Preparing for a major conflict in Ferguson

The official release of the St Louis County Grand Jury decision regarding Ferguson Police Department (MO) Officer Darren Wilson has not occurred, but is expected to manifest itself some time this week.

In the meantime, protesters can’t wait to cork off — and they’ve had no qualms about saying precisely that.  The New Black Panthers are in Ferguson, advocating violence against police.

On the other hand, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has activated his national guard on Monday.

Also of interest is this:

Federal Protective Service (FPS) Trucks in FergusonNavy Vet Fired After Posting Photos Of DHS Trucks In Hotel Garage

Mark Paffrath noticed something strange in the parking garage of the hotel he worked at. There were numerous vehicles from The Department of Homeland Security sitting there. Paffrath took a couple of photos and posted them to his Facebook page.

Those posts landed him in hot water with Drury Plaza Hotel management. According to Argus News Now, the Navy veteran was called into a meeting and told to delete the posts. He complied, but unfortunately that did not satisfy his bosses. He was fired a couple of days later. After being let go, he re-posted the images to his Facebook page.

What were dozens of DHS vehicles doing parked in a garage Chesterfield, MO? Chesterfield is about 25 miles from Ferguson, where officials are planning for potential riots pending the decision of a grand jury about whether to charge officer Darren Williams in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The Federal Protective Service is an agency formerly under General Services (now under Homeland Security) which is tasked with the external and sometimes internal security of federal buildings around the nation.  In short, the vehicles were being staged for Ferguson.

One question, however: just what is the federal government’s role in the riots that are sure to come in and around Ferguson?

BZ

 

More on Racist General Eric Holder: DOJ vs law enforcement

From Townhall.com:

EXCLUSIVE: In Scathing Letter to Obama, Former FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as “Chief Among Antagonists” in Ferguson

by Katie Pavlich

As the Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for new Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and as outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to allocate Department of Justice resources to the situation in Ferguson, former FBI Assistant Director and Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund President Ron Hosko has sent a scathing letter to President Obama detailing the damage done to the relationship between law enforcement and DOJ over the past six years.

Let me be immediately blunt: Eric Holder believes that the US is a “nation of cowards” (2009) when it comes to the topic of race.  He says “I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues.”  In this issue I happen to think Holder is correct but for wildly different reasons.  GOWPs (Guilty Overeducated White People) are afraid to speak of racial issues out of fear.  Fear of being branded as a racist — which is a label that can affect both work and private aspects of an individual’s life.  A Caucasoid’s life, specifically.  Holder, on the other hand, means it this way: most all Caucasoids are racists.  And any conversations expressed or implied by Eric Holder, his DOJ and Mr Obama are certainly one-way only.  They speak; you listen and shut up if you’re Caucasoid.

Former FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko continues:

“The hyper-politicization of justice issues has made it immeasurably more difficult for police officers to simply do their jobs. The growing divide between the police and the people – perhaps best characterized by protesters in Ferguson, Mo., who angrily chanted, “It’s not black or white. It’s blue!” – only benefits of members of a political class seeking to vilify law enforcement for other societal failures. This puts our communities at greater risk, especially the most vulnerable among us,” Hosko wrote in the letter exclusively obtained by Townhall. “Your attorney general, Eric Holder, is chief among the antagonists. During his tenure as the head of the Department of Justice, Mr. Holder claims to have investigated twice as many police and police departments as any of his predecessors. Of course, this includes his ill-timed decision to launch a full investigation into the Ferguson Police Department at the height of racial tensions in that community, throwing gasoline on a fire that was already burning. Many officers were disgusted by such a transparent political maneuver at a time when presidential and attorney general leadership could have calmed a truly chaotic situation.”

Director Hosko is entirely correct.  Both Holder and Obama have and continue to take paths of lesser resistance when the issues involve race and blacks in America.  There are clear incidents at which to point.

This, then, is a highly important paragraph in the article:

In August, Holder sent Department of Justice officials from the Civil Rights Division and dozens of FBI agents to Ferguson to investigate the case before the official autopsy was conducted and nearly suggested in a statement that Officer Wilson was guilty of a crime before any evidence was produced.

The local grand jury has not returned a True Bill against Officer Wilson.  The autopsy report has not yet been officially released to the public.  Yet the American media and Leftists and our DC administration, the US DOJ, acted — is acting — as though the situation is cut and dried: Michael Brown was shot for no reason other than an individual officer’s racial animus.

What a load of crap.

“It won’t be long before the American people turn their attention to other matters. Long after Ferguson is forgotten, police officers across America will still remember the way their senior federal executives turned their back on them with oft-repeated suggestions that race-based policing drives a biased, broken law enforcement agenda,” Hosko continued.

If you recall, this is the same Mr Holder who very pointedly failed to even consider an investigation into Philadelphia Black Panther members standing before voting places with weapons in hand as documented on a viral video.  That set the tone for racial issues under Holder’s administration at DOJ.  And his racial bias.

Self-described Communist Van Jones (former Green Jobs advisor) typified Mr Obama as being “forced” into a meeting with “racist” Cambridge PD Sgt James Crowley, following the arrest of Henry Louis Gates    This is the same Van Jones who blamed “white polluters and white environmentalists” for “steering poison” into urban minority communities.

Let us not forget, regarding the arrest of Henry Gates — who is black — that it was Mr Obama himself who threw around various labels — prior to the facts being all in — regarding the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt Crowley.  From Breitbart.com:

After word of the arrest broke, the President weighed in during a press conference saying that while he didn’t have all the facts, “the Cambridge police acted stupidly.” The White House quickly tried to walk back the remark.

This White House, this president and Eric Holder have a history of making racial accusations prior to the facts being established, and their racial bias taints aspects of their politics, besides other base motivations.  That much is clear.  And, frankly, racist.

Holder appears to believe that cops are racist in nature and deserving of few of the rights afforded most other United States citizens.  As in: assuming the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri is racist in nature as is Police Officer Darren Wilson.  It is this that sours the relationship between the US DOJ and law enforcement around the nation.

I’ve had people tell me both to my face and in e-mails that I appear to concentrate far too much time and effort on “so-called racism in blacks” which, therefore, makes them very uncomfortable with me.  I have been told that these posts receive few or no comments because readers don’t want to be associated with the topic.  I have been told that my current “posting trend” (as it was called) with regard to this issue and that of Islam is tending to make people stray from my blog in any event, and that is why the number of hits to BZ has been plummeting markedly.  In truth, the opposite is occurring; my hits are expanding.

Why have I been writing so much about these two issues?  Easy answer: because I am tired of paragraphs like this from Eric Holder:

“There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” Holder told ABC, citing “people talking about taking their country back” as an example.

I am tired of blacks playing the “race card” when it is politically expedient.  It is a wolf’s cry that diminishes true racism.  Racism that can be bidirectional as well — that too few will call.  But I will.  I am beyond tired of being stereotyped as a racist because I am conveniently Caucasoid, male, older and worse yet, a cop.  I am tired of being told that only Caucasoids can be racist when, in fact, there are multiple continuing examples of racism by a group of persons whom many believe, by dint of melanin count, cannot be racist.  And that is crap is well.

True equality runs both ways.  And until it does and the bullshit hypocrisy stops, I shall continue to provide pushback when and how I deem fit.

FBI Assistant Director Hosko makes an excellent point.

I will continue to make mine.

BZ

 

Race baiting and racial attacks by Demorats: Condoleezza Rice weighs in on the midterms

Condoleezza Rice QuotationJust another day in the Demorat arsenal: race baiting and racial attacks.  And on the heels of yesterday’s attack on Mia Love by Monica Roberts.

From TheHill.com:

Rice: Dem racial attacks ‘appalling’

by Ben Kamisar

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday slammed Democrats who sought to use race against Republicans in the midterm elections, saying they were offensive and out of touch.

“The idea that you would play such a card and try fearmongering among minorities just because you disagree with Republicans, that they are somehow all racists, I find it appalling. I find it insulting,” she said on Fox News.

Appalling and insulting, but Standard Operating Procedure in the Demorat Playbook.

Rice and the show’s co-host, Brian Kilmeade, specifically mentioned the Georgia Democratic Party’s flyers that asked voters to prevent another shooting similar to that in Ferguson, Mo.

“We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority,” Rice said.

Let’s pause here for a brief moment.  Ferguson PD Officer Darren Wilson has already been found guilty in the eyes of the American Media Maggots and throughout the bulk of the urban black community.  Absent the facts, absent the grand jury returning a True Bill.  The autopsy was leaked as well and that reflected important information.   Wilson, no matter what occurs, has already been tarred and feathered and will never be able to work for Ferguson PD again, will never be able to go back to his home, will never be able to stay in Missouri.  He could be completely exonerated and will still carry the taint of that day.  Frankly, my guess would be that — should he be found completely innocent of any wrongdoing — he won’t be able to locate another job in law enforcement.  No department will want to touch him or hire him.  He is radioactive, courtesy of media bias and fear of political correctness.

The Race Card played.  Which will be played again and again.

It’s in the Playbook.

Speaking of Playbook, let’s let Saul Alinsky speak for Mr Obaka:

Alinsky's Rules For RadicalsBZ

P.S.

My continuing concern with this GOP win: will the Republicans continue to “go along to get along?”  It happens when either side becomes swollen with the potent aroma of power, and being treated with false and unwarranted deference.  The smell and contact with DC power can indeed be intoxicating.

 

Ferguson: turn everything upside down

Ferguson PD

Ferguson PD.  How many of these officers represent outside jurisdictions?

From MSNBC.com:

Shakeup of Ferguson police force expected

by Trymaine Lee

The first steps in a major shakeup of the Ferguson, Missouri police department – including the resignation of Chief Thomas Jackson – could come as early as next week, according to local and federal officials who’ve been briefed on plans still being worked out by city and state leaders. 

The plan, described by a source with direct knowledge of the plans as “extremely delicate,” said the details are still being hashed out in closed-door meetings between Ferguson city and St. Louis County officials who have sought consultation from the Justice Department, which is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August. The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the plan could include not just the resignation of Chief Jackson but the resignation of Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Brown on a Ferguson street, setting the city into weeks of unrest. 

This would, of course, include Officer Darren Wilson who has been found guilty of — wait for it — nothing yet.

First, the website of Ferguson Missouri itself:

Then the website of the Ferguson City PD.  Specifically avoiding any reference to travails whatsoever.

Further, however:

The source who spoke with MSNBC said Chief Jackson and Officer Wilson are expected to be eased out of the Ferguson police force, before what could be a full-scale take over of the Ferguson force by the St. Louis County police.

Eased out.  Despite no conclusions being made on any level for any one in any amount of time.  And yet, simultaneously, Ferguson has no retort and is apparently guilty of any and every accusation made against it directly and peripherally.

Who would I kick to the curb, if you asked me — a law enforcement officer with more than 41 years of experience in the venue?

The Chief would be toastal history.  And my officer would be protected as much as he could.

The Chief, no matter his pay rate, was and is incompetent.  He made too many holdbacks and didn’t grasp the importance of being frank with the media where and when he could.  Because, I suspect, his department was/is generally puerile and susceptible to the ministrations of local and national media that was twenty steps ahead of him at every turn.

You pay your Police Chief to be competent.  Jackson was not.  He Grokked not the concept of the release of information if and when you can.  He Grokked not the concept of approving tac sniper teams pointing long guns at protesters.  And he Grokked not the concept of processing your active crime scene for forensics as rapidly as possible given your unstable surrounding populace.  As a body lie on the ground in the heat.

In a two words — very much like Mr Obola — Jackson was frankly “tone deaf.”

But should his entire department suffer because of his inexperience and lack of 2014 political competence?

No, it should not.  He should go.  No one else.

Further, melanin makes no difference to the police force.  If 50 out of 56 officers have pale skin, that is completely indifferent.  Competence should be the bottom line.

The competence or incompetence of a given agency is not predicated upon the melanin count of its employees — unless, of course, you are the federal government.

Wait.  I tend to make my easy point now.

BZ