STEP UP THE PROGRESS !

Progress for whom ?
Over the years the People’s National Party has had Jamaicans fooled using catchy phras­es and jingles.
Which leads us to ask just how stu­pid are Jamaicans really?
Michael Manley’s cam­paign against Edward Seaga was one of the most divi­sive cam­paigns waged in the his­to­ry of our young Nation. In fact it could rea­son­ably be argued that it was dur­ing Michael Manley’s divi­sive for­ay into Jamaican pol­i­tics that the chasm which exist today developed.

MY FATHER BORN YA !!!
Michael Manley waged a vis­cous and vis­cer­al cam­paign against the JLP’s Edward Seaga who was born on 28 May 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Philip George Seaga and Erna (née Maxwell), Seaga’s par­ents returned to Jamaica with Edward when the boy was three months old. [wikipedia].
George Nooks a reg­gae singer and PNP sup­port­er penned and made pop­u­lar a song titled ‘my father born ya’ which became the National anthem for the PNP in it’s racist cam­paign against Edward Seaga.
Never mind that Michael Manley’s grand­fa­ther T.A.S. Manley was the son of a white Anglo-Saxon trad­er who migrat­ed from Yorkshire England.

There was noth­ing in the Jamaican Constitution which pre­clud­ed or barred Seaga from rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al pol­i­tics because of his American birth. Remember Seaga’s par­ents returned to their native Jamaica when their son was a mere three months old.
The Constitution appro­pri­ate­ly bars a for­eign nation­al with alle­giance to a for­eign Country from hold­ing polit­i­cal office in Jamaica.
This did not apply to Edward Seaga a Jamaica. Yet Michael Manley and his Party did not care they divid­ed the coun­try along par­ty lines, racial lines and along eco­nom­ic lines.
HOLNESS’S HOUSE A PRODUCT OF ENVY MANLEY SOWED…..

Jamaica has always been a melt­ing pot of dif­fer­ent peo­ple of all dif­fer­ent back­grounds. One of the defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics of Jamaicans regard­less of eth­nic­i­ty , is our vehe­mence about our Jamaican-ness.
None of the unique­ness of our vehe­ment Jamaican-ness mat­tered to Michael Manley he was pre­pared to win at all cost.
Edward Phillip George Seaga was paint­ed and depict­ed as an un-Jamaican inter­lop­er who should not be trusted.
Every neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tion was attached to Seaga with a view to mak­ing him less Jamaican than the major­i­ty black African pop­u­la­tion, or not Jamaican at all.

The PNP dis­sem­i­nat­ed lies and pro­pa­gan­da which claimed that Seaga was a tool of the Central Intelligence Agency . He was spo­ken of pejo­ra­tive­ly as ‘Spyaga’, despite the fact that Seaga had invest­ed more time and effort toward the devel­op­ment of Jamaica and it’s cul­ture in ways Manley could only dream of .

The char­ac­ter assas­si­na­tion lev­eled against Bruce Golding and lit­er­al­ly every oth­er mem­ber of the JLP deserv­ing or not, has always been the ‘modus operan­di’ of the People’s National Party.
When a par­ty has noth­ing sub­stan­tive to offer it cre­ates diver­sions intend­ed to inflame passions.

It is with­ing that con­text that we must assim­i­late this brouha­ha sur­round­ing Andrew Holness’s home. Recently I wrote that Jamaica is head­ed in the direc­tion of the 70’s .
JAMAICA HEADING BACK TO THE DARK DAYS OF THE 1970’S…

It was that very same spir­it of envy which char­ac­ter­ized Manley’s reign which Andrew Holness is being forced to address.
This notion that peo­ple who work hard , plan and suc­ceed are wicked cap­i­tal­ists is still alive in Jamaica. The idea is that those who suc­ceed should give half of what they have to lazy peo­ple who look to Government for hand­outs, is alive and well. In fact they no longer want half they sim­ply kill and take what they want.
Hence the mur­der sta­tis­tics to a cer­tain degree.
The idea of cast­ing doubt on suc­cess, or that suc­cess­ful peo­ple derived what they have through less than hon­est means is reprehensible.
Either way the PNP is not the par­ty to be point­ing fingers.
It’s Integrity Commission a mis­nomer is in need of an integri­ty overall.

Now that Holness have revealed his sources of fund­ing for his project, let see if Portia Simpson Miller Percival Patterson , Peter Phillips and oth­ers will divulge the source of their incred­i­ble wealth.
Either way it may not mat­ter to an une­d­u­cat­ed elec­torate whose inter­est is focused large­ly on the very next meal .
This is the lega­cy of the People’s National Party. This is the endur­ing and indeli­ble stink this Party has on embed­ded in Jamaica.

There were steps tak­en by Michael Manley’s Socialist régime of the 70’s which are direct­ly impact­ing Jamaica over four decades lat­er . These steps have had tremen­dous con­se­quence, and are still impact­ing the con­tem­po­rary body-politic.

MOBILIZATION

The People’s National Party mas­tered the art of mobi­liz­ing in the 70’s. One of Michael Manley’s strengths was his abil­i­ty to bring peo­ple along with him on his ideas.
Not just that, Manley was able to mobi­lize his par­ty, from the high­est placed func­tionary to the least edu­cat­ed grass-roots sup­port­er to buy into what he was selling.
Among the left­ists lead­ers who dot­ted the land­scape of the time, from Latin-America , the Caribbean, to the dis­tant shores of Africa ‚no Leader was more gift­ed in mobi­liz­ing the masses.
With soar­ing rhetoric and his deep bari­tone deliv­ery Manley ignit­ed the down-trod­den mass­es of Jamaica the Caribbean and around the Globe.
Today Jamaicans and parts of the Caribbean still think of Michael Manley as a Messiah who came with a mes­sage of Self-reliance and self-deter­mi­na­tion for the poor­er class of peo­ple large­ly peo­ple of African Ancestry.
A detailed non-biased look at this per­cep­tion how­ev­er yields much more than that which meets the eyes.
The results how­ev­er would have to be con­sid­ered by an edu­cat­ed elec­torate capa­ble of sift­ing through the pro­pa­gan­da with a view to har­vest­ing poten­tial nuggets of value.
When the entire­ty of the pros and the cons are con­sid­ered objec­tive­ly, the rhetoric may not match the facts.
Hans Christian Andersen’s “Pied-Piper of Hamlin” did free the Town of rats but he also led the entire town’s chil­dren away. Those chil­dren were nev­er seen again.
Some Jamaicans did gain a degree of free­dom from the shack­les of men­tal Colonialism but the inno­cence , peace, and progress the coun­try lost has not been seen since.
You do the math.

PROPOGANDA

The PNP under­stood that whomev­er con­trolled the mes­sage con­trolled the masses.
Michael Manley and the PNP went about politi­ciz­ing exist­ing Media-hous­es of the day and cre­at­ing oth­ers for the pur­pose of mass indoctrination.
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, (JBC) , Radio and Television for all intents and pur­pos­es became arms of the PNP.
Under Manley the Jamaica Daily News was cre­at­ed , a now defunct news­pa­per which was com­plete­ly ded­i­cat­ed to indoc­tri­nat­ing the mass­es with the Governing PNP’s agenda.
The Jamaica Information Service(JIS), anoth­er Government Medium was politi­cized and used in the most vul­gar ways to dis­sem­i­nate PNP propaganda.

MALIGNING

Under Michael Manley Jamaicans who worked hard and acquired mate­r­i­al pos­ses­sions were maligned and made out to be greedy Capitalists who did not deserve to have the pro­ceeds of their labor.
Manley and the PNP active­ly taught poor Jamaicans that they were enti­tled to have half of what­ev­er their neigh­bors owned as part of his Socialist philosophy.
Jamaica was for­ev­er changed because of this, many Jamaicans who had inher­it­ed some mate­r­i­al pos­ses­sions and oth­ers who ben­e­fit­ed through the sweat of their brows feared for their lives and they fled in droves.
Manley’s brig­ands moved into their homes, a move which lit­er­al­ly ghet­toized once pris­tine neigh­bor­hoods. This is a trend which Jamaica has not been able to reverse.
Many Jamaicans were killed for no oth­er rea­son than that they had mate­r­i­al possessions.
That rapa­cious men­tal deprav­i­ty is pret­ty much par for the course in con­tem­po­rary Jamaica, where peo­ple are sum­mar­i­ly slaugh­tered, even when their assailants need not take their lives.
Just recent­ly an elder­ly cou­ple who returned to the Island became vic­tims of that depravity.
The ongo­ing debat­ed about a house the leader of the Opposition Labor Party Andrew Holness has under con­struc­tion is anoth­er exam­ple of the depraved envy which char­ac­ter­ize the very core of the PNP.
It is incom­pre­hen­si­ble and shock­ing­ly cyn­i­cal that the PNP would ques­tion any­one’s integrity.
The PNP has been a can­cer­ous cesspool of cor­rup­tion which has sucked the life-blood from the once thriv­ing Island, reduc­ing it to a waste-land of beg­gars and mur­der­ous blood-thirsty demons.
I have no idea where Holness sourced the fund­ing for the house he is build­ing. Neither do I know where Portia Simpson Miller earned the sup­posed US$20 mil­lion she is worth.
Neither have intel­li­gent Jamaicans above” cur­ry goat and Red-stripe Beer” learned the where­abouts of bil­lions of dol­lars which have dis­s­a­peared in the litany of scan­dals under the cur­rent PNP administration.

PATRONAGE
Manley’s machis­mo on behalf of the down-trod­den should not be con­sumed with­out a full under­stand­ing of cap­tured homes and prop­er­ties, their own­ers hav­ing fled out of fear for their lives.
Let’s bring some per­spec­tive to this cha­rade which has metas­ta­sized for too long. Let’s push back against the revi­sion­ist historians.
Jamaica is enjoy­ing the bit­ter fruits of Manley’s labor.
Whatever good was derived from Manley’s tenure must be mea­sured against the neg­a­tives which emanat­ed after.
Open your minds and think.

Every President has a Constitutional duty and a respon­si­bil­i­ty to appoint jus­tices to the Supreme Court as well as oth­er courts in the Federal sys­tem when­ev­er vacan­cies occur.
Elections have con­se­quences, becom­ing President of the United States is a big deal . As Vice President Joe Biden would say it ” this is a big f*****g deal”.
Every President has the right to his/​her agen­da, that includes appoint­ing suit­able jus­tices to fill vacan­cies in the fed­er­al court system.
No jurist is ever big­ger that the process. No President has more pow­er than another .
In fact President Obama who has replaced two asso­ciate jus­tices to the supreme court has done an out­stand­ing job in select­ing Sonia Sotomayer and Helena Kagan who were both con­firmed by the senate.

RIGHT WING HYPOCRISY

It is stun­ning ‚yet not sur­pris­ing to hear Ted Cruz and the oth­er Cuban Marco Rubio , two Republican can­di­dates for President imme­di­ate­ly demand that the next President(not Obama) appoint a suc­ces­sor to Antonin Scalia who recent­ly passed away.
For the record Antonin Scalia fought tooth and nail to dis­man­tle every sin­gle piece of leg­is­la­tion which would seek to reverse over four hun­dred years of racial injus­tice in America.
Lets be clear , despite the plat­i­tudes and the hand wring­ing you will hear from the lame stream media going for­ward, to include so called Democrats, Antonin Scalai rep­re­sent­ed exact­ly what is wrong with America.

President Obama in his role as the leader of the coun­try came out and paid trib­ute to Scalia as he was expect­ed to, (God bless him he is a bet­ter man than I am). The President said he would ful­fill his con­sti­tu­tion­al duties by appoint­ing a suc­ces­sor to Scalia in due course.
For the sake of clar­i­ty what I find dis­gust­ing about Ted Cruz and to a less­er extent the oth­er Hispanic Marco Rubio , is the length to which they will go to pre­tend they are more American than every­one else.
Ted Cruz runs on the notion that no oth­er can­di­date is as Con- ser­v­a­tive as he is , in fact sev­er­al of the oth­er can­di­dates have crit­i­cized him and label­ing him a liar.
Cruz’s own law pro­fes­sor from Harvard called him out for being a fair weath­er con­sti­tu­tion­al­ist. Everything is only as good as Ted Cruz say it is. No one is as con­ser­v­a­tive as Ted Cruz . The guy is an ego-mani­ac and a nar­cis­sist , that makes him dangerous.
Is it any won­der that this guy want to car­pet-bomb oth­er coun­tries into submission?

Ted Cruz is run­ning to be President of the United States of America, Barack Obama is the twice-elect­ed President of the United States of America. Neither Ted Cruz nor the rest of the right-wing noise machine gets to deter­mine whether the President appoint a suc­ces­sor to Scalia or not . That is the con­sti­tu­tion­al per­og­a­tive of the President of the United States and not a self cen­tered Republican Senator from Texas.

The debates com­mis­sion in Jamaica has announced that debates between the lead­ers of the two major polit­i­cal par­ties sched­uled for Tuesday February 16^th has been called off.
The debates com­mis­sion took the action because the People’s National Party failed to respond con­firm­ing it’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the debates.
In the mean­time the PNP has attached pre­con­di­tions to it’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the debates, which has noth­ing to do with the debates.

♦In the first instance Prime Minister Simpson-Miller refus­es to par­tic­i­pate in the debates unless Opposition leader Andrew Holness apol­o­gize to her for refer­ring to her as the “biggest con artist Jamaica has ever seen”. Additionally she has threat­ened legal action against the Opposition leader claim­ing she has been dam­aged by his characterization.
♦ What the pub­lic may not know is that it was Miller who referred to the Opposition Leader’s 10-point plan as “con-job”,which pre­cip­i­tat­ed the Opposition Leader’s response.
♦ The Finance Minister Peter Phillips not to be out­done demand­ed that Opposition Leader Holness divulge the source/​s of fund­ing for his house which is under con­struc­tion in the Saint Andrew Community of Beverly Hills.
Both of these excus­es are ridicu­lous red-her­rings which has zero to with debat­ing the issues ger­mane to the future of the Island . Notwithstanding, this posi­tion tak­en by the PNP demon­strates a “don’t care, drunk with pow­er, atti­tude and the dis­dain with which it holds the Jamaican electorate”. 

If the PNP has ques­tions about the leader of the Opposition’s ethics, a debate stage is exact­ly the place to air those griev­ances and allow the Jamaican peo­ple to decide.
It rings hol­low that Prime Minister Simpson-Miller who refused to speak to the Press for the four years she has been in Jamaica House would now con­tend the reason/​s she is refus­ing to debate the leader of the oppo­si­tion is about things the oppo­si­tion leader should do, or has­n’t done.
The facts are clear , the Prime Minister has presided over a cor­rupt régime which has been plagued with graft, gross incom­pe­tence, neg­li­gence and ram­pant corruption.
It is insult­ing to the elec­torate that the incom­pe­tent and and clue­less Simpson-Miller would be allowed to hide behind PNP cre­at­ed smoke-screens and get away with it.
Much less be reward­ed with a sec­ond term.
Jamaica is not Simpson Miller’s pri­vate Property nei­ther is it the pri­vate domain of the PNP and it’s gang-land affiliates .
As such, Miller must forth­with attend the debates and answer ques­tions or resign.
What this cheeky and bla­tant dis­re­spect for the process reveals is that Jamaica is a Banana Republic which is ruled by third rate semi-lit­er­ates who have no respect for the rule of law.
Peel back the thin lay­er of veneer and the Sub-Saharan style fief­dom is exposed . Our Country is being run like a gang­land enclave ruled by threats, intim­i­da­tion and violence.

Debates are nei­ther about Holness nor Miller .They are about the peo­ple. Debates are job interviews , .
No can­di­date or par­ty seek­ing office should have the pow­er or indeed the free­dom to say I am not debat­ing with­out con­se­quence> No can­di­date for a job can say to his/​her prospec­tive employ­er I am not inter­view­ing for the job just trust me. It is the most bla­tant dis­dain that a rag-tag polit­i­cal cult can so dis­re­gard the intel­li­gence of the elec­torate by attach­ing pre­con­di­tions to answer­ing ques­tions the media would pose on the peo­ple’s behalf. This is an affront to the dig­ni­ty of the process which can­not stand.

With National Elections only 13 days away it is interesting to know what path the Jamaica Labor Party has to a victory .

On December 29^th 2011 National Elections were held in Jamaica .
Before the night was too far gone it became clear that Simpson Miller and the People’s National Party would form the next Government.
Though Elections were not con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due until September of 2012, Andrew Holness the sit­ting Prime Minister sought his own mandate.
It was a deci­sion which will be in the mind of Holness forever.
The JLP received a one sided drubbing.
In a 44 to 19 shel­lack­ing the jad­ed , tired and out of ideas PNP was returned to pow­er, much to the sur­prise of many includ­ing the PNP itself.
It is still believed that the PNP’s pop­ulist embrace of Gays and Lesbians was the cat­a­lyst which decid­ed the elec­tions in the PNP’s favor.

It begs the ques­tion then “what pop­ulist mes­sage has the JLp which will erase a 25-seat deficit and give the par­ty a one seat majority”?
Jamaican vot­ers are known to be hard-core in their polit­i­cal beliefs, switch­ing their vote only when their per­son­al pantries and cup­boards are emp­ty of food.
This obser­va­tion may not be the most char­i­ta­ble and may even be seen as dis­re­spect­ful of the electorate.
I chal­lenge dis­senters to point to Jamaican vot­ers vot­ing the inter­est of the coun­try over par­ty and their bellies.

The rul­ing PNP has mas­tered the art of pop­ulist pol­i­tics since Jamaica became an Independent Nation[sic].
Michael Manley was a mas­ter of it,Portia and the par­ty acolytes have con­tin­ued that trend.
It was no sur­prise to see Portia Simpson Miller on the Party’s plat­form in Half-Way-Tree Square cham­pi­oning the pos­si­bil­i­ty of gan­ja legalization.
These are huge­ly pop­ulist issues which has tremen­dous res­o­nance for the mass­es many of whom use the weed.
The JLP did not get out front on this issue, so the ques­tion is,“what is the plan to erase the deficit”?

In 72 Hungry Jamaicans scared of Communism boot­ed Manley from office.
By 88 with filled bel­lies and the Cold war over they returned Manley to power.
For an unprece­dent­ed ¹⁴¹⁄₂ years they watched as Patterson and his cronies sold off every­thing. Crime climbed to astro­nom­i­cal lev­els. The econ­o­my lurched from cri­sis to cri­sis and the cur­ren­cy became a worth­less piece of crap.
In that time the very nature of our coun­try changed . Our coun­try was changed from a mod­el in the Caribbean and indeed the world to a pariah.
In many cas­es even CARICOM States do not want Jamaicans in their countries.

Under immense pres­sure, hunger , crime , despair and depri­va­tion Jamaicans turned to Orette Bruce Golding on September 11^th 2007.
The JLP was returned to power.
But just barely.
Despite a col­laps­ing world econ­o­my Audley Shaw and the JLP kept the Jamaican cur­ren­cy sta­ble despite the absence of an IMF deal.
Notwithstanding, the elec­torate returned the PNP to pow­er despite the fact that the par­ty had noth­ing to offer but more despair crime and pover­ty for every­one except it’s elites and gang­land affiliates.

It’s nev­er enough to assume that over­all suf­fer­ing for aver­age Jamaicans will cause them to turn to the oth­er party.
The PNP has an intri­cate net­work of affil­i­ates from the grass-roots to the most sophis­ti­cat­ed areas of the soci­ety ready to go to bat for the PNP .
It is no won­der that Peter Phillips is the sup­posed man of the year.
It is no won­der that the Private sec­tor Organization makes state­ments in sup­port of the Administration.
It is no won­der that for the most part the media hous­es are organs for the party.
Every aspect of nation­al life has been cor­rod­ed with the cor­ro­sive ten­ta­cles of the Governing People’s National Party.

In lieu of the fore­gone it is almost a safe bet to con­clude that unless the Labor Party knows some­thing the rest of us are not privy to, the PNP will be returned to pow­er come February 25^th.
I hope for the future of our coun­try that I am proven wrong but I doubt that very much.
The JLP was nev­er forced to seri­ous­ly defend seats in parish­es like Saint Thomas, St Catherine, Hanover, Clarendon, Portland, Trelawny, and to some degree Manchester.
It is dif­fi­cult to see how the JLP intend to win this elec­tion if it has to defend stren­u­ous­ly in these parishes.
How did these parish­es become com­pet­i­tive parish­es in which the PNP has won and won big?
That’s the issue to consider !
But then again what the hell do I know?

As the tra­di­tion­al car­ni­val spec­ta­cle of elec­tion time cam­paign­ing kicks into high gear, Jamaicans fill the high­ways and byways in auto­mo­bile car­a­vans criss-cross­ing the Island in seem­ing rivers of green and orange bodies.
Yet under­neath the car­ni­val atmos­phere are more sin­is­ter events occur­ring which eludes the die-hard laborites and kum­reds[sic] with the excep­tion of those pulling the strings.

The Island’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller rose from the poor­er class through affil­i­a­tions and patron­age to occu­py the high­est elect­ed polit­i­cal office in the Island’s par­lia­men­tary demo­c­ra­t­ic system.
Miller climbed through the rough and tum­ble pol­i­tics which char­ac­ter­ize the Manley régime of the 70’s ‚the lethar­gic ret­ro­grade and cor­rup­tion filled reign of Percival James Patterson to cul­mi­nate in that lega­cy being hand­ed off to her.
Through it all many peo­ple have come to know Portia as a less than qual­i­fied per­son to lead the coun­try , but also to real­ize just how pow­er­ful patron­age pol­i­tics is in the island nation of 2.8 million.

NO DEBATES?
Throughout Miller’s career var­i­ous descrip­tive words have been used to describe her that are far from com­pli­men­ta­ry. Her con­duct in pub­lic to those in the know, has been far from exem­plary and in many case could be ade­quate­ly described as abra­sive and the behav­ior of a crass virago.
It is on this basis that it is stun­ning that Miller would have the gall to threat­en legal action against Andrew Holness the Opposition leader for refer­ring to her as the biggest con-artist the coun­try ever had.
It was Miller who labeled Holness’s 10-point plan as a con job.

This bla­tant attempt at intim­i­da­tion from Miller and her legal team is par­tic­u­lar­ly hyp­o­crit­i­cal con­sid­er­ing Miller’s his­to­ry of call­ing Holness Enemy of the state and a pletho­ra of oth­er unsa­vory names.
Despite this hypocrisy there is more.
Portia Simpson Miller intends to use the legal sys­tem as anoth­er tool of the PNP to quite dis­sent on the Island.
Between the thugs in the street and the Courts on the oth­er end it appears Jamaica is head­ing once again to the dark days of the 70’s when Michael Manley locked up almost the entire polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion and death squads sum­mar­i­ly exe­cut­ed any­one dar­ing to stand with the oppo­si­tion par­ty in public.

HERE’S THE ISSUE.
The leader of the Opposition was asked to respond to the Prime Minister’s com­ments about his pro­posed 10-point-plan which she referred to as a con.
The Opposition Leader responded .
Quote: “The prime min­is­ter is the biggest con artist Jamaica has ever seen,”.
This is what she is suing about, accord­ing to her kum­red lawyer Bert Samuels.

NO ONE CAN REDUCE PORTIA IN THE PUBLIC’S EYE , SHE HAS DONE THAT QUITE EFFECTIVELY ON HER OWN.

The prime min­is­ter is demand­ing: “… a suit­ably word­ed apol­o­gy, approved by our client be pub­lished on Television Jamaica, in the Jamaica Observer and The Gleaner and that our client be paid dam­ages com­men­su­rate with her sta­tion in life local­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly, along with his (her attor­ney) legal costs.”
They also claim Miller is dimin­ished in the eyes of well mean­ing mem­bers of the society.
Note to Bert etal, you should be ashamed to file this despi­ca­ble brief as a so-called respect­ed mem­ber of the bar. When was Miller ever ele­vat­ed in the eyes of the pub­lic (not PNP)?
What you and well mean­ing mem­bers of the soci­ety should be con­cerned about is not the lega­cy of a char­la­tan but the hijack­ing of our democracy .
Threatening not to debate the leader of the oppo­si­tion based on Faux indig­na­tion reveal to the world that Miller is a less than qual­i­fied cow­ard­ly oppor­tunist who will do any­thing , includ­ing dimin­ish our demo­c­ra­t­ic process to hold onto power.

This medi­um hold no brief for Holness but it is a despi­ca­ble yet trans­par­ent attempt on the part of the sit­ting Prime Minister to avoid fac­ing the nation, using the legal process as a cam­paign tool .
As an offi­cer of the Court Samuels and the oth­er Attorneys should hang their heads in shame . It is vast­ly more impor­tant to work toward improv­ing our fledg­ling democ­ra­cy than to engage in this bla­tant un-demo­c­ra­t­ic act. You should hang your col­lec­tive heads in shame.

The Congressional Black Caucus in the US Congress is set to endorse Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Choice for President of the United States.
The Congressional Black Caucus polit­i­cal arm is geared at elect­ing Democrats to office accord­ing to Congressman Gregory Meeks of Queens New York.
This medi­um is unsure about this endorse­ment, and the tim­ing of it time in light of the fact that Democrats have not earned Black votes nor own it.
With all of the killings of unarmed peo­ple by police and oth­er mal­adies plagu­ing the Black com­mu­ni­ty the Democratic par­ty has been silent.
We will have much more to say after the endorsement.

As part of the large group of ana­lysts on CNN Tuesday night dis­sect­ing the results of the New Hampshire pri­maries , Philadelphia Democratic Mayor Micheal Nutter repeat­ed the lie “peo­ple are angry” , over and over again.
It was some­what shock­ing to see an elect­ed Democratic offi­cial sit­ting in a tele­vi­sion stu­dio regur­gi­tat­ing the garbage fed him and the rest of us by the very same net­work and oth­ers like it.

People are angry , peo­ple are angry, that’s the media nar­ra­tive of course that goes down pret­ty well with Donald Trumps cam­paign slo­gan of “Let’s make America great again”
Let’s make America great again is an exten­sion of “Let’s take back our Country”.
It’s unclear whether Americans are aware just how the media to which they look for infor­ma­tion is deceiv­ing them? As we pon­der this ques­tion it’s impor­tant to under­stand the fact that what we call the main-stream-media is actu­al­ly a well put togeth­er net­work of pro­pa­gan­da organs owned and oper­at­ed by the rich­est peo­ple in the world.

It’s no won­der that for the most part sub­stan­tive issues are cast to the side while fluff and incon­se­quen­tial issues are front and cen­ter . That’s what the cor­po­rate shills want you to con­sume while they move their agenda.
How do you explain the rise of social media as the enti­ty to which more and more peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly younger peo­ple are look­ing to for their information?
Does any­one believe Donald Trump was a seri­ous can­di­date for President of the United States before the media recy­cled and cir­cu­lat­ed him over and over , foist­ing him onto the con­scious­ness of gullible voters?

It is said if you spin a lie enough times it even­tu­al­ly becomes truth. Republicans run­ning for office over the last sev­er­al cycles have mas­tered the art of lying over and again until the lies become truth. What is astound­ing is when those who posi­tion them­selves as lead­ers with­in the Democratic par­ty actu­al­ly accept the lies and end up repeat­ing them. The notion that peo­ple are angry is a Republican lie cir­cu­lat­ed by a com­plic­it media to gin up anger and rat­ings for the media and pas­sion for the repub­li­cans, which they hope will nul­li­fy Obama’s accomplishments.

So lets quick­ly see whether there is any legit­i­ma­cy to this narrative.
Under Barack Obama over 9 mil­lion jobs cre­at­ed, as against 800 thou­sand jobs being lost each month under Bush.
Vice President Biden in 2008 said ‚“In the last six months of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, we lost 3.5 mil­lion jobs,” . “As a mat­ter of fact, on that mag­nif­i­cent day … when we were sworn in, before I low­ered my hand that day after tak­ing the oath … we’d already lost over 760,000 jobs that month.”
A politi­co fact check bore out the Vice President’s claims.

Gas was $5 per gal­lon, today gas is less than $2 per gallon.
President Obama did not only save the Auto indus­try he made it stronger than ever.
He restored America’s image abroad.
There were two active wars with no end in sight, today the world con­tin­ue to be a chal­leng­ing place but Obama did not start any new wars.
The econ­o­my implod­ed by the time Obama took office, today the American econ­o­my cre­ates hun­dreds of thou­sands of jobs every month since he took office.
The Housing mar­ket has regained sig­nif­i­cant por­tions of what it lost after the melt-down.
The afford­able Care Act brought health care to mil­lions some­thing sev­er­al pres­i­dents who pre­ced­ed Obama was unable to do.
Wall street has come roar­ing back , with both the Nasdaq and the stock exchange reg­is­ter­ing phe­nom­e­nal gains.

I could go on and on but you get the picture.
So to Mayor Nutter and oth­ers, before you par­rot Republican/​media talk­ing points step back and eval­u­ate your state­ments before you become a mouth­piece of deception.
Barack Obama accom­plished every­thing he did against the great­est intran­si­gence and obstruc­tion any pres­i­dent has every had to con­tend with.
People are not angry, Republicans are mad that Barack Obama is a suc­cess­ful two-term President despite their best efforts at obstruc­tion, pro­pa­gan­da and smear.