Federal Probe into Post-Katrina Shootings by Police Widens: wilderside | March 21, 2010: New Orleans, nola, police | Categories: Action | URL: http://wp.me/pnWU-3W2

Ian Wilder: So far the poll is in favor of us still carrying DemocracyNow! stories. Guess Cynthia was right to sound the alarm about incident civilians being killed in New Orleans.

from DemocracyNow.org

“We get an update on the investigations into a spate of police shootings in New Orleans that took place in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In recent weeks, two former members of the New Orleans police have admitted to participating in a cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings of September 4, 2005, when police SWAT units opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians, killing two and wounding four.

Meanwhile, federal investigators have widened their probe into the New Orleans Police Department and are now looking into the circumstances surrounding four other incidents that include three deaths and one non-fatal shooting …………..”

I have seen a heap of friends and acquaintances recently pulled over for minor and seemingly made up infractions, like “improper use of horn.” All of these people are white and one is Asian. Every week there is a new incident where a tazer is used in an appalling way, and there is no exception when it comes to race or economic status.

Then there is the claim of community persecution–as if cops are zeroing in on black ghettoes and terrorizing their people. Just look at what happened in New Orleans after the hurricane for evidence to the contrary. Weapons and other personal property were stolen from mostly upper class whites with no due process. Today, more white suburbs are being assaulted with raids drudged up by the drug war.

I don’t deny that there may have been a time (not even that long ago) when blacks bore the brunt of police attacks. But not anymore. The police forces are going after all segments of the “lowly citizenry” as their government masters turn more and more tyrannical.

I am no blanket fan of law
enforcement, [as in big time
critic, a nazi storm trooper
from the Barstow [California]
Pig Department just called
me to harass a law
abiding citizen] but most
accounts of Cindy the Slapper
put her in the running for the
Zas Zas Gabor trophy!

Or we could just ask Dennis just how many times he has been assaulted by a cop, simply for being black. Or in fact just how many times that Dennis was denied the right to vote, simply because of being black and/or poor.

But of course, for dear old Dennis and all the other Dennis’s out there, things like facts, reality and such are, well so unimportant.

So Dennis, how many times have you been even just pulled over for DWB Driving While Black?

Or indeed how many times have you been pulled over for DWW? Driving While White?

Simple, direct question. Betcha you do not posess the courage or moral integrity to answer this simple, direct question.

OK Dennis, we wait for your response. A lack of a response is, itself a response.

just for the record

So, let’s take the first one…

You are saying that you believe Cynthia McKinney is “crazy” in part because you say she “assaulted a security guard”.

Well, in a careful study of that case, one finds that the security guard layed hands on her from behind, when she was a Congressperson who had already passed through the security checkpoint, and she turned around confused, etc.

So, applying my questions above…

What color are you?

Have you ever been questioned or detained by a security guard?

If you have, how did it make you feel?

How would you have felt if a security guard came up to you after you had passed a checkpoint, and you were nervous that he was just someone taking advantage of a uniform to hurt you?

Just stuff to think about. I was hoping people could take some moments to think, instead of throw names around and mouth off.

Well, aside from her assaulting a security guard, and her 911 conspiracy theories, I don’t find her associations with the New Black Panthers nor Minister Farrakahn particularly…sane.

http://www.calvets.blogspot.com

SOS was left over from ongoing effort to dislodge space cadets Grundmann, Quirk, Nightingale and allies from over due influence with [California's] American Independent Party.

As a Reform Party of California veterans advocate in 2004 I promoted Grundmann [as the party was (and is) off the state ballot] and found him off center, but we agreed on a number of issues and his radicalism was under containment.

The Chuck Baldwin folks are just plain nuts and in California, just sooooooooooo unethical!

Yes, and the other two candidates, ‘League of Nations’ Wilson, and Howard ‘Bathtub’ Taff are NOT on Mount Rushmore …………..

Robert Milnes // Mar 20, 2010 at 3:04 pm
“Teddy Roosevelt got 27% in 1912. He LOST.”

It is just an obvious truth, that when you call someone “crazy” – especially someone that others see as “visionary” – you have karma with that person.

There is something about that person that is magnetizing her to your thoughts, or attracting your attention in a way that confuses you, or maybe something that she is saying that you do not understand – hence, you want to file it in the drawer called “crazy”.

I would ask you to consider what is it about Cynthia McKinney that makes you want to call her crazy?

When you figure out what that is, ask what that issue looks like in your own life and self. Is there some lesson for you?

Throughout history, here are some folks thought crazy: Cassandra, Robert Fulton, Cindy Sheehan,

Nothing against the Wilders,
but the truth is truth. I wish
it was better, but *personal
experience* says other wise!