It isn’t a case of the Democrats now going off soul searching, it case of total revamp from top to bottom after Trump’s win last Tuesday. The Amazing Democrats’ advice very early on to the Clinton Campaign (and some of those comments were posted on our social media platforms as far back as the late summer of 2015) went unheard unlike when we worked for the Obama/Biden campaign in 2012. It is time DNC to fire all your overpaid pollsters (who got it so wrong), consultants and the like. The DNC should of known in their hearts of hearts that after Bernie Sanders won twenty-two states with so little money against Hillary Clinton, their candidate of choice would be in serious trouble if the Republicans got a candidate who could storm the mainstream and social media which Trump did and of course got a bit of luck along the way with that first letter released by the FBI Director that certainly damaged Hillary in early voting and gave a huge boast for Trump with his base. Yes, a lot of questions will be asked as to how the FBI were allowed to influence an election so openly. But this was far from the only reason Hillary lost even if the DNC die hards believe it to be so. The DNC and Democrats have lost their way and have been now for a long time. Their obsession only seems to be with fundraising not the core principles of what the party was founded on, Trump was able to tap into that huge hole in the DNC. It was a party that once cared for the low income, the homeless, our veterans, the poor people of America and not the massive billions of dollars in fundraising which was totally wasted trying to take Trump down. Just think today how many homeless people that billion of dollars plus would do to help house the homeless crisis in our major cities which should have been a top issue for Hillary.
Hillary campaign interviewed myself and members of The Amazing Democrats, for the record we call ourselves The Amazing Democrats as we not die hard Democrats, we wouldn’t have followed Hillary in to the fires of hell if she was wrong and we wouldn’t be silent either even if it meant we were fired from the campaign, that’s the way worked in the Obama/Biden 2012 reelection campaign and we were amazed how we survived not to be fired (nearly maybe once or twice when we really overstepped our mark and criticized some of the President’s polices publicly). The interviewing process went back as far as January 2016 to join her campaign. We were subjected to rounds and rounds of interviews, back ground checks, etc. Months would go by and we heard nothing and then it would start all over again. It was by late August this Editor got interviewed for the sixth time, more back ground checks and then was offered four important positions in four different swing states and one of this offers came directly from the DNC. All this was paid employment and not volunteer work. That last weekend in August for me was were I suffered so much turmoil as I had to give them a decision by the following Monday. It meant dropping everything in my life and getting on a plane to Pennsylvania. What was most troubling in my mind was I could sense there was panic setting in for the Democrats and Hillary’s campaign. I didn’t sleep that weekend. I went back to the old formula that the Obama campaign thought me and even though I didn’t have access to data like we did when worked for Obama, never the less, I ran the data all weekend long. It is a long and laborious process that you can see today that both the pollsters and media don’t do, why? Maybe they just are too lazy to do it, who knows? You have to run every state’s county’s data county by county, you have then figure in the data available from both the candidates’ primary wins or loses, a lot of mathematics but in the end you get a somewhat overview, be it very rough. Also you have to take into account that I had been tracking the swing states every week since both primaries ended last year. Not good for Hillary and her team I could see, in fact the Wednesday before the election I was gloomy, I could predict Trump was going to win Ohio by three percent (he won by five percent so I was only out by two percent) and as you know, no Presidential candidate can take their place in The White House if they don’t win Ohio. With all this, it was the hardiest email I ever sent, declining the positions to work on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
As we move into the Trump Presidency, it’s going to be a very dark lonely path for the Democrats. Yes, there is the mid-terms in 2018, but if the DNC works as it has for the last twenty years, they are a very slow climb back up on Capitol Hill as remember this Presidential election in 2016 had the lowest turn out of voters in years, which helped Trump but destroyed Hillary’s chances of winning, nearly 50% of the electorate didn’t bother to vote and historically mid-term voting has a very low voter turn-out. Also if Trump makes any small success of his first term and as everything Trump touches turns to gold, whether you like his manner and process or not and as it very hard to unseat a sitting President, as we all know, Trump going for a second term, then the DNC and Democrats could be looking at the wildness for next eight years at least, that’s 2024, a very depressing thought I know, but maybe a fact unless the DNC make radically chances and that starts today, not six months before the 2018 mid-terms.
In the 2006 mid-terms under George W. Bush, the Republicans got wiped out in the House and the Senate. All the media said at that time that Republican Party need to reinvent itself and stop been the “party of no”. Did they? Of course not, in fact under Obama as President and because of their hatred of him, they became the “party of no, no, no” on every bill he sent to the House and Senate. Now look where they are ten years later. The power of Washington again with the Democrats hanging onto their coattails and the sad thing is, Trump gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice. If he gets two terms, who knows, with three more justices ready for retirement in the next few years, he might even hit the golden jackpot of nominating four Supreme Court justices, a very scary thought. The Democrats however can’t do as the Republicans did in 2006, which was nothing to change their image and beliefs but the Democrats aren’t so lucky. If the DNC go back to business as usual, it will be a very dark long road for the Democrats back to the shining lights of The White House. It is simply the base. The Republican base and the Democrat base is so so much different and as Trump said decades ago when he was a registered Democrat, pro-choice and donated a lot of money to Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaigns: “If I was to run as President, I would run as a Republican as their voters as so dumb and easy to fool, I would lie and lie to them until I got numbers”. That’s all he had to do for this Presidential campaign and he is the winner today not Hillary Clinton.
Which brings what fundamentally went south very early on in the Hillary Clinton campaign:
1. NEVER EVER underestimate your opponent.
2. If he/she gets down in the dirt, you go down there with them. Hillary taking the high road was her downfall as political correctness (PC) means nothing anymore in the world of social media as we saw with Trump, the King of Twitter and Obama/Biden in 2008 as the King of Facebook. PC has gone way too far in the US and the rest of the world and Trump, no matter what you think, turned PC on it’s head in this presidential election and as he said on 60 Minutes last night, “it was nasty, very nasty but I am the one sitting here today talking to you and not them”. In fact 2020 and 2024 will be so so much nastier. Rumors were that Trump using his own money, paid pockets of supporters all over America to flood the internet with lies about Hillary and Bill Clinton and the secret? They could never be traced back to him or his campaign. Why didn’t the Hillary Clinton campaign do the same with the rumors about Trump’s ties to the Mafia? Why was this never floated all over the internet? PC I guess but he won and Clinton lost. The new trend now with Presidential campaigns as Trump has lowered the bar, is to win 2020 or 2024 the candidates from both parties to win, will have to get down in the mud and get dirty. Sad? Of course but no cares about the loser, they only care about the winner.
3. Dump the negative ads. One billion dollars was such a waste of money by the Clinton campaign and Trump barely spent a faction of that. We kept telling the Obama/Biden campaign and the DNC in 2012, negative ads don’t work anymore and only turn all the voters off. Pity they didn’t listen.
The Amazing Democrats are not all about criticizing without offering the DNC suggestions for the road forward:
1. Fire all your overpaid pollsters, consultants, lobbyists, etc..
2. Allow the progressive members of the party to take over. (I do not mean the loony left), members who understand the issues of the day to day worries of the lower income Americans (who sadly are too many), the homeless crisis in our cities all over America, our veterans living on our streets.
3. Get back to what a community organizer really is. I used get so annoy with new volunteers who joined our team who tried to tell the person forcefully on the other side of the phone why they should vote for Obama or donate to Obama’s campaign and the DNC. A community organizer’s job is to listen and listen well and then send what they hear up the line and hope they are listening otherwise you get a result like Tuesday’s Presidential elections.
4. As the advice to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, get off the negative ads obsession (turns all voters off).
5. And please with every email you sent, stop looking for donations all the time. It makes us feel you don’t care about anything but money and donations which we know to be true.
6. Find the soul of the Democrat Party again of FDR and John F. Kennedy.
7. And finally, listen. Never stop listening to those on the ground as we are the ones who can make the difference from the Democrats winning or losing an election.
Here is to the 2018 mid-terms, see you then and to 2020 Presidential election. Keep the faith and a sense of humor as The Amazing Democrats do and God Bless America,
Only one candidate in last week’s Republican presidential debate was asked to directly address the Black Lives Matter movement and that candidate was Gov. Scott Walker.
Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Walker:
“Governor Walker, many in the Black Lives Matter movement, and beyond, believe that overly-aggressive police officers targeting young African-Americans is the civil rights issue of our time. Do you agree? And if so, how do you plan to address it? If not, why not?”
Walker responded with an answer about sufficient training of officers “not only on the way into their positions but all the way through their time” and about “consequences” for those who don’t properly perform their duties.
Both the question and the answer focused an inordinate amount of attention on police conduct and not enough on revealing that they are simply the agents of policy instituted by officials at the behest of the body politic.
This deficit of examining systems exists all across this debate. It fails to indict society as a whole, as I firmly believe it should. It puts all the focus on the tip of the spear rather than on the spear itself.
Look at it this way: Many local municipalities experience budgetary pressure. Rather than raise taxes or cut services in response, things that are often politically unpalatable, they turn to law enforcement and courts to make up the difference in tickets and fines. Some can also increase the number of finable offenses and stiffen the penalties.
Officers, already disproportionately deployed and arrayed in so-called “high-crime” neighborhoods — invariably poor and minority neighborhoods — are then charged with doing the dirty work. The increase in sheer numbers of interactions creates friction with targeted populations and ups the odds that individual biases will be introduced.
Without fail, something eventually goes horribly wrong.
We look at the end interaction, examining the officers for bias and the suspect for threatening behavior, rather than looking at the systems that necessitated the interactions.
Society itself is to blame. There is blood on everyone’s hands, including the hands still clutching the tax revenue that those cities needed but refused to solicit, instead shifting the mission of entire police departments “from ‘protect and serve’ to ‘punish and profit,’ ” as Mother Jones magazine recently put it in a fascinating article on this subject.
Is it a coincidence that many of the recent cases involving black people killed by the police began with stops for minor offenses?
This “fiscal menace,” as the magazine called it, is added to a system often already addicted to ever-improving crime numbers — a statistically unsustainable condition — and a ballooning prison population. To maintain the momentum, cities needed to crack down on lower and lower-level crimes, sacrificing more and more lives — largely poor and minority ones — to feed the beast. Public safety gave cover for a perversion of justice.
In another moment during the debate, Kelly asked Ben Carson about race relations in America and “how divided we seem right now.” She continued: “And what, if anything, you can do — you would do as the next president to help heal that divide.”
First, before the answer, I have a nit to pick with the question. The framing of the state of race relations as a “divide,” to my mind, creates a false impression, an equivalency. It suggests a lateral-ness. But this discussion is about vertical-ness, about hierarchy. It is about whether state power is being used disproportionately as an oppressive and deadly force against minorities — particularly black people — in this country.
Carson responded with a prelude that seemed to label those demanding justice and equality “purveyors of hatred” seeking a “race war,” an outrageously exaggerated use of incendiary rhetoric.
Then he said:
“What we need to think about instead — you know, I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don’t I talk about race that often. I said it’s because I’m a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say — I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I’m actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn’t make them who they are. The hair doesn’t make them who they are. And it’s time for us to move beyond that.”
This was an eloquent exposition of the absurdity of race as a biological construct, but also an absurdly elementary avoidance of racism as a very real social construct. I wish it were that people could all simply “move beyond that” at will, that they were able to simply choose to slough off the cumulative accrual of centuries of systematic anti-black negativity. But, that is not a power people possess.
That is why when people respond to “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter,” it grates. All Lives Matter may be one’s personal position, but until this country values all lives equally, it is both reasonable and indeed necessary to specify the lives it seems to value less.
US golfer Bubba Watson is to paint over the Confederate flag on the car from the Dukes of Hazzard TV series, as part of a growing backlash against the rebel symbol from the US Civil War.
The top golfer, who owns the car, announced the move by tweeting that he believed “all men are created equal”.
The flag divides opinion in the US, symbolising racism to its critics – and southern heritage to its defenders.
The debate was revived by a recent gun attack on a black church in Charleston.
The suspect behind the murder of nine churchgoers, Dylann Roof, appeared in many photos holding the flag.
The Confederate battle flag became a potent symbol for the southern states fighting the Civil War as they sought to break away from the union.
Many of those states now display the flag outside government buildings. It also appears on number-plates and is sold as a bumper sticker.
But it remains controversial, seen by some as an icon of slavery and oppression, while others say it symbolises their history and identity. The Charleston attack has prompted fresh calls for displays of the flag to be curtailed.
Watson, the third-ranked golfer in the world and two-time Masters champion, said on Twitter that he would cover the flag on the car with the US Stars and Stripes.
“All men ARE created equal, I believe that so I will be painting the American flag over the roof of the General Lee,” he said, referring to the vehicle by its nickname on the Dukes of Hazzard.
The car was a centrepiece of the US TV show from the late 1970s, which featured a group of rural crime-fighters.
Watson acquired the car in 2012, according to the Washington Post.
Birth of a flag:
seen today on houses, bumper stickers and T-shirts (and Mississippi flag, above)
sometimes accompanied by the words “If this shirt offends you, you need a history lesson”
but it was never the official national flag of the Confederacy, rejected in 1861
instead adopted as battle flag by the Army of Northern Virginia under General Lee
it fast became a potent symbol of Confederate nationalism, more popular than the official national flag.
An overwhelming majority of Americans say they believe protests against unfair government treatment make the United States a better country.
Unless, that is, the protesters are black.
A new Pubic Religion Research Institute poll asked whether protests against government mistreatment always improve the country, and a full 67 percent of white Americans strongly or at least partially agreed. But when it asked a separate sample whether black Americans protesting government mistreatment always makes the country better, just 48 percent of white Americans agreed.
That’s two-thirds, versus less than half.
And the racial differences didn’t end there. In fact, non-white Americans are more likely to believe in the benefits of black Americans protesting Americans writ large. Among non-white Americans, 56 percent agreed that protests against government mistreatment are good for the country, but a full 65 percent said the same when the people protesting were black.
The gaps, as the chart below shows, are clear and remarkable.
“We expected to see some differences along racial lines when we asked these questions, but we certainly had not expected a gap that size, a gap that large,” Dan Cox, research director at Public Religion Research Institute, told me.
White Americans made up the lion’s share of those polled in the survey — 709 of the 1,007 people surveyed. Pollsters also talked to 109 black Americans and 121 Latinos for the same survey. Those who responded were asked about range of issues shaping the country, including religion, race, language, patriotism and immigration.
Pollsters often worry that the people contacted for surveys will, because they are human, give in to the instinct to give the “right” or “admirable” answer rather than an honest one, Cox told me. They call this phenomenon the “social desirability bias.” And that bias certainly makes the work of polling challenging.
To subvert this problem, the PRRI asked a randomly selected half of the 1,007 people polled the question about whether protests against government mistreatment always improve the country. They asked the remaining half whether protests against government mistreatment by black Americans always improve the country. And the results were clear.
“Most white Americans generally believe that protests are good for the country, but they hold significant reservations about protests led by African Americans,” Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute, said in a statement released Tuesday along with the polling data. “Among white Americans, strong support for protesting government mistreatment drops dramatically when protesters are identified as black Americans.”
The PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey was conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service. The nationwide survey of 1,007 adults was conducted from June 10 to June 14, 2015, in English and Spanish.
The date range of the poll is significant because pollsters finished their work three days before a white gunman fatally shot nine African Americans in a Charleston church, setting off a new round of public debate about race and mistreatment and protests against the Confederate flag in South Carolina. But those polled would, quite probably, have been aware of recent events in Ferguson, Mo.; New York City, North Charleston, S.C.; and Baltimore that led to large protests.
In each of these cities, largely black (but certainly not exclusively black) groups of protesters took to the streets. Some marched in support of a growing national movement organized loosely around the slogan “black lives matter.” In two of these cities, protests at points grew violent and devolved into riots. In Ferguson, police used military equipment, including tanks, to try to corral and quell protests, even before rioting or looting erupted.
Cox thinks that it is quite likely that protests against alleged police misconduct and excessive use of force were on the minds of those polled by the Public Religion Research Institute in June. But he also thinks that it was not simply the protests themselves but the way they were covered that might explain the nearly 20-point gap in the way that white and non-white Americans view the effect of protests involving black Americans.
News coverage of the protests and later rioting in Baltimore focused far more attention on the burned CVS store and disrupted sports events than on more complex and less visual issues such as the array of social and economic disparities that have created pockets of deep poverty in predominantly black neighborhoods in Baltimore.
What is clear is that Americans who generally support protests against government mistreatment aren’t nearly as supportive if the ones doing the protesting happen to be black.
ST. LOUIS — On the heels of delivering an impassioned speech on race relations last weekend, Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the shooting of nine people at a church in Charleston as “an act of racist terrorism,” and called for the removal of the Confederate flag from public spaces nationwide.
The Democratic presidential contender was here to meet with community leaders at a mostly black church located near Ferguson, Mo., where race riots last year sparked a national debate on discrimination and policing. Clinton — who called for the flag to be removed from South Carolina statehouse grounds eight years ago, during her first presidential bid — praised South Carolina officials for making the same call Monday.
“I appreciate the actions begun yesterday by the governor and others in South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse, recognizing it as a symbol of our nation’s racist past that has no place in our present or our future,” she said. “It shouldn’t fly there, it shouldn’t fly anywhere.”
She also commended Wal-Mart, Amazon, eBay and Sears by name for announcing that they would no longer sell products that feature the flag, and called for other companies to follow suit.
Her emphasis on racial issues follows the tragic shooting at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, where a gunman killed nine people last Wednesday as they gathered for a Bible study. The attack was at the center of Clinton’s “community meeting” Tuesday afternoon at the United Church of Christ in Florissant, Mo.
“Those nine righteous men and women who invited a stranger into their midst to study the Bible with them, someone who did not look like them, someone who they had never seen before, their example and their memory show us the way,” she told the audience of about 250 attendees. “Let us be resolved to make sure they did not die in vain — not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good.”
Clinton has confidently waded into conversations on race relations on several occasions in recent months, with a particular emphasis on discussing the need for criminal justice reform in the United States. Her most recent string of speeches and appearances also serves as a clear message to communities of color: I’m with you — and I want your vote.
“Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished,” Clinton said at the annual Conference of Mayors on Saturday. “I know this is a difficult topic to talk about. I know that so many of us hoped by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. I know there are truths we do not like to say out loud or discus with our children. But we have to.”
Clinton’s visit Tuesday came amid questions over her ability to reassemble the “Obama coalition” during the 2016 election, a coalition she is aggressively courting as she seeks the Democratic nomination. But six years into President Obama’s tenure, parts of that coalition of young, female and ethnically diverse voters has become discouraged by the lack of political progress they see in Washington.
Clinton’s campaign is seeking to cast her as a transformative figure similar to Obama — a “fighter,” in the words of her campaign, and potentially the first female president — in hopes of sparking the same kind of political energy that propelled Obama to the White House in 2008.
“This is no longer what has been called a ‘Ferguson issue.’ It’s a community issue. Change is needed,” said Cynthia Donaldson, 54, a local resident and a Democratic voter who supports Clinton. “We also want to know her stance on unemployment and other issues. This is personal for me.”
Donaldson, who says her daughter has struggled to find employment since graduating with a master’s degree, says she is interested in hearing Clinton talk about expanding economic opportunity for everyone. “These things are not just happening in the black community.”
Waiting outside before Clinton’s address, many hoped that Clinton would talk about finding solutions to broad problems that affect all communities across the country, such as education reform and early childhood education. While most of those in attendance live in the community — the group included several local elected officials — several students who attend university in the area also arrived hoping to see the former secretary of state.
“I think it’s important to learn how to create diverse and inclusive communities, especially now and especially in St. Louis,” said Kalie Penn, 19, a student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, about 20 miles away from Florissant. “She’s here to talk about equality in our community, which is such a hot button issue…. It doesn’t surprise me at all — she’s been an advocate for equality.”
Clinton emphasized inclusiveness throughout her speech Tuesday and in comments she made during a community panel that followed her prepared remarks. At one point, Clinton told the audience that she “didn’t have any black friends, neighbors or classmates until I went to college…I’m so bless to have had so many since.” She said that nonetheless, she jumped at the opportunity to see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak when she was a student.
“Whether you live in Ferguson or West Baltimore, in coal country or Indian country, you should have the same chance as any American anywhere to get ahead and stay ahead,” Clinton said.
Already Clinton has shown that reaching out to black and Hispanic voters is a top priority for her campaign team. In her first major policy address after declaring her presidential candidacy in April, Clinton spoke at Columbia University in New York about criminal justice reform, calling for the “end to the era of mass incarceration.”
“Not only as a mother and grandmother, but as a citizen, as a human being, my heart breaks for these young men and their families,” Clinton said then. “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”
Clinton’s frank and, at times, highly personal statements on issues of gun violence and policy brutality stand in contrast to the responses by her GOP rivals, who last week fumbled questions about the motivation behind the attack in Charleston — the accused shooter has since been associated with white supremacist beliefs — and whether it is appropriate for the Confederate flag to continue flying outside the South Carolina state Capitol.
Her comments have also surprised many critics who accuse her of being politically guarded.
“It’s tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today’s America bigotry is largely behind us,” Clinton said Saturday. “But despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished.”
LOS ANGELES — A group of San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies were captured on videotape Thursday repeatedly pummeling and kicking a suspect after he fell off his horse at the end of a bizarre chase through rough California desert.
The county sheriff, John McMahon, called the video “disturbing” and said he had ordered an investigation into the episode, in which deputies chased the man by foot, helicopter and off-road vehicles. They shot him with a Taser when he fell off the horse. Video taken from a television station’s helicopter shows about a dozen deputies swarming the man as he sprawled on the ground. The video shows a blur of kicks and pounding fists that appeared to continue after the suspect’s hands were tied behind his back, and lasted close to two minutes.
The suspect was identified as Francis Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley, a community on the edge of the Mojave Desert about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. He was taken to a hospital with undisclosed injuries, according to the sheriff’s office.
There were no other immediate details about the suspect. The sheriff’s office said the encounter began when deputies went to his home and sought to serve him with a search warrant on suspicion of identity theft. They said three deputies were hurt during the capture of Mr. Pusok; one was kicked by a horse and two suffered dehydration.
The emergence of the videotape, recorded by a news helicopter operated by KNBC-TV, came at a time of heightened scrutiny of the nation’s police officers, after the arrest of an officer in North Charleston, S.C., for fatally shooting a fleeing man in the back.
Sheriff McMahon said he dispatched the department’s Specialized Investigations Detail, which is in charge of investigating police shootings. He called it a “criminal investigation.”
“The video surrounding this arrest is disturbing and I have ordered an internal investigation be conducted immediately,” he said in a statement
The sheriff’s office said the incident began just past noon. Mr. Pusok fled in a car as the deputies approached his home. He abandoned his car and began running away, until he encountered a group of horseback riders and stole one of their horses, using it to ride through steep hills and rough terrain as he sought to escape, according to the sheriff’s office.
The KNBC video shows Mr. Pusok riding through the hills, a police helicopter buzzing over him and officers chasing after him on foot. It shows the deputies firing Tasers at him; the sheriff’s office said the device was ineffective because he was wearing loose clothing.
At that point, two deputies began punching and kicking him, before being joined by other deputies who had also been chasing him. They did not appear to give him any first-aid.
The horse that Mr. Pusok stole was also injured as he forced it through rough, hilly terrain while trying to escape capture, the police said.
WARNING GRAPHIC: Video Shows Fatal Police Shooting In South Carolina.
There are no more words anymore that any of us can say or write when we watch this video over and over again. No, it is not because we are sick or bored with nothing to do, it is because, after all that has happened and being said and again today we witness what the African-American community have being saying for so long: that the White Police Officers are out to kill them given the right circumstances. We saw that in South Carolina today and how Police Officer Michael T. Slager murdered Walter L. Scott who fled because he hadn’t paid child support? You see here we go in American and its business as usual with the bullshit as Mr. Scott’s twenty year old history of a battery charge is brought up within hours of the video being leaked to the press. Where is the other side of the story? That Police Officer Slager who murdered Walter Scott in cold blood and then planted his Police Department issued taster gun beside Mr. Scott as he lay dying or possibly dead from the rounds of bullets fired from Slager’s handgun. Where was Officer’s Slager’s record played out to the media? Where were the media reports of the complaints made against him on previous occasions and that were dropped as they have their secret code and it can’t be broken and that is that one Police Officer can’t give evidence against another (or rat as they would call it against their brother or sister in uniform). Why can’t us lay people wake up to the truth and take our heads out of our asses and get away from these post 9/11 Hollywood movies that have mostly turned all our cops on screen into heroes.
South Carolina ’s Police Officer Slager actions as we all watched them in horror today makes LAPA Officer Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) from the movie “Internal Affairs” look like a boy scout.
For one as a voter I am tired of this and there is no other side to this story as the video shows us how coldly and inhuman those two Police Officers walked around the body of Mr. Scott for nine minutes and calmly planting evidence on Mr. Scott unaware of them being filmed doing such. A murder charge for Office Slager? Oh please, why does the US Justice System insult us time after time? We know Officer Slager will walk away a free man just like Officer Wilson did when he murdered Michael Brown in cold blood too. It is time Congress brought in new rules and guidelines for our Nation’s Police Officers and all their guns are removed from them until they learn to respect them and human life. If I hear the President open his big mouth again about the bravely and courage our fine Police Officers show in their daily duties which they are paid for, I will change over and vote for Jeb Bush in 2016. He should put up or shut up for his own people and stop turning his back on them all the time. No President has ever done this anytime in our turbulent history but President Obama and history will not be kind on him regarding this fact and his disastrous record on Civil Rights as his term as President of the United States of American comes to a close in 653 days.
To think those two Police Officers in South Carolina are paid to serve and protect when you would treat a dead animal kinder then these Police Officers treated Mr. Scott as we all saw on video. All I can honestly say and knowing how these individuals operate when threatened, that the person videoing that very sick behaviour of Officer Slager is lucky they weren’t seeing by Slager and they should count their blessings that they are alive today. It is the person who risked their life shooting that video of the cruel murder of Walter Scott in South Caroline for us all to witness who we should be invited to the Oval Office for a medal from the President and not another Police Officer that makes Obama look good and makes for nice press and pictures on the West Wing video clips series.
There are no two sides of the story any longer, we are all sick to our stomachs what we see now on a daily basis and it is time for Congress and The White House to wake up and bring in new rules and laws governing sworn Police Officers who are paid to serve and protect and it is about time the candidates for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election started getting involved in this debate (including Hilary Clinton). All the Presidential candidates better not hide under the tails of their campaigns avoiding this issue as we will ensure (with the power of our pen and our blogs) to bring this issue right up to the top of the election pile and no matter how much they duck and run from it, we will be there to remind all 2016 Presidential candidates (including Hillary Clinton) of their civic duty. Please 2016 Presidential candidates bring this issue to the forefront of the discussion for the American people so we can vote accordingly as we only have 580 days left to the US Presidential election on Tuesday November 8th, 2016.
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