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• Posted By:
  spiker at 05/12/2008 12:58:11 PM
  Comment:
  Sean Bell was at a seedy strip club, someone in his party threatened someone by saying something like, "Go get my gun," the car these guys were in crashed into an unmarked police vehicle. Those are some facts I've gathered.
  
  The truly righteous moment passed with Amadou Diallo in 1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo. Why weren't these protest done back then? They may have averted Sean Bell's death. A death whose facts are not nearly as eggregious as Diallo's. As a matter of fact Bell seems to be a lot less clear.
• Posted By:
  Freedom_Jury at 05/12/2008 3:35:19 AM
  Comment:
  Sharpton is correct in this case, but not for the reasons he believes...
  
  "Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footsteps of our flying brother" -Frederick Douglass (from 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave')
  
  How is it that there are still Jim Crow laws in all of our major cities, and that the citizens of the USA are not educated enough to oppose them, in the year 2008? A full 143 years after the fall of slavery, the laws treat black men and women horribly unequally... WHY?
  
  Well, my brothers and sisters, I have done my research, and I have found the answer to this question.
  
  SIMPLY: The culture of prohibition is the factor that allows the unequal enforcement of the law. Any law that violates inalienable property rights allows a minority to be singled out and targeted by law enforcement. The 4th amendment, the 2nd Amendment, the entire Bill of Rights cannot exist as the Supreme Law of the land, so long as there is prohibition of private property. The abolitionists of our time, the libertarians, are in agreement with me. Frederick Douglas would certainly have been a Libertarian Party member, if he had lived in our time: he fought for equality under the law, and justice for all.
  
  Equality under the law is the last thing that modern liberals or conservatives want. The liberals want to control your pocket book, and the conservatives want to control your thinking and social behavior.
  
  Douglass noted that the religious slaveowners were the most vicious, and he was right. The mask of social respectability is used to hide tyranny from the gullible and conformist. And the prohibition laws are championed loudly by the religious blacks. (Of course, the black panthers once saw the contradiction, and fought valiantly for their rights. The answer of the Chicago police was to literally murder thier leadership. One more reason to educate EVERYONE.)
  
  Make no mistake: the preachers and politicians who want the inner cities to be unarmed want one thing: they want black men to be unable to properly wield force. What does this say, when the people being disarmed have committed no crime? It is racism, pure and simple, based on geographical demographics. (Sure, the occasional white man is sent to jail for gun ownership in the city, but this is simply a ruse used to propagate a system that is predominantly racist. I know of three times when whites in Chicago went unpunished for gun possession that would have carried a 14 year prison sentence had they been "uppity" black men.) The racism is institutionalized to the extent that those who claim to be fighting racism propagate it, in their simpleminded acceptance of the status quo.
• Posted By:
  Freedom_Jury at 05/12/2008 3:34:06 AM
  Comment:
  
  Where is the friend of the black 19 year old who owns a gun and is sent to jail for felony gun possession? Where is Sharpton then?
  
  Remember this: the very first Jim Crow laws in the USA were the laws that disarmed southern blacks after the civil war. Those laws required the permission of white sherriffs for any citizen to own or carry a pistol or firearm. Although those laws directly contradicted the 2nd amendment, they were tolerated by the white and black majority that failed to understand their implications. The laws allows every southern sherrif to literally condemn disarmed black families to lynchings.
  
  And now, in the inner city, those same laws keep the upstanding black men from taking back their neighborhoods from lawlessness and crime. And that's where the new prohibition comes in: Ever since the beginning of prohibition of drugs (other than alcohol, since alcohol was the Christian white man's drug, and that somehow put it in a separate artificial category), the prohibition was directed at negroes and non-conforming whites.
  
  The prohibition of drugs has turned a minor social ill into a money-making opportunity for street gangs and criminals who naturally have contempt for the law. The violent and uneducated naturally hold contempt for the law. So prohibition both punishes them, and provides a financial incentive for those criminals to exist outside the law.
  
  In most urban areas, there are gun bans in the cities, and the drug laws are PRIMARILY enforced in the inner cities.
  
  This is the last vestige of institutionalized racism in America.
  
  In all other areas, a black individual is every bit the equal of the white man.
  
  But leave chance to a darkened street, and the police man quickly becomes the overseer. All to the ignorant delight of the black churches and "neighborhood watch communities".
  
  And what is the answer to the prohibitionist system, from those who claim to fight racism? SILENCE. Preservation of the politically-liberal status quo at all costs. Obama has offered plans for a new DEA office in New Orleans, in order to better aid the gestapo in rounding up his "fellow" negroes. He is also a champion of the "Jim Crow" gun laws that knock down the doors of responsible black men, and throw them into slavery cells for exercising their 2nd amendment RIGHTS, in order to preserve the power of the Democratic Party.