Vanita Gupta
Posted on 05/19/2015 1:53:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
This lunacy is mainstream thought at the Department of Justice.
Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots.
The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but get rid of local police? No way, that sounds like something broadcast from a shortwave station in Austin, Texas.
But then up steps Vanita Gupta to lend some credibility to the idea that some want to disband local police and replace police powers with the federal government. Speaking to a group of left-wing lawyers in Colorado, Gupta had this to say :
The conversation in these rooms, however, is not about whether to have police or not but about what kind of policing communities want and deserve.
There is no question that we need police in our communities.
The conversation? What conversation is Gupta hearing that needs to be corrected? Who brought up the idea we might not need police? Nobody sane, for sure.
Vanita Gupta
If you read the entirety of Gupta’s speech, you’ll get a sense of what is going on in the mind of the anti-police left. Officials in this administration still think it is rational and acceptable to bring up the name Michael Brown in the context of anything other than a likely felon against whom deadly force was justifiably used. Behold Gupta:
Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. John Crawford. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray.
These names and many others have become familiar to us under tragic circumstances in recent months. Their deaths and those of other unarmed African American men and women in encounters with police officers, have provoked widespread responses across the country and have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. In communities of color, in particular, the reaction has been stark and sobering.
In the seven months I have been at the Civil Rights Division, I have spent a lot of time with local leaders and community members in cities all across America, including with numerous mothers who have lost their children in officer-involved shootings. The pain, anger, frustration — the lack of trust in the police — is real, and it is profound.
Gupta asks the question that many Americans have already asked and answered:
It’s worth asking, first, how did we get here? And second, what are we going to do about it?
To most law-abiding Americans, the idea of fleeing from the police, or worse, charging at a policeman you have already punched, is simply beyond the realm of possibility.
So how did we get here? Was it a breakdown of values? Perhaps a pervasive tolerance for lawlessness? Of course not. Says Gupta:
Let’s start with the first question and consider the source of the mistrust. Mistrust can’t be explained away as the kneejerk reaction of the ill-informed or the hyperbolic. It’s in part the product of historical awareness about the role that police have played in enforcing and perpetuating (wait for it! here it comes!) slavery, the Black Codes, lynchings and Jim Crow segregation.
Give Gupta credit, she adheres to the fringe orthodoxy on race at the schools she attended: Yale and New York University Law School. Perhaps you can’t blame her, because she’s never heard anything different. But she’s wrong. The riots in Baltimore and Ferguson are related to slavery and lynchings as much as the Waco biker bloodbath is the fault of the Rolling Stones hiring the Hells Angels at Altamont.
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When people make choices to do evil, they cannot blame attenuated events which happened decades or centuries earlier. When Michael Brown charged a cop, when racialist anarchists set Baltimore on fire, they chose violence and evil then and there. The past was unrelated to that exercise of free will.
Gupta’s fringe view, however, is mainstream among the leftists who populate the Civil Rights Division .
It was no accident that these same leftists produced an absurd self-fulfilling report on Ferguson. But that hasn’t stopped Gupta from trumpeting the report, or better still, using the report to shake down police departments across the country to change their ways or else. After all, Ferguson is just like lots of other places, Gupta tells us:
In many ways, Ferguson is not an anomaly. Through our work around the country, we know there are similar police and court practices in many places. I also know of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers. We are already seeing the force multiplying effect of the report. In the days subsequent to the issuance of our report, cities around the country are beginning to re-examine their policing and municipal court practices, though we know there is much more work to do.
Gupta “knows of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers.” Let’s decode: this means that several police chiefs around the country know that if they tell Gupta it is required reading, the federal government will stay off their backs and another police chief won’t get fired.
Give the leftists their due. They know how to use the levers of power to fundamentally transform a nation, no matter the truth. Lets hope that in 2017, there is the courage to undo the racialist mess Obama has created inside DOJ.
Instead of hands up, it will be hands off, don’t arrest.
Along with government assistance, there is pimping, prostitution, drug pushing and robbery. All are non-taxable. Then there will be reparations. You might as well call them parasites.
Sounds like a Plan. Unlike Obama’s EO’s this order would be upholding and enforcing immigration law.
I like it!
I must be ignorant. What is a choomer?
How about the Vietnam Boat People. They PERSONALLY suffered the loss of absolutely everything. How many of them are rioting?
In 1900, 90% of the black children in Harlem lived with both biological parents. How did they manage to do that, what with slavery and all?
Yup. It’s solid. All it lacks is the will.
I would however LOVE to know why so many dismiss such obvious solutions as unworkable when they rather obviously ARE workable if one simply does them. Pols I get. They don’t want to do them. But voters who claim they are law and order conservatives refusing to actually support law and order?
And people wonder why I say 60% of America is clinically insane?
I love it, smooth!! :-)
Everyone should read it. Thanks!
That lack of will and dereliction of duty is what got us into this mess. Imagine how much beter our country would be if we had been enforcing immigration laws all along.
No congressman or senator will risk reelection over the presence of radical lefties in the DOJ.
To propose changing federal employment rules is to risk reelection. Not going to happen.
Such is the nature of democratic republics. It is long past time to return to federalism.
And thats just one example. Substitute any agency. The Dept of education. Abolish liberal policies they have mainstreamed and then remove 100% funding for any district not 100% implementing new regs saying American History will be taught, Global warming propaganda will not and the Pledge and displaying a flag is 100% fine. Fire anyone as stated earlier.
Same for the BLM, DEA and any other agency. Very simple, legal and doable. All it takes is will.
Ignore any lower court ruling on the basis of NATSEC and MAKE the Supreme Court rule. One minor issue at a time, just like Barry does.
Excellent point.
There are so many of these agencies that need to go. If Cruz gets on a deregulation roll, maybe he can make some head way.
I’d start with gutting the Justice dept. Then the rest would be easy. The EPA next Then Dept. of Education.
Eliminate the BLM and return the lands to state control where they belong.
Eliminate DHS and the TSA entirely and let the FBI deal with whats REQUIRED, not wanted to pad some politico’s aspirations and bank acct.
As for the FBI itself, clean house.
The REALLY big one is the military. Subpoena EVERY bit of brass ousted and broadcast congressional hearing. Prosecute all involved in their ouster and jail any criminals (all involved really). Then return the military to a defense agency not a social experiment. All homos and trannies out.
Tis would be an efficient way to get rid of a lot of affirmative action, incompetent bureaucrats.
I see my cunning plan has been discovered ;) Also gets liberals in general out of power and influential positions overall. Democrat libs, Republican libs and independent libs.
Then we begin the generational project of teaching actual history of the time period from 1980 until the inauguration. The current generation and the X/Yers are largely a writeoff. I’m an Xer so I’m not a Boomer having a fit. I’m talking about my own and those following.
The communists openly stated their intent to corrupt youth with communist ideals. That has to be reversed. Unlike liberals we do not need to rewrite history. We just need to teach kids how to think critically and objectively like they used to before the left usurped the schools. And that will take at least 2 generations of hard effort.
It will take 2 generations, but we have to start somewhere and the time is NOW! :)
Oh, I forgot to mention the very positive effect this drastic downsizing would have on the national debt.
They still keep slaves in Missouri and Maryland?
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