Something to think about …. “First they came … “!!

~~December 8, 2015~~ 

SILENCE MAKES YOU AN ACCOMPLICE

Where’s our Martin Niemöller?

This graph, presents a poem, which been shared plenty of times in the blogosphere. Please, allow me the opportunity to present it again.

I want to apply it to our present time.

I’ve seen it many times.

Every time it makes me think.

More so now, in view of the ugly turn in the road where American politics seem to be headed.

To me, the bottom line is that if you don’t speak up for others who are somehow persecuted, eventually your turn will come and there will be no one to stand up for your when you are persecuted.

It’s time to stand up and hold your ground.

~MARTIN NIEMOLLER~

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

The quotation stems from Niemöller’s lectures during the early postwar period. Different versions of the quotation exist. These can be attributed to the fact that Niemöller spoke extemporaneously and in a number of settings.

Much controversy surrounds the content of the poem as it has been printed in varying forms, referring to diverse groups such as Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, Trade Unionists, or Communists depending upon the version. Nonetheless his point was that Germans – in particular, he believed, the leaders of the Protestant churches – had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

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First he came for the Mexicans, then he came for the war heroes, then he came for African Americans, then he came for the immigrants, then he came for the Jews, then he came for the “gays” …. now he’s coming for the Muslims. Maybe you can add someone else or he will continue adding groups.

Is anyone going to stand up to him?

HortyRex©

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We ALL are ONE!! 

At the end of the day …. “Cop Body Slams Teen …. No excuse”!!

~~October 27, 2015~~ 

HIGH SCHOOL IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Disturbing Video

I was watching the news tonight and finally received clarification about the videos and memes that were coming through my Facebook Timeline.

I am totally aware that teenagers can be a handful.

They know it all, they frequently show no respect, they are distracted by technology, they refuse to listen.

Yet, there’s no doubt in my mind, and no one can convince me otherwise, that this is a clear cut case of excessive force. The parties aren’t “balanced” at all ….

a high school girl (sitting) versus a grown, muscular, trained man (standing).

If this police officer has a record of similar situations and lawsuits are pending …. there’s no doubt he has an anger issue, power freak mentality and who knows what else.

The video says it all …. oh wait, there was a video on Eric Garner’s death in New York City.

What does that say?

HortyRex©

“There is no context that justifies a grown man slamming a child around a classroom like that. None”

Ryan Dalton via Twitter

Video shows cop body-slamming high school girl in SC classroom

By Tim Stelloh and Tracy Connor

Update

Federal investigators, including the U.S. Department of Justice, have opened a civil rights investigation into the matter.

”The Columbia FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a student at Spring Valley High School,” FBI Special Agent in Charge David Thomas said in a statement Tuesday.

“ The FBI will collect all available facts and evidence in order to determine whether a federal law was violated.

As this is an ongoing investigation, per Department of Justice policy we are unable to comment further at this time.”

The FBI has been asked to investigate an incident at a South Carolina high school Monday in which a police officer appeared to body slam a female student and drag her across a classroom.

In a news conference, a spokesman for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Curtis Wilson, identified the deputy in the video as Ben Fields, one of two school resource officers assigned to Spring Valley.

Fields had been placed on administrative duty pending an internal investigation, Wilson said, adding that the officer was declining interview requests.

Fields, who is white, is named as a defendant in a 2013 federal lawsuit that claims he “unfairly and recklessly targets African-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity.”

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Deputy involved in body-slam arrest of Spring Valley High student is dating a black woman so he can’t be racist, sheriff says

Really, really?

You serious?

HortyRex©

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/spring-valley-high-school-officer-tackled-teen-phone-article-1.2412665

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott

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~South Carolina Cop Body Slams High School Student To The Ground~

~Published on Oct 27, 2015~
Columbia, South Carolina

A video shows school police officer Ben Fields slamming and dragging a student from her desk.

The sheriff’s office says the student was asked to leave the classroom but refused.

School officials have banned the officer from the district and an investigation is underway.

We ALL are ONE!!