Posted on 08/23/2010 9:48:28 AM PDT by RED SOUTH
Received the following in an email:
It all began Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.
But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media. I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.
Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman”.
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.” The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.
But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”. The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America .
There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.
Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html
Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.
Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.
But Breitbart knew. And Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.
As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost.
Writen by Robert W. Fortner
I’ve seen this many times before, but it never goes anywhere. It’s like all the other Dem scandals. Nothing ever comes of it. As I asked once before, where are all the investigators? Does anyone ever actually pursue these crooks?
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Why the hell is this not Breitbart’s lead story? Until it is resolved???
Go Andrew~!!!!!!!!!
Not that I know of.
We need a “Big Bust the Chops” of the government.
Link for this?
Link to the allegations in it?
Could be helpful to those of us keeping up with this story.
Has anyone even heard or read the word “reparations” since The One’s Inauguration? I haven’t.
But actions like a billion here and there handed out by the government to preferred groups are just ho-hum activities to our big media.
OUTSTANDING post! HOORAY Robert W. Fortner!
The machinations of progressives-oppressives/socialists/totalitarians/taqiyya-talkin’ scumbags/etc.,/etc. and their “victims”.
Well, millions of blacks think of the Treasury as their piggy bank.
Now we see the whole background, in which Sherrod is just a bit player in a mini-reparations scheme tucked deep in the clutter of the Federal Budget.
Bump!
Daily Life in Gaza 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgh5V4wlLfA&feature=player_embedded#!
gaza o gaza ! so much misery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCRJrdCowMc&feature=player_embedded
This Ag subsidy example is typical, not due to Blackness, but due to the family farm myth. In IL most Ag subsidy to family farms goes to the Congressional district of Jan Schakowsky which is the high rise condos along Chicago’s north lake shore and extending into tony guilt ridden suburbs.
Of course, in IL most Ag subsidy does not go to the family farm subsidy does not go to the myth... it goes to Conagra, ADM, and other agribusiness.
The entire Ag subsidy and Ag control of farms and farmers should be eliminated. To think it is just the Blacks, or just Obama’s friends, is to make a serious mistake.
Ooops, posted in wrong thread.
The entire $1.25 billion will be spent on new wheels, new clothes and refilling the stash for parties.
I agree 100% with that. The entire department of agriculture would be shut down if it were up to me. Farm subsidies have always been a giant con job, and like all subsidies, they even hurt the recipients.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-subsidies-hurt-recipients-too/
And Millions of Whites, Hispanics, and other race mixes
Careful
Conservatism is color blind
It does not Discriminate... Period
I hope to see the day when
People are judged by the content of their character
not the color of their skins
Oh yes, I'm as guilty as the next
Martin Luther King was Right about this
His many followers have severely damaged the
Legacy and Vision he left
For those who spread hatred and fear
there is a special place in Hell
>>Well, Chicago math, used almost exclusively in counting votes. Has rarely been used for any other purpose; except in extorting money.
It looks like it’s been swept back up under the carpet. There’s not a peep anywhere and she’s been disappeared into thin air.
I have another theory about why she decided to help the white farmer. It wasn’t out of some righteous personal transformation. It was out of pure sleazy self-preservaton. She was made aware that the “cause” — pilfering of pubic coffers (aka redistribution, aka, reparation) — will be stronger and less glaringly bigoted if a few token whites were thrown in the mix. That’s all it was. They needed the white farmers to legitimize the con job.
DISGUSTING, INFURIATING, AND...
ENTIRELY EXPECTED FROM the race-baitors and KINGS & QUEENS of RACISM now running our country into the ground.
They should all be investigated, tried for treason and hung from the neck in the public square until DEAD.
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