CRS and Race Baiting

[turtlespeed 212]

Did a search and found this:http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2013/07/doj-facilitated-zimmerman-protests-in-florida-2533386.html

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The full extent of the CRS involvement in the protests, though, had not been known until now. The question is what the CRS was doing. If the DoJ was concerned that protests would get out of hand and turn violent, then mediation would have been a good choice. According to the descriptions, though, it appears that the CRS was more of a participant and organizer of the protests than a mediator of them. The sums of money don’t appear that large, but March 25 through April 12 is almost three weeks worth of time and effort.

Judicial Watch discovered that the CRS spent some time and money participating in the protests in the spring of 2012, thanks to a trove of documents from a wide-ranging FOIA request:

JW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested with the DOJ on April 24, 2012; 125 pages were received on May 30, 2012. JW administratively appealed the request on June 5, 2012, and received 222 pages more on March 6, 2013. According to the documents:

March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL, to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”
March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”
March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”
April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”
April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.” – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?
From a Florida Sunshine Law request filed on April 23, 2012, JW received thousands of pages of emails on April 27, 2012, in which was found an email by Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswell from April 16, 2012: “Congratulations to our partners, Thomas Battles, Regional Director, and Mildred De Robles, Miami-Dade Coordinator and their co-workers at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service for their outstanding and ongoing efforts to reduce tensions and build bridges of understanding and respect in Sanford, Florida” following a news article in the Orlando Sentinel about the secretive “peacekeepers.”

In reply to that message, Battles said: “Thank you Partner. You did lots of stuff behind the scene to make Miami a success. We will continue to work together.” He signed the email simply Tommy.

Carswell responded: “That’s why we make the big bucks.” More over at Hot Air

The New Black Panther Party is offering a reward for the capture of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[DanG 1]

First of all, we're already discussing this in the main thread.

If you seriously think that anything you've posted shows evidence of anything, you're not being intellectually honest.

And secondly, I love how apparent it has become that the right wing media is going to pound on this until it becomes part of the anti-Obama meme. It's really pretty fascinating to see how the machine works.

- Dan G

[turtlespeed 212]

DanG

First of all, we're already discussing this in the main thread.

If you seriously think that anything you've posted shows evidence of anything, you're not being intellectually honest.

And secondly, I love how apparent it has become that the right wing media is going to pound on this until it becomes part of the anti-Obama meme. It's really pretty fascinating to see how the machine works.

If it was on the other side of the fence you know you would be too.

Just because it is not favorable to your guy, doesn't mean it should go away, or be shelved.

The reason it now has it's own thread is because the discussion is far from over, and it irritated me that the trial was being discussed around this and vice versa.

No one has yet answered the question as to why the actions the CRS took were so One Sided.

Or are they biased and bigots them selves? Or is it just the people they work for that are racially biased?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[GeorgiaDon 340]

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“Congratulations to our partners, Thomas Battles, Regional Director, and Mildred De Robles, Miami-Dade Coordinator and their co-workers at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service for their outstanding and ongoing efforts to reduce tensions and build bridges of understanding and respect in Sanford, Florida”

Well I for one can certainly see how that would get you all worked up. Can't have that "understanding and respect" when the right wing agenda is so much better served by suspicion and hate.

Don

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[DanG 1]

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No one has yet answered the question as to why the actions the CRS took were so One Sided.

Assuming the conclusion is always an effective logical technique. Very impressive.

- Dan G

[lawrocket 3]

[Reply]No one has yet answered the question as to why the actions the CRS took were so One Sided.

[rushmc 18]

I suppose the audio link in my responce to you in the shooting thread , you know, the one where they say they are going to take action? (does that imply passive or not?) is not enough for you to abandon your beloved government either?

It that is the case, the intelectual dishonesty you post of, is all yours

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Bertt 0]

I know I'm a little off topic here, but I'm curious. Has CRS ever protested the shooting of an African American teenager by another African American teenager?

You don't have to outrun the bear.