posted May 07, 2015 10:47 AM            

No law passed by any federal administration permits the abuse of or killing of innocent citizens.

Every city police department has it's own rules of engagement and use of deadly force rules and regulations.

I see you're still not able to connect the dots so let me set you straight.

posted May 08, 2015 09:44 AM            

Walter Washington January 2, 1975 – January 2, 1979 Democratic

Marion Barry January 2, 1979 – January 2, 1991 Democratic

Sharon Pratt Kelly[14] January 2, 1991 – January 2, 1995 Democratic

Marion Barry January 2, 1995 – January 2, 1999 Democratic

Anthony A. Williams January 2, 1999 – January 2, 2007 Democratic

Adrian Fenty January 2, 2007 – January 2, 2011 Democratic

Vincent C. Gray January 2, 2011 – January 2, 2015 Democratic

Muriel Bowser January 2, 2015 - Present Democratic

posted May 08, 2015 01:51 PM            

Which is why it always strikes me as precious the way so many white Americans insist (as if preening for a morality contest of some sorts) that “we don’t burn down our own neighborhoods when we get angry.” This, in supposed contrast to black and brown folks who engage in such presumptively self-destructive irrationality as this. On the one hand, it simply isn’t true. We do burn our own communities, we do riot, and for far less valid reasons than any for which persons of color have ever hoisted a brick, a rock, or a bottle.We do so when our teams lose the big game or win the big game; or because of something called Pumpkin Festival; or because veggie burritos cost $10 at Woodstock ’99 and there weren’t enough Porta-Potties by the time of the Limp Bizkit set; or because folks couldn’t get enough beer at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake; or because surfers (natch); or St. Patty’s Day in Albany; or because Penn State fired Joe Paterno; or because it’s a Sunday afternoon in Ames, Iowa; and we do it over and over and over again. Far from mere amateur hooliganism, our riots are indeed violent affairs that have been known to endanger the safety and lives of police, as with the infamous 1998 riot at Washington State University. 

posted May 08, 2015 02:04 PM            

In other words, BUSH DID IT.

Demoscat idiotic policies over the last 4-5 decades did it.

posted May 12, 2015 10:25 AM            

In your (leftist) case, the very first supposed calamities you list are...IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN!

Now, read all about the real Pestilence loose in America and Europe.

Seven Lessons the Left Will Never Learn
It’s a blessing and a curse when political philosophy isn’t based in reality.
Scott McKay
5.12.15

Democrats and other lefties can’t govern, and after 100 years of the Progressive experiment in action from Baltimore to Havana to Ho Chi Minh City to Beijing, we now know why.

The weekend’s results in the British elections stand as a perfect example of the comfortable, committed Western Left in ruins. On this side of the pond, the Left presides over unmitigated decline — increasingly dangerous foreign challenges, a domestic economy with 93 million out of work and seven consecutive years in which more American businesses have shut their doors than have opened. Poll after poll shows Washington lacks the consent of the governed — a bad sign considering the recent string of electoral upsets showing actual elections a lot less friendly to the Left than pre-election polls.

So why is it that the parties of the Western Left struggle? Why does it seem that their efforts at governance, enabled mostly by a combination of favorable demographics and a public willing to give them a try after conservative parties run out of political gas, nearly always end in failure?

The answer can be found in seven lessons the Left steadfastly refuses to learn. **(Pay attention here leftists)

1. You’ll never eliminate income inequality, or any other inequality for that matter. We are all created equal in the eyes of the law, and that’s as it should be in a free society. That said, all humans are different — we vary in our attributes, we master different skills, we’re brought up differently by our parents, we have different desires and pursuits. To everyone other than the Left this is what’s known as diversity and it’s considered a feature of civilized society. To the Left, it’s a series of wayward nails that must be hammered flush. From an economic standpoint, the Left is never going to learn that while eliminating income inequality is a foolish pursuit you can alleviate the suffering of those on the short end of the economic scale by pursuing a rapidly expanding economy. The people who are good at making money will make money no matter how bad the economic circumstances; it takes a great economy for those of us who aren’t good at making money to have a chance.

2. People who don’t want to be indoctrinated, won’t be. The Left has put a great deal of effort into Gramsci’s March Through the Institutions, and as a result it controls the three major industries thought to drive the public’s thoughts — the news media, pop culture, and academia. By the time an American is 21, those three institutions have done all that can be done to make that young adult a card-carrying leftist. And yet American millennials, while without a doubt the worst-educated generation in the country’s history and displaying some truly ridiculous cultural predilections, are also less trusting of the Left’s institutions than anyone else. As they grow older, experience will turn that generation into the least-invested in the Progressive experiment in modern history — particularly when they’re asked to pay for bankrupt Medicare and Social Security.

3. It’s no fun ruling over a ruin. When the last Republican mayor left office in Detroit, the Motor City was the richest major burg per-capita on the planet. Detroit’s black community, as it happened, was the richest per-capital on the planet. But the institution of left-wing policies — confiscatory taxation, the refusal to enforce the law, overregulation of the business community and the like — drove the middle-class voters into the suburbs just like has happened in every other major town the Democrats have seized control over. When the middle class votes with its feet, the very rich and very poor who are left over create one-party Democrat rule, and that’s great for Democrats for a while. Sooner or later, though, you have Detroit. Or Baltimore. Or pre-Katrina New Orleans.

4. The more laws you make, the more law-breaking will happen. Utopians are pretty good at selling the idea that if we just pass a law we can eliminate behavior we don’t like, but the only law that seems to achieve full compliance is the Law of Unintended Consequences. Consider cigarette taxes as an example — Democrats constantly push to raise them only to find that the revenues generated always seem to fall short of expectations and the amount of smoking isn’t reduced by the anticipated amount. Instead, organized crime fills the hole created by the government and develops a black market — and that’s how you get an Eric Garner, killed unintentionally by police in Staten Island for the crime of selling “loose” cigarettes in defiance of New York’s confiscatory cigarette taxes.

5. Dividing people by class and race can win you elections, but only for a while. The problem with playing interest-group politics on a state or national level is that while you might be able to drive the folks who aren’t in your coalition out of a city or county and consolidate power locally, it’s a lot harder to do that on a larger scale. States don’t just contain the big city the Democrats have driven the Republicans out of, they also contain the suburbs and exurbs the Republicans moved to and the small towns where urban progressive politics just don’t sell. When Democrats were able run as centrists, or pro-business, or even culturally conservative, this was less of a problem. But in the age of Obama people have had it with the constant race-baiting and demographic bean-counting and agitation — and that’s one reason why even in states like Michigan and Illinois and Maryland there is a Republican in the governor’s mansion. The voters are exhausted with interest-group politics and just want to see someone who can govern.

6. Govern what you have, not what you wish you had. Labour in the UK is a primary example here. When Tony Blair was prime minister and his party had the ability to control immigration policy, Britain put out a welcome mat for as many Third World immigrants as could make landfall upon its shores in the knowledge that the quick embrace by the welfare state would bind those immigrants to Labour in a sizable bloc of voters and thus lock Labour into power forever. Except it didn’t happen that way. Turns out the native middle class resists the competition for jobs, housing, education, and other economic commodities made scarce by large-scale immigration. And now, Labour is on the outs in the UK because the British middle class resents it as the party of crime, poverty, and radical Islam.

7. If you demonize productivity, you’ll get less of it. The interesting thing about creating a left-wing culture based on racial and sexual grievance, free stuff for everybody, and blocking economic activity in the name of environmental activism is that nobody within that culture builds or makes anything anymore — because who wants a target on their back? That means sooner or later nobody has a job, nobody is making money, and nobody is happy. Governing a place overrun with broke people with bad attitudes and too much time on their hands is a poor recipe for political success — as we see in Gaza, Soweto, and Baltimore. The Left spends an inordinate amount of time creating miserable folks, and then is surprised to find them a political burden.

That the Democrats and their international ilk never learn these lessons makes them a pestilence on Western civilization and politics, to be sure. The good news, though, is it also makes their time in power limited — and dependent on the incompetence of the Right.

posted May 13, 2015 09:14 AM            

Ever wonder what they did to get elected or appointed to those positions?

Ever wonder if they're doing their jobs..or if they're even capable of doing the jobs they were hired to do?

Ever wonder how a person with a documented history of domestic violence against women...including women working in subordinate positions in his command could possibly be hired a Chief of Police in a major US city or cities..plural?

Ever wonder how a person who shuns the rule of law could be hired to run the apparatus of law enforcement?

Ever wonder why press ass clowns who bill themselves as "Watch dogs of the people's right to know" don't tell you what's really going on in major American cities...including, but not limited to, Baltimore Maryland?

Hey, the Mushroom Syndrome is alive and well. As long as you're satisfied with being kept in the dark and fed a steady diet of horshiiiite, you will be.

May 13, 2015
The Judas Kiss: Baltimore Police Commish Trashes His Officers
Mary C. Michel

"We are part of the problem[.] ... Now we have to change." So declared Anthony Batts, the African-American police chief of Baltimore, at a press conference on May 6, 2015. The man in charge of this minority-majority department since September 2012 denounced his officers, impugned their integrity, and undercut their mission.

No statement of outrage was issued over the injuries to at least 130 of his officers during the recent riots. Not an apology was uttered to those business owners who lost everything to looters while the police department failed to respond to calls for help yet tweeted real-time riot information. Not a word of explanation or remorse was spoken for his dereliction of duty in obeying a stand-down order allegedly issued by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the woman who hired him. Not a word of anguish was stated for the population that was terrorized on his watch, or the senior citizens whose brand new $16-million center was burned to the ground. Not a word of praise was mentioned for the brave firefighters who battled both hostile thugs and life-threatening blazes with deliberately sabotaged equipment. While Batts had no time for any of these appropriate and expectable statements, he found just enough time on May 6, 2015 to express sympathy for the rioters' righteous rebellion against the tyranny of his own police force.

To understand how Anthony Batts could betray his own officers and throw the rule of law under the paddy wagon, you need to look at his past. Mr. Batts has a troubling record, dubious accomplishments, and a penchant for blaming his failures on externalities. He also has a real knack for saving his own neck just before the axe falls.

Batts' s lengthiest police affiliation was with the Long Beach, California Police Department (LBPD). His stint was not exactly unmarred. It is reported that Mr. Batts had a history of domestic violence against women with whom he had relationships, documented in four to five reports filed against him. At least two of those reports involved his wife, then-congresswoman Laura Richardson, who was married to Batts between 1995 and 2002. It is also reported that some of the other domestic violence reports were filed against Batts by female officers under his command at the LBPD. It is alleged that those domestic violence reports "were kept under lock and key in the police chief's office" and that the crime title and report number on one was changed to indicate a "stolen bicycle" report. It is also claimed that the existence of the concealed report and the felony crimes committed in the changing of the report title were leveraged by potential whistle-blowers within the LBPD to cover up their own unlawful behavior in a local LBPD scandal referred to as "Lobstergate." Chief Batts and his command staff apparently ignored disciplinary recommendations, ranging from one-year demotion to an eight-day suspension, and instead issued only written letters of reprimand to all officers involved.

In addition to the domestic violence issues, reports surfaced that Chief Batts resented oversight by the Long Beach city manager, Pat West. There were also allegations that Batts falsely testified in court during the "Lobstergate" trials in Los Angeles. One retired LBPD homicide detective described Batts as "a man who will praise you one minute and smite you the next."

While it may be sheer coincidence, after a Public Records Act request was made by a local newspaper for all records related to the chief's domestic violence history, Batts resigned his position in July, 2009. Some suspected that Batts had left because he feared he might be fired.

Batts was recruited to Oakland by Ron Dellums, an African-American Californian who spent almost 30 years in Congress. Mayor Dellums's first "anti-crime" initiative was to suggest hiring ex-felons for Oakland city jobs. Batts became chief of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) in October 2009. At the time, Batts announced the most altruistic of reasons for leaving the LBPD. He said that after four Oakland police officers were murdered by a parolee, he was inspired to "make a difference." Oakland's crime problems are notorious, so Batts knew full well what he was stepping up to when he made a three-year commitment to the position.

Nonetheless, Batts quickly became disenchanted with the job, complaining frequently of too much interference from the mayor and other city officials and inadequate funding. One year into his contract, he applied for the chief position in San Jose, California. San Jose conducted a background investigation on Mr. Batts and did not offer him the position.

Batts honored roughly 2 years of his Oakland contract. His brief time was memorable for riots, reduced service, an increase in crime, and a decrease in officer morale. In an exit interview of sorts that Batts gave to a local outlet, the excuses for his disappointing tenure include too much oversight by Mayor Dellums and his successor, low police morale, and an inadequate budget. The 2010 riots that occurred under his watch were ugly and extensive. Nonetheless, he congratulated himself for his thoughtful "plan" to deal with the rioters – a plan whereby he allowed businesses to be destroyed and intentionally waited to move in so it "would not look like a police action." His popularity further waned with his 2010 public announcement that officers would no longer respond to a list of 44 crimes, including burglary and grand theft. As one commentator observed, how very helpful to the criminals to know in advance what crimes come with a free pass.

In addition to a City Hall review of his management decisions, Federal District Judge Thelton Henderson issued a scathing report slamming Batts for backsliding in the OPD's judicially mandated corruption cleanup efforts. Direct federal takeover through receivership of the OPD was threatened. The report was especially damaging to Batts because timely implementation of the federally imposed reforms was a primary reason he was hired. This highly negative report was released to the city two days before Batts announced his resignation from the department on October 11, 2011. Batts said at the time of his resignation that he was taking a part-time teaching position at Harvard. While it is unclear whether he ever taught at Harvard, Mr. Batts's most recent official biography references "participation in a training program" in 2007 at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

In September 2012, Batts re-emerged publicly as the new police commissioner for Baltimore, the eighth largest city force in the nation. A 19-year department veteran, supported by several City Council members, was passed over in favor of Batts. Hailed by African-American Mayor Rawlings-Baker as "a major force for good, for reform and for results," Batts proclaimed that he "wanted to take responsibility for every life."

By the end of Batts's first year on the job, homicides and the number of non-fatal shootings were rising for the first time in six years. The number of officers leaving the department was up 33% over the same period before his arrival. One council member said there "hasn't been much of a plan." Even Maryland's Governor O'Malley questioned Batts's approach. Once again, Batts deflected criticisms by blaming low pay for low department morale and increased departures from the force. He promised a "turnaround in crime numbers" if a pay increase was approved.

While insufficient money was his constant excuse for bad numbers and low morale, Batts had enough money to hire cronies via various consultant contracts. In April 2013, the mayor approved the highest of five bids for private evaluation of the Police Department and development of a "vision" for policing Baltimore. Isn't that Chief Batts's job? A partner in the group winning the $286,000 contract, Bill Bratton, admitted to being "close friends" with Batts. Bratton's take under the agreement computed to $560 per hour. The "policing vision" that Bratton was paid to develop was packaged into a 192-page five-year strategic plan for the BPD and was published November 21, 2013 under Chief Batts's name.

In October 2014, Batts again found himself in need of outside help to run his department and turned to another friend. He hired Steven Nottingham, a California man with a California company, who served as Batts's lieutenant while Batts was chief of the LBPD from 2002 to 2009. This $28,000 contract, approved by Mayor Rawlings-Blake, was for officer instruction in "high-liability use of force encounters."

It looks as though neither of these contracts did the trick. In late October 2014, a mere two years into his tenure, Batts and Mayor Rawlings-Blake announced that they had jointly requested that the Department of Justice send in its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to fully assess the Police Department and make recommendations for improvement. The "assessment" was touted as an extensive "collaborative" review of the BPD and appears to be ongoing.

Notwithstanding the COPS efforts to "fix" the BPD, on May 6, 2015, the mayor asked for yet another DOJ intervention by the Civil Rights Division. This analysis would be a full-fledged investigation into the "patterns and practices" of the BPD – a meticulous search, as in Ferguson, Missouri, for any evidence of discrimination within the BPD. While Chief Batts was not at the mayor's side for the announcement, he expressed his support for her request belatedly.

And that pay raise for the officers that Batts claimed would be the cure-all for escalating crime and a flood of departing officers? Batts finally managed to wrangle hefty raises for 53 top brass and himself. Under the new scale, the Chief can climb to an annual salary of $230,000. That is quite a reward for the man who has been put under DOJ supervision twice now.

So, once again, Anthony Batts finds himself overwhelmed and ill-equipped to run a police department successfully. Residents suffer, crime continues to rise, and the police officers continue to flee Baltimore. Just since Freddie Gray slipped into a coma, there have been dozens of homicides. None were committed by the police officers so roundly condemned by their chief.

posted May 13, 2015 05:41 PM            

[Jeb] Bush's view of the war is considerably less clear-eyed than that of his brother, former President George W. Bush, the man who ordered the invasion. In his memoir, Decision Points, W. wrestled with the dilemma of his decision to start a war on the basis of bad intelligence. Only W. did not call the intelligence "faulty," as Jeb had. W. called the intelligence "false."

"The reality was that I had sent American troops into combat based in large part on intelligence that proved false," George W. Bush wrote....

[H]e knew the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction that he used to justify the invasion was "a massive blow to our credibility — my credibility — that would shake the confidence of the American people."

"I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it," George W. Bush wrote. "I still do."

posted May 14, 2015 09:08 AM            

"Well from the horse's mouth he knew and knows invading Iraq was a seriously bad move for America's morale and reputation.

What Bush KNEW was that Saddam Hussein had WMD. Bush knew that because his Director of Central Intelligence...CIA...a demoscat, George Tenet told him intelligence on Saddam Hussein's WMD is a SLAM DUNK.

Still trying to peddle horseshiiite about Bush. In psychiatric circles, that's called "Bush Derangement Syndrome".

"Former CIA director George Tenet will likely never live down having called the intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s WMD a “slam dunk.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/w p/2015/05/05/heres-why-ex-cia-director-tenet-said-iraq-would-be-a-slam-dunk/

"Woodward: Tenet told Bush WMD case a 'slam dunk'"
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/18/woodward.book/

posted May 14, 2015 03:08 PM            

I could give a f****g f*** that you insist on defending him from His. Own. Admission.

posted May 20, 2015 09:50 AM            

Like almost everything coming out of leftist mouths, that wasn't just a lie, it was a damned lie.

Those protests were organized and paid for by professional agitators and the protestors were PAID to show up and rampage through the community.

Now, some of those professional protestors are angry for real...not the feigned anger they displayed for television news services as they were rioting, looting and setting fires.

The organizers of the riots reneged on paying them all...after signing them up!

You don't have to look very deep into these organized riots before you find George Soros and ACORN. George Soros and ACORN, both Communists, both engaged in overthrowing the United States.

O'Bomber and Hillary are just high level stooges for Soros and ACORN who heavily funded both their political campaigns.

May 20, 2015
Ferguson protesters demand paychecks for gig they were hired to perform
Thomas Lifson

This would be hilarious if the consequences hadn’t been so disastrous. The destructive riots in Ferguson, Missouri over the bogus narrative that Michael Brown was shot while his hands were raised were far from spontaneous. Protesters were hired and promised paychecks, but those who have not received them yet are now publicly protesting. Weasel Zippers (here and here) documents tweets (some of which have since been scrubbed) from the angry pay-for-play leftists. Jessica Chasmar of the Washington Times summrizes:

Hired protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for the successor group to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them.

FrontPage Magazine reports that Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to demonstrate in Ferguson. Last week, hired protesters who haven’t been paid held a sit-in at MORE’s offices and posted a demand letter online.

MORE is the re-branded Missouri branch of ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010, FrontPage reported. MORE and other groups supporting the Black Lives Matter movement have received millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros.

The group Millennial Activists United posted a letter on their blog demanding MORE “cut the checks” to demonstrators.

It is very worthwhile reading the evidence gathered by Weasel Zippers. Here are some noteworthy tweets. I really enjoy the earnest look on this white woman’s face as she demands her pay:

As WZ notes, two Soros-funded organizations, OBS and More, actually advertised for protesters to come to Ferguson:

And on May 14th, MORE published a list of who has been paid:

posted May 31, 2015 08:43 AM            

So, armed protestors showed up to protest at the mosque where the 2 terrorists are from. Terrorist who, let's add, were killed in an attempt to murder Americans.

You attempt to equate the armed protestors with the arsonists, looters and rioters paid for by the George Soros buffoon.

Since you decided to make this absurd linkage, I'm going to give you a chance to establish the similarities of their actions.

Now is the time for you to show those armed protestors broke any laws.

Show the stores those armed protestors looted.

Show the stores and buildings those armed protestors set on fire.

Show the photos of the police those armed protestors assaulted with rocks, bricks and bottles.

Show the police cars those armed protestors burned and/or destroyed.

Show the law those armed protestors broke by showing up armed.