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Jesse Jackson calls for mass protest against Detroit's emergency financial manager
[FREEP] The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a mass, nonviolent protest in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit... ruled by Democrats since 1962... against the new emergency financial manager at a rally this morning at city hall. Translated from Jesse-speak, that's "Hey! Lookit me!" The activists alongside Jackson pledged to file a lawsuit next week challenging the constitutionality of Michigan's new emergency manager law, which takes effect Thursday and grants broad powers to the incoming emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr. Jackson, who was joined by Detroit Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, ...part of the problem... Congressman John Conyers I believe the little woman's in jug or perhaps just on appeal, but she couldn't make it... and a union representative, ...who has no name, but you get the idea... also called on the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene to protect Detroiters' right to vote. This one's a real thigh-slapper... Gov. Rick Snyder last week chose Orr, a Washington, D.C., bankruptcy lawyer, to be Detroit's emergency financial manager. Critics have said Orr's appointment takes away residents' right to elect their leaders. I wonder how that dastardly Gov. Rick Snyder got in office? "We marched too long and bled too much and died too young for the right to vote to have a governor, whether it's Gov. Snyder or Wallace or whoever ... to take away the impact of our vote," he said. Wallace, I believe, is dead and in his grave these many years... Jackson warned an audience of about 100 people Jesse hasn't been turning out the rubes like he used to... that the emergency financial manager's arrival eventually could force Detroiters from their homes. From the pictures I've seen there's lots of them already been forced... He described a scenario in which rich people buy up acres of neighborhoods, turn them into vacant lots and sell off the property. To whom? Who wants to buy a piece of terrestrial moonscape? "Detroit cannot be reduced to a rummage sale," Jackson said. It's been reduced almost to rubble now, by its elected politicians... Jackson, who repeatedly used the phrase "emergency czar," urged Detroiters to protest the emergency financial manager through "a major, mass nonviolent demonstration." Jackson did not provide specifics of the protest when later asked. "It'll be soon," he said. Posted by: Fred 2013-03-23 |
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