From [HERE] The white man or racist suspect charged with murder in the Nov. 23 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis outside a Jacksonville Gate station now faces wrongful death, emotional distress and defamation lawsuits.
Davis’ parents and those of two teens in the Dodge Durango where he died in a hail of gunfire filed separate lawsuits Thursday against 46-year-old Michael David Dunn. Statements that the teens cursed at and threatened Dunn and had a shotgun were defamatory, according to the lawsuits.
“From the second he went to his car to open the glove box [to get his gun] to the 10th shot, there is terrorism happening in those moments either by intent or negligence,” attorney John Phillips said.
Dunn’s current attorney, Cory Strolla, could not be reached for comment.
The arrest report said Jordan was in the SUV with friends when Dunn and his girlfriend, who were in town for his son’s wedding, pulled next to them at the Southside Boulevard convenience store. Dunn complained about loud music coming from their SUV, then fired multiple shots during the confrontation. Dunn’s first attorney, Robin Lemonidis, said he saw a shotgun, was threatened and didn’t know if they were gang members. Police said they found no shotgun.
The victims were made out to be thug-like aggressors, tarnishing their standing in the community, according to the lawsuits.
From [HERE] A white man, Phillip Walker Sailors, 69, has been charged with malice murder in the killing of Rodrigo Abad Diaz, a 22-year-old Cuban immigrant who mistakenly pulled into his driveway due to faulty GPS directions. Phillips Sailors’ lawyers claim their client shot the young man because he felt threatened. A passenger in the car, Angie Rebolledo said that he was trying to drive away after he noticed Sailors.
The couple, accompanied by two other friends, had pulled into Sailors’ driveway by mistake, thinking it was the home of another friend. The group had planned to go ice skating. She was sitting next to her boyfriend in the front seat when he was struck in the side of the head. After he shot Diaz, the 69-year-old white man pointed the gun at her. As she tended to Diaz, she said Sailors showed no remorse and offered no assistance.
According to ColorLines, Phillips Sailors’ lawyers may be gearing up to use Georgia’s “stand your ground law” as part of their defense. Sailors’ friends and family said that the retired BellSouth employee is a dedicated volunteer at his church and has been on mission trips to Panama and other Latin American countries (which means he definitely, definitely is not racist - bw).
The plain meaning of so-called Stand Your Ground Laws is not racist. "Stand your ground" is a self-defense, criminal defense raised at trial that allows for the use of deadly force when it is reasonable for a non-aggressor/victim to do so. In states which have variations of this law a person does not have a legal duty to retreat before using self defense to defend themselves under life threatening conditions that are reasonably apparent to the victim. Most states, including D.C. have a version of the law. [MORE]
That such laws allow white people to execute non-white people is deception or a phantom created by the media. The operating system of White supremacy is the cause and effect of white people's genocidal conduct towards non-whites; the recent incidents are part of this observable pattern.
Unfortunately, misled advocates are now unknowingly convincing non-whites to rally against their own rights to self-defense. If white men began drowning Black children those deceived by white supremacy would blame the water and advocate for its regulation! Rodrigo Abad Diaz was murdered yesterday by a racist suspect (white person) while he was trying to retreat [MORE].
(In photos, left to right,All were the Aggressors: -Michael David Dunn, a white man who shot an unarmed Black teen to death in December in Jacksonville and then fled [MORE]; John Spooner, a white man accused of murdering an unarmed black 13 year old in front of his mother in an unprovoked shooting in the front of her Milwaukee home on May 31 and then deceiving the police [MORE], Daniel Quinnell, a white man who shot an unarmed Black man in the face multiple times with a pellet gun outside of a Walmart on January 3rd b/c he thought he was "a muslim" & then called him a "nigger with a white girl," (ironically the Black man retreated even though he had a gun in his pocket [MORE] George Zimmerman, a white man who shot an unarmed 17 year old in Florida after stalking & approaching him [MORE], and yesterday, Phillip Walker Sailors, a white man who killed an unarmed Latino man as he drove away because "he felt threatened" when he pulled into his driveway.[MORE])
The Reasonable White Supremacist/Racist Man Standard. The white defendants pictured above may raise a stand your ground defense in their respective trials but such defenses are a long shot & not likely to be supportable by the facts in any of those cases. None of the white defendants appear to have been facing imminent life threatening conditions or where danger was immediately present and unavoidable -- to a reasonable person/juror. But - to the extent that Racists/White Supremacists have anything to do with the administration (investigation/police/prosecutrial decisions) or application of the law (Judges/jurors) in those cases, racism/white supremacy and its collective white power will be the cause & effect for any unjust verdicts upholding such psychopathic decision making.
It would seem that only a white supremacist/racist juror or Judge, could be convinced that Michael David Dunn had a reasonable belief that he faced an imminent death as he sat in the driver seat of his running car which was not blocked in at a gas station before he shot Jordan Russell Davis 8 times in the backseat of a car parked next to Dunn's. After he killed him he fled the scene. In fact, in all the mentioned cases the white killers approached their victims - making them the initial aggressors not victims.
Failing to comprehend the environmental context of the white supremacy system and its ultimate goal of white genetic survival, Black people fail to grasp the deeper sense of what actually is occurring in front of our eyes. [MORE]. Racism is mistreatment of non-white people by white people on the basis of color. Racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a universal "operating system" of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate.
Neely Fuller explains that race is "organization." [MORE] The goal of the white supremacy system is none other than the establishment, maintenance, expansion and refinement of world domination by members of a group that classifies itself as the white "race." This system dominates all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war).
Why? According to the "Color Confrontation theory" White people practice racism to survive. 1) White people are color deficient - they lack melanin & all attributes associated with it. White people are genetic recessive - as the white race cannot reproduce itself when it intermingles or mixes with non-white persons. In other words, White can be genetically annihilated. White plus Black equals Colored. White plus Brown equals Colored. White plus Yellow equals Colored. [MORE] 2) White people are numerically inadequate. 90% of the world's population is non-white and the white population is declining.[MORE] and [MORE] and [MORE]. This also suggests that white skin is abnormal.
If you understand that Racism is a strategy for white genetic survival then you can see that what the White Collective is doing on the planet is engaging in behaviors—in economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex —in order for them to survive by any means necessary and to prevent white genetic annihilation.
The global white minority must act genocidally against people of color for the purpose of white genetic survival. This is the "kill or be killed" mentality. [MORE] In their relations with Non-white people, racists/white supremacists function as psychopaths. [MORE] In a white supremacy system White life is more valuable than non-white life; Racists must be able to more easliy get away with murdering non-white people. To the extent that a white supremacist/racist has anything to to do with it, any law will do to advance this purpose.
Take for instance driving while Black. Do you think that the seat belt regulations in "urban areas" are enforced the same way for non-white & white drivers? Of course not. The answer is not to do away with seat belt laws. White supremacy will also be the unjust cause & effect when a racist Judge upholds the racist actions of a police officer during a pretextual traffic stop and refuses to find a 4th Amendment violation. The Supreme Court has also said that pre-textual stops even based on malicious reaons are legitimate so long as there was independent justification for the stop [MORE]: such logic supports the underlying operating system of white supremacy and its genocidal imperatives, such as the Greater Confinement of as many non-whites as possible.
(Analyzing why white people are motivated to practice racism is not hate. Thus far, all attempts by the victims of white supremacy to attain justice have failed. People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. [MORE] and [MORE]) It is the duty of those white persons who are not racists, to speak and act to eliminate racism.
"blackface with voices" [MORE] The characters in minstrel shows (usually white males in black face) portrayed Blacks as cheerful, simple-minded darkies who loved to sing and dance for the "White folks." The white males who portrayed black characters spoke an exaggerated form of Black English. [MORE] and [MORE] During the existence of White Supremacy (Racism), most forms of "entertainment" are directly or indirectly designed to be supportive to The System of White Supremacy (Racism). Stop supporting businesses and entertainers who demean non-white people."[the Code]
Making fun of how Black people talk also sells chicken for KFC (gameday bucket go boom!):
and Popeyes
misrepresenting history sells movies made for white folks about Black people
and insurance for Geico
selling non-white people as mascots sells everything on gameday.
From [HERE] Four of the five men wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989 appealed Sunday for a settlement in their 10-year-old suit against the city. The four — Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Kharey Wise and Kevin Richardson — appeared at a screening attended by hundreds of people at Riverside Church of “The Central Park Five,” the movie that tells their story.
Salaam’s children moved through the audience, collecting signatures on a letter to Mayor Bloomberg asking for his support for the men, who all served years in prison before a serial rapist confessed to the crime, and DNA evidence showed he was the attacker. Santana, 38, said the civil case, next in court on Feb. 19, has been "moving at a snail’s pace."
Roger Wareham, an attorney for three of the five, said the slow progress was "very frustrating, especially since the city has not even made an offer.”
Each of the five is seeking $50 million, but Wareham insists no amount of money can replace the years of their lives spent in prison. "There's no financial amount that can compensate spending their teenage lives in jail," he said.
(In photo white voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire wait to cast their votes on November 6, 2012. What is racism? [MORE]) A Jim Crow tactic. By and large, white people in white voting precincts, Democrat or Republican did not have to wait in line to vote in the Presidential election. [MORE] From [HERE] The long Election Day lines around Florida may have turned away more than 200,000 frustrated would-be voters who gave up and went home before they cast ballots — or else saw the lines and elected not to join them.
Analyzing data compiled by the Orlando Sentinel, Ohio State University professor Theodore Allen estimated last week that at least 201,000 voters likely gave up in frustration on Nov. 6, based on research Allen has been doing on voter behavior.
His preliminary conclusion was based on the Sentinel's analysis of voter patterns and precinct-closing times in Florida's 25 largest counties, home to 86 percent of the state's 11.9 million registered voters.
"My gut is telling me that the real number [of voters] deterred is likely higher," Allen said. "You make people wait longer, they are less likely to vote."
(In photo, Non-White Voters stand in a long line at the Supervisor of Elections office in West Palm Beach, Florida for early voting on November 5, 2012.)
Around the state, nearly 2 million registered voters live in precincts that stayed open at least 90 minutes past the scheduled 7 p.m. closing time, according to Sentinel analysis of voting data obtained from county elections supervisors. Of those, 561,000 voters live in precincts that stayed open three extra hours or longer.
And two of the five counties with the worst lines were in Central Florida. In Orange and Osceola counties, as many as 48 percent of those who cast votes on Election Day live in precincts that closed at least 90 minutes late, the analysis showed.
In video, Whoopi Goldberg & Ann Coulter go toe to toe on ABC's "the View" on 9/28/12 - having a meaningless argument about why they support their political parties. Voters - customers of beggars (politicians). A voter is born every second. (See: Secret Ballot, Voting Hoax & Control) [MORE]
From [HERE] Described as the crown jewel of civil rights law, the Voting Rights Act has been the target of right-wing misinformation for decades, and a parallel legal assault against its constitutionality will be argued before the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder on February 27. The VRA, enacted to stem voter suppression on the basis of race in the South, contains a provision within it - Section 5 - which identifies the worst historical offenders and requires that election changes in those jurisdictions pass federal review. The current legal challenges to the VRA focus on Section 5, and are the continuation of the same discredited claims lodged against this anti-discrimination law since its inception.
FACT: Voter Suppression Was A Serious Problem In The Last Election Cycle, Admitted To By Its Perpetrators, Reported By Journalists, And Proven In Federal Courts.
Myth: Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act Is Outdated.
Heritage Foundation's Hans Von Spakovsky: There Is "A Complete Lack Of Evidence" Of Relevant Discrimination. Von Spakovsky, the repeatedlydiscredited voter ID proponent, described by former Bush-era Department of Justice colleagues as the "point person for undermining the Civil Rights Division's mandate to protect voting rights," still opposes the Voting Rights Act. In conjunction with his belief in in-person voter fraud - despite evidence that it is practically non-existent - he also believes there is no longer widespread voter suppression to justify Section 5:
[The 2006 reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act] seems designed to make it easier for Justice attorneys to label covered jurisdictions as racist. That is a dangerous thing. During my service as a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division, I found that nearly all the lawyers and staff involved in Section 5 determinations see nefarious racial agendas -- i.e., discriminatory purpose -- lurking at every corner.
[Section 5] also provides a heckler's veto to any minority state legislator unsatisfied with a new redistricting map; such a legislator can now simply cry "racism," thereby causing the map to suffer from a fatal Section 5 "discriminatory purpose" defect. Today, lone cries of racism are often (although not always, of course) totally baseless. But one can count on the ideologues in the Voting Section to accept every cry as legitimate.
States must understand that they cannot expect to get an impartial hearing from this Justice Department. They may still get a panel of liberal judges in federal court, but at least normal evidentiary standards will apply. In court, DOJ will have to provide actual evidence of discrimination -- not the rank hearsay and imaginary evidence often considered in its own administrative review. [National Review, 2/23/11]
In photo, election criminal, Kenneth Blackwell, President Bush's Pet Negro from back in the day [MORE] and [MORE]. He is a SNigger -a sold-out smiling Sambo-Negro. 2) a South-Bender offender. Sniggers are traitors and pawns of the oppressors. Watch the company you keep! Don't cross-over unless you are ready to bend over! [MORE]. Do the votes of the Non-White votary really count in a white supremacy system? [MORE]
From [HERE] Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R), who was the chief elections officer when the state experienced massive voting problems in 2004, is planning to lead a national effort to rig the electoral college in favor of the 2016 Republican presidential candidate.
Republicans who hold power in states that have voted Democratic in the last few presidential contests, including Virginia and Pennsylvania, are considering a change to their apportionment of electoral votes. Instead of a winner-take-all system for the state, electoral votes would be doled out by congressional district, using highly-gerrymandered maps. The result is that a state like Pennsylvania, which voted for President Obama by more than 5 percent in 2012, would have given most of its electoral votes to Mitt Romney.
That plan is now receiving national backing, thanks to Blackwell and GOP operative Jordan Gehrke. The two men detailed their effort in an interview with the Atlantic and conceded that the effort could make it easier for Republicans to win the White House:
ATLANTIC: You are a Republican operative, though. And it’s Republican legislators who are pushing this in all the states where it’s come up so far. You can claim this is about policy, but doesn’t it really make it easier for Republicans to win presidential elections?
BLACKWELL & GEHRKE: That could be a byproduct, depending on who drew the lines last and who’s running – a lot of different things. What it’s really about is making sure that more people in more congressional districts get attention.
Though Blackwell and Gehrke argued that allocating electoral votes by congressional district is more representative, that doesn’t mean they support the much simpler, fairer system of a national popular vote. “Abolishing the electoral college is very difficult to do,” they claimed.
What’s both true and sad, though, is that rigging the system to ensure the Republican candidate wins, no matter how Americans actually vote, is far easier to accomplish in Republican-controlled states.
'Justice cannot exist in a white supremacy system. Each person is either trying to produce justice or he is trying to maintain the status quo.' [MORE] The system of white supremacy is based on deception and/or violence.The so-called "criminal justice system' is part of the illusion of democracy. The white supremacist goal of the criminal justice system is the Greater Confinement of as many Non-whites as possible.
The refinement of white supremacy requires the appearance of justice. How would the courtroom look if all the defendants were non-white and all the judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and police were white? The criminal justice system looks and feels better to the Victims of White Supremacy with the participation of Non-white judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers. The operating system of white supremacy runs more effectively like that - manufacturing consent, participation in their own destruction.
During the Holocaust, Nazi's used Jewish professional persons to assist in the destruction of Jews - such as by having them hold open ovens to assist in the burning of their own people. Prior to the Holocaust, Jews were highly assimilated & integrated into German society - they considered themselves Germans. To be effective counter-racist advocates, public defenders must understand the environment they are working in. If they do not understand white supremacy, everything else they think they understand will only confuse them. [MORE]
Non-white prosecutors are the biggest "true beleivers" in the illusion of democracy. Themselves, victims of white supremacy most direclty assist white supremacists/racists
From [HERE] I’d always wanted to be a lawyer, but unlike Travis Williams — the subject of this Op-Doc video — I never wanted to be a public defender. I didn’t understand how anyone could represent people who did terrible things. “Criminals” were not people I wanted to help.
Then, in 2009, while working in the legal department at A&E Television, I met Jonathan Rapping, the founder of what’s now Gideon’s Promise. He invited me to his client-centered legal training program in Alabama. At the start of training, Mr. Rapping asked each lawyer to articulate why he or she chose to become a public defender.
Whiter than This? From [HERE] Republican politicians have a big problem. Their massively unpopular policies and offensive rhetoric about minorities, women, and LGBT people have alienated vast swaths of the electorate, making it increasingly difficult for them to win national elections. And these problems are only getting worse as the country’s attitudes evolves and its demographics change. In fact, the Republican candidate has lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections.
The Republicans’ Solution: Re-Write the Rules to Game the System and Rig Elections
Instead of addressing their fundamental problems, Republican politicians have instead devoted themselves to re-writing the rules and rigging the game:
Make it Harder to Vote: Republican politicians are engaged in a systematic campaign to change voting laws and election procedures in order make it harder for young people, minorities, and others likely to vote Democratic to vote.
Gerrymander: Because of partisan gerrymandering after the 2010 Census, Republicans have a structural advantage when it comes to the House of Representatives. Even though more than a million more people voted for Democrats for the House in 2012, Republicans still managed to hold on to the House with a 15-seat majority.
Rig the Game: Now Republican-controlled swing states are trying to rig the Electoral College in order to steal the White House.
How It Works
Red States Stay the Same: Truly red states keep the current winner-take-all system, thus delivering all of their electoral votes to the Republican candidate.
Swing States Get Divided Up: Swing statescurrently controlled by Republicans (VA, OH, WI, MI, PA, NC, and FL) will award their electoral votes by Congressional District. Through gerrymandering, Republicans have managed to pack Democrats into a small number of districts, giving the GOP a large advantage in the aggregate number of House seats they hold in these states.
Bonus Votes for Republicans: In some versions of this plan, the two remaining electoral votes in each state that are not associated with a House district would still be awarded to the winner of the state’s popular vote. Virginia, however, has an even more pernicious plan; its plan would award the other two votes to the winner of a majority of the state’s congressional districts. If other swing states adopted this plan, it could shift an extra dozen or more electoral votes to the Republican candidate — a number equivalent to the electoral votes of Virginia or the votes of Iowa and Nevada combined.
The Result — President Romney
The GOP plan to rig the Electoral College means that even if a Democrat wins the popular vote in a state by a comfortable margin, the Republican candidate could still walk away with as many two-thirds or even three-quarters of the state’s Electoral College votes.
If Republican-controlled swing states had put this plan into effect before the 2012 election, Mitt Romney would likely be the president today thanks to the shift in electoral votes in key states.
A worker cleans plates of bulletproof glass on the stage where President Obama spoke to a crowd gathered in Grant Park in Chicago.
From [HERE] According to ThinkProgress an estimated 20,000 law enforcement officials prepared to patrol the District of Columbia for the Inaguration. According to Jacqueline McGwyer, an agent at the Washington Field Office of the FBI, there is currently “no credible or corroborated threat” towards the President ahead of the Inaugural. In addition, according to McGwyer, there’s less chatter that would suggest a potential attack compared to the same period in 2009.
The decrease in overall noise tracks with what independent observers are seeing as well. What worries J.M. Berger more is the severity of what he’s seeing from the far right. Berger tracks terrorism in the form of both jihadi extremists and white supremacists through their Internet presence on his website Intelwire. According to Berger, “There are certain phrases that you see, that are always in the mix, but are more prominent now.” He described these phrases as calls to action, such as “The time is now,” that ebb and flow in their usage, but have peaked in the last few days.
President Obama speaks behind bullet-proof glass at College Green in Dublin May 23, 2011.
Compounding the chatter surrounding the inauguration are the President’s recent proposals to reduce gun violence. Volume among the fringe right is as high today as it was immediately after the tragedy in Newtown, CT, Berger said. The real concern, he said, is that protesters will flow into the city in the hopes of setting off a confrontation with law enforcement. Berger described the feeling among the far right-wing internet communities as akin to a “powder-keg poised to go off.” Should the weekend pass without seeing that influx though, Berger predicted that the communities he monitors will calm down until the passage of any firearms legislation in Congress.
At least one event scheduled for this weekend shows the potential for getting the far right further riled. Media Matters for America reported on Friday that the “Gun Appreciation Day” event due to take place on Saturday in protest of Obama’s gun proposals is being sponsored in part by a white nationalist group called American Third Position. Groups like American Third Position were the subject of a recent study by the Combating Terrorism Center highlighting the threat that fringe right-wing groups pose to the United States.
Norwegian and US security officials install bullet proof glass on the terrace of the hotel where Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama stayed on Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009 in Oslo, Norway. Obama received the award for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" and cited his push for nuclear disarmament. Reuters
Laura Bush, former president George W. Bush, Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama bow their heads during a moment of silence during ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York, September 11, 2011.
From [HERE] Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse. The size of crowds at each location varied - from dozens of people in South Dakota to 2,000 in New York. Large crowds also turned out in Connecticut, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington state.
Some demonstrators in Olympia, Wash., Phoenix, Salem, Ore., and Salt Lake City came with holstered handguns or rifles on their backs. At the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, attendees gave a special round of applause for 'the ladies that are packin'. Activists promoted the 'Guns Across America' rallies primarily through social media. They were being held just days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
The GOP is the party of the vanishing majority in the U.S - white people. That is, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that by 2047 non-white persons will be the majority of the US population. (Worldwide the white population is less than 10%.)
"The Republican party is a racial identity party. It is designed to appeal to white people as white people... not as union-members or as unemployed people or as home-owners... as white people. It is a crude racial-identity party and the numbers bear that out. It is an almost exclusively white party. Many white people vote Democratic, but the Republican party is pretty close to all white. (A fact that is soft-pedaled in out national dialog because it makes the modern Republican party sound like a racist institution, which it is.") [MORE]
Republicans now depend on this vanishing majority of whites for fully 90 percent of their votes in presidential elections, while the Democratic Party wins 60 to 70 percent of the Asian and Hispanic vote and 90 to 95 percent of the black vote. The Democratic base is growing inexorably, while the Republican base is shriveling. [MORE]
Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost. The GOP has not carried any of the three in six presidential elections. When Texas – where whites are a minority and a declining share of the population – tips, how does the GOP put together an electoral majority? [MORE] In order for the white party (gop) to survive it will have to suppress or otherwise prevent non-whites from voting - or just rig it -- again.
A Non-White Thing. Racism is the observable phenomemon that is ignored.(In photo, Non-White Voters stand in a long line at the Supervisor of Elections office in West Palm Beach, Florida for early voting on November 5, 2012. A Jim Crow tactic. By and large, white people in white voting precincts, Democrat or Republican did not have to wait in line to vote in the Presidential election. In a system of white supremacy what will they get for their vote? [MORE] and [MORE])
From [AP] After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.
From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state’s popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president.
(In photo white voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire wait to cast their votes on November 6, 2012. What is racism? [MORE])
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus endorsed the idea this week, and other Republican leaders support it, too, suggesting that the effort may be gaining momentum. There are other signs that Republican state legislators, governors and veteran political strategists are seriously considering making the shift as the GOP looks to rebound from presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Electoral College shellacking and the demographic changes that threaten the party’s long-term political prospects.
“It’s something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at,” Priebus told the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, emphasizing that each state must decide for itself.
The following is an excerpt from the Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations submitted to the US Senate in 1976. [HERE] From December 1963 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "neutralize" him as an effective civil rights leader. In the words of the man in charge of the FBI's "war" against Dr. King:
No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents. [The same methods were] brought home against any organization against which we were targeted. We did not differentiate. This is a rough, tough business.
The FBI collected information about Dr. King's plans and activities through an extensive surveillance program, employing nearly every intelligence-gathering technique at the Bureau's disposal. Wiretaps, which were initially approved by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, were maintained on Dr. King's home telephone from October 1963 until mid-1965; the SCLC headquarter's telephones were covered by wiretaps for an even longer period. Phones in the homes and offices of some of Dr. King's close advisers were also wiretapped. The FBI has acknowledged 16 occasions on which microphones were hidden in Dr. King's hotel and motel rooms in an "attempt" to obtain information about the "private activities of King and his advisers" for use to "completely discredit" them.
On March 4, 1968, the COINTELPRO program was expanded from twenty-three to forty-one field offices. The letter expanding the program lists five long-range goals for the program:
(1) to prevent the "coalition of militant black nationalist groups," which might be the first step toward a real "Mau Mau" in America; (2) to prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could "unify, and electrify," the movement, naming specifically Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, and Elijah Muhammed; (3) to prevent violence on the part of black nationalist groups, by pinpointing "potential troublemakers" and neutralizing them "before they exercise their potential for violence;" (4) to prevent groups and leaders from gaining "respectability" by discrediting them to the "responsible" Negro community, to the white community (both the responsible community and the "liberals" -- the distinction is the Bureau's), and to Negro radicals; and (5) to prevent the long range growth of these organizations, especially among youth, by developing specific tactics to "prevent these groups from recruiting young people."
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