­en seri­ous­ly they must encour­age Trump not to talk the talk but walk the walk. Lets see Donald Trump return those man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs to the coun­try first.
It is impor­tant to note that even as these sell­outs do their darnedest to sell their gullible con­gre­ga­tions back into slav­ery , one of Donald Trump’s most stri­dent sup­port­er New Jersey’s repub­li­can gov­er­nor Chris Christie just vetoed a bill which would have seen the min­i­mum wage in that state increased from $8 to $15 by 2021.
That increase would have been over a five year peri­od.… and he vetoed it !!!!

Those peo­ple who con­tin­ue to believe that Trump or any­one else for that mat­ter will return jobs which have gone over­seas are more stu­pid that we thought, they prob­a­bly deserve a pres­i­dent Trump.
Producing goods at American min­i­mum wage would see prices go up expo­nen­tial­ly for those prod­ucts. It would men small­er prof­its for com­pa­nies which man­u­fac­ture their goods over­seas and that is not about to happen.
American con­sumers could not afford to pur­chase these goods which would mean mas­sive con­trac­tion of the American econ­o­my and mas­sive job loss in the end.
And thats just the begin­ning of the down­side of such a move in the glob­al space in which we now operate.

Every American President since Ronald Reagan except Barack Obasma has tried to fur­ther enrich the rich­est among us, it would be a major depar­ture for a self-styled bil­lion­aire to betray his finan­cial class by get­ting them to cut their prof­its and return pro­duc­tion to America on the one hand while his own pol­i­cy wants to give them more tax-cuts and breaks to keep more of their money.
Donald J Trump is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

As the web­site thinkprogress​.com sees it .
In its sim­plest form, the pros­per­i­ty gospel is an American Christian move­ment that teach­es fol­low­ers they can become rich though the art of pos­i­tive think­ing — and, more impor­tant­ly, cut­ting large checks to their church and pas­tor. The con­tro­ver­sial the­ol­o­gy has long been crit­i­cized by pro­gres­sive and con­ser­v­a­tive Christian lead­ers alike, espe­cial­ly the spend­ing habits it encour­ages among min­is­ters who uphold it, such as when Creflo Dollar (his actu­al name) of College Park, Georgia, asked his con­stituents to help him buy a pri­vate jet.

The Bible did say each and every chris­t­ian will have to work out their own sal­va­tion. Left to these mon­ey grub­bing apos­tates we will be back into slav­ery in no time.

President Rodrigo Duterte has repeat­ed­ly and pub­licly crit­i­cized the United States, specif­i­cal­ly on the killing of unarmed black peo­ple by police.

During a press con­fer­ence on Sunday, Duterte sug­gest­ed that his coun­try should “sep­a­rate from the United Nations,” because the U.N. “could not con­trol America” or Russia and because the inter­na­tion­al body could not stop the killing of peo­ple in places like Syria.

“Why are you Americans killing black peo­ple there, shoot­ing them down when they are already on the ground? Answer that ques­tion,” he demand­ed. “Because even if it’s only one or two or three it’s still human rights vio­la­tion, god­damn – you tell that to that American there.”

See Also: Mass shoot­ing of 6 black peo­ple hap­pened last week, but no whites, no ‘ter­ror­ists’ – no story?

The press con­fer­ence took place after two United Nations human rights experts crit­i­cized Duterte for his hard­line drug cam­paign in which hun­dreds of peo­ple have died in extra­ju­di­cial killings of drug sus­pects since he was elect­ed last May.

Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said that Duterte was known as a “plain speak­ing” politi­cians but said that “with regard to us look­ing or turn­ing a blind eye to human rights abus­es or pos­si­ble human rights abus­es in the Philippines, I can assure you that that’s not the case.” http://​the​grio​.com/​2​0​1​6​/​0​8​/​2​7​/​p​h​i​l​i​p​p​i​n​e​s​-​p​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​-​s​l​a​m​s​-​u​s​-​f​o​r​-​k​i​l​l​i​n​g​-​b​l​a​c​k​-​p​e​o​p​le/ 

Harriet Tubman allegedly carried a pistol , she was also quoted as saying she freed several thousand blacks and she could have free thousands more if only they knew they were slaves.
That was a profound statement made during the days of slavery . It is a profound statement today.

Blacks Have Everything To Lose Under A Trump Presidency As Does Most Everyone Else.….

I recent­ly wrote about Donald Trump’s can­di­da­cy and the ludi­crous notion that Trump wants to serve the African American com­mu­ni­ty. Even more galling is the idea that any self respect­ing black would sit across a table to share a dis­cus­sion with this big­ot­ed buffoon.
More than once Donald Trump was cit­ed for refus­ing to rent to blacks and Latino ten­ants. Donald Trump has lent legit­i­ma­cy to myr­i­ad white suprema­cy groups across the country.
I do not wish to re-lit­i­gate the 70 years his­to­ry of Trumps lega­cy of racism and big­otry against African Americans, which includes but is not con­fined to the Central Park five who were jailed for crimes they did not com­mit. In that case Donald J Trump spent $85 ‚000 on news­pa­per ads against the four young black men and one Hispanic, in which he called for the death penal­ty for them.
The accused were mere 14 and 15 year old boys at the time.

Donald Trump can­not hide from his life­time of big­otry and hatred, includ­ing his birther cam­paign which sought to de-legit­imize the first African American President.
So why is Donald Trump try­ing to make it seem he is mak­ing a legit­i­mate out­reach for African American and Latino votes?
The fact is he is not.
Donald Trump is cer­tain­ly not try­ing to cater to Black or Latino vot­ers. Donald Trump’s cam­paign is about Nationalism, Nativism , the Brexit move­ment ‚and a return to white suprema­cy. In fact the leader of the Brexit move­ment Nigel Farage cam­paigned with Trump in Mississippi on Wednesday.

Neither Trump nor his cam­paign are look­ing to re-brand, what Steven Bannon and oth­er Trump han­dlers are doing is typ­i­cal of a cam­paign in free-fall . They real­izes it is los­ing even worse than Mitt Romney was. Even if you set aside the National polls, which some repub­li­cans will tell does not mean much, unless when they are lead­ing, they real­ize he is los­ing white edu­cat­ed women, a group Mitt Romney won.
It’s hard to see a path to 270 elec­toral votes in the elec­toral col­lege for Donald Trump in light of the present tra­jec­to­ry of the poll num­bers. Never mind nation­al polls it’s the bat­tle­ground states that mat­ter, and Hillary Clinton is clean­ing his clock.

The new Trump strat­e­gy is designed to make Trump seem palat­able to this group of vot­ers who may feel some­what queasy about sup­port­ing some­one who has shown out­right big­otry and racism. The new man­age­ment team is hop­ing that even if these mod­er­ate repub­li­can edu­cate vot­ers are not in love with their can­di­date they will effec­tive­ly hold their nose and vote for him.
In order to make that hap­pen Trump needs a few black and brown props to fin­ish the cha­rade, so on Thursday he had a meet­ing at Trump Tower with some black and Latino peo­ple who had no prob­lem being props for what Donald Trump wants to accomplish.

“The num­bers are going up with the African-American com­mu­ni­ty rapid­ly,” Trump said at a round table meet­ing with black and Latino activists in New York. “I’ve always had great rela­tion­ships with the African-American com­mu­ni­ty. I’ve made it such a focal point.”
Okay , I guess when you begin with zero a sup­posed 1% blimp on the radar is some­thing to crow about. Notwithstanding Donald Trump would have to erase decades of demo­c­ra­t­ic sup­port and affil­i­a­tion in just over 60 days to get to where Mitt Romney was in his los­ing bid for the pres­i­den­cy, a fact which can­not be lost on the Trump people.
Those who allowed them­selves to be used as Props on Thursday may have got­ten all they are going to get in this photo-opp .

You can­not pur­port to care about chick­ens so to save chick­ens you place them in the Fox Pen.
How does black vot­ers fit into the same spaces in which Trump’s sup­port­ers exist? Black peo­ple have been beat­en and kicked out of Trump ral­lies, with his urging.
’ ”Get them out­ta he , I love the old days, in the old days they would be tak­en them out­ta her on stretch­ers’ ” Trump jeers.
He admon­ish­es and exco­ri­ate “Black Lives Matter activists.
He speaks about inner cities as war zones to be brought under con­trol through police empowerment.
How does the litany of white Nationalists groups which have pledged sup­port for Trump exist with their arch ene­my black people,.
They sim­ply don’t!

These are not the words and actions of a can­di­date seek­ing to bring African-Americans into the par­ty . Even if there is some degree of truth to some of the state­ments Trump makes, he is absolute­ly not the can­di­date to bring those argu­ments to the fore.
I have no prob­lem with some melanin props act­ing against the inter­est of the black com­mu­ni­ty. They have a right to be props to a big­ot­ed dem­a­gogue . It must be under­stood that they do not speak for the black com­mu­ni­ty, they are with Trump for their own self interest.
Harriet Tubman must be turn­ing in her grave, say­ing I always knew it.….….….….

“What the hell do you have to lose?”
“You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose?”

The fore­gone was the lead-in of Republican nom­i­nee for President Donald J Trump.
Trump was speak­ing at black vot­ers from Dimondale, Michigan — a pre­dom­i­nant­ly white sub­urb of Lansing.

Lets set aside the gall and temer­i­ty of this media cre­at­ed buf­foon for a sec­ond, lets take a breath and rebut what this moron has been peddling.
In the process I will bor­row some­thing my wife wrote in response to this bit of Republican dog whis­tle to their infan­tile base.

Blacks are liv­ing in racism, not pover­ty..26% of Blacks are in pover­ty, so 74% aren’t in pover­ty. 18.7% of Black youth between the ages of 16 and 19 are unem­ployed (prob­a­bly because they are in school!). Black women are the most high­ly edu­cat­ed group of folks in the U.S. Black peo­ple-even though liv­ing through racism (direct and indi­rect), eugen­ics, the inten­tion­al ghet­to-iza­tion of our Black neigh­bor­hoods by the infil­tra­tion of drugs, over polic­ing, and denial of resources…we still rise!!! We are incred­i­ble!!! Trump and those who sup­port him can con­tin­ue to send out their dog whis­tles to their base (white suprema­cy groups and oth­ers who are threat­ened by the chang­ing face of America from white to brown), but hope­ful­ly Black peo­ple won’t lis­ten to Trump try­ing to con­vince us that we are worth­less, and have noth­ing to lose! The prob­lem is sys­tem­at­ic racism; not the Democrats!
Hum hum.….….……

Donald Trump had ample oppor­tu­ni­ties to build a rela­tion­ship with black vot­ers if he want­ed to . The Black com­mu­ni­ty though not polit­i­cal­ly mono­lith­ic, is quite capa­ble of under­stand­ing when it is being disrespected.
Appointing a few reli­gious hus­tlers or some real­i­ty show sell-out to speak for, or on behalf of the black com­mu­ni­ty, does not cut it for blacks anymore.

The fact of the mat­ter is that the Black com­mu­ni­ty vote Democratic because the Republican par­ty has been open­ly hos­tile to the black com­mu­ni­ty for the decades since Lyndon Johnson signed the 1968 civ­il Rights act into law.
As Malcolm X said “we did not land on Plymouth Rock , Plymouth rock land­ed on us”. Blacks did not desert the Republican Party, the Republican Party desert­ed Blacks.
Why did Republican Presidential can­di­date Richard Nixon not offer a hand to spring Republican Dr Martin Luther King out of jail?
Politically expe­di­ent it was yes, but John F Kennedy did .…King was sprung from jail and black peo­ple took note. Lyndon Johnson went fur­ther and signed the sin­gle most impor­tant piece of leg­is­la­tion since the Emancipation procla­ma­tion and Blacks real­ly took notice.
Whites aban­doned the Democratic par­ty in droves and the die was cast.
And no please do not talk to me about the par­ty which freed the slaves. If it was­n’t expe­di­ent for Lincoln he would not have freed the slaves , but that’s a sep­a­rate con­ver­sa­tion for anoth­er day.

Lyndon Johnson knew that he would lose the south when he signed the civ­il rights bill into law, he did it anyway .
To date Democrats still can­not win the south. Southern states vote straight red.
The ques­tion is this.
What is it about Blacks hav­ing their God giv­en right to dig­ni­ty and self deter­mi­na­tion that so offend Republicans ?

Trump is fol­low­ing in a long line of Republican pres­i­den­tial hope­fuls who have dis­re­spect­ed Black Americans and fine-tuned the art of dis­re­spect of the com­mu­ni­ty into a ral­ly­ing cry and a white vote-get­ting part of their campaigns.
From Nixon to Reagan and even Herbert Walker Bush, not to men­tion the long list of failed “also ‑rans”>

Donald Trump has a his­to­ry of dis­dain and hatred of Black Americans, no one for­gets Trump’s full page ad, demand­ing the death penal­ty for four black youths and one Hispanic who were arrest­ed and even­tu­al­ly con­vict­ed for assault­ing and rap­ing a jog­ger in cen­tral park in 1989. The young men spent over 12 years in jail before a ser­i­al rapist con­fessed to the crime .

Trump spent upward of $85,000 in media adver­tis­ing between the New York Times , the Daily News, New York News Day and of course the New York Post.
In his dia­tribe against the young men,Donald Trump said quote ”I want to hate these mug­gers and mur­der­ers,” Mr. Trump wrote. ”They should be forced to suf­fer and, when they kill, they should be exe­cut­ed for their crimes.’
The young men were 14 and 15 years of age at the time Donald J Trump want­ed them lynched, it nev­er occurred to him that they may have been inno­cent as they most cer­tain­ly were.
The Donald Trump of today still refer to Mexicans as rapists and mur­der­ers. It’s his modus operan­di, demean­ing peo­ple he believes are beneath him, or with whom he disagrees.

The Mayor of NYC Ed Koch said then, ”We must not con­fuse tough pun­ish­ment with hatred,” Mr. Koch respond­ed in a state­ment read by an assis­tant press sec­re­tary, Larry Simonberg. ”I think he’s on the wrong track. He has a right to express his opin­ion. He’s express­ing hatred and I’m express­ing anger. There’s a big dif­fer­ence.” Nytimes​.com
Donald Trump is yet to apol­o­gize to the young men . Many peo­ple believed Trump’s racist ads poi­soned the jury pool result­ing in the guilty ver­dicts. Additionally crit­i­cal excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence was kept from lawyers defend­ing the teens.
Almost 13 years of their lives wast­ed away because of a hate­ful , venge­ful and igno­rant demagogue.

Donald Trump has not changed a thing about his atti­tude toward Blacks. With increas­ing inci­dents of Black men and women being mur­dered by police , Donald Trump took the deci­sion to state his unequiv­o­cal sup­port for police, with­out speak­ing to the ram­pant unjust and ille­gal killings by police.

In oth­er words Donald Trump wants police to con­tin­ue doing exact­ly what they are doing . In fact Trump has stat­ed that he wants police to have mil­i­tary weapons to bring inner city res­i­dents under control.
He has reori­ent­ed his polit­i­cal cam­paign brand­ing him­self the law-and-order candidate.
On Friday August 5^th Hillary Clinton addressed a joint con­ven­tion of black and Hispanic jour­nal­ists, Donald J Trump who was invit­ed to attend decid­ed to skip the event. So too did he skip an invite from the NAACP and sev­er­al oth­er tra­di­tion­al Black organizations.
They were not wor­thy of his time.
How exact­ly does Donald Trump now pre­tend to want the Black vote?
Or does he?
Is Donald Trump mere­ly using black vot­ers to appear more rea­son­able to white edu­cat­ed sub­ur­ban Republican voters?

Joe Watkins a Republican who served under President George W Bush said Trump will not attract African America votes by telling blacks they have nowhere to go so they should vote for him. Watkins chid­ed Trump for refus­ing to deal with the issue of African American men and women los­ing their lives at the hands of the police.
Watkins went on to say that Trump has missed oppor­tu­ni­ty after oppor­tu­ni­ty includ­ing meet­ing with Mark Morreale of the National Urban League,The NAACP the Black and Hispanic Journalists and oth­er groups.
It’s great to see Watkins com­ing to his senses.
Donald J Trump does not give a rats ass about the Black vote , he is los­ing and los­ing bad­ly , that includes the edu­cat­ed mod­er­ate repub­li­cans he need if he is to have a chance of winning.
That’s not hap­pen­ing , he is des­per­ate and his rhetoric will only get more dis­joint­ed as elec­tion day draws closer.

Donald Trump’s response to the unprece­dent­ed amounts of blacks killed by police each year is to call for more dra­con­ian and tougher mea­sures against inner city res­i­dents. Trump wants mil­i­ta­rized police occu­py­ing American cities with the heels of their jack­boots on the necks of black Americans.
That’s Donald Trumps idea of mak­ing America great again . The prob­lem is that Donald Trump does not have enough angry, racist , xeno­pho­bic, misog­y­nist, whites to get him into the white house.
He is ask­ing Blacks to con­tribute to their own extinc­tion, at least in this country.

People are less inclined to be swayed by what oth­ers say and more about what they do. Even as Trump tries to mine black votes using crude entreaties ‚what is telling about who he is, is the com­pa­ny he keeps.
Rudolph Giuliani the for­mer Republican Mayor of New York city whose career as may­or impressed only some white new Yorkers and police. Giuliani divid­ed up the city pit­ting one race against the oth­er and using the police as his pri­vate army.

Newt Gingrich for­mer Republican speak­er of the house and long time race-baiter. Stephen Bannon, the for­mer Breitbart news exec­u­tive chair­man is now his cam­paign ceo. Breitbart news is some­thing of a far right, of the far right, as it relates to Republican talk­ing points rather than a cred­i­ble news entity.
These are only a few of the peo­ple Donald Trump has sur­round­ed him­self with, not exact­ly peo­ple who have the inter­est of Blacks at heart.

Even as Trump rais­es the rent for offices in Trump Towers, that his cam­paign rents from him­self, so too has Trumps Presidential run been about rais­ing his pro­file for his own gain.
Either way he will come out a win­ner , the polit­i­cal process will for­ev­er be scarred for Donald Trump’s candidacy.

The World looks on as America grapples with the Frankenstein it created, yet from all indications has no ability to control or even to predict what it is capable of ..

How did we get to a place where the Republican can­di­date for pres­i­dent is so tox­ic that even the Republican Governor of the state of Ohio , the state which host­ed the repub­li­can con­ven­tion did not attend the convention?
It is a legit­i­mate ques­tion because it may explain the rea­son nei­ther of the for­mer liv­ing repub­li­can pres­i­dents , both named Bush, attend­ed either.
The list of Republicans jump­ing the Trump ship is astounding .
On Monday August 1^st, life­long Republican Sally Bradshaw , for­mer Chief of Staff to Former Florida Jeb Bush decid­ed she will be vot­ing for Democrat Hillary Clinton in a close Florida con­test . It must be also not­ed that her for­mer boss Jeb Bush stat­ed that he will not vote for Trump , nei­ther will he vote for Clinton.
As if that was not enough, Donald Trump’s child­ish response to gold star par­ents Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s state­ments at the DNC on Monday drew sharp repu­di­a­tion from for­mer Vietnam POW and Arizona Republican sen­a­tor John McCain a for­mer pres­i­den­tial can­di­date himself.
Another big name Republican to dis­tance her­self from Trump is Mary Matlin for­mer George W Bush advis­er, and wife to demo­c­ra­t­ic oper­a­tive James Carville.

Each American has a sin­gle vote to cast, so in the greater scheme of things an indi­vid­ual refus­ing to vote for Trump may not deter­mine whether or not Trump gets elect­ed the 45^th pres­i­dent of the United States .
However ‚when promi­nent repub­li­can oper­a­tives and elect­ed offi­cials decide to leave the par­ty or sit out the elec­tions it speaks vol­umes about the qual­i­ty of the nom­i­nee of that party.

SO HOW DID THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE COUNTRY ARRIVE HERE?

Lets first estab­lish that a Trump Presidency would have dis­as­trous con­se­quences, not just for America but for the entire world.
Since the start of the repub­li­can pri­maries Donald Trump has said and done things which would have doomed any oth­er can­di­date. It is impor­tant to note that Trump dec­i­mat­ed 16 oth­er can­di­dates whom many con­sid­ered immi­nent­ly qual­i­fied to be pres­i­dent of the United States.

Donald Trump has had one polit­i­cal faux-pas after anoth­er ‚yet noth­ing seem to shake the sol­id wall of sup­port Trump has. We will come back to that.
On Sunday July 31^st Donald Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not invade The Ukraine . The prob­lem with that asser­tion is that Russia has already invad­ed Ukraine.
There are some who believe there is some sort of con­spir­a­cy between Donald Trump and the Russian leader. The idea behind that think­ing is that Donald J Trump is a Manchurian can­di­date being sup­port­ed by the Russians to do Putin’s bid­ding after he is elect­ed to the presidency .
I did not believe Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan Muslim Manchurian can­di­date who want­ed to destroy America , I do not believe Donald Trump is either.

I believe Donald Trump sim­ply has no idea what he is talk­ing about.
Trump had no idea what Brexit was . He did not know what the nuclear tri­ad was . Trump had no idea that Russia was already in Ukraine.
Evidence of this is that Trump has began to crit­i­cize the for­mat and dates of the pres­i­den­tial debates because he knows fun­da­men­tal­ly that his blus­ter will not cut it in an one-on-one debate with Hillary Clinton. Not only that he lied that the National Football League has writ­ten to him crit­i­ciz­ing the deci­sion to have the debates on dates that NFL games are scheduled.
The NFL has pushed back say­ing they have writ­ten no such let­ter to Trump. For the record the debate sched­ule is arrived at by a non-par­ti­san group which has not alle­giance to either Clinton or Trump.
Trump is not only prov­ing to be a blovi­at­ing nar­cis­sis­tic bul­ly he is reveal­ing an even dark­er patho­log­i­cal side which must scare well mean­ing people.
The fact is that Donald Trump behind the blus­ter and brava­do is no fool but a can­di­date for pres­i­dent who nev­er both­ered to learn the things of the world out­side business.
Trump knows his weak­ness and he intends to blus­ter and bul­ly his way until he is stopped. Thus far no one has stepped up to the school-yard bul­ly and punch him in the nose.

Donald J Trump is not only dan­ger­ous because of his thin berth of pol­i­cy knowl­edge. He has no idea of the val­ue of the Nato Alliance to peace. He is dan­ger­ous because as it relates to for­eign pol­i­cy Donald J Trump is a total dunce.
A dumb pres­i­dent is a pres­i­dent who can, and will be manip­u­lat­ed by those behind the throne.
What’s remark­able is that none of what Trump does will dis­suade a sin­gle vot­er who fol­low and stand faith­ful­ly at air­port hang­ers as he arrives like a pres­i­dent in his own ver­sion of air force one, his name ghar­ish­ly embla­zoned as an indi­ca­tion of his suc­cess.. Those vot­ers do not care about any­thing Trump says . He says what they want to say .
In fact I believe most of them have no idea what Trump stand for. What they care about is that Trump say he will poke his fin­ger into the eye of the peo­ple they do not like. And he will build a wall to keep out those peo­ple and let Mexico pay for it.
Much of the so-called angst has been well stirred up and enhanced by Tea-par­ty right wing nativist who blame every­one for their problems.
Not even estab­lish­ment repub­li­cans have been spared. Governors , Senators and busi­ness peo­ple were sum­mar­i­ly dis­patched by those vot­ers dur­ing the repub­li­can pri­maries and caucuses.

WHY IS THAT ?

For the over eight years that Barack Hussein Obama announced his can­di­da­cy for the pres­i­den­cy , AM talk radio and FOX has beat­en the drums of racial hatred and mis­in­for­ma­tion on a twen­ty four hour continuüm.
These Trump vot­ers, most­ly white non-col­lege edu­cat­ed are baked in, they are not going to vote for a demo­c­ra­t­ic woman and they cer­tain­ly not about to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Since Obama’s can­di­da­cy we have seen the emer­gence of the Tea-par­ty nativist wing of the repub­li­can par­ty which has lit­er­al­ly gob­bled up and destroyed respect­ed repub­li­can lead­ers who worked across par­ty lines to get things done.
Those peo­ple want­ed no com­pro­mise , they want­ed total grid­lock in Washington . The likes of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are part of that block of US Senators and Congressmen who went to Washington to gum up the works.
It is remark­able that many of these very same peo­ple who claim they need blue col­lar jobs vot­ed to elect these polit­i­cal anar­chists to office. These are the elect­ed Republican rep­re­sen­ta­tives who would not pass a con­struc­tion bill which would have put many of them back to work. The real­i­ty is that they did not want roads bridges and tun­nels built and repaired by Barack Obama the black Democratic president.
They start­ed with by remov­ing repub­li­cans like Pennsylvanian Senator Arlen Specter. Former Indiana sen­a­tor Richard Lugar. Virginia rep­re­sen­ta­tive and house major­i­ty leader Eric Cantor. and sev­er­al oth­ers, all of whom fell to chal­lenges from their right.
The idea was to nul­li­fy Obama’s pres­i­den­cy by not allow­ing any leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ment under his pres­i­den­cy. Mitch McConnell allud­ed to that , say­ing his num­ber one objec­tive was to make Obama a one term pres­i­dent. On that Mitch McConnell the sen­ate major­i­ty leader failed at his one goal.
According to the south­ern pover­ty law cen­ter https://​www​.spl​cen​ter​.org/ a group which tracks hate groups , there has been a sig­nif­i­cant increase in hate groups since Barack Obama’s ascen­dan­cy to the pres­i­den­cy. This is anoth­er met­ric of the poi­so­nous rhetoric which has been fed to that part of the pop­u­la­tion for eight years non stop.

About This So Called Blue Collar Anger…

BAKED IN
Donald Trump’s sup­port is lit­er­al­ly baked in, the sup­port he enjoys did not come from any­thing Trump accom­plished . It came from years of anti-Obama rhetoric. Donald Trump is mere­ly a mega­phone for the so-called white blue-col­lar work­ers. These are the very same peo­ple who see a black fam­i­ly in the white house, they saw a black man head­ing the jus­tice depart­ment only to be replaced by a black woman. They see a black man as head of home­land secu­ri­ty. They see their neigh­bor­hoods gas sta­tions and cor­ner stores all run by peo­ple of col­or with fun­ny sound­ing names and even fun­nier accents.

They are not all bad peo­ple, they are not all racist peo­ple. Many of these peo­ple are no dif­fer­ent than you and me, but every­thing they once knew has changed and con­tin­ue to change. They are frightened.
It would be sim­plis­tic to sug­gest that they are sim­ply red­necks who refuse to change. Some are , but in my esti­ma­tion the biggest fac­tor affect­ing this demo­graph­ic is a chang­ing econ­o­my they do not understand.
In the arti­cle fea­tured above I spoke to some of the accom­plish­ments of President Barack Obama.
The stock mar­ket is in record ter­ri­to­ry. The Auto indus­try bet­ter than it has ever been. Over ten Million jobs cre­at­ed. The list of Obama’s accom­plish­ments are com­mend­able. Especially for a pres­i­den­cy which had to do with unprece­dent­ed obstruc­tion­ism from the repub­li­can con­gress. That obstruc­tion extend­ed even to state-hous­es where Republican Governors refused to allow ordi­nary cit­i­zens basic health care.
The ques­tion now in light of Hillary Clinton’s con­ven­tion bump which places her ahead of Donald Trump in nation­al polls , is whether there are enough of those angry white no-col­lege edu­cat­ed to give a car­ni­val bark­er the high­est office on the plan­et and the nuclear codes to boot?

Truth be told as the two political conventions came to a close last night the difference in tone and optics were as stark as night and day.
If you are a middle American steel worker, or factor worker who cannot find a job, the message coming out of the Republican gloom-fest is just what you want to hear.
If you believe Immigrants are boogeymen, that President Obama is a Manchurian president, (who isn’t a real president) planted to destroy America. If you believe Obama is doing nothing about defeating ISIL. And if you believe the millions of jobs created under Obama’s Presidency did not happen, then I can see how Donald J Trump is an attractive candidate to you.

It’s quite easy to sus­pend real­i­ty if one is pre­dis­posed to believ­ing the likes of ser­i­al phi­lan­der­er Newt Gingrich and Race-bait­ing Rudolph Giuliani, a for­mer Presidential can­di­date who failed to win a sin­gle del­e­gate are cred­i­ble voic­es on where America should go.

Look-we can con­tin­ue to beat this drum of insan­i­ty, sus­pend­ing com­mon sense when we con­tin­ue to say the same stu­pid old things cycle after cycle expect­ing that repeat­ing a lie enough changes it to truth.
John McCain said it best in 2008, speak­ing to those so-called rust belt vot­ers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio: The jobs aren’t com­ing back.

No one was born a steel-work­er, no one was born a fac­tor work­er. As I have said repeat­ed­ly- cows do not eat and wait for the grass to regrow so they may eat again; they keep mov­ing. No one was born a steel-worker.
Lets be real, under Barack Obama 12.8 mil­lion jobs were cre­at­ed; that is not only fan­tas­tic, it must be viewed in spe­cif­ic contexts.
This hap­pened after the worst reces­sion since the great Depression . It hap­pened against Republican blan­ket obstruc­tion­ism. It hap­pened while many jobs which peo­ple took for grant­ed tra­di­tion­al­ly dis­s­a­peared from the econ­o­my; not only because of glob­al­iza­tion but because of advances in technology.

Millions of jobs gone, ♦Toll col­lec­tors ♦Bank tellers♦ Librarians ♦ Supermarket check-out clerks♦ Lithographers♦ Store Clerks♦ We could go on and on about the mil­lions of jobs which have dis­s­a­peared because of tech­nol­o­gy. When you add the jobs out­sourced based on labor costs , you begin to get a bet­ter pic­ture why Wall street is doing just fine while Main Street isn’t.
This is the oth­er side of open­ing up to the glob­al mar­ket­place. Yes we may be able to sell more goods per-se , but there are far more work­ers com­pet­ing for less jobs, that dri­ves down labor costs.
Making America great again is an unat­tain­able mirage; much like Reagan’s shin­ing city on a hill was.

If peo­ple want to believe in a metaphor­ic unreach­able Utopia, they are enti­tled to do so. That how­ev­er will not place food on the table, keep a roof over their heads or send their chil­dren to school.
Understanding the chang­ing dynam­ics of the 21^st cen­tu­ry glob­al econ­o­my will. That means rec­og­niz­ing as Senator McCain said years ago “those jobs are not com­ing back.”
Seeking retrain­ing and reori­ent­ing one­self in a chang­ing world will.

Being angry, hate­ful and mad is a not a strat­e­gy for sur­vival. Demagoguery, stereo­typ­ing , fin­ger point­ing, and hatred is nev­er a strat­e­gy for sur­vival. Adaptability is.
When peo­ple can­not find jobs they can­not feed their fam­i­lies and that is heart break­ing . It can rea­son­ably be said that in Silicone Valley there is hard­ly a short­age of opportunities.
According to indeed​.com The Silicon Valley, CA job mar­ket is strong com­pared to the rest of the US. Over the last year, job post­ings in Silicon Valley, CA have increased by 10% rel­a­tive to a nation­al decline of 32%.
Those facts speaks exact­ly to the need for retrain­ing and a dif­fer­ent mind­set about employment.

Before the American West was won pio­neer­ing prospec­tors set out in cov­ered wag­ons push­ing ever more west­ward . Many had high hopes of strik­ing it rich as prospec­tors of Gold and oth­er pre­cious metals.
Some did find gold and oth­er pre­cious met­als, the vast major­i­ty did not.
Travelling with those enter­pris­ing prospec­tors were peo­ple who sold shov­els and pick-axes. People who shined shoes and oth­ers who repaired the hooves of horses.
All across the heart­land and fur­ther west small one hoss towns emerged .
The Barber, the Blacksmith, The motel own­er. The Saloon own­er, and yes the undertaker.

That was the spir­it of America-an under­stand­ing that peo­ple can shrug off what they held dear, set aside old com­fort lev­els and set out on new paths, in new places, with new possibilities.
What Donald Trump offers is fear instead of strength, anger instead of focus, despair instead of enthusiasm.
Voters can decide which way they want to go and they will.….

Donald Trump in press conference ongoing , Tim Kaine Hillary Clinton’s running mate has been a disaster for New Jersey[sic].
Yes America this is potentially your new President.
Trump called on Russia to hack into America’s systems.
If this does not shock voters I have no idea what will .….

If what we just heard from Donald Trump does not send a shiv­er of dread down the spine of the American peo­ple and the world what will ?

I could not believe what I heard . Trump open­ly called on Russia , “Russia if you are lis­ten­ing “he then went on to encour­age them to hack into Hillary Clinton’s email accounts.

The floor of the Republican National Convention erupt­ed into chaos Monday amid an attempt by the Never Trump forces to change the rules of the event. With del­e­gates erupt­ing into duel­ing chants of “roll call vote” and “USA” on the floor, the chair has just forced a voice vote on the rules and they passed. Each group shout­ed “aye” or “nay” and the chair select­ed what he thought was the loud­est group. This is despite anti-Trump efforts say­ing they had sig­na­tures to have a state-by-state roll call vote on the rules. Delegates Unbound, which was hop­ing to let GOP del­e­gates vote for whomev­er they choose, said today they have the sup­port nec­es­sary to force a roll call vote on the rules pack­age. This would have been a minor, incre­men­tal step towards unbind­ing pledged del­e­gates who are com­mit­ted to vot­ing for Donald Trump but would like to vote for anoth­er can­di­date. If this had step suc­ceed­ed, del­e­gates on the floor would have need­ed to reject the entire rules pack­age passed by a rules com­mit­tee ear­li­er today, send­ing it back to the com­mit­tee for reconsideration.

The up-or-down vote on the rules pack­age com­ing late this after­noon is tra­di­tion­al­ly han­dled by voice only. “Despite every obsta­cle thrown in our way, the move­ment of all the stake­hold­ers involved in this effort have gained a major­i­ty of the del­e­gates in 10 states,” Delegates Unbound co-founder M. Dane Waters said in a state­ment today. “Now we take this fight to the floor.” According to Rule 39, a roll call vote may be called if a major­i­ty of at least sev­en states demands a vote on the floor.
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As a prag­ma­tist I am not one to cel­e­brate announce­ments, I’ve inclined to ass­es hard evi­dence of action. It is with that mind­set that I am reluc­tant to take com­fort in the words of min­is­ter of nation­al secu­ri­ty Robert Montague in his address to the par­lai­ment that the Government “will not shirk” in the war against lawlessness.

“Let me be very clear, this min­is­ter and the min­istry he leads are not afraid of the forces of law­less­ness and the crim­i­nal king­pins in this coun­try,” Montague told the House of Representatives in his pre­sen­ta­tion in the cur­rent Sectoral Debate. “We will not shirk in this war against those who would chal­lenge the author­i­ty of the State and bring untold ter­ror to the peo­ple. We have a duty to pro­tect all cit­i­zens of this coun­try and every vis­i­tor or investor who steps on our shores,”

This is not the extent of Minister Montague’s state­ments but I will abstain from dwelling in, or ele­vat­ing blah blah .…
What I find inter­est­ing is that as crime and vio­lence increas­es the Political oppo­si­tion is deaf­en­ing­ly silent.
Do I under­stand the poten­tial mileage that the oppo­si­tion can lever­age if the admin­is­tra­tion fails in this or any oth­er area?
Of course!
Yet I am appalled that pol­i­tics could trump a cohe­sive com­ing togeth­er of both polit­i­cal par­ties on this crit­i­cal issue. I believe both Laborites and Comrades are dying, on that alone I ques­tion at what stage will the leader of the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion or any­one on that side of the isle speak out against the per­va­sive crime and vio­lence which is tear­ing the Island apart.
After going through the blah blah blah pro­nounce­ments the min­is­ter made I found some­thing with which I could asso­ciate myself .

https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​j​a​m​a​i​c​a​n​s​-​b​u​r​y​-​h​e​a​d​s​-​s​t​r​a​t​e​g​y​-​d​e​a​l​i​n​g​-​c​r​i​me/

The Government will seek to have all gun mur­ders clas­si­fied as cap­i­tal mur­der, but will reduce or elim­i­nate sen­tences in cas­es where plea bar­gain­ing leads to cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion to retrieve guns or dis­rupt the trade in the weapon. He said that the Government will be pur­chas­ing track­ing dogs from Cuba to help in the search for drugs and weapons, and increased tech­nol­o­gy will be used in all aspects of polic­ing; a nation­al CCTV sys­tem is com­ing; more non-lethal weapons will be deployed;”

(1)  This Government under­stands the sit­u­a­tion; we acknowl­edge the crit­i­cal role of secu­ri­ty to the growth agen­da, and we know the fear of our peo­ple. We can­not con­tin­ue this way,”.
(2) While there is no “mag­ic wand, quick fix, or sil­ver bul­let”, the nation has to join hand in hand, “unit­ed and com­mit­ted” to take back the coun­try from criminals.
(3) “Our over­seas broth­ers and sis­ters are think­ing twice before they come home”.
(4)The coun­try did not get to this state overnight, and the solu­tion will not be overnight.
(5) We can­not bury our heads in the sand.
(6) Crime accounts for sev­en per cent of Jamaica’s gross domes­tic prod­uct, he said: “If we reduce crime we can grow the econ­o­my with­out invest­ing an extra dol­lar. Crime not only affects every­body, it’s very cost­ly to everyone.”
(7) Mandatory min­i­mum sen­tences for gun crimes, traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion, based on the type of weapon involved.

This medi­um and this hum­ble blog­ger has con­sis­tent­ly made these points for years. Unfortunately my calls have fall­en on the will­ful deaf ears of the past administration.
Thankfully this admin­is­tra­tion has allowed itself the com­mon sense to lis­ten to voic­es which are not only com­ing from the polit­i­cal talk­ing heads on the Island or the self-aggran­diz­ing elites who wish­es to impose their ill-informed way of think­ing on an entire nation.
With that said, rec­og­niz­ing these points we have raised here this medi­um will now expect con­crete and sub­stan­tive action in mak­ing them a reality.….
We will now await both the howls of con­dem­na­tion on these crit­i­cal point­ers, as well as the diar­rhea of objec­tions from the Monday morn­ing quar­ter­backs and the vil­lage lawyers.

Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extreme­ly care­less” in han­dling clas­si­fied data over a pri­vate email serv­er while she was sec­re­tary of state, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday — but the FBI is rec­om­mend­ing that no charges be brought against her. Comey said his agency found more than a hun­dred emails con­tained infor­ma­tion that was clas­si­fied at the time they were sent and received — emails which should not have been on “any kind of unclas­si­fied sys­tem,” Comey said. He also said the FBI con­sid­ered it pos­si­ble that Clinton’s email domain had been hacked by a “hos­tile actor.”

Clinton’s use of a per­son­al email account and pri­vate serv­er to con­duct offi­cial busi­ness has already been crit­i­cized by the State Department’s inde­pen­dent watch­dog group as a vio­la­tion of depart­ment policy.

The FBI spent months inves­ti­gat­ing whether the pre­sump­tive Democratic nom­i­nee inten­tion­al­ly or neg­li­gent­ly mis­han­dled clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion on her per­son­al email account and pri­vate server.

IT’S ALL POLITICS

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton’s Email Defense Is A Mixed Bag

Clinton has said that she nev­er used her per­son­al email to send infor­ma­tion that was marked clas­si­fied at the time, although some of her emails had been retroac­tive­ly classified.

Comey says that’s not true. Of 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department in 2014, FBI inves­ti­ga­tors found 110 emails con­tain­ing infor­ma­tion that was clas­si­fied at the time the email was sent. Eight of those were top secret, the high­est lev­el of clas­si­fi­ca­tion. Those emails should nev­er have been sent on any kind of unclas­si­fied sys­tem, Comey said. He fur­ther point­ed out that Clinton’s per­son­al email set-up involved no full-time secu­ri­ty staff — like she would have ben­e­fit­ed from if she had been on a gov­ern­ment sys­tem, or even just on Google’s Gmail service.

Another 2,000 emails have been retroac­tive­ly clas­si­fied since they were sent, Comey said.

POLITICS

Hillary Clinton’s Emails: 5 Questions Answered

And by por­ing over email frag­ments on servers and access­ing the email archives of gov­ern­ment employ­ees, inves­ti­ga­tors also found sev­er­al thou­sand work-relat­ed emails that were not includ­ed in the 30,000 emails Clinton released to the State Department in 2014. Three of those new­ly-dis­cov­ered emails con­tained clas­si­fied information.

But, Comey said, the FBI did not find any indi­ca­tion that those emails had been inten­tion­al­ly con­cealed from investigators.

“Our assess­ment is that, like many email users, Secretary Clinton peri­od­i­cal­ly delet­ed emails or emails were purged from the sys­tem when devices were changed,” Comey said. “Because she was not using a gov­ern­ment account — or even a com­mer­cial account like Gmail — there was no archiv­ing at all of her emails, so it is not sur­pris­ing that we dis­cov­ered emails that were not on Secretary Clinton’s sys­tem in 2014, when she pro­duced the 30,000 e‑mails to the State Department.”

Indeed, he not­ed that it was like­ly there were even more work-relat­ed emails that Clinton’s lawyers had missed in 2014, and the FBI could not find on servers or oth­er email archives. Those emails would be “gone” now, because of the way Clinton’s lawyers “cleaned their devices,” Comey said. But he not­ed that the FBI did not find any evi­dence of inten­tion­al mis­con­duct by Clinton’s lawyers.

Comey also said that, while the FBI found no direct evi­dence that Clinton’s email was hacked by a for­eign par­ty, “it is pos­si­ble that hos­tile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s per­son­al email account.”

Cyberattacks on Clinton’s email would be so sophis­ti­cat­ed that inves­ti­ga­tors would­n’t be like­ly to see traces of them, Comey said. And since Clinton fre­quent­ly used her pri­vate email while trav­el­ing “in the ter­ri­to­ry of sophis­ti­cat­ed adver­saries,” as Comey put it, the FBI views it as pos­si­ble that her account was compromised.

Investigators did find evi­dence that “hos­tile actors gained access to the pri­vate com­mer­cial e‑mail accounts of peo­ple with whom Secretary Clinton was in reg­u­lar con­tact from her per­son­al account,” he said.

Comey had harsh words for the care­less­ness on dis­play by Clinton, her staff and the State Department in general.

POLITICS

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton Met Amid Email Investigation

But, he said, “although there is evi­dence of poten­tial vio­la­tions of the statutes regard­ing the han­dling of clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion, our judg­ment is that no rea­son­able pros­e­cu­tor would bring such a case.” In “sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances,” some­one might face secu­ri­ty or admin­is­tra­tive sanc­tions, he said, but not crim­i­nal charges. As a result, the FBI is rec­om­mend­ing to Justice Department pros­e­cu­tors that no charges be brought against Clinton. That out­come is not unusu­al, as NPR’s Carrie Johnson has report­ed: Top offi­cials rarely face crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion for vio­lat­ing laws on clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion. But Tuesday’s press con­fer­ence was out of the ordi­nary in anoth­er way.

FBI rec­om­men­da­tions to pros­e­cu­tors aren’t usu­al­ly released to the pub­lic, as Comey said, but this case has been sub­ject to an extra­or­di­nary lev­el of scruti­ny. The FBI announce­ment — which, Comey said, had not been coör­di­nat­ed with or preap­proved by the Justice Department — comes less than a week after a con­tro­ver­sial unsched­uled meet­ing between U.S. attor­ney gen­er­al Loretta Lynch and for­mer President Bill Clinton. Lynch said the meet­ing was innocu­ous, and did­n’t include any con­ver­sa­tions about the inves­ti­ga­tion into Hillary Clinton. But after bipar­ti­san furor over the encounter, Lynch announced she would be accept­ing the rec­om­men­da­tions of career pros­e­cu­tors and the FBI in the case.  http://​www​.npr​.org/​s​e​c​t​i​o​n​s​/​t​h​e​t​w​o​-​w​a​y​/​2​0​1​6​/​0​7​/​0​5​/​4​8​4​7​8​5​5​8​6​/​f​b​i​-​r​e​c​o​m​m​e​n​d​s​-​n​o​-​c​h​a​r​g​e​s​-​f​o​r​-​h​i​l​l​a​r​y​-​c​l​i​n​t​o​n​-​i​n​-​e​m​a​i​l​-​s​e​r​v​e​r​-​c​ase

I wait­ed for it won­der­ing when it was going to come, I knew as night fol­lows day it was just a mat­ter of time before some brave-heart steps to the fore and demand the head of Commissioner Carl Williams on a platter.
And then it hap­pened, July fourth I awoke in a lit­tle hotel room in South Carolina, checked the Jamaican papers as I always do most morn­ings. This morn­ing I had more time on my hands , Aaah the fourth of July , no work for me I closed the lit­tle pat­ty shop and took the fam­i­ly on a Southern Road trip cul­mi­nat­ing in the Palmetto state.

The Observer Article was unmis­take­ably clear Take action or go, sen­a­tor tells police chief .
Government sen­a­tor Charles Sinclair , a for­mer Montego Bay may­or, in a state­ment yes­ter­day, said “It is becom­ing clear­er by the day that the com­mis­sion­er of police is out of his depth” as he has mis­in­ter­pret­ed the pro­pos­al for a state of emer­gency to help reduce crime in St James.“For him to have inter­pret­ed the pro­pos­al to cau­ter­ize the run­away mur­der rate with a state of emer­gency to mean it being the panacea to fix the prob­lem is disin­gen­u­ous to say the least.”

Okay there you have it, that response came after the Commissioner of Police Doctor Carl Williams was report­ed to have reject­ed the idea of a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency as a response to the spate of killings in Montego Bay and it’s envi­rons. Commissioner Williams is report­ed to have said that a state of emer­gency is not a panacea to the crime sit­u­a­tion there, as the prob­lem is social.
The Commissioner cor­rect­ly asked, after the state of Emergency , then what?
If I want to go shoot some­one or rob a busi­ness-place but I learned that the streets are flood­ed with cops , I believe I would stay put until they leave.
A state of emer­gency is a band-aid approach which does noth­ing to sus­tain­ably elim­i­nate crime, it tamps it down for the dura­tion of the exer­cise until the secu­ri­ty offi­cers leave.
The cost ben­e­fit analy­sis weighs heav­i­ly in not hav­ing one, pri­mar­i­ly because it is in-sus­tain­able and prob­a­bly does more harm than good.
They end up trau­ma­tiz­ing res­i­dents when their move­ments are cur­tailed and their pri­va­cy invad­ed. This inevitably has the oppo­site effect and fur­ther alien­ates the police from the com­mu­ni­ties they serve.

CRIME WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR.….……really?

Let me first say that I have had my share of crit­i­cisms of Commissioner Williams, who by the way is the most qual­i­fied Commissioner of Police any­where in the west­ern Hemisphere . I have from time to time said he can accom­plish much more with what he has if he does a bet­ter job of mak­ing sure his top heavy high com­mand get out of the offices where they make grand pro­nounce­ments and noth­ing to back them up.

I have also stat­ed on sev­er­al occa­sions that he can do a bet­ter job of ensur­ing that his mid­dle man­agers get into the streets and super­vise the young offi­cers , which is a con­fi­dence boost­er to young offi­cers when their super­vi­sors are on scene.
However let it be know that when it comes to crime fight­ing, and police work I am going to toss my lot in with the Commissioner of police over a john­ny-come-late­ly who believes crime must be addressed now, on his demand. I do not know Carl Williams per­son­al­ly but lit­er­al­ly every­one I have spo­ken to, includ­ing peo­ple whose judge­ment I trust have tes­ti­fied to his integri­ty and ded­i­ca­tion to duty.
So before we pro­ceed I want to ask mis­ter Johhny-come-late­ly to match his resume’ on crime fight­ing against that of Carl Williams, Lawyer or not !!!

According to Sinclair A state of emer­gency, accord­ing to Sinclair, would reflect a pol­i­cy deci­sion of Government which facil­i­tates the State giv­ing addi­tion­al pow­ers, resources human and oth­er­wise to the Jamaica Constabulary in the parish to cau­terise the esca­lat­ing mur­ders. “At this moment there is a tremen­dous fear fac­tor in the cit­i­zen­ry; chil­dren are unable to go to school as they are afraid to cross the imag­i­nary bound­aries in com­mu­ni­ties; peo­ple are afraid to go out to church, resource and com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres can­not car­ry on pro­grams as par­tic­i­pants are fear­ful in going out to the events. If it is not police action that restores calm and peace in the first instance and in the short­est pos­si­ble time, I don’t know what else can do so,” he said In sup­port of his posi­tion Sinclair allud­ed to reports out of El Salvador where the mur­der rate was cut by one half in 2015 due to height­ened police activ­i­ty. He went on to say, “I guess to the com­mis­sion­er of police, Jamaica’s cir­cum­stances are dif­fer­ent.”(Jamaicaobservericom)

I fault com­mis­sion­er Williams for not push­ing the pre­vi­ous Government for a leg­isla­tive agen­da which gives him a work­ing shot at accom­plish­ing what some Jamaicans want , safe communities.

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On the oth­er hand I sup­port his view that a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency will not have the effect suf­fer­ing Jamaicans expect it to have.
As I said ear­li­er the neg­a­tives are sure to out­weigh any pos­i­tive which could poten­tial­ly be gained from a state of emergency ..
The police have con­sis­tent­ly said that the upsurge of vio­lent crime in the west­ern parish­es may be attrib­uted to the infa­mous lot­to scam­ming which has become a tremen­dous source of income for a seg­ment of the crim­i­nal under­world on the Island.
Not only has it enabled those who were pre­vi­ous­ly engaged to be flush with cash it has attract­ed a huge sud-set of vio­lent crim­i­nals who also want in on the action.
This is where Commissioner Williams and the high com­mand as well as the fed­er­a­tion should have pushed for tough leg­is­la­tion to go after scam­mers tying them togeth­er as a crim­i­nal enterprise.
Go after them that way and they will be run­ning away from being asso­ci­at­ed with any­one involved .

Additionally there is word that mem­bers of the police depart­ment are involved in the scam, some­thing which would not sur­prise me.
The fact that the police depart­ment can bare­ly find itself out of a brown paper bag makes it lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble for the affect­ed areas to see a reduc­tion in crime any­time soon.
Since Charles Sinclair has been a for­mer Mayor and now a Government Senator I would like to see what his per­son­al leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ments are, you know beyond big chat. What has he pro­posed either as may­or or sen­a­tor which has been adopt­ed legislatively ?
It would be fool­ish for any­one to believe that as a crim­i­nal lawyer and a politi­cian he does not have infor­ma­tion which could aid the police in their crime fight­ing efforts.
What steps has he tak­en to do his civic duty by say­ing some­thing when he sees something?

Many Jamaican Lawyers Are Not Above Board, They Should Not Expect To Get Special Treatment When They Break The Laws…

Is he mad at the Commissioner of Police for his fac­tu­al and unequiv­o­cal state­ments that a state of Emergency will not solve the prob­lem or is he mad because the Commissioner called out busi­ness peo­ple who are active­ly engaged in the lot­to scam.….….?
Pigs have a ten­den­cy to squeal when they get hit !!!
They can­not have it both ways , giv­ing the com­mis­sion­er of police bas­ket to car­ry water and then crit­i­ciz­ing him when the water spills out.
It makes politi­cians and polit­i­cal hacks look good when they get out front of the news and place them­selves in front of cam­eras but ask them what are the solu­tions and they have no clue.
Big words designed to impress their friends will not do a damn thing to end this scourge of crim­i­nal­i­ty and may­hem sweep­ing the Island.
Charles Sinclair has nev­er been a friend of the police so no one is sur­prised at his posi­tion. Grandstanding is what many of these mem­bers of the par­ty love to engage in.

A spade is a spade polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion be damned , Jamaica over party.

Any per­son who believes plac­ing some police and sol­diers in a com­mu­ni­ty will stop crime is a light­weight and a damn fool.
Crime has to be tack­led from Gordon House not 103-Old-Hope Road and cer­tain­ly not from a blow-hard politi­cian who does­n’t know his head from his ass.
Crime must be tack­led in a three-tiered-way, they know how to do it I believe but I doubt they want to do it , too many pow­er­ful and impor­tant peo­ple are mak­ing big mon­ey from crime on the Island.

The United States Government cre­at­ed the Rico Statute to com­bat the scourge of the Sicilian Mafia or what was known as La Cosa Nostra.
Prior to the Rico Statute which inves­ti­gat­ed , pros­e­cut­ed and incar­cer­at­ed mem­bers of New York’s Bonano, Genovese, Gambino, the Luchese and the Newark-based DeCavalcantes fam­i­lies the most author­i­ties could get mem­bers on were tax eva­sion charges.

The Feds changed the game and as Mob expert Jerry Capeci, who writes the “Gang Land” col­umn for the New York Sun, looks at the state of the four oth­er clans in the city’s infa­mous Five Families, plus the Newark-based DeCavalcantes. All have book­mak­ing, loan-shark­ing, and extor­tion rack­ets. The Genovese fam­i­ly and, to a less­er degree, the Luchese fam­i­ly (like the Gambinos) also have viable labor-rack­e­teer­ing endeav­ors that let them invest and laun­der their ill-got­ten gains in “legit­i­mate” indus­tries. Every clan has declined of late, some more than others.

Holness Should Give Gammon A Talking-to , Maybe Show Him The Door.…

Lotto scam­ming is small pota­toes com­pared to what the Mafia were doing yet no one talks about the Sicilian mafia in the United States as a force as it exist­ed years ago . Back then the streets of New York City, Newark New Jersey, Las Vegas Nevada and Chicago ran with blood from the wan­ton killings by mafia hoodlums.
Cities like Chicago still face an uphill task with gang shoot­ings, most­ly by African-American hood­lums but despite hav­ing the same pop­u­la­tion as Jamaica Chicago only records about 450 homi­cides com­pared to Jamaica’s over 1200.

There Is Need For Popular Mobilisation Against Crime

Three strikes laws placed many who would flaunt the laws away for life, though not per­fect , those laws allowed cit­i­zens to take their neigh­bor­hoods back from mur­der­ous crim­i­nals who pushed the enve­lope to see just how much they would be allowed to get away with.
Jamaican crim­i­nals are heads and shoul­ders above the police and politi­cians . They know they are favored over the police and they are exploit­ing that for all it’s worth.
There is much we can crit­i­cize the police and Commissioner Williams for , this is not it. Some of these politi­cians who are now open­ing their pie-holes and cry­ing are the most anti-police dem­a­gogues around.
Don’t come cry­ing to Commissioner Williams about gun­men it was not Carl Williams who cre­at­ed INDECOM and placed a polit­i­cal ego-mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist in charge to per­se­cute police..
Look into the mir­ror before you all begin to point fin­gers you hypocrites.