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Former AG Loretta Lynch: Need more 'marching, blood, death on streets' (Video)
[WND] WASHINGTON ‐ The Obama administration’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made an impassioned video plea for more "blood" and "death" on the streets ‐ a video that was later posted on the Facebook page of Senate Democrats as "words of inspiration."

The video is less than a minute long and begins by stating that people are experiencing "great fear and uncertainty," with the unstated implication it is due to Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House.

Without offering any specifics, Lynch goes on to say that "our rights" are "being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back."

But the strongest words come in a statement that seems to suggest the answer is street action that will inevitably turn bloody and deadly.

"I know that this is a time of great fear and uncertainty for so many people," Lynch says. "I know it’s a time of concern for people, who see our rights being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back. I know that this is difficult, but I remind you that this has never been easy. We have always had to work to move this country forward to achieve the great ideals of our Founding Fathers."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 01:47 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's your former AG - the top legal office holder of your country, right?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2017 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Correct, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2017 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I was like, being sarcastic, like man.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2017 6:12 Comments || Top||

#4  My dear, you must use /sarcasm or some other indicator if you want me to understand that -- I am sadly unsubtle about such things.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2017 6:40 Comments || Top||

#5  She moving in to Insurrection HQ with Val J and Obastard?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/05/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Arrest her for inciting a riot when it happens.

Also lady, you really want us to start killing each other? We are very close as it is and if you brownshirts pick on the wrong type your brownshirts will get ventilated. It won't just stop there either since your people are determined to start a war. Think Bosnia for a recent example.

If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. And it will score you, your family, friends and your lands.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Without offering any specifics, Lynch goes on to say that "our rights" are "being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back."

Whose rights are you talking about? "Plea for more blood and death on the streets." Loretta, what in the hell are you talking about? Are you on drugs?

Loretta, you are a disgrace. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for meeting with WJC on a plane in Phoenix to stop indictment of HRC and you ought to be ashamed of your seditious/treasonous comments here. You are as bad as your predecessor for breaking down law and order in this country. Holder was charged and convicted criminal of contempt for lying to Congress and he was up to his ears in Fast and Furious gun-running. He ran interference for Obama and his weaponizing government against its people (Recall the IRS and Lois Lerner, e.g.). Obama is not going to get a 3rd term even in his shadow government. Your team lost, get over it. Obama is not going to get a 3rd term.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Arrest her for inciting a riot when it happens.

Arrest her now.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#9  The Obama administration’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made an impassioned video plea for more "blood" and "death" on the streets...

Ummm no. Her comment was of historical perspective of those that fought for civil rights. There's much to criticize the Obama DoJ and AG Lynch in particular - this ain't one of them. God Almighty people - getta grip.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/05/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  After listening to the video, I'm with DepotGuy on this one. WND pulled a 'CNN Fake News' move and misquoted what the c&^% actually said. I'm no fan of this c)&%, but the video / audio and what this 'column' claims was said are two different things.
Posted by: Raj || 03/05/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#11  The only grip I am gonna get is around a liberal facist's neck.

Every time Trump supporters go outside, they get attacked. The left is doing everything it can to legitimize political violence. While the statement was in a "historical context", the fact she is making it like she did is to suggest the violence today is ok and even necessary.

These people don't make one statement without calculation and a former AG making round about connections between violence of the past and today and saying it is necessary will only egg the brownshirts on.

These people are pure evil and are trying shut up people talking about them and intimidate everyone that isn't on their side to slink away into the shadows and shut up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#12  I also hold up Ferguson and both Holder and her response to the riots and looting.

Encouraged and supported.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#13  Ditto DV. There is also a commonly held belief that....drunks generally talk a lot about drinking. Just say'n.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#14  The only grip I am gonna get is around a liberal facist's neck.

IMO, right now it's the other way around.
Nevertheless, you proposition evokes a memory
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#15  Ah.. those were good times grom... before that brat of a kid blew up my workplace.

It isn't as bad as the media makes it out though. The rise of Trump's popularity and the collapse of the media's trust shows that middle America isn't buying what the left is selling. Further attacks are also pushing them further away from the left.

However, the left is in full panic mode. Especially if we find proof of wire taps and deep state collusion with Obumble to bring down Trump. They will only get more violent as their fall becomes complete.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2017 13:40 Comments || Top||

#16  To be candid Darth, I don't believe you can beat these people - the new class, without fighting dirty. So far, I haven't seen any signs that Trump is either willing or able (given that the entire gov employees are new class or aspirants to) to do so.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2017 14:01 Comments || Top||

#17  After his friend on the right is hit in the head, a prepared Trump supporter delivers.

Posted by: George Elmuter1684 || 03/05/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#18  No need for bleeding or dying if you're obeying the law.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2017 17:43 Comments || Top||

#19  Red meat (with a stink). Fulmination.
Much better to mock this "oration"
With imagery: power
And privilege. Now, her
"Let's you and them fight!" Revelation.

Okay, probably not.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/05/2017 22:26 Comments || Top||


San Francisco Cuts Ties with FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force
[PJ] What is it about the city San Francisco that makes the rest of the country want to grab them by the shoulders and shake the silliness out of them?
That wasn't quite what I had in mind...
The city is known for adopting policies that set them apart from the rest of the U.S. -- so much so that it makes you wonder if they want to remain a part of the United States.

A few years ago, a referendum was passed that ordered the National Guard not to recruit in local high schools. They allow homeless people the run of the city, letting them use the streets as restrooms and homeowners' stoops as bedrooms. And, of course, their status as a sanctuary city leaves their citizens -- and visitors -- wide open to violent crime from illegal aliens.

Now the city has made the rest of us a little less safe from terrorism. The mayor and chief of police have withdrawn from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force -- a 104-unit body that shares intelligence on potential terrorists and terrorist attacks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 01:29 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good.
Can we ship border crossing islamics there?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  To paraphrase my dad, "don't come running to me when the terrorists attack San Francisco"
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/05/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  What is it about the city San Francisco that makes the rest of the country want to grab them by the shoulders and shake the silliness out of them?

I'd rather toss them off the Golden Gate Bridge and give the sharks a free meal.
Posted by: Raj || 03/05/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#4  What did the sharks ever do to you?

You just know when the sh*t hits he fan in SF they will start blaming the Feds for not sharing intel with them.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/05/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  "In some cases, California laws conflict with federal law, said John Crew, a retired attorney who works with activist groups, including the ACLU and Council on American-Islamic Relations on law enforcement and civil rights matters.

“This issue is really about the need for local police officers to comply with state and local laws and policies even when they are working with the FBI JTTF,” Crew said.

Neither Crew, nor his many allies in San Francisco, are apprehensive area residents may be in danger because of a lack of representation on the JTTF.

'I’m not the least bit concerned,' Crew said."

I suspect this problem will self-correct.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/05/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Cut off every Federal cent to them.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 03/05/2017 20:55 Comments || Top||


Economy
Wilbur Ross: Border-adjustment tax a ‘powerful mechanism' to balance budget
[Wash Times] U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Friday said a border-adjustment tax like the one being pushed by congressional Republicans would be a "powerful mechanism" to balance the budget but did not endorse the specific proposal they’re lobbying for on Capitol Hill.

"We have to balance" the budget, he said on CNBC. "Border adjustable is certainly one powerful mechanism for doing that, but let’s see what else evolves."

There has been an intense internal GOP debate over imposing the 20 percent tax on imports in order to raise about $1 trillion over the course of a decade.

"I think there will be something found to fill the trillion-dollar hole. Whether it will be exactly border adjustable -- and if it is border adjustable whether it’ll be in exactly the same form and size -- is an open question," Mr. Ross said.

"I haven’t said that we’re in accord with anything like a 20 percent border adjustable tax," he said.

Proponents have said the move would end a "made in America" tax and encourage U.S. production, since foreign-made products sold in the U.S. face a lower tax burden than American-made ones.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the 20 percent tax on imports

So is this an avenue to indict the coke buyers on tax evasion? Holding an amount for personal use, without a tax stamp, punishable by jail and fine?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Easiest, best and most easily-justifiable thing to do is to impose an excise tax on remittances leaving the country.

To the extent that illegal aliens don't pay an income tax, a 10% excise tax on money sent back 'home' would compensate the country for the income generated. Explain it that way and the elites will look even more foolish than they usually do in saying no.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/05/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks saying no to a tax?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2017 15:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Course of Action at #2 would easily cover wall construction and possibly fund the INS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 15:41 Comments || Top||

#5  10%? How about 15%? That's even better.
Posted by: Eohippus Cheamp5121 || 03/05/2017 21:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DeepStateGate: Democrats' ‘Russian Hacking' Conspiracy Theory Backfires
[Breitbart] Democrats’ efforts to raise suspicions about alleged -- and, thus far, imaginary -- links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government may have backfired spectacularly.

The spotlight is now on President Barack Obama and his administration’s alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign, as well as his aides’ reported efforts to spread damaging information about Trump throughout government agencies to facilitate later investigations and, possibly, leaks to the media.

On Sunday morning, the White House released a statement indicating that the president would ask the congressional committees investigating Russian hacking theories to add the question of "whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

Media outlets continued to repeat that the story was based on "no evidence," though the evidence was plain.

President Donald Trump originally tweeted about the alleged surveillance -- which radio host Mark Levin called a "silent coup" by Obama staffers keen to undermine the new administration -- on Saturday. Levin’s claims, reported at Breitbart News early Friday, were in turn based on information largely from mainstream outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. Heat Street was one non-mainstream source, but the BBC also reported similar information in January. So, too, did the UK Guardian, which is a mainstream source (albeit with a decidedly left-wing slant, hardly favorable to Trump).

All day Saturday, former Obama staffers tried to put out the fires. A spokesperson for President Obama responded -- and Obama aide Valerie Jarrett tweeted:
"A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
As Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle noted, however, it was a "non-denial denial." It is worth examining the statement in detail.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 11:42 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So ValJar just Fedexed a sword over to Loretta Lynch, with instructions on how to fall on it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/05/2017 17:00 Comments || Top||


Obama's State Department Sponsored 2016 Meeting of Russian Ambo with Sessions
[Breitbart] President Barack Obama’s Department of State sponsored the July event in Ohio where Sen. Jeff Sessions met the Russian ambassador for the second time in 2016, according to the organizers of the event.

The July 20 meeting in Cleveland was used by the Washington Post’s March 1 headline to double the number of meetings where Sessions met with Russians in 2016. "Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose," said the headline, which has created a mini-scandal as Democratic partisans push for Sessions’ resignation from his post as the nation’s Attorney General, amid Democratic claims that the Russian government helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election.

The two-day event was hosted by a civic organization, Global Cleveland, whose website cites the state department’s role:
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2017 00:46 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not so much a meeting as a set up?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems to be the way Sessions remembers it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Our own people have created this mess.

Putin is on the money.
Posted by: Dale || 03/05/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Anytime the Dems offer to do something for you, call in sick. Safest thing.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/05/2017 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Putin is on the money.

Although it doesn't stand for a darn thing. Putin was addressing the U.S MSM and his remarks did not change anything with the MSM. Our MSM has abdicated its role of a free press contrary to what McCain and others say.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||


West Virginia Dead Lose Right to Vote Democratic
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Raycis!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2017 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  should be 'West Virginia' not 'Virginia'
Posted by: lord garth || 03/05/2017 0:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, it was the imprisoned Virginia convicts that were allowed to vote.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2017 0:36 Comments || Top||

#4  should be 'West Virginia' not 'Virginia'

Corrected. Thank you for catching that, lord garth.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2017 6:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Just for giggles I looked up the 2016 governor's race in WV. Democrat won by 47,930. Removing 36,635 dead voters narrows the margin to 11,295.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/05/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||



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  Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra, aided by Russian Air Force: Kremlin
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