SubscribeAl Sharpton Vows To ‘Close The City Down’
From his fans at the Associated Press:
Rev. Al Sharpton vows to ‘close the city down’ after cops’ acquittal in Bell trial
Friday, April 25th 2008
They waited for hours, singing spirituals, praying and chanting for justice, but in a flash, the crowd gathered outside a Queens courthouse Friday erupted in anger and grief.
Men cursed and shouted. Women wailed and covered their faces. “Oh, no! No!” they yelled, as word spread that three police officers had been cleared of all charges in the 50-bullet shooting that took Sean Bell’s life on his wedding day in 2006.
To some, the acquittal seemed like more proof that blacks can’t get a fair shake in the criminal justice system…
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who represented the Bell family, angrily denounced the verdicts on his radio show later and called on his followers to protest the outcome, but without violence.
He vowed to lead a campaign of “economic withdrawal” and civil disobedience that could include demonstrations at police headquarters and outside the judge’s home.
“We are coming back to demonstrate to the federal government that New Yorkers will not take this abortion of justice lying down,” Sharpton said. “We are going to close the city down in a nonviolent, effective way.” …
Bell was black, but so were two of the three officers charged in the shooting, including the one who fired the first shot…
Supporters of the Bell family began arriving early at the courthouse. Few were able to get inside. Most waited in a long line on the sidewalk, leaning against police barricades.
A few carried signs reading “Justice for Sean Bell.” One group held a banner proclaiming, “50 Shots. 50 More Reasons We Need Revolution.” …
Word spread immediately to the crowd outside, and the reaction was intense.
William Hardgraves, 48, an electrician from Harlem who brought his 12-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter to hear the verdict, paced angrily.
“I hoped it would be different this time. They shot him 50 times,” Hardgraves said. “But of course, it wasn’t.”
Calvin Hunt of Harlem shared his anger.
“This was a disgrace, what happened today,” he said…
How is it that a threat to “close the city down” is not considered domestic terrorism?
It might be also instructive to look at some of the people who were demonstrating, and what they really want.
The “People’s Organization For Progress” lists the following demands on their website:
Core Demands of the Political Platform of the People’s Organization for Progress
1. We demand reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in America. We want full and just compensation to all African Americans for the centuries of brutalization and forced labor that their ancestors were made to endure.
3. We demand an end to police brutality, and demand the establishment of elected civilian review and control boards with subpoena and prosecutorial powers over all police forces at all levels in the U.S.
4. We demand an immediate end to all racial inequity and racial discrimination in all areas of life in the U.S.
5. We demand the immediate creation of jobs programs that will eliminate unemployment and provide jobs at union ages [sic] for every person that is willing and able to work.
5. We demand a guaranteed minimum income for all people of working age that will allow them to adequately support themselves and their families and eliminate poverty and hunger in this country.
6. We demand the establishment of a system of universal free health care in the U.S. which will enable all people to receive adequate and proper medical and dental care at all times.
7. We demand the establishment of a system of free higher education that will enable all students to attend colleges and universities free of charge.
8. We demand that all federal government fully subsidize all child care programs so that working parents will not longer have to pay for this service.
9. We demand the abolition of the death penalty.
10. We demand adequate food, clothing, housing, employment, health care, education, legal represenation [sic], recreation and culture for every person in the United States of America.
Anything else? Nothing about pillows being properly fluffed?
There really is no pleasing some people.
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April 26th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Core Demands of the Political Platform of the People’s Organization for Progress
OR…. Core Demands of the Political Platform of the 9th Ward of New Orleans
OR…. Core Demands of the Political Platform of the United Trinity Church
They’ve got one thing right though, it is getting to be time for a damn revolution!
April 26th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I highly recommend reading their “Constitution” on their website. Their inability to use the English language is hilarious. Well…I suppose it would be funny if it was actually a joke and not a communist front group.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:55 am
How about demanding just seventh grade English classes for them as well as for their supporters?
How else to explain that none of them nor any of their followers have noticed how badly mangled the text of their “constitution” is?
April 26th, 2008 at 3:02 am
“The Rev. Al Sharpton, who represented the Bell family…”
When did Al get his law license?
Core Demands By Noymakr
(1) I demand that everyone in this country be here legally and pay for their own food, shelter, education, healthcare and any other desire they may have.
(2) I demand that only tax payers vote.
See that look on that face. I see that look everyday. For no reason. Angry at the world because something didn’t go there way or they didn’t get what they think they deserved.
It’s really sad that the genius of our founders has nearly been undone by the ignorant few.
The day is soon coming when our cultural parasites will have to be culled or the body of our country will wither and die. The disease of entitlement that has infected this great nation has now become a raging virus that cannot be cured and we are no longer immune. The lack of reverence for our creator, the utter destruction and radicalization of our education system has reaped us the harvest of mindless self indulgence and ignorance that will finally be the death of our republic.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Great post Noyz……I concur wholeheartedly.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:56 am
WE DEMAND that all complaining “negroes” be allowed to fly BACK to African country of Origin. Taxpayers expense, of course just to make things “fair”. Let’s put it on the Ballot in 2008 in every election across the fruited plain and let’s hear the will of the people! ROFLMAO
April 26th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Since when did it become someone elses job to ensure other people get a job? If you are willing, there are more than enough ways to make money in the US, that’s why so many come from other countries (LEGALLY, of course). Why is it my job to make sure they have a job? I see a lot of people standing around the street corner with fancy clothes and their friends talking on cell phones, right next to the Labor Ready building that can’t find enough people to fill open positions daily. I’m confused. It’s about as rediculous as when the ILLEGALS protested and marched in this country, then turned violent in many cases. Sharpton is a load of steaming dung on the workboot of life, what a cod smoker. I’m ready for the white masses to go to the street and march, oh wait, we’re too busy working our asses off to pay for these asshats demands.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Didn’t Rome fall because of similar problems? While America is not in as bad a shape as Rome was at the end, the trend is definitely there.
Once you start down the path of Bosniafication of the populace, each with separate demands and wants, the country starts to fall apart. Without common heritage, ideals and aspirations, the country cannot stay together and civil war results. We are on our way with this kind of crap. Black Liberation Theology and Barrack Hussein Obama is just the tip of an ugly iceberg.
Looks like the Democrat party wants their original “terror wing” back in operation, from the photos. I doubt most even know the history of the KKK, much less who it was that founded it or kept it going for a hundred years. The answer might surprise some.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Al must be losing his touch…I’d have thought that by now half of New York City would be burning.
I guess that fat blowhard isn’t the force he thinks he is.
Shame we can’t keep losers like Sharpton and that group “Peoples Organization for Progress” in New York and out of the United States…but those moroons will spread like kudzu anyplace there’re idiots and those willing to follow big mouthed creeps. Speaks pretty poorly of the level of intellectual development of the *ahem* “inner city” that they’re born and bred followers of big mouthed hate mongers like Sharpton, Jackson and Wright. I could say more, but I’d like to see how this all turns out.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:36 am
As a southerner, I would like to apologize for slavery.
Although my family never owned slaves and it’s clear we worked side by side in the fields with them, we should have worked harder. About 8 percent of southerners owned slaves.
This apology is to the hard working Americans that don’t expect something for nothing. Those that may believe God when He said, ‘if you don’t work, neither shall you eat.’
I apologize for us not picking our own damn cotton.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Sharpton cares about as much about real black problems as I do about Croatian
rugby– in other words, not at all.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
4USA
It’s funny you should use that quote form II Thessalonians. It continues, “For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.” Thats so fitting here.
This list is so pathetic. All I hear is the only way they can have something is if they take it from someone else.
There’s nothing we can do to cool their anger and no reparations will settle what (let’s try to comprehend) ended 150 years ago. Racism and the black community are just tools to create unrest and ignite a socialist revolution in the U.S. According to many local blacks in Baltimore, even entitlement programs are somehow part of white conspiracies. Their arguments can be so ridiculous and self-contradicting because they’re not educated but brainwashed. Classic commie hordes and useful idiots.
I was reading the Rush story on http://www.commondreams.org/ . It’s interesting to read and check out all the links to similar propaganda outlets. These Groups are so widespread and actually control many local governments in big cities. But our so-called free press doesn’t think they’re worth covering. It’s because they’re in cahoots and work to keep this “news” from the American people. When they talk about the poor repressed blacks and their well intentioned leaders it makes me sick. It’s just a bunch of lies meant to keep us disarmed and demoralized. What I see in the real world is so drastically different and this censorship by omission is a crime.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Where is demand number 2?
“economic withdrawal”
All those welfare checks will go un cashed? Right!
April 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
GuppyNblue - I went there and have just dashed off a note to Mr Spangnuolo concerning his ‘illiterate Rush listeners’ remark. . .
Dez - I am on a similar thought plane -’He vowed to lead a campaign of “economic withdrawal”’- How can you economic withdrawal, if you have nothing?!? Ricki you gots some splaining to do…
from their (POP) constitution preamble: -’the transformation of the individual through involvement in the struggle for human liberation’- someone really needs to explain to them that with education, a strong legal and/or moral code/foundation and working hard (even if it is just to raise their own children and keep their own ‘home’ clean and kept up) - is what transforms the individual positively which then translate into a positive community movement which then make society move positively -
and finally from their demands -’We demand reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in America’ - Start with Africa because 1) if it weren’t for their cooperation it may have been harder, if not impossible for using Africans as slaves to get started or continue and 2) in 2008, Africa is still the leader in slave/slavery - America was the first country to outlaw it. . .
Education people - this what POP and the current elevation of Obama The Movement to massiah status indicates that the key to American survival is - to educate the children - so that they can understand stupidity, hypocracy, and lies when they see them. . .
4USA - what these people are not educated enough (nor even care enough) to know is that every people have been conquered, humiliated, or conquered some other people - as they continue to prove with all this hate and blaming the ‘other’ guy - it appears to be human nature. We can not burden ourselves with guilt and blame for historical happenings - we need to Learn from those happenings, not Repeat Intentional acts to harm others and attempt to move forward toward a better World. Not a OneGlobalWorldofPeaceandHarmony - as who gets to decide what is the ONE? but a World where each Individual lives, works and helps his or her portion of the World be a better place for all People.
I refuse to apologise for something I did not do, I will not be held accountable for something that I did not do and I will not feel guilty for something I did not do. And if those people can’t believe that I don’t hate them simply because of their color then they are the problem, not I. . .
[And finally, could someone tell how in the name of God - do blacks qualify for the KKK - even if they are COPs?!?] It must be some form of new insanity in America -
April 26th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Noyz is RIGHT ON!
I like your #2 should be #1.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I just found this pic on the NY Post (via michaelsavage.com). I could have saved my earlier comment as this sums it up better.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04.....hoto08.htm
April 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Well, GNB, a pic does say a thousand words. The problem is they have a lot of grey area to work around towards their advantage with the current system. Declaring a revolution would define a problem that could be easily dealt with, which is not in their best interest. Besides, what revolution? Viva revolution? Whose going to lead it, sharpton? jackson? The non hate group black panthers? Can someone define this revolution for me, is it against the police? They would lose that one. Also, there were black police officers involved too, so are they going to strike out against part of the black community?
April 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“To some, the acquittal seemed like more proof that blacks can’t get a fair shake in the criminal justice system…”
I agree. The case against those black detectives should have never gone to trial. The DA should be ashamed of himself.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
@ Bill
My thoughts exactly.
And looking at the “core demands”: if you take away the first three that are USA-specific, the rest of it seems to have been taken straight from some radical communist manifesto.
Lenin, Stalin, Pol-pot and their kin promised all of that to their nations and we all know how it all ended.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
“the descendants of Africans enslaved in America”
That isn’t Obama is it?
April 26th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
“‘Close The City Down’”
Are we absolutely sure that would be bad?
April 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
U NO HOO
Close it down, wall it up and throw some dirt on it . As for the reparation money, the checks in the mail.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I think Hank Williams Jr. said it best when he sang in his 1982 release of “If Heaven Ain’t A Lot Like Dixie”;
“Just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me”.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
4. We demand an immediate end to all racial inequity and racial discrimination in all areas of life in the U.S.
They are against affirmative action?
April 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
The problem we have is simple. As long as you let people DEMAND anything and get it, then you’ve started down a slippery slope. Our white-guilt, vis-a-vis slavery, has brought us to this dismal state of affairs. Couple that with the Marxist-Democrats that crave power and you’ve got a mess.
There is a portion of society understands responsibility and there’s a portion of society that wants no responsibility and someone else to do it for them. Why do they want someone else to do it for them? Because someone has told them they aren’t capable of doing it for themselves.
“You’re not at fault for that impulse that you have to knock someone in the head and steal.” “The reason you’re not at fault is because your great-great grand-parents were slaves.” “Every single white person that has anything in life got it because some other white person gave it to them over you.” “Don’t even consider the fact that there are more (other) white people that have less than you.” “The white people that have anything, either stole it (like you should do), or had it given to them (damn America), or had it bequeathed to them from the slavery that your great-great-grandfather actually earned.”
People of all colors need to learn one basic tenant: You may be riding a bus today and driving a Mercedes-Benz tomorrow, if you work hard. Or…you may be driving a Mercedes-Benz today and riding a bus tomorrow, if you don’t. Believe me, there are a lot of examples both ways. The problem is, some people only see the Mercedes-Benz (and the color of the skin driving it) not realizing that the people driving it, were riding the bus last month.
Thanks to Hollywood and the press, poor people think it’s always the same people!
April 26th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
The 50 bullets 50 reasons for a Revolution banner is taken from an old article put out by the Revolutionary Communist Party. So I gues POP is just a front group for the RCP which if you look them up have a history of promoting violence.
The article is on the front page of rwor.org.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
The whole “core demands” seems like something out of an idealist communist state. If they got what they wanted our economy would be hemmoraging red so fast we probably could never get back into the black. I’d also like to know how they plan to figure out who “owes” them reparations. I’d like to see the case the present as how I owe them money. My maternal side were scraping out a living on the poland/russia border till early in the 1900’s and my father’s side were french-canadian trappers who tended to marry into local tribes or were from the flanders region of belgium and came her in the early 1900’s also. How in the hell am I responsible for oppression of them.
And the idea of civilian oversite boards with the power to prosecute any police officer is just stupid. I can just see it now being infested with “civilians” that will sue and toss cops in jail for busting their nephew/son or whatever because the cop arrested them for selling dope then shooting the idiot when said criminal/drug dealer decides it is a good idea to kill the cop(s).
It seems like if your black and commit a crime your innocent even if there is evidence your guilty as sin. This seems especially so if the victim was white or at least one of the cops was white, it instantly becomes a matter of racism and the police attacking blacks.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You have to wonder who Sharpton will get away with killing this time; or inciting to have Killed this time.
Senator Barack Obama : “Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.”
there’s that ‘change’ and “bottom up” poetry again.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:21 am
““Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed.”
Voiceless? Are they mutes? I can hear the bastrds screaming from here.
Dispossessed? Did the good Rev. Sharpton perform and exorcism on them?
3. We demand an end to police brutality, and demand the establishment of elected civilian review and control boards with subpoena and prosecutorial powers over all police forces at all levels in the U.S.
It’s called the judicial system. Idiots!
April 27th, 2008 at 1:45 am
heh Noyz- Sharpton - Obammy- Wright- they are all complicated parasites.
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April 27th, 2008 at 3:02 am
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April 27th, 2008 at 8:15 am
The only thing reverand al should try to close down, and for his own damn good, is a few BK’s and maybe a couple of Krispy Kremes.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The list has motherhood (8) and apple pie (10) covered but I think it missed Chevrolet.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Its simple, as long as there are white people that are receptive to the “guilt laying” of black people, blacks will continue to get the goods without producing anything. Its a tool that they have been successfully using for decades and they will continue to do so as long as it works for them.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I’d like to know how much the fat pimp/chimp Sharpton really cares about justice. I don’t seem to remember his fat ass showing up here in Los Angeles thirteen years ago when O. J. walked away from an obvious pair of murders.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
As some one from NYC, who also works here and I have been around a bit I see some mis-guided hatred for NYC in the rant of some of the above. While I have agreed with some of you in the past your failure to see that NYC did the right and correct thing here. Else where in this country I have seen much worse down south, midwest and west where the judicial process would have hung these officers up for doing their job. I have met one of the officers in passing since he is friend of friend in the same Reserve Unit I just hope his run through of politically correct law system does not hurt or sour him seemed like a good police officer and a good Army Officer too (oh btw he was one of the two, bet he really loves A. S.).
April 28th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I for one think the NYC judicial system worked as it should in this case.
I wouldn’t say I “hate” NYC though. I do think many there are elitist. That may be becuase I’m a typical white, bitter, southerner who clings to his God and guns.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Well I am an elitist New Yorker but for the most part most of those people who you insinuate as being a New Yorker are form another state and now that they are here act like they are better than other etc, inflate the housing market by pushing the housing market up here, while claiming they are for the little guy. Then they support the rent control and stabilization that is throw back which takes off the market housing thus inflating the regular market. My wish is they stay away get a regular job (mind you the same people have ruined other great places too Aspen CO for one) New York is home to some of the great originator of the capitalist state ie Hamilton who is buried down town at trinity church and we have guns god etc here too, but don’t want some clown on the street shoving it down our throat. And as for A.S. he could not get elected here as dog catcher no one here except for the select few respect him.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
BaghdadRunner, You don’t sound like an elitist NY’er to me and I’ll have to agree with you on the housing market. Many northeners come to my state of NC and drive our housing prices through the roof, especially our coastal communities. I lived on Topsail island, NC for several years and the “yankees” were out bidding locals by thousands of dollars for beachfront homes that were selling for less than $200,000 that are now selling for close to a million. Taking over the county boards and education boards and forcing their liberal policies down our throats. We’re a little tired of the carpet baggers.
Al Sharpton is a joke and if the NYPD would just arrest his lard ass for inciting violence or the conspiracy to incite violence they could end his career today. Al could stand another stint in jail, he needs to lose weight again.