Look at Leonard Levitt’s post, "No Due Process for Some,” (cited below) for a more historically authoritative and perhaps a slightly less edgy version of my post below (See "Obama and Holder Justice Department faces a high bar charging Ferguson Police Officer Wilson ... ask Congressman Michael Grimm" by Galewyn Massey, 8/23/14, below on this blog)
Today’s Leonard Levitt post on his web page, “NYPD Confidential,” opens like this: “All the racial rhetoric over Eric Garner and Michael Brown ignores the presumption of innocence of the two cops involved in their deaths. *** Not that you might expect to hear much about that from the Rev. Al Sharpton — but what about our so-called political leaders? *** Attorney General Eric Holder flew out to Ferguson, Missouri, last week, ostensibly to monitor the investigation into the shooting of Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old fatally shot by white police officer Darren Wilson. While Sharpton and others have called for Wilson’s head on a platter, Holder remains quiet about the possibility that the officer might have been justified in the shooting.” For the rest of what Mr. Levitt had to say about these things ... (See “No Due Process for Some” by Leonard Levitt, 8/25/14, NYPD Confidential [http://nypdconfidential.com/]).
Leonard Levitt is an author (“N.Y.P.D. Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country’s Greatest Police Force” [Thomas Dunne Books]), and former Newsday columnist and reporter, who has long been considered a stern critic of the NYPD and its brass.
Mr. Massey, Isn't there a second part to that idiom "Great minds think alike"? What was it now? I've forgotten.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: DEMONSTRATIONS SUPPORTING OFFICER DARREN WILSON SPRINGING UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY
ReplyDeletePROFESSIONAL RACE-GRIEVERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN THE MEDIA MIGHT HAVE MISPLAYED THEIR HANDS IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI CASE
RALLY LEADER SAYS: POLICE, VETERANS AND U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENTS ARE UNDER SIEGE IN AMERICA
William Gheen of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC said the mainstream media are promoting a “false narrative” regarding the teen killed while “surrendering” to police in Ferguson, Missouri, the imprisonment of U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi in Mexico and the killing of border agents Javier Vega Jr. and Brian Terry. He also charged that there has been “widespread defamation and abuse” against these men by a biased media and politicians, including President Obama. (See “FERGUSON BACKLASH: RALLIES COAST-TO-COAST FOR OFFICER” by Leo Hohmann, 8/25/14, World Net Daily/ WND Exclusive
[http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/ferguson-backlash-rallies-coast-to-coast-for-officer/]).
The first round of fund raisers and rallies have raised more money for the defense of Police Officer Wilson alone, than was raised for the family of his alleged victim in the Ferguson Missouri case.
Now, Americans across the country plan to take to the streets in nearly 100 U.S. cities this weekend in support of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, as well as the U.S. Marine being held in Mexico since March 31 and the families of two slain Border Patrol agents, Vega and Terry.
Oh Dear Lord, ALIPAC??? Mr. Massey that is not a group you want to quote or glean your information from. You must be more dicering in whom you cite. ALIPAC is an anti-immigrant hate group and anathema to everything out Faith espouses. Just the very name of the group "legal immigration" suggests that there is a corollary "illegal immigration". That is a misnomer. No human being can be illegal, undocumented yes, but not illegal. Was Annie Moore from Cork illegal when she arrived at Ellis Island on a steam ship? Without question you would say no. Please read the piece in the Staten Island Advancs in which the paper tells its readers that the Eric Garner march was a moment of pride for Staten Island. Also, Bishop DiMarzio writes in this week's Tablet that the protest march was a credit to its organizers. That is a huge leep for him as we know he is not crazy about the more radical community organizers. But please stay away from ALIPAC. They are not nice folks at alland you do not want to be influenced by them.
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: THE "YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS" EDITION
ReplyDeleteFirst, I don't believe that there was any post-Sharpton-march commentary by anybody associated with this blog. So I don't see how the discussion of various reports about that march relates to the ALIPAC demonstrations in any way.
Second, my mother was an immigrant that did come into this country "legally" in 1947 -- but it required the intervention of a U.S. Congressman to get it done. Without the congressman's intervention, she would have not been an immigrant.
"Illegals" are infesting this country, and like any infestation they are causing all kinds of collateral damage.
The current ongoing invasion of unaccompanied infants should be treated like any other invasion -- it is a act of war; and it requires a strong military response to eject the invaders back across the border into Mexico. Let Mexico deal with the humanitarian crisis on their territory; after all, they facilitated the crisis, and they are a "good Catholic country," at least some of the time. Let's see how they handle this.
I am not uncomfortable about the motivations behind the ALIPAC demonstrations scheduled for this weekend. If that should change, you would be the first to know about it.
ReplyDeleteDear Editor,
I am more than 8 years old.
Some of my friends say that the Brooklyn Republican Party has no compassion, thirst for justice, or love for those who are poor and indigent.
My friend Sister Aloysious says that they are even worse then the Know Nothing Movement of the NYC Republican Party of years gone by.
My Friend Sister James says that this is true because she even saw young Liam McCabe organizing the fear-mongering campaign of our former Republican District Attorney.
Father Brendan Flynn says, "If you see it on Mr. Massey's blog, it's so."
Please tell me the truth, are the nuns correct? In school they always say they are.
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 W. 95 Street
Except for these two items, the rest of your note sounds about right:
ReplyDeletea) Liam McCabe is not a Republican he is one of the Long-Kassar so-called Conservatives;
b) Except for some local exceptions, the Know Nothing Movement was a rump group inside the Whigs -- the anti-slavery Radical Republicans spun off from that schism. (Think about that; and why the Irish were dedicated Democrats for a century following the Civil War [virtually the whole Jim Crow Era in the "Solid South"])
"Sister," "Sister," "Father" !
Are you Amish or Menonite ? I love your jams and preserves.