http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jessejackson/ en-us Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:17:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005752/posts A list of rappers and stars, including Russell Simmons, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Kim Kardashian, and many more, have written an open letter to President Obama to ask that he ease the nation's drug policy. They also ask that prison policy be changed, too. "During your presidency you have made important steps and you now have the opportunity to leave a legacy by transforming our criminal justice system to an intervention and rehabilitation based model. Many of those impacted by the prison industrial complex are among your most loyal constituents," they write. "Your struggles as the child of... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005752/posts#comment Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:17:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000998/posts Poverty pimp Jesse Jackson hung up yesterday morning on Frank Beckman from WJR (Detroit) radio. They were discussing the Emergency Financial Manager appointed by the Governor to try to help Detroit get its finances in order. The financial well-being of its state's cities is a law in the Michigan Constitution. Jackson came to The D to call for mass civil disobedience to protest Mr. Orr being given the overwhelming and difficult job to try to untangle the mess left by forty or fifty years of corrupt liberal democrats. The mess in Detroit has been simmering and coming to a boil... breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000998/posts#comment Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:50:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995258/posts Wolf Blitzer: “What do you say to the Venezuelans, not only in the opposition but those who have fled the country, who considered Hugo Chavez a vile dictator?” Jesse Jackson: “Well, you know, democracies mature, Our first 15 presidents owned people. They owned slaves. Democracies mature.” Read more: http://conservativevideos.com/2013/03/jesse-jackson-compares-hugo-chavez-to-founding-fathers/#ixzz2N5Yp4HNE conservative videos .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995258/posts#comment Sat, 9 Mar 2013 23:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2991710/posts New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $2.3 million in campaign spending helped anti-gun radical Robin Kelly win the Democratic primary to replace convicted former Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D) yesterday. Bloomberg joined Obama political adviser David Axelrod, radical Jeremiah Wright ally Father Michael Pfelger, and left-wing Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in helping Kelly defeat former Rep. Debbie Halvorson, who was once the darling of the party's election machine but became a useful target due to her "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. (NRA) Though President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have campaign against "big money in politics," they welcomed... Breitbart's Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2991710/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:07:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986894/posts Yesterday on his Facebook page, professional victimologist and societal agitator Rev. Jesse Jackson posted an open letter to Christopher Dorner, the fugitive murderer whose manifesto reads like a battle cry from Jackson's own website. *Dear Christopher Dorner, I understand your feelings of hurt and pain. I make this plea to you to stop spreading the pain, the hurt, and the fear. Please stop. Don’t take any more lives. Christopher, your mother is distraught and deeply concerned for your safety. There are many good and credible people in Los Angeles who will help you. Danny J. Bakewell Sr. (The Los Angeles... Breitbart's Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986894/posts#comment Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:05:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986169/posts Sneed has learned a plea deal is now on the table between former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and federal authorities probing allegations of campaign fund misuse. Sneed is told the plea deal includes Jackson serving time in federal prison. “Significant jail time is now definitely a part of the deal,” said a top Sneed source close to the probe. “But I think [Jackson’s wife] Sandi, feels like she was thrown under the bus by her husband, ” now that a separate probe has begun on her, a second source added. Sandi Jackson claims she was stunned by campaign finance abuse... Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986169/posts#comment Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:24:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2985380/posts On Sunday, liberal activist Jesse Jackson repeated his claim that semi-automatic weapons can shoot down airplanes and said they could also "blow up railroads." “Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, theyÂ’re about national security,” he said while appearing on Fox News. “You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue,” he added. Jackson said he was okay with having a gun for the house, or a gun for hunting. “But these semi-automatic, military-style assault weapons -- they shot at the White House two years ago,... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2985380/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2013 05:51:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982125/posts This week marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and since state-sanctioned slaughter via judicial fiat began at least 50 million Americans have been killed. Over the last 40 years there have been some eloquent attempts to win the defining moral argument of our age, but few have come close to being as effective as the one I’m sharing with you today. And it was written by Jesse Jackson. Yes, that Jesse Jackson. To commemorate the 4th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 1977, Jackson wrote an editorial titled How We Respect Life is the Over-Riding Moral Issue. What’s... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982125/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977970/posts [Snip] “These semi-automatic weapons, these assault weapon, can only kill people and in fact are threats to national security. The young man who did the killing in Aurora, Colorado with the arsenal he had. He was right near the airport, right near the runways near the airport in Denver. He could shoot down airplanes. so this is a matter of homeland security… We need to make manufacturers more accountable for their product.“ Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977970/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:35:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972912/posts Exclusive: Jesse Lee Peterson declares, 'It's time for whites to speak out' White Americans are under assault, and with the re-election of President Barack Obama, black racism is on the rise! There’s no better example of black racism than when actor Jamie Foxx hosted “Saturday Night Live” and joked about his new film, “Django Unchained”: “I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?” He went on to say, “My president, President Obama, is back up in the White House for four more years. How black is that?”... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972912/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:48:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972220/posts In Christmas sermon, Rev. Jesse Jackson asks Chicago inmates to help get guns off streetsSOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press 10:21 a.m. CST, December 25, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has challenged inmates at Cook County Jail to help get guns off the streets. **SNIP** He has delivered Christmas Day sermons at jails for years. He says the point is to inspire and invest in inmates so they don't return to jail. Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972220/posts#comment Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:56:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965996/posts The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats. No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to the attack that killed four Americans at the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in September. But in the months before, the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965996/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2012 22:44:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969577/posts Whether it be a mass casualty shooting at a school or other public space in the United States or the regularly occurring gun violence on the streets of Chicago, “the people who are civilized must care enough to stop it now,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said on Saturday. While speaking to the audience at the Rainbow-PUSH headquarters on the South Side, Jackson reflected on Friday’s shooting in Connecticut, as well as the ongoing violence on the streets of Chicago. Noting that, “It’s easier (in the United States) to buy a gun than a cup of coffee,” Jackson said, “None of... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969577/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:45:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968415/posts When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, spoke for the consensus in an article he titled, “White People You Will Never Look Suspicious.” I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on … I will never watch a taxicab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse tightly against... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968415/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:45:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967852/posts On MSNBC this afternoon, Rev. Jesse Jackson called for workers across the nation to hold a major one day strike in protest of the new ‘right-to-work’ laws that passed in Michigan today. “I never thought it would go this far north,” a disappointed Jackson said about the right-to-work movement. “And, yet, these workers in this state must fight back and draw a line in the sand.” Jackson called for a “major strike,” and a “major march on Washington.” “It’s time for a massive, dissident, direct action to bring about the ship in the flow of the wind,” he added. washingtonexaminer.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967852/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961928/posts Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will announce his resignation from Congress today in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Jackson's brother Jonathan Jackson said. Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961928/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:11:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961325/posts Snip: The majority of whites are completely unaware of the depth of distortion and myth dispersed on a daily basis against them in neighborhoods that are predominantly black. Many blacks are still engaged in a struggle that ended decades ago. They are still fighting to overcome. This explains their attachment to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It explains how a Neanderthal hate-group like the New Black Panther Party can arise. It also explains why they embrace the Obamas and scorn Justice Thomas and Rep. Allen West. White people are ignorant of the code language that permeates the black psyche and... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961325/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959684/posts CHICAGO (Reuters) - Jesse Jackson, Jr., a U.S. Congressman from Illinois, will remain under the care of physicians to manage and treat his depression, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Mayo Clinic. Jackson, who is reportedly under investigation for possible misuse of campaign funds, left the clinic in Rochester, Minnesota on Tuesday, according to Nicholas Hanson, a Mayo spokesman. "He and his family remain grateful for support and prayers offered and received on his behalf," Hanson said in the statement. Jackson is being treated for bipolar disorder, a psychological condition marked by extreme mood swings. The news follows... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959684/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:31:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2958474/posts The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday said that President Obama’s reelection was “a great victory,” but that it would be incomplete with a reconstruction of urban America and an investment in the communities where the blacks who voted overwhelmingly for the president live. “We’re happy and full of pride,” in the president’s reelection, Jackson told the crowd at the Saturday morning forum at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters, 930 E. 50th St., “but our houses remain raggedy … our schools remain closed.” Despite attempts at voter suppression in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, Jackson said, blacks turned out en masse to... WBBM-AM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2958474/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:36:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954090/posts America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration’s lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities. So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on “what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia,” a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islam’s stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of “McCarthyism,” hurling... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954090/posts#comment Sat, 3 Nov 2012 01:08:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2949798/posts Today at Freeport’s Sensata Technologies plant, civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson returned to rally with with soon-to-be out of work employees. Jackson spent most of the afternoon in "Bainport”, the makeshift campsite that's been home to Sensata employees and their supporters for the last 40 days. Things took a turn around 4:00 p.m. when Jackson and about a dozen workers decided to march onto company property, before being arrested by police. You may remember the plant is scheduled to close the day before the election, because around 170 jobs are being relocated to China. … WIFR, CBS 23, Rockford/Freeport IL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2949798/posts#comment Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:58:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945738/posts Jesse Jackson Jr. Says He’s ‘Not Well’ Rachel WeinerOctober 16, 2012 at 2:26 pmJackson told The Daily on Monday that he is “not well” and has doctor’s appointments twice a day at George Washington University Hospital. He was diagnosed with bipolar 2 disorder at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Jackson did not respond to questions about a criminal probe into allegations that he used campaign funds to redecorate his house. According to Gawker, Jackson Jr. was spotted drinking at the Bier Baron Tavern in Washington, D.C. two nights last week, with two different women. A server told The Daily that he had... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945738/posts#comment Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945234/posts In what's shaping out to be a pretty dreadful year for Jesse Jackson's Jr., the Chicago congressman who has been on medical leave for bipolar disorder is now the subject of a criminal investigation for misusing campaign money to spruce up his house. The Wall Street Journal's Devlin Barrett and Evan Perez report that a FBI probe of Jackson is in its "final stages ... according to people familiar with the matter," with the possibility of an indictment coming before the November election. The paper reports Jackson's attorneys tried to get assurances that an indictment wouldn't come before Nov. 6,... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2945234/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:22:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2944722/posts Marc Lamont HIll recently listed (in his opinion) 15 most overrated white people.… Referring to it as tongue and cheek on his twitter page…Although; I think he just used that as a cover just in case things got ugly. So since the likelihood of any white person daring to reply with their own black list is very slim, in our politically correct atmosphere. And would be most certainly called the dreaded “R” word (racist). I thought I would compile my own list of the 15 most overrated black people. Thurgood Marshall…As a Supreme Court Justice…. He is widely known as... Thy Black Man http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2944722/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:57:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939402/posts 'Matchmaker' Rev. Jeremiah Wright 'provided cover for gays' After nearly four years in office, many Americans still express frustration that much about Barack Obama remains a mystery as establishment media remain incurious about the Democratic president, while seemingly ready to dispatch crack investigative teams at a moment’s notice to probe into the personal lives of Republican figures such as Sarah Palin. Largely ignored in 2008 was research by the Hillary Clinton campaign based on contacts developed with members of the church Obama attended for two decades, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This is the first of a series... WND.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939402/posts#comment Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:33:36 GMT