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The Crimes of Al Sharpton –Part 1 and 2
MichaelSavage.com, ^ | 4-2007 | www.homestead.com

Posted on 04/29/2007 9:49:53 AM PDT by Main Street

The Crimes of Al Sharpton –Part 1

* In the Tawana Brawley case, a 15-year-old black girl was found smeared with feces, lying in a garbage bag, her clothing torn and burned and with various slurs and epithets written on her body in charcoal. Brawley claimed that she had been assaulted and raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in the town of Wappingers Falls, New York. Alton H. Maddox, C. Vernon Mason joined Sharpton in support of Brawley. A grand jury was convened; after seven months of examining police and medical records, the jury determined that Brawley lied about being assaulted by the police. Sharpton, Maddox and Mason were later successfully sued for statements made in connection with the case, and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages.

* In 1989 and 1990 Sharpton again beat the odds. First, Sharpton beat a tax evasion rap, which he called a government vendetta. Then, in 1990, he was acquitted on charges that he pocketed more than half of the $250,000 he raised through the National Youth Movement.

* The Crown Heights Riot occurred after a car accident involving the motorcade for the Lubavitcher Rebbe killing a young boy Gavin Cato. A riot was sparked after a private Hasidic ambulance came to the scene and, on the orders of a police officer, removed the Hasidic driver from the scene. Gavin Cato and his cousin Angela were picked up soon after by a city ambulance. Caribbean-American and African-American residents of the neighborhood then rioted for four consecutive days fueled by rumors (in part driven by Sharpton), that the private ambulance had refused to treat Cato. Al Sharpton became the de-facto representative for the Cato family. During the funeral he referred to "diamond merchants" considered a code word for Hasidic Jews, for shedding "the blood of innocent babies" leading marchers shouting "No Justice No Peace". Sharpton did not start the riots but his rhetoric was seen as inflammatory and unhelpful in easing the tension between the black and Jewish communities. A visiting rabbinical student from Australia by the name of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29 years old, was killed during the rioting by a mob shouting "Kill the Jew".

* In 2001, Sharpton served a three-month prison term for an act of civil disobedience consisting in illegally trespassing on U.S. property located on a bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Sharpton was imprisoned for protesting the United States Navy's ongoing bombing and target practices on the island.

* In November 2005, Sharpton appeared in advertisements for LoanMax, an automobile title loan company. Sharpton was criticized for appearing in the ads, as LoanMax has been accused of predatory lending charging fees, and for marketing them to primarily poor, urban and African American audiences. The ads featuring Sharpton were run in predominantly African American markets. Sources: Wikipedia/Answers.com

The Crimes of Al Sharpton –Part 2

* The Rev. Al Sharpton and two other men were convicted and jailed for their roles in the December 1987 ''day of outrage'' protest, which stalled subways in Brooklyn for hours.

* Sharpton appeared in a 1983 FBI videotape discussing the laundering of drug money with mobster-turned-informant Michael Franzese, one-time captain for the Colombo crime family. Sharpton appears on the tape to offer to broker a meeting between Don King and a South American drug lord. No indictments were filed.

* In 1995, he led his National Action Network in an ugly boycott against Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business that had its rent raised by its black landlord. Freddy's in turn raised the rent on one of its subtenants, a blackowned music store. The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was the head of Sharpton's "Buy Black" Committee. Repeatedly referring to the Jewish proprietors of Freddy's as "crackers," Powell and his fellow protesters menacingly told passersby, "Keep [going] right on past Freddy's, he's one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don't give the Jew a dime." Some picketers openly threatened violence against whites and Jews -- all under the watchful, approving eye of Sharpton. The subsequent picketing became increasingly violent in tone until one of the protesters eventually shot four whites in the store, and then set the building on fire -- killing seven employees, most of whom were Hispanics.

* Sharpton embraced Yasser Arafat in 2001, again for political reasons as he hoped to unseat Jesse Jackson as the most influential black leftist in the United States.

Sources: NY Times and discoverthenetworks.org


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: case; corruption; crime; sharpton

1 posted on 04/29/2007 9:49:55 AM PDT by Main Street
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To: Main Street

bump


2 posted on 04/29/2007 9:52:29 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Main Street

This guy ran for President in 2004. Yet Newt can’t run because he’s “radioactive”.


3 posted on 04/29/2007 10:02:12 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Main Street
These are just the highlights of the Rev’s career. I was listening once to Curtis Sliwa give chapter and verse on the Rev and everything he does stinks. Around the New York area he is a well known bum and deadbeat.

Curtis should write the ultimate Al book.

4 posted on 04/29/2007 10:10:10 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: Main Street

Al Sharpton belongs in prison, not in politics. But that’s true for most of the democrat line up. Sharpton, Hillary, Ted (hic) Kennedy, John Kerry, Nazi Pelosi; the list goes on. It would probably be easier to make a list of democrats who aren’t criminals of one kind or another. It would be very short.


5 posted on 04/29/2007 10:29:11 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Main Street

The MSM double standard on this guy is just breathtaking. One might think that there would be limits to what they would let one person get away with without criticism, but if he’s a racist black demagogue, anything goes. The pinnacle for me was seeing him host on Saturday Night Live. The Democratic party has become so radicalized, anti-American, and destructive that seeing Sharpton run for President was less of a shock.


6 posted on 04/29/2007 11:30:35 AM PDT by clearlight ("I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula"-Muhammad)
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To: Main Street
It should be noted by everyone interested in politics that Rudy Giuliani refused to meet with Sharpton over any issue during his entire 8 years in office. This was widely disparaged by the left wing media in NYC as being a sure sign of Rudy’s racism.
7 posted on 04/29/2007 11:58:00 AM PDT by zeller the zealot (Are Republicans the Party of Life, or is that too risky?)
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To: Nathan Zachary

I’m trying to build a list of dems who have committed crimes, either accused, indicted or convicted.

If you have any documents with such info - I’d love to have them.


8 posted on 04/29/2007 12:00:40 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: CyberAnt
This is a list from Alamo-Girl’s Down side legacy, high crimes.
These are for the Clinton terms only:

http://alamo-girl.com/highcrimes.htm Here is the index to her site: http://alamo-girl.com/index.htm

9 posted on 04/29/2007 6:21:05 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (Thoughts, feelings, and emotions are NOT facts!)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

This is wonderful, thank you.

I’m reading a book titled “Hillary’s Pursuit of Power” and it also full of stuff. But although it mentions that people were indicted or convicted it doesn’t give any details.

This will be very helpful!!


10 posted on 04/29/2007 6:52:07 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: Main Street
He is and always was one of the biggest idiots,liars, and racist clowns (next to Jesse Jackson)
11 posted on 04/30/2007 12:01:50 AM PDT by WasDougsLamb (cry me a river, then build a bridge and get over it !)
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To: WasDougsLamb

Remember, this is Barack Obama's "running mate."

Al Sharpton = David DuKKKe or Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance). Different color, same stinking racist garbage.

12 posted on 05/05/2007 10:17:12 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: zeller the zealot
"It should be noted by everyone interested in politics that Rudy Giuliani refused to meet with Sharpton over any issue during his entire 8 years in office. This was widely disparaged by the left wing media in NYC as being a sure sign of Rudy’s racism."

It is a sign of character not to be seen in the company of prominent racists and anti-Semites. Guliani understands this; Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards (all of whom appeared with Sharpton) do not.

13 posted on 05/05/2007 10:19:25 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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