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Nationalized Police: The Real Agenda Behind Baltimore Unrest
The New American ^ | 5/11/2015 | Alex Newman

Posted on 05/11/2015 4:09:51 PM PDT by HomerBohn

Behind the orchestrated riots that were allowed to strike Baltimore in recent weeks, and Ferguson, Missouri, before that, lies an agenda that has nothing to do with the fact that “Black Lives Matter.” As the Obama administration and more than a few race-mongers allied with the White House have already made clear, the real goal involves further chipping away at local self-government and community control over police departments — and expanding federal control over local law enforcement in its place. In between fanning the division and unrest with racialist rhetoric, Obama is also exploiting the chaos he is helping to create in a bid to advance everything from a greater government role in childrearing to increased wealth redistribution.

In recent weeks, as anyone who watches the news knows, parts of Baltimore went up in flames. But despite the appearance of spontaneity, with crowds sparked to riot by the suspicious death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the chaos was no accident. In fact, as The New American reported recently, city officials ordered police to “stand down” so that looters and rioters could have what the mayor described as “space to destroy.” And destroy they did, garnering headlines worldwide and giving Big Government-promoting race profiteers a giant platform to spew propaganda. Now that the “destroy” phase is over, politicians, and especially Obama, are coming out of the woodwork to advance their government “solutions.”

Late last week, for example, the Obama administration’s Justice Department announced that it would be launching an “investigation” of the Baltimore Police Department. Instead of investigating why the police were ordered to “stand down” and allow looters to assault innocent victims and burn down parts of the city, however, Obama’s controversial new attorney general, Loretta Lynch, has other matters in mind. Among other angles being probed, Lynch said the investigation would focus on allegations that local police — 50 percent black and controlled by a black mayor and a black police chief — engaged in “discriminatory policing.” Incredibly, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, as if to acknowledge her own incompetence while throwing the police department she leads under the bus, actually invited D.C. to come “help.”

Apparently Lynch also feels the Justice Department has a lead role to play in “fixing” Baltimore by further expanding the gargantuan federal footprint there — implicitly suggesting that the Obama administration believes Baltimore’s supermajority of black voters and their mostly black elected officials are incapable of doing it themselves. “Our goal is to work with the community, public officials, and law enforcement alike to create a stronger, better Baltimore,” the attorney general said, sounding oblivious to her actual constitutional duties and the subtle racism inherent in the idea that Baltimore needs federal “assistance” to sort out its local problems. Of course, allowing D.C. to further intrude into local issues will only make those problems worse — yet that is the plan.

Ironically, despite the establishment media’s efforts to conceal the fact, three of the officers charged in Gray’s death were black. The “racism” narrative, though, serves a number of important goals, and so it will continue to be shouted from the rooftops by race-mongers and the media, regardless of the facts. As if on cue, close Obama ally and race-profiteer Al Sharpton descended on the city and set out to dupe the people of Baltimore into believing that giving up their right to local self-government would somehow improve their police department. He called on the Justice Department to “take over policing in this country,” adding, “We’re going to have to fight states’ rights.” Sharpton, of course, is a frequent visitor at the White House.

In a recent article exposing as a fraud the racialist narrative promoted by Sharpton, Obama, and others, writer Selwyn Duke also exposed the logical fallacy behind the thinking that stripping the people of Baltimore of their right to control their own police would somehow help matters. “Our local-control model ensures that if we don’t like our town’s law-enforcement policies, we can vote for a different sheriff or mayor (who may appoint the police chief) next election,” he wrote. “Baltimore is a prime example. If blacks don’t have a police force to their liking in a city with a black mayor, black police chief, and mostly black politicians — voted into office by a population 70 percent black — how will it help if their law-enforcement policy is determined by federal officials voted into office by a national population 87 percent non-black?”

Regardless of the flawed logic or the U.S. Constitution’s limitations on federal power, though, the Obama administration’s agenda to federalize law enforcement and build up a massive new domestic “security” force using any conceivable pretext is hardly new. In fact, it has been apparent since before the presidential election. “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we set,” Obama said while running for the presidency. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” And indeed, in between attacks on police, the administration has been working feverishly toward those radical anti-constitutional goals.

More recently, Obama has openly promoted various schemes to nationalize police departments, including foisting federal “standards” on local and state police in exchange for bribes from Washington, D.C. Critics ridiculed the plot as “Common Core for police,” a reference to the Obama-backed national school standards being used to nationalize and globalize the education system. In many respects, it is a similar strategy. In addition, United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon even demanded last year that American police follow what he described as “international standards.” An Obama “task force” created with an executive order also recommended more federal control of law enforcement. In March, the administration announced six cities that would be used for a “pilot” program to essentially usurp local control of police under various pretexts.

In Baltimore, Obama again wasted no time in pushing his agenda. In fact, on May 1, before the smoke had even cleared, the White House, citing Baltimore’s riots, announced a new unconstitutional “grant” program for local police forces — as if a lack of federal funding for police from a deeply indebted, out of control, and practically bankrupt government was the problem in Baltimore or anywhere else. Separately, another one of Obama’s first reactions to the unrest in Baltimore was to whip up hysteria over race and class. “If we’re just looking at it as policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” Obama proclaimed, citing “opportunity gaps” that make it harder for blacks to succeed. “Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth, and they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge.”

Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) even blamed Obama and his constant efforts to drive “wedges” between people for sparking the riots in Baltimore. Obama allies, such as billionaire statist George Soros, who bankrolled Ferguson’s chaos; as well as race-monger Sharpton, who pours fuel on race fires; and the establishment media, which justifies rioting and violence, have also been critically necessary in promoting the establishment narrative. Whether black Americans have legitimate grievances is not the point — all Americans have legitimate grievances, considering that their elected officials in D.C. and state capitols across America swear an oath to uphold the Constitution before trampling all over it. What is happening in America is about grievances that are being exploited, along with countless Americans, to advance a sinister agenda.

There is a reason that billionaire totalitarian Soros showered millions of dollars on “activists” to descend on Ferguson. There is a reason outside agitators went to Baltimore to whip up unrest. There is a reason the mayor ordered police to stand down. There is a reason the Obama administration and its allies are fanning the flames. There is a reason that the establishment is exploiting every conceivable fault line — “race,” “gender,” “socio-economic status,” police versus community, and more — to sow division among the American people. It has nothing to do with the undeniable fact that black lives, and all lives, matter — and has everything to do with lawlessly empowering the out-of-control federal leviathan even further.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2015; 201505; americangestapo; baltimore; baltimoreriots; blackkk; centralsocialistgovt; elijahcummings; evilobamaregime; federalpolice; freddiegray; maryland; nationalpolice; newamerican; policestate; rioting; riots
Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Mr. Obama's Neighborhood. Can you say 'gestapo'? Sure you can.
1 posted on 05/11/2015 4:09:51 PM PDT by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

They want Socialist Justice.


2 posted on 05/11/2015 4:20:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: HomerBohn

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake spoke with President Obama by phone on Monday afternoon as the situation exploded. Does anyone think that Obama gave the word to Rawlings-Blake to stand down her officers? With a federalized police force, Obama would only have to call his director.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 4:26:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental deficiency: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: HomerBohn

If we are not headed toward a dictatorship, what are we headed toward?


4 posted on 05/11/2015 4:29:11 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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5 posted on 05/11/2015 4:31:04 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: HomerBohn

the key thing is this.....

installing the SS/SA/NationalPolice/KGB/Stasi

black lives DO matter to most of us, as do white and purple lives

but black lives matter NOT ONE WHIT to Obama/Sharpton/Holder/Wright and company. Or they would not have messed up so many black people’s opportunities to build good, successful lives for themselves (destroying the American economy, promoting a welfare state that keeps blacks in economic chains, etc.)

black lives do NOT matter to Obama/Sharpton/Holder and company. They only want to finish building their racist, IslamoNazi dictatorship to control and subjugate America (all of America, not just the black people they already so cleverly manipulate and control)


6 posted on 05/11/2015 4:34:09 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“When the righteous are in authority, people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, people groan)
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To: HomerBohn

7 posted on 05/11/2015 4:34:12 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: luvbach1
If we are not headed toward a dictatorship, what are we headed toward?

Hopefully, but not probably, a cleansing revolution that will 'reset' (kudos to Hitlery) our nation to 1912 in respect to elimination of most of an overbearing central socialist government and a judiciary that is completely out of control.

8 posted on 05/11/2015 4:37:20 PM PDT by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: luvbach1

“If we are not headed toward a dictatorship, what are we headedd toward?”

A President Cruz and the Restoration of America!


9 posted on 05/11/2015 4:40:33 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: HomerBohn

bkmk


10 posted on 05/11/2015 4:54:23 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: HomerBohn

Boiled down federalizing the police force is simple.

A cop will have trouble killing people in his own neighborhood. BUT, send him to a neighborhood in another state and he feels no such guilt.

I hope I’m wrong but I ain’t.


11 posted on 05/11/2015 4:57:47 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: HomerBohn
We saw this before. It was named the Geheime Staatspolizei (aka Gestapo).

It fit right in nicely with the methods and plans of another racist dictator a few decades ago.

12 posted on 05/11/2015 5:15:59 PM PDT by Gritty (The more we submit to violent jihadi intimidation, the more we are going to get-Robert Spencer)
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To: HomerBohn

Yes, and every leftist knows it and knows what he must do to make it happen. Politicians know what to say and the media knows what to hype and what to hide.


13 posted on 05/11/2015 5:23:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: HomerBohn

I think it was Michael Savage who brought up the case of Miriam Carey. A black single mother takes what is likely a wrong turn in near the White House, with her toddler in the car seat behind her. She’s shot by Capitol Police.
The feds have stonewalled the investigation. Her family has the baby but no answers.
But she wasn’t shot by a white cop, so her black life doesn’t matter.


14 posted on 05/11/2015 7:54:15 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Old Sarge; EnigmaticAnomaly; Califreak; kalee; TWhiteBear; freeangel; Godzilla; ...
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Nationalized Police: The Real Agenda Behind Baltimore Unrest

Check out article, and # 14.

15 posted on 05/12/2015 5:10:59 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: luvbach1
If we are not headed toward a dictatorship, what are we headed toward?

The American people (at least the non libtards ) would never stand for a dictatorship...

One can argue we are in a very soft dictatorship at the moment...mostly due to spineless republicans, but 2016 is not far away...

Just like in 2010, 2012, 2014 we will continue to vote to clean out the sewer that is DC...

16 posted on 05/12/2015 6:44:34 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

Hope you’re right, Popman, in your post #16.


17 posted on 05/12/2015 10:37:41 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the ping Lucy!

While I’m relieved to see that others have picked up on the real agenda, the fact that this is happening at all is chilling.


18 posted on 05/13/2015 6:01:32 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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