Dallas Horror City [Update]

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   mino on July 8, 2016 at 11:03 am

   Did not take long for the press to solicit an excuse to use that header.

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   Oui on July 8, 2016 at 11:54 am

   Dallas Morning News cannot be reached because of heavy Internet traffic, WayBackMachine offers page in cache …

   This is Dallas, this is our city, and we don’t let terrorism win

   This is terrorism. This is what terrorists do.

   It isn’t a war — not black against blue, or us against them. When a reported two gunmen opened fire Thursday night on police officers, on our police officers, they attacked us all.

   Stunned witnesses described a peaceful march with about 800 protesters gathered in downtown Dallas to register sorrow and concern over police-involved shootings this week in Baton Rouge and suburban Minneapolis.

   They were escorted by about 100 police officers, our officers, there to act as protectors.

   “The cops were peaceful. They were taking pictures with us and everything,” one marcher told KXAS-TV Channel 5.

   “It was a lovely, peaceful march,” said another.

   The peace was shattered by terrorism, a well planned and barbaric attack on that peace. In purposely murdering police officers, these gunmen did not further any cause or make any kind of statement that civilized people can understand. They opened fire, literally, on human decency.

   In the days ahead, some apologists — not many, but a few — will take the line that these murdered officers are casualties of war.

   They’ll say this act was the culmination of countless provocations and frustrations; they’ll try to frame some kind of context around this chaos. They’ll say, “It’s terrible, but …”

   ○ Jeff Roorda: “A culmination of two years of incitement against our police officers.”  [St. Louis Police Union]

   No. It’s just terrible. It’s sickening, cowardly. It furthers no cause; it accomplishes nothing but misery and grief. It’s violence for the deranged love of violence itself, disguised beneath a political veneer.

   To employ a Texas colloquialism, it’s chickens**t with a gun.  

   Who Is Jeff Roorda from St. Louis?

   But with St. Louis being a 49 percent black city, the black aldermen aren’t happy to see white cops like Darren Wilson being found innocent of wrongdoing by grand juries. The idea behind a civilian review board is to make sure that any future Darren Wilsons will not be allowed to escape.

   We got a look at how this would play out with a hearing held in St. Louis on the civilian review board. During the hearing, Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the city’s police union, attempted to speak on the dangers of a civilian oversight board. Roorda is a Democrat, but he is also a white man who was wearing an “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet.

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   mino on July 8, 2016 at 12:26 pm

   POLICING is the problem–from the pro-1% Supreme Court down. Loss of civil rights to the Security State. Civil asset forfeiture. Municipal code using citizens as ATMs. Policing for profit. Police unions insisting on impunity. Israeli police trainers. Racial polarization backlash in the courts. The “mental state” defense allowed for police killings. And failure to test police for steroid abuse immediately in these killings.

   Feds got headlines for stopping asset forfeiture program and then quietly reinstated it.

   If the debate is solely on extra-judicial killings, can we succeed in our polarized gridlocked system? Allies ARE out there in the non-black poors, if they are not excluded. Some might even be Republicans.  And own guns. Especially if we want FEDERALIZED action.  Policing is a state bailiwick. Efforts have been patchwork.  Some have even occurred in red states re asset forfeiture.

   It really is up to them. They CAN draw the headlines with the horrific instances, while the enormous number of all poors being abused in the more mundane systematic manner never will.  Nibbled to death by ducks.

   Everyone should read the Ferguson report in FULL.
   https:/www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_polic
   e_department_report.pdf

   A Red State rxn…
   http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/03/15/many-conservatives-blowing-it-ferguson-doj-report/

   https:

   /www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_us_supreme_court_is
   _marching_in_lockstep_with_the_police_state

   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/policing-for-profit-in-st-louis-county.html?_r=0

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   Oui on July 8, 2016 at 1:26 pm

   Johnson is a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan | Daily Beast |

   A U.S. defense official said that Johnson served as a corporal in the Army Reserve and deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 as an engineer before returning in July 2014.

   Johnson formerly attended the “self-defense and personal protection” gym Academy of Combat Warrior Arts in Richardson and Fort Worth, Texas, gym owner and CEO Justin Everman told The Daily Beast. The gym’s Twitter account says it provides “reality based training for today’s Urban environment.”

   Along with more traditional martial arts classes, the gym also teaches seminars in “Urban Everyday Carry and Improvised Weapons” and “Weapons Defense.” Everman said many of the gym’s members are police officers and stressed that “we have completely no affiliation with him whatsoever.”

   Afghanistan veteran, black militant identified as Dallas police shooting suspect

   History: US Marine, a  Veteran of Vietnam War in UT Tower shootings – 1966

5. 

   Oui on July 8, 2016 at 3:46 pm

   As the Commander-In-Chief uses drones for extra-judicial killings in the AfPak region and across the globe, the Dallas civil police uses a robot to lay a bomb to kill the suspect of the Dallas shooting …

   Dallas – Civil Law Enforcement Use Of Vehicle Based IED Raises Questions | MoA |

   Last nights shooting and killing of several policemen in Dallas, Texas is still somewhat mysterious. At one point the Dallas police chief asserted that four attackers were working together with rifles and triangulating themselves in positions for the attack. Two of them were reported as snipers on roof. This led me to estimate that this was probably some team-trained (supremacist) militia trying to instigate a civil war.

   What explain the far diverging situation reports by the Dallas Chief?

   The single identified shooter was eventually trapped and the police negotiated with him. Negotiations broke off, according to the police, and the police used a remote controlled “robot” to deliver a bomb next to the trapped shooter where it was then exploded. The suspect was killed by the explosion.

   This is the very first known use of a remote controlled vehicle based improvised explosive device, or RC-VBIED in military speak, by a civil police force. The vehicle was a remote controlled device on rubber tracks as they are often used to examine and explode suspicious packages.

   The suspected shooter had been surrounded and trapped for some time.

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     Oui on July 8, 2016 at 5:27 pm

     Study shows high percentage of blue on black killings perfomed by police recruits who served in the US Army and apply for the high risk traffic stops with extra overpay. In addition, the cops over 10 years employment with the police force, are involved in 41% of the killings. These cops haven’t gone through the “sensitivity” training to solve disputes with the public who mouth off the police.  

     “… paramilitary stress academies produce defensive and depersonalized officers, while collegiate
      non-stress training models, a small minority in American policing, have no such consequences.”

     ○ Principles of Good Policing: Avoiding Violence Between Police and Citizens | US-DOJ |

6. 

   Oui on July 8, 2016 at 6:16 pm

   Just one year ago …

   ○ Dallas police HQ shooting: Suspect James Boulware killed during standoff
   ○ Deadly Sniper Shot Solves Social Issue In Dallas, Tx

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   Oui on July 9, 2016 at 1:38 am

   MLK Day keynote: Black Lives Matter movement is a sign of hope
   By Peniel Joseph, Tufts University historian and author

   Son of a union member who first took him out on a picket line when he was 8 years old, Joseph said, “I come to activism from a real-world point of view.” He provided both historical and moral context for the day’s programming at Bates.

   Joseph devoted much of his talk to a whirlwind review of signal events in the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965, as King became the leading voice of the movement. These years, which Joseph called the “heroic period” of the movement, began with the U.S. Supreme Court finding that school segregation is unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education; and ended with a year marked with the marches on Selma, the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Watts riots.

   If these events were news to many younger listeners in the Gomes Chapel, what came next may have been ear-opening to some older folks as well. Joseph pointed out that during the last three years of his life, King became increasingly radicalized, coming out in opposition to the war in Vietnam and in favor of a guaranteed income for impoverished Americans.

   “We need to be willing to speak truth to power, no matter the cost,” King said, and the cost to him was losing access to the political establishment. “There [were] no more massive standing ovations by the mainstream for Dr. King in 1966, ’67 and ’68,” Joseph said.

   In Chicago, even black leaders — fearing the loss of such patronage as was available to them from Mayor Richard J. Daley’s benighted political machine — told King he had gone too far.

   …
   “We had a better conversation about race and racism in 1965 than we do now,” Joseph said. “At least in 1965, we admitted that there were structures of racism and racial segregation.” Now our society practices a sort of “color-blind racism,” he said, where laws and policies achieve racist ends while never explicitly mentioning race.

   King led marches through the all-white neighborhoods of Gage Park and Marquette Park, where he was greeted by Confederate-flag waving whites chanting, “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate!” He was hit on the head by a rock, causing him to fall to the ground.

   “I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate,” King said afterward.

   As long as Daley was mayor, Chicago remained the most segregated city in America. In many parts of town, it still. On his home turf in the South, King defeated Bull Connor, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Councils. But in Chicago, he couldn’t outfox Mayor Daley.

   White people think they are smart … but they are fools, just delaying the inevitable. During the Civil Rights era and today with people of Muslim faith and refugee/immigration issues in Europe. A perpetual War on People in a disadvantaged position to keep them from hope and the American Dream.

   ○ Prof. Santini: chanting ‘all lives matter’ is ‘covert’ white racism
   ○ Martin Luther King and the New American Frontier
   ○ The Kennedy Years: Martin Luther King Fumbling on the New Frontier

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   Oui on July 11, 2016 at 5:22 am

   This Photo Of A Black Lives Matter Protester Is Being Hailed As Iconic

   Jonathan Bachman, a New Orleans-based photographer, was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday covering protests for the Reuters news agency.

   As some demonstrators moved and others yelled at officers, one woman stood silently on the roadway and resolutely refused to budge.

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   Leshia Evans uses her meditative forces to repel assaulting borgbots of the Baton Rouge police department. (h/t MoA)

   “That was the first image I transferred [to Reuters] because I knew it was going to be an important photo,” he said. “You can take images of plenty of people getting arrested, but I think this one speaks more to the movement and what the demonstrators are trying to accomplish here in Baton Rouge.”

   “She was there, she wasn’t resisting, and she had every intention of not moving.”