NYT On Police Misconduct: Millions Of Americans Subjected To Intimidation
” December 6, 2014 @ 6:06 PM New York Times editorial:
The Justice Department report describes the Cleveland Police Department as something far closer to an occupying military force than a legitimate law enforcement agency. The officers, for example, seem to take a casual view of the use of deadly force, shooting at people who pose no threat of harm to the police or others. In one case in 2013, for example, they actually fired at a victim who had been held captive in a house — as he escaped, clad only in boxer shorts.
The report cataloged numerous incidents of wanton violence, with officers beating, pepper-spraying and Tasering people who were unarmed or had already been restrained. Officers escalated encounters with citizens instead of defusing them, making force all but inevitable.
The record in Cleveland is extreme. But aspects of illegal police conduct can be found in cities all over the country, subjecting millions to intimidation and fear that they could be killed for innocent actions.
Subjecting millions to intimidation. Stop what you’re doing and think about that.”
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Catherine Engelbrecht Files Formal Ethics Complaint Against Elijiah Cummings For Intimidation
Published on Feb 6, 2014
” Shortly after the hearing this morning, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Elijah Cummings alleging the Congressmen intimidated her and and her group. The Congressman had done some cable news shows alleging incorrect facts about True the Vote. In the hearing today, Cummings accused True the Vote of racism saying that they were trying to suppress the vote.”
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America’s Self-Inflicted Death Of A Thousand Cuts
” It is clear that the Muslim community will try to implement Sharia Law in America incrementally, starting with the suppression of free speech. They will do this by using intimidation and scare tactics. The Muslims are inching ahead in the war on free speech using the tool of “political correctness” as their weapon of choice. What is most shocking is the following statement made by U.S. Attorney Killian in that same article: “Killian said Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction. “That’s what everybody needs to understand,” he (Killian) said.”
This is clearly intimidation of our own free speech, supposedly protected under our First Amendment. It is saying that Muslims will be protected unlike any other group and must be handled with kid gloves. It is stifling the rights of American citizens to exercise their God given right to free speech. Further, one wonders why this is being held in a small town in Tennessee.
With the recent opening of the Murfreesboro mosque and the massive influx of Muslim Somalian refugees to Tennessee, Shelbyville seems to be the model for the next Dearborn.”
Related articles
- Doj Official Bill Killian to Address Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims As Civil Rights Violation (katenews2day.com)
- Tennessee: US Attorney, FBI to lecture Americans on Islam (creepingsharia.wordpress.com)
- Eric Holder’s Justice Department will enforce Islamic Sharia Law (americanfreedombybarbara.com)
- Free Speech or Regulated Silence? (amresolution.com)
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” Court-appointed Republican poll inspectors are being forcibly removed from voting stations in some Philadelphia wards and replaced in some cases by Democratic inspectors and even members of the Black Panthers, according to GOP officials.
Secrets just received this memo from GOP officials:
” The Philadelphia GOP is reporting that court appointed Minority (read GOP) Inspectors are being thrown out of polling locations in several Wards.
These Inspectors are election officials – again, court appointed — and are reportedly being thrown out by the Head Judges of Elections (these Judges are elected Democrats) and being replaced by Democrats.
This has happened at the following locations:
Ward 32, Div 13
Ward 43, Div 14
Ward 56, Div 1
Ward 56, Div 22 …. “
Click the link to read the rest of the list … despicable .
God praise the SEALs and all the disenfranchised military personnel that are getting screwed by this thuggish , banana republic style administration .
… “Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in an email to TheDC. “The WH also ‘invited’ us over because they had concerns about ‘inaccuracies’ in a press release attacking visitor log secrecy – told us we should say nice things about them and they would say nice things about us.” “
A link filled history of the Kimberlin affair from Stacy McCain
Be sure and read it all for a complete understanding of what is going on .
“Somewhere between the time in October 2010 he threatened to sue Patrick Frey and the decision last week to make a similar threat
toward Ali Akbar, Brett Kimberlin crossed a Rubicon of desperation and burned the bridge behind him. In the past three weeks, Kimberlin
and his allies have escalated their deceitful war against conservative bloggers to the point that it
cannot be ignored, and must now be fought to a conclusion with the entire political world watching. “
Yesterday Ann Althouse showed us a letter that she received that was an attempt to shame her into voting which produced a similar letter from one of her readers about using public info on political donations to shame , intimidate or silence voters .
Things are not sitting well with the progressives these days , considering the depths that they will sink to in order to try and win . I’ve followed politics for a long time and have never seen the likes of these tactics before . Reeks of desperation .
“A reader emailed me:
I got the same thing on donations about 2 weeks ago (see attached). Ugh
A group of “researchers” using a Harvard University return address (108 Littauer Center – I checked and Harvard has that center.) is sending out campaign contribution information showing one Republican donor (me) and multiple (blinded) Democratic donors. This reeks of intimidation tactics, i.e. “we have your name, etc and we will spotlight you”. They claim this is information from “my neighborhood” – I know I live in a very Republican neighborhood so these names could be pulled from anywhere, e.g. the big UVA Democrat areas several miles from here.
Have others received similar notes? They do it under the guise of “research” but the timing and tone seem very fishy if not illegal. Is this research being funded by “stimulus” funds by the Federal Government? I am sure there are other questions here.I have not gone to their website for fear of tracking, etc.”
“ADDED: In the Comments, The Drill SGT points to this article, from a couple days ago, in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Hey, Here’s Who Your Neighbors Gave Money to. Sincerely, Harvard.” “
The Blaze :
“MEET SOROS-FUNDED DOMESTIC TERRORIST BRETT KIMBERLIN WHOSE ‘JOB’ IS TERRORIZING BLOGGERS INTO SILENCE”
Check this post and the previous one to catch up on exactly where the Left stands with it’s policy of tolerance and civil discourse . Does anyone remember the hue and cry regarding Gabrielle Giffords and the alleged “politics of hatred “ preached by the Right that “caused” her shooting ?
Erick Erickson of RedState becomes the latest SWATting victim of the Left’s ( Brett Kimberlin ) campaign of intimidation .
“Last week I wrote about the Speedway Bomber and current left-wing activist Brett Kimberlin. In 2011, after writing about Kimberlin, LA County Prosecutor Patrick Frey was rousted out of bed after midnight by the LA County SWAT Team. Someone had called 911 claiming to be Frey saying he’d just murdered his wife.
Sunday night as my family and sister’s family were around the dinner table and playing outside, sheriff’s deputies pulled into my driveway responding to an accidental shooting at my home.
One deputy was in the driveway. Another blocked the end of the driveway with his car. A neighbor tells me another was up the hill from the house.
There was no shooting at my home. Someone called 911, claimed to be at my home, and claimed to witness a shooting at my home “
From Michelle Malkin :
“Remember what I wrote on Wednesday and what more than 150 blogs and thousands of Twitter activists united behind on Friday?
This is literally a matter of life and death, freedom vs. terrorism. We side with life and freedom.
The massive blogburst about convicted bomber and online terrorist ringleader Brett Kimberlin ended on Friday, but this is an ongoing legal, financial, and emotional morass for the targets. And it has now entangled new victims. It is precisely because each and every blogger, Twitter users, activist, talk show host, and podcaster is potential new prey for sicko Kimberlin and his cabal that we must all stand together.
And it is imperative that we turn awareness-raising into action.
1. Tweet @CNN and ask if the cable news network will be covering the reported SWATting of RedState blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson today in the aftermath of the Everyone Blog About Brett Kimberlinevent. For more on how Erickson and his family were subjected to the same terror tactic used against blogger Patterico, who exposed his plight on Friday on his blog and on the Glenn Beck show, see here, here, here,here, and Twitchy round-up here.”
“Rep. Darrell Issa’s drive to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt is “unwarranted,” “unprecedented” and “ill-advised,” a top Justice Department official
said in a letter to the California Republican, who is chair of the House Oversight Committee, on Tuesday. ”
Where to start with this most recent example of the “stonewall” administration and it’s blatant attempts to subvert the work of another branch of OUR government .
Yesterday we visited the attempts by the Obama cartel to subvert and marginalize the Judiciary branch by telling Chief Justice Roberts just how he should rule on Obamacare and now we have appointed Justice Dept bureaucrats presuming to tell Congressional investigative bodies exactly what they should be satisfied with .
This executive branch needs a reminder of exactly where they stand but with this compliant dinosaur media that becomes increasingly unlikely . If it wasn’t for new media , Cong. Issa and his staff , this whole disgraceful affair would have long ago been swept under the rug .
“The congressional investigations into the gunwalking plot known as Operation Fast and Furious largely faded from the public eye over
the past month, yet there is a growing conviction among legislators of both parties that a grueling political battle is ahead.
Those determined to uncover the truth behind Fast and Furious are being opposed by Democratic congressmen and Obama
administration officials such as Deputy Attorney General James Cole. ”
For those of you unfamiliar with the basic story here is Bob Owens , a man who has doggedly pursued this case from the very beginning .
“Multiple Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)agents have testified under oath that the explicit intent of the operation was to have guns
purchased by straw purchasers be smuggled over the border and recovered at Mexican crime
scenes. The entire plot hinged upon Mexican citizens being killed with walked guns. As one supervisor said to an agent complaining about the deaths that would occur: “If you’re going to
make an omelette, you’ve got to break some eggs ” . “
Does this story from The Free Beacon really surprise ? Whether it is intimidation of the public by union goons , voters by Black Panther thugs or the threat of audit by the IRS coercion is the order of the day with the progressive movement . When you can’t persuade , pressure . When you can’t impress , intimidate . Thugs one and all .
“A preliminary draft of an environmental impact statement estimated that up to 7,000 coalminers could lose their jobs under the administration’s “preferred” regulation. After a leaked copy of the report went public, officials asked the contractors to compare job estimates to a model in which another regulation was enforced, rather than the real world numbers.
“It’s not the real world, this is rulemaking,” an OSM official tells a skeptical contractor on the recording.
“If we’re to assume [the 2008 rule] is enforced in the coal-producing states, this is a very small [impact],” the contractor replies. “But that, as you said, is not the real world, that’s pretending … I thought we were looking at what’s going to change in Kentucky, what’s going to change in Pennsylvania, what’s going to change in Ohio, what’s going to change in Wyoming.”
When a second OSM official makes light of the “theoretical discussion,” the contractor shoots back that “his [the OSM official’s proposed criteria] was theoretical, mine was practical.”
The agency fired the contractors studying the rule less than one month later.”
This is the way the progressives work . They’ve lost the battle of ideas and all they have to fall back on is intimidation , boycotts and threats .
Of course , if you dig deeper you find the same rouster of leftists paying , organizing , fronting and pulling the strings . Soros , Van Jones et al .
“Color of Change’s corporate appeasers include McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Mars Inc., Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Intuit, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Reed Elsevier (owner of LexisNexis), American Traffic Solutions and Arizona Public Service. This week, Robinson also claimed that Yum Brands and Procter and Gamble had dropped their memberships as a result of “hundreds” of Color of Change phone calls. “
