AG Barr warns communities complaining of police violence! AG Barr, in as public speech, in PUBLIC, literally stated it is possible police will allow a Purge in any community reporting bad police work. If a community reports police violence, the police will not prevent crime in their community.
I wonder which communities report police violence or bad policing. Is the answer black communities? I think all Blacks better protect themselves because what Barr said doesn't end with communities!
AG BARR SHOULD BE DISBARRED, AND REMOVED FOR THE AG POSITION!
All communities should show "fealty" to the police, bow down to police and King Trump, or else be Purged.
DEFINITION FEALTY: a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord.
"they owed fealty to the Earl rather than the King"
formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord.
The AG of the United States is a religious dominionists with an authoritarian personality. Barr wants to control people as he sees fit, and based on his rules, not the law of the land.
We're losing our Republic to Tweety Trump and his minions. I don't know how many times I have inserted Martin Niemöller's poem, but another act by the Trump Administrating cause me to pasue and quote agian:
Holocaust Encyclopedia - Martin Niemöller
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
If any Tweety Trump supporter thinks this AG is a welcome breath of "fresh air" and good for them, you think the Blacks are getting what they deserve, you think all police are never corrupt, always good people, and you feel safe in a government where one wrong statement of act puts you on Tweety's enemy list, good luck!
Given carte blanche, allowing police a blank check, the police are MORE likely to be corrupt given this kind of power from Barr.
"William Barr is shockingly clear about his authoritarianism"
Damon Linker 5 Dec 2019
https://theweek.com/articles/882471/william-barr-shockingly-clear-about-authoritarianism
"William Barr, the top federal law enforcement officer in the United States, is fast becoming the nation's chief advocate for an authoritarian vision of American government.
First came his October 11 speech at the University of Notre Dame in which the attorney general embraced a deeply anachronistic vision of religion in American public life. It was a story of a morally upstanding Republican majority upholding biblically based Judeo-Christian piety and righteousness against an aggressive minority faction of liberals and progressives who use positions of cultural and political power to impose an agenda of moral relativism on the nation.
As Ross Douthat, a religious conservative himself, pointed out in a critical column on the speech, this construal of the American scene distorted reality in multiple ways. What Douthat didn't say is that, by seeking to convince religious conservatives that they have the American majority on their side and that it's crucially important for the future of American democracy that this side prevail in its battle against godless relativists, Barr was providing a justification for using all the powers of the federal government to bring about that outcome.
Five weeks later came Barr's even more alarming speech to the conservative legal group The Federalist Society. Here he described the presidency (and because of that, American self-government itself) as under siege by Congress and the courts. The greatest achievement of the American constitutional framers, he claimed, was the creation of a strong, independent, and unitary executive. And yet the liberals and progressives in charge of these other branches of government do everything in their power to hobble and weaken the presidency, which should, and will, do everything it can to reaffirm its distinctive powers and prerogatives.
As I argued in a column about this speech, Barr wasn't just being far more flagrantly partisan than is typical for the head of the Justice Department. He was also issuing a sweeping defense of the president he serves. In Barr's view, President Trump should not just be given the extraordinary latitude to wage war around the world without congressional authorization that his predecessors over the past two decades have enjoyed. He would ideally also be free (as I put it) to "impose the travel ban, end DACA, add a citizenship question to the census, and make American foreign policy in Eastern Europe serve his personal whims and conspiratorial obsessions without having to face any pushback from Congress or the courts. No subpoenas. No irritating injunctions. No pesky Freedom of Information Act requests. No endless investigations. Trump would simply lead, and everyone else would follow."
That brings us to Barr's comments on Tuesday at the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service in Policing. Instead of limiting his remarks to praise for the heroism of police officers who go above and beyond the call of duty in seeking to protect citizens from danger and criminality, Barr made a point of singling out those "communities" that fail to show "the respect and support that law enforcement deserves." Those communities that don't express the proper "support and respect," he warned ominously, "might find themselves without the police protection they need."
It's hard to read that passage without hearing it as a threat to minority (and especially African American) communities that have taken a stand in recent years against police brutality and excessive force. Show proper deference to the police, the nation's chief law enforcement officer is saying, or else the cops may choose to stop protecting you. The protection the police provide is conditional, in other words, on your obedience."
"Attorney General Issues Veiled Threat to Communities That Protest Police Brutality. You Know Which 'Communities' He's Talking About"
Michael Harriot Wednesday 4 Dec 2019
https://www.theroot.com/attorney-general-issues-veiled-threat-to-communities-th-1840208669
"A roomful of potential rogue cops and prosecutors breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday after the chief law enforcement officer in America issued a thinly veiled threat to black communities, hinting that law enforcement officers might stop protecting people who don’t want to get shot in the face.
Speaking at a ceremony for the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in policing, Huffpost reports that Ukrainian quid pro quo co-conspirator (try saying that three times) William Barr told a gathering of police officers and prosecutors that communities who don’t demonstrate appreciation and “respect” for America’s cops might be in danger of losing the protection of law enforcement.
“They have to start showing more of the support and they have to start showing, more than they do, the respect and support that law enforcement deserves,” said Barr, his bulldog-like jowls quivering to and fro. “And if communities don’t give that support and respect, they might find themselves without the police protection they need.”"
Really! Break out the Brown Shirts and swastikas. What country is this? Who is AG Barr? He is insane!
"Barr Says Communities That Protest the Police Risk Losing Protection"
The attorney general’s comments drew criticism that he was conflating objections to police misconduct with a disrespect for the police.
By Katie Benner Dec. 4, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/barr-police.html
"“The idea that the attorney general of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, is recommending abandoning communities as retribution for pushing for police reform or criticizing policing practices, is profoundly dangerous and irresponsible,” said Vanita Gupta, the president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the former head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
Mr. Barr’s stance amounted to a call to support police officers even when they abuse their power, another critic said. Mr. Barr “fails to understand police are not a protection racket,” Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch said on Twitter."
This is incredible. This is insane!
