St. Louis CofCC Blog

World Net Daily:

Obama pastor’s theology: Destroy ‘the white enemy’

Barack Obama’s suddenly radioactive pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has defended himself against charges of anti-Americanism and racism by referring to his foundational philosophy, the “black liberation theology” of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a “black messiah” and blacks as “the chosen people” who will only accept a god who assists their aim of destroying the “white enemy.”

“If God is not for us and against white people,” writes Cone, “then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community.”

Up until today, and this revelation, I was willing to consider the possibility that Rev. Wright was not an outright hatemonger, but just a typical purveyor of black fatuous paranoia.  This is the Rubicon.

Reuters:

NY police face judge, not jury, in groom shooting

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three New York City police officers charged in the 2006 shooting death of an unarmed black man hours before his wedding waived their right to a jury trial on Friday, saying any local jury would be biased against them.

Lawyers for the white, Hispanic and black detectives who fired 50 bullets at the groom and his friends have argued that intense media coverage of the death of Sean Bell, 23, had made it impossible to find a neutral jury in New York.

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The policemen appeared determined to avoid facing a jury in the New York City borough of Queens, where Bell was killed and his two friends were wounded around 4 a.m. on November 25, 2006.

“The potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” said Michael Paladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association. “It has nothing to do with the good people of Queens. They were hit with an avalanche of negative publicity.”

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The venue dispute mirrors a similar case nearly a decade ago, when four police officers charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African man, Amadou Diallo, were tried — and later acquitted — in Albany, the mostly white state capital.

That shooting took place in the Bronx, which, like Queens, has a large minority population.

I agree that “the potential jury pool was poisoned right from the start,” but I don’t think “an avalanche of negative publicity” is to blame.  It’s all race, and racial jealousy, and the hatred to cops and authority in general that festers in black America.  These cops made the right call.

Why would the Bay Area MSM take out after a bunch of black radicals?  In this case, the answer is easy:  One of the YBMBers is accused of murdering a black MSM reporter from an Oakland newspaper.

What is it with Bay Area politicians and their cozy relationships with cults?  Remember, for several years in the mid-1970s, Jim Jones was an important figure in the San Francisco civic constellation.  The difference with YBMB, though, is that the Oakland government was friendly with it in spite of its reputation.  Hardly anyone knew that Jim Jones was a cult leader until the kool-aid was passed out in Guyana.

Bob Barr:

Firefighters as spies truly over the top

The image of the friendly firefighter helping rescue a wayward kitten from a tree might need updating. If the federal Department of Homeland Security has its way, firefighters across the country will be armed not only with firefighting equipment, but also issued training materials on how to recognize suspect behavior on the part of citizens and what to look for in peoples’ homes that might be “suspicious.” In other words, firefighters would become domestic spies. In fact, such training already has begun.

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According to published accounts of such training, firefighters are being trained to watch for “hostile” or “uncooperative” individuals, or those “expressing discontent” with our government. They are also trained to watch for and report on things that “seem out of place” in a home or business such as firearms and video recording equipment. Rooms with “little or no furniture” fall within the reportable suspicious activity.

Other than the fact that this is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, in some cases, firefighters are the problem, if they are black firefighters that are members of affirmative action junkie extremist hate groups like FIRE and the Vulcan Blazers.

YBMB update.

The trouble with having so many wives is that some of them will feel jilted, and rat you out. And the trouble with having 100 wives and 46 children is that, when you die, there’s going to be blood shed within the “family” to figure out who gets to run the operation.

San Francisco Chronicle:

As the late Yusuf Bey built Your Black Muslim Bakery into an empire of wealth and influence, he also orchestrated a systematic welfare fraud scheme at his Oakland compound, three of his former wives have testified.

By the wives’ sworn account, Bey directed many of the 100 women whom he considered his wives to make fraudulent applications for government aid programs intended to assist poor families, then diverted the benefits to himself.

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The revenue - thousands of dollars per month, perhaps more than $1 million over the course of the scheme, testimony in the case suggests - helped inflate the clout of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business Bey proselytized as an icon of economic self-sufficiency.

The alleged fraud scheme was aided by two employees of the Alameda County Social Services Agency who were also Bey’s sisters-in-law, the former wives testified. A welfare worker who was Bey’s sister-in-law once tipped off the bakery that it might become the target of a fraud investigation, according to the testimony. As a result, the bakery’s households jumped off the welfare rolls in an attempt to avoid scrutiny, a former wife testified.

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In all, roughly 100 women and many of the 46 children Bey is thought to have fathered were involved in the fraud scheme, according to the wives - a category, the depositions say, that included girls whom Bey allegedly raped and impregnated.

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Bey founded the bakery more than four decades ago, and built it into a controversial but enduring Oakland institution praised by politicians and preachers alike.

But after Bey’s death, his business empire spiraled into disarray, as his heirs vied for control and bakery officials and employees were implicated in a series of increasingly violent incidents.

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St. Louis American via St. Louis Cop Talk:

Fighting crime in this city is hard. So is fighting racism. Some black cops in the St. Louis Police Department say they fight both.

Imagine being shot at by suspects, coming within a hair of losing your life, only to experience promotion discrimination and pay disparity compared to your white counterparts.

“The police department is worse than the fire department,” said Eddie Simmons Jr., president of the Ethical Society Of Police (ESOP), a fraternal organization for black cops.

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He said that racism is rampant within the department.

“We got white boys who can’t stand blacks,” he said.

“White boys.” I wonder what the ESOP and Mr. Simmons would say if the President of the SLPOA gave an interview calling black SLPD officers “black boys.”

Otherwise, do you think there might be a very good reason why white SLPD officers in particular “can’t stand blacks?”

Jake Wagman:  The anti-Slay recall effort not only needs 20% of all of the city’s registered voters (i.e. 43,456 signatories) to get a “Recall Slay” petition on the ballot, at the same time, it needs that many or more from at least 20% of the registered voters in two-thirds of the city’s wards, i.e. 19 wards.

To summarize Mr. Wagman’s astute analysis, the “Recall Slay” effort, led by a bunch of affirmative action junkies who will carry Sherman George as chips on their shoulders until the end of time, will probably need a very high percentage (if not a majority) of black voters in north St. Louis and southeast St. Louis to sign these petitions.  Good luck with that.

One gets the feeling that MSM outlets and writers would like to tell the truth, and they hint around at the truth as much as they can, but the consequences of breaking the taboos are just too much to bear.

Time:

A Surge in Cop Killings

Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s. The one notable exception is the people whose job it is to combat crime on a daily basis - the nation’s police officers, who are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than at any time in recent years.

“There just seems to be that there’s a greater willingness on the part of these bad guys to take out a police officer,” Miami Police Chief John Timoney told TIME. “I see that locally here. Then you look at it nationally, there’s [also] been a huge increase.”

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Not only are officer shootings up, but the number of multiple deaths is also on the rise this year, says memorial fund president Craig Floyd. In the first nine months of 2007 there were six cases of more than one officer gunned down during the same shooting spree, up from just one in all of last year.

“You have to come to the conclusion that some of these heinous criminals just don’t care,” Floyd says. “Earlier in our history there was a code of some sense of respect, even among the most heinous criminals, that you would never harm a police officer, certainly never kill a police officer.”

That’s because “the most heinous criminals” earlier in our history, while they had no problem banging each other and others directly involved in their line of work, knew that there would be very serious consequences if they harmed innocent victims, and they certainly feared cops, because cops did (and were able to) make them fearful.

South Florida, along with the rest of the Southern U.S., where guns are easier to come by, has been particularly hard hit.

If by “Southern U.S.” the writer means both southeast and southwest, then s/he is essentially referring to black and Hispanic crime, in spite of his or her snark about guns.

“I don’t understand exactly why in 2007 we have found ourselves in a position where we’ve had this many police officers shot and killed,” says Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens, who also serves as president of the Major Cities Police Chiefs.

Is it that you “don’t understand,” or you don’t want to understand, or you actually do understand, but saying so openly would get you in trouble with Our Cultural Taliban and the PC Politburo?

Other experts and activists cite the desensitizing effect of popular culture, most notably violent video games, as a key reason that more young people have no compunction about opening fire on a man or woman in uniform.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Killing, who trains the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, subscribes to that controversial notion. Grossman relates how officers raiding methamphetamine labs and gang hangouts often find violent video games left behind. “Every time they take down a gang house, there’s always one thing that will always be there,” Grossman says. “It’s a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators.”

I have played a few of those games in my life — Admittedly, not very often, and it has been quite a long time since I have, and it’s highly unlikely I ever will again, but even then, there was absolutely nothing in me that wanted to translate this digital scenario into reality. The issue here is not the games themselves, but the kind of people that play them and allow themselves to let the games condition their mindset.

One way to counter the criminals, of course, is to match their firepower. But Fred Shenkman, professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Florida, thinks a better idea would be for police to focus more on training and improving their accuracy, since they miss their intended target some 70% to 90% of the time they fire in the line of duty.

Fine as far as it goes, but as we can see from the American occupations of both Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have all the best equipment in the world, but without the will, you might as well have nothing more than a loincloth and a rock. Similarly, domestic law enforcement officers are being knocked off with increasing frequency because the same institution which refuses to win the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan has made it illegal for the cops to do their jobs on American streets in an effective manner.

Now it’s time to smash through the taboos.

The issue is race. Black gangs are becoming more audacious because, with each passing decade, and as the hands of time take us further away from the segregationist system (and the underlying permission of governments to make policy based on racial differences), blacks lose their fear of white cops and white authorities. And they’re up against white cops who themselves have been hamstrung by the same governmental action that toppled the segregationist system to begin with. And in the same time period, the Hispanic population in America has exploded, and, as is plainly obvious for anyone with half a brain that studies Latin America, drug gangs rival legitimate governments, if not surpass them and control and corrupt them, and are starting to do the same here, though a “Jose Crow” system would not work to make Hispanics behave, simply because they’re on average smarter, meaner, less superstitious, more clever and more mentally tough than blacks.

And, should there be no drastic changes in the American political system, (those drastic changes being serious reforms or outright repeal of certain civil rights laws, giving white cops free reign with their big, heavy black batons vis-a-vis the thick skulls of certain miscreants, and that 100,000-volt electrically-charged southern border fence to keep those certain other people out of our business, repudiating the Monroe Doctrine to keep us out of their business, and transplanting most of the American Hispanic population to the southern side of said fence), cop killings are only going to get worse. The rising Hispanic population in the American Southwest is enough of an explanation there, and an increasingly fearless black population in the South and elsewhere will explain it in those places.

In fact, this blogmeister has predicted that black extremist organizations, perhaps in concert with black drug gangs, and perhaps with the financing of Arab oil money, will coalesce to train black snipers to gun down white cops as if they were bowling pins. The drug gangs would want white cops out of the way to eliminate a job hazard, and to create an urban power vacuum which would be filled by themselves, and the Arabs would benefit by destabilizing the USA, such that its domestic anarchy thereof would distract governmental resources away from the American military occupation of the Arab world. (If you think my Arab theory is crazy, remember that the Libyan government, back in the days when its relations with the American government were hostile, financed Islamic proselytization efforts in American prisons to convert American blacks.)

Mayor Slay:

The fact that only 17 percent of the Police Department’s 1,859 employees said they do not have confidence in Chief Joe Mokwa is hardly an indicator of any widespread discontent with his tenure. In fact, two employee organizations — the St. Louis Police Leadership Organization and the Ethical Society of Police — publicly and strongly supported the Chief.

Point given, but let’s do some math. We know that of those SLPOA members that voted, 56% voted no confidence. So 0.56 times 0.17 times 1,859 equals 177.

Fran here is saying that the lack of confidence displayed by 177 members of the SLPOA doesn’t matter, but the confidence in him by the Ethical Society of Police does matter. In case you don’t know, the ESP is a fringe rinky-dink organization of police-hating black cops in the city — the SLPOA has more black members then the ESP has all members, and I doubt the ESP has 177 members.

If you’re one of those 177 that so voted, how does that make you feel, to know that your mayor thinks the opinion of a smaller organization of fifth column quislings with links to Lizz Brown matters more than yours?

New America Media:

Black activists in Philadelphia held their third demonstration recently to express disapproval of the King Tutanhkamun exhibit at the city’s Franklin Institute. The protesters are primarily angered by the fact that images of King Tut promoting the show and those in the exhibit have been altered to lighten his skin and change his African features to those of an Arab or Caucasian.

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The coalition has presented officials of the museum with a list of demands: 1) A public apology for not properly representing King Tut as an African and falsely representing Kemet (ancient Egypt) as non-African; 2) Develop and display a historically, factual and scientific exhibit of the African foundation and identity of dynastic Kemet; 3) Display the pioneering accomplishments of African Nile Valley Civilization; and 4) Document and display the research and accomplishments of the renowned African scholar Cheikh Anta Diop in scientifically proving that Kemet was an African civilization.

They might as well protest at Philadelphia’s science center because they didn’t depict the moon as being made of green cheese, or the Earth as flat. This kind of thing is more poignant than “Moron on Board” yellow window signs inside their cars.

If the Museum’s curators don’t put up, maybe the activists can cast a spell on them, so that they’re the first to get beamed up by the spaceships once their pilots finally decide to descend from their 40-mile high Earth orbit and restore the superior black man to his rightful thrones as rulers of the world.