Well you know what, this is a very hot topic, one that the media gave us to discuss, right after they wore Michelle
Jackson out, and while we are distracted by what the "media whores" gave us to talk about and think about, legislation is
being rammed down the throats of congress, who are notorious for not bothering to read the bills before they pass them into
"Public Policy", not law, to make it mandatory for you and your families to allow the government to dictate to you what they
can inject into your bodies, there are tanks moving around this country and foreign troops, who by the way have been on American
soil for well over a decade.
They want us to occupy ourselves so we will not contemplate what life will be like when the dollar collapses, and there
is no local government functioning in your area, they want us to be distracted so we will not reflect on what is happening
right before our very eyes. They do not wish for you to think about or research the FEMA camps already staffed and waiting
for more occupants, yeah that's right they already have guests, unfortunate people who have been classified as illegals.
What would happen if we focused on why there are plastic containers large enough to hold 3 bodies stacked in many states all
around this country. What if we inquired into this new bio-weapon called H1N1 swine flu? What if we asked the question,
why the hell are we allowing commercial airlines to continue for years spraying us and our families with deadly chemicals,
and we continue to patronize them and keep them rich?
What if we wondered about what is happening to all the families who have been evicted from their homes, and what
is happening to those folks now living in tent cities around the country, did you know the police are taking those folks children
away from them?
The discussion of racism is a low level of understanding what is happening, the topic we need to understand is the DEPOPULATION
AGENDA because it will be Blacks and Whites and Mexicans etc, and you know what they are trying to start the race war,
because that is what they need as an excuse to get the show on the road...
And no, I am not saying racism does not exist , And no I am not saying that the police are not racists, however
I will say this there are Black policeman that are just as viscous, so what does it mean?
(From the desk of Mesha
Monge-Irizarry, director of the San Francisco Chapter of Education Not Incarceration, and Idriss Stelley Action &Resource
Center, Law Enforcement Accountability Direct Services (ISARC). Pastor Wayne Jones
I, Director of Pastors Against Injustice in Roanoke, Virginia, is on ISARC Advisory
Board of Directors, and needs your help to continue providing critical services, outllined as follow, on the local
and national level !)
Pastor Wayne Jones' accomplishments:
Pastor Wayne Jones, African American, has been providing
support and resources to people affected by police misconduct for over 10 yrs, and was one of the coordinator &Marshal for the Enough is Enough
March is Washington, DC in 1998.
Pastor Wayne Jones moved to Roanoke, VA, in 1999.
Shortly after his arrival, Pastor Jones, long with several other activists,
went before the Roanoke Virginia City Council and challenged the City and the Police Dept. about the police misconduct issues
in the city.
He also appeared before the city several times, requesting the creation of a Citizens Review Panel, and
was one of the very first appointees on the Citizens Review Panel which only comprises 3 People of Color.
Soon, Pastor
Jones marched in Roanoke, Va, demanding an end to police misconduct, and also participated in the Free the Jena 6 Rally in DC.
Pastor Jones continues to attend and speak at the Roanoke
City Council, on issues of Social and Racial Justice.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors and volunteers
with the Police Compliance Center in DC and Florida, and travels extensively
around the country to meet with victims and survivors of police misconduct, to investigate their circumstances and provide
them with resources, and also assists individuals with webpages where they can voice their concerns.
Pastor Jones
visits prisoners, bringing Bible study materials and assist them with their expressed spititual needs, not only in Roanoke, but wherever he is needed.
Pastor
Jones ministers at the Rescue Mission in Roanoke, Va, and also visit patients in various hospitals in the Roanoke area.
So here you have it....
Pastor Wayne Jones I has
dedicated his life to his ministry, but also, at great risk, to challenging police misconduct, challenging white supremacy. and defending the Human Rights of :
* the Poor, * the Voiceless, *
the Incarcerated, * Black &Brown People, * and the basic Rights of all Human Beings, courageously speaking
up to End the War at Home &Abroad !
Comrades, your help is needed !
Sister Mesha is asking you to kindly to join our solidary effort towards
Pastor Wayne Jones I, to help him continue:
* giving a Voice to the Voiceless, * assisting the Poor and the
Incarcerated, * and continue to support Survivors and Victims of Law Enforcement misconduct (raids, police brutality, entrapment), * and Grieving
Families of Loved Ones killed or disabled by the police.
As well as commending officers who Protect and Serve ALL
to the best of their ability !
No donation too big or too small...
Please send what you can to: Pastors Against Injustice,
http://PrisonMinistry.net/ABFMinistry
http://PrisonMinistry.net
Blessed is the
man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat
of the scornful. Psalm 1:1
In
Unity &Respect, mesha Monge-Irizarry ISARC, and ENI_SF, San Francisco
In an opinion issued Tuesday in Chicago, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman ruled that Bill White's actions were protected
by the First Amendment.
Long known for dancing along the line between free speech and illegal threats, Roanoke neo-Nazi leader William A. White
has won the first round of his bout with the federal government.
In an opinion issued Tuesday in Chicago, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman dismissed a charge that White used his
Web site to encourage violence, ruling that his actions were protected by the First Amendment.
White had been charged with posting the name, address and telephone number of the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted
a fellow white supremacist in 2004.
Although the post made no direct threats against the juror, federal prosecutors had argued that White published the information
with the hope it would prompt readers of his racist Web site, overthrow.com, to threaten or harm the man. In an attempt to prove that intent, authorities filled the indictment against White with examples
of other, more hateful and inflammatory posts.
But White broke no laws in obtaining information about the juror, Adelman wrote in a 35-page opinion. As for using passages
from overthrow.com to interpret White's motives, "an intimidating context alone does not remove the protection of the First Amendment," the
judge ruled.
White, commander of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, remains in jail despite the judge's opinion,
his immediate fate unknown.
The 32-year-old faces federal charges in Roanoke of making online threats against a half-dozen or so targets, including
a civil rights lawyer in Canada, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and a mayor in New Jersey.
He is expected to raise the same free-speech defense to those charges.
"The First Amendment is at its best when it protects unpopular speech," said Chris Shepherd, one of White's Chicago attorneys.
"If the First Amendment only protected us from expressing opinions that everyone agrees with, it would become useless."
Legal experts have said in the past that White is adept at pushing his constitutional rights to their absolute limit by
airing implied threats and death wishes to those he sees as adversaries to the white supremacy movement.
Federal prosecutors offered little comment Tuesday.
"We are reviewing the opinion and we will consider our options," said Carol Blue, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's
office in Chicago. Prosecutors could appeal the judge's decision and ask that White remain locked up in the meantime, Shepherd
said.
Ever since federal agents arrested White in October and shut down overthrow.com, the case against him has been viewed by many as a close call: protecting the public from possible harm versus protecting
the rights of a racist to speak his mind.
"It is a very interesting legal issue as to whether the language used in this case constitutes a true threat," Magistrate
Judge Michael Urbanski said during a bond hearing for White in Roanoke last year.
Although Urbanski ordered White held without bond, he cited online writings that were not part of the indictment -- including
White's self-described urge to "kill, kill, kill" and a passage stating that he had developed a "very intricate plot for the
murder of about a score of Roanoke city's Negro nuisances and their annoying counterparts at The Roanoke Times."
After White was shipped off to Chicago to stand trial, a federal judge rejected his first attempt to have the case dismissed
on free-speech grounds. In January, Judge William Hibbler ruled that White "stepped beyond the protection of the First Amendment"
when he included the juror's personal contact information along with postings that advocated violence against others.
The following month, federal prosecutors revised the indictment against White to include his public praise for the murder
of a Chicago judge's mother and husband in 2005.
After all the federal judges in Chicago stepped aside, White's case was assigned to Adelman, who sits in Milwaukee. Defense
attorneys filed a second motion in May to dismiss the charge that was identical to the earlier one -- but with the opposite
result.
Adelman's decision to dismiss the charges comes just a few weeks before White's trial was scheduled to begin in U.S. District
Court in Chicago.
"The court recognizes that the [First] Amendment's protections are not absolute," Adelman wrote, citing a U.S. Supreme
Court case that prohibits speech which advocates violence with the intent of producing "imminent lawless action."
Yet nowhere in White's post did he "expressly advocate that [the juror] be harmed" or threaten him personally, Adelman
wrote. As for White's portrayal of the juror as a "gay anti-racist" who lives with his "gay black lover," those comments were
protected free speech, the judge ruled.
The overthrow.com passage that led to White's arrest stemmed from the neo-Nazi's belief that Matthew Hale, a fellow white supremacist, was
unfairly convicted in 2004 of plotting to have a federal judge in Chicago killed.
In their motion to dismiss the charge, Shepherd and co-counsel Nishay Sanan pointed out that nothing happened to the juror
during the five weeks between White's post and his arrest.
"Lacking lawless action for five weeks, it requires a tortuous interpretation of clear-cut facts of this case to claim
that the speech was likely to produce imminent lawless actions," the attorneys wrote.
It was unclear Tuesday what impact Adelman's ruling will have on the pending charges against White in Virginia. Brian McGinn,
a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Roanoke, declined to comment.
White faces charges here of making threats by interstate communications. Some legal observers have said prosecutors may
have decided to bring the Chicago charge first because it contains an additional element -- obstruction of justice in the
form of trying to influence a juror -- that might have bolstered their case. However, some of the online language cited in
the Roanoke indictment contains more direct comments toward the targets than what was used in the Chicago case.
Supreme Court Expected to Take Up Davis Case Seven of nine witnesses have recanted testimony
By
AFRO Staff
Troy Davis (Courtesy Photo)
The fate of Troy Davis now rests in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nation’s highest court is expected
this week to consider hearing the case of Davis, a Georgia man convicted 20 years ago of killing a Savannah police officer.
Davis’ execution has been stayed three times as lawyers ran through options to keep him alive, but his final appeal
now rests with the Supreme Court.
Davis, 40, was convicted in 1991 of killing off-duty police officer Mark Allen MacPhail,
though no physical evidence at the time linked him to the murder. Since the trial, seven of the nine witnesses against Davis
have recanted their testimony.
The Supreme Court will retire for its summer recess Tuesday until September. If it
does not make a decision whether to take up Davis’s case, prosecutors could attempt to get a fourth execution warrant
for Davis before the court re-convenes.
However, that delay may also work in the favor of Davis’ defense team,
Laura Moye of Amnesty International USA’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“It
buys more time for all of the advocates to get more publicity on the case,” Moye said.
Davis’ case has
drawn international support, including from former President Jimmy Carter and the Vatican. The NAACP has launched an “I
Am Troy” campaign.
In 1991, Chatham County, Georgia jurors took just two hours to decide Davis was guilty, and
seven more to sentence him to death, both unanimous decisions. But an Associated Press investigation this week found that
at least four have had second thoughts about their choice.
“Maybe I might have voted him guilty, but never,
ever the death penalty,” Brenda Forrest, a 53-year-old research and development manager who served on the jury, told
the AP. “That part is clear to me. If need be, take this thing back to trial.”
Georgia congressmen John
Lewis and Hank Johnson along with NAACP President Ben Jealous met with Davis last month, and all three left the two-hour-long
meeting convinced of Davis’ innocence.
Lewis said he planned to talk to leaders of both the House and Senate
Judiciary Committees about the case, and said he has considered seeking a presidential pardon but has not spoken to President
Obama about intervening in the case.
Jealous said the case is now a national priority for the organization.
“This
case stands out,” Mr. Jealous said during a May 29 news conference after he met with Mr. Davis. “Something’s
wrong in Chatham County.”
We vigil to stop us from murdering this innocent man Trey Davis
Open Letter To The Tens Of Thousands
Of Rogue Cops Jim Kirwan 2-17-8
Your numbers may be growing among the millions
of people wearing some kind of badge in the United States, but your days are numbered.
Not because of any direct threat
from people like me; no what I'm talking about here is the threat that you are creating all by yourselves.
If you
had been paying attention you would have seen this coming on your own.
What the military and the mercenaries are doing
in Iraq and Afghanistan each of you is now doing here, in your own tiny little world so full
of arrogance and basic brutality.
Every time you beat a man senseless, or shame a woman to tears in front of her loved
ones, or randomly kill someone either by accident or by design it happens just because you can - so you make more than enemies
- you plant the seeds of your own violent end.
Have you ever seen children tear a well-trained combat
soldier to pieces, I have. It happened in a relatively good neighborhood in LA, and the dead man was one of the most decorated
marines we had.
It happened a block and a half from my apartment. It was a very long time ago, but I never got over
the shock of seeing what looked like The Lord of the Flies coming to life.
Before
the Decider, police forces were relatively small in comparison to the size of the populations they were charged with "Protecting
and Serving." But after it became clear that the entire upper echelon of government had become nothing more than glorified
street bandits: the gloves came off all the way down the food chain.
So when the demonstrations against the wars began,
your departments began to behave as if US citizens were the real Enemies of the State.
Way back in
1992 the behavior patterns for you were in play in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
And you did oh such a job then of disposing of all those bodies-the Owners loved it, but that had to remain a secret because
of "national security."
(1) Then came Katrina and the mercenaries helped you out with your own campaign of terror
against the survivors of New
Orleans that had the temerity not to die. But from that point forward your ranks began to swell, as officers began
to catch the drift of what would lead to their next promotion in the newly criminal world of 'law-enforcement.'
(2) This
was followed by Blackwater that was armed with new and secret contracts to
retrain the sheriffs, the marshals, and the police of all stripes to convert them into the heavily armored combat troops that
would very soon begin to patrol the streets and byways of America. Since then you have become brazenly bold and unflinching
in your treatment of the people that you were supposed to protect-the same people that actually pay your inflated salaries.
Contrary to what you might believe you are not a law unto yourselves-you're supposed to be peace
officers.
(3) That's what can be tracked about the current situation, and that's what most of you see
as your current job: the brutalizing, the Tasering and or the killing of US citizens that fail in some small way to obey your
every command-no matter how unreasonable. It seems no one knows exactly how many you have killed, as your departments fail
to keep such records-but when one is too many - then a hundred or more amounts to a mutiny against the very people you are
sworn to serve. Here's a rough history of your recent activities, in part.
(4)
What you don't seem to realize is
that when you take off the Kevlar, and unstrap both your weapons, you need a shower, possibly a shave if you're male, and
you'll need to grab something to eat. If you live in the Burbs which most cops do, you probably have "friends" and maybe you
might want to go to a game or just get together with "friends." In brief you do what other people do unless you're a robot
living in a barrack somewhere dark and semi-distant. If you have a family they have their lives to live as well, grocery shopping,
school etc. just like other people-except that you are not like other people!
You have become a secret enforcer, the
muscle and bullets of the fascist state incarnate. And that makes you and yours into targets for those that you have wronged.
What used to protect you was the good will of the people you served, but with that out-of-the-way now,
because you've put yourself beyond the law and above the people that once cared whether you lived or died-your world has changed
almost as much as ours:
Only you still have no clue about the consequences that are coming! When you do what you
do to ordinary people your actions affect the lives of a great many people
beyond the targets of your brutality-and those people whether adults or children will not forget.
Meanwhile you have
forgotten that you are not Supermen or Superwomen, you're just flesh and blood like all the rest of us: and with every day
that passes the numbers of your enemies continue to increase by the hundreds, until that figure reaches into the thousands,
and you are beginning to close in on that magic number now.
When my old man was murdered I lived with rage for
a very long time-but it was a very different era then and reason won out-his killer had to live with perpetual uncertainty,
but he got to live. This is a very different world today. But the laws of consequence and responsibility are still in tact
in this jungle that passes for life-in-Occupied-America today.
Just thought you'd like to know that
while the public has not yet decided to act, that day will not remain at bay forever. How long will it be before you need
to look over your shoulder, or check you squad car before getting in, not once in awhile, but each and every time. How well
do you know your 'friends' and how's your life these days, maybe a little more tension, a lot less patience because at some
level you have to know we're watching.
This is so because you have become unnatural, and with each passing day you
grow more distant from the people that you brutalize so easily!
By the way this Open Letter is
also meant for those thugs that serve the god of TSA.
They might not get your perks but too many of them are all too
eager to attack the innocent instead of simply asking civil questions. Events like this are growing in their frequency, every
hour of every day.
(5) I came up the hard way and I carried a gun for a few years-so I'm not blind to what you're
trying to do. Early on I lived in Paint Hotels among the drifters and the night-moths, but even then there were too many
of your kind. I've had my share of pistol-whippings in the back of a patrol car, I survived the petty interrogations and the
insults then-but I fought back with lawyers and with real cops to make it right.
Today everything
is different and the Bad Guys wear the uniform and are praised for what they
do to us. You might want to think about it boys and girls, because no one leaves this life alive.
One of the first
things that basic training taught to every military draftee, back in the fifties, was that there is always someone bigger,
someone stronger, someone meaner than you might think you really are.
That was a major life-lesson, too bad you guys
missed out on that. Your
behavior towards the public is teaching them that "selling out is futile" and that anyone alone is always easy prey; maybe
that's why you roam in packs? Soon the public may begin to emulate your tactics, and then where will you be when you find
yourself outnumbered by an angry mob that no longer fears your uniform, but instead is energized because of what you do NOT
stand for!
You might want to think about these things, because they are not secret anymore: and
millions of people have begun to watch your every move-so why not begin to do the right thing, while you can. kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
I have read and signed the petition: "Protest a Stolen Election & Persecution of Rev. Pinkney".
Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds,
but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 1000 signatures - please sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/624471377
Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends and family to sign as well.
I know a few good cops, but for those cops that kill civilians, there may be a way to prosecure them. There is actually
"anti lynching legislation" that protects people from being killed by a mob.
Thus, a mob of cops, that beat and
subsequently kill a civilian, could be prosecuted under this law.
And although they are cops, in this case they
are not following the law, thus having on their uniforms and being on the job doesn't give a mob of them the right
to beat or kill someone.. Please read below and pass this to any other persons (legal minds or otherwise) that can use
this and follow through.
--
Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment meted out by a mob. Lynching, an enumerated
felony in all states in the United States, is defined by some codes of law as "Any act of violence inflicted
by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person," with a 'mob' being defined as "the
assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated
intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another."
Lynching in the second degree is defined as "Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and
from which death does not result."To sustain a conviction for lynching at least some evidence of premeditation must be
produced, however "The common intent to do violence" may be formed before or during the assemblage."
Here's to
getting rid of bad cops so that we can both clean up the police force, and protect civilians (primarily Blacks and darker
Hispanics, who are traditionally more likely to be brutalized by rogue cops)
!
Never forget
the price paid for where you stand today.
This was once our resume' ...
None of us has had to experience the pain of separation orlive
withthedisgrace
and humiliation that comes with not being free. When you cast your vote for who will run our country, never
forget your history and keep this bill of sale in mind. When we allow ourselves to forget our not so distant past, then
we are destined to repeat these actions in our future. Stand for those who came before us and those who could
not stand up for themselves. VOTE! I encourage you to share this with everyone you know.
Demonstration to stop police killing and brutality.
by E. Monday Oct 22nd, 2007 5:11 PM
If you or someone that you know have been a victim of police misconduct email me pastorsagainstinjustice@yahoo.com
I would first like for everyone to say a prayer for everyone who have lost a loved one because of police misconduct.
I know that there is a God who sits high and looks down low who can see the injustice caused by racist or cowardly police
officers and justice will be done because it is God's will to serve justice. This site is to expose the injustice and inform
the people!
In choosing to give God thanks, it motivates you to look for His purpose in the situation instead of trying to manipulate
your way out of the situation. You begin to desire His purpose. Giving thanks helps you to bring your will into submission
to do His will, it relieves anger, frustration and rebellion. Giving thanks changes your attitude. You Of Your Continuing
Dependence. Giving thanks reminds you of your continuing dependence upon Him.Giving thanks helps you to develop a stronger
trust in God. Seldom does He do things the way you think He will. Through trust you begin to see His purpose. You learn to
trust most when you are walking in the dark because walking in the light does not take any faith.
Giving thanks will energize you when you are weary and tired both emotionally and/or physically. Your inner man is renewed
and something happens on the outside.
Giving thanks releases a supernatural strength, a divine energy will be released within you."Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Giving thanks is essential in being able to rejoice, to be calmly happy, cheerful, hearted in mind and spirit Impacts Our
Christian Witness
Giving thanks will influence our Christian witness. When the bottom drops out, who does the world call? They will seek us
out because of the life style they have seen in us.Builds Relationship With God and Brings UnityProbably the most important,
Giving thanks builds relationship with our Heavenly Father. Causing us to desire to have the mind of Christ in all things.
I pray that God give the families the strength to carry on in Jesus name amen.
Here you will find stories of police misconduct and the stories of the people they left behind. I would like to say to Mesha, God
has heard your prayers keep up the struggle and you will win.
