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Cornel West: ‘All Our Phones Are Tapped’
Pajamas Media ^ | 10/22/2014 | NICHOLAS BALLASY

Posted on 10/22/2014 7:55:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON – Author and political activist Cornel West told an audience that the criminal justice system in America is criminal itself, calling out JP Morgan president/CEO Jamie Dimon.

“The criminal justice system in America is itself criminal. You’ve got Wall Street criminals walking free, sipping tea at the White House. Jamie Dimon, we might as well call names,” said West during a speech and book signing at Busboys & Poets in Washington on Thursday.

“What does he do? He basically negotiates how much he wants to pay given his criminality and then writes it off as a tax write-off. And Jamal gets caught with a crack bag. Latisha gets caught with marijuana and she’s off to jail – that’s a crime against humanity,” West also said.

The former Princeton University professor slammed the federal government’s use of drones overseas.

“Drones are dropping bombs on innocent people as if a baby in Somalia or Pakistan doesn’t have the same status and significance as a baby in Washington, D.C.,” West said. “I don’t care how many folks say that somehow an American baby has more value than a baby in Ethiopia or Guatemala. It’s just not true. It’s a lie. They all have equal value. It’s a crime when you kill innocent people – 500 Palestinian babies killed. Where’s the voice of indignation?”

West was also critical of the National Security Agency (NSA). President Obama has said the federal government is not listening in on private phone conversations, but West begs to differ.

“Wiretappers walking fee, violating the law. Of course all our phones are tapped. I know mine is. I just sing a little Curtis Mayfield, no thing on me. ‘I’m so glad I’ve got my own. So glad that I can see. My life is a natural high.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cornelwest; phonetapping; west; wiretapping; wiretaps
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1 posted on 10/22/2014 7:55:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The criminal justice system in America is itself criminal.

Can't actually argue with that.

2 posted on 10/22/2014 7:56:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Funny that he did not mention any Israeli babies......


3 posted on 10/22/2014 7:57:25 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a procedural question:

Why would anyone tap Cornel West’s phone? Does he have anything to say privately that he doesn’t already embarrass himself with publicly?


4 posted on 10/22/2014 7:57:44 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: SeekAndFind

THey are just keeping it real in the District of Criminals.


5 posted on 10/22/2014 7:58:10 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON – Author and political activist Cornel West told an audience that the criminal justice system in America is criminal itself, calling out JP Morgan president/CEO Jamie Dimon.

Uh, >>ahem<< Barack Obama and Eric Holder ??

6 posted on 10/22/2014 7:59:13 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: relictele

“Why would anyone tap Cornel West’s phone? “

Because he criticized the Dear Leader.


7 posted on 10/22/2014 8:00:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: relictele
I have another procedural question:

Mr. West, when you ordered your pizza last night, why did you not add the anchovies like you usually do ?

8 posted on 10/22/2014 8:01:18 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the Regime has lost Cornel West, they are in deep dodo, as if Department of Injustice was not run by Holder. Cornel will change his tune when Holder joins JPM.


9 posted on 10/22/2014 8:01:19 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: relictele

Is this the guy who thought a rap video would get him tenure at Harvard and he got in a snit when Larry Summers told him it wasn’t scholarly?

The only reason to tap that phone is to give the LEOs a humor break.


10 posted on 10/22/2014 8:01:57 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: SeekAndFind; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

11 posted on 10/22/2014 8:02:12 AM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: SeekAndFind

West off his meds again?


12 posted on 10/22/2014 8:12:38 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet most babies in D.C. are aborted.


13 posted on 10/22/2014 8:22:59 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: SeekAndFind

All Our Phones Are Tapped.....All Our Phones “BE” Tapped....there fixed it!!!


14 posted on 10/22/2014 8:31:01 AM PDT by ontap
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To: SeekAndFind
Technically speaking, Hussein's job is espionage. So, this is to be expected.

Plus we know how much the peaceful mohamicidal killers love to use cell phones to commit mohamicide.

15 posted on 10/22/2014 8:32:16 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jimmy Carter said his e-mail communications are monitored.

What’s up with liberal types who are sympathetic to Obama saying their phones are tapped and e-mail spied upon???


16 posted on 10/22/2014 8:35:04 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: SeekAndFind
>"Jamal gets caught with a crack bag. Latisha gets caught with marijuana and she’s off to jail – that’s a crime against humanity,” West also said. "

This is PROOF Hussein is NOT BLACK!

If that sumbeech was a brother, this injustice would have been Job 1 Day 1 till it was fixed!

17 posted on 10/22/2014 8:36:17 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I support carters email being made public if for no reason but the entertainment value


18 posted on 10/22/2014 8:36:57 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the catalytic moment we’ve been waiting for.
we’re going to raise a lot of money.

those two sentences kinda tell the whole story of Cornell West, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc.,etc.,.


19 posted on 10/22/2014 8:42:39 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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20 posted on 10/22/2014 8:48:24 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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