Posted on 01/06/2018 4:54:15 PM PST by yoe
Keith Ellison is Minnesotas Fifth District Congressman and the Democratic Partys deputy chairman. Weve followed his rise since he won the DFL nomination to run for the Fifth District seat in 2006 in ( Louis Farrakhans first congressman) (October 9, 2006), in the companion Power Line post (Keith Ellison for dummies,) and in (The Ellison elision) (February 3, 2014).
Most recently, I revisited this history in the context of Ellisons national ambitions in (The trouble with Keith Ellison) (November 21, 2016) and in the Power Line post
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Understand islam, you understand ellison.
Speaking of inappropriate sexual behavior in 2013 the MN NE came out in support of allowing some, just SOME mind you registered sex offenders to work in the public schools (A Modest Proposal, anyone?) Keith Ellison, the FIRST House member to take his oath of office on a Koran supports this. What does this tell us?
I undstabd he’s a erater!!!!
Anti-Semitic, anti-American. Nothing more to know.
I think the Democrat Party is shifting. they have taken in every freaky fringe group including Islam, and now Islam is starting to dominate parts of the party. We saw this in Obama’s own staff. New Age Democrats see Islam as compatible with their goals and aspirations. And I think there is money behind it.
He is an enemy of the US. Is he MB?
Is he MB?
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MB, you mean Brotherhood?
Better watch out, gender specificity you know.
Will the MB address this gender misappropriation?
Hah!
Yeah, Muslim Brotherhood. I’ll bet he has ties.
Keith Ellison is just the lead person for imposing Shariah Law in the United States, by supporting enabling legislation in the House, and proselytizing for its adoption among the voter base.
As it turns out, though, Shariah Law is almost diametrically opposed to the provisions of the US Constitution, and conflicts with the legal code in almost every other country in the world that is not Muslim majority. It is the law code of persons of a loose tribal confederation, not of a civilized nation, and is enforced pretty much at the whim of the local hierarchy of the Islamic theocracy, lacking in coherence and consistent application. No mercy, no appeal, and no real justice.
And damned sure, no compromise with conflicting codes of law.
I doubt the democraps will ever be able to come back from a muslin DNC chair and a muslin president.
It’s not really much of a stretch to “understand” this demon of a man...he’s a muslim...a leftist/communist/socialist/racist leaning monster.
How he got into Congress is a total mystery.
He a composite of Obama and ferriknan, America-hating, bitter, whitey-hating, muslim.
Understand him? It’s enough just being able to STAND him.
Ellison is a muzloid, and his loyalties lie in islam.
That he actually won an election speaks volumes about the residents of Minnesota...none of it good.
Everything I need to know about this muzzie POS, I learned on 9/11.
He hates Whitney, who to him are devils, loves bean pies, bow ties, hates America. Did I miss something?
...How he got into Congress is a total mystery...
The answer is five words. The Democrat Farmer Labor Party.
Psychopathic liberals.
And the district he lives in. He would not have been elected in central or western Minnesota.
Worst part? he has a following that propelled him to where he is today.
AND it’s growing!
The full text of Ellisons National Lawyers Guild speech shows that Ellisons support of Soliah/Olson isnt even half the story. Here it is, as edited under Ellisons supervision:
Good evening, thanks for inviting me. Let me say that I think theres an idea that young people are not attuned to the 60s. And, that the 60s and 70s are ancient history. That theyve passed and theyre gone. I want to submit to you that I cant accept that as reality. I want to submit to you that the 90s and 80s are nothing but part 2 of the 60s and the 70s. And, I suggest that to you because of the few things that we can observe.
Dont you remember Quibilah [sic] Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was prosecuted in retribution against Minister Farrakhan this game that was played out? Jijaga Pratt recently released. Ruben Carter recently released. Mumia Abu Jamal. For the people who want to incarcerate Sara Jane Olson, aint nothing changed.
As a matter of fact, they want to settle scores with Sara Jane Olson and others who were fighting for freedom in the 60s and 70s. What Im saying to you is that, really, the 60s and the 70s were only a blip in the data in the minds of the people who govern this society that we live in. To the powerful,they were an aberration. They were a time when people came together: people coming out of World War II; black people needing to have some rights in the country after having 400 years of oppression, slavery, and segregation; white people coming to a realization that its better to be a part of humanity than over humanity.
This was a confluence of a time when people came together and DID beat back the things that America was always based on. In the minds of the people who want to prosecute Sara Jane Olson, these people feel that the gains that we made have got to be beat back, and the very idea of, say for instance, black people having civil rights, has got to be obliterated with (obviously) the criminal justice system and incarceration. Think about what it means to a whole population when a significant number 1/3 of all the men-are going to one time be incarcerated what impact does it have on the 2/3s that arent? [reference to Bernardine Dohrns citation that 1 in 3 black males born today will spend at least some portion of their life in prison.]
Its like an anchor on a very small boat. You understand what Im saying? The idea that the people who want to prosecute Sara Jane Olson have, well,they have a June Cleaver concept of what women are supposed to be about. They have a June Cleaver idea that Sara Jane Olson, women in general, were supposed to be in the kitchen cooking -SOMETHING. Right? And are NOT supposed to be engaged in political protest, laying out political thought, and certainly not breaking out of some concrete stereotype or image that they had. In the 60s, when we fought for public housing: housing for people to live in, not shanty shacks or sugar ditches, and ghettos in Detroit, Chicago, so on.
When we fought for public housing and extended housing for poor people, this is offensive to the type, to the mentality that would prosecute Sara Jane Olson, which is why, when the 14 pastors over there in North Minneapolis stood in front of the bulldozers, they had to be prosecuted. You understand what Im saying?
So what Im submitting to you is that this is just a later chapter. We should not let them put the 60s in some sort of historical time warp. And that its clear that whatever we may make of the 60s and 70s, that the people who want to prosecute Sara Jane Olson have not forgot about anything. Bernardine made the point better than anyone so far. This is not about justice. This is not about accountability, this is not about public safety. THIS is about SYMBOLISM. This is about MAKING A POINT. This is about saying to you and to me that we are going to get you if you ever try to stand against what were about. WERE GOING TO GET YOU. And were going to lock you up and we dont care how long it takes, were going to get you. There might be people who get book deals, or there might be private revenge, there might be all these things, but no prosecution like this would really float unless it had a very important, symbolic meaning that tied it together for the people involved in it. And it is the idea that the people who fought for social justice and to elevate humanity in the 60s and 70s were WRONG! They were wrong and were going to prove it because were going TO LOCK HER UP. Thats what its about.
You know, I was asked to speak about white crime hysteria and black gangs. Im a trial lawyer. I tried five cases since October, and I can tell you this, there are some startling similarities between my client and Sara Jane Olson. Lets start with being a member of a stigmatized and vilified group, so stigmatized, so vilified, that if you even mention their name in association with this particular defendant, then conviction is all but guaranteed. This person is a Blood, theyre a Vice Lord, theyre a Gangster Disciple, they are a 4-corner hustler, whatever, and unless youre willing to dig in there and seriously get down there with this case you might as well start talking about, Well, the sentencing guidelines say that if you plead guilty to this [Laughter] .you know we might be able to shave off a few months here or there. Do you understand what Im saying?
My point is that I remember the SLA. [I was 12-years-old when it hit the news in 1974]. I remember the name, I remember the made-for-TV movie with Patty Hearst who was taken away by the SLA and by this black guy named Cinque, who strutted around and was real scary. And clearly these people were bad to the bone. And as I began to read about the SLA, they were talking about rights for poor people I mean Im not trying to say the SLA is I dont even know enough about the SLA to tell you about the SLA, but I can tell you what they stated what they were in FAVOR OF: it had to do with fighting poverty and fighting racism and stuff like that. Im not even here to tell you how they did it because I dont know. But I can tell you what they (the government) claim they have stood for, has not even met the light of day in this whole conversation. What are they FOR? What are they about? Its the same way with MY clients, the groups theyre involved in. Nobody ever knows what it means to BE a Blood, because theyve already said this is just evil. Thats ALL you need to know. Theyre bad. And same with the SLA. The SLA has been completely vilified and we know nothing about it. Absolutely NOTHING. They dont tell us ANYTHING about these organizations; just the label is good enough.
The expense my clients go through, now you would think if you watch television (which is the worst place to get information about anything) you would really be under the impression that all black gang members have a big gangster knot of cash in their pockets derived from massive sales of drugs. The last two years that I have been in private practice, I can tell you that I am living proof that they aint got any money! These folks scrimp and save, and you know who shows up at their trial? Their mama.
Who said mama? You are dead on. Mama. Maybe babys mama. But never the crew. Theyre not there. My clients have their parents borrow money, scrimp, save, do exactly what youre doing have fund raisers, maybe sell plates of BBQ chicken so Junior can get an attorney. And like many of my clients, Sara Jane Olson has a public defender. Do you understand what Im saying? Because she cannot afford to pay for her defense all by herself. Do you understand what Im saying? I mean the reality is, Sara Jane Olson, basically is a black gang member as far as I can see. [much applause]
On my way over here, those of you from the Twin Cities know that certain parts of town mean this, and certain parts of town mean that. Well, Im from North Minneapolis and youre you all know what thats supposed to mean if youre from Minneapolis, and I had a hard time finding my way over here because I dont get over here that much, but you know, what I found as I got over here that the barriers that we build between each other are really barriers of the mind and ones we create, because in a lot of the cases that Ive represented people in, Ive seen people like Marv Davidov [long-time local activist] there, and the defense committee for the person, and other folks in this room and I think, just like the people who want to come together and lock up Sara, WE need to come together and free Sara. And all the Saras because shes not the only one. I am praying that Castro does not get to the point where he has to really barter with these guys over here because theyre going to get Assata Shakur, theyre going to get a whole lot of other people, they just want to get them so badly. They just want to throw them away. And so, I hope the Cuban people can stick to it because the freedom of some good decent people depends on it.
We do live in a society of cynical personal responsibility-type lingo. Youve heard people say personal responsibility. Thats what everyone is into. They dont mean them. They mean YOU. They mean OTHER PEOPLE need to take responsibility. Do you understand what I mean? They mean other people. And it might be because theyre overworked and underpaid there?s probably good reasons for it Part of this idea is that people are actually upset with women because they are out in the work force. And people dont know that most men and women would like to be home with their families and are forced out there because of the corporate culture that we live in, because it takes two to earn a wage for a family these days.
We live in a society of blame, we live in a society where most people want to point their finger at you or at me, or make me or you are personally responsible, [when] really [they] need to point to the government and the corporate culture we live in and make them responsible.
So Im going to sit down now, but Im going to ask you to understand and remember that the fight that were engaged in to support Sara Jane Olson is a worthy one, thats its worth your time and its worth your money and that, while TV and the popular media is pushing the aesthetics of the 1960?s and 70s, that 70s SHOW, you know, havent you seen the imagery all over? They dont want to push the POLITICS.
We need to pull the politics into the equation, because Im telling you, believe me when I tell you, one reason theyre incarcerating all these young black men, because they know it was all these young black men who sat down. Right? In the 60s, you know? It was young black men and women who freed Nelson Mandela in South Africa. They know that it was young black men with young white men, Native American; all of us who created the movement that literally changed the entire society that we live in. And its going to take us all to create a culture of freedom. And so, I just want to welcome you for your contribution to the struggle and thank those of you who have been maintaining the struggle over the years, and say, Hey, free Sara!
There is much that could be said about Ellisons speech. For the moment I want to confine myself to two notes.
First, in his memoir, Ellison recounts his conversion to Islam as a 19-year-old undergraduate at Detroits Wayne State University. By the time Ellison graduated from law school at the University of Minnesota, however, he spoke from inside the Nation of Islam.
When Ellison first ran for public office in Minneapolis in 1998, he was a self-identified member of the Nation of Islam going under the name Keith Ellison-Muhammad. Ellison was still talking up Minister Farrakhan at the National Lawyers Guild fundraiser for Soliah/Olson in 2000.
By 2002, however, when Ellison was first elected to the Minnesota legislature, and 2006, when he sought the DFL endorsement to succeed Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Matin Sabo in Congress, Ellison had abandoned the Nation of Islam and returned to the fold of Islam. So far as I know, Ellison is the only convert to Islam for whom Islam has served as a way station to the Nation of Islam.
How did that work? We still dont know. In any event, however, Ellisons protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, Ellisons commitment to the hate cult of Minister Farrakhan was a long-time affair of the heart.
Second, Ellison talked up a couple of cop killers in this speech. Rumor has it that Ellison is exploring a run for Minnesota Attorney General this year. If there is anyone who can break the DFLs death grip on the office, it might I say might be Ellison.
Joanne Chesimard/Assata Shakur is one of the cop killers on Ellisons mind in this speech. Lest we forget, Chesimard was a member and leader of the cop-killing Black Liberation Army. In 1973 she participated in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered and Trooper James Harper seriously injured. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of Foerster and of seven other felonies related to the shootout.
Chesimard escaped from prison in New Jersey and has been on the lam since 1979. She is believed to be holed up in Havana, in the sheltering arms of the Communists who run the asylum. Bryan Burrough reconstructed the shootout and escape in his invaluable Days of Rage: Americas Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (2015).
The FBI has now named Chesimard a Most Wanted Terrorist. Thats quite an accomplishment. She is the first woman to be named to the FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists list. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information directly leading to her apprehension.
The association of this speech with the National Lawyers Guild along with its expression of support for Olson/Soliah and Joanne Chesimard, for the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Black Liberation Army, as well as the respect for Minister Farrakhan and the prayer for Castro, give us, more or less, the whole package on Keith Ellison.
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