Posted on 10/21/2015 2:47:02 AM PDT by markomalley
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A 2012 sting nabbed 5 Occupy Wall Street protesters, foiling their plot to blow up an Ohio Bridge. Two separate ISIS-inspired bomb plots have been disrupted in Queens, New York this year alone. So naturally, when CBS’ Limitless needed a terrorist organization to build and detonate a dirty bomb, they chose one of the left’s favorites: an anti-government “militia.”
Although the episode doesn’t explicitly call the group racist, they are a “hate group” named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Civil War general who later “served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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Harris: Getting back to the occupant, Norris Allen, I looked into his criminal records. He did time for arson, and he joined up with the Sons of Nathan Bedford Forrest when he was in jail. He was also thrown into solitary for rigging up a bomb with stuff he stole from a janitor.
Pouran: The Sons of Nathan Bedford Forrest call themselves a militia. These are not drug dealers.
Harris: We don’t think this is a drug deal. The chemicals used to synthesize meth can also be used to make explosives.
Pouran: They’re planning on something in New York.
Boyle: They refer to our city as Sodom on their chat boards, so yeah.
Pouran: I’m looping in the counter-terror SAC so we can check any recent chatter. What does the kid in custody say? Did he say anything?
Boyle: So far, nothing. He won’t talk to us.
Harris: He won’t talk to me or Boyle. There’s only one person he asked to see.
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Harper: They say if I don’t want to do a bunch of time, I have to tell them all about my brother.
Finch: What are you going to do?
Harper: I don’t even know what I can tell you. I have no idea where Sam is, but I know that he’s not a terrorist. He goes on websites, pops off about the government. That’s all just noise.
If only it were just noise. As the episode reveals, Sam (Brady Dowad) has been stealing radioactive material from a local hospital to build his bomb. The “anti-government militia” nearly succeeds, only stopped because Sam’s brother Chris (Derek Goh) agrees to work with the FBI, unknowingly sacrificing his own life in the process.
Limitless has already given viewers a corporate CEO who resorts to murder when his government grants are threatened. Last night’s “militia” was just the next clichéd, liberal bogeyman on the writers’ list. I won’t hold my breath for a plot more grounded in reality.
We were recording the episodes of Limitless to give us time to determine the underlying agenda, if any. Thanks for the heads up . . the show will be taken off our dvr list. We’re sick of the liberal agenda dominating our prime-time viewing.
Now you know why dont watch network TV .......
IF this group is really a bunch of racists/white supremacists then I think they should have done a little more research on NBF before naming themselves after him.
As I understand it, he parted ways with the KKK when they switched from opposing Reconstruction to launching raids attacking blacks.
They should consider naming my themselves after a REAL white supremacist — Woodrow Wilson, perhaps.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was later a Democratic politician.
Oops! This is a male-believe show.
I was thinking Limitless was another network “news” show like 60 mi it’s, or something.
I think I need another cup of coffee...
...or even a make believe show...
The libs cannot see that this show romanticizes drug use... You can be a loser turned winner by popping a pill.
Where’s jack bauer when you need him
Hmmm, I wonder who they are basing the character on?
In 1875 Forrest was invited to address a meeting of the Independent Order of Pole Bearers, an early black civil rights organization in Memphis, at their Fourth of July barbecue on July 5. Forrest was told by many whites that he should not accept, but Forrest went. Just before he spoke he was presented a bouquet of flowers by Miss Flora Lewis, a daughter of one of the members of the Pole Bearers. Here is Forrest’s speech.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the Southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God’s earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. (Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man, to depress none.
(Applause.)
I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going. I have not said anything about politics today. I don’t propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office. I did not come here to make you a long speech, although invited to do so by you. I am not much of a speaker, and my business prevented me from preparing myself. I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I’ll come to your relief. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this opportunity you have afforded me to be with you, and to assure you that I am with you in heart and in hand.” (Prolonged applause.)
After the speech Forrest thanked Miss Lewis for the bouquet and kissed her on the cheek. This type of familiarity between the races in public was almost unheard of at the time. Forrest’s speech was probably motivated by his desire to become a Christian. As his health faltered and his time on Earth grew short, Forrest sought to make amends for some of his deeds, and I think this speech was part of his attempt. This speech was also the last appearance at a public event by Forrest as a speaker.
{From “The American Catholic” website, 6 AUG 2010)
He did indeed, but the real NBF was far too complex a character to fit the cliche needed by the Left, so they reduce the man to a cipher NBF = KKK and nothing more. The ignorance, willful and not so willful, of the media about history is sickening.
Interesting anecdote about NBF.
Or Robert Byrd.
Thanks! Not another episode. You just saved me an hour.
Real estate developers trying to scare people? Fox’s Gotham uses every SCOOBY DOO plot as the basis of storylines?
Doesn’t sound like a winner to me.
What next, a plot line about mailing an angry letter that someone has to break into a mailbox/office to retrieve before it is read? Didn’t even Seinfeld go down that path with an answering machine message that had to be retrieved from someone’s apartment?
The writers were already beginning to mail it in by copying the police procedural template with an overlaid gimmick. The show is dead to me.
It sounds like they are taking a page from the Law and Order playbook. Which made all their criminals white. Blacks were always judges, lawyers, cops, doctors, honor roll students, and naturally, victims of white racism, they were never criminals.
Hollywood libtards just can’t help themselves. They ruined Revolution — an otherwise pretty good scifi show — by making the bad guys “patriots.” IOW...it was conservative TEA Party types who destroyed civilization.
I wouldn't say never were the criminal, but the episodes where they were are rare indeed, likely just enough to avoid accusations of bias (left wingers are adept at that)...
the infowarrior
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