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Obama regime set to strip away another right [feedly]
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Obama regime set to strip away another right
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Another salvo has been fired by the Obama regime against the Bill of Rights.
Not content to constrain its assault to the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments, the regime took dead aim at the 1st. Last Friday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch vowed to take "aggressive action" against anyone who used "anti-Muslim" rhetoric that "edges toward violence."
Curious how no "aggressive action" is being considered against anyone using anti-white or anti-conservative rhetoric edging toward violence. It's been available in spades for some time, but even more abundantly in the wake of the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting and in the immediate aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre (at least before we learned of the Islam connection and while the progressives were still hoping it was "white conservative Christians" who shot up a Christmas party).
It's also curious how Lynch didn't promise "aggressive action" against Muslim bomb-makers. It would seem that, in the wake of a premeditated terror attack by a Muslim couple with ties to terrorists and a bomb factory in their home that Lynch would focus her efforts on finding whom Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were conspiring with to attack more Americans.
Lynch is delving into dangerous territory. What constitutes "aggressive action" and edging "toward violence" is highly subjective. It's the type of speech the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect.
It's also based on a false premise. There is no evidence of increased aggressiveness toward Muslims in the wake of the terror attack.
There is, however, a renewed effort by the regime to confiscate guns.
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A Chicago coverup [feedly]
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A Chicago coverup
// Personal Liberty Digest™
After more than a year of coverup, dissembling, foot-dragging, hemming and hawing, evidence-tampering by the Chicago political establishment and a big payoff, Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez finally charged Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke with murder for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014.
McDonald was high on PCP and carrying a knife while walking down a Chicago street when he was confronted by police. But he wasn't acting violently, and he made no threatening gestures toward Van Dyke or any other officer when Van Dyke unloaded on him.
The shooting — which occurred as a grand jury was hearing testimony on the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; as video of Eric Garner being choked to death by a New York police officer was going viral; and, more importantly, as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was heading into a contested re-election campaign — created a lot of problems that needed to be swept under the rug. So Chicago officials pulled out the big brooms.
First, police dash cam video of the shooting was squirreled away under the cover of "ongoing police investigation." In the face of media Freedom of Information Act requests, Emanuel turned to the courts to block its release. And then there's the case of the missing 86 minutes of surveillance video from a nearby Burger King — video that was confiscated by police and apparently erased.
In April, the city, recognizing Emanuel's tenuous position, as well as that of the police superintendent, considering the highly charged atmosphere surrounding police brutality cases (some of them amped up by President Barack Obama and then-Attorney Criminal Eric Holder), agreed to pay off McDonald's family to the tune of $5 million with the stipulation that the dash cam video remain concealed.
Once a judge ordered the dash cam video released and Emanuel and company ran out of options, Van Dyke was finally charged with murder. But for more than a year, a man who fired as many as 16 rounds — and was reloading fire more when another officer stopped him — into a teenager who was walking away from him was allowed to continue "policing" Chicago streets.
The New York Times notes that at the time, "Mayor Emanuel was fighting for re-election in a tight race. Superintendent McCarthy wanted to keep his job. Ms. Alvarez needed the good will of the police union for her coming re-election campaign and probably wished to shield the police officers who bring her cases and testify in court."
All of this highlights the corrupt nature of the police state and the American system in which prosecutors and police officers work hand in hand to select whom to prosecute and whom not to, and Chicago is probably the worst.
Of course, McCarthy is out of his mind and should have long ago retired to abuse seniors in some Florida gated community. He once claimed that a federal appeals court ruling striking down Illinois' ban on concealed carry would lead to Chicago police officers gunning down legal gun owners in the streets, so he apparently already suspected his officers were out of control. But McCarthy is little more than a thug himself. And the Chicago "justice" system is a farce.
Under Emanuel and McCarthy, Chicago police ran a CIA-style "black site" — an "off-the-books interrogation compound" — in which suspects (including children as young as 15) were "disappeared," tortured and denied access to attorneys for hours.
The Times laughably called for those responsible for the McDonald death cover-up to resign. But they won't. Emanuel fired McCarthy Tuesday in an attempt to save his own hide, so there is little likelihood anyone else will face any repercussions.
As for Van Dyke, police are only rarely convicted in abuse cases, and the political establishment will use payoffs and intimidation to overcome any potential fallout from the case.
And neither Obama nor his Department of Justice will have any interest in "pursuing justice," as they did in the Brown case. As Obama's former chief of staff and longtime player in Chicago criminal politics, Emanuel knows where Obama's skeletons are buried.
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