BREAKING (7/7/16): Dallas Police Officers Shot At Police Protest

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Dallas Sniper Was a Member of New Black Panther Party

By Mellisa Ferrari -
July 9, 2016

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Authorities have said that Micah X. Johnson belonged to no group when he shot dead five police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas.

However, Black Power Political Organization has claimed responsibility.

What’s interesting is that Johnson was actually a former member of the New Black Panthers.
Surprised?

I’m sure Huey would be proud.

From Breitbart:

Micah X. Johnson was a member of the Houston New Black Panther Party for a short period of time. He was reported to be a member for about six months a few years ago.

Quanell X told reporters at KPRC NBC2 in Houston that Johnson was a member of the Houston Chapter of the New Black Panther Party for a short time a few years ago. He said he parted ways with Johnson after about six months because Johnson would not follow the chain of command.

During negotiations with the Dallas Police Department Friday morning during the ambush shooting that left five officers dead and seven other people shot, Johnson said he was not part of any group. He stated he wanted to kill white people and white police officers.

Doesn’t matter how long he was with the group.

Point is he was with them.

Johnson was a racist – as if that wasn’t clear enough already.

White officers were targeted for absolutely no reason other than some people thought cops killed black men in cold blood in Louisiana and Minnesota.

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Dallas Mass COP MURDERER’S Arabic Name Was FAHED HASSEN

ByPamela Geller on July 9, 2016




The Arabic name of the Dallas mass murderer of the brave police officers (who ran towards the gunfire in order to save the people protesting them) was Fahed Hassen, according to Denver Police Department.

How much was Fahed motivated by Islam, the Nation of Islam, ISIS and Black Liberation Theology? It’s all of a piece.

“Micah Johnson’s alias was Fahed Hassen,” FAM, July 9, 2016 (thanks to Armaros):

Micah Johnson went by the alias Fahed Hassen. Micha Johnson or Fahed Hassen, he is a domestic terrorist. Now, that’s it been revealed that Johnson is a Muslim, one has to look to see if Fahed Hassen had any ties to ISIS or other Muslim terrorist groups.

http://pamelageller.com/2016/07/dall...d-hassen.html/

[American Patriot]

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LIVE: Dallas 911 Tapes "Sounds Like Possibly More Suspects"

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Dallas shooter linked to leftist revolution groups, nation of Islam?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/..._of_islam.html

Mark S. Hanna

July 10, 2016

Facts are still being gathered, but a few developments have surfaced that suggest that Dallas terrorist Micah Johnson had ties to and sympathies for the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and the radical African American Defense League.

Thus far, the Dallas police have said only that Johnson "wanted to kill white people" and confirmed that an arsenal of weapons and bomb-making equipment was discovered at his home. Social media sources indicate that there may have been coordination in his murderous rampage to kill whites, which could have been "a well-planned, well-thought-out, evil tragedy," as described by the city's police chief, David Brown.

Apparently, Micah Johnson had a Facebook page that has been taken down. Several groups captured images from his page prior to Facebook closing it.

One of the images shows Micah Johnson with Professor Griff of the revolutionary rap band Public Enemy. Since the late 1980s, Professor Griff has been known as Public Enemy's "Minister of Information," espousing a philosophy drawn largely from the ideology of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

USA Today is also reporting that Johnson's Facebook account also identified him as Fahed Hassen. But in the same article, USA Today also published a false report that Johnson identifies himself as Professor Griff. They said police indicated that Johnson, as Griffin, authored a book titled A Warrior's Tapestry. But it is Professor Griff of Public Enemy who authored the work.



On Twitter, Griff denied "knowing" Johnson and said, "I do not advocate killing cops" following the Dallas shootings.



In an interview conducted July 7, the day of the shooting in Dallas, Griff advocated for his community to buy guns and join gun clubs, but then counseled:

[T]his is no declaration against police officers for people to go out and shoot police officers. Don't take this the wrong way. I didn't say that. We need to join gun clubs like everyone else[.] … [E]veryone needs to have a rifle, everyone needs to have a handgun, and everyone needs to have at least a 12 gauge or 20 gauge Mossberg to defend themselves against most of the people[.] … [T]hey are not going to protect us.

According to Independent Journal, which screen-captured Micah Johnson's Facebook page prior to it being taken down, Johnson's association with the Black Panther Party comes from his joining the Mississippi chapter on Facebook.

Additionally, Johnson had liked the Dallas, Arlington, and Ft. Worth Police Departments on his Facebook page, as well as the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, headed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix, Arizona.

Like Dallas, Phoenix had a significant Black Lives Matter-sponsored protest on July 8, the day of the Dallas shooting. Lasting until the early hours of the morning on July 9, the Phoenix protest turned violent, with rock-throwing and police using pepper spray.

Independent Journal also reportedly discovered several postings related to the African American Defense League (AADL), a radical leftist revolutionary group that openly advocates killing police officers.

The AADL was founded by Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere, who also calls himself "Lead Advi*sor at Black Rid*ers Lib*er*a*tion Party, Lead Advi*sor and Lia*son [sic] at Black Pan*ther Party and Lead Advi*sor and Lia*son [sic] at New Black Pan*ther Party." He unapologetically advocates violence and warfare against the police and whites.

It is not enough to discontinue the sell and use of capital confederate/rebel flags, over Southern Capitol Buildings or online. We must not be lost enmasse [sic] through marching black nationalist but we must actively kill those who are killing us, white racist and otherwise. Shall we forget that nine black people we murdered, in church, by a young white racist facist [sic]. So much deaths of our people past, present, and future. The race war is now but you grope in the day as though in the night!

On AADL's Facebook page, the main image is a man holding a gun with the background image of an arsenal of semiautomatic rifles.



On the page, Millere wrote:

The white*man wants your blood! How many of us has he killed and enslaved? Trillions!…We need the action that makes them pay atten*tion. An eye for an eye phi*los*o*phy! Arm your*self in Fer*gu*son, Mis*souri and across Amer*ica! A life for a life!" He con*tin*ued, "Also, we must go to their com*fort*able neigh*bor*hoods and raid those stores. It is time to LOOT & BURN those stores…

Ominously, just a few hours after the Dallas shooting, the page showed his quote: "As you fight, remember that the FIREMAN and the POLICE are on the SAME SIDE! Don't be fooled!"

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Philando Castile Crew Raise More Than Quarter Million So Far (And Recent Developments)

Posted on July 9, 2016 by sundance

Doing some general research we dropped by the Go-Fund-Me sites to see how successful the Philando Castile Team have been. So far the three fundraising accounts, previously managed by Black Lives Matter activists, are exceeding: $254,907.00

• Mama Valerie Castile’s account leading the way with $163,674 (link)
• Big Sis Allysza’s account comes in second with $60,939 (link)
• Lavish Reynolds account third with a paultry $30,294 (link)

Total $254,907

So far, a strong success.

Despite numerous felony convictions in Minnesota for Mrs. Valerie Castile (DOB 05/30/1956) including: second degree assault, fraudulently obtaining public assistance; as well as misdemeanor convictions for theft (three times), prostitution, DUI and public nuisance; and despite serving a 3-year-term in federal prison for felony forgery [21CCR-525244], Valerie Castile is fortunately supported by the overall public and by the Black Lives Matter movement.

If the Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Freddie Gray pattern is to be repeated – the funeral account and the Castile Justice Foundation will be established later.

Because there’s been a considerable amount of discussion about facial hair in relation to Officer Jeronimo Yanez considering Mr. Castile’s appearance as a possible match for a robbery on 7/2/16 (7:30pm) – fortuitously, Ms. Lavish “Diamond” Reynolds has presented recent pictures of Philando Castile taken July 4th 2016, only two days before they were pulled over by Officer Yanez and Officer Kauser.














The pictures appear taken on the 4th of July, 2016, because Ms. Reynolds uploaded another video on the same day. [ Mr. Philando Castile was shot by Mexican Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez on July 6th, two days later. ]

In her Facebook promotional video Ms. Reynolds is wearing the identical outfit, states it is the Fourth of July 2016, and discusses ongoing events in her social life.

Note of caution – some viewers/readers might be a little disconcerted watching this video because it shows a 4-year-old child in the car while Ms. Diamond Reynolds is smoking Marijuana and outlining her day in a rather, well, salty manner, for her friends, family and social media followers.

However, there should be no cause for concern or alarm. According to the vast majority of comments from within the black community, particularly Falcon Heights Minnesota, there is a general cultural acceptance of very young children participating in the activity of adults who are using “recreational”, albeit illegal, drugs.

The fact that Mr. Philando Castile was reported to be employed within the educational or school system should not create any undue anxiety or concern. According to those who have expressed opinion, this is simply culturally acceptable behavior. Being “high” in elementary or pre-school does not appear uncommon:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=MSblGwbMxJc

Police officers Yanez and Kauser were on the look out for suspects in a July 2nd convenience store armed robbery. CCTV Images of the armed robbery were released on July 5th 2016 the day before Yanez and Kauser encountered Castile, July 6th.

Suspect #1



Suspect #2







From the radio dispatch of Officer Jeronimo Yanez:

“I’m going to stop a car. I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”

“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery. The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose.”

A minute and a half later, the recording captures the first report that there was a shooting. (link)

The term “a minute and a half later” is prone to inaccuracy. Many audio recording devices automatically shut down in real time during silent periods and do not restart until an audible sound is evident again. The “minute and a half” reference refers to a recording of the police radio traffic obtained by local news media (see link above for full reference).







[Attorney] Thomas Kelly, who represents Officer Yanez through the police union, told the NewsHour in a phone interview that such investigations can take as long as 18 months, but said “I’m not concerned about criminal proceedings here and I don’t think he is either.” (PBS Article)



Girlfriend of Philando Castile Changes Her Story – Did She Withhold Video of the Actual Shooting?

On July 11, 2016 By Donald Joy

Well, well, well… What a tangled web of hair-weaves, when the race-hustlers practice to deceive!

Despite the lies spun by #BlackLivesMatter scammers, new analysis (to date, found only here) may turn out to blow the lid off the Philando Castile case.

Officials are keeping such tight screws on information about the incident (the dashcam video, for example) that we are left to try to decipher everything ourselves, while black terrorists launch assassination attacks on police and lay seige to cities across the country.

Castile’s girlfriend and passenger, Lavish “Diamond” Reynolds, has changed her story in multiple ways since the aftermath of her boyfriend getting shot and killed (which she live-streamed to Facebook, narrated in her oddly calculated-sounding outrage) by a police officer during a traffic stop in Minnesota last Wednesday, July 6th.

For one thing, she started out saying repeatedly that Castile had been pulled over for supposedly having a broken taillight. But in subsequent statements, on video, she said multiple times that it was for having a headlight out.

The taillight/headlight discrepancy is no bombshell, of course.

Neither is her dubious claim that Castile was reaching for his license & registration when shot by officer Jerenimo Yenez. I say dubious partly because as anyone who has dug into this case at all knows, it seems Castile never actually drove legally. Based on his miles-long record of violations, showing scores of just about every kind of motor vehicle offense, and under near-constant license suspension/revocation, it’s very doubtful that Castile even had a license at the time in question because the scofflaw usually just drove without one.

So, for a variety of possible reasons, officer Yenez could indeed have been right in fearing that Castile was reaching for the gun instead of a license/registration. Especially since the real reason Yenez stopped Castile to begin with was (as told to police dispatch by Yenez) because Castile closely resembled a suspect wanted for an armed robbery at a nearby store four days prior.

But the unlikelihood of reaching for a license/registration by Castile isn’t the bombshell either.

What’s the bombshell? Check this out: I came to notice something very peculiar in yet another way Lavish Reynolds changed her story, something that didn’t quite sink in or set off any big alarms for me at first.

Hours after the shooting, upon Reynolds’ being released from police questioning to a wildly sympathetic crowd/press gaggle, a woman asked her, “How were you able to figure out that you should put this on Facebook?” Reynolds replied by going into a long tirade saying she wanted to show the world that “these police are not here to protect and serve us, but to assasinate us; they are here to kill us because we are black!!”

In mid-rant, she told the crowd that she didn’t capture the actual shooting on video because “…if I woulda moved while that gun was out, he woulda shot me too!”

That question and answer comes at the 7:07 mark in the video below:


Live Interview: Diamond Lavish Reynolds [NOTE: The man handling Reynolds, right behind her, has a shirt that says "ISLAMIC" something or other.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArV8...ature=youtu.be

Does that even make sense? If we are to believe her, she started rolling video while Yenez still had his gun out, and had just let several shots fly.


Did you catch that?

You hear Reynolds say, “…I was not able to get the actual shooting because I did not want that horrible act to be on social media…” That’s a completely different reason than the one given the day before, by the way.

Most importantly, that remark is what I believe poker players and con-men call a “tell.”

In the process of shifting parts of her story and bellowing indignant racial screeds, she’s inadvertently telling us, by letting subconscious code slip out, that she actually did record the shooting itself — but she cut off/hid that part of the video from what she wanted us to see, and began live-streaming what she did want us to see.

Think about what she said: She claimed that she did not want to have video of a “that horrible act” to be on social media. Ask yourself, now, how could she have known that a “horrible act” was about to take place, and thereby base her alleged decision — to supposedly not start recording until afterward — on such knowledge? It doesn’t pass the smell test.

She could not know of an impending “horrible act” — unless she was in on some sort of failed plan by Castile to try to shoot the police first (or, an insane plan to deliberately provoke police deadly force for some reason).

She’s lying about something having to do with the video on her phone.

I say that what she’s really telling us (without intending to) is that not only doesn’t she want people to see the shooting, but also that she had the ability to let people see it, but pretends otherwise. She pretends she made this decision to start recording afterward. Except she’s too illogical to trick everyone.

I suspect she’s trying to cover up the video evidence which would sink her shakedown scam’s chances of succeeding. That is, the part of the video she’s pretending not to have recorded would help prove that Yenez was justified in shooting Castile, because for whatever reason, Castile refused to comply, and reached toward where his gun was when ordered not to reach.

Lavish Reynolds may be remembering the unfortunate incident in the video below, from a couple of years ago, and using it as the template for her shakedown story:

It seems to me that most people who take video when they get pulled over by police start recording at the earliest possible point in the encounter. If Reynolds was afraid of being shot for moving to capture video before Yenez opened fire, wouldn’t she have been just as afraid to start recording once Yenez had opened fire and was still hyper-adrenaline keyed on any threat/target in the vehicle?

Now comes the bombshell. The next day, Reynolds spoke at a press conference and completely changed her explanation of why she didn’t get the shooting itself on video.

Ready? Go to the 5:00 mark in this excerpt:





[DASHCAM] State trooper shoots man reaching for his license



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J83...ature=youtu.be

My understanding as of this writing is that the police still have custody of Reynolds’ phone while they conduct their investigation. If I’m right about all this, can she be that much of a gambler as to think investigators wouldn’t discover the segment of video in question while examining the phone’s contents?

Maybe this case will be over more quickly than we expected.



Here is another look at the Philandro Castile case

Three days before his death, Philando took part in this video where it shows his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, being a power-mother, smokied a joint with Philando and their daughter in the background.

Make sure you watch the frames where the daughter is caught on cam and absolutely hates her situation...

Media wants her opinion of what happened. What about her credibility? Enjoy.

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Obama Covers For Cop Killer: "Hard To Untangle Shooters Motives"

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OBAMA TURNS OFF COPS=> Officers REFUSE TO APPLAUD During Obama’s Race Lecture at Dallas Police Memorial (VIDEO)

Jim Hoft Jul 12th, 2016 2:32 pm

WOW!
Barack Obama lectured the people of Dallas today at the memorial service for the five slain police officers by
a racist Black Power activist.


The deceased officers were veterans and fathers: From top left clockwise, Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens and Michael J. Smith.


Obama went off on a history lecture of racism in America. He included mentions of Alton Sterling (twice) and Philando Castile (twice). He even mentioned poor black children in hoodies – a reference to
Trayvon Martin.


At one point police officers refused to applaud his defense of Black Lives Matter.




When the camera panned on the police officers they were not applauding.



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016...service-video/

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Obama Ignored Request to Illuminate White House in Blue

http://www.policemag.com/channel/pat...e-in-blue.aspx



Friday, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (F.L.E.O.A.) Foundation announced its request that President Obama honor the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen Dallas police heroes by illuminating the White House in blue. It did not happen.

FLEOA Foundation President Jon Adler issued the following statement:

"While we appreciate the President's proclamation to have our flag flown at half-mast in honor of our fallen Dallas police heroes, I respectfully request that he demonstrate his full respect for their ultimate sacrifice by illuminating the White House in blue. Actions speak louder than scripted words, and the honorable act of displaying law enforcement's 'Thin Blue Line' at the White House would demonstrate the President's sincere commitment to our fallen heroes and their families.

"Please know that the law enforcement community draws no comfort from Speaker Ryan's remarks that it's 'A time for healing.' As Speaker Ryan made that statement today, a police officer was shot in Missouri. We can't heal while law enforcement officers continue to bleed.

"Please know that the law enforcement community draws no comfort from House Minority Leader Pelosi's dispassionate remarks when she quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today. We don't need her self-serving quotes from Dr. King; we need her to exude the leadership of Dr. King.

"I respectfully ask that all elected officials drop their scripted speeches, and feel the pain resonating in Dallas and across the country. Light a blue candle and say a silent prayer, but don't insult the law enforcement community with perishable scripted gibberish. Five honorable heroes made the ultimate sacrifice in Dallas, and it would be a tribute to their service by illuminating the White House in blue.

"May all our fallen heroes rest in honor, and blessed eternal peace."

About FLEOA

The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan professional association that exclusively represents over 26,000 active and retired federal law enforcement officers from over 65 agencies.

[Ryan Ruck]

I have no reply that wouldn't potentially get me a visit from USSS.

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Former Prosecutor Sues Obama, Al Sharpton For Inciting A Race War

Tori Richards
8:16 PM 07/11/2016



A former federal prosecutor has sued President Obama, the founders of Black Lives Matter, Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and former US Attorney General Eric Holder for inciting a race war that led to the fatal Dallas police shootings.

The federal class action lawsuit, filed Saturday in Dallas, accuses the defendants of aiding and abetting murder, terrorist promotion of gang activity and civil rights violations of law enforcement officers. It seeks damages of more than $2 billion.

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“These (defendants) have incited violence and in fact have a direct link to what happened in Dallas,” said Larry Klayman, who worked in the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration and later founded the conservative advocacy groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. “I hope that law enforcement in Dallas and around the nation will join our class action, it’s a peaceful legal means to fight this. We’ve had it. People are finally starting to speak out.”

The case has been assigned to Judge Sam A. Lindsay, a Clinton appointee who is also African American.

None of the defendants responded for comment except for DOJ spokesperson Nicole Navas, who said, “The Justice Department declines to comment on the pending litigation. Thank you.”

“The defendants…have publicly incited people to violence with the fiction that police officers and other law enforcement are intentionally and systematically targeting and hunting blacks and other minorities to kill them for no reason other than racism or sport,” the complaint said.

Defendants have called for a civil war targeting police officers of all races “for immediate violence and severe bodily injury or death in response to that non-existent and fictitious threat…Defendants are encouraging disaffected blacks and black Muslims to ignore, disrespect and assault law enforcement officials, and commit violence and lethal force,” the complaint said.

On July 7, former US Army reservist Micah Johnson shot a dozen Dallas police officers, killing five, during a rally to protest the police killings of two black men the previous week.

“The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter,” Dallas police Chief David Brown later told reporters. “He said he was upset about the recent shootings…he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”

But while the defendants – spearheaded by Obama – blame police and non-minorities for fanning tensions that lead to violence, statistics show that murder rate has steadily been increasing across America during Obama’s tenure, the complaint said. Much of this crime involves black-on-black violence in communities that are primarily black.

The 52-page complaint chronicles detailed accusations against each defendant including:

Obama and Holder met many times with Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, and leaders of Black Lives Matter over plans to change government policies regarding police officers. Obama made the statement, “There’s a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos of being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately” and the pair “incited and inflamed violent crowds into committing arson, looting, destruction of property and assaults on police officers based on the idea that the nation’s police officers are intentionally and systematically targeting, hunting and killing blacks” without admitting that most police are responding to incidents from 911 calls, regardless of race.

Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. He called for active duty black military members to come home and lead a national insurrection against society. In 2014, he spoke to a crowd of 2,000 calling for revenge in Ferguson, Missouri for the police shooting of Michael Brown. A year later he told a Florida church to “stalk them and kill them” pertaining to Jews and Caucasians as a “400-year-old enemy.”

Black Lives Matter leaders Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and DeRay McKesson inflamed racial tensions after Ferguson to the point that Texas sheriff’s deputy Darren Goforth was murdered at a gas station by a black man in 2015. Several days later, BLM led a march in St. Paul, chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon.” The defendants have appeared on radio asking for followers to “turn the tide and kill white people and cops to send a message.”

In the past few years, numerous police officers have been injured or killed by minorities who spurred on by the defendants’ rhetoric, the complaint argued. Since the Dallas killings, other officers have suffered injuries such as broken teeth and a broken vertebrae while working protests that have sprung up nationwide.

DeRay McKesson told USA Today that criticism of BLM is dishonest and a way for non-minorities to avoid a discussion over police brutality and racism.

“We should not have to protest,” he said. “We’re in the street because police have killed people. We would love to go home, but we can’t go home. We are unwilling to go home.”

McKesson was arrested with 100 others during a march in Baton Rouge for blocking public thoroughfares.

While on a European trip, Obama urged the public to avoid judging the BLM movement by the actions of a few.

“There are always folks who will say things that are stupid,” he said. “I don’t think you can hold well-meaning activists…responsible for everything uttered at a protest site.”

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5 Big Lies In Obama's Dallas Memorial Speech

After paying tribute to the five fallen police officers, President Obama used his speech to deliver several false attacks about the U.S. (CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Newscom)

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Politics: In his memorial service speech in Dallas, Obama took the opportunity to bash the country he leads, rattling off several supposed failings to explain unrest among blacks. In doing so, he peddled some blatant falsehoods.

In the speech, Obama tried to explain why it is that there's so much tension between blacks and the police these days (without, of course, mentioning his own role in fomenting those tensions). Here's what Obama said:

"That so much of the tensions between police departments and minority communities that they serve is because we ask the police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves. As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools. We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment. We refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book. ... We know these things to be true."

Actually not one of those things is true.

Underinvest in decent schools? Government spending on elementary and secondary education has steadily increased from already high levels. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, real spending per pupil climbed roughly 5% from 2002 to 2013 -- to an average of more than $11,000 per student. New York City spends more than $20,000 per pupil, Philadelphia, $19,000.
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In any case, money isn't the same as quality. Texas spends less on education than California but gets far better results. The problem isn't that schools are underfunded, the problem is too much bureaucracy, too little competition, powerful unions that oppose change, and lack of accountability.

Allow poverty to fester? The federal government spends more than half a trillion a year on "income security" programs -- food stamps, welfare, subsidized housing and the like. This year, outlays will total $525 billion, according to Obama's Office of Management and Budget. That's up 24% since 2008. If poverty is festering, it isn't for lack of taxpayer money.

Refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs? Federal spending on drug treatment programs has more than doubled since Obama took office, going from $14.8 billion to $30.6 billion
As far as mental health programs go, a recent Government Accountability Office report found 112 programs -- spread across eight federal agencies --- that provide mental health services.
Just four of these agencies report that they spent "about $5.7 billion for programs that specifically targeted individuals with serious mental illness in fiscal year 2013."

How exactly does this constitute "refusing to fund" these programs?

Flood communities with guns? Economist Mark Perry notes that there's an inverse relation between gun ownership and homicides.

"The gun-related homicide rate of 3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2013 makes those recent years the safest in at least 20 years, and possibly the safest in modern U.S. history." Yet gun ownership rates soared 50% from 1993 to 2013.

Easier to buy a Glock than a book? Obama has been using this line for a while now, but he never cites a source. Probably because it makes no sense. It's illegal for anyone under 18 to own a gun, which means a teen would have to buy one on the black market, where they will cost something like $1,500. A school textbook? Books are easily available at libraries and textbooks are distributed free at schools.
Meanwhile, a decent laptop at a local Best Buy sells for half the price of a legally bought Glock.

Immediately after making these blatantly false claims, Obama said "if we cannot talk honestly and openly (about these things), then we will never break this dangerous cycle."

He's right about that. But he should be pointing the finger of blame at himself, not the rest of us.

http://www.investors.com/politics/ed...morial-speech/

[Brian Baldwin]

The spate of police officers ambushed and killed of late has an easy solution if you ask me. Tell Black Lives Matter that they've won and police will no longer patrol their neighborhoods ever for any reason. Yes, I know that technically can't be done legally, but I do so love when people get everything they ask for.

There are even easier solutions, but they're naughty.

[American Patriot]

Exactly Brian. If they are black, the cops will not respond, for ANY reason. If they are in their neighborhood, the cops will NOT respond for any reason. And technically, it's NOT illegal for them to do it.