Posted on 11/24/2014 4:46:58 AM PST by Jed Eckert
The Rev. Al Sharpton has always been keen to maintain his reputation as the least plausible cleric since Elmer Gantry.
The racial tension and riots in Ferguson, Mo. have proved to be the perfect vehicle to do just that.
Not just satisfied with creating unrest in one beleaguered Missouri city, though, the “Reverend” is looking to go national with his “peaceful protests” that worked out so well in Ferguson.
With that, Sharpton’s group, the National Action Network (NAN) has put out a list of national protest sites, because apparently just one city experiencing hellish violence and racial strife just isn’t enough. [H/T Gateway Pundit.]
“In anticipation of the impending grand jury decision in Ferguson, MO, National Action Network (NAN) Chapters are encouraging community members to join them when it is announced,” the statement reads.
“Regardless of what the decision is, NAN chapters in over 20 cities around the country will gather.” So you lose either way.
If Officer Wilson is indicted, the release says, the protests “will focus on what would be a teaching moment on how to deal with national legislation for policing.”
I had personally thought the unctuous, condescending, leaden idiom “teaching moment” had been retired, but apparently it still lives on in the lexicon of the professionally-offended.
“If the Ferguson grand jury decision clears him of criminal charges then NAN will call for protests to remain peaceful and for the federal government to come in with a federal grand jury to move for civil rights charges on excessive force,” it continues.
Yes, just like the “peaceful” protests that Sharpton and other leaders have led in Ferguson up until now..
Given their previous success at keeping their civil disobedience peaceful in Ferguson, you might think that Sharpton and his compatriots might have decided to forego these mass gatherings this time, but no, they’re going to keep right at it.
We all know that when Al Sharpton uses the phrase “peaceful protest,” it’s done with a nudge and a wink.
It’s an meaningless blanket get-out-of-jail-free card meant to keep him out of trouble when these race baiting spectacles inevitably spiral out of control.
It seems that Sharpton seems to sense the writing on the wall as to how the grand jury will go.
This week, Sharpton wrote a piece in the New York Times, suggesting that we do away with the grand jury process (at least in cases like Officer Wilson’s), and merely take the person to jury trial.
Because if the facts don’t work out in your favor, change the rules. And if that doesn’t work, break stuff.
Here are the venues for Sharpton’s Magical Misery Tour:
ATLANTA, GA: 75 Spring St, SW, 2211 U.S. Courthouse
BIRMINGHAM, AL: 1729 5th Avenue North #140
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ: 2715 Atlantic Ave
BROOKLYN, NY: 225 Cadman Plaza E. Brooklyn, NY
CHARLESTON, NC: 200 East Bay Street City of Charleston Police Department, 180 Lockwood Blvd
CHARLOTTE, NC: 401 West Trade Street
CHICAGO, IL: 219 S Dearborn St #74
CINCINNATI, OH: 550 Main Street
PHILADELPHIA, PA: 601 Market Street
CLEVELAND, OH: 801 West Superior Avenue
DETROIT, MI: 231 W Lafayette Blvd
FERGUSON, MO: (Police Department), 222 S. Florissant Road
LOS ANGELES, CA COURT HOUSE: 255 East Temple
NATCHEZ, MS: 109 North Pearl Street
NEWARK, NJ: 970 Broad St. (Broad/Walnut Sts.)
OAKLAND, CA: 1225 Fallon Street
ORLANDO, FL: 401 West Central Boulevard
PATERSON, NJ: 401 Grand Street
PHOENIX, AZ: 400 West Washington
SANFORD, FL: 1300 Park Avenue
TALLAHASSEE, FL: 111 South Adams Street
Check out those cities on his stupid list - ALL of them have a history behind all of this. Closest one to me is Oakland,which is still 800 or so miles south - wonder why he didn’t list Portland, OR or Seattle? Not enough of his kind of people, besides, they are all stoned there.
Houston? Calhoun and OST? Yep, they are going to burn their own neighborhood!
These “racial justice”/communist groups seem to have a death wish! ;-)
All of this with the blessing of King Obama no doubt.
Gee, kinda surprised Houston isn’t on the list.
How is what Sharpton is doing any less than terrorism? MSNBC now sponsors terrorism.
How is what Sharpton is doing any less than terrorism? MSNBC now sponsors terrorism.
“And where is Jesse Highjackson? Haven’t heard much from him lately.”
Je$$e visited Ferguson and spoke to the crowd. He was booed by his ‘bruthas’. ;-)
That is probably why he is now keeping a ‘low profile’. LOL
“I can’t locate this info in Sharpton’s site
Was it pulled down?”
There is more than only big Al’s group involved. Other ‘racial justice’ and communist groups are planning ‘peaceful protests’ in cities that big Al did not list.
I bet they do it BEFORE Black Friday, so that the shelves are bare before the crowds arrive.
I did notice that and found it puzzling. With the Trayvon case, if I remember correctly, they called upon Quanell X to lead a protest...and he did, although it didn’t amount to much.
There isn’t a single Texas city on the list. Imagine that! :)
“And why do they call it Black Friday. Seems racist.”
The term ‘Black Friday’ is an accounting term. Before computer accounting programs, profits were shown in black pen. Debits were shown in red pen.
Most companies say that they operate throughout the year in the ‘red’. ‘Black Friday’ is the day that they can finally write in black pen.
It has absolutely nothing to do with racism unless one happens to be black. ;-)
Keep locked and loaded at all times, FReepers. They may fire the first shot, but we’ll fire the last.
As much as this man is in the White House, you can believe Obama is 100% behind this. They ate doing what he said and “staying the course. “
The very unreverend $harpton is ready to use his Black Power racist card. His Black Power Racist card is approved by Herr Obama and Herr Holder. Of course American tax payers of all colors will pay for any riot costs due to his use of his Black Racist Power Card.
Each of those city governments should get in touch with the others and develop a strategy. The strategy would be to quickly form a working group. There they agree to develop a sting operation.
They contact the FBI and let it know what they plant to do, and coordinate with it.
They collectively offer Sharpton a boatload of money to call of his plans. We’re talking $20-30 million bucks in total.
He agrees. The FBI arrests him, and he goes away until hell freezes over.
I believe calling for violence is illegal.
But since he’s a black liberal, he’ll get away with it.
Why is he picking on Chicago and Brooklyn? Why isn’t Manhattan and San Francisco on that list? Those liberal elites deserve as much burning and looting as the rest of us.
If they do it Thursday, the protestors will have to compete with Thanksgiving dinner and football for attention and TV time.
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