Al Sharpton: Anatomy of a Hate Monger

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The professional race baiting hate monger Sharpton is once again running his mouth at full throttle. He has promised civil disobedience if he doesn’t get what he wants and what he really wants is to lynch George Zimmerman.

Al Sharpton once said of Rush Limbaugh:

“He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes”

But apparently Sharpton does have that right.

If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, the “Rev.” Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions.

Sharpton would not say the efforts would be taken against the city of Sanford specifically, but he has been critical of the police department’s handling of the case.

Saturday’s scheduled 11 a.m. march from Crooms Academy of Information Technology to the Sanford Police Department headquarters was organized by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coordinators said people will be bused in from other states to participate.

The civil rights activist and syndicated television show host said he will elaborate on this plan Saturday.

“I will speak about how the National Action Network will move to the next level if Zimmerman isn’t arrested,” Sharpton said, who founded the organization. He added that it was the Martin family and lawyers who first asked him to get involved and nationalize this story.

And he won’t be alone

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is also expected to participate in the event.

Sharpton doesn’t believe certain people have the right to self-defense:

“Whether he [Zimmerman] had a swollen or broken nose, neither one means he had to take a 9mm and kill someone,” he said. “It’s not about saying Zimmerman is innocent or guilty, this is about whether there was probable cause to arrest him.”

Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee did explain why Zimmerman wasn’t held:

Q. Why was George Zimmerman was not arrested the night of the shooting?

A. When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self-defense, which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony. By Florida Statute, law enforcement was prohibited from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time.

Additionally, when any police officer makes an arrest for any reason, the officer must swear and affirm that he/she is making the arrest in good faith and with probable cause. If the arrest is done maliciously and in bad faith, the officer and the city may be held liable.

According to Florida Statute 776.032 :

Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force.— 776.032

A person who uses force as permitted in s. (1) 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer. As used in this subsection, the term “criminal prosecution” includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant.

A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful. (2)

Further, Zimmerman was within his rights to follow Martin

Q. Why did Mr. Zimmerman have a firearm in his possession while acting in the role of a neighborhood watch member?

A. Mr. Zimmerman holds a concealed weapon permit issued from the State of Florida. He is authorized to carry the weapon in a concealed manner wherever Florida Statute dictates.

Neighborhood Watch programs are designed for members of a neighborhood to be “eyes and ears” for police and to watch out for their neighbors. They are not members of the police department nor are they vigilantes.

Training provided by law enforcement agencies to Neighborhood Watch organizations stresses non-contact surveillance of suspicious situations, and notifying police of those situations so that law enforcement can respond and take control of the situation.

Mr. Zimmerman was not acting outside the legal boundaries of Florida Statute by carrying his weapon when this incident occurred. He was in fact on a personal errand in his vehicle when he observed Mr. Martin in the community and called the Sanford Police Department.

Al Sharpton has no use for either the facts or the truth, and he has a history of people dying in his wake. Jeff Jacoby once called Sharpton “The Democrats’ David Duke”:

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it.” Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warns malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s are spat on and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shout, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy’s, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.

When Sharpton came to Boston to promote his campaign last week, for example, the news coverage was uniformly upbeat. The Boston Herald noted the “joyous singing and thunderous applause” that greeted the “civil rights leader,” whose “energetic visit left many enthusiastic about his presidential bid.” The Globe announced the arrival of “the colorful and controversial 48-year-old community activist” with a story listing the places and times of his public appearances. The only allusion to his ugly record was a vague quote from a local minister: “He obviously has a lot of history and controversy to overcome.” That was quickly countered by Sharpton’s own self-description as a man known “for my fights against racial profiling and discrimination.”

Well, that isn’t what Steve Pagones or the family of Yankel Rosenbaum or the loved ones of those who were burned alive at Freddy’s Fashion Mart know him for. As they can testify, Sharpton is a vicious liar and a dangerous bigot. As a matter of moral hygiene, his party and the press should be able to say so, too.

This vile man is continually rewarded for his malevolent behavior. Here Barack Obama embraces Sharpton

and MSNBC even gives him his own show.

Howard Kurtz has noted the peculiarity of Sharpton covering himself on his show

Then Kurtz turned specifically to how Sharpton has been covering the case, describing him as a “major African-American activist in this country.” Kurtz played a series of clips showing Sharpton speaking at the Trayvon Martin rally in Florida, then filming his show near the site of the rally, then speaking again at the rally, effortlessly switching between activist and TV host. Kurtz said that Sharpton was asking people to donate money to the cause, and even went down to the Justice Department with the Martins.

Lauren Ashburn struggled to figure out why Sharpton was allowed to, essentially, cover himself on his own show. She did add that Sharpton has never pretended to be a journalist, and MSNBC knew what they were getting when they hired him as a personality, but Kurtz still thought something smelled rotten at MSNBC.

“It seems to me MSNBC can say, ‘Okay, this is such an important case you can go and be an activist and you won’t do your show on the subject. Or you can do your show on the subject but don’t be standing with the parents at the rally and accompanying them to the Justice Department.’”

Eric Deggans, a media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, said he’s always been concerned with Sharpton’s role at the network, and this particular situation makes things difficult because MSNBC has an obligation to cover the story because it’s news. So having one of their hosts injecting themselves into the story is a problem. Deggans also brought up Zimmerman, and whether he could feel like he could get a fair shake from NBC News or MSNBC if he went on for interviews.

For all barbs it throws at Fox, MSNBC is the truly phony news network.

Liberals have been feverishly attacking Fox News for years now, irate that the Left’s monopoly on television news outlets has been broken. Conservatives, on the other hand, have tended to ignore MSNBC, even though that network is far more partisan, and less reliable, than Fox. Perhaps this is because of a perception that hardly anyone watches MSNBC. It is true, of course, that that network’s ratings are nowhere near Fox’s, but still, close to a million people watch the most popular MSNBC shows. That is far too many for a network that is not only ridiculously partisan, but spews hate on a regular basis.

So it is not surprising that it would offer a execrable miscreant like Sharpton his own show.

Gratefully, there are cooler heads.

Turner Clayton, the Seminole County chapter president of the NAACP, reacted immediately to Sharpton’s warning, saying, “We hope that the citizens of Sanford will govern themselves accordingly. We are not calling for any sanctions, against any business or anyone else. And, of course, what Rev. Sharpton does, that’s strictly the [National] Action Network. We can’t condone that part of the conversation, if that’s what he said.”

If it wasn’t for hate, there would be no Al Sharpton and it’s unfortunate that so many continue to follow him. Despite all the deaths that he has caused, he has never been held accountable for any of them. If anyone demands arrest, it’s Sharpton.

He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes.

Many thanks to DrJohn writing for Flopping Aces.

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Riverblack1967
11 years ago

He is a carny barker and he appeals to the poor, dumb, and ignorant. That says a lot all by itself.

Anonymous
Reply to  Riverblack1967
11 years ago

Lets quit sending hate mail to alsharp since he no longer exists

Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
11 years ago

Lets quit sending hate mail to alsharp since he no llonger

Bill Formby
11 years ago

You both may be right, I am not supporting Sharpton. I am simply making the point that drjohn is as guilty of using the the same hate filled words as does Al Sharpton. The Rev. Al has caused more than his share of problems all over the country especially in my neck of the woods. He has made his name on stirring up emotions of people with a vitriol similar to that of other nothings who want to be something and reasoned people keep taking the bait. It has now taken on a life of its on to the point where a man with no journalistic skills whatsoever is now a poser on MSNBC.

As for the situation in Sanford, FL I will await the outcome of the full investigation, but I do hope that Florida, at a minimum, rewrites its law before people start having gunfights at noon in the middle of towns in the state.

pinoak46
11 years ago

Sharpton is everything said in the article and more and needs to be locked away. He tries to pit colour against color and I hope he never come to the UK.

11 years ago

This is a carefully researched and well written article and I congratulate the author for his passion and accuracy. Sorry Mr. Formby but every word of it is true and I agree with Dr. John. If anyone needs to be arrested it’s Al Sharpton.

11 years ago

Bill

Please feel free to argue any of the facts within the post. If it seems as though I am appalled by Sharpton’s record, I am. He’s gotten many people killed and he stirs the pot of hate. Not being “a fan” of Al is start, but it falls short of a thorough analysis. Thanks for your input and thanks, Mike.

Reply to  drjohn
11 years ago

Thank you John!!

Bill Formby
Reply to  drjohn
11 years ago

Drjohn, my comments were not an attempt to argue your facts but simply to point out that the tone and verbiage sound and awful like Sharpton coming from the other side. If you are to critique someone’s role then you really should learn to take a step back and get some objectivity. There is nothing new in your attack on Al Sharpton thus it is just a rant.
I will take you to task on the Zimmerman case though. Neighborhood Watch is, as you point out,
“Neighborhood Watch programs are designed for members of a neighborhood to be “eyes and ears” for police and to watch out for their neighbors. They are not members of the police department nor are they vigilantes.

Training provided by law enforcement agencies to Neighborhood Watch organizations stresses non-contact surveillance of suspicious situations, and notifying police of those situations so that law enforcement can respond and take control of the situation.”

The operative phase be “non contact”. As far as him doing anything against Florida law, I think the courts will decide that but he did disobey a directive from the 911 dispatcher. If I am walking down the street and someone starts to follow me and I going to feel threatened? Probably. If that person, say it is you, ask me what I am doing walking down a side walk, I might tell you it’s none of your f*cking business now leave me alone, because you might be a pervert, a robber, a serial killer, or whatever. If you keep following me I can run, or I can turn and confront you. My point is, Zimmerman had completed his job when he saw this young man. He should have called the police, stayed in his car. Because if I had been approach by a police officer I would have reacted totally differently. Now I know these things because as a former cop I have assisted in setting up numerous neighborhood watch programs and it is stressed to never, repeat, NEVER, engage a suspicious person. That is the job of police. This is not about whether he has a right to carry, or a right to defend himself, but did he have a right to cause a confrontation after disobeying the regulations of Neighborhood Watch and the 911 operator. In most all cases when a citizen choose to insert him or herself into the role of a police officer, it ends up badly.
Now, with all of that being said, what I have just said is based on news reports and may be incorrect, just as yours may be. Neither of use were there. I am waiting for the investigation to finish. By the way, Al Sharpton did not start this movement. He was a johnny come lately.

Bill Formby
11 years ago

You know, I am not a big fan of Al Sharpton either, but based on the tone of this post it sounds an awful lot like a pot calling a kettle black (no pun intended). You speak of hate, but there is every much of venom in your writing as there is in Sharpton’s. As far as the war between Fox and MSNBC, it is much the same. Both have their commentators so far to one side or the other that a little grease would dump them off the end of the earth. Based on your vitriol, I would say that you are sitting out there with the Fox bunch. For all the bad that people are accused of doing there is also much good that is ignored, and for all the good that some are credited with there is bad ignored. Dr. John, please submit a picture with your “halo” uniquely displayed please.

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