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Obama Deploys Eric Holder To Ferguson; Speaks About Race
Moments ago while taking a break from his vacation, the president announced that he would drag away the US attorney general Eric Holder neck deep in workload (which involves if not prosecuting criminal bankers, who as we know as too systemic to prosecute, then certainly punishing them by demanding their shareholders pay legal charges that amount to pennies on the dollar from the crime proceeds) to Ferguson on Wednesday, where he will meet with federal law enforcement authorities.
So to preview tonight's Ferguson highlights: every TV network present, no curfew and the national guard, with Eric Holder en route.
And while Obama touched on the topic of the ongoing military campaign in Iraq, which he admitted would be a long-term "strategy", the most important excerpt of the speech by a president somewhat out of his comfort zone, were the following comments on the topic of race, where he was on thin ice: condemn the rioting too hard, and he could cost the democrats the "race" vote in the midterms; condemn the police response, and he would appear to be pandering to rioters and looters and put the police union vote in jeopardy.
Here is what he said, presented without comment (transcript via WaPo):
Obama: Obviously, we’ve seen events in which there’s a big gulf between community perceptions and law enforcement perceptions around the country. This is not something new. It’s always tragic when it involves the death of someone so young. I have to be very careful about not prejudging these events before investigations are completed. Because, although these are, you know, issues of local jurisdiction -- you know, the DOJ works for me. And then when they’re conducting an investigation, I’ve got to make sure that I don’t look like I’m putting my thumb on the scales one way or the other.
So, it’s hard for me to address a specific case, beyond making sure that it’s conducted in a way that is transparent, where there’s accountability, where people can trust the process, hoping that, as a consequence of a fair and just process, you end up with a fair and just outcome.
But, as I think I’ve said in some past occasions, part of the ongoing challenge of perfecting our union has involved dealing with communities that feel left behind, who, as a consequence of tragic histories, often find themselves isolated, often find themselves without hope, without economic prospects.
You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college.
And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Now, that’s a big project. It’s one that we’ve been trying to carry out now for a couple of centuries. And we’ve made extraordinary progress, but we have not made enough progress.
And so, the idea behind something like My Brother’s Keeper is can we work with cities and communities and clergy and parents and young people themselves, all across the country, school superintendents, business, corporations, and can we find models that work, that move these young men on -- on a better track?
Now part of that process is also looking at our criminal justice system to make sure that it is upholding the basic principle of everybody’s equal before the law.
And -- and one of the things that we’ve looked at during the course of where we can make -- during the course of investigating where we can make a difference is that there’re patterns that start early.
Young African American and Hispanic boys tend to get suspended from school at much higher rates than other kids, even when they’re in elementary school. They tend to have much more frequent interactions with the criminal justice system at an earlier age.
Sentencing may be different. How trials are conducted may be different.
And so, you know, one of the things that we’ve done is to include Department of Justice in this conversation under the banner of my brother’s keeper to see where can we start working with local communities to inculcate more trust, more confidence in the criminal justice system.
And -- and I want to be -- I want to be clear about this because sometimes I think there’s confusion around these issues and this dates back for -- for decades.
There are young black men that commit crime. And -- and -- and we can argue about why that happens because of the poverty they were born into or the lack of opportunity or the school systems that failed them or what have you, but if they commit a crime, then they need to be prosecuted because every community has an interest in public safety.
And if you go into the African American community or the Latino community, some of the folks who are most intent on making sure that criminals are dealt with are people that have been preyed upon by them.
So, this is not an argument that there isn’t real crime out there and that law enforcement doesn’t have a difficult job. And you know, that they -- you know, they have to be honored and respected for the danger and difficulty of law enforcement. But what is also true is that given the history of this country, where we can make progress in building up more confidence, more trust, making sure that our criminal justice system is acutely aware of the possibilities of disparities in treatment, there are safeguards in place to avoid those disparities where, you know, training and assistance is provided to local law enforcement who, you know, may just need more information in order to avoid potential disparity. All those things can make a difference.
One of the things I was most proud of when I was in the state legislature, way back when I had no grey hair and none of you could pronounce my name was, you know, I passed legislation requiring videotaping of interrogations and confessions. And I passed legislation dealing with racial profiling in Illinois.
And in both cases, we worked with local law enforcement. And the argument was that you can do a better job as a law enforcement official if you have built up credibility and trust. And there’s some basic things that can be done to promote that kind of trust, and you know, in some cases, it’s just a lack of information. And we want to make sure that we get that information to law enforcement.
So, there are things that can be done to improve the situation, but short term, obviously, right now what we have to do is make sure that the cause of justice and fair administration of the law is being brought to bear in Ferguson. In order to do that, we’ve got to make sure that we are able to distinguish between peaceful protesters who may have some legitimate grievances, and maybe longstanding grievances, and those who are using this tragic death as an excuse to engage in criminal behavior and tossing Molotov cocktails or looting stores. And that is a small minority of folks, and it may not even be residents of Ferguson, but they are damaging the cause. They are not advancing it.
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Um, Barry, that is all interesting, but the goon squads.... what about the goon squads?
'And then when their conducting the investigation I've got to make sure I don't LOOK like I'm putting the thumb on the scales on way or another????' WTF is that all about?
I am not American. Perhaps an American could explain WTF it was Obama said that was relevant to the matter at hand?
He was saying as little as possible on-topic, while trying to appear to be on top of the situation... In other words, political double-talk...
Reflex race baiting!
Depends on your point of view. Here's what I got out of it:
He wants more information for cops because they have a hard job (NSA), but sometimes they have opinions held over from slavery 200 years ago, so they need oversight (the further elimination of state's sovereinty). Black kids, AND NOW HISPANIC KIDS TOO (hey illegals, he's talking to you finally - after his party has ignored you as much as possible for as long as possible), you have shitty childhoods and that must be because of your skin color, so we'll just let you mulligan your first several offenses so long as you say you're sorry. I mean, eventually even he has to admit your asses should be in jail for committing crimes (as much as it pains him to say so), but maybe you just learn more slowly, so he wants to help you all out like how we do for people in wheel chairs, on crutches, or any other debilitating/sub-human condition. What he means is, white people don't have these problems, but the standard was set for white people and people of color just have a hard time meeting that standard.
Bill Mahr will clarify further for you at a later date.
Well then, are you with us or against us?
What just happened is you were taken on a time warp to Obama's childhood and heard an only slightly garbled recitation of what every good communist agitator at that time was expected to know. Everything Obama says or does is relative to that framework. That's why every night he secretly dresses in sequins and goes out disco dancing, he's one wild and crazy guy!
Blah, blah, blah.............Now where's my nine iron?
The fact that Eric Holder is still not behind bars is a testament to the idiocracy we all live in.
8 years later and the Kenyan hasn't done anything meaningful for his 'community' and still blames the white man! And this dud(e) is actually the Prez! Definition of lowest common denominator!
NO FLY ZONE over Ferguson until August 25th!
"FAA has issued another temporary flight restriction over Ferguson Missouri for the next week:"
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_4_4815.html
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has a "cure" for people who do pot: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/saudi-beheads-four-men-... like the innocent doe eyed child Brown did.
wHEN THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST CAN'T FIGURE SOMETHING OUT, SEND IN THE MORONS....
The community organizer's skills should come in handy in Ferguson.
You know...
What kind of worthless shit takes a break from his vacation? Is vacation becoming work for this gy?
"We pissed-off some folks."
Holder is there to hand out Obamaphones and AK-47's to the protestors.
FERGUSON AND FURIOUS
"part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes." -Barack Obama
DEAR BARACK,
STABLE PRICES ARE PRICES THAT DO NOT CHANGE. COMPOUNDING AT 2% IS NOT STABLE. A CONSTANT 2% INFLATION RATE ERODES THE SPENDING POWER OF WAGE EARNERS.
INFLATING THE SUPPLY OF CREDIT/MONEY IN THE SYSTEM VIA NAKED LEVERAGE -AKA COUNTERFEITING, AND DERIVATIVES AND ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS IS WHAT CAUSES PRICES TO RISE.
STOP ALLOWING THE PRINTING PHONEY MONEY EQUIVALENTS AND STEALING FROM WAGE EARNERS VIA THIS UNBACKED CREDIT EMISSION.
BALANCE THE FUCKING BUDGET. TELLING THE FOREIGN DESPOTS AND THE M.I.C. TO FUCK OFF WOULD BE A GOOD START. TARIFFS WOULD BE BETTER THAN RAISING TAXES & PUSHING MORE JOBS OUT THE DOOR.
DECRIMINALIZE WEED & ALMOST HALF THE BLACK AND LATINO NON-VIOLENT PRISON POPULATION GOES HOME.
BUST THE OLIGARCHY.
PAUL VOLKER. FED FUNDS RATE TO 6+1/4 %. -OR SHUT THE FUCK UP.
SIGNED,
-ONE VERY FUCKING PISSED OFF LIGHT SKINNED MULATTO AMERICAN.
Good luck fixing the root causes. I'll check back in in about 100 years to check on your progress.
Fuckbama...Telprompter-less....classic Tee Vee....will be shown on the History Channel in years to come...
<Narrator> "This is evidence of Fuckbama's inability to string a sentence together without the use of his beloved Teleprompter..."
fuckin douche....
Don't kid yourselves.
Obama is in town to watch the Redskins/Browns.
He wants to see some Johnny Football and RG3 on his vacation.
That ticket will cost the taxpayers a couple hundred grand.
And he had to shuttle the girls around....Can't travel together like regular folk don't you know....
Couldn't he deploy him to the Islamic State instead?
I'm hearing that busloads of "protesters" have been brought in from Chicago....
Last time I checked, they hadn't revealed which cop killed the guy, so what does race have to do with it?
Aw shucks folks, we lost another generation. DEATH TO AMERICA! Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah...
Look, let's cut to the damn chase here. If blacks want "justice" and so called "equal treatment" then fix what the fuck ails your communities.
I didn't cause that. I didn't build that. I'm not responsible for that shit. NOT ONE IOTA. ZILCH MOTHER FUCKERS.
I'm not a racist; rather, a REALIST.
Fix your fucking selves one way or another. Want a race war? Think you're going to burn the country? Better take a closer fucking look around at the odds.
Yeahbut ...blacks are "victims" of white man's oppression. "Victims" have to be treated with special care ...and plenty of EBT cards, FS and social security to buy their drugs, else they get angry and remind people, again, they are "victims". "Victims" are not expected to do things for themselves or improve their communities. That's for others.
I mean, like, it's only "fair".
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Hodler should tell them the success story of prosecuting the banks. They will be impressed and law and order will return immediately.
ATTENTION AMERICA:
Want to send a message to the black community? Simple steps (I just started for LIFE):
1. No more attendance or concern over sporting events.
2. No more TV (obviously 95% of America is now black according to the commercials).
3. Starve the taxation beast at every juncture.
4. No more Hollywood.
5. My beer is local (fuck you globalists).
1. Al strolls in then gets booed right out for being a sellout
2. Jesse comes sauntering in then get booed right out for doing nothing and begging for money
3. Holder...?TBD
I'm very impressed with the law abiding peacefully assembled people of Ferguson demanding accountability of their public servants. So far they are seeing right through the pimps and mac daddy's being offered up as false saviors. Even you die hard racists should give them some credit.
He just had to play the race card. He couldn't leave it alone at Justice. Once again he had to go to place America no longer lives in anymore, except for dumfk race baiters from the 60's like Al sharpton. He couldn't be the US president and the bigger man. All anyone ever had to do was arrest that GD cop. And because race baiting was chosen instead of justice, this will blow up horribly in Obama's face, like every thing else he touches.
Holder's on the way so you might as well go on home as all is fixed. His stellar record is beyond reproach. Sleep easy citizens of Furgeson the Savior has been dispatched by the Super Savior.
A criminal goes to Ferguson.
I'm sure it's already been said but let me add my own.
FUCK YOU ERIC "PLACE" HOLDER AND KING OBAMA!
Tap shoes on the ground.
A man was killed, not a Black man.
Isn't multiculturalism wonderful?
It gives me a warm, runny feeling.
As a Rhodesian I am adither and agog to find out how our moral superiors handle this situation.
Teach me, O virtuous philosophers.
The truth is coming out. The dumb kid attacked the cop in his car....refused to comply with an order to stop....and then turned around and charged the cop.
The use of deadly force was justified.
Waiting on the Fed autopsy that finds cop absolutely guilty without a doubt....setting up an interesting conflict tween local and Fed fucks.
FWIW....Missouri is the SHITTIEST SHITHOLE of the Midwest. It's where Michigan ships its garbage, and Wisconsin sends its pedophiles. It's a filthy ignorant racist fuckedup shithole of a backwater excuse for a state. I'd rather get cornholed in Arkansas then live in Missouri. I sincerely wish the entire state with the exception of the southern half river country burns to the fucking ground.
*CREDIBLE* link please
Holder is going to show up and designate Ferguson a "JOBFREE EMPOWERMENT ZONE".
Excellent!
I want to be one of the first to go on record to predict Capt. Ron Johnson will soon be on his way to meet with President Obama. This will allow the President to make a forceful statement flanked by Johnson and community leaders as to how tragic this all is and chalk it up to racism pure and simple. Obama loves a good photo op.
Many Americans who have been the target of a swat team raid, myself included, will point to a larger factor and one that the President has been complacent in and even encouraged to develop and that is the continued militarizing of Americas police forces. This has continued during the six years Obama has been in office.
Police have moved from the mission of "to serve and protect" to waging a war against enemies like terrorism, drugs, alcohol, and crime. Sadly, the American people have been caught in the crossfire. Spinning this event with a message that serves the President does not lessen the role of Obama and the NSA in moving us further down the path to becoming an Orwellian state. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/obama-to-meet-with-ferguson-hero....
In related news.....Uncle Joe Biden released a press statement emphasizing his solemn committment to really really love black folks.
To prove it Biden blew Reggie on live tv
"Let me be clear.....those Ferguson negroes be Cray Cray!"
Dear Mr. President,
...let's swing for the fences here and go for Dramatically LESS U.S. Government involvement in raising children of any race.
And put the blame and the responsibility BACK on the family and the PARENTS to teach and discipline their children correctly about how to be good American citizens.
That's how my generation did it.
And it works waaaaaay better than your ideas to get MORE and MORE government involved where government should NEVER stick it's big nose.
Holder is there REPRESENTING the Black Panthers "mah peoples".... Holder has the "black chip" on his shoulder.... he is a criminal who belngs in prison for obstructing justice multiple times... Holder and Obama are coconspirators....
what about the 15 shootings in NYC and 35 in chiraq..... what does negrodomus have to say about dat.... not a fucking thing.... both ULTRA LIBTARD ENCLAVES run by LIBTARDS..... f u b a r............
"Operator, may I help you?"
or
One of the Boys
Wall Street licking their chops.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/04/why-reparations-for-sla...
If Obama and his liberal horde ever "solved" the race problem, their party would disappear.
That goes for the poverty problem, too.
There is a special place in hell for those that would prey and manipulate the vulnerable as they do.
JULIAN BOND of the Radical Left - THE MAN UNDER THE HOOD NAACP Chairman of the BoardObama does not want to "Put his thumb on the scales" to influence Ferguson but then he gives 10 reasons why black folks should be so unhappy with American life that they could be excused for protesting (and maybe even rioting).
Has AG Holder just been dispatched to do a third autopsy on Michael Brown? Fair and Balanced Oman?
"Eric, I am counting on you to keep this stirred up. You did such a great job with Gunrunner. We need those folks agitated and stirred up until November."
"I already have a plan for undercover dhs agents to kill more niggers, boss."
"Knock off some YTies too, while you're at it."
"Great! We gotta get out the nigger vote or I may be impeached."
"I'm on it, Boss. Remember, I was In Charge at Waco!"
A president tries to capitalize in a disaster.