'A Chronic Permanent Enemy is Necessary to Satisfy the War Industrial Complex, which we rely on for Economic Stability.' It is said that "the Islamic State produces potent propaganda" to inspire those who want to be deceived. [MORE] Thus far ISIS has not taken credit for the NYC attack on Tuesday. Never even considering whether anyone else could possibly be responsible for such horrible attacks, the New York Times observes that "with few exceptions, the Islamic State has not claimed attacks when a surviving recruit falls into the hands of the authorities."
“It’s as if he didn’t even exist,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, director of the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism in Paris, regarding the omission of the 10th attacker from the group’s propaganda. [MORE]
* Palestinian medics examine the body of a boy who according to Palestinian medical sources was killed in Israeli forces' operations in Gaza, at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. An Israeli bombardment hit outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, and Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died as international outrage grew over civilian deaths. AP
Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. [MORE]
From [HERE] and [MORE] Boynton Beach police officer Michael Brown and former officers Justin Harris, and Ronald Ryan sat in the courtroom with their individual defense attorneys today as federal prosecutors presented their opening statements.
Brown, Harris and Ryan are accused of assaulting one of Byron Harris’ passengers, 25-year-old Jeffrey Braswell — charged with depriving him of his rights and falsifying police records. Brown is accused of repeatedly using a police-issued revolver when he punched Braswell.
Antico, their supervisor, is accused of arranging for the officers to falsify reports about the beating and lying about it to the FBI, according to federal documents. That is, he arranged for three officers to rewrite their police reports to justify the use of force, authorities allege Antico also faces an obstruction of justice charge.
Prosecutors told the jury the trio was unaware that a PBSO helicopter was flying overhead and recording after they forced a car off the road the morning of August 20, 2014.
Prosecutors said the video showed the officers using excessive force to beat Jeffrey Braswell, and said there is evidence that all 3 officers lied on their reports as to what happened during the incident. Braswell is Black, all the officers are white.
Boynton Beach Police Chief Jeffrey Katz took the stand for hours to testify on his officers use of force and the reports they wrote to document them.
Katz testified that the report written by officer Michael Brown following the incident was inconsistent with the heat signature video provided to Boynton Beach Police.
Katz told the jury when he first saw the video it was concerning and there were enough inconsistencies that he felt the need to make two referrals, one to the state, another to the FBI.
He also testified that he didn’t want the officers to know the video existed. He told the jury he didn’t want the video to be a means for them to write their reports.
The lawyer for Michael Brown told the jury, his client never lied on any report and he admitted to punching and kicking Braswell in a use of force report.
That use of force report was brought up in court and Chief Katz said it wasn’t specific enough.
He also testified that browns narrative in the police report didn’t describe a situation where the type of force used was needed.
The trial of the three officers is expected to run into next week.
The officers face maximums of between 30 and 40 years in prison, if convicted as charged.
From [DailyHerald] A Black Metra police officer faces charges of aggravated battery after a video he gave to prosecutors showed him beating and punching a Black man at a Chicago train station.
David Robertson, 50, of Matteson, told Metra officials the 45-year-old man he arrested on charges of trespassing started the fight in 2015 at Millennium Station, authorities said.
But a surveillance video shows Robertson striking the man in the face unprovoked, spraying pepper spray at him and smacking him with a baton as two other officers joined in, Cook County prosecutors said.
Robertson's attorney Shay T. Allen said Robertson is innocent.
An investigation into the arrest was sparked by a video that Robertson filmed with his phone while watching a playback of surveillance footage in the company of other Metra police officers who laughed and offered a running commentary of the beating.
"You got him!" one police officer said during the viewing.
Elite white media and their police forces no longer even bother mentioning "the 4th Amendment" and its so-called protections against unreasonable search & seizures [contrast with the 1st & 2nd Amendments]. Anyway, white police chief Papania above said, “The officers acted reasonable with their tactics and adjusted in accordance to their observations as it developed.” “Once they were able to see children in the vehicle, all weapons were holstered and the children were directed to exit the vehicle.” [MORE]
Kelvin Fairley, his wife and four children were pulled over Sunday night after cops apparently received an anonymous 911 call from someone who reported seeing burglars in a home the Fairley's owned. The caller reported seeing "people" with flash lights, because the power was off, and "a person" leaving the home with items in a dark SUV the caller did not recognize. Evidently, the caller gave no other information such as how the break in occurred, or any description of the assailants [except that they were Blacks?].
A white patrol officer in the area saw an SUV and stopped the car, and more officers came to the scene. They asked for everyone in the vehicle to roll down the windows and show their hands, Papania said, then asked them to exit the vehicle one by one, starting with the driver.
That is, when the cop appeared and made the initial stop the 911 calller was not present - the cop just saw an SUV and stopped it. Although, the cop could not point to any particularized facts indicating that a break-in had probably occurred and any observed particularized facts indicating the persons inside the SUV had most likely committed the break-in, he nevertheless stopped the vehicle. At that time the Black family was not free to go because the cop said so.
At this point, the officer had no particularized reason to fear for his safety b/c he saw no weapons, sudden, unusual movements and the driver was in compliance with all orders to stop. On video, the white cop said 'they immediately stopped.' Nevertheless, instead of first obtaining & checking ID [to see a possible match with the ID address & house address], the white cop ordered the Black driver out at gunpoint. Then the cop without any particularized basis ordered the wife out and handcuffed them both. Although, the cops saw no weapons or ammunition in the car and had no reason to believe they were armed, apparently the cops searched them by patting them down and going into their pockets. [have you ever seen the Dylan Roof traffic stop below?]
First a few basics.
In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion. With regard to an anonymous tip, the Supremes have said that apart from the tip the officers must have a reason[s] or facts to suspect an individual of illegal conduct AND police must have predictive information that can be corroborated. [MORE] and [MORE].
In order to frisk youthe Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.
Here, the police acted on the basis of an anonymous 911 caller who had no face to face contact with the cops. They had no basis to know whether the caller's information was reliable or credible. Prior to engaging the family, the cops did not talk to anyone else on the scene and did not investigate the home for clues of a break in. In fact the Cops had very little info to try to corroborate in the 1st place; that is, cops had no info about the suspects' height, weight, hairstyle, age, sex, complexion, build, facial hair, etc. or any description of clothing such as shorts, coats, color of clothing, etc. Apparently, also no description of the "SUV" such as make, model, year, condition, color, state or tag number etc. was provided by the "unknown" caller.
The only facts cops were able to corroborate was an SUV and "Blacks" present - as there was a Black man, 2 teenagers, 2 small kids and a white woman. Not a good match. At the time of the initial stop by cops, the Black family was not free to go and the cops had no warrant. And when the white cop ordered the Black man and wife out of the car at gunpoint and handcuffed them they were clearly under arrest within the meaning of the 4th Amendment. At that point in time what crime did the cops observe them commit or what reasonable articulable facts could they point to- to establish that a crime had been committed? what were they under arrest for? Based on their limited info and all the surrounding circumstances, this initial stop, subsequent search, seizure and detention was unlawful within the meaning of the 4th Amendment - at least as it applies to white folks.
The police video provided conveniently omits footage of the initial stop (conduct prior to the stop and the initial interaction). It starts after the stop is underway. As such, the cops statements to Fairley are not on this remixed version. Footage shows things de-escalating as these cops realize they have committed a wrongful stop & detention and are busy trying to smooth shit out. Good thing Fairley didn't sneeze or do something 'to make them have fear for their safety.' Many white cops are sophisticated, masterful liars. Check out the police chief - his lies come along with a righteous indignation.
From [Wfox] and [HERE] and [HERE] A Black family said police swarmed their car Sunday night, handcuffed the newlywed couple and pulled guns on their children before determining the family lived in the house a neighbor thought was being robbed.
“I totally think they racially profiled me,” said the father, Kelvin Fairley, a registered nurse. “They never would even tell me why they stopped me. From the moment they pulled us over, there were six to seven police cars. They immediately had their guns drawn.”
Fairley said the officers told him to get out of the car with his hands up. He kept asking why they had pulled him over, but he said he got no explanation.
Kelvin Fairley and his family are in town to check out renovations on their Gulfport home.
But after [white] neighbors mistakenly thought someone was trying to burglarize the home, Fairley says a run-in with [white] law enforcement has left the family of five shaken [Black man/white wife/colored kids].
Just a few minutes after leaving the home, they were stopped by Gulfport police officers. Kelvin says that although he repeatedly asked why he was being stopped, he was simply told to be quiet.
He said he offered to show the police his identification, which would have immediately established his address was the same as that of the house reported as being robbed. But the white cops wanted no part of that.
"I turn around say, 'What's this about why did you guys stop me,' said Kelvin. "'Shut the **** and turn around. We ask all the questions.' So at that point, I keep asking of course because my wife and kids are in the car," said Fairley.
That's when police reportedly placed him and his wife Natasha in handcuffs, and held everyone - including his children - at gunpoint.
"I'm watching my 9-year-old daughter bawling her eyes out, saying she wanted her daddy, and sorry....it was rough. It was hard," he added.
"Projections Cannot Last Once Their Basic Cause is Missing." [Video -This is how you sound when you have a "jesusized" "belief" in your racism/white supremacy programming. The same kind of programming causes Black on black crime.] From [HERE] D.C. CouncilmemberTrayon White held a press conference on Friday pleading for an end to the violence in his ward.
White made his remarks to address the violence that has been happening in Ward 8. He even called it a state of emergency. His speech came just several hours after police responded to a fatal shooting in Southeast D.C. According to a police commander, a young man was shot along Hunter Place on Friday. Police believe the crime was isolated and not related to any other recent violence nearby.
Councilmember White said this is an example of the crime that happens way too often in Ward 8. At his news conference, he announced what he is calling a “Red Ribbon ceasefire.” He provided no crime data to support his beliefs.
“We are going to fight and fight. We are not giving these young men and young ladies who use automatic weapons in our communities a pass,” said White. “I know them now. Our seniors need to be cared after. Our babies need to be able to go to school – to and from safely.” [MORE] Despite a recent increase in the number of cops in the City Mr. White said Black residents want even more cops around. [MORE] The same cops from his ward were caught recently wearing t-shirts ("Vest Up, 1 in the Chamber") glorifying violence and neo-nazis inside the D.C. courthouse in July at a Black man's criminal trial. [MORE]
Additionally, alleged sister, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, at tax payer expense, opened the Safer Stronger DC Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement on October 25 to deal with the crisis. "The Safer Stronger DC Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement will focus on community-oriented, public health approaches to violence prevention, recognizing that reducing crime is not accomplished solely through law enforcement." [MORE] Wow, is Rayful Edmund back?
[These Black probots look and sound authentic because they genuinely believe in their programming - lessons engrained by their white masters on a daily basis. Both Bowser and White are bi-lingual Black probots or Black Replicants programmed in service of white supremacy; the refinement of and future of RSW. More and more you may find bots like them in postion of authority. "Belief" is a motherfucker. [Elite racists are programming Blacks to measure "blackness" by accent, hairstyle, attitude, vocabulary and other meaningless superficial personality traits. "Keeping it real" while working hard against your own interests & people is just acting out mindless programming]]
Bowswer and White are both parroting Trump and Sessions and other racists who desperately want anyone who will listen to believe crime is rampant; looking for suckers to deceive. [MORE]
“We have a crime problem,” Sessions said last month. “I wish the rise that we are seeing in crime in America today were some sort of aberration or a blip. My best judgment, having been involved in criminal law enforcement for many years, is that this is a dangerous, permanent trend that places the health and safety of the American people at risk.”
Racists want to beleive the crime rate is high and that Black people committ most of it. Racist suspects also want to believe in the 'comforting illusion that police are primarily engaged in law enforcement and that crime is fertilized by the slums and nurtured by low socio-economic status. And that only persons arrested by police are criminals.' [MORE] Importantly, racists want Black people to believe all this. Why? to big-up themselves, demean & crimiinalize us and justify this system of vast unequal power & conditions.
Contrary to propaganda, the crime rate in the U.S. is low and has been in continual decline in most urban centers for years now.
Preliminary analysis of crime data from the nation’s 30 largest cities released by the Brennan Center for Justice in Spetember suggests that there is no crime wave or "crisis." According to the center’s overview of crime and murder data, 2017 is on pace to have the second-lowest violent crime rate of any year since 1990.
The overall crime rate is projected to drop by 1.8 percent to the second-lowest point since 1990.
The violent crime rate is projected to fall by 0.6 percent, also to the second-lowest point in over 25 years. (The lowest rate was in 2014.) “This result,” the report’s authors write, “is driven primarily by stabilization in Chicago and declines in Washington, D.C., two large cities that experienced increases in violence in recent years.”
The murder rate is projected to be down 2.5 percent, on-par with the rate in 2009
In D.C., the overall crime rate is down 4 percent, with violent crime dropping by 10 percent from 2015 and a 17 percent year-to-year decrease in homicides. [MORE]. Even the murder rate in Chicago is projected to be down in 2017. Explore the center’s data for each of the country’s largest cities. [MORE] and [MORE]
Black-on-Black Crime - a psycho-political euphemism, unwittingly used and abused by African-Americans and deliberately by Caucasians, describing demographic criminal activity in general, as people commit violent crimes on people who live in closest proximity to them, and the violence mostly occurs by those and to those who are held hostage under chronic and cyclical economically disadvantaged circumstances and environments. Do you ever hear of the slogan "White-on-White" crime? Most violent crimes (by number and by percentage of population) take place by Caucasians against Caucasians. Where's the associated terminology? (See Gangbanking & Racism." [MORE]
Belief vs. Reality. According to a new Pew Research Center survey," despite double-digit percentage decreases in U.S. violent and property crime rates since 2008, most white voters say crime has gotten worse during that span. Due to aggressive propaganda from Trump and other racists this disconnect is nothing new: white Americans’ perceptions of crime are often at odds with the data.
Like other make believe stuff this disconnect really should be a matter of just dispelling ignorance, educating people about reality and such. But White people's inability to see things as they really are with regard to crime [and so much more] has to do with the power of their belief in their fantasy of white supremacy/racism.
Wilson explains, "the perpetual domination of African Americans by White Americans psychically requires the White American criminalization of the African male, i.e., the White American perception of the African male as inherently criminal." He states, 'that alleged Black criminality plays a very important role in defining the collective White American ego and personality. [MORE] Such maneuvers are necessary in order to justify racist White American community's repression of African Americans and psychodynamically defend the collective White American ego complex. [MORE]
"The White American community must maintain African subordination while not appearing to do so." 'This can only be accomplished by making it appear that the African community is dying of natural causes, not of an ingenious attempt on the part of the White American community to strangle it to death. This means that African American hands must be used to plunge White American-manufactured daggers into the hearts of African American citizens. This is the assigned role of the Black-on-Black violent criminal.' [MORE]
All beliefs are dangerous. OshoRajineesh states, 'A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to the belief. When you see things, always remember this. . . The whole game is going on in your mind, and a mind filled with belief always goes on projecting things in the world, it sees things which are not there and misses things which are there. This is the problem. The mind which believes is always vulnerable and always provides an opportunity to be exploited by the cheaters - and the cheaters are all around.' [MORE]
But what result occurs when Black people also believe in the racist propaganda, psy-ops programming or unreality? [racism has no substance]
Wilson explains, "It is not so much that the European says we are inferior and that the European maligns our character, et cetera. It is the belief on our part that what he says is true that drives us to be crazy. It is a crazy reaction to what the European says, an insane and unthinking kind of approach to dealing with what he says about us, that maintains the craziness." [MORE] and [MORE] In order to for the system of racism/white supremacy to thrive Black people must be maintained in a particular state of mind - literally kept out of our minds. [MORE]
He further explains, 'the power relationship between Blacks and Whites is an interactive one — where White power, to a significant extent, arises out of certain types of social interactions between Whites and Blacks where Blacks unwittingly play a very important role in constituting and sustaining their powerlessness relative to Whites. White domination of Blacks in our current social context is primarily facilitated by the fact that Blacks think of themselves and of reality in terms created by the self-serving interests and perspectives imposed on them by Whites, and act on the basis of biased and false information provided them by Whites without realizing it. They therefore contribute to their powerlessness and domination by Whites simply by thinking about themselves and reality in a manner that allows them to be subjugated. Thus, White domination of Blacks is, to a significant degree, covered-over by ideology, beliefs which Blacks have been conditioned by Whites to unwittingly accept. To this degree, their domination and powerlessness is self-imposed. Blacks obscure their unnecessary domination by Whites and contribute to that domination by their own gullibility and too-ready acceptance of Eurocentric ideology and their obsequious willingness to think and act only within the confines of White-generated ideas, social definitions, relations and ethics (not often honored by Whites themselves). Hence, the minds of Blacks are Used to forge the links of their own mental chains. [MORE] and [MORE]
Black people's uncritical acceptance of the rules, moral beliefs, perspectives, and their customary traditional participation in the American (White) political-economic process and system is tantamount to the legitimization of their own oppression and to the consensual ensurance of their own powerlessness." [MORE]
What is mind anyway? A false entity; your being is your real face, your original face. The mind is created by the society. [MORE] Dr. Blynd has stated "your mind is not your own." "Consciousness is the premier instrument of social control. Those who represent and exercise societal and cultural authority seek to shape and direct the conciseness of each of the society's and culture's members in ways which maintain their integrity and advance their interests." [MORE] Osho Rajineesh explains that 'the conscious is cultivated by the society, it is a conditioning. The conscious means society inside you. It is a trick of society. This created mind creates a prison around you.' [MORE] Mind is also a social function. A wolf needs a mind for a society of wolves; a man needs a mind for a society of men. To exist in a particular society you need a particular mind.[MORE]
Mind is a mechanism. It is not you. It records things from outside, and then reacts to outside situations according to the recordings. That's the only difference between a Hindu and a Mohammedan and a Christian and a Jew -- they have just got different gramophone records. Inside it is one humanity. And do you think when you play a gramophone record... it may be in Hebrew, it may be in Sanskrit, it may be in Persian, it may be in Arabic, but it is the same machine that plays the record. To the machine it does not matter whether it plays Hebrew or Sanskrit.
All your religions, all your political ideas, all your cultural attitudes are nothing but recordings. And in certain situations certain recordings are provoked." Like a remote control [programmed by others] your own mind is a puppet that is controlled externally. [MORE] and [MORE] Dr. Blynd says the 'mind is the slave pretending to be the master.' [MORE]
Through relentless psy-ops and propaganda elite racists have put so many beliefs and stories into our "minds.' Dr. Blynd states, White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness.[MORE] Our consciousness have been manufactured and our conduct is controlled in the interests of racists. Dr. Bobby Wright calls this process "mentacide", which means "a deliberate and systematic destruction of an individual or groups' mind." The "hosts" of the programming [Black people] are unaware of all this and perceive their roles in this system as "normal." In other words, racists control your mind & behavior with a manufactured false consciousness created externally.
Wilson explains, 'the socially manufactured mind given to Blacks is one designed to serve white folks and to fulfill a subordinate role which we are to perceive as normal. According to Amos Wilson, "black consciousness and behavior under the various regimes of White domination are characterized by habitual thought patterns and behavioral tendencies which render them pliable to White authoritarian/authoritative social control with minimal resistance; which induce Blacks to accept their subordinate status as natural, perhaps actually to misperceive their oppression as freedom."
Such a created mind in a system of white supremacy "requires that Blacks involuntarily and obsessively deceive themselves. This collective self-deception, which is the benchmark of oppressed Black consciousness, is the main product of White-Black social power relations, motivated by anxiety and ignorance, founded on the denial and distortion of reality. Such a consciousness and its produced behaviors require that Blacks operate against their own best interests in the interests of their White oppressors; that they be self-denying, self-defeating, and oftentimes self-destroying, while convincing themselves that the opposite is true.' [MORE]
Within RWS, Black people are motivated by anxiety and other "white instigated social controls." Wilson explains,"to be oppressed is to make how one feels or expects to feel, the measure of all things. To be oppressed is to be ruled through one's feelings and emotions. It is to be exquisitely exposed to and manipulated by a play on one's dreads and fears by one's oppressors; by a play on one's needs for respite from their terror; by a play on one's needs for catharsis, solace, and compensatory joy. Anxiety is the whip in the hand of the oppressor used to drive the oppressed to completion of their appointed rounds.
The ultimate power of White domination and social control resides in their ability to successfully intimidate subordinated Afrikans; to convince them of the inevitabilityof White supremacy; of the awesome invincibilityof White power. The history of White-Black social relations has been one of unrelenting intimidation, terror, mental and physical abuse of Black peoples, White-on-Black violence; of endemic injustice, and of the unending, unrequited attempts by subordinate Afrikans to avoid, escape, or some way prevent, temper or ameliorate the horrendous aftereffects of these activities. Avoidance and escape from White-instigated anxieties preoccupy the consciousness and subconsciousness of oppressed Afrikans. This preoccupationpathologizes, i.e., imbalances, the Afrikan psyche. Consequently, even the "normal" Afrikan under White domination is primarily motivated by the desire to escape — to actively or passively avoid or in some other way neutralize or alleviate the fearful effects of his oppression. By definition, White supremacy requires that Blacks be primarily motivated by anxiety and its avoidance in the interest of their White oppressors.
Under White supremacy the operative presence of anxiety in the individual and collective psyche is a necessary constant. . .
It should be [emphasized] that in the subordinated Afrikan personality much of the presence and operation of pathological anxiety is unconscious, i.e., unknown to its host. The subordinated Afrikan is hardly aware that his psyche, consciousness, and behavior have been subverted and misdirected by the eurocentrically-conditioned operation of anxiety and its related psychological after effects (other symptoms). White supremacy works most efficiently when subordinated Afrikans feel that they have freely chosen to think and behave the way they do when in actuality they have been subliminally compelled to do so by the psychopolitical machinations of their White oppressors. Thus, the subordinated Afrikan feels freest when he is most controlled. And his pursuit of apparent freedom is often the pursuit of unapparent enslavement.'
Wilson continues, "the ability of dominant Whites to socially manufacture or markedly influence Afrikan states of consciousness and conduct in the interest of perpetuating White supremacy, is both the source and product of the power relations and inequalities which inhere between these races. The White social manufacture of Black consciousness and behavior will end when the power differentials which make this process possible are equalized or reversed by the increased Black empowerment. This necessary equation or reversal of power relations begins when Afrikans come to understand the nature of power, its social origins and applications; when they recognize that they are as capable of its acquisition and disposition as are their European (and other ethnic group) counterparts; and when they consciously and deliberately choose to acquire and dispose of it in their own interests and in the defense of their own liberty."
The Afrikan understanding and application of power must begin with a pragmatic concept of power such as outlined by Foucault:
Too Much "Routine", not Enough 4th Amendment"Laws in and of themselves will not protect us; laws are words written on paper; laws protect no one. Laws are no stronger than those who enforce them."[MORE]
Traffic Codes as a Major Tool of White Supremacy. For white folks, the bare essentials of a "routine traffic stop" consist of causing the vehicle to stop, explaining to the driver the reason for the stop, questioning solely based on the stop, verifying the credentials of the driver and the vehicle, and then issuing a citation or a warning. 10 minutes later, have a nice day buddy.
For many Black folks the bare essentials of a traffic stop consist of a records check via radio or computer regarding the criminal & traffic history of those stopped and any outstanding arrest warrants for those individuals; records check of the vehicle registration, interrogation of those stopped directly on the subject of drugs or weapons, interrogation about the nature and purpose of their travels; seeking (and often obtaining) consent to conduct a full search of the stopped vehicle and the driver/passengers; using a drug-sniffing dog to detect the presence of any drugs in the stopped vehicle and/or verbal abuse, provocation and/or physical beat down. Contemptuous, shitty government service from public servants. Thanks master, its all about keeping cops safe and Blacks serving the government. [MORE]
From [NPR] A new poll out this week from NPR finds that 60 percent of black Americans say they or a family member have been stopped or treated unfairly by police because they are black. In addition, 45 percent say they or a family member have been treated unfairly by the courts because they are black. The poll is a collaboration between NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The poll reveals the consequences of these stops for black Americans personally and across society — 31 percent of poll respondents say that fear of discrimination has led them to avoid calling the police when in need. And 61 percent say that where they live, police are more likely to use unnecessary force on a person who is black than on a white person in the same situation.
A Pew Research poll in 2016 asked whether people had been unfairly stopped by police because of race or ethnicity in the previous 12 months and found that 18 percent of black people said yes. A 2015 CBS News/New York Times poll asked whether this had ever happened and found 41 percent of black people said yes.
Our poll differs from Pew in that we asked not only about a much longer period but also whether people had been unfairly stopped or treated because of their race or ethnicity. We differ from CBS in that we included the word "unfairly." We also differ from both the Pew and CBS polls because we asked whether a person or a family member had had this experience, which gives us a better sense of the presence of these experiences in respondents' life and surroundings.
The black American data from our poll, released Tuesday, were compiled from 802 black Americans as part of a large national representative probability survey of 3,453 adults from Jan. 26 to April 9. The margin of error for the full black American sample is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. [MORE]
About 44 percent of Georgia's population are classified as non-white, according to the Center for American Progress. That's up from 37 percent just a decade ago. During that period, non-whites have accounted for 81 percent of the state's population growth.
African-Americans account for the largest share of that growth, followed by Hispanics, whose numbers nearly doubled during that period to more than 850,000, making it the 10th-largest state by Hispanic population. [MORE] and [MORE] Now Dems are hoping Stacey Evans, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives will become the 1st Black female elected as Governor. Don't hold your breath in racist system.
Election Hoax.Techdirt has long highlighted how most implementations of electronic voting simply aren't safe or secure. The Diebold disaster in 2006, Sequoia's security scandal in 2008, and a rotating flood of similar stories since, have driven this point home time, and time, and time again. And despite these warnings neither the companies that make these machines, nor the election commissions or local governments tasked with overseeing them, have done enough (or, in many cases, much of anything) to ensure that our Democratic process is secure.
The latest example of just how not under control this problem is comes out of Georgia, where reports indicate that somebodymanaged to completely wipe a server integral to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials. The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of election reform advocates, is attempting to force Georgia to retire antiquated and heavily-criticized election technology that has been under fire in the media since June, after security researchers indicated that the touch-screen machines could be easily tampered with without leaving much of a trace:
A misconfigured server, Logan Lamb discovered last August, had left Georgia’s 6.7 million voter records and other sensitive files exposed to hackers. And it may have been left unfixed for seven months. The vulnerability might have allowed attackers to plant malware and possibly rig votes or wreak chaos with voter rolls by deleting or altering records — a major concern amid heightened sensitivity to state-sponsored Russian election hacking.
Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the servers of interest in the case were mysteriously wiped by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which oversees the state’s election system. The Associated Press only discovered the wipe after obtaining an email from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case. Efforts to determine who requested that the server be wiped clean have so far gone nowhere:
The Kennesaw election center answers to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican who is running for governor in 2018 and is the main defendant in the suit. A spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday that “we did not have anything to do with this decision,” adding that the office also had no advance warning of the move. The center’s director, Michael Barnes, referred questions to the university’s press office, which declined comment.
Plaintiffs in the case have argued that data from last November’s election and a special June 20th congressional runoff cannot be trusted due to the unresolved flaws in the machines. And while the election server would have gone a long way toward answering that concern, it was wiped clean on July 7 -- just four days after the lawsuit was filed. Two backup servers were subsequently wiped clean on August 9, just as the case was moving to federal court.
From [HERE] Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News last weekend that he had “no idea” that there were 1,000 US troops in Niger. But it didn’t bother him at all. He promised that the US military – which already has troops in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa – will soon be far more involved in fighting on the continent. We don’t want the next 9/11 to come from Niger, he warned. Should Congress at least show an interest in this new, expanded war?
The 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that followed 9/11 has been broadly interpreted by presidents since then as allowing them to launch limitless wars, and for some time there’s been interest among some in Congress toward challenging this, ending the old AUMF and replacing it with real, specific authorizations for specific wars.
The October 4 ambush in Niger, which led to the deaths of four US special forces, has added to that push in a big way, because not only was this operation obviously not ever authorized by Congress, but in this case Congress wasn’t even told it was happening.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and others are very vocal about not liking just how out of the loop Congress has become on wars like the one in Niger. President Trump has suggested his generals authorized the Niger war by themselves, and it doesn’t appear he knew about it either.
Even more ominous is that the 1,000 troops in Niger are just a fraction of the over 20,000 US troops deployed overseas in unidentified places, meaning that there are countless other operations ongoing that are just as unauthorized. [MORE]
The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), Pub. L.107-40, codified at 115 Stat. 224 and passed as S.J.Res. 23 by the United States Congress on September 14, 2001, authorizes the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 and any "associated forces". The authorization granted the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups.
The AUMF was signed by President George W. Bush on September 18, 2001. As of December 2016, the Office of the President published a brief interpreting the AUMF as providing Congressional authorization for the use of force against al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups.[1][2]
The only representative to vote against the Authorization in 2001 was Barbara Lee, who has consistently criticised it since for being a blank check giving the government unlimited powers to wage war without debate.[3] Lee has initiated several attempts to repeal the authorization since. On June 29, 2017, a group of libertarian Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee approved Lee’s amendment to end the 2001 authorization within 240 days, which would have forced debate on a replacement authorization. This amendment was removed from the bill by the Rules Committee so the AUMF remains in effect.[4][5]Business Insider has reported that the AUMF has been used to allow military action in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia [MORE].
The text of AUMF is below.
Preamble
Joint Resolution
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.
Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and
Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that the United States exercise its rights to self-defense and to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad; and
Whereas, in light of the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by these grave acts of violence; and
Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; and
Whereas, the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section 1 – Short Title
This joint resolution may be cited as the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force'.
Section 2 – Authorization For Use of United States Armed Forces
(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
(b) War Powers Resolution Requirements-
(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.
(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS- Nothing in this resolution supersedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.
Without More, Running from Cops is Not a basis for Arrest & doesn't establish probable cause [MORE] - At Least For White Folks.Video above of the immediate moments after police killed Diaz. In the video Diaz was still alive--and police stood there for over three minutes and did nothing. Instead, they seem more concerned with pushing witnesses away from the scene, the better to diminish the video quality of the footage, when they weren't actively trying to block the source from recording.
"He was shot in the back of the leg area, brought to his knees before being shot in the head ... it was an execution-style shot," said attorney Diana Lopez. "There is no evidence of any kind of weapon. ... You can see the two officers walking around looking for something instead of attending to the young man who is near to his last breath," she said referring to a bystander's video that captured the post-shooting scene [MORE].
From [HERE] An Anaheim police officer used excessive force when he gunned down an unarmed 25-year-old Latino man who was running away from him and his partner in an apartment building courtyard, an attorney told jurors Friday in a federal civil trial.
An attorney for Officer Nick Bennallack, however, argued that the officer acted reasonably when he opened fire on a suspect "dressed like a gang member" who was fleeing police and appeared to be turning around to shoot them.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office prosecutors [all white] cleared Bennallack [racist suspect in photo] of any criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Manuel Angel Diaz of Anaheim on July 21, 2012. The DA called the case one of “self defense” although no weapons were found on or near Diaz. Orange County prosecutors on Dec. 21 also cleared Bennallack of criminal wrongdoing in an unrelated Jan. 7, 2012, shooting of Bernie Villegas. [MORE]
A day later, another white Anaheim police officer fatally shot 21-year-old Joel Acevedo at the end of a stolen-car pursuit, which touched off several days of demonstrations, some of which turned violent.
At issue before jurors in the federal trial is if the city of Anaheim and the officer should be held liable for violating the Fourth Amendment rights of Diaz against unlawful search and seizure. If jurors rule the city is liable then they would consider damages.
Jurors must also consider if the officer violated a state law on unreasonable force as well. The media has not provided any details about the racial makeup of the jury [bad sign].
“We believe the evidence shows the force was excessive and it wasn’t necessary to shoot and kill him,” said attorney Dale Galipo, who is representing Diaz’s family in the federal lawsuit.
Galipo said what made the case “unique” was Bennallack and his partner Officer Brett Heitmann were not responding to a specific service call when they spotted Diaz standing outside a car in an alley near 700 North Anna Drive.
“They don’t see any specific criminal activity,” Galipo said.
Diaz, however, started running when he saw police. The officers shouted to him to stop, but he kept going into a courtyard, where he was gunned down before a fence.
From [HERE] On election night, Anthony was shocked to see Trump carry Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes. The state, which ranked second in the nation in voter participation in 2008 and 2012, saw its lowest turnout since 2000. More than half the state’s decline in turnout occurred in Milwaukee, which Clinton carried by a 77-18 margin, but where almost 41,000 fewer people voted in 2016 than in 2012. Turnout fell only slightly in white middle-class areas of the city but plunged in black ones. In Anthony’s old district, where aging houses on quiet tree-lined streets are interspersed with boarded-up buildings and vacant lots, turnout dropped by 23 percent from 2012. This is where Clinton lost the state and, with it, the larger narrative about the election.
Clinton’s stunning loss in Wisconsin was blamed on her failure to campaign in the state, and the depressed turnout was attributed to a lack of enthusiasm for either candidate. “Perhaps the biggest drags on voter turnout in Milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, were the candidates themselves,” Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times wrote in a post-election dispatch that typified this line of analysis. “To some, it was like having to choose between broccoli and liver.”
The impact of Wisconsin’s voter ID law received almost no attention. When it did, it was often dismissive. Two days after the election, Talking Points Memo ran a piece by University of California-Irvine law professor Rick Hasen under the headline “Democrats Blame ‘Voter Suppression’ for Clinton Loss at Their Peril.” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said it was “a load of crap” to claim that the voter ID law had led to lower turnout. When Clinton, in an interview with New York magazine, said her loss was “aided and abetted by the suppression of the vote, particularly in Wisconsin,” the Washington Examiner responded, “Hillary Clinton Blames Voter Suppression for Losing a State She Didn’t Visit Once During the Election.” As the months went on, pundits on the right and left turned Clinton’s loss into a case study for her campaign’s incompetence and the Democratic Party’s broader abandonment of the white working class. Voter suppression efforts were practically ignored, when they weren’t mocked.
Stories like Anthony’s went largely unreported. An analysis by Media Matters for America found that only 8.9 percent of TV news segments on voting rights from July 2016 to June 2017 “discussed the impact voter suppression laws had on the 2016 election,” while more than 70 percent “were about Trump’s false claims of voter fraud and noncitizen voting.” During the 2016 campaign, there were 25 presidential debates but not a single question about voter suppression. The media has spent countless hours interviewing Trump voters but almost no time reporting on disenfranchised voters like Anthony.
From [HERE] A white man was arrested after driving through a crowd of non-white protesters at an immigration rally in Brea, Calif., on Oct. 26. Daniel Wenzek, 56, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Brea police told local media.
Protesters had gathered to draw attention to the temporary protected status for many non-white residents from central america that they believe is in danger under President Trump.
Brown Lives Don't Matter to Racist Government. From [HERE] The 911 bodies were never physically examined by a medical examiner to determine if they should be included in the official death toll.
The Puerto Rican government told BuzzFeed News Friday that it allowed 911 bodies to be cremated since Hurricane Maria made landfall, and that not one of them were physically examined by a government medical examiner to determine if it should be included in the official death toll.
Every one of the 911 died of "natural causes" not related to the devastating storm, said Karixia Ortiz Serrano, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety who is also speaking for the Institute of Forensic Sciences — which is in charge of confirming hurricane deaths. The "natural causes" designations were made by reviewing records, not actually examining the bodies, she said.
The government's revelation comes after BuzzFeed News reported earlier Friday that directors of funeral homes and crematoriums in two municipalities were permitted by the government to burn the bodies of many people the directors thought died as a result of the hurricane — without a government pathologist examining the corpses first to determine if they should be counted in the official death toll.
The current death toll stands at 51. Twenty of those official deaths were cremations.
The death toll has become a critically important indicator of how relief efforts are going — because President Trump made it one. It is also important for families of victims to claim federal relief aid.
“These reports are extremely troubling — they provide even more reason to be concerned about the accuracy of the information we’re receiving," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, told BuzzFeed News. "The Trump Administration needs to cooperate with Puerto Rican authorities and provide all the necessary resources to ensure the death toll is accurately counted.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, added, "I intend to take any and all available steps to get to the bottom of the increasing appearance of misinformation in Hurricane Maria recovery efforts."
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló [puppetician in photo from the moteasuh tribe] has said that the island's Institute of Forensic Sciences must examine and certify any hurricane-related deaths before they can be included in the death toll.
But the institute does not routinely — as in, in non-disaster situations — examine cases that were "natural deaths," and that process has not changed to account for potential hurricane victims, Ortiz told BuzzFeed News this week, adding, "the process has not changed because of the emergency."
From Sept. 20 — when the hurricane made landfall — to Oct. 18 "the medical examiner authorized 911 cremations of natural deaths. Keep in mind that not all the bodies of the persons who died in [Puerto Rico] goes to the [medical examiner]. But by law the [medical examiner] give the authorization for cremations," said Ortiz in a statement to BuzzFeed News Friday. The statement was first reported by CBS News.
And the government has no specific criteria on what counts and what doesn't count as a hurricane-related death, she told BuzzFeed News in an earlier interview, making it impossible to know whether those cases were in fact hurricane-related deaths.
"The [medical examiner] analyzes the death summary and the death certificate, if something is suspicious they assign the case to the pathologist and they can stop the process, they can claim the body and/or call the families for an interview," Ortiz said Friday.
Ortiz said that if the institute is not examining a potential hurricane victim, it's because the doctor, medic or district attorney who certified the death did not fill out paperwork to alert the institute that it could be a hurricane-related death. But again, the government does not have any clear criteria on what should be considered a hurricane related death and what should not.
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