This is Chandra Farley:
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Someone needs to send a dictionary to Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action Organization (also a pamphlet explaining how it is election fraud to solicit donations for your own personally profitable “non-profits” on your election website). But first, the dictionary.
Marisa Pyle, a top aide to Abrams in her campaigns and nonprofits, who also appears in pictures working with Pete Buttegeig, announced that the rioting crowd that threw firebombs, bombed a police car, and smashed windows in the hotel district of downtown Atlanta last Saturday were not actually committing acts of violence because only things, not people, got broken (and firebombed). Fox News Reports: ...
First, do no harm.
Unless, according to this nose-ringed Emory Professor of Medicine, you’re shooting a cop. ...
For twenty years, I lived a very few miles from what the international media is wrongfully calling “Cop City,” which, fantasies of tree-sitters with six-figure Hampshire College degrees notwithstanding, has long been a police training center. It is in one of the most crime-blighted parts of the city, where elderly women cower behind barred windows and kick-proofed, metal-screened, barred doors. Believe me, the actual residents want nothing more than more public safety. I once found a little girl thrown from a car after a failed gang initiation, terrified and weeping in a field across from my dangerous neighborhood near “Cop City.” The child, who had been beaten by female gang members no older than she, was maybe 13. She wouldn’t do what the gang wanted her to do, so they beat her viciously and threw her out of a car. I washed the blood off her face and took her home, to her grandmother’s house, which was literally across the street from the disputed training center.
Her grandmother’s brick home was tiny but immaculate. Bars covered all the windows and doors. But in a small, heroic paean to hope, marigolds were neatly planted down the sides of the driveway and sidewalk. Those yellow marigolds, spaced perfectly apart beside crumbling concrete, say everything you really need to know about the planned EMT/fireman/police training center. The grandmother embraced her grandchild and pulled her deep into the house. ...
Ok, I will get to 10, not 50. It’s just a bow to that Simon and Garfunkel song. And the election is tomorrow. But big life events have intervened recently. So I will get as far as I can with this list and call it a day.
I have to say I’m both confused by and angry at conservatives who won’t vote for our candidate. As snark and anger aren’t great motivating tools, I’ll try to avoid them, but what are you thinking? I think I understand some of it: you have been belittled and lied to by the Georgia GOP and the currently poisonous big-L Libertarian (cough, Leftitarian) Party, and Walker is nobody’s idea of an ideal Senator, but that’s no reason for not trying to win. Political operatives are nearly all professional liars. Just let their poisonous spittle roll off your backs. You’re better than them. Don’t let THEM win by staying home. ...
Residents in Jamaal T. Bailey’s State Senate district, which includes crime-ridden areas from the South Bronx up to Mount Vernon, aren’t happy with leftists’ new no bail laws and tiny sentences for even the most heinous offenders. Yet Bailey has co-sponsored State Senate Judiciary Chair Brad Hoylman’s radical empty-the prisons bill, S15A.
Take, for one example, Tyrell Taylor. In 2012, Taylor was charged with 45 counts of rape, sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment. He had, of course, previously been charged and cut loose on other sex crime charges. But in 2012 he was escalating to torturing and choking his victims. The community expressed outrage. But Tyler was then, thanks to some of New York State’s other criminal leniency laws, limited in the amount of time he would serve in prison. ...
N.Y. State Senator Brad Hoylman, (518-455-2451 — Albany Office; hoylman@newyorksenate.gov; 212-633-8052) is sponsoring a bill that will offer early parole for ANY offender who has served at least 15 years for his crimes and has reached the age of 55 in New York State Prisons. Brad is a member of the radical Working Families Party, though I doubt his elite New York City constituents actually walk the anti-capitalist walk promoted by WFP. Nor will be affected by Hoylman’s radical empty-the-prisons bill, S15A.
Radically Pro-Criminal New York State Senator Brad Hoylman ...
Nevin Gussack
Nevin Gussack and I will be on Herschell Miller’s idiosyncratic podcast Patriotic Populist tomorrow. Nevin is the author of the controversial book, Turning the Page: My Evolution from Conservatism to Radical Civic Nationalism, in which he bravely challenges Republicans and conservatives to reexamine some of our heroes and fiscal ideology to move towards a more united, more electable, and stronger America. ...
Just when you thought academia couldn’t slosh any deeper in the mud…
SUNY Brockport President Heidi Macpherson is welcoming recently paroled, multiple cop assassin and bomber Anthony Bottom to the campus. ...
Of course this was in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. They titled it: A City’s Haunting Rejection of a Child. They’re literally jealous of big cities like NYC and Chicago and Los Angeles and Cincinnati (does the L.A. Times even still exist?) for one-upping them on rising crime numbers — and — celebrating government enforced criminality. So they resort to the lamest and most dishonest screed the’ve published in a while about our Haunting Rejection of a Child. Except the child is a 15ish (their term) violent carjacker who put his victim in the hospital as he beat her and stole her car.
She is the most selfless of humans: a nurse. ...
Take a good look at these two scum. They can’t claim “neglect” or “oppression” when they tried to murder completely innocent police officers by firebombing one cop van and getting caught with a stockpile of bombs to kill other cops. They’re well-paid lawyers.
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman. Both over 30, so that’s not an excuse ...
Troy Davis. Gone, Should Be Forgotten.
Ever notice how these pro-inmate cottage industries crying redemption or rehabilitation spring up only to defend the worst of the worst? Such as Troy Davis, who gunned down Savannah Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in cold blood. I’ve never seen these criminal groupies waste time on people who could really be rehabilitated. Too boring. You never get Innocence Project and Amnesty International dampening their Hermès or organizing undergraduates at Yale to spring some mere car thief who managed to keep his head down, get a GED in prison, actually learn something from incarceration, and really deserves a fresh start. ...
So says Richard Molloy, in an editorial published in both the Poughkeepsie Journal and reprinted in U.S.A. Today. The Poughkeepsie Journal is my hometown paper. I was too young to understand the organized and destructive forces at work in Nyack, New York that day in 1981, when Officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown, along with Brink’s Guard Peter Paige, were gunned down by Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army (BLA) killers. Also seriously injured were Brink’s Guard Joseph Trombino (who died later saving people from the World Trade Center on 9/11) and Police Detective Artie Keenan. Brink’s Driver James Kelly was wounded, though less seriously.
This was not the first Brink’s heist these people committed, nor would it be their last murders of innocent guards and police. Yet for 20 years, Presidents of the United States have inexplicably pardoning these killers (uh, only the white ones, cough) on or near the last day of their terms in presidential office. Why do they do this? ...
Why would Cuomo spend his last days in office releasing and commuting the sentences of killers, especially cop killer David Gilbert? All roads lead to the Obamas.
All roads lead to the Obamas because of the Obamas’ intimate relationship with cop killers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and their deeply intimate relationship with David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin. After years of planting bombs with Gilbert and Boudin, Ayers and Dohrn adopted Chesa Boudin, son of David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, when these two wanna-be Black Liberation Army murderers went to prison after teaming up with Bernardine Dohrn to stage the robberies and murders of several Brinks drivers, police, security, and other living humans. (see: Marilyn Buck, Cop Killer: Five Less Than Six Degrees of Separation From Barack Obama). Dohrn, curiously, was never charged despite her known involvement in the crimes. She was jailed merely for refusing to testify, but curiously, was released a few months later. For more information detailing Dohrn’s involvement in the Brink’s Murders, see my report: Michelle, Barack, Bernardine, and Bill: the real story of the Obamas and the terrorist couple. In it, I quote award-winning journalist John Castellucci, who documents many of Dohrn’s forgotten criminal activities in his excellent 1986 book, The Big Dance: The Untold Story of Weatherman Kathy Boudin and the Terrorist Family that Committed the Brink’s Robbery Murders. ...
I was very sad to hear the news about Paul Howard being involved in a financial scandal. I was shocked. I can’t say I knew him, but I knew his door was always open to crime victims for the twenty years I worked in victim advocacy and lobbying in Atlanta.
Nobody in politics has a perfect record, but more than a few times, I heard from victims of horrific crimes that Howard himself comforted them and sustained them through very difficult circumstances. ...
“He was a model officer. If you had the ability to clone police officers, you would’ve wanted your officer to be Joe Burson.”
That’s what Holly Springs Police Chief Tommy Keheley said of Burson, 25, who was murdered by Ansy Dolce, 29, during a traffic stop which ended with Dolce dragging the young officer to his death late Wednesday, using his car as a murder weapon. ...
This was Bill Smith. He was a former Deputy Chief of Operations for the DeKalb County, Georgia Fire Department and went on to become an Alabama Sheriff’s Deputy. Smith died last Sunday while successfully rescuing three drowning swimmers off Fort Morgan Peninsula in Alabama. He was only 57.
Deputy Bill Smith. He died doing what he did in life: save lives. ...
Elinor Burkett
Elinor Burkett is one of the oddest, rarest, yet most overlooked species in the journalism zoo. She is practically a holotype. Burkett started out as a history professor, a good one too, I imagine, before switching to journalism and teaming up with the now-New York Times op-ed contributor Frank Bruni. Together, they wrote a very quirky book about consumers’ rights called Consumer Terrorism and a very serious book about the Catholic Church scandal. But as Bruni swung left, Burkett swung — well, it’s hard to describe. She swung to an extreme commitment to open-mindedness which led her past ideology and conventional thinking to new insights into subjects such as the politicization of AIDS, the post-Columbine hysteria over American teens, a (relatively fair) revaluation of conservative women in politics, a biography of Golda Meir, and an utterly delightful book about her decision to travel, as an American, Jewish, woman, to the most dangerous places in the world for Americans, Jews, and women. In So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in all the Wrong Places, Burkett visits Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, China, and Vietnam in the wake of 9/11. She doesn’t do this, or much of anything else, to make friends, which is what makes her work so honest and refreshing. ...
To say the least, I’m not a tech person. My husband had to coax me to use my first *ordinary* computer because, in 1988, my dear IBM dad gave me a Kremlin-suitcase-sized “portable” that displayed three blurry blue lines of text. The device eventually overheated, blew its plug, melted the wall socket, and almost took down my house.
Some time after that and a much-needed rewiring (the computer, I like to think, was actually trying to save me), my husband literally had to design a screen that looked like a typewritten page just to pull the Penguin edition George Eliot from my whitened fists and teach me about the existence of the inter-web. I’m not humble bragging: I was honestly terrified of those internet machines, for good reasons as it turns out, reasons physical and professional and socially. ...
How much is Steve Bannon actually betraying the cause of working Americans while saying the opposite?
Perhaps as much as it benefits his bank account. Freedomworks, a Koch entity, openly supports open borders. What is he doing with them? Is he taking money from the Kochs now? ...
Robert Aaron Long, Killer ...
Last night, 21-year old Robert Aaron Long was captured after murdering eight people in so-called “massage parlors” in Metro Atlanta. Long is white. Six of his victims have been identified as Asian women. It is likely the six murdered women were Korean. In Atlanta, Korean mobs run the massage parlors; strip clubs are either all-black or predominantly white (Chocolate City, The Gold Club); so-called “lingerie modeling” enterprises are a glory of employment desegregation, as it were, and flat-up prostitution involves Hispanic or black or white women and girls — lots of girls — depending on where you are in the city.
The other two human beings Long murdered in the massage parlors were white — one male and one female. But who cares about them? Believe me, all around Atlanta, legislators and activists and journalists are waking up this morning desperately wishing he hadn’t killed those two white people — not because the murder of two humans is terrible, but because the existence of two murdered white bodies represent an inconvenient speed-bump in their excited jostling to get to the nearest microphone to grandstand the loudest about anti-Asian hate crime. ...
As I’ve often said, I’m a Luddite.
Look it up. It’s good for you. Not that I believe literally in smashing printing presses: I just don’t trust technology. See, for example, how technological advancements in pneumatic tube delivery of consumer goods drives the proto-Marxist world revolution in Edward Bellamy’s seminal 1888 worldwide best-selling novel, Looking Backward. ...
Isn’t she cute?
Amy Coney Bryant: Butter Wouldn’t Melt ...
You can watch it here, at America’s Survival: One-Party Rule: Republicans Now Taking Orders From Democrats
Analyst Tina Trent joins Cliff Kincaid to discuss the phenomenon known as “Kevin McCarthyism,” a name given to the Republican movement that keeps anti-Trumper Liz Cheney as the number three in the House GOP leadership while ostracizing conservative wife, mother, and small businesswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is the same official who removed strong conservative Steve King from the Congress in response to Democratic Party demands. ...
I’m positive I’ve “met” Marjorie Taylor Greene a couple of times. I put that in quotes because I don’t think I ever spoke to her, but our paths have crossed. I’m terrible with names, and I meet a lot of people, but I do recognize her.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Truther Loon ...
Today, a few days before Christmas, Maureen Faulkner has received more terrible news. On Dec. 9, 1981, she received the worst news of all: her husband of two years, Danny, has been gunned-down, assassination style, begging for his life at the hands of then-street-thug/future NPR commentator Mumia Abu Jamal. The fine and brilliant Matthew Vadum has the story here. Note it has been removed from search functions: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Refuses to Remove DA in Cop-Killer’s Case.
Here’s a handy list of all the times I’ve written about Mumia: it makes me sick to recount them. I can’t imagine what it takes to live them. Now a Soros-funded District Attorney has taken up the case for freeing Abu Jamal from within the justice system that was supposed to represent Danny Faulkner, not drag his body from the grave and lynch his bones, again, from the nearest flagpole. This what you voted for, Democrats. None of you are welcome near my house again. The lines are drawn. ...
On Saturday, various activist groups descended on the Georgia Capitol to assert that Trump won, that Governor Kemp be deposed, and to shrilly instruct Georgia Republicans and conservatives to stay home and refuse to vote in the upcoming Senate runoffs because the Deep State is plottin’ to use the election to invade their privacy in some inexplicable way, so we should teach the Georgia GOP a firm lesson by tying up our two Senate seats in a pink bow and handing them to Stacey Abrams.
Alex Jones, Pre-Bathroom Floor ...