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We lead today with special commentary by Mark Alexander on a grand jury's decision to forgo charges against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.Ferguson: A Race Bait Case Study
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As anticipated, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced Monday night that the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was justified self defense. "[The grand jury] determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer Wilson, and returned a 'No True Bill' on each of the five indictments," said McCulloch. In fact, Brown's autopsy determined he was facing Wilson when shot, and one of Brown's wounds was at close range inside Wilson's patrol vehicle, the result of Brown's attempt to reach through the driver's door window and take the officer's gun after having assaulted Wilson.
Predictably, Barack Obama and his dependable stable of "race bait" surrogates immediately set about to convert the verdict into political capital. Of course, the 24-hour news recycling talking heads, all vying for advertising market share, provided the race agitators a very big stage, and will continue to do so as long as they can stir up enough protestors.
For his part, Obama claimed the racial anger was "understandable," but, given that there is no upcoming election, he left the constituent building to his race baiting attorney general, Eric Holder, who ensured the nation that the Justice Department investigation remains open: “While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department’s investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing."
Holder is a master race baiter, and, when joined by race hustlers, including Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and legions of lesser useful idiots, they have become very effective at promoting hate crime hoaxes in order to foment discontent and rally black constituents.
Ahead of the 2012 presidential election, Holder and company set the race bait by vowing to "seek justice" after a "white-Hispanic" man, George Zimmerman, shot and killed, in self-defense, a black teenage thug named Trayvon Martin.
Ahead of the 2014 midterm election, Holder promised to "seek justice" in the shooting of another black teenage thug. In both cases, for political expedience, Holder assumed the shooters were guilty until proven innocent. Obama even suggested in an address to the UN that the Ferguson shooting could be seen in the same light as atrocities committed by ISIL cutthroats.
Among the more visible racists in Ferguson immediately after the shooting were the Black Panthers, who coined the chant, "What do we want? -- Darren Wilson! -- How do we want him? -- Dead!"
Missouri Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon, who is fishing for a 2016 veep slot under Hillary Clinton, joined that chant, referring to Brown as an "unarmed teenager" and promising "to achieve justice for Michael Brown," but omitting any reference that Wilson's actions might have been justified.
Having worked as a uniformed officer in two states while completing my undergraduate degree, I take great offense at the constant description of Michael Brown as an "unarmed teenager." No law enforcement officer should ever approach a suspect or assailant, whether in a vehicle or on a street, with the assumption he or she is "unarmed." I would not be writing these words had I wavered from that precautionary training. The fact that Brown did not possess a weapon is hindsight 20/20, not something Wilson knew at the time of the altercation.
For the record, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, over the last decade there were an average of 58,261 assaults against law enforcement personnel each year, resulting in 15,658 injuries and more than 150 deaths per year.
Now, after three Brown autopsies and copious deliberations, the verdict is in -- the shooting was justified. But don't expect the facts to get in the way of the race bait political agenda.
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Racial Narrative Succeeds in Destroying Ferguson
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced Monday night what the police in riot gear, the activated National Guard and the delayed press conference already said hours before: "[The grand jury] determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against Officer [Darren] Wilson, and returned a 'No True Bill' on each of the five indictments." The grand jury reviewed three autopsies and heard more than 70 hours of testimony, and in the end they found insufficient evidence for any charge -- that's significant, as a grand jury needs only probable cause, not proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." Yet "protesters" were prepared to immediately become rioters and loot everything from alcohol to TVs from local businesses and then set fire to those businesses. The Left has sufficiently propagandized the black community so that they see injustice around every corner. Are there injustices? Absolutely. Is the Ferguson Police Department blameless? Absolutely not. But the violent and destructive results of this irresponsibly fomented anger are plastered across our TV screens.Comment | Share
As Ferguson Burns, Obama Calls Anger 'Understandable'
In his statement following the St. Louis County grand jury announcement that officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted for the death of Michael Brown, Barack Obama accepted the ruling of the grand jury and made calls for peaceful protest and action, even as some television networks showed pictures of an erupting riot in Ferguson. "First and foremost, we are a nation built on the Rule of Law," Obama said. "And so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make. There are Americans who agree with it, and there are Americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. It's an understandable reaction." Obama continued, saying Ferguson highlighted the problems in race relations and policing strategies: "So, to those in Ferguson, there are ways of channeling your concerns constructively and there are ways of channeling your concerns destructively." As Martin Luther King once said, rioting and violence are used by people who feel they have no other ways to redress their grievances: "A riot is the language of the unheard." Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have fomented racial grievances all along, both in Ferguson and in the case of Trayvon Martin. To call for calm now is a bit disingenuous.Comment | Share
Holder Says It's Not Over
While the streets of Ferguson erupted into fiery violence last night, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the grand jury's decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson is not the end of the legal circus surrounding the shooting. In September, the Department of Justice opened two investigations, one into possible civil rights violations in the Ferguson Police Department, and another into Wilson himself. "While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department's investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing," Holder said in a statement. "Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now. Even at this mature stage of the investigation, we have avoided prejudging any of the evidence. And although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions." Is this Holder's way of "having a conversation" on race? He has inserted the federal government into the situation, keeping anger high by implying justice has not yet been served. More…Comment | Share
Failure to Launch: No Nuke Deal With Iran
As the weekend progressed, it became clear that any chance of reaching a nuclear deal with Iran -- what little chance there was, anyway -- was next to zero as the Monday deadline neared. Yesterday officials confirmed that negotiators failed to come to an agreement, which means essentially nothing changes. Iran will continue masquerading its uranium enrichment program with promises of cloture and the can is once again kicked further drown the road. According to The Washington Free Beacon, "The parties now claim that last-minute progress in the talks warrant an extension into December -- and likely thorough July 2015 -- though the sides have yet to decide upon a location for continued negotiations, according to a Western source cited by the Associated Press." Right -- "last-minute progress." The only nation making progress is Iran, whose charade ensures that it gets ever closer to the goal of attaining a nuclear warhead. Real progress looks unattainable as long as the Obama administration is calling the shots. The question is, can Israel survive two more years of obfuscation? More...Comment | Share
Executive Power for Me but Not for Thee
In a sit-down interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama explained that his abuse of executive power should not be exploited by his successors in the Oval Office. The emperor was asked, "How do you respond to the argument, a future president comes in, wants lower taxes. Doesn't happen. Congress won't do it -- he says I'm not going to prosecute those who don't pay capital gains tax?" Naturally, the president circumvented the question the first time around by defending his amnesty diktat, prompting Stephanopoulos to inquire once again, "So you don't think it'd be legitimate for a future president to make that argument?" Responded Obama: "With respect to taxes? Absolutely not." If only Democrats could follow their own advice. To be fair, he was asked about unilaterally lowering taxes, not raising them. He might have a different answer to the latter.Comment | Share
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