Divide and Conquer

[PapaG]

Wake up, Ammurrrrica. We're all being played against each other by this administration.

The legal watchdog Judicial Watch released an audio recording Thursday of a Department of Justice staffer urging Sanford, Fla., city officials and the minority advocacy group Dream Defenders to seek justice for Trayvon Martin, because “if a community perceives that there’s something wrong in the black community, there’s something wrong.”

“CRS is an arm of the department that we call the Peacemakers,” Thomas Battles, regional director of the DOJ's Community Relations Service, said at a meeting at the Shiloh Church on April 19, 2012. “We work with communities where there is real or perceived racial tensions.”

“…When Trayvon happened, for many of us, it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back,” he continued. “We had grown up in a state and environment where race is a way of life … We’re not from Sanford, but what Sanford represented to us was the very real problems going around this state and this country. We wanted to figure out how could we stand in solidarity, and how could we make this about not just justice for Trayvon, but using this moment and using the opportunity to honor his memory, to honor his spirit by working to bring down the various structures and the various systems that allow something like this to happen.”

It was reported Wednesday, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, that from March 25 to April 12, CRS spent roughly $5,000 upon being deployed to Sanford to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies “related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

The findings, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, “detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman. My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”


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[DaLincolnJones]

so many views, and not a single comment?

I guess those that hate anything to the right cant argue wih this being an abuse

 

[TripTango]

Does anyone have the full transcript? I don't see anything blatantly incendiary in the snippets quoted. Battles' role in the CRS is apparently to defuse and deescalate, not to organize or provoke:

The Community Relations Service is the Department's "peacemaker" for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, CRS is the only Federal agency dedicated to assist State and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.

With passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, CRS also works with communities to employ strategies to prevent and respond to alleged violent hate crimes committed on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or disability. CRS facilitates the development of viable, mutual understandings and agreements as alternatives to coercion, violence, or litigation. It also assists communities in developing local mechanisms, conducting training, and other proactive measures to prevent racial/ethnic tension and violent hate crimes committed on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS does not take sides among disputing parties and, in promoting the principles and ideals of non-discrimination, applies skills that allow parties to come to their own agreement. In performing this mission, CRS deploys highly skilled professional conciliators, who are able to assist people of diverse backgrounds.

http://www.justice.gov/crs/

This would explain the trips to protests and demonstrations. Whether or not he has actually been working towards these stated ends, I don't know, but I see no reason to believe otherwise from those quotations above.

 

[Eastoff]

I think it's wrong for the DOJ to spend 5k$ on helping activists. I also think it's wrong to spend millions on a building in Afghanistan that is going to never be used.

 

[MarAzul]

Wake up, Ammurrrrica. We're all being played against each other by this administration.

Yeah, there is something truly rotten going on here. The locals decided not to prosecute this neighborhood watch guy. Then the State steps in. Now we find Holder's boys have been involved.

All this right after the Commander in Chief says "his son would look like Martin". Something wrong here!

Since then more than 228 people in Chicago have been shot but nothing about any of them looking like the CNC's son! Why is that? Most would qualify for the same reasons Martin did.

There is an agenda going down here, again!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/chicago-homicide-rate-wor_n_1602692.html