Harry is a significant figure in U.S. history, but the educational institutions like to keep people like him, omitted from publication, which is why I do what I do.
I am watching to see how the social platforms address this propaganda video.
A 2011 video of Harry Belafonte apparently falling asleep was doctored to falsely depict Joe BidenA video shared on Sunday by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino depicting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sleeping during a local news interview is manipulated, according to Sacramento-area news anchor John Dabkovitch. The news segment, filmed in 2011, in fact featured singer Harry Belafonte, according to Dabkovitch, who co-anchored the program at the time.
This is fake. You know how I know? I was the coanchor in studio.
Jamaican-American musician, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte joined the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s closest confidants. Over the years he organized demonstrations, raised money and contributed his personal funds to keep movement activities going. Belafonte has advocated for a range of other humanitarian causes. In 1985, he helped to orchestrate the recording of the Grammy Award winning song "We Are The World," a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa. In 1987, he received an appointment to UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador. Belafonte has been involved in prostate cancer advocacy since 2006, when he was diagnosed and successfully treated for the disease Belafonte achieved fame when his 1956 breakthrough album Calypso became the first full-length album to sell over 1 million copies. He is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song," with its signature lyric "Day-O." He became the first Afrian American to win an Emmy for his 1959 TV special Tonight with Belafonte. He has starred in such groundbreaking films as "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Island in the Sun" (1957), "Buck and the Preacher"(1972), and "White Man's Burden" (1995). In 1987 he produced a Broadway play about apartheid entitled Asinamali!" Belafonte owns his own music publishing firm and a film production company.
Though born in Harlem, Harry's mother sent him to live in Jamaica, the island of her birth, when he was still a child. He returned to Harlem as a teenager at the outbreak of World War II. He found it difficult to adjust to life in states, dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Navy. After his honorable discharge, he worked as a laborer until he found his calling in the entertainment world. He started his career as an actor and studied his craft in the Dramatic Workshop of the School of Social Research. There his classmates included Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger and Tony Curtis.
In 2000, Belafonte won a Grammy Award for his lifetime achievement in music. In 2002 Africare awarded Belafonte the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his efforts to assist Africa. Additionally, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) named Belafonte one of nine recipients of 2006 Impact Award.
The world has been moved by the horrific death of George "The Landlord" Floyd, that the movement of Black Lives Matter has inorganically manifested, in precision and glory, to sing in unison, a cry for justice for all african-americans, except for John Conyers, Jr.
I guess my sea salt sprinkled caramel Sweetie was not *black* enough for his life or legacy to matter, when it comes to justice, considering he is recognized as Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the only candidate endorsed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
It just goes to show you, not all lives matter because all he got was a Ghetto Ass Funeral.
I believe these actions, if found through due process of judicial determination could defrock her of her law license and be grounds to revoke her U.S. citizenship.
EXCLUSIVE: Three Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee were hit with ethics complaints Wednesday, connected to a slew of alleged violations related to campaign fundraising.
Nonprofit watchdog group Americans for Public Trust filed complaints with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) against Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Lucy McBath, D-Ga., calling for investigations of possible violations of House rules and federal law. The organization, founded by former National Republican Congressional Committee research director Caitlin Sutherland, also filed complaints against Dean and McBath with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
“All three of these members have engaged in disturbing activities that appear to us to be violations of federal law and House rules. This is especially alarming given all three sit on the prestigious House Judiciary Committee, which has direct oversight responsibilities over the U.S. Department of Justice and, by extension, the nation’s law enforcement,” said Adam Laxalt, former Nevada attorney general and outside counsel to Americans for Public Trust. "We’re calling on the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Ethics to immediately investigate these suspicious activities.”
Fox News reached out to the offices of all three congresswomen for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
The complaints against Dean claim that after she suspended her campaign for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, she used campaign funds from that race to go toward the congressional campaign she launched soon afterward. The complaints allege that this violated federal law — and by extension, House rules because campaigns for federal office must only use funds that were subject to the FEC. The complaints state that these expenditures continued after Dean was elected to Congress, and totaled more than $17,000.
The OCE complaint against Jayapal describes allegations that the Washington Democrat violated a House rule that prohibits members of Congress from soliciting campaign or political contributions that are "linked with an official action taken or to be taken by a House member." The complaint also notes that federal law prohibits House members from requesting money or other things of value connected with performing an official duty.
The complaint points to tweets from Jayapal related to the "Medicare-for-all" bill that she sponsored, in which she referenced or linked to a C-SPAN broadcast of a House hearing related to the bill while soliciting campaign contributions to keep “momentum going” for the bill. The complaint also alleges that by doing this, Jayapal violated a House rule against using broadcast coverage of official House business for political purposes.
The complaints against McBath are connected to money her campaign received from the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. McBath had been employed by Everytown prior to launching her congressional campaign in March 2018, and the complaint states that she remained employed there for roughly two more months. During that time, she appeared on television as both a candidate and a spokesperson for Everytown.
The complaints also allege that McBath received money from Everytown for her campaign during that time, even though Everytown reported in an FEC filing that they first began contributing to McBath's campaign on April 25, 2018.
"However, Everytown began spending in the election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District while Representative McBath was still serving as the group’s national spokesperson," the OCE complaint says. "It is not publicly known what level of involvement Representative McBath had in Everytown’s expenditures against her eventual general election opponent while she was still employed by Everytown."
The House Judiciary Committee played a central role in the recently concluded impeachment inquiry — and eventual trial — of President Trump regarding his pressure campaign against Ukraine. The three Democrats flagged in the ethics complaints voted for the articles of impeachment as they were prepared for the floor.
The president was acquitted last week on accusations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in a largely party-line Senate vote.
On August 28, 1963, nearly a quarter of a million people gathered in the August heat on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to hear the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speak. People traveled to our Nation’s Capital from places as far away as Atlanta and Los Angeles to witness one of the defining moments in American history. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King articulated the founding dream of America, the vision of our Founders for all Americans to live as “an heir of the legacy of dignity and worth.” Today, we pause to honor the incredible life and accomplishments of Dr. King, who helped shape the Civil Rights Movement, gave hope to millions experiencing discrimination, and whose enduring memory inspires us to pursue a more just and equal society.
Dr. King dedicated his life’s work to fighting for the right of every American to achieve the American Dream. Born the son of a Baptist minister on Auburn Street in Atlanta, Dr. King became an American icon and hero to millions of freedom-loving peoples everywhere, propelled by his powerful and inspiring message of peaceful protest and nonviolent resistance. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before thousands to the quiet solitude of a jail cell in Birmingham, Dr. King evinced an unshakable commitment to create a better future, never relenting in his quest for justice.
Since its inception, our Nation has served as a beacon of hope and opportunity around the world. America’s promise of freedom and justice has guided our people through adversity to prosperity. Dr. King’s life and legacy stands as a testament to that promise, one rooted in the inalienable rights of mankind and a commitment to freedom from persecution. Throughout his battle against segregation and discrimination, Dr. King praised his fellow demonstrators for returning “back to the deep wells of democracy” that trace their roots to our founding. We honor Dr. King’s legacy and our Nation’s heritage when we act to protect and expand freedom and opportunity.
As President, I remain committed to safeguarding the promise of our Nation and the values we share, the values that Dr. King so ardently worked to achieve. My Administration works each day to ensure that all Americans have every opportunity to realize a better life for themselves and their families regardless of race, class, gender, or any other barriers that have arbitrarily stood in their way. We have seen historic economic growth, with more than 7 million new jobs since my election and record highs in African-American, Hispanic‑American, and Asian-American employment. Through a focused effort of deregulation and growth-oriented policies, we have unleashed the potential of the American economy and bolstered the strength of the greatest workforce in the world, the American workforce. We recognize that economic opportunity is the greatest engine for empowering individuals and families to overcome adversity, and we will continue to fight for opportunity for all Americans.
On this day, we are reminded of what Dr. King described as “our noble capacity for justice and love and brotherhood.” As we pay tribute to Dr. King, I urge all Americans to heed his call to action so that we may build the “Beloved Community” that he envisioned, living up to the sacred promise for a better future woven into the fabric of our American identity.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2020, as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday. On this day, I encourage all Americans to recommit themselves to Dr. King’s dream by engaging in acts of service to others, to their community, and to our Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fourth.
In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and in honor of the gentle spirit who authored John Conyers, Jr., I present this piece, again, to pray for all to recognize that we, as humans, are many in body, but may only become united under the universal care for the peaceful health of society.
this legislation,
The issues surrounding unruly town hall meetings and angry mobs were addressed over 200 years ago in the Federalist Papers, specifically #9, Hamilton and #10 Madison.
Hamilton #9: The utility of a Confederacy, as well to suppress faction and to guard the internal tranquillity of States, as to increase their external force and security, is in reality not a new idea. It has been practiced upon in different countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics.
What Hamilton basically says is that an insurgent faction disrupts consolidation and consensus of groups, better known as a republic. This idea was expounded and refined in Madison #10.
Madison identified the "inner tranquility" of the consolidation and consensus of groups as the "majority". He further spoke of the futility of non-peaceful protests as they disregarded established legislative processes, having elected government representatives.
"Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people."
Historically, civil disobedience only works when functioning under the policy of peace. These protests are not peaceful in language or activities, an early presentation of failure of the insurgence.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The Bill of Rights: First Amendment
The key word is "peace". Once this tenet of the First Amendment is violated, peace, the government is empowered to protect the people, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause in the U.S. Constitution. The following is an excerpt of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States, called the General Welfare Clause:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Violence, be it verbal, emotional, physical, or economic, becomes grounds for government intervention, or rather the calling of the police to maintain the peace. When this happens you have an insurrection, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause. Under this light, health care as commerce, or rather Universal Health Care, is seen as a "provision for the common defense social disease, meaning maintainability of individual and social health, becoming interchangeable with the temporal terminology of General Welfare.
Quintessentially, Universal Health Care is one in the same with the Common Defense and General Welfare of the people of the United States of America. Here is a visual model for greater understanding:
When The Root publishes, you know the heavens are about to fall.
There is an entire army of journalists who have been lying in wait, surrounding the kingdom, ready to bring down the heavens, upon the call of charge from the Old School Civil Rights Legal Dogs, upon the arrival to Detroit.
... Governmental eavesdropping today is simply out of control, and it is entirely possible that we have seen only the tip of the iceberg....The Nixon clique may just have been the worst offenders, though we can never know this with certainty unless we learn more about what went on during earlier administrations. The [Martin Luther] King episode-which in my view is the single most reprehensible example of unjustified intrusion that we are aware of-is enough to raise serious questions about national security wiretap policies during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.... That the King tap was authorized by well meaning good guys with beneficent purposes only demonstrates how pervasive the problem of wiretapping has been.
Welp, welcome to the slippery sleazy slope that comes with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s recent arrest for child sex trafficking.
Internet sleuths have uncovered a 2015 video of Harvard attorney and Epstein’s friend, Alan Dershowitz, who worked to get Epstein a sweetheart deal in a 2008 plea agreement, admitting to getting a massage at Epstein’s mansion.
During an interview with Miami news station WPLG regarding Britain’s Prince Andrew (another friend of Epstein) and his alleged sexual involvement with an underaged girl who was allegedly kept as a sex slave by Epstein, Dershowitz not only bashed the accuser, calling her an “admitted prostitute and a serial liar” but claimed that the then-teen was not victimized and in fact “made her own decisions in life.”
Dershowitz admitted to being at the billionaire’s home but noted that he’d never seen an underaged girl at Epstein’s place despite sworn testimony from Epstein’s former butler who claimed that Dershowitz was at the residence at the same time that underaged girls were there. Dershowitz has an easy explanation for that: “Were there young women in another part of the house giving massages while I was around? I have no idea of that!”
Oh, and did Dershowitz ever receive a massage at Epstein’s house? Yep. But Dershowitz claimed that it was from an adult woman and he kept his underwear on.
“I kept my underwear on during the massage. I don’t like massages particularly.”
Watch the entire interview below but I warn you, it’s triggering and mad cringey.
The U.S. loves to hide and censor, to make sure their propaganda is the only source of information, but due to the advancements in electronic handheld devices and cheaper internet plans, we can now speak with the original sources.
Yes, that is correct, the FBI loves its porn and is pretty good at writing it, too.
Not only that, our national Super Smarty Pants (the global collection) likes to bleachbit history.
Yes, Martin Luther King, Jr. lived in a culture where the church could do nothing wrong, where women are still, to this very day, per christian law, chattel of the man, servants to god which is why the FBI will never intervene, just like when children are raped, drugged, beaten, tortured under the auspices of state private child welfare contracted foreign corporations like the Vatican.
But I digress.
Martin Luther King, Jr. only endorsed one politician and that was John Conyers, Jr., which makes the release of this biography, without any of the FBI sealed audio tapes, suspect, but I guess we shall have to just await the uncloaking of the tapes, letters, pictures and videos.
We should ask Roger about advocating for my Sweetie's living, breathing dossier to be uncloaked during impeachment proceedings.
That is going to be fun when impeachment hearings commence because the U.S. educational system will be forced to trash centuries of its bleachbitted textbook propaganda and its pedagogies of imparting fallacious political, economic, and social theories of chattel law because we are going blockchain and "if you do not want your dirt to come out, then do not do it" will be the new self-help therapy de jure.
This is also the reason why everyone in D.C. is so reluctant to call for the impeachment of Trump because these very same "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) who built a dossier on MLK and Conyers, used the very same transposable model on Trump, and did not even bother to dust it off.
MLK did lots more stuff in Detroit, but I guess everyone will just have to wait for me to tell those tales because no one else will, because I am the Celestial Goddess of Woodshed.
I wonder if David Garrow interviewed anyone from Detroit?
Probably not because there was no mention of my Sweetie and he did not contact me.
So, withou further adieu, present to you the next #coloredrevolution psyoptic because we are in Detroit and Trump is still obstructing justice by letting that IG Report burn in his back pocket.
"Where do you think they got the Trump dossier idea?"
FBI documents from the 1960s allege Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women and stood by as a friend allegedly raped a woman, a new report claims.
An article by King biographer David Garrow to be released on Thursday in Standpoint magazine will detail the FBI memos, The Sunday Times of London reported.
Garrow claims the memos say King engaged in orgies, solicited prostitutes, and "looked on and laughed" on as a pastor he knew raped a woman.
The memos were part of a huge US National Archives data-dump in early 2019.
The FBI secretly recorded King in a yearslong effort to discredit him. The tapes themselves remain under seal in the US National Archives. And Garrow's article was rejected by more prominent news outlets. So the story carries many unanswered questions about the accuracy of the FBI material.
The King Center, which chronicles King's life, is yet to comment on the allegations.
This article contains details that some readers may find upsetting
Documents describing secret FBI recordings allege Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women and watched on as a pastor raped a woman in the 1960s, a new report claims.
According to the Times of London, an article set to be published in the June edition of UK magazine, Standpoint, written by King biographer David Garrow details newly released FBI memos which discuss the tapes.
The tapes — sealed until 2027 in the US National Archives — hold recordings from bugs placed in hotel rooms King used in the 1960s when they suspected his aide, Stanley Levison, was a Communist.
Business Insider has contacted The King Center for comment on the report, but is yet to receive a response.
The tapes were made as part of an illegal FBI surveillance project that began in 1955 and continued until King was assassinated in 1968. The FBI was trying to gather negative information about King in hopes of using it to discredit him. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was personally obsessed with bringing down King.
Given that context — and given Garrow's lack of access to the tapes themselves, in addition to the fact that the Standpoint article has yet to be published — Garrow's claims raise questions about the accuracy of the evidence and the motives of the FBI agents who created the documents. In a separate article describing the magazine's rationale for publishing the story, Standpoint's acting editor Michael Mosbacher says Garrow's work was previously rejected by The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Washington Post. A number of unnamed conservative magazine in the US also shied away.
Mosbacher does not explain why they rejected it, although he implies they felt it was too controversial.
However, Garrow's 1986 biography of King won the Pulitzer Prize, so his new material will be difficult to ignore.
Garrow writes that the FBI bugged two lamps in King's room at the Willard Hotel, Washington, in January 1964, the Times said.
According to the Times, a memo accompanying the tape describes how King "looked on and laughed" as a pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church allegedly raped a woman in the hotel room. The pastor died in 1991.
The FBI documents describe a conversation in which King "discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts," the Times wrote, referring to Garrow's article.
"When one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister immediately and forcibly raped her," the Times wrote, quoting the FBI documents.
Garrow notes the FBI agents did not intervene during the alleged rape.
According to Garrow's article, which quotes the documents: "At the same hotel the following evening, King and a dozen other individuals "participated in a sex orgy"."
"When one of the women shied away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and several of the men discussed how she was to be taught and initiated in this respect. King told her that to perform such an act would 'help your soul'," the Times quoted from a memo.
King at a New York hotel on Nov. 6, 1964 as he announced plans by college students across the nation to raise funds to feed poverty-stricken African Americans in the deep south at Christmas time.AP
Garrow says the new information "poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible."
Garrow's article will contain several other allegations about King's conduct, the Times wrote.
Garrow writes that in 1964 William Sullivan, then-assistant director of the FBI, wrote a memo which paraphrased a recording of King.
In it, King reportedly jokes he's launched the "International Association for the Advancement of Pussy Eaters"."
One other FBI memo is said to describe a prostitute recounting an alleged sexual encounter she had with King and another woman in the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in April 1964.
According to the Times, the memo states King called a friend to "get your damned ass down here because I have a beautiful white broad here."
King and the two women had sex, the FBI memo allegedly records the prostitute as saying, and when King's friend showed up King "watched the action from a close-by position" as they too had sex.
The memo quotes the prostitute saying she was "getting scared as they were pretty drunk and using filthy language," the Times said.
She told an FBI interviewer it was "the worst orgy I've ever gone through," the Times wrote.
King was the rallying point for the US civil rights movement from December 1955 until April 1968, when he was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots in cities all across the US.
Watching one politically prostrate themselves in penance, in the wake of uncloaking of the 2016 election realities, is quite gratifying, but it is still, such a shame, as the gentle lady fails to #sayhisname, or even recognizes the national agenda set by Trump in the 2019 SOTU on the trafficking of tiny humans and the residuals of the peculiar institution of modern slavery, which is what I call a half-ass form of reprentance, in hopes of being able to make it out, unscathed.
This is the face of fear, her true character, because these revelations of the silent screams of the people have been going on for generations, but Elizabeth has just found out it is so important, she is going to highjack the legacy of John Conyers, Jr., without giving any credit, and continue to rewrite the history of civil rights.
These terms are taken from Trump's 2019 SOTU which are omitted from Warren's presidential candidacy, but she did say civil rights, though.
This is where the "Colored" Revolution #MeToo constructed tool has been repurposed for a political campaign because, as seen in the following tweets, these people use every last available heuristic from the 1960s Civil Right Movement.
The only thing missing from proving that this is the making of the Detroit "Colored" Revolution, is the missing image of a Detroit Congressperson, standing up amidst civil unrest, with a megaphone, calling for jobs...
Oups! J'ai dit une bêtise...
Rashida Tlaib, forgot about the "Justice & Peace" portion
of the Civil Rights legacy.
I guess severing the "Justice & Peace" legacy part is just that asset forfeiture thing going on in Civil Rights history.
Hey #MeToo, this racist defended Bill Cosby and is an expert in the formation of the Russian language. He also said black voters shouldn’t vote Democrat.
Jemar Tisby issues a provocative and painful call to repentance for white evangelical Christians who have ignored their participation in racial injustice. https://t.co/QS1FvLiFty
This is manufactured propaganda using the "colored" scheme of "black v. white".
For those who have yet to catch it, I am using the term "Colored" because that was the lingo back in the 1960s, that all these so-called academics, journalists and political pundits are now tossing like around like rose petals at a Nowruz celebration, thinking no one can smell their crap.
The reason I can smell this stuff a mile away is because this is not reality.
People do not talk, work, live, make babies with this type of mentality of labeling humans, unless there is some crappy predictive modeling behind it, hence social media, to make money.
Yes, #cyberwars are real and they are coming to Detroit.
The #MeToo movement started in Detroit, but it seems to have been hijacked and repurposed, for other reasons, far from its original intentions, which was to assist women through the process of filing reports.
That is how you spot what I like to call a psyoptic because you know it was created by "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending), and I am just going to go out there on a limb and say #perkinscoiesucks.
I include this video as a point of departure in understanding how people can repurpose history for their own personal agendas.
The reason why this video is of such interest is because it was done by the BBC, with a global audience.
I consider Martin Luther King, Jr. to be the progenitor of the #MeToo movement because there was first an assassination of his character.
Now, we are witnessing the same transposable model of attack, but it is disingenuous, simply for the fact that it impugns the character of the intelligence community.
The Michigan 13th Congressional Office is under the watchful eyes of the Smarty Pants and the Super Smarty Pants of the world simply due to the fact that there were other very hateful threats bestowed upon the former office holder, that have gone unheeded by Rashida.
This brings me the Saddy Face because the King assassination is back open and his message is being bastardized by manufacturing an insurrection of verbal violence, without due process, by applying these crappy predictive modeling terms of the peculiar institution.
King never marketed his first assassination attempt on his character nor his life, which is why I found the video fascinating.
He was more concerned about children living in poverty, quite humbling for a man who held an office of ethics.
I shall promptly bring to the attention of all the Super Smarty Pants that the issue of threatening a Member of Congress may fall within the conceptual realms of treason, but that is not for me to decided, now is it?
LET THIS SERVE AS FORMAL NOTICE THAT THESE THREATS UPON U.S. REPRESENTATIVE RASHIDA TLAIB BE ENJOINED WITH ALL OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST WITH THE MICHIGAN 13TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Yes, the U.S. Treasury possesses powers to investigate, since they are already in Detroit, once the matter is assessed and parceled out to its proper jurisdictions of investigation.
Basically, I have the deepest, unmoving faith in our Super Smarty Pants Global Collective to have been diligently attentive to all activities of the Michigan 13th Congressional Office, even before the 2016 Election, so there is no reason for Rashida to be cowed or have any fear, while she is still in office.
MIED Rocks!
Rashida, are you going to speak out for #MeToo?
Hey, Rashida, you should demand Trump drop that IG Report.
I bet the people behind these hateful threats, a pattern of practice, are already identified.
I will ask Trump for you, considering the previous holder of your seat was already under investigation, but I am sure you already know that.
Oh, and I shall make it a point to ask Nancy Pelosi to speak out regarding the entire matters of the Michigan 13th Congressional District.
I will even encourage Nancy to reach out to Trump and request that he drop that IG Report.
I would have filed a formal request to your Congressional Office, for constituency services, to request you make a formal request to Trump and ask him to drop the Horowitz IG Report, but I know my presence is not welcomed.
It is just one of those #MeToo things, right, Rashida?
Reporting, in the spirit of fuchsia, from the front lines of the "Colored" Revolution in Detroit, this is the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed, until next #cyberwar.....take cover....SHTF is coming....
Washington — The death threats started on U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's first day of orientation in Congress and haven't stopped.
Her office said the Detroit Democrat received around 60 threats just in the two weeks following her swearing-in this month.
That same day, she made national headlines after issuing a profane cry at a Washington party to "impeach the mother (expletive)," referring to President Donald Trump.
One of the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. House, Tlaib also has been the target of anti-Muslim slurs on social media, false internet articles, hoax memes and fake Twitter accounts posing as the freshman lawmaker.
"My mere existence here is causing people to say some very hateful and racist comments," said Tlaib, also the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress.
She ran for office because "people like us deserve a seat at the table." That seat has now propelled Tlaib to a national profile and prompted messages of both support and condemnation. Her mission remains unchanged.
"Girls, we have a new Congress. We not only look differently, but we speak differently," Tlaib told the Women's March in Detroit on Jan. 19, promising to fight for women on the House floor, in the courts and in the streets.
"They will try to shush us. They will try to tell us to be quiet, or this is just not how we're supposed to do things here. ... You all are fueling us to speak louder and very clearly. And the whole nation knows exactly how I feel."
Tlaib had a few family members serving as her security detail at the march inside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. She said she feels safer at home in Michigan's 13th District than at other events.
"Here, I feel like my whole community protects me. I always worry about my staff and my family more than I worry about myself," Tlaib said in an interview.
"But it’s unprecedented, not only myself, but the other women — the new members in Congress — to deal with threats all of us have received. It shows how much violence is being promoted from the White House.”
Tlaib isn't the only member of Michigan's congressional delegation to receive death threats.
U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider of the Eastern District of Michigan said threats against elected officials happen "across the spectrum, across the country."
"We take these, all of them, very seriously. The FBI is specially assigned to be on alert for these. It’s not a joking matter, and we’re going to follow up on all of them," Schneider said.
"People think that they can be anonymous whether they use email or Snapchat or Facebook. That’s really not the case. Law enforcement has tools to identify that, and we’ve done that on several occasions — whether they’re threats to members of Congress or threats to our schools."
The House sergeant at arms has said threatening incidents and communications against House members more than doubled from 902 in 2016 to more than 2,000 in 2017, according to news reports.
A Southgate man, Dennis Downey, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty last year to one count of communicating a threat to injure another after he phoned the Washington office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, saying he would kill "all of you."
Court records say law enforcement traced the call and arrested Downey, who admitted to placing it.
Dingell said it was among a number of threats she has received.
It's unclear whether charges have been brought yet in relation to the threats against Tlaib. Spokesman Denzel McCampbell said Tlaib's office is working with all levels of law enforcement to ensure the threats against her are taken seriously.
'It's a sensitive time'
"I can empathize. We get death threats regularly," said U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, a Muslim and former police officer who has served in Congress since 2009.
Carson represents the Indianapolis area and has a security detail from the local sheriff's department when he does events in his district, he said. Last year, officials secured a restraining order against an individual who threatened one of Carson's staffers, he said.
"It’s a sensitive time. Folks are upset. They are looking for a boogeyman or woman to place their blame on, and you look at a woman like Rashida who makes folks uncomfortable. She represents the ‘changing of America,’ as it were," Carson said.
U.S. Rep. Andre Carson
"You have people who are still sexist, and Islamaphobes who can’t stand to see women in power, women in authority. To be a woman and a Muslim, that doubles the offense for them and doubles the suspicion. She represents all that they’re afraid of."
National coverage of Tlaib's call to impeach Trump this month drew a flurry of angry calls to the 13th District Democratic Party — at least 100 over 10 days from area codes around the country, said Jonathan Kinloch, the party chairman for the district.
"What is wrong with your people in Michigan?" one caller groused in a voicemail. "Rag heads like that shouldn't be in Congress."
Many callers insulted Muslims and Palestinians, engaged in name-calling and suggested Tlaib be removed from office. The episode and the threats to Tlaib illustrate how polarized the country has become, Kinloch said.
"The threshold has been lowered in terms of tolerance and acceptability for the vile discourse taking place," Kinloch said. "It's just unfortunate. Trump's normalizing it, and those who choose to get into the squalor with him."
Memories of Congress shooting
Republican Rep. John Moolenaar of Midland said he communicated to Tlaib that he "in no way" agreed with her remarks about impeaching Trump, urging decorum in Congress and respect for the office of the president.
"I'm not saying in any way she deserves that kind of treatment, even though her comments were very offensive. It's two separate things," Moolenaar said of the threats against her.
"It's unacceptable for her to be treated that way, and I'm sorry she's experiencing that."
Moolenaar, who like Tlaib is a former state lawmaker, said nothing ever justifies threats or intimidation of a public servant. "That's terrible," he said.
U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Midland
Moolenaar was with other GOP lawmakers practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game in June 2017 when a gunman opened fire, wounding four people including Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Oakland County native Matt Mika.
Gunman James Hodgkinson died following a shootout with police. He was later identified as a Bernie Sanders supporter who once posted on Facebook that "Republicans are the Taliban of the USA."
"Having been in a situation where people on the field that day were targeted because of their political views, that's a very serious problem," Moolenaar said. "Anyone who threatens the livelihood or lives of people deserves consequences for that."
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