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"Kamala Harris is branded 'ignorant' for praising BLM protests and calling them 'essential' just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots"
* Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has praised recent Black Lives Matter protests saying they are 'essential' for change in the country
* Speaking online at the NAACP convention Harris praised the 'brilliance' and 'impact' of Black Lives Matter movement
* She noted that 'nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress in this country has come without a fight'
* The California Senator came in for sharp criticism online with some blaming the Democrats for encouraging the protests
By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:01 EDT, 25 September 2020 | Updated: 03:24 EDT, 26 September 2020
Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has come in for criticism after saying that protests against racial injustice, including those by the Black Lives Matter group are 'essential for the evolution of our country' - with some online branding her 'ignorant'.
Senator Harris D-Calif. made the comments during the NAACP's national convention in which she was interviewed for more than one hour and come just three days after two police officers were shot and injured during rioting in Louisville.
The shooting came after a grand jury's decision not to charge the officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor.
One of the officers involved was charged with wanton endangerment for shooting into a neighboring apartment.
'Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country - as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.'
'The people's voices must be heard, and it is often the people who must speak to get their government to do what it is supposed to do, but may not do naturally unless the people speak loudly - and obviously peacefully.'
Harris went on to praise the 'brilliance' and 'impact' of the Black Lives Matter movement.
'I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,' she said.
'I think, a community and the country speaking out, understanding that nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress in this country has come without a fight.'
'Nothing that we have achieved in our country that has been about progress, and in particular around civil rights has come without a fight.'
The comments came thick and fast with many seemingly shocked at the vice presidential candidate's take on recent events.
'Unmoved by the violence in our streets and the brutal attacks on our police officers, Kamala Harris says the 'protests' are essential for our 'evolution' as a country,' wrote Arthur Schwarz as he used the senators own words against her.
It was a view shared by Steve Guest, Rapid Response Director of the GOP.
'After months of left-wing violence, Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris says these protests are an essential part of our 'evolution' as a country,' encouraging others to see fault with Harris' words.
Robby Starbuck, a Cuban-American director and producer also attempted to place Harris' quotes into relevant context.
''Nothing we've achieved... has come without a fight and so I'm always going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country... and as necessary.' - Kamala Harris Remember this when you see cities on fire & people attacked', Starbuck added.
Another Twitter user, Philip Camp, called the senator 'stupid': 'Kamala Harris praises BLM, says ongoing protests are 'essential' for change in US.'
'Just shows how stupid Kamala Harris is.'
'The country is going to pot with people like her in leadership roles.'
Christian author Daniel Bobinski was also far from impressed by what he had heard.
'I'd like to publicly thank Kamala Harris for telling Americans that the protests (aka riots) need to continue ... and hold her personally responsible for the violence and the medical bills ... and yes, the deaths, too.'
'I lay this at the feet of Congressional Democrats,' he tweeted.
It's not the first time Harris has defended the cause of protestors taking to city streets across the country.
'We must always defend peaceful protest and peaceful protesters.'
'We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder.'
'Make no mistake, we will not let these vigilantes and extremists derail the path to justice,' Harris said last month.
Harris' comments come at the end of another week of mass protests over the death of Black Americans including Breonna Taylor, whose case prompted a series of demonstrations earlier this week.
Hundreds of demonstrators chanted Taylor's name and marched in cities including New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Portland.
People gathered in Millennium Park, Chicago, chanting demands for justice as drivers in Michigan Avenue honked their horns.
Police in Atlanta unleashed chemical agents and made arrests after some protesters tried to climb on a SWAT vehicle.
In Wisconsin, peaceful marchers blocked traffic on an interstate and spoke about Ms Taylor on the steps of the state Capitol.
In Louisville, police said they arrested 127 people after what began as peaceful protests.
Officers declared an unlawful assembly after they said fires were set in bins and several vehicles were damaged.
A police statement also described the 'looting' of several stores.
Interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder said a suspect was detained in the shooting of two officers, who are expected to recover from their wounds.
Jail records later confirmed Larynzo D Johnson, 26, was charged with two counts of assault on a police officer and multiple charges of wanton endangerment of police officers.
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POLITICS
Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR October 28, 2020 at 8:50 pm
Paul Plante says:
Damn right they are, Corn Pop, three days after inauguration, you’re gone, like a pitcher in the big game when his throwing arm is clearly blown and the last three pitches thrown rolled across the mound like you were playing marbles, instead of baseball!
Out comes manager Pelosi and catcher Karmela to the mound, the arm goes around your shoulder, the infielders come in as well, the conference is held and then the long walk to the shower room commences, because the game has to go on.
“Let Congress exert the power the Constitution gave us!”
That’s what Nancy Pelosi said in the AP NEWS article “Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid” by Lisa Mascaro on October 9, 2020, where we had her saying as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation Friday that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president, insisting it’s not about President Donald Trump but inspired by the need for greater congressional oversight of his White House.
“This is not about President Donald Trump — he will face the judgment of the voters,” Pelosi said at a press conference at the Capitol.
It says the vice president and a majority of principal officers of the executive departments “or of such other body as Congress” may by law provide a declaration to Congress that the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
At that point, the vice president would immediately assume the powers of acting president.
end quotes
Pelosi was clear to say it wasn’t about Trump because it is clear that it is about you, Corn Pop!
Let’s face some reality here, dude – look, you’re obviously old, and you’re obviously white bread, and if anybody is a symbol of white supremacy, it is you, so in an age of BLACK LIVES MATTER, that’s already three or four strikes against you, dude, when it is Nancy Pelosi’s goal to make America Black.
So old Corn Pop has got to go, to make way for Karmela, who needs you to get into office, because she can’t get there on her own, having already been rejected by the American people as not fit for that high office.
So they use you to get her in there, and then they use the 25th Amendment on you, and history is made and Nancy Pelosi’s dream of Black supremacy in America is on its way to becoming true!
And seriously, dude, I heard you on the radio news this morning and you sounded like an old testament prophet raving and growling about the end of the world is coming with your talk of over 225,000 people have lost their lives to a virus and many of those lives lost the cruelest way possible: alone, alone in a hospital room, alone in a nursing home, no family, no friends, no loved ones beside them in those final moments, and it haunts so many of the surviving families, families who were never given a chance to say goodbye.
And that’s thanks to Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York and his health commissioner, Howie “Dr. Death” Zucker, Corn Pop!
And then you put the noose around your own neck, Corn Pop, with this part of your rambling diatribe, to wit:
Too many among us spend more time shouting than listening, more time fighting than working together, more time demonizing and denigrating others than lifting them up.
end quotes
And I have to say, you are damn right you do, Corn Pop, calling people in America, as much American citizens as you and Karmela, “dregs of society.”
And then you have the gall to say as follows:
The divisions in our nation are getting wider.
end quotes
And I have to say of course they are, what with Democrat Hillary Clinton calling people in America a “Basket of Deplorables,” and you condemning people as “Dregs of Society,” and Karmela saying she is fighting for the “soul of America,” as if it were somehow her possession.
So no wonder the divisions are getting wider, which is because you are doing your damndest to jack them apart so that because of people like you and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Karmela, angry people are upset, anger and suspicion are growing, and our wounds are getting deeper, which has people asking, has it gone too far?
Thanks to the Democrats who are dividing us like they did back when they rejected our American way of life and our Constitution and seceded and started the first civil war, people are wondering, have we passed the point of no return?
Has the heart of this nation turned to stone?
Questions for our times, Corn Pop, as the Democrats lead us into another civil war with you at the helm and Karmela standing right behind you with a hammer in her hand to take it from you three days after your inauguration.
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Paul Plante says:
Damn right they are, Corn Pop, three days after inauguration, you’re gone, like a pitcher in the big game when his throwing arm is clearly blown and the last three pitches thrown rolled across the mound like you were playing marbles, instead of baseball!
Out comes manager Pelosi and catcher Karmela to the mound, the arm goes around your shoulder, the infielders come in as well, the conference is held and then the long walk to the shower room commences, because the game has to go on.
“Let Congress exert the power the Constitution gave us!”
That’s what Nancy Pelosi said in the AP NEWS article “Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid” by Lisa Mascaro on October 9, 2020, where we had her saying as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation Friday that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president, insisting it’s not about President Donald Trump but inspired by the need for greater congressional oversight of his White House.
“This is not about President Donald Trump — he will face the judgment of the voters,” Pelosi said at a press conference at the Capitol.
It says the vice president and a majority of principal officers of the executive departments “or of such other body as Congress” may by law provide a declaration to Congress that the president “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
At that point, the vice president would immediately assume the powers of acting president.
end quotes
Pelosi was clear to say it wasn’t about Trump because it is clear that it is about you, Corn Pop!
Let’s face some reality here, dude – look, you’re obviously old, and you’re obviously white bread, and if anybody is a symbol of white supremacy, it is you, so in an age of BLACK LIVES MATTER, that’s already three or four strikes against you, dude, when it is Nancy Pelosi’s goal to make America Black.
So old Corn Pop has got to go, to make way for Karmela, who needs you to get into office, because she can’t get there on her own, having already been rejected by the American people as not fit for that high office.
So they use you to get her in there, and then they use the 25th Amendment on you, and history is made and Nancy Pelosi’s dream of Black supremacy in America is on its way to becoming true!
And seriously, dude, I heard you on the radio news this morning and you sounded like an old testament prophet raving and growling about the end of the world is coming with your talk of over 225,000 people have lost their lives to a virus and many of those lives lost the cruelest way possible: alone, alone in a hospital room, alone in a nursing home, no family, no friends, no loved ones beside them in those final moments, and it haunts so many of the surviving families, families who were never given a chance to say goodbye.
And that’s thanks to Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York and his health commissioner, Howie “Dr. Death” Zucker, Corn Pop!
And then you put the noose around your own neck, Corn Pop, with this part of your rambling diatribe, to wit:
Too many among us spend more time shouting than listening, more time fighting than working together, more time demonizing and denigrating others than lifting them up.
end quotes
And I have to say, you are damn right you do, Corn Pop, calling people in America, as much American citizens as you and Karmela, “dregs of society.”
And then you have the gall to say as follows:
The divisions in our nation are getting wider.
end quotes
And I have to say of course they are, what with Democrat Hillary Clinton calling people in America a “Basket of Deplorables,” and you condemning people as “Dregs of Society,” and Karmela saying she is fighting for the “soul of America,” as if it were somehow her possession.
So no wonder the divisions are getting wider, which is because you are doing your damndest to jack them apart so that because of people like you and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Karmela, angry people are upset, anger and suspicion are growing, and our wounds are getting deeper, which has people asking, has it gone too far?
Thanks to the Democrats who are dividing us like they did back when they rejected our American way of life and our Constitution and seceded and started the first civil war, people are wondering, have we passed the point of no return?
Has the heart of this nation turned to stone?
Questions for our times, Corn Pop, as the Democrats lead us into another civil war with you at the helm and Karmela standing right behind you with a hammer in her hand to take it from you three days after your inauguration.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/e ... ent-295442
Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR October 28, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Paul Plante says:
So, as yet more race riots break out here in America in this age of BLACK LIVES MATTER, have we any evidence that connects Queen Empress Kamala to the Marxist-inspired movement?
And for that answer, let’s go over to the Daily Mail to see what the Brits have to say about it, so that I am not accused in here of posting Republican-biased reportage, and the article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have as follows:
Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has come in for criticism after saying that protests against racial injustice, including those by the Black Lives Matter group are ‘essential for the evolution of our country’ – with some online branding her ‘ignorant’.
Senator Harris D-Calif. made the comments during the NAACP’s national convention in which she was interviewed for more than one hour and come just three days after two police officers were shot and injured during rioting in Louisville.
‘Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country – as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.’
end quotes
So when we see lawless Black mobs looting and burning down our cities, to Queen Empress Kamala, who is running for vice president because BLACK LIVES MATTER demanded that “Corn Pop” Biden have a Black woman as his running mate, that is an essential component or mark of a real democracy in her view of things.
This is the same Queen Empress Kamala who was heard in a soundbite on 10/15/20 saying “(O)ur democracy is as strong as the American people’s willingness to fight for it,” which is both ridiculous and meaningless, pure gibberish, because obviously, if democracy is something you have to continuously fight for to have, then it never really can exist.
It will always be a possession of one faction or another, which takes us back to the Daily Mail as follows:
Harris went on to praise the ‘brilliance’ and ‘impact’ of the Black Lives Matter movement.
end quotes
The “brilliance” of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement?
What “brilliance,” Queen Empress Kamala?
Where the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is based on Marxist horse**** and stale slogans and contrived history, where, pray tell, is there any “brilliance” (exceptional talent or intelligence) associated with the movement?
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Paul Plante says:
So, as yet more race riots break out here in America in this age of BLACK LIVES MATTER, have we any evidence that connects Queen Empress Kamala to the Marxist-inspired movement?
And for that answer, let’s go over to the Daily Mail to see what the Brits have to say about it, so that I am not accused in here of posting Republican-biased reportage, and the article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have as follows:
Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has come in for criticism after saying that protests against racial injustice, including those by the Black Lives Matter group are ‘essential for the evolution of our country’ – with some online branding her ‘ignorant’.
Senator Harris D-Calif. made the comments during the NAACP’s national convention in which she was interviewed for more than one hour and come just three days after two police officers were shot and injured during rioting in Louisville.
‘Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country – as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.’
end quotes
So when we see lawless Black mobs looting and burning down our cities, to Queen Empress Kamala, who is running for vice president because BLACK LIVES MATTER demanded that “Corn Pop” Biden have a Black woman as his running mate, that is an essential component or mark of a real democracy in her view of things.
This is the same Queen Empress Kamala who was heard in a soundbite on 10/15/20 saying “(O)ur democracy is as strong as the American people’s willingness to fight for it,” which is both ridiculous and meaningless, pure gibberish, because obviously, if democracy is something you have to continuously fight for to have, then it never really can exist.
It will always be a possession of one faction or another, which takes us back to the Daily Mail as follows:
Harris went on to praise the ‘brilliance’ and ‘impact’ of the Black Lives Matter movement.
end quotes
The “brilliance” of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement?
What “brilliance,” Queen Empress Kamala?
Where the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is based on Marxist horse**** and stale slogans and contrived history, where, pray tell, is there any “brilliance” (exceptional talent or intelligence) associated with the movement?
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... r-america/
Re: POLITICS
"Albany activists plan police reform forum near Sheehan's home"
Steve Hughes, Albany, New York Times Union
Oct. 27, 2020
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 5:48 p.m.
ALBANY – Activists and residents who feel excluded from the city’s police reform process are planning a public forum in the Ten Broeck Triangle near Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s Arbor Hill home on Nov. 6.
The demonstration, which activists are calling a speak-out, is meant to be a community-based response to the city’s the Albany Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, a 40-member group that was organized after Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that local governments develop police reform proposals or risk losing state funding.
The city’s process lacks the transparency and the inclusivity that activists are looking for, said Luke Grandis, an organizer with Vocal NY who helped put together the event, along with several other social justice groups.
Organizers are calling their event a forum, rather than a demonstration, in hope of avoiding a police presence in case anyone is uncomfortable speaking in front of officers.
“The speak-out is for anyone to speak on the issues,” he said.
“It’s rooted in making sure the community feels safe.”
The collaborative's meetings are held weekly and streamed via Zoom and Facebook.
But some city residents struggle with enough internet access or cell phone data to join them on a consistent basis, Grandis said.
Brian Shea, Sheehan’s director of operations, said the collaborative would welcome any information or recommendations from the forum.
“We want to cast as wide a net as possible,” he said.
The reinvention collaborative is now broken up into several working groups, which are examining issues like police operating procedures and restorative justice.
Part of those groups’ work over the next few months will involve greater community input, Shea said.
But two well-known organizations that have pushed police reform in the past, the Albany chapter of the NAACP and the Center for Law and Justice, are not a part of the collaborative.
Alice Green, the executive director of the Center for Law and Justice said she was not approached about being a part of the collaborative.
The center has decided that gives it the freedom to take on a more activist role, she said.
“We decided that we would do whatever we could to have some input,” she said.
“I don’t think there’s enough community representation."
"I think we would have certainly pushed to find more ways of including the voices of regular people.”
Green has sought police reforms in the city for decades and the center is often the place residents turn to when they feel they have been wronged by police officers.
With Sheehan’s support, Green and former chief Brendan Cox brought the law enforcement assisted diversion program to the city’s police department.
The program is meant to encourage police officers to direct low-level offenders, usually those engaged in drug use or minor disturbances, toward social services rather than jail.
Shea said a number of community groups were invited to be part of the collaborative and Sheehan’s office expects Green to have a role as a resource for the working groups in helping them shape their recommendations.
Another complaint that reformers and activists have levied is that the police department has representatives on each working group.
Their concern is that having a police presence in every group will stifle voices that want to describe their interactions with city police but don’t feel comfortable doing so in front of officers.
Grandis compared it to an abuse victim speaking about their experiences in front of an abuser.
The city wants to ensure it gets buy-in from the police department into the reforms that it ends up adopting, Shea said.
He added that the working groups would make accommodations to ensure that anyone who wanted to speak could do so safely.
Reformers are also pushing the Common Council to take up a package of bills that were introduced in June in the aftermath of two peaceful protests in the city that later devolved into violent confrontations between some protesters and police.
The three bills would require the police department to collect and publish more demographic data on residents they stop, require all officers in the department to wear body cameras while on duty and publish a report on when and why cameras were turned off, as well as strengthen to the city’s Community Police Review Board.
One of those reforms would give the board power to hire outside investigators to examine complaints against police officers.
Those bills will be discussed in a public safety committee meeting on Nov. 5, the night before the forum.
Steve is the Times Union's morning cop reporter. He's previously reported for papers in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Utica and Cortland. Originally from Syracuse, he's a 2010 graduate from SUNY Geneseo. Reach him at (518) 454-5438.
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Steve Hughes, Albany, New York Times Union
Oct. 27, 2020
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 5:48 p.m.
ALBANY – Activists and residents who feel excluded from the city’s police reform process are planning a public forum in the Ten Broeck Triangle near Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s Arbor Hill home on Nov. 6.
The demonstration, which activists are calling a speak-out, is meant to be a community-based response to the city’s the Albany Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, a 40-member group that was organized after Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that local governments develop police reform proposals or risk losing state funding.
The city’s process lacks the transparency and the inclusivity that activists are looking for, said Luke Grandis, an organizer with Vocal NY who helped put together the event, along with several other social justice groups.
Organizers are calling their event a forum, rather than a demonstration, in hope of avoiding a police presence in case anyone is uncomfortable speaking in front of officers.
“The speak-out is for anyone to speak on the issues,” he said.
“It’s rooted in making sure the community feels safe.”
The collaborative's meetings are held weekly and streamed via Zoom and Facebook.
But some city residents struggle with enough internet access or cell phone data to join them on a consistent basis, Grandis said.
Brian Shea, Sheehan’s director of operations, said the collaborative would welcome any information or recommendations from the forum.
“We want to cast as wide a net as possible,” he said.
The reinvention collaborative is now broken up into several working groups, which are examining issues like police operating procedures and restorative justice.
Part of those groups’ work over the next few months will involve greater community input, Shea said.
But two well-known organizations that have pushed police reform in the past, the Albany chapter of the NAACP and the Center for Law and Justice, are not a part of the collaborative.
Alice Green, the executive director of the Center for Law and Justice said she was not approached about being a part of the collaborative.
The center has decided that gives it the freedom to take on a more activist role, she said.
“We decided that we would do whatever we could to have some input,” she said.
“I don’t think there’s enough community representation."
"I think we would have certainly pushed to find more ways of including the voices of regular people.”
Green has sought police reforms in the city for decades and the center is often the place residents turn to when they feel they have been wronged by police officers.
With Sheehan’s support, Green and former chief Brendan Cox brought the law enforcement assisted diversion program to the city’s police department.
The program is meant to encourage police officers to direct low-level offenders, usually those engaged in drug use or minor disturbances, toward social services rather than jail.
Shea said a number of community groups were invited to be part of the collaborative and Sheehan’s office expects Green to have a role as a resource for the working groups in helping them shape their recommendations.
Another complaint that reformers and activists have levied is that the police department has representatives on each working group.
Their concern is that having a police presence in every group will stifle voices that want to describe their interactions with city police but don’t feel comfortable doing so in front of officers.
Grandis compared it to an abuse victim speaking about their experiences in front of an abuser.
The city wants to ensure it gets buy-in from the police department into the reforms that it ends up adopting, Shea said.
He added that the working groups would make accommodations to ensure that anyone who wanted to speak could do so safely.
Reformers are also pushing the Common Council to take up a package of bills that were introduced in June in the aftermath of two peaceful protests in the city that later devolved into violent confrontations between some protesters and police.
The three bills would require the police department to collect and publish more demographic data on residents they stop, require all officers in the department to wear body cameras while on duty and publish a report on when and why cameras were turned off, as well as strengthen to the city’s Community Police Review Board.
One of those reforms would give the board power to hire outside investigators to examine complaints against police officers.
Those bills will be discussed in a public safety committee meeting on Nov. 5, the night before the forum.
Steve is the Times Union's morning cop reporter. He's previously reported for papers in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Utica and Cortland. Originally from Syracuse, he's a 2010 graduate from SUNY Geneseo. Reach him at (518) 454-5438.
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Re: POLITICS
CNBC
"U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected"
Jeff Cox @jeff.cox.7528 @JeffCoxCNBCcom
Published Thu, Oct 29 2020
Key Points
* U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported.
* That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey.
* A surge in business and residential investment along with stronger consumer activity helped the economy after its worst-ever quarter in Q2.
Coming off the worst quarter in history, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace ever in the third quarter as a nation battered by an unprecedented pandemic started to put itself back together, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Third-quarter gross domestic product, a measure of the total goods and services produced in the July-to-September period, expanded at a 33.1% annualized pace, according to the department’s initial estimate for the period.
The gain came after a 31.4% plunge in the second quarter and was better than the 32% estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
The previous post-World War II record was the 16.7% burst in the first quarter of 1950.
Markets reacted positively to the news, with Wall Street erasing a loss at the open and turning mostly positive.
“It’s obviously good news that the economy bounced back in the third quarter,” said Eric Winograd, senior economist at AllianceBernstein.
“There’s still a lot of work to do here and the pace of improvement ... is going to slow."
"The stimulus programs that provided much of the economic lift last quarter have expired or are expiring."
"Fiscal support is diminishing."
"That is part of the reason that the pace of growth is going to slow from here.”
Increased consumption along with sold gains in business and residential investment as well as exports fueled the third-quarter rebound.
Decreases in government spending following the expiration of the CARES Act rescue funding subtracted from GDP.
The powerful growth pace came after states across the country shut down large swaths of activity in an effort to stem the spread of Covid-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11.
Some 228,000 people have died in the U.S. from the virus, which has infected nearly 9 million in the country.
The economy has been in a technical recession since February, as first-quarter growth declined at a 5% pace.
While the news on Q3 was good for the $21.2 trillion economy, the U.S. faces a tougher road ahead as coronavirus cases increase and worries grow over the health and economic impacts.
Nearly half the 22 million jobs lost in March and April remain unfilled and the unemployment rate remains at 7.9%, more than double its pre-pandemic level as 12.6 million Americans are still out of work.
The GDP release came just five days before Election Day, which culminates a heated battle between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump has promised a return to the strong growth prior to the pandemic, while Biden has accused the Republican incumbent of taking a thriving economy into a ditch due to mismanagement of the virus.
“This is going to be seized upon by both ends of the political spectrum as either evidence of the strength of the post-lockdown economic rebound or a cursory warning that the gains could be short-lived,” said James McCann, senior global economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments.
“The reality is that the GDP numbers demonstrate that the U.S. economy did indeed rebound strongly as lockdown measures were lifted.”
In a tweet, Trump noted the “Biggest and Best in the History of our Country” GDP number and said growth in 2021 will be “FANTASTIC!!!”
For his part, Biden noted that while the economy improved “visits to food banks haven’t slowed, and poverty has grown.”
Q3 growth came amid a resurgence in consumer activity, which accounts for 68% of GDP.
Though most of the country remained in a cautious reopening, shoppers began returning to stores and the bar and restaurant industry entered the first tepid phase of resuming business despite restrictions on capacity.
Personal consumption increased 40.7%, while gross private domestic investment surged 83% amid a 59.3% increase on the residential side.
While the headline number “looks spectacular,” it still leaves growth 3.5% beneath its level at the end of 2019, according to Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Shepherdson expects the consumer and business investment rebound that led Q3 to “rise much less quickly” in the final three months of the year.
“Absent new stimulus, and with Covid infections spreading rapidly, we’re sticking to our 4% forecast for Q4 growth, though the margin of error here is large at this point,” he added.
Economic activity was strong in the real estate sector, and consumer and business executive surveys showed that confidence has remained high despite virus-related setbacks.
Personal income fell sharply for the quarter as transfer payments from coronavirus relief efforts dissipated.
Personal savings also declined but remained strong at a 15.8% rate, down from the record 25.7% in Q2.
The annualized measure represents how much GDP would grow over the course of a year at the current pace from the same level a year ago.
In terms of raw percent change from a year earlier, the economy contracted 9% in the second quarter and 2.9% in Q3.
Data also provided by Reuters
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/us-gdp- ... -2020.html
"U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected"
Jeff Cox @jeff.cox.7528 @JeffCoxCNBCcom
Published Thu, Oct 29 2020
Key Points
* U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported.
* That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey.
* A surge in business and residential investment along with stronger consumer activity helped the economy after its worst-ever quarter in Q2.
Coming off the worst quarter in history, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace ever in the third quarter as a nation battered by an unprecedented pandemic started to put itself back together, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Third-quarter gross domestic product, a measure of the total goods and services produced in the July-to-September period, expanded at a 33.1% annualized pace, according to the department’s initial estimate for the period.
The gain came after a 31.4% plunge in the second quarter and was better than the 32% estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
The previous post-World War II record was the 16.7% burst in the first quarter of 1950.
Markets reacted positively to the news, with Wall Street erasing a loss at the open and turning mostly positive.
“It’s obviously good news that the economy bounced back in the third quarter,” said Eric Winograd, senior economist at AllianceBernstein.
“There’s still a lot of work to do here and the pace of improvement ... is going to slow."
"The stimulus programs that provided much of the economic lift last quarter have expired or are expiring."
"Fiscal support is diminishing."
"That is part of the reason that the pace of growth is going to slow from here.”
Increased consumption along with sold gains in business and residential investment as well as exports fueled the third-quarter rebound.
Decreases in government spending following the expiration of the CARES Act rescue funding subtracted from GDP.
The powerful growth pace came after states across the country shut down large swaths of activity in an effort to stem the spread of Covid-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11.
Some 228,000 people have died in the U.S. from the virus, which has infected nearly 9 million in the country.
The economy has been in a technical recession since February, as first-quarter growth declined at a 5% pace.
While the news on Q3 was good for the $21.2 trillion economy, the U.S. faces a tougher road ahead as coronavirus cases increase and worries grow over the health and economic impacts.
Nearly half the 22 million jobs lost in March and April remain unfilled and the unemployment rate remains at 7.9%, more than double its pre-pandemic level as 12.6 million Americans are still out of work.
The GDP release came just five days before Election Day, which culminates a heated battle between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump has promised a return to the strong growth prior to the pandemic, while Biden has accused the Republican incumbent of taking a thriving economy into a ditch due to mismanagement of the virus.
“This is going to be seized upon by both ends of the political spectrum as either evidence of the strength of the post-lockdown economic rebound or a cursory warning that the gains could be short-lived,” said James McCann, senior global economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments.
“The reality is that the GDP numbers demonstrate that the U.S. economy did indeed rebound strongly as lockdown measures were lifted.”
In a tweet, Trump noted the “Biggest and Best in the History of our Country” GDP number and said growth in 2021 will be “FANTASTIC!!!”
For his part, Biden noted that while the economy improved “visits to food banks haven’t slowed, and poverty has grown.”
Q3 growth came amid a resurgence in consumer activity, which accounts for 68% of GDP.
Though most of the country remained in a cautious reopening, shoppers began returning to stores and the bar and restaurant industry entered the first tepid phase of resuming business despite restrictions on capacity.
Personal consumption increased 40.7%, while gross private domestic investment surged 83% amid a 59.3% increase on the residential side.
While the headline number “looks spectacular,” it still leaves growth 3.5% beneath its level at the end of 2019, according to Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Shepherdson expects the consumer and business investment rebound that led Q3 to “rise much less quickly” in the final three months of the year.
“Absent new stimulus, and with Covid infections spreading rapidly, we’re sticking to our 4% forecast for Q4 growth, though the margin of error here is large at this point,” he added.
Economic activity was strong in the real estate sector, and consumer and business executive surveys showed that confidence has remained high despite virus-related setbacks.
Personal income fell sharply for the quarter as transfer payments from coronavirus relief efforts dissipated.
Personal savings also declined but remained strong at a 15.8% rate, down from the record 25.7% in Q2.
The annualized measure represents how much GDP would grow over the course of a year at the current pace from the same level a year ago.
In terms of raw percent change from a year earlier, the economy contracted 9% in the second quarter and 2.9% in Q3.
Data also provided by Reuters
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/us-gdp- ... -2020.html
Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR October 29, 2020 at 5:33 pm
Paul Plante says:
29 October 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: Treatment of veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
As a Viet Nam combat veteran who has been demonized quite publicly and held up to ridicule because of PTSD, which was used as a very public political weapon against me, I read with some degree of interest your recent campaign propaganda where you took credit for building a bipartisan coalition to restore funding to something called the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project, which according to its own propaganda is named to honor the memory of an Iraq war hero from Mount Sinai, NY, and is a peer-to-peer program for Veterans facing the challenges of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and takes a confidential, one-on-one, peer-to-peer approach that has rapidly captured the attention and support of both veterans and mental health professionals statewide and across the nation with the program steadily demonstrating that the peer-to-peer model holds tremendous, untapped value as a tool for helping Veterans transition and reintegrate back into civilian life.
All well and good, but I can see nowhere in there where you have done anything to remove the stigma in the minds of the public concerning PTSD which certainly has a great impact on a veteran’s ability to transition and reintegrate back into civilian life in a world where politicians have ingrained in the minds of the public that veterans with PTSD aren’t really human, as you can see in the following letter from myself to then-President Barack Obama, to wit:
10 April 2014
Hon. Barack Obama
United States President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
To my continued horror, on Wednesday, February 22, 1989, the Troy, New York RECORD, the newspaper of record for Rensselaer County in New York state ran an article wherein Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo was quoted as follows:
“Mayo said Plante suffers from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.”
“Plante is a Vietnam veteran.”
end quotes
There, Mr. President, is what stigmatization of combat veterans with PTSD as a means of political retaliation looks like in real life.
Because I would not take bribes, I was publicly branded by Rensselaer County as being “irrational.”
That label, which was pinned on myself and every other Viet Nam veteran, as well, has destroyed my life to this day.
Any hopes I might have had for being a good, productive American citizen, perhaps a person in the middle class, upon my return to this country from Viet Nam disappeared in smoke that day when that news article was published.
All Viet Nam veterans with PTSD suffer from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.
It is true because it was published in a newspaper of record and never retracted or refuted by a person of responsibility in the government.
All the years I spent rehabilitating myself as a productive citizen upon my return from Viet Nam, the years I spent in engineering school, the hours I spent getting a master’s degree on a fellowship from the USEPA so I could be a responsible public servant in America were all for naught, Mr. President.
After being publicly branded by the Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney, an authority figure, in the February 22, 1989 Troy, New York RECORD as being a Viet Nam veteran suffering from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior, my career as a responsible, law-abiding public health engineer in service to the community was over, and my life as a fugitive began, for once the government has branded you as being irrational you can no longer fulfill the functions of an engineer, because you cannot be trusted with the public trust.
end quotes
Given all of that, which cannot be denied because it is public record, this creation of veterans with PTSD into second-class citizens with no rights in the State of New York, which stigmatizing and stereotyping in turn dooms the veteran’s transition and reintegration back into civilian life, what comfort should we take from your support of the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project?
What is that going to do to restore rights we would have enjoyed as American citizens if we hadn’t of been diagnosed with PTSD, rights which are now enjoyed by Persons of Color and LGBQT, but not by veterans with PTSD in New York state?
Respectfully submitted,
Paul R. Plante
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Paul Plante says:
29 October 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: Treatment of veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
As a Viet Nam combat veteran who has been demonized quite publicly and held up to ridicule because of PTSD, which was used as a very public political weapon against me, I read with some degree of interest your recent campaign propaganda where you took credit for building a bipartisan coalition to restore funding to something called the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project, which according to its own propaganda is named to honor the memory of an Iraq war hero from Mount Sinai, NY, and is a peer-to-peer program for Veterans facing the challenges of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and takes a confidential, one-on-one, peer-to-peer approach that has rapidly captured the attention and support of both veterans and mental health professionals statewide and across the nation with the program steadily demonstrating that the peer-to-peer model holds tremendous, untapped value as a tool for helping Veterans transition and reintegrate back into civilian life.
All well and good, but I can see nowhere in there where you have done anything to remove the stigma in the minds of the public concerning PTSD which certainly has a great impact on a veteran’s ability to transition and reintegrate back into civilian life in a world where politicians have ingrained in the minds of the public that veterans with PTSD aren’t really human, as you can see in the following letter from myself to then-President Barack Obama, to wit:
10 April 2014
Hon. Barack Obama
United States President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
To my continued horror, on Wednesday, February 22, 1989, the Troy, New York RECORD, the newspaper of record for Rensselaer County in New York state ran an article wherein Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo was quoted as follows:
“Mayo said Plante suffers from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.”
“Plante is a Vietnam veteran.”
end quotes
There, Mr. President, is what stigmatization of combat veterans with PTSD as a means of political retaliation looks like in real life.
Because I would not take bribes, I was publicly branded by Rensselaer County as being “irrational.”
That label, which was pinned on myself and every other Viet Nam veteran, as well, has destroyed my life to this day.
Any hopes I might have had for being a good, productive American citizen, perhaps a person in the middle class, upon my return to this country from Viet Nam disappeared in smoke that day when that news article was published.
All Viet Nam veterans with PTSD suffer from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.
It is true because it was published in a newspaper of record and never retracted or refuted by a person of responsibility in the government.
All the years I spent rehabilitating myself as a productive citizen upon my return from Viet Nam, the years I spent in engineering school, the hours I spent getting a master’s degree on a fellowship from the USEPA so I could be a responsible public servant in America were all for naught, Mr. President.
After being publicly branded by the Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney, an authority figure, in the February 22, 1989 Troy, New York RECORD as being a Viet Nam veteran suffering from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior, my career as a responsible, law-abiding public health engineer in service to the community was over, and my life as a fugitive began, for once the government has branded you as being irrational you can no longer fulfill the functions of an engineer, because you cannot be trusted with the public trust.
end quotes
Given all of that, which cannot be denied because it is public record, this creation of veterans with PTSD into second-class citizens with no rights in the State of New York, which stigmatizing and stereotyping in turn dooms the veteran’s transition and reintegration back into civilian life, what comfort should we take from your support of the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project?
What is that going to do to restore rights we would have enjoyed as American citizens if we hadn’t of been diagnosed with PTSD, rights which are now enjoyed by Persons of Color and LGBQT, but not by veterans with PTSD in New York state?
Respectfully submitted,
Paul R. Plante
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/c ... ent-295725
Re: POLITICS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR October 29, 2020 at 8:54 pm
Paul Plante says:
And while we ponder the implications and ramifications to our futures as a free people of Queen Empress Kamala calling “brilliant” the Marxist-inspired BLACK LIVES MATTER movement’s goals of disrupting our stable, law-abiding nuclear families and ending white supremacy in the United States of America forever, let’s review some history here to see how it is that we have come to this juncture with Queen Empress Kamala being forced on us by BLACK LIVES MATTER after the American people rejected her as a presidential candidate by going back to a Politico article entitled “‘One of the hardest decisions of my life’: Kamala Harris ends once-promising campaign – The California senator took a deep look at the campaign’s resources over the holiday and decided she did not have a path to the nomination” by Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprsko on 12/03/2019 where we have as follows concerning Queen Empress Kamala being rejected by the American people, to wit:
Kamala Harris is ending her presidential campaign after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field — a premature departure for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.
Harris told aides of her intentions in an all-staff call on Tuesday, and a person familiar with the conversation said she sounded distraught.
While Harris had qualified for the December debate in her home state later this month, she was running dangerously low on cash — lacking the resources to air TV ads in Iowa — and her staff was gripped by long-running internal turmoil.
end quotes
Long-running internal turmoil, people – seriously, is that what we want one heart-beat away from the Oval Office?
With all of the many problems we have in this country, do we really need more turmoil?
Getting back to Politico, we have:
Still, the news came as a shock to some of her biggest supporters.
Just as Harris was announcing the news internally, a super PAC had cleared more than $1 million in TV ads in Iowa to boost her struggling campaign.
The ad, which argued she was the best-equipped candidate to take on President Donald Trump, was canceled.
end quotes
The ad was canceled because it is clear from the record that Queen Empress Kamala was not the best-equipped candidate to take on Trump, far from it, in fact, her having no presidential qualities of her own, so now BLACK LIVES MATTER is using “Corn Pop” Biden as a vehicle to get Queen Empress Kamala into office, instead, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
The senator did not bow out without taking a parting shot at her billionaire and self-funding rivals who made late entrances into the race this summer and fall.
“I’m not a billionaire.”
“I can’t fund my own campaign,” Harris said in a video explaining her decision to drop out.
“And as the campaign has gone on, it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
“In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.”
Once dubbed the “female Obama” by former Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, Harris’ campaign began on a promising note: Her kickoff rally in her hometown of Oakland drew more than 20,000 supporters who cheered wildly as she cast herself as the kind of fighter fit to take on a president like Trump.
end quotes
So, a lot of bluster, but in the end, no substance.
As Obama was an empty suit, so too Queen Empress Kamala, which takes us to this essential question from the Politico article, to wit:
Why did Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign fail?
Why indeed, so let’s see what Politico has to say about it:
Her candidacy got one of its first major breaks in the first Democratic debate in June, when Harris pulled off a blistering ambush of former Vice President Joe Biden over his previous stance on busing, which prompted another review of his record on race issues.
Harris’ performance sent her soaring in the polls, and the campaign raised $2 million in the 24 hours following the debate.
end quotes
So, right out of the blocks, and not surprisingly, Queen Empress Kamala pulled the race card on “Corn Pop” Biden, who in one of those very weird twists of fate associated with the Democrats, is now the presidential candidate Queen Empress Kamala is running with as his vice president, which has to make us wonder if Queen Kamala is now comfortable with “Corn Pop” Biden being a racist, and since she is running with him, we must presume that she is, which again takes is back to Politico, to wit:
But the attack ultimately blew back on Harris when her own stance on busing came under scrutiny in the days after.
Her sharp rise in the polls did not last long, with Harris skidding into fifth place and registering in the single digits by September.
When she dropped out Tuesday, her RealClearPolitics national polling average was hovering just above 3 percent.
end quotes
So Queen Empress Kamala’s attack on “Corn Pop” backfired on her because she too is as racist as is “Corn Pop,” which is why they are so comfortable in each other’s company – a marriage made in heaven, so to speak.
Getting back to Politico, there is more yet to come:
Throughout the campaign, Harris had never been steady on health care, many voters’ stated key issue.
Harris spent months backtracking following an ill-fated moment in a CNN town hall in which she said, “let’s eliminate all that,” when asked whether she supported a health care plan that got rid of private insurance.
Her stumbles on the issue continued into the fall, as Harris waffled on whether she backed the kind of single-payer, “Medicare for All” plan championed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or more incremental change, an opening her opponents seized on.
In addition to health care, voters complained that they were unable to pin Harris down on a host of other issues.
And Harris shied away some from what could have been one of her greatest strengths — her time spent as a prosecutor and attorney general in California — as her prosecutorial record became a liability with a Democratic base that has turned sharply left on issues of criminal justice.
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a low-polling Democratic wildcard, weaponized Harris’ prosecutorial record against her in a later debate, lambasting Harris with a set of somewhat misleading and out-of-context accusations.
But Harris did not mount a full-throated defense in the moment, only reiterating that she was proud of her time as a prosecutor.
end quotes
Which takes us back to a Vox.com article entitled “Analysis: Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained” by German Lopez on 26 January 2019, to wit:
Is Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) a progressive hero — or a relic of a “tough on crime” era going back to the 1990s and 2000s?
The answer to that question could determine the fate of her presidential campaign, which she announced on Monday.
A generation after Democrats embraced “tough on crime” policies that swelled prison populations, progressive activists are pushing to make the criminal justice system less punitive and racist — and polls show a majority of Democrats support such efforts.
Harris argues that her views align with the new progressive movement.
But her record in California, where she was a prosecutor, district attorney, and state attorney general before representing the state in the US Senate, is likely to come in for harsh scrutiny and debate in the coming months.
end quotes
Which takes us back to the Daily Mail article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have Queen Empress Kamala saying as follows about BLACK LIVES MATTER:
‘I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,’ she said.
end quotes
Which statement in a very surreal and bizarre manner brings us to an Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “Albany Common Council seeks outside help to deal with violence – Police arrest three in connection with Monday drive-by” by Steve Hughes on Oct. 21, 2020 where we have the results of what happens when “progressive” Democrats like Kathy Sheehan of Albany cripple their police departments to appease BLACK LIVES MATTER, to wit:
ALBANY – Common Council members all but demanded the city bring in outside law enforcement agencies to help deal with a historically violent year in its borders.
Councilors spoke in favor of the move, with one going as far as to call on the city to declare a state of emergency after two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city’s South End while the Council was meeting Monday evening.
The shooting on Mount Hope Drive was the fifth shooting in 48 hours and at least the third time this year six or more people had been shot within a two-day span in the city.
At least 116 people have been shot in the city so far this year, with 16 homicides.
end quotes
Yes, people, that’s what happens when people like Kathy Sheehan of Albany punish their police officers for not being “sensitive” enough to the howlers and rioters and lawless savages that roam freely in their sanctuary cities when the police attempt to enforce the law against Black people, which is considered racial injustice – you get lawlessness, and that is exactly what it looks like in real life, because to these savages, no lives matter, whatsoever.
The city needs to realize it has a gang problem and to rely on outside law enforcement, such as the Albany County Sheriff’s Department, to help deal with it, said Council President Corey Ellis.
Councilman Owusu Anane went further.
“As a result of these unprecedented shootings, I think we need to look at calling a state of emergency to address the frequent violence that is occurring in our streets,” he said.
Other councilmembers noted that for months they had been talking about rising violence in their neighborhoods and welcomed conversations about further resources.
“We need resources out there,” said Councilwoman Sonia Frederick, who represents part of the South End.
“We need to address this issue because this continues to happen.”
end quotes
When Queen Empress Kamala talks about her actually believeing that BLACK LIVES MATTER has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system, that is what it looks like in real life, people, because the change BLACK LIVES MATTER is bringing to the criminal justice system is the crippling of it, so that it no longer works, as is clearly the case in Albany, New York, a BLACK LIVES MATTER sanctuary city with a large intimidating BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flying over the entrance to Albany City Hall like a gang symbol letting all the candid world know whose turf that is.
So is that the future we want for America, people – a future filled with more and more violence as BLACK LIVES MATTER and Queen Empress Kamala dismantle our criminal justice system?
Think about it, anyway.
The future you pick will be the future you own!
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Paul Plante says:
And while we ponder the implications and ramifications to our futures as a free people of Queen Empress Kamala calling “brilliant” the Marxist-inspired BLACK LIVES MATTER movement’s goals of disrupting our stable, law-abiding nuclear families and ending white supremacy in the United States of America forever, let’s review some history here to see how it is that we have come to this juncture with Queen Empress Kamala being forced on us by BLACK LIVES MATTER after the American people rejected her as a presidential candidate by going back to a Politico article entitled “‘One of the hardest decisions of my life’: Kamala Harris ends once-promising campaign – The California senator took a deep look at the campaign’s resources over the holiday and decided she did not have a path to the nomination” by Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprsko on 12/03/2019 where we have as follows concerning Queen Empress Kamala being rejected by the American people, to wit:
Kamala Harris is ending her presidential campaign after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field — a premature departure for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.
Harris told aides of her intentions in an all-staff call on Tuesday, and a person familiar with the conversation said she sounded distraught.
While Harris had qualified for the December debate in her home state later this month, she was running dangerously low on cash — lacking the resources to air TV ads in Iowa — and her staff was gripped by long-running internal turmoil.
end quotes
Long-running internal turmoil, people – seriously, is that what we want one heart-beat away from the Oval Office?
With all of the many problems we have in this country, do we really need more turmoil?
Getting back to Politico, we have:
Still, the news came as a shock to some of her biggest supporters.
Just as Harris was announcing the news internally, a super PAC had cleared more than $1 million in TV ads in Iowa to boost her struggling campaign.
The ad, which argued she was the best-equipped candidate to take on President Donald Trump, was canceled.
end quotes
The ad was canceled because it is clear from the record that Queen Empress Kamala was not the best-equipped candidate to take on Trump, far from it, in fact, her having no presidential qualities of her own, so now BLACK LIVES MATTER is using “Corn Pop” Biden as a vehicle to get Queen Empress Kamala into office, instead, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
The senator did not bow out without taking a parting shot at her billionaire and self-funding rivals who made late entrances into the race this summer and fall.
“I’m not a billionaire.”
“I can’t fund my own campaign,” Harris said in a video explaining her decision to drop out.
“And as the campaign has gone on, it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
“In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.”
Once dubbed the “female Obama” by former Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, Harris’ campaign began on a promising note: Her kickoff rally in her hometown of Oakland drew more than 20,000 supporters who cheered wildly as she cast herself as the kind of fighter fit to take on a president like Trump.
end quotes
So, a lot of bluster, but in the end, no substance.
As Obama was an empty suit, so too Queen Empress Kamala, which takes us to this essential question from the Politico article, to wit:
Why did Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign fail?
Why indeed, so let’s see what Politico has to say about it:
Her candidacy got one of its first major breaks in the first Democratic debate in June, when Harris pulled off a blistering ambush of former Vice President Joe Biden over his previous stance on busing, which prompted another review of his record on race issues.
Harris’ performance sent her soaring in the polls, and the campaign raised $2 million in the 24 hours following the debate.
end quotes
So, right out of the blocks, and not surprisingly, Queen Empress Kamala pulled the race card on “Corn Pop” Biden, who in one of those very weird twists of fate associated with the Democrats, is now the presidential candidate Queen Empress Kamala is running with as his vice president, which has to make us wonder if Queen Kamala is now comfortable with “Corn Pop” Biden being a racist, and since she is running with him, we must presume that she is, which again takes is back to Politico, to wit:
But the attack ultimately blew back on Harris when her own stance on busing came under scrutiny in the days after.
Her sharp rise in the polls did not last long, with Harris skidding into fifth place and registering in the single digits by September.
When she dropped out Tuesday, her RealClearPolitics national polling average was hovering just above 3 percent.
end quotes
So Queen Empress Kamala’s attack on “Corn Pop” backfired on her because she too is as racist as is “Corn Pop,” which is why they are so comfortable in each other’s company – a marriage made in heaven, so to speak.
Getting back to Politico, there is more yet to come:
Throughout the campaign, Harris had never been steady on health care, many voters’ stated key issue.
Harris spent months backtracking following an ill-fated moment in a CNN town hall in which she said, “let’s eliminate all that,” when asked whether she supported a health care plan that got rid of private insurance.
Her stumbles on the issue continued into the fall, as Harris waffled on whether she backed the kind of single-payer, “Medicare for All” plan championed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or more incremental change, an opening her opponents seized on.
In addition to health care, voters complained that they were unable to pin Harris down on a host of other issues.
And Harris shied away some from what could have been one of her greatest strengths — her time spent as a prosecutor and attorney general in California — as her prosecutorial record became a liability with a Democratic base that has turned sharply left on issues of criminal justice.
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a low-polling Democratic wildcard, weaponized Harris’ prosecutorial record against her in a later debate, lambasting Harris with a set of somewhat misleading and out-of-context accusations.
But Harris did not mount a full-throated defense in the moment, only reiterating that she was proud of her time as a prosecutor.
end quotes
Which takes us back to a Vox.com article entitled “Analysis: Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained” by German Lopez on 26 January 2019, to wit:
Is Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) a progressive hero — or a relic of a “tough on crime” era going back to the 1990s and 2000s?
The answer to that question could determine the fate of her presidential campaign, which she announced on Monday.
A generation after Democrats embraced “tough on crime” policies that swelled prison populations, progressive activists are pushing to make the criminal justice system less punitive and racist — and polls show a majority of Democrats support such efforts.
Harris argues that her views align with the new progressive movement.
But her record in California, where she was a prosecutor, district attorney, and state attorney general before representing the state in the US Senate, is likely to come in for harsh scrutiny and debate in the coming months.
end quotes
Which takes us back to the Daily Mail article “Kamala Harris is branded ‘ignorant’ for praising BLM protests and calling them ‘essential’ just three days after two cops were shot during Louisville riots” by James Gordon for Dailymail.com updated 26 September 2020, where we have Queen Empress Kamala saying as follows about BLACK LIVES MATTER:
‘I actually believe that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,’ she said.
end quotes
Which statement in a very surreal and bizarre manner brings us to an Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “Albany Common Council seeks outside help to deal with violence – Police arrest three in connection with Monday drive-by” by Steve Hughes on Oct. 21, 2020 where we have the results of what happens when “progressive” Democrats like Kathy Sheehan of Albany cripple their police departments to appease BLACK LIVES MATTER, to wit:
ALBANY – Common Council members all but demanded the city bring in outside law enforcement agencies to help deal with a historically violent year in its borders.
Councilors spoke in favor of the move, with one going as far as to call on the city to declare a state of emergency after two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city’s South End while the Council was meeting Monday evening.
The shooting on Mount Hope Drive was the fifth shooting in 48 hours and at least the third time this year six or more people had been shot within a two-day span in the city.
At least 116 people have been shot in the city so far this year, with 16 homicides.
end quotes
Yes, people, that’s what happens when people like Kathy Sheehan of Albany punish their police officers for not being “sensitive” enough to the howlers and rioters and lawless savages that roam freely in their sanctuary cities when the police attempt to enforce the law against Black people, which is considered racial injustice – you get lawlessness, and that is exactly what it looks like in real life, because to these savages, no lives matter, whatsoever.
The city needs to realize it has a gang problem and to rely on outside law enforcement, such as the Albany County Sheriff’s Department, to help deal with it, said Council President Corey Ellis.
Councilman Owusu Anane went further.
“As a result of these unprecedented shootings, I think we need to look at calling a state of emergency to address the frequent violence that is occurring in our streets,” he said.
Other councilmembers noted that for months they had been talking about rising violence in their neighborhoods and welcomed conversations about further resources.
“We need resources out there,” said Councilwoman Sonia Frederick, who represents part of the South End.
“We need to address this issue because this continues to happen.”
end quotes
When Queen Empress Kamala talks about her actually believeing that BLACK LIVES MATTER has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system, that is what it looks like in real life, people, because the change BLACK LIVES MATTER is bringing to the criminal justice system is the crippling of it, so that it no longer works, as is clearly the case in Albany, New York, a BLACK LIVES MATTER sanctuary city with a large intimidating BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flying over the entrance to Albany City Hall like a gang symbol letting all the candid world know whose turf that is.
So is that the future we want for America, people – a future filled with more and more violence as BLACK LIVES MATTER and Queen Empress Kamala dismantle our criminal justice system?
Think about it, anyway.
The future you pick will be the future you own!
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR October 31, 2020 at 5:53 pm
Paul Plante says:
Now, like so many Democrats today who truckle to BLACK LIVES MATTER and take the knee before them in submission, which social grouping includes Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi, who recently had more than a bit of trouble getting back off her knees, before she was against law and order and rule of law as opposed to law of the jungle, Queen Empress Kamala was very much for law and order, and rule of law and not law of the jungle, that being back in the days of Hillary Clinton stepping up to the plate to call out by name the super predators who the Democrats now tell us are “good people, good people.”
But then Hillary and Bill got called out by BLACK LIVES MATTER for truth-telling, and so Hillary caved and when she did, so too did Queen Empress Kamala.
As to Hillary caving and taking Queen Empress Kamala with her, check out the following record, to wit:
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Time
time.com › hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-superpred…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for using the word “superpredators” to describe kids who committed crimes in a 1996 speech.
Opinion | Hillary Clinton on ‘superpredator’ remarks: ‘I shouldn …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-partisan › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today.”
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-politics › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — A 23-year-old activist from Charlotte interrupted Clinton during a private fundraiser. The next day, Clinton apologized for a 1996 remark …
Clinton apologizes for 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.chicagotribune.com › nation-world › ct-clinton-a…
Feb 25, 2016 — At an event on Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton was vocally confronted by an activist questioning her past support for policies that had a …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark – video …
http://www.dailymotion.com › video
Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for remarks she made in a 1996 speech, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids with “no …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Fortune
fortune.com › 2016/02/25 › hillary-clinton-apologizes-…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized for remarks she made in 1996, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids who committed crimes.
Hillary Clinton Still Haunted by Rhetoric on “Superpredators”
theintercept.com › 2016/02/25 › activists-want-hillary-c…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton is relying on support from black voters in South Carolina, but at a fundraiser in Charleston, she found herself confronted by a …
#WhichHillary? #BlackLivesMatter Activist Demands Apology …
http://www.youtube.com › watch
Feb 26, 2016 — http://democracynow.org – Ahead of Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, a Black Lives Matter activist interrupted Democratic …
end quotes
“READ ALL ABOUT IT: BLACK LIVES MATTER DEMANDS, HILLARY CAVES, HILLARY GROVELS, HILLARY SNIVELS, DEMOCRAT PARTY TO FOLLOW HER LEAD; DETAILS AT ELEVEN!”
So now chastened by Hillary’s humiliation and humbling by BLACK LIVES MATTER, and knowing who holds the whip hand, which is BLACK LIVES MATTER, Queen Empress Kamala is no longer for law and order and rule of law, and is now for law of the jungle, and given that she will be one heart beat away from a high position in our national government that requires the incumbent to take care that OUR laws be faithfully executed, something Queen Empress Kamala cannot do, why on earth would we want her in office as vice-president?
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Paul Plante says:
Now, like so many Democrats today who truckle to BLACK LIVES MATTER and take the knee before them in submission, which social grouping includes Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi, who recently had more than a bit of trouble getting back off her knees, before she was against law and order and rule of law as opposed to law of the jungle, Queen Empress Kamala was very much for law and order, and rule of law and not law of the jungle, that being back in the days of Hillary Clinton stepping up to the plate to call out by name the super predators who the Democrats now tell us are “good people, good people.”
But then Hillary and Bill got called out by BLACK LIVES MATTER for truth-telling, and so Hillary caved and when she did, so too did Queen Empress Kamala.
As to Hillary caving and taking Queen Empress Kamala with her, check out the following record, to wit:
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Time
time.com › hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-superpred…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for using the word “superpredators” to describe kids who committed crimes in a 1996 speech.
Opinion | Hillary Clinton on ‘superpredator’ remarks: ‘I shouldn …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-partisan › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today.”
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.washingtonpost.com › post-politics › 2016/02/25
Feb 25, 2016 — A 23-year-old activist from Charlotte interrupted Clinton during a private fundraiser. The next day, Clinton apologized for a 1996 remark …
Clinton apologizes for 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after …
http://www.chicagotribune.com › nation-world › ct-clinton-a…
Feb 25, 2016 — At an event on Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton was vocally confronted by an activist questioning her past support for policies that had a …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark – video …
http://www.dailymotion.com › video
Hillary Clinton apologized on Thursday for remarks she made in a 1996 speech, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids with “no …
Hillary Clinton Apologizes for ‘Superpredator’ Remark | Fortune
fortune.com › 2016/02/25 › hillary-clinton-apologizes-…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton apologized for remarks she made in 1996, in which she used the word ‘superpredators’ to describe kids who committed crimes.
Hillary Clinton Still Haunted by Rhetoric on “Superpredators”
theintercept.com › 2016/02/25 › activists-want-hillary-c…
Feb 25, 2016 — Hillary Clinton is relying on support from black voters in South Carolina, but at a fundraiser in Charleston, she found herself confronted by a …
#WhichHillary? #BlackLivesMatter Activist Demands Apology …
http://www.youtube.com › watch
Feb 26, 2016 — http://democracynow.org – Ahead of Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, a Black Lives Matter activist interrupted Democratic …
end quotes
“READ ALL ABOUT IT: BLACK LIVES MATTER DEMANDS, HILLARY CAVES, HILLARY GROVELS, HILLARY SNIVELS, DEMOCRAT PARTY TO FOLLOW HER LEAD; DETAILS AT ELEVEN!”
So now chastened by Hillary’s humiliation and humbling by BLACK LIVES MATTER, and knowing who holds the whip hand, which is BLACK LIVES MATTER, Queen Empress Kamala is no longer for law and order and rule of law, and is now for law of the jungle, and given that she will be one heart beat away from a high position in our national government that requires the incumbent to take care that OUR laws be faithfully executed, something Queen Empress Kamala cannot do, why on earth would we want her in office as vice-president?
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR November 2, 2020 at 12:00 am
Paul Plante says:
1 November 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: State-sanctioned Reprisals against veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
Staying with the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project, of which you are a supporter, and specifically this sentence from that program’s literature, “(T)he Vet-to-Vet approach of the program allows for complete anonymity without fear of reprisal,” why your silence on the subject of “reprisals” against veterans with PTSD, especially when the “reprisals” are coming from the State of New York itself and its political subdivisions the County of Rensselaer and the Town of Poestenkill, which entities happen to be in your assembly district?
That these reprisals against veterans with PTSD are not only sanctioned by the “state,” but perpetrated by the “state” as well is made clear in a 10 April 2014 communication from myself to Hon. Barack Obama, United States President, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, to wit:
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
To my continued horror, on Wednesday, February 22, 1989, the Troy, New York RECORD, the newspaper of record for Rensselaer County in New York state ran an article wherein Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo was quoted as follows:
“Mayo said Plante suffers from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.”
“Plante is a Vietnam veteran.”
end quotes
When Gordon Mayo was spreading that intentionally harmful and damaging poison about veterans with PTSD being irrational, he was speaking on the record not as a bystander, but as an official of the County of Rensselaer without a shred of proof to back up his false assertions, and when he was uttering those slurs, he was speaking them on the record before a New York State Supreme Court Justice who let the slanders into the record despite a lack of any proof to back them up, with the press in attendance to take down his every word, as if he were speaking truth, as opposed to slander, while who was missing was myself, who was never notified that the slander-fest was taking place, so I was not afforded any opportunity to defend myself, or to clear the record, precisely because reprisals against veterans with PTSD are sanctioned by the State as a formidable political weapon, which is something President Obama had absolutely no problems with himself, which makes your silence on the subject that much more troubling.
Which again raises the question of why your silence on reprisals by the “state” against veterans with PTSD.
Why are you not pressing for hate-crime legislation to make reprisals against veterans with PTSD a crime, the way reprisals against LGBQT’s and Persons of Color are crimes?
Why do those groups have human rights that veterans with PTSD do not have?
Are we less human than they?
Why are acts of violence against veterans with PTSD socially acceptable when acts of violence against LGBQTs are criminal acts?
Why isn’t your voice raised in protest at this shabby treatment of this nation’s veterans?
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Paul Plante says:
1 November 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: State-sanctioned Reprisals against veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
Staying with the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project, of which you are a supporter, and specifically this sentence from that program’s literature, “(T)he Vet-to-Vet approach of the program allows for complete anonymity without fear of reprisal,” why your silence on the subject of “reprisals” against veterans with PTSD, especially when the “reprisals” are coming from the State of New York itself and its political subdivisions the County of Rensselaer and the Town of Poestenkill, which entities happen to be in your assembly district?
That these reprisals against veterans with PTSD are not only sanctioned by the “state,” but perpetrated by the “state” as well is made clear in a 10 April 2014 communication from myself to Hon. Barack Obama, United States President, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, to wit:
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
To my continued horror, on Wednesday, February 22, 1989, the Troy, New York RECORD, the newspaper of record for Rensselaer County in New York state ran an article wherein Deputy Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo was quoted as follows:
“Mayo said Plante suffers from a post-combat stress condition that could result in irrational behavior.”
“Plante is a Vietnam veteran.”
end quotes
When Gordon Mayo was spreading that intentionally harmful and damaging poison about veterans with PTSD being irrational, he was speaking on the record not as a bystander, but as an official of the County of Rensselaer without a shred of proof to back up his false assertions, and when he was uttering those slurs, he was speaking them on the record before a New York State Supreme Court Justice who let the slanders into the record despite a lack of any proof to back them up, with the press in attendance to take down his every word, as if he were speaking truth, as opposed to slander, while who was missing was myself, who was never notified that the slander-fest was taking place, so I was not afforded any opportunity to defend myself, or to clear the record, precisely because reprisals against veterans with PTSD are sanctioned by the State as a formidable political weapon, which is something President Obama had absolutely no problems with himself, which makes your silence on the subject that much more troubling.
Which again raises the question of why your silence on reprisals by the “state” against veterans with PTSD.
Why are you not pressing for hate-crime legislation to make reprisals against veterans with PTSD a crime, the way reprisals against LGBQT’s and Persons of Color are crimes?
Why do those groups have human rights that veterans with PTSD do not have?
Are we less human than they?
Why are acts of violence against veterans with PTSD socially acceptable when acts of violence against LGBQTs are criminal acts?
Why isn’t your voice raised in protest at this shabby treatment of this nation’s veterans?
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR November 3, 2020 at 6:37 pm
Paul Plante says:
3 November 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: State-sanctioned Reprisals against veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
Staying with these words from the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project literature that “(T)he Vet-to-Vet approach of the program allows for complete anonymity without fear of reprisal,” let us not sugarcoat the fact that acts of reprisal against veterans with PTSD by the “state” are acts of volition, acts done with intent to cause harm.
Acts of reprisal by the “state” against veterans with PTSD are not accidents as in, “oh, sorry, I stepped on your toe!”
They are a form of violence, plain and simple.
As to acts of reprisal against veterans with PTSD being acts of volition – intentional acts by the “state” to cause harm, consider the language in the first sentence of my 10 April 2014 communication on the subject to Hon. Barack Obama, United States President, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, to wit:
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
end quotes
Action and reaction, Mr. Assemblyman – I wouldn’t take bribes or honor bribes taken by politicians in Rensselaer County, an action, and Rensselaer County reacted by retaliating against me and in an act of reprisal, went into my medical records, dug out the fact that I was diagnosed with PTSD, and then used that PTSD as a potent political weapon against me by publicly implying or openly stating that because of PTSD, I was mentally ill and dangerous, an intentional smear that dogs me to this day, which smear is indelibly etched in the public record as though the lie was based on fact, because the law does not allow for a veteran with PTSD any way to clear their name when their PTSD has been used by the “state” as a weapon against them, as it was for me.
As to what state-sanctioned acts of reprisal against disabled veterans with PTSD look like in real life, here is a video of an act of reprisal against a veteran with PTSD on a public thoroughfare in the Town of Poestenkill which is in your assembly district, to wit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89m5TEuu3M
Notice the disabled veteran being termed a “f***ing retard.”
This video was reviewed by the New York State Police, the New York State Veteran’s Service Agency, the Rensselaer County Veteran’s Service Agency, then-Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, and Patrick Tomaselli, the attorney for the Town of Poestenkill, who put in writing that he did not consider what occurs in the video to be an assault, at all, given the disabled veteran is not considered human in Poestenkill, which opinion was concurred in by the above named.
So reprisals against disabled veterans with PTSD are clearly lawful in New York state and the veteran has no other recourse than to stay hidden and live like a fugitive with no rights under the law.
Why is that, Mr. Assemblyman?
Why your silence on the subject of “reprisals” against veterans with PTSD, especially when the “reprisals” are coming from the State of New York itself and its political subdivisions the County of Rensselaer and the Town of Poestenkill, which entities happen to be in your assembly district?
Why are you not pressing for hate-crime legislation to make reprisals against veterans with PTSD a crime, the way reprisals against LGBQT’s and Persons of Color are crimes?
Why do those groups have human rights that veterans with PTSD do not have?
Why are we considered less human than they?
Why are acts of violence against veterans with PTSD socially acceptable when acts of violence against LGBQTs are criminal acts?
Why isn’t your voice raised in protest at this shabby treatment of this nation’s veterans?
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Paul Plante says:
3 November 2020
Assemblyman Jake Ashby
Assembly District 107
LOB 720
Albany, NY 12248
RE: State-sanctioned Reprisals against veterans with PTSD in Rensselaer County and New York State
Dear Assemblyman Ashby:
Staying with these words from the Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project literature that “(T)he Vet-to-Vet approach of the program allows for complete anonymity without fear of reprisal,” let us not sugarcoat the fact that acts of reprisal against veterans with PTSD by the “state” are acts of volition, acts done with intent to cause harm.
Acts of reprisal by the “state” against veterans with PTSD are not accidents as in, “oh, sorry, I stepped on your toe!”
They are a form of violence, plain and simple.
As to acts of reprisal against veterans with PTSD being acts of volition – intentional acts by the “state” to cause harm, consider the language in the first sentence of my 10 April 2014 communication on the subject to Hon. Barack Obama, United States President, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, to wit:
Dear Mr. President:
Because I would not take bribes, Mr. President, in the words of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early-1989, I upset “some of the most powerful men in Rensselaer County,” and my boss, the Rensselaer County public health director, could no longer “protect” me.
end quotes
Action and reaction, Mr. Assemblyman – I wouldn’t take bribes or honor bribes taken by politicians in Rensselaer County, an action, and Rensselaer County reacted by retaliating against me and in an act of reprisal, went into my medical records, dug out the fact that I was diagnosed with PTSD, and then used that PTSD as a potent political weapon against me by publicly implying or openly stating that because of PTSD, I was mentally ill and dangerous, an intentional smear that dogs me to this day, which smear is indelibly etched in the public record as though the lie was based on fact, because the law does not allow for a veteran with PTSD any way to clear their name when their PTSD has been used by the “state” as a weapon against them, as it was for me.
As to what state-sanctioned acts of reprisal against disabled veterans with PTSD look like in real life, here is a video of an act of reprisal against a veteran with PTSD on a public thoroughfare in the Town of Poestenkill which is in your assembly district, to wit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89m5TEuu3M
Notice the disabled veteran being termed a “f***ing retard.”
This video was reviewed by the New York State Police, the New York State Veteran’s Service Agency, the Rensselaer County Veteran’s Service Agency, then-Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, and Patrick Tomaselli, the attorney for the Town of Poestenkill, who put in writing that he did not consider what occurs in the video to be an assault, at all, given the disabled veteran is not considered human in Poestenkill, which opinion was concurred in by the above named.
So reprisals against disabled veterans with PTSD are clearly lawful in New York state and the veteran has no other recourse than to stay hidden and live like a fugitive with no rights under the law.
Why is that, Mr. Assemblyman?
Why your silence on the subject of “reprisals” against veterans with PTSD, especially when the “reprisals” are coming from the State of New York itself and its political subdivisions the County of Rensselaer and the Town of Poestenkill, which entities happen to be in your assembly district?
Why are you not pressing for hate-crime legislation to make reprisals against veterans with PTSD a crime, the way reprisals against LGBQT’s and Persons of Color are crimes?
Why do those groups have human rights that veterans with PTSD do not have?
Why are we considered less human than they?
Why are acts of violence against veterans with PTSD socially acceptable when acts of violence against LGBQTs are criminal acts?
Why isn’t your voice raised in protest at this shabby treatment of this nation’s veterans?
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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