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Justice Department dispatches peacekeeping unit to Ferguson
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | August 18, 2014 | Michael Doyle

Posted on 08/18/2014 9:12:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Justice Department’s chief peacekeeper is on his way to embattled Ferguson, Mo.

Usually, Grande H. Lum flies under the radar. As head of the department’s Community Relations Service, the Harvard Law School graduate is an experienced mediator, more diplomat than prosecutor. The agency he heads was established under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, with the stated mission to aid communities “in resolving disputes, disagreements, or difficulties relating to discriminatory practices based on race, color, or national origin which impair the rights of persons in such communities.”

“These officials will continue to convene stakeholders whose cooperation is critical to keeping the peace,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

It’s a small agency, with an annual budget of about $12 million. As the agency notes in its most recent annual report, its mediators have been involved in some of the hottest disputes in the nation’s history, from the Civil Rights movement to the 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida.

In 2012, the agency completed 728 cases. “Tensions over hate incidents or crimes” accounted for many of the cases; a total of 67 dealt with “police-community relations.”

In Springfield, Mo., that year, for instance, the mediators presented an “Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Cultural Awareness Program” following a hate incident at a local Islamic Center....

(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; communityrelations; crs; dojcrs; ericholder; ferguson; fergusonriots; fergusonshooting; grandelum; lum; missouri; obama; rabblerousers; raceriots
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To: jiggyboy

There are actual job listings at the City of Kansas City website for Aim4Peace Violence Interrupter Trainee and several other jobs in the Aim4Peace section. Wow, wonder why they can’t fill those swell jobs? Do they include widows’ benefits?


21 posted on 08/18/2014 10:00:11 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re too late. I give them one more night and they’ll get bored and stay home.


22 posted on 08/18/2014 10:00:16 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Pining_4_TX
"I picture one of them standing there pontificating about peace when he is suddenly hit on the side of the head by a flying brick."

I can see it now. Just like the old cartoon strip of Ignatz and Krazy Kat.

Krazy Kat

23 posted on 08/18/2014 10:04:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“... beat him like a redheaded stepchild.”

That’s a new one on me.


24 posted on 08/18/2014 10:09:46 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: bgill

I tend to agree. The little thugs have won the street wars, cleaned up all the stores. Now it’s time for the highly paid professional thugs to continue the battle where the real money is.


25 posted on 08/18/2014 10:14:30 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Gene Eric

Excellent point...thank you for stating what should be obvious but of course we miss it if someone doesnt point it out.


26 posted on 08/18/2014 10:19:42 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (This town needs an enema)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right idea, but not big enough containers to be representative. Picture 100 gasoline tanker trucks...

These guys will wind up gifting Ferguson to the rabble-rousers.

All because one black kid decided to commit suicide by cop.


27 posted on 08/18/2014 11:53:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Gene Eric

Good point...


28 posted on 08/18/2014 11:54:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The black panthers have come in now. It’s accepted.

Can anyone imagine if the Tea Party came in to support the officers?

It would be WWIII.

This nation is so upside down. The 12% is ruling the 88%.


29 posted on 08/18/2014 11:55:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I foresee a sea change in that sooner, rather than later. I may be wrong and I may be going on what our father’s generation would do in this situation, but we’ll see.


30 posted on 08/18/2014 11:57:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Last night they were talking about some blacks keeping the lid on things. That sure lasted about ten minutes.

I don’t know what to make of it. Last week they were saying the black community didn’t want this to escalate. Now look at it. And the idiotic rhetoric coming out of the community after this kids true nature was revealed.

I would like to think the nation has had enough, but the black community just lies it’s ass off. I can’t take responsibility any better than Obama can.

Honestly, this is a very embarrassing time to be black in America. Their president is a F-ing traitor sellout idiot. Their kids are a lost generation for the most part.

How do you have any pride in this?


31 posted on 08/19/2014 12:03:08 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meant to post 31 to you.


32 posted on 08/19/2014 12:03:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: mass55th
Oh yeah. Send in an Asian. That’ll really calm them down.

I certainly hope he's gay or better yet, a trannie, or even better, a hermaphrodite who'll show up in spangles, high heels and a beard in honor of the occasion.

33 posted on 08/19/2014 12:05:06 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: DoughtyOne

Not to take blame away from the rioters and looters, but do you know how many THOUSANDS of professional, semi-professional and amateur rabble-rousers there are there in Ferguson now? The list goes from the DoJ (several units), Amnesty International, Code PINK, Socialists, many unions, the KKK, the Black Panthers, rappers, Daily Kos, MoveOn, International ANSWER, Michael Moore, the NAACP, the ACLU, etc., etc. I’ll bet they outnumber the reporters, and that’s saying something!!


34 posted on 08/19/2014 12:15:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re probably right. You’ve listed most of the ones I would think were out there.

A.N.S.W.E.R. and their ilk accepted, some of those groups shouldn’t be able to look themselves in the mirror. The NAACP is a sham organization. They’re not out to help blacks improve their lives. They want blacks on the plantation as much as any white ever has.


35 posted on 08/19/2014 12:23:55 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

ANSWER is a communist front group. I’ll provide a link if you want one.


36 posted on 08/19/2014 12:42:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
I thrill at the prospect of the task force beaten and driven out of town by the thugs they go there to coddle.

Who knows? Maybe they are there just to shoot white people.

37 posted on 08/19/2014 12:42:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Soetoro’s spy.


38 posted on 08/19/2014 12:58:18 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, I know who they are. I’ve been on scene of some of their massive marches here in Los Angeles.

Several times I watched as they filled four lanes wide for about 20 to 30 minutes as they walked by.


39 posted on 08/19/2014 1:13:21 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: bgill
They’re too late. I give them one more night and they’ll get bored and stay home.

Well, I dunno. Prolly depends on how the lootin's going.

40 posted on 08/19/2014 4:25:46 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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