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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
liar-nObama's scorched-earth betrayal
of freedom-seekers
by Barry Farber
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Chicago Police and the Need for Justice
By Paul Albaugh: Many people have no doubt heard the familiar phrase, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power, corrupts absolutely." This phrase is often used in the context of those who hold positions of political power, but it can be applied to other positions as well. Americans have witnessed this phenomenon at all levels of government and have seen CEOs, bankers, members of the military, media giants and even police officers abuse their positions. Humans, regardless of their position, are not immune to the tendencies that occur when given — or even desiring — authority.
When power is used to create or cause injustice, people's lives end up ruined and communities and organizations are torn apart. In addition, live video footage of police in particular means viewers form immediate impressions, which in turn causes a loss of trust and confidence among the people who are supposed to be served.
Recent police incidents in Chicago reveal some disturbing trends that have done considerable damage to the entire department and what it is supposed to do — serve and protect. But there's a huge caveat, too.
Barack liar-nObama's Social Justice™ Department released a report on Friday that ripped the Chicago police department for its actions over the past several years. The report highlighted incidents in which police officers were credibly accused of excessive force, abuse, shooting at fleeing and unarmed suspects, improper non-lethal force procedures and racial bias against blacks and minorities.
The report also alleges that there is inadequate training for police officers on the front end, and too little accountability on the back end — times when the bad actions of police officers were ignored, or at best there were very minor repercussions for officer misconduct. From the bottom to the top, the Chicago Police Department has many significant flaws, according to the DOJ.
On one hand, the report shows that there is indeed injustice that occurs from the very people who are supposed to uphold justice and act justly themselves. On the other hand, there is no doubt that leftists created and are using this report, which reveals the bad actions of a few, to paint a broader picture of abuse in order to pander to Democrat constituents.
Not too long ago, the Justice Department, under then-Attorney General Eric Holder, released findings of injustice from its investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. The DOJ's report indicated that there was "disparate impact" — a favorite, albeit almost entirely fabricated term for liar-nObama — because of what the DOJ determined to be racially motivated misconduct from the city's police force.
In Ferguson, the police force was predominantly white and the majority of those arrested or involved with incidents with the police were predominantly black. The report was quick to point to racism and the city's thirst for revenue, but mentioned few causes of the problems. The DOJ investigation, combined with a militarized police force everyone saw displayed on TV, no doubt compounded the problems the city faced.
Predictably, the DOJ's attempt to "help" in Ferguson actually exacerbated the problems. In the ensuing months, police nationwide were discouraged from enforcing the law, while thugs — particularly black ones — were emboldened to commit more crime. The resulting crime increase can be attributed to the Ferguson Effect.
liar-nObama's Justice Department wants to repeat this using the Chicago PD as an example, all to solidify Democrat votes within the black community.
The city of Chicago is of course, a much larger city and with a police force of 12,000, so it's natural that there would be more numerous complaints of police misconduct. But that's no excuse for the race-baiters who want to exploit the slightest incident.
There may be some real problems with Chicago's police practices, and there are certainly other large cities facing similar challenges. There are always a few bad apples, including in police forces. The challenge is addressing potential causes of problems before they become problems. It's worth reminding people that the majority of police officers are the good guys who simply want to do their job — to serve and protect the people of the communities in which they serve.
And no police officer is guaranteed to return to his family at the end of every shift.
During the last few years, there has been an increase in disrespect for police officers, fomented by Democrats and leftist organizations like Black Lives Matter. And their accomplices in the mass media pounce on every incident, running wall-to-wall coverage in service of The Narrative. liar-nObama has been at the forefront of this war on cops, and this report on Chicago is the latest salvo. Enough truth to be believable, but enough malice to be used for far worse purposes.
From a community perspective, the priority should be eliminating Democrat urban poverty plantations where criminals thrive, coupled with a renewed effort at the state and local level to mend trust with police. Until these things occur, Rule of Law and justice will not be served, and communities will continue to suffer. ~The Patriot Post
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After the Trump “Dossier” Debacle:
An Open Letter to J-Students
by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ More surprising than BuzzFeed’s publication of politically-motivated opposition research about Donald Trump’s supposed Russia connections is the defense offered by a one-time bastion of journalism: Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)... To summarize: On Jan. 10, BuzzFeed published unverified, false, salacious opposition research generated by paid political operatives hired during the presidential campaign to collect dirt on Donald Trump. BuzzFeed acknowledged that the allegations in the “dossier” were unverified, and that some of the information was known to be false. A Trump lawyer named in the documents as having met with “Kremlin officials” in Prague, Czech last August reportedly never visited Prague. In her article, CJR Managing Editor Vanessa M. Gezari denunciates The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New York Times as “self-righteous and self-serving” in their criticism of BuzzFeed for publishing the opposition research. Gezari claims BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith “convincingly defended” his decision in a staff memo, “arguing that the dossier was being read and talked about ‘at the highest levels of American government and media’.” Gezari goes on to call BuzzFeed’s approach “well-established” in investigative journalism: “Release what you can when you have it and see what new leads it generates.”...You cause America to believe or doubt your false stories. https://sharylattkisson.com/after-the-trump-dossier-debacle-an-open-letter-to-j-students/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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EU and Iran to Trump:
‘You can’t renegotiate Iran deal’
by Timon Dias
{gatestone.eu} ~ A senior unelected EU diplomat from the unelected EU foreign minister’s office, secretary-general of the European Union’s foreign policy service in Brussels Helga Schmid, yesterday stated that US president-elect Donald Trump had misunderstood the Iran deal:.. The Iranian president Rouhani – who has breached the deal several times with impunity – echoed this claim, stating “Renegotiating “is like saying that we should turn a shirt back to cotton.” On multiple occasions, Trump has called the deal a “disaster” and “the worst deal ever negotiated”, and voiced the intent to annul it. Trump’s SecDef, General James Mattis, had been highly critical of the deal when it was signed in 2015 but never insisted it should be overturned completely...I say 'kill it' and re-impose sanctions. https://gatestone.eu/eu-iran/
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First F-35Cs for West Coast
FRS to arrive next week at Lemoore
by Gidget Fuentes
{usni.org} ~ The first F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters will arrive on the West Coast next week as the Navy prepares to ramp up its training pipeline for the next-generation stealth jet designed for carrier operations, Navy officials announced Tuesday... Four of the single-seat, multi-mission Joint Strike Fighters are scheduled to land at Lemoore Naval Air Station, Calif., on Jan. 25 and join Strike Fighter Squadron 125, a former F/A-18 Hornet training squadron the Navy reactivated on Jan. 12, Naval Air Force officials said in a news release. The “Rough Raiders” of VFA-125, will become the Navy’s latest squadron to get the advanced fighter designed for its carrier-based force. The squadron will serve as the west coast-based Fleet Replacement Squadron...
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Huge Development! Comey, Lynch, Holder
and liar-nObama Are Joining CALEXIT
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Eric Holder has already joined the CALEXIT team which has plans to withdraw from the Union by any means possible. Now, we know that rest of liar-nObama’s administration is headed west as well. Good thing, because California may not have an extradition agreement when all is said an d done.
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How Long Until liar-nObama Admits
He Isn’t Really a Christian?
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ For eight years, Barack liar-nObama has pretended he was not a radical leftist. Then, this week, he commuted the sentence of an unrepentant terrorist who not only refused to apologize for his crimes, but stood by his terrorism... As Ben Domenech noted on Fox News, Oscar Lopez Rivera believes terrorism is a legitimate political weapon. Stephen Miller is right in noting we can abandon all pretenses that Barack liar-nObama is anything other than a radical leftist. Can we finally acknowledge also that he is not the Christian he has pretended, for politics’ sake, to be. Being a person of faith is still a thing in the United States even if the left is currently struggling against it. It would have been a bridge too far for many people to vote for an atheist President so Barack liar-nObama played the role of Christian. He told Democrats, who four years later would boo God at the Democratic convention, that the GOP did not have a monopoly on faith. He hired a faith coordinator to do outreach. Then he and his administration systematically set out to persecute Christians in the United States and ignore them around the world...
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liar-nObama's scorched-earth betrayal
of freedom-seekers
by Barry Farber
{wnd.com} ~ Part of America died quietly last week.
There would have been a lot more wailing and mourning if there hadn’t been so much competing interest in an African-American congressman known as a civil rights icon saying he didn’t consider Donald Trump a legitimately elected president, and if there hadn’t been multiple tornadoes surrounding FBI Director James Comey, and if there hadn’t been so much wonderment over how much truth there was in a 35-page “report” on what went on in Trump’s hotel room in Moscow.
Among the many reasons to be proud of America is our long and bright history of offering haven, asylum and protection to the lonely freedom fighter or refugee against the thunderous hoof beats of dictators who can’t wait to get their hands on him. Sorry, Adolf, Josef, Mao, Vladimir and, more specifically here, Fidel and Raul. “We can’t touch him,” the dictator’s “diplomats” try to explain to their raging boss. “He slipped away, handcuffs and all, and eluded our secret police and made it safely to America. We can’t touch him!”
“Come on, now,” screams the foiled bully. “Everybody’s got a price and so does every country. Who do we bribe, and how much? Maybe we gotta hire one of their celebrity lawyers. There’s got to be a way to get him returned to us.” And to America’s everlasting glory, there’s indeed no way. Whether you’re Irish, propelled to America by a potato famine, an Italian playing daily ping-pong with starvation, a Jewish victim of the Russian czar whose pogroms served as an opening act for Hitler or any of dozens of other nationalities who successfully fled to America from countless bad guys, it soon becomes apparent to both the evil dictator and the grateful refugee that America means it!
Or we did until last Thursday!
As long as we’re counting reasons for Americans to be proud, it’s worth a pause here to point out that, contrary to misleading media, the “Yankee Imperialist Bully” has not been “defeated” by the hardy heroes of Stalinist Communism in Cuba. Yes, a Stalinist Communist regime has frustrated America for well over a half-century, but merely because America has too much class to wipe out annoying micro-adversaries like Cuba the way Russia, for instance, ended such sass from little Hungary and little Czechoslovakia. Any day since the Castro ascendancy in 1959 we could have folded Cuba up and stuffed it into our glove compartment before breakfast. We could, but we don’t and won’t.
Until last Thursday America’s policy was richly American. Any Cuban able to reach American soil was free to remain in the United States with the full protection such status guaranteed. Whenever President liar-nObama snarkishly reminded us that “Elections have consequences” we never dreamed he meant he had the right to scorch the earth on his way out! We were wrong. And the sad consequence is that, no matter how many innocent Cuban lives are put at risk or lost, liar-nObama is launching another chapter in his scorched-earth policy, in this case eliminating the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that saved so many Cubans from Communist oppression on that beautiful and dreadfully abused island.
Until last Thursday, America’s policy permitted protection for all Cubans who reach American soil without being apprehended on the high seas. No more! Now, wet foot or dry, the freedom-seeking Cuban gets returned to the tender mercy of Raul’s regime.
Can you imagine World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt approaching the regime of the late Adolf Hitler and saying, “Adolf, we’re getting a little crowded. If we round up all the Jews who’ve escaped Nazi Germany and made it to freedom in America, would you be willing to accept them back?” Can’t you picture Hitler calling Himmler and shouting, “Stoke up the ovens, Heinrich. America’s finally getting wise!”
That analogy has smooth skin. There’s not a single wrinkle wrong with it.
The sharpest pain for me – sharper than liar-nObama’s blazing non-concern for Cuban life – has a strange salve. First, the pain. The liar-nObama administration actually bragged about its negotiating skills in succeeding in getting the Cuban Communists to “take back” those Cubans who had reached America and had pleaded for asylum!
The salve. Someone in liar-nObama’s regime had the brutalitarian honesty to haul off and say, “Anybody seeking to leave Cuba and attain asylum in the United States must now know he’ll have no home in America!”
Thanks, Barack. I feel like a jailbird innocent, by the way who’s already well into his last week in prison. The part of America that died last week can be brought roaring back to life when President-elect Trump drops that “-elect” part Friday and becomes President Trump. It’ll just take a signature. I await the presidential tweet that declares “Whole new Cuba policy coming up!”
So, back now to liar-nObama’s administration warning that freedom-seekers “will have no home in America.” Let me reply with the words of Emma Lazarus that eventually found their way to the bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
There would have been a lot more wailing and mourning if there hadn’t been so much competing interest in an African-American congressman known as a civil rights icon saying he didn’t consider Donald Trump a legitimately elected president, and if there hadn’t been multiple tornadoes surrounding FBI Director James Comey, and if there hadn’t been so much wonderment over how much truth there was in a 35-page “report” on what went on in Trump’s hotel room in Moscow.
Among the many reasons to be proud of America is our long and bright history of offering haven, asylum and protection to the lonely freedom fighter or refugee against the thunderous hoof beats of dictators who can’t wait to get their hands on him. Sorry, Adolf, Josef, Mao, Vladimir and, more specifically here, Fidel and Raul. “We can’t touch him,” the dictator’s “diplomats” try to explain to their raging boss. “He slipped away, handcuffs and all, and eluded our secret police and made it safely to America. We can’t touch him!”
“Come on, now,” screams the foiled bully. “Everybody’s got a price and so does every country. Who do we bribe, and how much? Maybe we gotta hire one of their celebrity lawyers. There’s got to be a way to get him returned to us.” And to America’s everlasting glory, there’s indeed no way. Whether you’re Irish, propelled to America by a potato famine, an Italian playing daily ping-pong with starvation, a Jewish victim of the Russian czar whose pogroms served as an opening act for Hitler or any of dozens of other nationalities who successfully fled to America from countless bad guys, it soon becomes apparent to both the evil dictator and the grateful refugee that America means it!
Or we did until last Thursday!
As long as we’re counting reasons for Americans to be proud, it’s worth a pause here to point out that, contrary to misleading media, the “Yankee Imperialist Bully” has not been “defeated” by the hardy heroes of Stalinist Communism in Cuba. Yes, a Stalinist Communist regime has frustrated America for well over a half-century, but merely because America has too much class to wipe out annoying micro-adversaries like Cuba the way Russia, for instance, ended such sass from little Hungary and little Czechoslovakia. Any day since the Castro ascendancy in 1959 we could have folded Cuba up and stuffed it into our glove compartment before breakfast. We could, but we don’t and won’t.
Until last Thursday America’s policy was richly American. Any Cuban able to reach American soil was free to remain in the United States with the full protection such status guaranteed. Whenever President liar-nObama snarkishly reminded us that “Elections have consequences” we never dreamed he meant he had the right to scorch the earth on his way out! We were wrong. And the sad consequence is that, no matter how many innocent Cuban lives are put at risk or lost, liar-nObama is launching another chapter in his scorched-earth policy, in this case eliminating the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that saved so many Cubans from Communist oppression on that beautiful and dreadfully abused island.
Until last Thursday, America’s policy permitted protection for all Cubans who reach American soil without being apprehended on the high seas. No more! Now, wet foot or dry, the freedom-seeking Cuban gets returned to the tender mercy of Raul’s regime.
Can you imagine World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt approaching the regime of the late Adolf Hitler and saying, “Adolf, we’re getting a little crowded. If we round up all the Jews who’ve escaped Nazi Germany and made it to freedom in America, would you be willing to accept them back?” Can’t you picture Hitler calling Himmler and shouting, “Stoke up the ovens, Heinrich. America’s finally getting wise!”
That analogy has smooth skin. There’s not a single wrinkle wrong with it.
The sharpest pain for me – sharper than liar-nObama’s blazing non-concern for Cuban life – has a strange salve. First, the pain. The liar-nObama administration actually bragged about its negotiating skills in succeeding in getting the Cuban Communists to “take back” those Cubans who had reached America and had pleaded for asylum!
The salve. Someone in liar-nObama’s regime had the brutalitarian honesty to haul off and say, “Anybody seeking to leave Cuba and attain asylum in the United States must now know he’ll have no home in America!”
Thanks, Barack. I feel like a jailbird innocent, by the way who’s already well into his last week in prison. The part of America that died last week can be brought roaring back to life when President-elect Trump drops that “-elect” part Friday and becomes President Trump. It’ll just take a signature. I await the presidential tweet that declares “Whole new Cuba policy coming up!”
So, back now to liar-nObama’s administration warning that freedom-seekers “will have no home in America.” Let me reply with the words of Emma Lazarus that eventually found their way to the bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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