Washington Post: Say, Could Black People Qualify As Refugees?

By William Teach August 16, 2015 – 8:37 am

This is something that Raha Jorjani wonders in the opinion pages of the Washington Post. It should be noted that Jorjani is an “immigration lawyer”, who quite often represents those who came to this country illegally.

Could black people in the U.S. qualify as refugees?

Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country had choked a man to death over a petty crime. Suppose he said police fatally shot another man in the back as he ran away. That they arrested a woman during a traffic stop and placed her in jail, where she died three days later. That a 12-year-old boy in his country was shot and killed by the police as he played in the park.

Suppose he told me that all of those victims were from the same ethnic community — a community whose members fear being harmed, tortured or killed by police or prison guards. And that this is true in cities and towns across his nation. At that point, as an immigration lawyer, I’d tell him he had a strong claim for asylum protection under U.S. law.

What if, next, he told me he was from America? Black people in the United States face such racial violence that they could qualify as refugees.

That’s an interesting thought: Black people needing asylum from the deplorable conditions that mostly occur in Democratic Party run cities around the country. Why are Democrats treating Black people with such disregard and violence?

According to U.S. asylum law, that persecution must be on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion. In many cases, courts have said that violence by police officers, unjust imprisonment, rape, assault, beatings and confinement constitute persecution. Even nonphysical forms of harm, such as the deliberate imposition of severe economic disadvantage, psychological harm, or the deprivation of food, housing, employment or other essentials, help make the case. In one instance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that an individual who had been arrested, held for three days and then falsely accused of a crime had been persecuted. In another case, it ruled that persecution included ethnic discrimination so severe that the petitioner was unable to find a job in his chosen field.

Interesting. Democratic Party policies, going all the way back to the end of the Civil War, have been about keeping Black in economic disadvantage and psychological harm. Since the Civil Rights era, Democrats have replaced Jim Crow, segregation, the use of the KKK, etc, with “government assistance”, whereby Blacks are kept in poverty and urban ghettos, with little in the way of economic activity, high drug and violence rates, poor housing conditions, and little chance to get ahead and escape.

African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, but they accounted for 31 percent of people killed by police in 2012. According to a ProPublica analysis, black teenagers were 21 times more likely than white teens to be shot and killed by the police between 2010 and 2012. In the United States, there are 1.6 million black men in prison, on probation or on parole, double the number who were enslaved in 1850.

Let’s also consider that Blacks, sadly, are much more likely to engage in crime by population proportion, especially in Democratic Party run cities. We all know of the huge increase in murders and shootings in Democratic Party run Baltimore this year, of which the majority shot and killed are Black (the three homicide victims from Thursday where Black men between the ages of 17-19). What of the huge increase in robberies and other crimes in 65% Black Baltimore? What with the deplorable conditions in Democratic Party run urban areas, what else are they to do but turn to crime?

This country is dangerous for black people. Black parents live with an ever-present fear that their children will become victims of state violence and terror on the basis of race.

The Democratic Party run urban areas and policies are dangerous for Black people. Never forget that.

Had they remained alive, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, John Crawford, Rekia Boyd, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Walter Scott, Ezell Ford, Mya Hall, Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey, Yvette Smith, Samuel Dubose and so many others would be able to demonstrate that they had more than a well-founded fear of persecution at the hands of their government or individuals whom their government was unable or unwilling to control.

Interesting

  • Trayvon was killed by a private citizen.
  • Eric Garner was a habitual criminal offender who was resisting arrest (still no excuse for his death, though. None).
  • Malissa Williams was a drug addict, who had a long history of encounters with the police. Timothy Russell had a long criminal history of trespassing, domestic violence, petty theft, and robbery. They led police on a 22 minute chase in Democratic Party Cleveland before being shot to death.
  • There are serious questions about John Crawford’s death, in Democratic Party run Dayton, Ohio.
  • Rekia Boyd was killed by an off-duty officer (who should have been charged with murder) in Democratic Party run Chicago.
  • Michael Brown: stole cigars, was dumb enough to be walking in the middle of the street, assaulted a police officer in his car, tried to take his gun, ran away when it went off, then charged the officer, and was shot and killed. The DOJ found that the officer did nothing wrong.
  • Akai Gurley was hanging in one of the worst crime projects in Democratic Party run NYC. The shooting may have been accidental.
  • Ezell Ford was a long term criminal, with felony charges. There are conflicting accounts of his shooting in Democratic Party run Los Angeles.
  • Mya Hall was man pretending to be a woman, killed when he rammed his stolen SUV through an NSA security checkpoint. He had a long history of robbery and prostitution. This was a totally justifiable shooting.

You get the idea. Not all of the shootings were mentioned where justifiable, to be clear. But, most occurred in Democratic Party run areas. Blacks do need asylum from Democratic Party run cities and Democratic Party policies.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 15, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle causing drought and floods, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on a wind turbine chopping off the beak of a white stork.

PS: make sure to recycle plastic bottles. I may make fun if this in terms of “climate change”, but they are a real environmental problem.

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Pope Creates “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” Because Of “Climate Change”

By William Teach August 15, 2015 – 10:44 am

This is like the Catholic Church getting in bed with a cult like Heaven’s Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, or Scientology.

(Vatican News Network) Pope Francis has decided to set up a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which will be celebrated on September 1st annually.

He made the announcement in a letter to the heads of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

Sharing with my beloved brother the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew his concerns for the future of creation (cfr Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9) and taking up the suggestion by his representative, the Metropolitan Ioannis of Pergamum who took part in the presentation of the Encyclical Laudato Si on the care of our common home, I wish to inform you that I have decided to set up also in the Catholic Church, the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which, beginning this year, will be celebrated on the 1st of September, as the Orthodox Church has done for some time now.

As Christians we wish to offer our contribution towards overcoming the ecological crisis which humanity is living through. Therefore, first of all we must draw from our rich spiritual heritage the reasons which feed our passion for the care of creation, always remembering that for believers in Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became man for us, “the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us.” (ibid., 216). The ecological crisis therefore calls us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.” (ibid., 217). Thus, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”(ibid).

Good news, Catholics, you’ve now joined the Cult Of Climastrology!

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Hillary Finds Deleting Emails Funny, Resurrects Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

By William Teach August 15, 2015 – 7:39 am

Here’s the person who wants to be president, who is the leading candidate for the Democratic Party. A shameless hack, who’s time in the Senate was marked as a big nothing, and saw her tenure as Secretary of State as a dismal failure. A woman who committed countless crimes, especially in terms of her homebrew email server.

(AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a fierce defense of her handling of the 2012 Benghazi attacks and her use of a private email server as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, dismissing the controversies as “partisan games” in a speech before influential Iowa Democrats on Friday.

“They’ll try to tell you it’s about Benghazi, but it’s not,” Clinton said, pointing to Republican-led congressional inquiries that she said had “debunked all the conspiracy theories.”

“It’s not about emails or servers either. It’s about politics,” she said.

If Hillary was a Republican, the AP would be spending itself into the red to investigate. And, yes, politics does play a part. How is it even remotely possible to trust Hillary? Yet, Democrats will give her that trust without question, much in the same way Trump supporters are ignoring his far left pedigree.

“I won’t get down in the mud with them. I won’t play politics with national security,” Clinton said at the annual Wing Ding, a Democratic fundraiser in northern Iowa that attracted three other presidential candidates.

No, she’ll just use an improper and unsecured email server, leaving our national security vulnerable. Not too mention all her other problems. When that 3am call comes, the Chinese and Russian hackers will have already seen it.

Turning to her email controversies, Clinton said she would “do my part to provide transparency to Americans — that’s why I’m insisting 55,000 pages of my emails be published as soon as possible” and turned over the server.

She’s about a year too late on that.

Clinton also offered a light take on the email probe when she talked about launching a Snapchat social media account. “I love it,” she said. “Those messages disappear all by themselves.”

Nothing’s funnier than violations of the Espionage Act

Not only did Ms. Clinton deliberately demonstrate disdain for the Federal Records Act and nullify the protections of the Freedom of Information Act, she violated the Espionage Act by having information relating to the national defense on her server at all. And her deliberate disregard for national security made the job of all hackers that much easier.

If she was a reporter, a low level government employee, heck, you or me, she’d already be under indictment. The FBI would have seized the server and thumb-drives. Heck, the use of that homebrew server would have stopped quickly, when the bosses and others realized that we were not using the proper email. If a company acted in this manner, they’d be looking at massive civil and criminal penalties.

Hillary? She just laughs and makes jokes.

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Obama Has A Sad Over Heavy Crime Rates In Mostly Democratic Party Run Cities

By William Teach August 15, 2015 – 7:16 am

He does, he really does, especially as he takes a super expensive vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, and the MSM squees over his Spotify list

(The Hill) President Obama on Saturday acknowledged work remains on improving relations between law enforcement and the minority communities they serve.

Obama said Americans must continue tackling class, race and poverty following multiple fatal encounters between police and minorities during 2015 so far.

“Over the past year, we’ve come to see, more clearly than ever, the frustration in many communities of color and the feeling that our laws can be applied unevenly,” he said during his weekly address.

Interestingly, race relations have nose dived during Obama’s time in office.

“But let’s be clear: the issues raised over the past year aren’t new, and they won’t be solved by policing alone,” the president added. “We simply can’t ask our police to contain and control issues that the rest of us aren’t willing to address – as a society.”

What’s even more interesting is how most of these problems seem to occur in cities run mostly/solely by elected officials who ran as Democrats. Baltimore, which has seen much strife? Democrats. There were three killed, and two injured in overnight Thursday shootings. Two were shot Friday, including a city firefighter. There have been over two hundred murders in Democrat Baltimore so far, on pace to be a record year. Obama’s little speech started thusly

Hi everybody. It’s now been a year since the tragic death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. His death—along with the events in Cleveland, Staten Island, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and other communities—sparked protests and soul searching all across our country. Over the past year, we’ve come to see, more clearly than ever, the frustration in many communities of color and the feeling that our laws can be applied unevenly.

No mention of Michael Brown stealing, assaulting a police officer, attempting to take his gun, then charging the officer, leading to his own death. No mention of the riots, the looting, the arson, the violence. Is this what he considers “soul searching” in the Black community? Instead of cracking down, he coddles, almost giving permission, much like Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did, when she yammered about “giving those who wished to destroy space”.

That starts with reforming a criminal justice system that too often is a pipeline from inadequate schools to overcrowded jails, wreaking havoc on communities and families all across the country. So we need Congress to reform our federal sentencing laws for non-violent drug offenders. We need to keep working to help more prisoners take steps to turn their lives around so they can contribute to their communities after they’ve served their time.

And what of those who are living in poverty in urban ghettos, with absent fathers, mothers who have had children by multiple men, full dependency on the government, squalid living conditions, and lets not forget the low job opportunities for Blacks. Roughly 25% of young Black men are jobless. This is while Obama attempts to legalize all the illegal aliens, making it even tougher for Blacks who want to escape these urban Democratic plantations through work.

More broadly, we need to truly invest in our children and our communities so that more young people see a better path for their lives. That means investing in early childhood education, job training, pathways to college. It means dealing honestly with issues of race, poverty, and class that leave too many communities feeling isolated and segregated from greater opportunity. It means expanding that opportunity to every American willing to work for it, no matter what zip code they were born into.

Again, who runs these cities? Democrats have been in charge of Detroit since the late 1960’s. The city was once referred to as The Paris Of The West. Since the 1970’s, it has been called the Mogadishu of the West. Chicago has terrible violence and murders. Newark, Camden, Birmingham, Baltimore, you name them, Democratic cities are bad for Blacks. Democrat policies are bad for Blacks. The party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, as well as the KKK. A goodly chunk were against the Civil Rights Act(s), and simply moved from outright racism to putting blacks into urban ghettos.

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Hillary Clinton Just Wanted To Send Emails Like You And Me

By William Teach August 14, 2015 – 7:51 pm

The always insane Think Progress provides a hilarious excuse for Hillary’s email server issues

Hillary Clinton Just Wanted To Send Emails From Her Phone Like A Normal Person

In what’s likely to be one of the major controversies of her campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s desire to use her phone for both work and personal communications like the rest of the world has sparked a federal investigation and controversy that may likely set the tone for her campaign — and serve as a warning to the prevailing nominee.

Blah blah blah. There’s always some excuse. In case it was missed, she was Secretary of State, a position she accepted, and certain rules apply. She could have cheated and put another email account, a personal one, on her State Sept phone, and used an official SD email address for Government Business.

Instead, she chose to use a half baked home brew server, and we all know why. And it has nothing to do with the Think Progress headline.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 14, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a desert world created by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post wondering if the EPA contaminated the rivers on purpose.

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Obama To Take Long Fossil Fueled Trip To Alaska To Whine About Fossil Fuels

By William Teach August 14, 2015 – 10:09 am

The White House has even released video!

(The Hill) President Obama plans to travel to Alaska at the end of the month to highlight the impacts of climate change on America’s last frontier.

In a video Thursday, Obama said Alaska is in a unique position when it comes to climate change and he will meet with local and international leaders to discuss what is happening and how to stop it.

“In Alaska, glaciers are melting,” he said.
“The hunting and fishing upon which generations have depended for their way of life and for their jobs are being threatened. Storm surges once held at bay now endanger entire villages. As Alaskan permafrost melts, some homes are even sinking into the ground. The state’s God-given natural treasures are all at risk.”

While the focus later this month will be on Alaska, Obama wants all Americans to be watching.

“What’s happening in Alaska isn’t just a preview of what will happen to the rest of us if we don’t take action,” he said. “It’s our wake-up call. The alarm bells are ringing. And as long as I’m president, America will lead the world to meet this threat before it’s too late.”

The carbon footprint for a round trip flight, first class, from Dulles to Ted Stephens airport (Alaska) is 6.33 metric tons, a third of the average carbon footprint for U.S. citizens. Certainly, Obama’s footprint will be at least double that, probably much more, what with 2 jumbo jets, along with several fighter jets for cover. Plus, his giant convoy of fossil fueled vehicles.

Senator Lisa “Squishy Republican” Murkowski and Alaskans are suspicious

“The president of the United States doesn’t go to anybody’s state and stay three days and not do something,” Murkowski said last week at an event hosted by Bloomberg Business.

She said Alaskans are speculating that Obama will announce steps to further restrict oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, establish a marine sanctuary or other actions.

Of course, Obama, and Warmists in general, aren’t known for recognizing their own hypocrisy.

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Good News: Jimmy Carter’s Defense Secretary Chimes In On The Iran Deal, Says It’s Great!

By William Teach August 14, 2015 – 7:19 am

Who is Harold Brown?

Harold Brown was secretary of defense during the Carter administration and previously led the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and development of the Polaris missile warhead. He also served as U.S. director of Defense Research and Engineering and as secretary of the Air Force.

He’s certainly a smart guy, no doubt about it. Smart enough to recognize that Iran will cheat. But, he doesn’t care

Why accepting the Iran nuclear deal is a no-brainer

My experience as defense secretary during the Iran hostage crisis more than three decades ago tells me that Iran will probably try to circumvent thenuclear deal. My participation in nuclear weapons negotiations with the Soviet Union from 1958 through SALT II in the 1970s — during very hot points in the Cold War — reinforces my caution. Yet the United States can only accept or reject the deal, so let me discuss bottom-line pros and cons.

So, he just told us Iran will cheat. That right there should be a major con which should scuttle the deal, because the “snap-backs” for sanctions will never ever happen.

Iran’s nuclear program, its advance suspended during the negotiations, is but two years from a nuclear weapon. That’s an urgent problem demanding immediate attention. Iranian possession of nuclear arms would give other regional powers an irresistible urge to obtain them. The Middle East and Persian Gulf conflicts would escalate. That consideration surely motivated the unicorn-level rarity of a common position among the United States, Britain, France, Germany, the European Union, Russia and China.

He notes later on that Iran (if they do not cheat) would have to suspend their nuclear weapons operations, for the most part, for 10-15 years. Might not other Middle East nations decide they want to get a jump on Iran and develop their own nuclear weapons program?

Defenders of the deal point out that there are provisions to adequately monitor Iran’s compliance. Opponents note other concerns, including Iran’s ballistic missile program; its misbehavior in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere; its support of terrorists; and its threats and verbal attacks on Israel’s right to exist. These observations, although correct, are irrelevant to the more urgent task of trying to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons by 2017.

Au contraire, they are way more than relevant, when Iran is supporting terrorism and acts that kill American citizens, when they threaten one of America’s key allies. Threatening to “wipe Israel off the map” is rather important, but, blowing it off is not unsurprising, seeing as how Mr. Brown served with Jimmy Carter, a noted ante-Semite and Israel hater, a guy who takes the side of Palestinian terrorists.

Does the agreement decrease pressure on Iran by giving it access to its frozen billions in assets? Yes, but it’s the nature of a deal that adversaries must give up some objectives. We could have devised a more favorable deal, but there would be no chance of an Iranian signature on the document. A “better deal” without an Iranian signature is worthless.

That’s what happens when one negotiates from a position of weakness. And, we barely even get a temporary state of security, since Iran will further fund terrorism in the Middle East.

Failure of U.S. adherence to the deal would not slow but would hasten an Iranian nuclear weapon. The Russians and Chinese would certainly not sustain economic sanctions. Sanctions by the other countries would erode as well. With all of this in mind, approving the agreement is a no-brainer.

The Russians and Chinese will not allow sanctions to snap-back. Nor will the European nations which stand to make a lot of money trading with Iran. Hence, the deal is toothless, and we’ll have to deal with this down the road yet again.

I’ll ask one more time: if this deal was proposed by a Republican, how would Democrats be reacting?

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Could Al Gore Run For The Democratic Nomination?

By William Teach August 14, 2015 – 6:57 am

I’ll admit, I voted for him in 2000. This was back before he went stark raving mad on “climate change”, and seemed to care more about true environmentalism. But, hey, what we need is yet another old white entitled male to take out Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party primaries, to use liberal terminology

(The Hill) Al Gore’s supporters have started chatting with the former vice president about a potential 2016 presidential bid, BuzzFeed News reported Thursday, citing an unnamed senior Democrat.

“They’re figuring out if there’s a path financially and politically,” the Democrat told BuzzFeed, which noted Gore hasn’t made any moves toward running. “It feels more real than it has in the past months.”

ABC’s Rick Klein tweeted that a former Gore adviser confirmed that a “circle of his former aides are talking about” a potential 2016 bid though they are still in the very early part of the discussion.

Gore starting trending nationally on Twitter shortly after the reports emerged Thursday.

This would be awesome, as we’d finally get Gore to debate on his pet subject, “climate change”. For being one of the main proponents of the movement, Gore has been reticent to debate anyone. Oh, who am I kidding, Gore refuses to engage in a debate with anyone on the subject. He’s great when it comes to prognostications and invective, but, he won’t defend it.

He stated that the Arctic would be ice free in 2014. Fail. He pimped the loss of glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro as being caused by climate change. That was wrong, because we found out that it had to do with clear-cutting trees. A British judge trashed his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. He has a massive “carbon footprint”, but wants Everyone Else to be forced to give up their use of fossil fuels. He sold his TV network, Current, to Al Jazeera, which is partially owned by the Quatari royal family. The entire Quatar economy is based on fossil fuels. He jets the world around on private jets. He is one of the biggest climate hypocrites in the world.

It would be fantastic seeing him attempt to defend his climate change beliefs in a debate for the first time. Cult of Climastrology members say they want a debate on the subject for the 2016 elections: I really do not think they’d enjoy the outcome. So, run, Al, run!

BTW, Joe Biden, another old white entitled man is getting closer to deciding if he’s going to run, attempting to take out the woman in the race for the Democrats.

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