Harley Davidson Fails LAPD

Mayor Sam writes that the LAPD is complaining that their Harley Davidson fleet endangers motor cops:

The report cites that the Department has experienced "an abnormal number of repairs due to design deficiencies and poor workmanship in the initial assembly" of the Harley moto-cop bikes… The situation was so bad that in 2007 that all of the Harleys had to be taken out of service for a time for inspection and repairs "to ensure officer safety." One of the chief problems are the brake lines… were not secured properly to the motorcycle causing them to move, vibrate and rub up against one another or other parts of the bike. Harley's supplier network was not able to provide replacement parts quickly enough, eventually leading to several meetings between the LAPD and Harley Davidson. The LAPD claims that Harley has yet to develop a "permanent solution" to the problem… other maintenance issues… include premature starter failure, breaking shift linkages, exhaust pipes falling off and assorted electrical problems.

Harley blamed some engine failures on LAPD using the wrong type of motor oil; yet Harley did not recommend what type of oil should be used.

One reliable source told me that the LAPD went with the more costly Harleys over better performing and lower-cost Hondas because the “command staff was afraid police officers couldn’t handle high performance motorcycles.”

Brilliant.

Cops are very hard on police bikes. Unlike most motorcycles, police bikes go from OFF to 70-plus pursuit to OFF within a minute. Throttling from zero to sixty in three or four seconds is hard enough on a warm bike. Doing that for 200 days each year is really tough on the bike, and a rider must rely on performance to do that safely.

Kawasaki commanded the market for twenty years. Their KZ1000s were reliable and inexpensive workhorses that could handle the punishment. Many retired LAPD KZ1000s are still patrolling in Mexico.

I’ve never been a fan of Harley Davidson. Having ridden hundreds of thousands of miles on motorcycles around LA and North America, I’m accustomed to passing frustrated riders as they supervise the towing of their gleaming Harley’s to a repair shop.

For those who belittle rice burners, Honda is engineered in Torrance, California and built in Marysville, Ohio.

Beyond their rumble and shake, it’s hard to imagine what attracts people to Harley Davidson today. They once complained that Honda’s Shadow sounded and felt too much like a Harley. Honda engineers told me they built flaws (like imbalanced cam pins) into their engines to rattle like Harleys. Imagine that – building flaws into a machine so it’ll sound like other flawed machines.

As for the Harley Davidson mystique, I suspect that weekend riders like to boast that theirs is unique among the majority of oil-dripping lemons that other Harley riders own. That they must spend $20K to $50K to turn it into a reliable classic is telling.

Bye Bye Stephen Yagman

So-called civil rights champion Stephen Yagman went to prison today. Cops throughout LA and Southern California will really miss the old lug.

General Hillary

North Korea's Socialist Paradise

Shane Smith’s risked his life to create this unauthorized video of his inside peek of socialism’s superiority.

Kim Jong Il has turned North Korea into veritable paradise free from the scourge of capitalism and freedom. Restaurants and hotels are as uncrowded as their highways. There are neither homeless veterans nor unmarried mothers on welfare. No one protests their government (a sure sign of a happy constituency), and who wouldn’t want guides and police officers to escort them while visiting a country? And unlike America’s working poor, there are no fat people.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can only dream of unified Americans the way Kim Jong Il has unified his people.



Click here for the entire 14-part series.

Sunni vs. Shiite: Irrelevant Argument?

After Barack Obama criticized John McCain for confusing Sunnis and Shiites, Amir Taheri dismisses McCain’s gaff as irrelevant:

Messrs. McCain and Obama do not need to know about doctrinal differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The problem they face is not theological but political. All they need to know is that there are deadly and determined groups dedicated to destruction of the U.S. in the name of a perverted version of Islam, and that they need to be resisted, fought and ultimately defeated. (Full text)

Trying Not to Be White

Barack Obama continues to rationalize his relationship with Jeremiah Wright. On The View yesterday he said: “Had the Reverend not retired… I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church…”

About twenty years ago, my wife and I were invited to hear a speech. The meeting’s organizers seemed friendly enough and we felt comfortable in their presence. But as the speaker began to describe the importance of racial purity I raised my hand, stood next to my dark-skinned Indian wife, and asked for clarification. When the speaker reiterated his point, my wife and I got up and left. We never returned to the meeting place, nor did we associate with those who attended. We had nothing in common with those people.

It’s hard to understand why Obama exposes his wife and daughters to such people, UNLESS we accept that he exploits his family and congregation to gain the black racial authenticity that his white mother could not deliver. While I defend his right to associate with anyone, it’s hard to consider someone as a legitimate candidate for ANY public office who willingly exposes his children to the hatred celebrated by Wright’s congregation. It also explains his wife’s racial volatility and unexplainable shame of being American.

But to be a legitimate Democrat Party candidate, Obama (and other race-baiters) must implicate Republicans for the Democrat Party’s own racial history, and forgive guilt-ridden whites who submit to, and collaborate with, the Democrat Party’s patriarchal endorsement of black racial authority.

Without Jeremiah Wright and his primitive congregation, Democrats would dismiss the Obamas as just another high achieving black family trying to be white.

America Must Free Kwame Kilpatrick

It’s hard to imagine how Detroit’s liberal populace can charge hip-hop Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for perjury. After all, doesn’t everyone lie about sex?

I’m not certain that Kilpatrick should be charged or convicted either. Those of us who live in cities like Detroit or Los Angeles accepted that kind of political double standard long ago.

Detroit clearly needs to loosen up a little – maybe create its own ethics commission. That’s what works for us.

In LA, our Ethics Commission makes it unnecessary for police to investigate messy corruption scandals or other embarrassing felonies. Our Commission would issue a warning and a fine to Kilpatrick faster than Hillary could tell Sandy Berger to take the archives out of his socks and join her campaign committee.

Equal Protection is one of the pillars of Democracy. After King John published the Magna Carta and Republicans passed the 14th Amendment, prosecutors have been prohibited from pursuing criminal complaints against one person that are ignored by others. Equal Protection demands that Mayor Kilpatrick be prosecuted like other Democrat office holders, regardless of race.

Despite the incontrovertible evidence of guilt, the US Senate (45 Democrats and five Republicans) acquitted Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend of perjury. I’m not sure a black mayor should be charged or convicted for acts that Bill Clinton was acquitted of.

If prosecutors proceed and present overwhelming evidence against Kilpatrick, jurors have no choice but to acquit.

New White Digs for Obama's Pastor

As much as Barack Obama’s pastor hates whitey, he apparently hates black people more.

Jeremiah Wright’s new 10,340 square foot four bedroom home is surrounded not by his loving black flock, but inside the gated community in Tinley Park, where only 1.9 percent of his neighbors are black.

Jeff Goldblatt (Fox News) also reports that Wright purchased the property for $345K in 2004 and sold it to his church (Trinity) in 2006 for $308K, with the proceeds going to a living trust shared with his wife. His church then secured a $1.6 million mortgage for the home with a $10 million credit line.

While tax expert Jack Siegel says there’s nothing technically wrong with the arrangement, it’s hard to imagine why the pastor disaster moved from the community that enriched him, unless he’s fully-retired from his career of exploiting gullible blacks to enjoy the rewards of white capitalism.

The Koran in 15 Minutes

More from the Allah's "religion of peace..."

It's Zombietime!

Zombietime regularly covers San Francisco protests. Check out the moonbat propaganda at last week’s Iraq War Anniversary Protest.

An Exercise in Futility

After posting these (1, 2) previous essays on the Democrat Party’s racist infamy, I received several more inquiries about their subatomic contributions toward civil rights. I hope to now answer those last questions.

While Democrats have changed their tactics, cosmetics, and geography since 1792, their perpetual expectation of black inferiority (and presumed racial superiority) remains the same today as it did in 1808 and 1908. A few quick examples:

1. Democrats who insisted that blacks were too stupid to hire in 1908 now use affirmative action to compensate for that same presumed racial inferiority.
2. Hate crime legislation implies that blacks who murder blacks deserve a lesser sentence than whites who (rarely) murder blacks.
3. Democrats who think black mothers have the right to kill their unborn babies are too stupid to manage school vouchers.
4. Democrats who support gun control presume that law-abiding blacks are too stupid, dangerous, and irresponsible to carry concealed firearms in crime-ridden cities where gang members regularly carry and use concealed firearms.

In 1808, blacks who sought freedom were beaten and murdered by Democrats, while Republicans established and operated the Underground Railroad.

In 1908, free blacks who embraced the Republican Party risked the terror and murder wrought by the KKK.

Because Republicans forced Democrats to end lynching and Jim Crow, free blacks are still demonized today in the form of Oreos, epithets, and social alienation. While this may seem like harmless fun to good ol' boy Democrats, the stigma associated with personal achievement still cripples blacks who choose failure, mediocrity, and poverty to retain their black authenticity.

Unlike the black, white, rich, poor, gay, Christian, secular and Jewish Republicans who view and accept themselves as Party equals, Barack Obama affiliates himself with Trinity not because of Jeremiah Wright’s spiritual coherence, but to secure the “black authenticity” he needs to get other Democrats to accept him. But while Obama’s political choices are comparatively harmless, the fact that millions of black students still fail in school, or that black adults vote Democrat, to avoid the appearance of “looking white,” is a derivative of the black inferiority that Democrats have continuously promoted since 1792.

Self-depreciating minstrel shows that entertained Democrats 100 years ago have been replaced by gangsta rappers today and condescended to as the free expression of urban genius.

This political cynicism isn’t confined to black Americans either. Gay men who support and celebrate the freedoms established by the Republican Party are vilified and alienated by Democrats as self-loathing gays. Republicans bristle at lewd celebrations not because they’re homophobic as Democrats accuse, but for the same reason that San Francisco residents would oppose public heterosexual expressions by Richard or Lynne Cheney.

Although most Americans still oppose gay marriage, the Democrat Party promotes it as a civil rights issue; not because they believe rectal intercourse and fisting is healthy for America, but because they need ANYTHING to build upon their counterfeit human rights record to win votes.

The Democrat Party’s institutionalized sympathizers (public education, universities, and the media) have successfully sold their uninterrupted political contempt for blacks as a racial issue 1) by blaming ALL whites for the exclusive and well-documented sins of the Democrat Party and 2) by bestowing a false sense of racial innocence to those who embrace the Democrat Party and their (anti-) civil rights record. This historical perversion is what leads people like Barack Obama to ridicule his grandmother as a typical white person instead of blaming her for being the committed Democrat she always was.

Both essays (1, 2) illustrate that, since their party’s inception, 1) Republicans have been consistently preoccupied with freedom and empowerment for all Americans equally, while Democrats have been preoccupied with black inferiority, subjugation, and exploitation. In light of their history, further niggling about the synthetic or accidental contributions that Democrats made toward civil rights is an unproductive exercise in futility unworthy of anyone’s time.

Related essays:

An Offer of Proof (2006)
Challenging an Unreasonable Doubt (2008)

Challenging an Unreasonable Doubt

Two years ago, a liberal friend of mine told me that Republicans had introduced slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK to the United States, and that Democrats had always been champions of civil rights for Black Americans. Another friend, a successful physician, expressed surprise when I told him that Abraham Lincoln the first Republican president.

A few weeks later, I wrote this essay to illustrate how our public schools and media had successfully reinvented American history. It remains one of my most satisfying essays and one that still generates controversy.

Although I don’t ordinarily respond to Daily Kos moonbats, Brian penned this somewhat coherent response:

Phooey.

FDR, a Democrat, started efforts to end Jim Crow against the pressures of his own Party. Truman, a Democrat, desegregated the military by executive order against the wishes of Democrats AND Republicans in Congress. (Many associate this action with the Civil Rights banner being carried by the Democratic Party and the long association of the black community with Democratic Politics.)

JFK inspired a generation of civil rights activists. (Of course, there was Hoover's investigations of civil rights activists, but go ahead, link Hoover to anyone but himself!)

LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act -- which admittedly was opposed by many Southern Democrats. However, northern and Western Democrats, along with Republicans -- the minority party -- pushed it through Congress. (The GOP may want to say they did the CRA on their own, but the math wouldn't let it happen.) LBJ championed the CRA and when signing it into law acknowledged that he "lost the South for the Democrats for at least a generation."

Brian sucked Mike in as well, who suffers from what one psychiatrist calls Bush Derangement Syndrome. I decided to respond with something more formal before others got too confused. Brian raises some good questions and I've sourced my answers.

FDR’s efforts began ninety years AFTER Republicans started them. Until the mid-1960s the overwhelming majority of Democrats who supported Civil Rights JOINED the Republican Party. The Solid South didn’t permit such “riff-raff.”

FDR’s effort to end military desegregation began in 1941 when socialist labor leader Philip Randolph began to organize black workers into a social and political force.

Although WWII demonstrated the need to enlist and integrate blacks, Democrats who controlled Congress throughout FDR’s presidency (1932-1945) ignored efforts to end segregation until Republicans gained the majority in 1947 – a year that coincided with Truman’s first presidential campaign.

When Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights recommended the end of segregation, Randolph threatened to organize mass civil disobedience unless the military services were immediately desegregated and Jim Crow laws ended. His appearance upset Democrat committee members like Richard Russell (D-GA), whose political careers were tied to segregation.

Truman tossed bones like Universal Military Training (UMT), but Congress rejected amendments by Republicans Jacob Javits and Adam Powell to desegregate the military and Truman signed it, allowing segregation to continue.

In 1948, Truman issued Executive Order 9981 which, on paper, required equal opportunity for black servicemen. A year later, Truman’s Armed Services Committee agreed that equal opportunity did not necessarily mean desegregate and, in their final report, recommended segregation to continue.

The Korean War finally began the end of segregation. In 1953, NAACP administrator Roy Wilkins reported that integration had begun around the fringes, although there was still no large scale changeover in the US. But in August 1954, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the end of segregation to be eliminated within a matter of months.

By the end of his presidency in 1961, Eisenhower had signed two civil rights bills and had successfully desegregated the military, years before LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA).

LBJ’s action destroyed the Solid South, which rebelled by shifting their vote to Goldwater.

Brian writes that the new, conservative Republican Party began to creep into the realm of the racist South, suggesting the Republicans embraced the entrenched bigotry of the South. Clearly, the opposite was true. Republicans don’t care how many angry bigoted ex-Democrats vote Republican. Why refuse their votes?

Brian’s insinuation that “the shift” changed the Republican support for civil rights is pap.

In 1948, the Solid South secured 98 percent of the vote by threats, terror, and intimidation. Although a lifelong supporter of civil rights, Goldwater goofed when he opposed the CRA for believing that it “exceeded the Constitutional powers of Congress.” Lifelong segregationists switched their support and the Democrats have celebrated black gullibility and white guilt ever since.

But for a moment, think about the lifelong Democrats of 1964: Was it really possible that Democrats like George Wallace, who defended segregation and Jim Crow for half a century, would support civil rights for the same blacks he hated the previous week?

Not a chance.

Not only did Los Angeles and New York City Democrats support segregation throughout the 1950s and 1960s, they also secured control of the two largest public school districts in the nation (LA & NYC).

If George Wallace, who hated black children in 1963, was suddenly given control of their school districts in 1964, what kind of education could we expect those children to receive by 1965, 1985, or 2005?

Is it really a coincidence that LA and NYC school unions, teachers, and bureaucrats are overwhelmingly Democrat? The fact that half of all black students in the 9th grade today won’t graduate high school would make Democrats like George Wallace very proud, which might also explain why Democrats like Brian and Mike are so confused.

The notion that the people who created, supported, and defended civil rights since 1854 would suddenly embrace bigotry is as preposterous as believing that the lifelong supporters of hate would suddenly find love for black Americans.

History speaks much louder than propaganda.

*** This is the second of three related essays. See also:

An Offer of Proof (2006)
An Exercise in Futility (2008)

LAPD SWAT Scandal Grows

Robert “CJ” Parry has tipped another cow on LAPD’s command staff.

In this LA Times op-ed from March 16, 2008, Parry exposed how East Coast import William Bratton used this three-year-old shooting as a pretext to push for a series of politically-correct changes within LAPD’s Special Weapons & Tactics Team (SWAT) designed to appoint unqualified female officers. SWAT wives are understandably upset.

A Brief History

Appointing unqualified candidates to LAPD ranks is an old story. When LA politicians decided there weren’t enough women or minorities on the LAPD during the 1980s, then-Mayor Tom Bradley ordered the LAPD to accept more.

Unless each class graduated the correct ratio of black, brown, and female officers, none of the overwhelming number of highly qualified white officers could be hired either. When some women couldn’t vault walls, the walls were lowered. Written tests were made simpler. Some recruits even lacked the finger strength to fire their pistols. Another complained that her heavy badge hurt her shoulder and back and took a desk job.

Officers who questioned the fitness of these useless officers were sternly warned about workplace harassment rules. Some field training officers (FTOs) were forced to pass dangerously incompetent rookies or lose their rank and merit pay. Some rookies stood no more than five feet tall and others were appointed despite known criminal affiliations. And because female officers must use a greater level of force than their male counterparts (to compensate for skinny arms and legs), some have unnecessarily shot and killed unarmed naked teenagers. Despite some outrageous (but secretly settled) excessive force lawsuits, no female officer has ever been charged criminally for using excessive force on the LAPD or in California.

Certain organizations within the LAPD have remained free from LAPD’s affirmative action mediocrity.

Motorcycle Enforcement (Motors), for example, requires officers to be able to straddle a motorcycle without it tipping over. They must also know how to ride. Gravity and physics have a way of weeding out weak riders regardless of race or gender.

The other unit is SWAT. Throughout its 35 year history, SWAT officers have only lost one hostage despite thousands of dangerous incidents. Until recently, no officer was ever lost during an incident.

That’s the good news.

The Bad News

The bad news is that many of the LAPD’s lackluster rookies now comprise the LAPD’s mid- and senior level management today. One of them, Assistant Chief Sharon Papa, was promoted as a commander in 1997 after the LAPD was forced to absorb LA’s former bus police (MTA). Papa was promoted to chief of police there after chasing buses for seven years.

To find a way to shoehorn a female into SWAT, Bratton used this three-year-old shooting as a pretext:

… Police Chief William J. Bratton appointed a board of inquiry to examine the incident. Its mission, he said, was to investigate the officers' tactics and other factors in the shooting. "For the safety of the public and officers, we need to understand intimately what transpired in that incident," he said at the time.

In fact, the board did nothing of the sort. None of the SWAT officers from the Peña shooting were even interviewed by the panel, according to multiple sources. Indeed, the board's eight members included fewer tactical experts (one) than attorneys (three). In its final report, the board acknowledged that it had been "ultimately precluded from gaining a full and complete understanding of what transpired in Peña until after this report was finalized."

What's more, Assistant Chief Sharon Papa privately promised the team shortly after the incident that the report would be aired openly, according to officers who were present. That didn't happen either.

The final report -- completed 15 months ago -- has not been released. Many senior department officials have never seen it, and Times reporters have repeatedly requested it but have been turned down.

Rumors of the secret report got back to a SWAT wife. In this widely circulated message, she emailed Assistant Chief Sharon Papa on March 10th:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:08:57 -0700
From: "LAPD SWAT Wife”
To:"SHARON PAPA" <sharon.papa@lapd.lacity.org>
Subject: Re: D TEAM wives

Recently a group of LAPD SWAT wives gathered to learn how to support our husbands and deal with our redefined roles after the death of the first SWAT officer. This has had an enormous ripple effect through the SWAT families. The reality of how easily that could have been our husband. And although it wasn't we have been consumed with guilt and grief for the family that was affected. Now we have heard there are actions being taken to lower the hiring standard for getting into SWAT. Although I can't speak for everyone the majority of us are offended that at this time of grieving that anyone would do this to these officers. We are concerned with the safety of our husbands, the father of our children if they are expected to go into these highly dangerous situations with someone who got in under a compromised standard.

Of the 60 men on SWAT 52 are married. It is widely believed this is an attempt to be politically correct and allow a female officer on the team. We do not begrudge a female making it on the team. And from what I understand neither do the men of SWAT. However, she needs to meet the same criteria. The motto of the SWAT team is "Uncompromised Duty Honor and Valor" this is compromising all those. You do not see the NFL, NHL, MLB lowering their standard to allow females to get to play. And those are entertainment organizations for profit. It defies common sense that a life saving organization would be willing to.

The SWAT selection certification process has been tried and tested. It has been in place for 20 years and it was approved by the city. If you watched Randy Simmons funeral or if you know any of the members of this elite division of law enforcement you would know it is working. Their record proves it. It doesn't require change. Change is only good when something is not working. We will not sit quietly by and allow you to compromise our husbands safety.

Chief Papa responded two hours later:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:08:57 -0700
From: "SHARON PAPA" <sharon.papa@lapd.lacity.org>
To: "LAPD SWAT Wife”
Subject: Re: D TEAM wives

I am not aware of any actions being taken to lower the standards for getting into SWAT. (BOLD ADDED) I do know that the LASD recently did a validation study of their requirements and our Chief wanted to have ours looked at as well to make sure our standards are still legally valid.

I will forward your inquiry to Chief Paysinger and Chief Roupoli since they would be involved in any review that may currently be underway. I appreciate your e-mail and certainly understand your concerns. Once I have more information, I will get back in touch with you.

When Parry’s op-ed was published a week later, it was clear that Chief Papa and Bratton knew all about the secret inquiry and had lied to the LAPD wives, possibly in violation of LAPD Manual sections 828 , 360, and 115.95, all of which ordinary officers could be suspended immediately without pay or terminated.

Two days later, the Los Angeles Police Protective League LAPPL attacked Bratton for the scheme.

I won’t blame Bratton or Papa, however. Bratton was hired for his East Coast discretion. This kind of politically correct secrecy illustrates why a police agency should never be controlled by a sleazy mayor or a wild band of anti-police lawyers.

Until civil service protections are restored and a real cop is appointed as the chief of police, we can expect more secrecy and mediocrity from the Mayor and Bratton.

Active or former officers or their wives are encouraged to contact me privately here.

Selling the Audacity of Audacity

As I re-read Barack Obama’s celebrated defense of Jeremiah Wright’s indefensible pathology, I am reminded of astronauts from three nations who meet to promote their national space programs:

“Next year,” said the American, “we’re going back to the Moon.”

“That’s nothing,” scoffed the Russian, “Next year we’re going to Mars!”

Unimpressed, the Polish astronaut laughed at both. “That’s nothing,” he boasts, “We’re going to the sun!”

When the skeptical astronauts asked how he planned to overcome the sun’s heat and gravity, the astronaut replies, “We’ll go at night!”

To those with a fundamental understanding of astronomy and physics, the story is a joke. But to those who are too young, mentally impaired or gullible, the joke becomes an inspirational story of a superior space program.

Without a basic understanding of history, Americans aren’t likely to grasp the absurdity of an affluent half-white affirmative action beneficiary who exploits a Jonestown-like congregation and their whacky minister to gain black authenticity among frustrated Democrats who’ve been retarded and exploited by decades of indoctrination by Democrat-controlled dropout factories, the mainstream media, and the race-baiters who promote the political party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, while turning an anti-slavery icon into a present-day pejorative.

Like our sun-bound hero, the difference between this joke and inspiration relies not with Barack Obama’s ability to “transcend racism in America,” but with the profound gullibility of his audience.

Barack Obama’s Big Lie

As Barack Obama attempts to justify his association with Jeremiah Wright, I’m struck by his facility to misrepresent American history. But unlike his fellow race-baiters, Obama blames ALL white Americans for the historic misdeeds that were exclusively promoted by the Democrat Party. For guilt-ridden white Americans, our only chance for salvation comes from our admission to the racist acts and policies that were created, promoted, and enforced by the Democrat Party.

Like millions of other Americans, I feel no personal shame for the legacy of racism and slavery because my ancestors fought and died to END slavery in America. They were all Republicans.

But to appreciate Obama’s skilled misrepresentation, one must reexamine American History before they read his speech.

Democrats, Slavery, and Jim Crow

Contrary to Obama’s version of our Declaration of Independence, the signatories were divided by states that supported slavery and those that did not. Unless the opponents of slavery accepted the practice within slave states, pro-slavery Congressmen (New York, Pennsylvania) would not have signed the Declaration of Independence. And without unanimous agreement, the United States could not have waged a successful war for independence against the British.

While this compromise perpetuated slavery for another sixty years, it gave birth to the country that outlawed the practice of slavery throughout the Western World – the same country that continues to promote freedom throughout the world today. It would have been pointless to fight a civil war before establishing our American sovereignty.

When the American Revolution ended in 1789, Congress passed (and George Washington signed) a law (Art.6) stating that no territory could become a state if it allowed slavery.

Four years later, Thomas Jefferson formed the Democrat Party. By 1808, Congress abolished the slave trade in America although it was difficult to enforce in the Democrat-controlled slave states until imposed by Republicans during the Civil War. When Democrats gained control of Congress in 1818, they used their majority to undo these anti-slavery decisions. The Democrat Party passed the Missouri Compromise (1820), institutionalizing slavery in half of the territories. During the next thirty years, Democrats passed multiple laws promoting and protecting slavery, culminating in 1850 with the Fugitive Slave Law, which ended all rights to jury trials, representation, and habeas corpus for blacks (even free men) who were falsely accused of being escaped slaves. Four years later, Democrats passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that exceeded the limits of the Missouri Compromise by opening up new territories to slavery.

In 1854, the Republican Party was formed specifically to end slavery. Six of the nine planks in their fledgling platform statement deal with civil rights issues. And even after millions of Republicans volunteered to fight and die to end slavery, Democrats opposed every effort to codify and enforce civil rights in America.

From 1866 to 1875, the Republican Congress passed 19 civil rights laws, including the 14th and 15th Amendments that established citizenship for all and the right to vote for all people, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Democrats oppose them all and, when they took control of the House, Democrats established Jim Crow laws and repealed all civil rights legislation passed by the Republicans. Any laws or amendments they could not repeal they skirted with poll taxes and literacy tests. Democrats controlled the black vote in the Solid South with this simple admonition – vote Democrat or we’ll burn down your home and kill your family. This was not a racist white-on-black practice, but a Democrat-on-black practice.

Obama’s Big Lie

Hillary supporters dare not contradict Obama’s Big Lie (white racism) because they’ve spent decades creating and promoting it. Since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Democrats have used public schools, the media, and race baiters to convince Americans that 1) white children and their parents are responsible for the legacy of slavery and racism in America and 2) they will also grow up to be racists unless they help the Democrat Party end white racism (along with other pseudo-educational subjects like collective bargaining, immigration rights, gay rights, and global warming). Like affirmative action, Obama has redirected the Big Lie from Republicans onto white Democrats, who are now forced to choose between the rich white Democrat and the black messiah who will forgive us of our burdensome white guilt.

Obama’s oratory skills notwithstanding, no one corroborates his unsuitability as president more than his mentor and fellow race-baiter Jeremiah Wright. Whether the Obama Family was seated on a given day or not, no one can deny Wright’s enthusiastic congregation or the black talking heads that continue to endorse the Obama/Wright worldview. White Democrats like Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer refuse to discuss it, imploring us to MOVE ON, vernacular for, You’ve caught me in an indefensible position and I want to escape from my responsibility as your elected representative.

Because Obama is not the progeny of slavery or white racism, he bought his own authenticity by joining the most poisonous pseudo-church in Chicago. While the Harvard-educated politician and his affirmative action wife lent credibility to the church, Wright bestowed black authenticity to Obama. But like other fraud schemes, someone always gets stuck with the bag; which is why white Democrats cannot attack Obama without attacking their own mythology.

Obama has defined this racial fraud like no one before him. To be authentically black, must we accept that the United States deserved the attacks of 9/11? What about über-supporter Oprah Winfrey? To be authentically black, must she accept that the US government developed the AIDS virus to kill black people?

I’m not saying that Republicans don’t say whacky things, but I don’t have to accept ex-Democrat David Duke’s venom to be authentically white – even if my Mom’s Brazilian and my children are brown.

Although Democrats have a unique opportunity to free themselves from the tired rhetoric of America’s race-baiters, it’s hard to imagine how they will reform themselves without admitting to their institutional guilt. I suspect that, to most Democrats, buying into Barack Obama’s hallucinogenic lie will be much easier than accepting the truth about themselves.

Bill Bratton Demands Mediocrity in LAPD

When I trained rookie officers at LAPD’s Foothill Division twenty years ago, it was hard to ignore the low standards that the civilian LA Personnel Department was forcing onto the street:

• After eight months on the street, a rookie couldn’t read a Thomas Map.
• A rookie couldn’t hop a block wall to assist her partner “because her breasts were too big.”
• Another rookie left his training officer alone with gang members when called to the station.
• Another rookie didn’t have enough strength to fire her pistol.

Regardless of how America’s mediocrity deniers think these stories are, they are real. What’s worse – area captains forced training officers to pass minority and female recruits regardless of how dysfunctional they were as officers. As a result, LAPD standards plummeted:

• One obese affirmative action sergeant demanded free food from local eateries. He would return on weekends with his family, show his badge and demand free food for all of them.
• Another black officer boasted of on-duty sex and credit card fraud, threatening officers who objected.
• A female helicopter pilot disabled herself and partner when she lost control of a $2 million helicopter
• Other affirmative action cops raped women, stole narcotics, planted evidence, and shot innocent people.

But even after the Rampart scandal, white officers knew better than to complain of questionable behavior by some of their black counterparts. The only refuge for quality-conscious officers was SWAT and Motors - until now.

Robert C.J. Parry describes how Antonio Villaraigosa’s favorite lap dog is forcing the same mediocrity into SWAT:

Would you want the police SWAT team coming through the door to be the best of the best -- the toughest, most highly trained, most elite tacticians in the Los Angeles Police Department -- or would you want the team to "look like L.A."? Would you want rescuers who had not lost a hostage in three decades, or would you want a team with heartwarming, multicultural diversity?

OhhhhBama

It’s been a tough week for Barack Obama.

If Geraldine Ferraro’s blasphemy that Barack is the DNC’s newest affirmative action candidate wasn't bad enough, his own pastor – the irreverent Jeremiah Wright – presents voters with new questions about his fitness as America’s 44th president.

Some of Wright’s teachings:

• On Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."
• On 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9-11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns."
• On Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
• Wright’s "War on Iraq I.Q. Test," with questions like, "Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?"
• US lied about Pearl Harbor and AIDS (video) which America invented to destroy black Americans.

Questions:

• Why has it taken nearly twenty years for Obama to repudiate Wright’s comments; and why did you wait until coherent Americans voiced outrage to do so? Were you patronizing Wright’s church, or do you accept the hateful inanity that Wright promotes?
• Could Wright’s influence be part of the reason why Michelle Obama was not (until recently) proud of America?
• Where do your daughters attend Sunday School? Have you taught them that white men are evil? Have they learned that black bigotry does not exist?
• If you seek counsel from such men, what confidence can Americans have in your future selections for your administration or Supreme Court nominations?

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in…

House Speaker Pelosi: A Clinton/Obama ticket is impossible.

HRC v. BHO: A Battle of Affirmative Action

Hillary Clinton’s battle with Barak Obama is not about who would make a better president, but of affirmative action’s presumption that the outcome of equality can be achieved by the forced replacement of top candidates with brown skin and boob quotas.

While they could never achieve the universal equality now celebrated in Cuba and North Korea, liberal Democrats kept racial discrimination alive in America by shifting its historic intolerance from performance-driven black men and women toward performance-driven white men; and by forcing Americans to accept the consequence of mediocrity in silence to avoid indefensible charges of racism.

As lifelong beneficiaries of affirmative action, Hillary and Barak both suffer from delusions of entitlement. Their implacability is fueled by Hillary’s refusal to become Barak’s bitch, which is as unthinkable as Barak becoming Bill and Hillary’s houseboy.

As entertaining as this is for accomplished conservatives of all genders and races, Democrats are correspondingly pained by being forced to examine their own mediocrity. Had they promoted success and achievement without quotas since 1964, they would be choosing their candidate based upon accomplishment and character rather than melanin and menses.

So I for one will grab a beer, don my raincoat, and watch the flying mud, tomatoes, and claws. We’re about to witness the fruition of affirmative action in all its glory.

Restoration of Black America

Economist Thomas Sowell on the restoration of black America: 1) Fire teachers who don’t teach and, 2) promote competition (vouchers & charters) within school districts. Video