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First Ten Amendments to the Constitution

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting anestablishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for aredress of grievances.

Amendment II. A well-regulated militia being necessary tothe security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and beararms shall not be infringed.

Amendment III. No soldier shall, in time of peace, bequartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor intime of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searchesand seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue,but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons orthings to be seized.

Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for acapital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment orindictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land ornaval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of waror public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offenseto be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled inany criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of

life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions the accusedshall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have beencommitted, which district shall have been previously ascertained bylaw, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtain-ing witnesses in his favor, and to have theassistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII. In suits at common law, where thevalue in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwisere-examined in any court of the United States, than according to therules of the common law.

Amendment VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, norexcessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

AmendmentIX. The enumeration in the Constitution, ofcertain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage othersretained by the people.

Amendment X. The powers not delegated to the UnitedStates by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, arereserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

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COVER STORY

8 Are Local Police to Blame?by William F. Jasper — With riots and killings, political elites arecalling for nationalizing local police.

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15 Media Encouraging Riots, Lootingby Alex Newman — Mainstream media blamed white privilege for

black problems and cultivated riots.

19 Soros Provides Pressure From Above, Belowby Alex Newman — The billionaire “progressive” has beenbankrolling hundreds of “activist” groups.

21 What’s Happening to Our Police?by William F. Jasper and Alex Newman — Federal agencies areforming police units, and Washington is nationalizing police.

27 Feds Seek to Nationalize Local Policeby Alex Newman and William F. Jasper — The federal government

is bribing and coercing police departments to follow federal edicts.

29 Sheriffs: the Key to Local Controlby Joe Wolverton II, J.D. — County sheriffs backed by informedcitizens are a crucial barrier to a national police state.

31 Gun Control, Sheriffs & Police Chiefsby Larry Pratt — Most officers support the right of Americans todefend themselves.

33 What About Police Brutality?by Joe Wolverton II, J.D. — Police brutality and false claims ofpolice abuse can be minimized.

37 What Killed Black Progress?by Steve Byas — The Left chants “Black lives matter,” whileinstituting policies that often hurt black Americans.

39 Police Perspectiveby C. Mitchell Shaw — To understand the difficulties of police work,one must look at them through the eyes of those who wear a badge.

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Peace Officersand the Rule of LawHave you ever wondered what would happen if there were no government what-soever, including no police? Would theabsence of government allow for greaterfreedom? Or would it instead have the op- posite effect? In fact, could a state of nogovernment — anarchy — even exist forvery long before a new government arose?

James Madison, the father of the U.S.Constitution, imagined a hypotheticalsituation. “If men were angels, no gov-ernment would be necessary,” he wrote in

The Federalist . And he added, “If angelswere to govern men, neither external norinternal controls on government would benecessary.”

Of course, Madison was well aware thatmen are not angels and that angels do notgovern men, as were the other FoundingFathers who gave us the U.S. Constitution,the supreme law of our land. They knewthat without law there could be no free-dom. Human nature being what it is, theelimination of the rule of law would resultin the rule of the jungle and the loss offreedom. They also understood the impor-tance of controlling government, so it doesnot end up destroying the very freedom it’ssupposed to protect.

One of the ways to control government isto divide power — so that it is not all in one pot. Another way is to keep government asclose to the people as possible, with the na-tional government given only those pow-ers — for example, national defense — thatcould not be effectively handled at the locallevel. Our constitutional system is based onsuch principles, and in our system, police powers are a local responsibility.

From the standpoint of preserving free-dom, this makes perfect sense. The police perform a vital function, protecting us

from the lawless element, and they should be as close as possible to the communitiesthey are entrusted to protect and serve.

Yet, as we all know,

some — not just street protesters but pow-erful voices in the media and government — do not portray the local police this way.Instead, they vilify them as racist brutes.Moreover, rioters have seized upon theaccusations to “justify” violence and de-struction. And in the name of “justice,”war has been declared on police. That warhas included outright assassination.

What is the solution being offered toremedy the alleged police abuse? It is toturn our constitutional system on its head by centralizing police powers in Wash-ington. But common sense and humanexperience should tell us that this “solu-tion” would ramp up the abuse of power.How could it be otherwise when the police power is consolidated in one pot, and when police are beholden to distant Washington,

D.C., rather than to the local communitieswhere they live and work?If you smell a rat, you are not alone. In

the pages that follow, we shed light on thewar on police, which is a war not only onthe police themselves but on the rule oflaw and the very fabric of our society. Our police provide a vital line of defense be-tween our homes and families, and the vileelements of society that would do us harm.

Do we claim no policeman has everabused his position? Of course not! But wedo make clear that whatever genuine police

brutality does exist is being greatly exag-gerated to bring about a gigantic transfer of power on the way to nationalizing police.And this power grab, we show, is being ad-vanced not only by street radicals but by powerful interests who support them.

If such a scheme sounds too fantas-tic to be true, we ask that you evaluatethe evidence assembled herein — andthen decide if we are right or wrong.We also encourage all readers whovalue the rule of law to “Support YourLocal Police — and Keep Them Inde-

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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Sets Record Straight“If only these faux protesters were asked by media about all the black onblack killing or black babies aborted in U.S. every year.... When I hearthese things that black lives matter, the only people who really believethat statement are American police officers who go into American ghettosevery day to keep people from killing each other.... Look, the abortions?If Black lives — if they really mattered, that’s where the outrage wouldbe that’s where we’d see protests [at the abortion clinics].” In an interview with CNN, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke,Jr. expressed his hope that the media would question black-lives-matter protesters about whether in-nocent black lives truly matter to them.

Al Sharpton Pushes Nationalized Police“Congress must immediately start hearings to deal with laws that will change the jurisdiction thresh-old for federal cases and policing.... We need federal intervention without delay. The state has alreadyproven that it cannot do the job.... This is an idea whose time has come.”“Reverend” Al Sharpton , in a December 8, 2014 column for the Huffington Post, exploits the deaths

of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other black men.

Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Federal Police “Czar”“The Administration must appoint a federal Czar, housed in the U.S. Department of Justice, who isspecifically tasked with promoting the professionalization of local lawenforcement, monitoring egregious law enforcement activities, and adju-dicating suspicious actions of local law enforcement agencies that receivefederal funding.”The Congressional Black Caucus called on President Obama to nation-

alize the police, in an August 25, 2014 letter.

Presidential Candidate Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force”“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the na-tional security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian nationalsecurity force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Addressing a Colorado campaign rally on July 2, 2008, then-Senatorand presidential aspirant Barack Obama proposed vastly expanding the

federal AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other programs.

President Obama Funds Police Militarization — While Decrying It“Since its inception, the [DOD 1033] program has transferred more than $5.4 billion worth of property.In 2014, $980 million worth of property … was transferred to law enforcement agencies.... More than8,000 law enforcement agencies have enrolled in the program.”The federal Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO) website notes the enormous amounts of military

equipment it has assisted in transferring from the Defense Department to local police organizations

under the 1033 program.

Thomas Jefferson Opposed Centralization of Police Power“The way to have a good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among themany, distributing to everyone exactly the function he is competent to. Let the national government beentrusted with the defense of the nation and its foreign and federal relations; the state governments withthe civil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns the state generally.” In an 1816 letter , Thomas Jefferson explained that police, as well as many other powers, should notbe entrusted to the national government.

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by William F. Jasper

Harlem (1964). Watts (1965). EastCoast, West Coast. A police shoot-ing and an attempted arrest pro-

vide the pretexts for days of massive riot-ing, looting, arson, death, and destruction.

Racism and police brutality, say the riot-ers/looters (and their supporters in politi-cal office, the media, and academia), areresponsible for the violence and devasta-tion. The Harlem riots provided the sparkfor additional riots that year in Chicago,Philadelphia, Rochester, and the NewJersey cities of Paterson, Elizabeth, andJersey City. The war zone-like wreckageof Watts, a black neighborhood in LosAngeles, became the symbol “inspiring”similar rioting in more than 100 cities over

the next three years: 1966 (San Francisco,Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha), 1967 (De-troit, Newark, New York City, Minneapo-lis, Grand Rapids, Houston, Milwaukee),and 1968 (Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,Louisville, Detroit, Washington, D.C.).

Fifty years later: Ferguson (2014),

Baltimore (2015). Again rioting, looting,arson, and devastation. Racism and policebrutality, say the rioters/looters (and theirsupporters in political office, the media,and academia), are again to blame. “Sys-temic racism,” “structural racism” — thetype that can only be remedied, claim thecritics, by overturning the “exploitation”and “inequality” of our capitalist systemand the “racist” brutality it perpetuatesin our police departments. And this canonly be accomplished, they say, by more

government programs and more govern-ment spending, especially by the federalgovernment in Washington, D.C. It is alsoessential, say the protesters and their elitesupporters, that the federal governmenttake over the functions of local police,or at least impose national (some are de-

manding international) standards on locallaw-enforcement agencies.

To those (such as this writer) who areold enough to have lived through the ear-lier riots (of the 1960s and beyond) thisseems — in the words of Yogi Berra —“like déjà vu all over again.” Not only dowe have the same revolutionary rhetoricand the same street tactics producing thesame deadly results, but we are seeing,once again, the same alliance of radicalthugs in the streets and radical suits in

With riots and killings happening in cities in the wake of the deaths of young black men,

political elites are calling for nationalizing local police, but what would that actually do?

LOCAL POLICE to Blame?

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the suites. The same tax-exempt founda-tions (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc.)and corporate globalists who funded theincendiary Marxist-Leninist cadres thatburned down our cities in the ’60s (leav-ing millions of black Americans in evenmore desperate straits) are still shovelingbillions of dollars to the radical arsonistswho are pouring gasoline on the racialembers today. They are also still fundingscholarly reports, studies, commissions,and task forces that, not surprisingly, call

for nationalizing and “standardizing” ourpolice powers. In a nutshell, we are wit-nessing both “pressure from above” and“pressure from below” to demonize andparalyze local police, and to promote theidea that federalizing our police will solvethe reputed police crises.

But as we will show in this and otherarticles in this special magazine issue, it issimply not true that the havoc now threat-ening to tear apart our country is the resultof spontaneous outbreaks in response to“systemic racism” or “police brutality.”

Which is not to say that racism and po-lice brutality do not exist. Indeed, I willreadily stipulate (though it should not benecessary to do so) that racism and policebrutality do exist in the United States ofAmerica — much the same as they exist,along with other sins and social patholo-gies, in every other country on Earth (al-though, arguably, the United States comesout far better than most other countries inthis regard). The point, however, is thatthe race agitators — both in the streetsand in the suites — are exploiting and ex-

aggerating the racism and police brutalityissues (and even outright lying about andinventing race/police horror stories) whileoffering a “solution” (centralizing powerin Washington) that will make genuineabuse worse, not better.

Lethal LiesThe riots and chaos in Ferguson, Missouri,were ignited and stoked by the “Hands up,don’t shoot!” mantra. But it was a lie, aswe now know. Three separate autopsies

(one by the St. Louis County Office of theMedical Examiner, one by outside expertDr. Michael Baden, and one by the Depart-ment of Defense’s Armed Forces MedicalExaminer System), as well as an abundanceof additional physical evidence presentedto the grand jury, supported the claim of Of-ficer Darren Wilson (who is white) that Mi-chael Brown (the “victim,” who is black)was reaching inside the police vehicle and

attacking Wilson and trying to get Wilson’sgun. The forensic evidence also belies theclaim that Brown (the “gentle giant” whohad only minutes before been caught onvideo committing strong-arm robbery ofa convenience store) was gunned down incold blood by Officer Wilson while surren-dering with his hands up.

The “Hands up, don’t shoot!” lie, whichwent viral and is still often repeated, isfeeding the continued violence and racialturmoil. “That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans

— indeed that the police are the great-

est threat facing black Americans today,”wrote Manhattan Institute scholar HeatherMac Donald in her December 2014 City Journal article, “The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal.”

In the wake of the grand jury’s decisionnot to indict Officer Wilson, she noted,the “ New York Times ratcheted up its al-ready stratospheric level of anti-cop po-lemics. In an editorial justifying the Fer-

guson riots, the Times claimed that ‘thekilling of young black men by police is acommon feature of African-American lifeand a source of dread for black parentsfrom coast to coast.’”

Mac Donald then offers sobering statis-tics to demonstrate the mendacity of the

Times and others making similar claims:

Some facts: Police killings of blacksare an extremely rare feature of blacklife and are a minute fraction of blackhomicide deaths. The police could

end all killings of civilians tomor-

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A lie becomes a meme: The “Hands up, don’t shoot!” mantra helps turn demonstrations intoriots, even though autopsies and forensic evidence disprove the lie that Michael Brown wasgunned down while trying to surrender with his hands up.

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Not only do we have the same revolutionary rhetoric

and the same street tactics producing the same deadly

results, but we are seeing, once again, the same

alliance of radical thugs in the streets and radical suits

in the suites.

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row and it would have no effect onthe black homicide risk, which comesoverwhelmingly from other blacks.In 2013, there were 6,261 black ho-micide victims in the U.S. — almostall killed by black civilians — result-ing in a death risk in inner cities thatis ten times higher for blacks than for

whites. None of those killings trig-gered mass protests; they are deemednormal and beneath notice. The police, by contrast, according to published reports, kill roughly 200 blacks a year,most of them armed and dangerous,out of about 40 million police-civil-ian contacts a year. Blacks are in factkilled by police at a lower rate thantheir threat to officers would predict.In 2013, blacks made up 42 percent of all cop killers whose race was known,even though blacks are only 13 per-

cent of the nation’s population. The percentage of black suspects killed by the police nationally is 29 percentlower than the percentage of blacksmortally threatening them.

One elected black official who recognizesthe lie and the reality of the racism/brutali-ty propaganda is Milwaukee County Sher-iff David Clarke. In an interview on Fox News’ Your World With Neil Cavuto, theoutspoken sheriff charged that liberal poli-cies, not the death of accused Baltimore

drug dealer Freddie Gray, are responsiblefor the violence in that city.

“Like Baltimore, like Ferguson, like New York and many other areas wherefailed liberal government policies haveled to high unemployment, chronic pov-erty, failing schools,” Sheriff Clarke said,“this is what besets the Baltimore area. Ninety percent of the homicide victims inthe Baltimore area are black as are ninety percent of the suspects. That’s a bigger problem than Freddie Gray.”

He added that the rioters were exploit-ing Gray’s death, even though they carednothing for him. “These individuals thatare rioting and looting right now andthrowing rocks and bottles do not knowFreddie Gray, do not care about FreddieGray,” said the sheriff. “If they were in anightclub in Baltimore [they] would shoot

and kill him for bumping into them on thedance floor.”The following day on Twitter, Sheriff

Clarke stated further: “I am tired of thismealy-mouth crap from politicians. Theycause the conditions for a permanent under-class in America.” In another tweet, he said:“Why are we surprised at this sub-human behavior on display in American ghettos?Lib policies created the conditions.”

Sheriff Clarke’s comments, of course,stand in stark contrast to inflammatory bloviations from the liberal media. Inan April 30, 2015 column for the Huff-ington Post entitled “Take the RacialJustice Pledge,” Donna P. Hall, presi-dent and CEO of the Women Donors Network, wrote: “The tragedy of le-thal police violence against unarmed black men and women has become alltoo common. The streets of Baltimore

scream with outrage over the death ofFreddie Gray.... Was the shooting of Mi-chael Brown in Ferguson not a wake-upcall?” Hall called on “the progressivedonor community” to fund the prolifera-tion of “racial justice” organizations thatare responding to the “epidemic of raciallycharged police violence.” Hall urged her

fellow progressives to fund “Black-ledorganizing for Black liberation.” Interest-ingly, Hall is white, as are virtually all ofher wealthy donor friends; in fact, everyone of the “activists” pictured in the photoon the organization’s web page appealingfor “Black-led organizing for Black libera-tion” is… lily white.

The Women Donors Network is oneof numerous funding coalitions of white

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“Black lies matter”: Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. blasts black “leaders” forplaying the race card while ignoring the real crisis of black-on-black crime and the murder ofblack babies by abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.

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I will readily stipulate that racism and police brutality

do exist in the United States of America — much the

same as they exist, along with other sins and social

pathologies, in every other country on Earth (although,

arguably, the United States comes out far better thanmost other countries in this regard).

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radicals that are funneling tens of millionsof dollars into phony grassroots “black-led” organizations that can be called on tomaterialize protesters on cue, whether thecause be global warming, minimum wagelegislation, abortion rights, homosexualrights, racism, or police brutality. Otherfunding channels include Bolder Giv-ing, Grassroots Institute for FundraisingTraining, Neighborhood Funders Group, North Star Fund, Proteus Fund, ResourceGeneration, Associated Grant Makers,Environmental Grantmakers Association,Grantmakers for Education, Grantmak-ers for Children, Youth and Families, andFunders for Lesbian and Gay Issues.

These groups act as money laundriesfor directed giving to radical groups bymajor foundations, corporations, and

government agencies. Some of the largestdonors — Ford Foundation, Tides Foun-dation, Open Society Foundation (Soros),the Rockefeller foundations, Bill and Me-linda Gates Foundation, et al. — give di-rectly to the street agitators too, but thefull extent of their largess is frequentlyobscured by these third-party funders theyutilize as conduits.

On August 16, 2015, The Nation maga-zine, venerable far-left pipe organ of theestablishment, published “The Rebirth ofBlack Rage,” an op-ed by Mychal Denzel

Smith, celebrating the new racial mili-tancy. “As the deaths of young, unarmed black people continue to become head-lines, and social media holds more hashtagfunerals, the hope has turned to despair,and the despair into rage,” wrote Smith.“That rage consumed the streets of Fergu-son when Michael Brown was killed; it setfire to the streets of Baltimore when Fred-die Gray was killed.... Black rage is back,cutting to the core of white supremacy anddemanding that America change.”

According to Smith and The Nation,

“The resurgence of black rage in the politi-cal sphere is finally ready to make Ameri-ca face its racist past and present. Or burnit down trying.”

Or burn it down trying! This open en-dorsement and encouragement by the es-tablishment press of mayhem and destruc-tion is hardly unique; the New York Times,

Washington Post , CNN, NBC, and other“mainstream” organs have run similar(or worse) fare. It is worth noting that thelongtime publisher, editor, and part-owner

of The Nation is Katrina vanden Heuvel, amember of the ultra-establishment Councilon Foreign Relations (CFR), the globalist-minded brain trust that has directed muchof the media, foundation, and governmentsupport for the revolutionary movementsthat have been rocking our nation for the past five decades.

Smith’s op-ed echoed a much-usedtheme, one that was also promoted by FordFoundation president Darren Walker, in aDecember 12, 2014 column entitled “A piv-otal moment for racial justice.” Like The

Nation’s vanden Heuvel, he is a member ofthe Council on Foreign Relations, as have been many of the activists heading the bigfoundations. According to the man whoholds Ford’s hefty purse strings, “We are ina pivotal moment, one filled with opportu-nity for the racial justice field.... We’re see-ing broad-based coalitions coalesce aroundracism targeting blacks. And we’re seeingemerging leadership that is young, multira-cial and national in scope, exercising tacticsand strategies that are grounded in a deepanalysis of systemic racism and prioritize

people-centered democracy.”“They need and deserve our support,”

Walker stated. And, of course, the FordFoundation is well endowed to providethat support — and has been supportinga myriad of the new radical “racial jus-tice” organizations, just as it has been the principal funder of militant racial groupsand Marxist activists for more than half acentury.

Ford, for instance, played a seminal rolein financing key operatives that sparked

and led the 1960s race riots mentionedabove, as well as the “student” and “anti-war” riots that erupted on so many col-lege campuses during that same period.One of the main Ford Foundation agents brought in to incite the Harlem riots wasvirulent black racist Herman B. Ferguson,a member of the Revolutionary ActionMovement (R.A.M.), a communist ter-rorist organization. Ferguson and some ofhis R.A.M. comrades were subsequentlyarrested and indicted in a plot to assas-sinate more moderate black leaders, as

well as Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Fer-guson jumped bail and fled the country — to Marxist Guyana, where he stayedfor many years. Turns out he had receivedat least $77,000 from the generous Fordfolks to fund his incendiary activities.

And before there was a “Reverend”Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to stir the“racism/police brutality” pot, there was“Reverend” Milton A. Galamison. A co-founder of the Communist Party’s W.E.B.DuBois Clubs, Reverend Galamison, amuch-arrested leader of street disorders,

had received at least $160,000 in grant aidfrom Ford.

Still another riot-maker and Ford aco-lyte was Leroi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka), a black racist and pornographic “poet/play-wright” and Black Power militant. Fordshowered him with tens of thousands ofdollars. It heaped even more on “former”Communist Party organizer Bayard Rus-tin, who allegedly broke with the commu-nists, but continued to work with them andtheir front groups.

Media arsonists: Columnist for The Nation Mychal Denzel Smith celebrates “The rebirth of Blackrage,” which, he says, will “make America face its racist past and present. Or burn it down trying.”




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And we have not even scratched thesurface of the organizations funded byFord (and the other major foundations)to stir up racial hatred and civil turmoil — which have been detailed in many pre-vious articles in THE NEW AMERICAN (aswell as our predecessor magazine, Ameri-can Opinion).

Similarly, we can see the “pressure fromabove and below” operation at work in the“student” riots, the organizers of whichalso depended on Ford benefactions.

Under McGeorge Bundy’s leadership inthe 1960s and ’70s, Ford promoted revolu-tionary activities on college campuses byheavily funding, for instance, the NationalStudent Association, a Soviet intelligenceoperation that was launched at the Krem-lin-sponsored World Student Congressheld in 1946, in then-communist Prague,Czechoslovakia.

Or take, for example, the militant Chi-cano/open borders movement, into whichthe Ford Foundation has poured many mil-lions of dollars since the 1960s. Consider

just one Ford grant (of $630,000), in July1968, to the violent revolutionaries at theSouthwest Council of La Raza, headed by

Maclovio Barraza, a “former” agitator forthe Communist Party. According to HenrySantiestevan, former head of the South-west Council of La Raza: “It can be saidthat without the Ford Foundation’s commit-ment to a strategy of national and local in-stitution-building, the Chicano movementwould have withered away in many areas.”

The same can be said for many otherAstroTurf “movements.”

With $11 billion in assets, Ford handsout hundreds of millions of dollar annu-

ally to hundreds of radical groups, suchas the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU);National Lawyers Guild; Mexi-can-American Legal Defense and Educa-tion Fund; Progressive, Inc.; New WorldFoundation; Black Church Center forJustice and Equality; Muslim Advocates,Sojourners; Color of Change; Center forSocial Inclusion; Neighborhood FundersGroup, Inc.; and Funders For Justice.

One of Ford’s most important grant-making operations is its perennial fundingof the Tides Foundation and Tides Center,

which serve as the conduit to, and incuba-tor, trainer, and manager of, an ever-grow-ing stable of activist organizations.

According to the watchdog group dis-coverthenetworks.org, “Between 1996and 2010, the Tides Center served as a fis-cal sponsor to some 677 separate projectswith combined revenues of $522.4 mil-lion; in 2010 alone, the Center was active-ly managing nearly 200 projects.” Manyof these Ford/Tides-funded groups have been in the forefront of street agitation inFerguson, Baltimore, and other conflagra-tion spots.

Then there’s the Open Society Founda-tion projects of billionaire leftist GeorgeSoros (a CFR member, CFR corporatefunder, and former CFR director) thatoverlap with Ford and Tides. Soros has fu-eled the street demonstrations by fundingagitators from the Center for CommunityChange, the Gamaliel Foundation, and

Organization for Black Struggle (OBS),among others. (See article on page 19.)OBS, which was organized by hardcoreMarxists, such as Jamala Rogers, Mon-tague Simmons, and Bill Fletcher, wasone of the key organizations that launchedthe Hands Up Coalition aimed at gettingmore angry young black Americans intothe streets by emotionally exploiting thelie that Michael Brown was “murdered” by a white cop.

Literally thousands of phony “grass-roots” activist organizations have been,

and are being, created and funded bythe radical millionaire-billionaire elitiststhrough their tax-exempt foundation net-works. Are these elitists unaware that themilitants they are funding are causing so-cial, political, moral, and economic havocthat threatens our country with breakdownand collapse? After more than half a cen-tury of financing revolution and mayhem,can these supposedly well-intentioned“do-gooders” truly be ignorant of theharm they are doing?

Certainly, the average American is

completely unaware that the rioting andagitation that seem to be spontaneously breaking out all over the country — the pressure from below — are actually theresult of a well-funded and highly coordi-nated campaign provided by some of thewealthiest people on the planet.

More Pressure From AboveEqually important to providing pressurefrom below, in the form of demonstrators/rioters, is the pressure from above, in the

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Funding the revolution: Ford Foundation Presidents McGeorge Bundy (1960s-’70s, left) andDarren Walker (current, right) and other Ford officials have kept a pipeline of cash flowing torevolutionaries and rioters for more than half a century.


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The riots and chaos in Ferguson, Missouri, were ignited

and stoked by the “Hands up, don’t shoot!” mantra. But

it was a lie, as we now know.

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form of more “moderate” agents provid-ing “rational” solutions. These agentsare frequently politicians, academicians,media commentators, or scholars fromthink tanks such as the Brookings Institu-tion, Aspen Institute, RAND Corporation,Center for American Progress, and thelike. One of the groups that has served the

Ford funders and CFR elite very well inthis capacity is the Police Foundation.

In 1970, Ford Foundation President Mc-George Bundy (CFR) announced that thefoundation was giving the enormous sumof $30 million for the creation of a “PoliceDevelopment Fund.” The Milwaukee Jour-nal reported on July 23, 1970, that the fund“will be the largest private agency in thenation concerned exclusively with policework.” Subsequently the fund changed itsname to the Police Foundation, but it hascertainly retained its preeminence in terms

of influence on “police work.”Police Foundation president Patrick V.

Murphy, a former New York City policecommissioner, stated in a 1974 interviewwith American Opinion magazine that hehad “no fear” of a national police forceand believed our police departments must be consolidated to make them more effi-cient. “I have no fear of a national policeforce,” said Murphy. “I don’t want one, but crime control is not working, and our40,000 police departments are not sacred.

The danger is insignificant.... Policing isnot effective.” Murphy continued, reflect-ing the Ford Foundation line:

We worship local government andhome rule in this country — I likeit too — but the problem must besolved by a higher level of govern-

ment, like welfare. We must move itup to the state level. The state mustsay, “These are the standards.” Wewould save money and get better ef-ficiency, if we consolidate the little police departments in a county.

Murphy’s consolidation spiel was aregurgitation of the federal Law En-forcement Assistance Administration’s(LEAA) propaganda aimed at convinc-ing Americans that our system of locallycontrolled police must be replaced with

a national model. In a 1971 address toa meeting of police chiefs, LEAA As-sociate Administrator Clarence Coster presented the nationalization agenda inthese terms:

Today, in this country, we have 40,235law enforcement agencies, rangingfrom one-man departments to NewYork City, with more than 40,000 po-lice officers. This many units form acompletely ungovernable body.

“A completely ungovernable body?” Un-governable by whom? Each and every oneof those local “ungovernable” bodies isgoverned by state and local laws, by stateconstitutions and county and city charters, by state and local elected and/or appointedofficials. They are governed by state gov-ernors, county commissioners, mayors,city councils, city managers, state andcounty prosecutors, police chiefs, sher-iffs, police commissioners, internal affairs bureaus, state and county grand juries, aswell as state and county courts.

Yes, it is an imperfect system, and abus-es and corruption are — and always will be — issues to contend with. But wouldthose issues magically disappear, or evenameliorate, if police functions were na-tionalized? Is there any basis in empirical

evidence or sound logic to suggest thatcentralizing political and bureaucraticcontrol in Washington, D.C., would makeour police more efficient, less corrupt, ormore accountable? Should we feel moreconfident and secure with a PresidentGeorge W. Bush, Barack Obama, HillaryClinton — or any other national politician — in charge of our police? Have we notseen enough of the murderous dangers in-herent in nationalized police states underHitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and dozens oflesser dictators and autocrats? Nazi Ger-

many’s Gestapo, the Soviet KGB, Com-munist China’s Ministry of State Security,Castro’s DGI — every totalitarian police-state apparatus is based on the claim that itis indispensable for national security.

Fortunately for us, our Founding Fa-thers viewed with great apprehension thedangers of centralized government. As aresult, they placed constitutional chains onfederal policing powers, reserving the vastmajority of those functions to “the States,or to the People.” If we have genuine prob-lems with a local police organization, we

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Red-on-black crime: The Organization for Black Struggle, which played a key role in the Fergusonriots, is one of many communist-led groups receiving foundation funding. The OBS website featuresthe communist clenched fist and a volunteer canvassing neighborhoods in Ferguson.


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by Alex Newman

In August 2014, in the immediate af-termath of a violent incident wherein police officer Darren Wilson fatally

shot a young black man named MichaelBrown, outraged and agenda-driven agita-tors — many from out of town — seizedon the news as an excuse to run wild, steal,destroy property, and more. Businesses

were burned to the ground and looted.Even a local church was not spared bythe frenzied and violent mob. Accordingto news reports, more than 160 gunshotswere fired by “protesters,” too. At leastone man died amid the chaos. Picturesthat emerged after the late 2014 round ofrioting and looting revealed an Americansuburb that looked more like a war zone.

In response to the tragedy, Time maga-zine published a pro-rioting piece by Dar-lena Cunha, who also serves as a contribu-

tor to a wide array of other establishmentmedia, including the Washington Post .“The violent protests in Ferguson, Mo.,are part of the American experience,”reads the sub-header for the Time “Ideas”column promoting riots and senseless vio-lence as a proper and effective means ofachieving political goals. “Peaceful pro-testing is a luxury only available to thosesafely in mainstream culture.” Cunha then

goes even further: “Riots are a necessary part of the evolution of society.” To defendher thesis, she even cites the Boston TeaParty, equating it with the current mayhemenveloping Ferguson.

Since the grand jury’s decision wasannounced, Ferguson faced even moreviolence, which was stirred up by manygroups and organizations, although thelooting and burning merely makes lifemore difficult for local residents who themedia say are already oppressed. Media,

such as Time and the Washington Post ,that sympathize with and encourage thedestruction in majority-black neighbor-hoods ironically at the same time chastiseefforts of political groups that push voterregistration initiatives because those ini-tiatives supposedly create hardships for poor minorities, making their lives moredifficult. It’s very questionable aboutwhether those initiatives make minor-

ity lives harder, but it is undoubtedly afact that burning local businesses makesminority lives more difficult. Yet the en-couragement to loot goes on.

The agenda to foment racial unrest andrioting as a means of achieving “change”is perhaps nowhere more evident than inthe establishment press. Recently, morethan a few news outlets have droppedevery pretense of neutrality and startedto openly advocate rioting and looting.And the trend is accelerating.

With little to no evidence they were correct, and despite

the known dangers, mainstream media cultivated riots by

blaming white privilege for black problems.

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Egged on by the media, criminal arsonistscalled “protesters” by the Associated Pressburned down and looted much of Ferguson,

Missouri, to “protest” the police shooting ofMichael Brown.

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After months of fomenting strife, hate,and unrest surrounding the fatal shoot-ing of Brown by Wilson in Ferguson,Missouri, for example, Time magazineand others took it to the next level. On November 25, Time published Cunha’sincendiary opinion piece headlined “Fer-guson: In Defense of Rioting.” As thetitle suggests, the commentary defendsthe perpetration of violence following agrand jury’s decision not to indict Offi-cer Wilson on charges of murder or man-slaughter. But the piece goes even beyondthat, calling riots “necessary” to the “evo-lution” of society.

“Because when you have succeeded, itceases to be a possibility, in our capital-ist society, that anyone else helped you,”Cunha continues, dismissing the explana-

tion offered by one critic of the riotingwho blamed the violence on the mental-ity of “blaming everyone else” for one’sown failures. “And if no one helped yousucceed, then no one is holding anyoneelse back from succeeding. Except theydid help you, and they are holding people back. So that blaming someone else foryour failures in the United States may verywell be an astute observation of reality, particularly as it comes to white privilegeversus black privilege.”

Before saying blacks are more apt to

riot, race-obsessed Cunha insists that sheis not racist, styling herself a “realist”instead. “Until I have had to walk in a person of color’s skin, I will never under-stand, I will always take things for grant-ed, and I will be inherently privileged,”she claimed. “But by ignoring the veryreal issues this country still faces in termsof race to promote an as-of-yet imagi-nary colorblind society, we contribute tothe problem at hand, which is centuriesof abuses lobbied against other humanson no basis but that of their skin color.” Nowhere does Time or Cunha point outthat the allegedly racist American peopletwice elected Obama, who is half black,to be president.

“I would put forth that peaceful pro-testing is a luxury of those already in

mainstream culture, those who can be as-sured their voices will be heard withoutviolence, those who can afford to waitfor the change they want,” Cunha writesin her widely criticized and ridiculed de-fense of rioting. “Blacks in this countryare more apt to riot because they are oneof the populations here who still need to.In the case of the 1992 riots, 30 years of black people trying to talk about theirstruggles of racial profiling and muted, but still vastly unfair, treatment, came toa boil.” Of course, countless black Amer-

icans — including manywhose businesses werelooted and burned down inrecent days — would likelytake offense at the bizarrenotion that their “popula-tion,” which in Cunha’sworld is apparently definedsolely by melanin content,“need” to riot.

Concluding the bizarreargument, Cunha goes onto defend the individuals in-

volved in the violence, loot-ing, and rioting, suggestingthey are merely “angry” at“the system” and that steal-ing and destroying other people’s proper ty whileshooting randomly may be justified responses. “Insteadof tearing down other human beings who are acting upondecades of pent-up anger ata system decidedly against

them, a system that has told them they areless than human for years, we ought to bereaching out to help them regain the hu-manity they lost, not when a few set fire tothe buildings in Ferguson, but when theywere born the wrong color in the post-racialAmerica,” she said. It was not immediatelyclear who told blacks they were “less thanhuman for years” or how having slightlymore melanin content made somebody the“wrong color.”

Cunha’s argument was promptly at-tacked by critics as absurd. Rick Moran at American Thinker , for example, pointed tothe business owners (“almost all of themminorities”) who watched helplessly astheir lifetime dreams went up in smoke.“There are, indeed, justifications for breaking the law. But there is nothing ‘po-

litical’ about destroying property not yourown, injuring people, and taking what youwant without payment,” he wrote, ridicul-ing the notion that burning, smashing, andlooting could be legitimized as some sortof “political statement” that Americanshad better submit to.

“Even if you buy into the dubious‘white privilege’ sociological crap, youmust recognize that when law and order break down, we are left with the ruleof the jungle. And in a jungle, only thestrong benefit from mayhem. The victims

are those who can’t or won’t fight back,”Moran concluded. “So Ms. Cunha is actu-ally supporting jungle law vs. civilization — a civilization that makes possible herfreedom to publish nonsensical screedslike this without worrying about anyonesetting her house on fire or looting her belongings. Wouldn’t that be a ‘political’statement, too?”

Cunha was not alone in openly defend-ing rioting. Gawker, a widely read web-site that largely peddles celebrity gossip,even published a piece purporting to

make the “economic case” supposedly just ifying wanton destruct ion of prop-erty and violence. “There is, of course,the historical case to be made for rioting:the past is replete with examples whererioting gets the goods,” the piece argues.“But there is also, I’d submit, an evenmore straightforward case for rioting: atthe right levels, rioting is economicallyefficient.” According to Gawker’s com-mentary, by rioting and looting, Fergusonresidents are teaching authorities a lesson


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“Parenting” writer Darlena Cunha wrote a piece for Time ,headlined “Ferguson: In Defense of Rioting,” encouraging blackAmericans to burn down and loot cities as a form of “protest.”


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while making future shootings of citizens by police less likely through the imposi-tion of heavy “costs” on taxpayers, busi-nesses, and residents.

This May, Time was at it again, runninga piece by former NBA star Kareem Ab-dul-Jabbar promising that the anti-policeriots this year in Baltimore were “just the beginning,” while comparing the violenceand looting to the “Boston Tea Party.”Repeatedly referring to what happenedin Baltimore, a city with a black mayorand a black police chief, as an “uprising,”Abdul-Jabbar insisted it was about morethan Freddie Gray. It is apparently about“systemic injustice,” which he views asapplicable to blacks only. As THE NEW AMERICAN’S Selwyn Duke recently doc-umented using objective data, that race-

obsessed “blacks as sole victims” narra-tive fails spectacularly, with more whites being shot by police than blacks, though blacks are far more likely to shoot an of-ficer than whites — yet it continues to be parroted by the press and establishmentlackeys with an agenda to push.

Abdul-Jabbar had some colorful analo-gies, too. “For African Americans, it feelsas if we are all gathered together in the path of giant steamroller. We shout upat the driver to put on the brakes, but hekeeps shouting for us to get out of the

way. But there’s no place to go,” com- plained multimillionaire Abdul-Jabbar,who was appointed by then-Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton as “cultural ambas-sador” for the U.S. government, addingthat 70 unarmed blacks had been killed by police over a 15-year period. “Wekeep backing up and backing up. In Bal-timore, it felt as though everyone’s backwas against the wall, and there was no place to back up to anymore. If shoutingdoesn’t get the driver’s attention, maybesomething more drastic will.”

Other race-obsessed voices were alsogiven a media platform to promote racialstrife and unrest. “More and more urbanuprisings will take place in the future aslong as political puppets, social opportun-ists and embedded informants masquer-ading as leaders call for peace, while the poor, the Black, the denied, the exploitedand the oppressed masses are calling forequal rights and justice!” argued LuciusGantt in the Florida Courier , with itsmotto “Sharing Black Life, Statewide.”

While careful to say he does not thinkdestroying businesses and institutions isa “good idea,” Gantt quickly proceeds toexplain why he believes it is. “If you lookat past riots in Los Angeles, in Detroit, inAtlanta and urban uprisings in hundredsof other cities, when the skies light upand costs go up, things begin to happen,”

Gantt wrote. “Compare Central Florida, New York City, Ferguson and other areasto Baltimore. In those cities, nothinghappened after the non-violent marchescalled by so-called and politically en-dorsed Negro leaders. But when flamescan be seen from miles and miles away,every resource a city has is put into actionimmediately!” He also suggested peopleshould “die fighting for equal rights and justice” rather than be killed by police.

Even after the flames had died out inBaltimore and Ferguson, the establishment

press was whipping up mobs to keep de-stroying cities to achieve “change.” On Au-gust 5, for instance, the far-left media organHuffington Post was telling readers thattheir violence had paid off. “The Fergu-son Protests Worked,” reads the headline.The sub-header: “Were the riots costly anddestructive? Yes. But reform never wouldhave happened without the unrest.” TheBBC and other outlets published similarclaims, quoting a rap star in the headlinessaying “riots work.” Get it? Next time you

think you want some “change,” burn downyour city, attack police, loot your neigh- bors’ businesses, and you’ll get it — allwith support from the press.

Since the media pushing this line ofthought is left-leaning (Big Government promoting) and their answer to the riotshas been calls for more federal control of

local police functions, it should at least be considered whether their callous dis-regard of minority property, livelihoods,and lives in promoting rioting has main-ly been little more than a cynical ployto gain a political objective. While theanti-capitalist screed last year in Time defending and promoting rioting drewswift condemnation and ridicule fromthe alternative and conservative-leaning press, such half-baked agitation and pro-motion of unrest and division has actually become a staple among the mischaracter-

ized “mainstream” media — though per-haps not quite as openly as Cunha’s piece.From giving respectability and credibilityto race-mongers and profiteers to wildlysensationalizing stories that help advancethe Big Government/nationalized policeagenda, the increasingly discredited es-tablishment press appears to be becom-ing more and more brazen in its effortsto distort the facts and foment chaos forless-than-idealistic purposes. And it willcontinue as long as it is effective. n

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charitable activities. In fact, as THE NEW AMERICAN has documented extensively,varied efforts have benefited from the pow-erful hedge-fund boss’ largess, includingthe anti-market Occupy Wall Street “move-

ment,” the Obama election campaign, anddeadly revolutions overseas.

In Ferguson and beyond, though, the in-fluence of Soros’ billions was felt close tohome by millions of Americans. “There’sa solitary man at the financial center ofthe Ferguson protest movement,” reportedthe Times’ Kelly Riddell, citing financialrecords and interviews with key playersabout the Soros role in fueling the manu-factured chaos that engulfed Ferguson.“No, it’s not victim Michael Brown orOfficer Darren Wilson. It’s not even the

Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitouscampaign on TV and the streets. Rather,it’s liberal billionaire George Soros, whohas built a business empire that dominatesacross the ocean in Europe while forginga political machine powered by nonprofitfoundations that impacts American poli-tics and policy.”

According to the Times story, which gar-nered headlines worldwide, Soros’ orga-nizations helped mobilize demonstratorsand build up “coalitions” — oftentimes

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illionaire Big Government-par-tisan and Obama administrationally George Soros provided at

least $33 million in a single year to radicalleftist groups orchestrating protests andunrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and nation-wide, according to an explosive investiga-tion into filings of the globalist financier’stax-exempt “Open Society” foundations.Dozens of Soros-funded outfits helpedlobby the media, bus in AstroTurf protest-ers and “community organizers,” coor-dinate propaganda messaging, create an“echo chamber,” and more, the Washing-ton Times revealed. In other words, Soros,a key globalist establishment figure, was

helping to provide pressure from above,and pressure from below, in the war onlocal police. Based on the establishmentmedia’s non-stop parroting of the Soros-funded propaganda, the relative success ofthe strategy was plain to see.

Despite the recent uproar over Soros’giant role in exploiting Ferguson and bankrolling nationwide anti-local policemachinations, it is hardly the first time thatSoros, a protégé of the Rothschild bankingdynasty, has faced scrutiny over his pseudo-

coalitions of his own AstroTurfoutfits — to drum up hysteria.Some Soros groups developeddubious “academic research”and generated editorials thatthe establishment press wasonly too happy to promote and parrot. The Soros-funded orga-nizations “fed off each other,”the Times reported, creatingwhat the paper described as an“echo chamber” within socialmedia and the mischaracterized“mainstream” press. Even someof the media outlets hypingthe Soros-funded “grassroots”schemes are funded by Soros.

Among the radical Soros or-ganizations that descended on

Ferguson and participated in thescheming were the Samuel De-witt Proctor Conference in Chi-cago, the Drug Policy Alliance,

Make the Road New York, EqualJustice USA, Sojourners, the Ad-vancement Project, the Centerfor Community Change, and net-

works from the Gamaliel Foundation. “Allwere aimed at keeping the media’s attentionon the city and to widen the scope of the in-cident to focus on interrelated causes — not just the overpolicing and racial discrimina-

tion narratives that were highlighted by thenews media in August,” the Times reportedabout the activities of the collection of So-ros-funded groups, including more than afew race hatemongers and pseudo-religiousoutfits with strong ties to the Obama ad-ministration.

More than a few critics have referred toSoros’ operatives as “racist hate groups.”In one column lambasting admitted Na-tional Socialist (Nazi) collaborator Sorosas “evil,” for example, the billionairefinancier’s activities were described as

“paying racist leftists to block roads andharass you.” Columnist Daniel Greenfieldalso suggested that Ferguson victims ofSoros-linked rioting, looting, and violenceought to send the bill to the prominenthedge-fund boss. Ben Bullard at PersonalLiberty Digest, meanwhile, noted that, bythe end of the Times report, “‘echo chamber’ begins to seem an inadequate descrip-tion for a coterie of groups that occupysuch a claustrophobic ideological, organi-zational and financial space.”

The billionaire progressive has been bankrolling hundreds of activist

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Still, despite Soros’ giant footprint inFerguson, the widely criticized billion-aire was not entirely alone in fomentingthe unrest — his establishment allies andother powerful forces helped too. As ourcover story on page 8 points out, the FordFoundation, Tides Foundation, and otherradical tax-exempt “philanthropies” have poured millions of dollars into the activistgroups, encouraging the riots and discord.

Amid ongoing anti-police protests in

New York and across the nation, analystsdug up a 2010 news story that reported onanother Soros funding angle that mighthave also played a role in building up the“movement” behind the riots. Five yearsago, New York schools introduced whatwas dubbed a “human rights curriculum”for middle- and high-school students. Inaddition to hyping controversial UN no-tions of “human rights,” the scheme fo-cused heavily on the anti-police workand initiatives of self-described commu-nist revolutionary and Soros beneficiary

Van Jones — the radical who served asObama’s “green jobs” czar until his ex-tremist revolutionary background was exposed by the conservative press.

The Obama administration, which ben-efited from millions of Soros dollars onthe campaign trail, was also important —with top officials, including Obama, irre-sponsibly meddling in and commenting ona local issue with a view to fomenting ra-cial strife. The Justice Department, mean-while, was recently exposed for having

provided grants to a leftist “community”organization that was involved in produc-ing a rap music video glorifying and en-couraging the murder of police officers.The outfit, dubbed “Bronx Defenders,”has received at least $1.5 million in U.S.taxpayer dollars from Obama’s Depart-ment of Justice, and more than $100 mil-lion from New York taxpayers since 2007!

Obama’s “Organizing for Action” out-fit is currently involved in training 10,000

“progressive community organizers” tofan out across America and transform thenation. According to the Washington Post ,OFA “was designed to essentially be theObama presidential campaign, made eter-nal.” As a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” non- profit, OFA has taken in millions of dollarsfor use in political lobbying and organiz-ing, much of it from Soros. Meanwhile,Obama and his allies in the establishmentmedia have made a major issue of the in-fluence of “dark money” contributed toconservative 501(c)(4) organizations for

political action.As THE NEW AMERICAN reported exten-

sively, the dictator-dominated United Na-tions was also constantly seeking to stirup unrest and attacks on the unalienablerights of the American people by cynicallyexploiting the deaths of Trayvon Martin inFlorida, Michael Brown in Ferguson, andEric Garner in New York. From attackinggun rights and the U.S. justice system to de-manding that local American police depart-ments adhere to “international standards”

and “international law,” the UN boss andhordes of his “human rights” bureaucratswere constantly interfering in U.S. affairs.Even after the police officers involvedwere cleared of criminal wrongdoing bytheir peers, the UN did not let up — atleast until two New York City police offi-cers were murdered amid the Soros-fundedand UN-backed hysteria. Soros, of course,is a big fan of the United Nations, and hasfunded numerous UN reports, commis-sions, and programs over the years.

Of course, no manufactured statist protests to “transform America” would be complete without communist involve-ment and “useful idiots” to do the dirtywork. And Soros’ latest antics from Fer-guson to New York aimed at promotingBig Government, radical “change,” and

nationalized police were no exception.While most of the establishment pressnever bothered to report it, conservative-leaning websites and sources were quickto point out that the signs held by manyof the demonstrators across America were produced and supplied by the Revolution-ary Communist Party, USA — as the signsthemselves admitted, even including anInternet address for the totalitarian party’swebsite. The Communist Party USA wasalso busy hyping and participating in thealleged “movement.”

If the “establishment” media did its joband reported the facts rather than conceal-ing them to advance the cause of “progres-sivism,” none of this would be a surprise tomost Americans. In fact, the “coalitions”and campaigns would probably neverhave happened to begin with. Instead,the wildly mischaracterized “mainstreammedia” was too busy frothing about theKoch brothers while justifying and glo-rifying rioting and looting to inform itsdwindling readership about the facts. Andwhile the Ferguson hysteria from last year

appears to have died down for now — likethe Soros-funded “Occupy Wall Street”machinations — the key players and fi-nanciers are without a doubt already plot-ting their next pseudo-“grassroots move-ment” to “fundamentally transform” theUnited States and its long constitutionaltradition of locally controlled police. Untilthey are properly exposed, Soros and hisallies will continue to effectively providethe pressure from above and the pressurefrom below. n


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Violent anniversary: Protesters yell as police form a line across West Florissant Avenue on

August 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Missouri, before shots were fired near the protest.

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by William F. Jasper and Alex Newman

T he federal government has been busycreating unconstitutional agenciesco-opting policing while simultane-

ously using a “carrot and stick” approach — unconstitutional federal aid and federalmandates — to absorb and coerce the local police, transforming them into instruments

of an emerging national police force.This subversive transformation of

America’s way of policing has been underway for a long time. The American ideal oflocal police — locally funded and locallycontrolled — whose job it is to protect the public against violent and fraudulent crim-inal elements that will always be found inevery society, is being radically changed.Over the past decade, this process has ac-celerated dramatically, with every terroristincident, riot, police shooting, or upsurge

in criminal activity serving as an excuse tofurther nationalize.

All of us who fly have become accus-tomed (willing or otherwise) to TSA pat-downs, body scans, interrogations, andother indignities and violations. That is partof the political fallout of the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks: the birth of anotherfederal agency, the Transportation Secu-

rity Administration, TSA. But as is alwaysthe case with government, it seems, it didnot take long for mission creep to set in.Federal Homeland Security officials soonhad TSA units in black military gear lead-ing multiple federal and local agencies in police sweeps of Amtrak and Greyhound bus stations, as well as other “transporta-tion infrastructure” nationwide. By 2011,according to TSA chief John Pistole in tes-timony to Congress, the TSA was carryingout more than 8,000 of these sweeps a year.

But the TSA’s stupendous growth andreach within the span of a decade repre-sents only a fraction of the spiraling fed-eral police state presence. Virtually everyfederal agency now has its own SWAT-style paramilitary “police” unit to enforceits edicts and “protect the homeland”: theDepartments of State, Education, Agricul-ture, Energy, and Treasury, for instance,and agencies such as the EnvironmentalProtection Agency, the Food and Drug Ad-ministration, the Social Security Admin-istration, the National Park Service, theU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the ForestService, the Bureau of Land Management,etc. Not to mention the U.S. Marshals Ser-vice, the FBI, the Federal Protective Po-lice Service, U.S. Customs and Border Pa-

trol, and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco,Firearms, and Explosives.There are now tens of thousands of fed-

eral “police” running around in an assort-ment of uniforms, even though the U.S.Constitution provides no authority for —and in fact prohibits — any such federal po-lice agencies. Congress doesn’t even knowhow many of these rogue units are out thereoperating. In an attempt to get some handleon this matter, Representative Chris Stewart(R-Utah) introduced, in 2014, the Regulato-ry Agency Demilitarization Act (H.R.4934)

directing the U.S. Comptroller General tosubmit an annual report to Congress provid-ing details on the number and descriptionof SWAT-style units of federal regulatoryagencies and their weapons, training, and

purpose. The bill has 31 cosponsors buthas gone nowhere in the GOP-controlledHouse; Republicans have been as blasé to-ward the dangers of a national police stateas have Democrats.

Just as important as, if not more impor-tant than, this burgeoning federal police-state apparatus are the various means by

which federal politicians and bureaucratsare transforming our local police intofedgov adjuncts by coopting them withgrants, equipment, and training. The FBIAcademy in Quantico, Virginia, for ex-ample, trains thousands of local peaceofficers and law-enforcement executives.Less well known are the Federal LawEnforcement Training Centers (FLETC),which, according to the FLETC website,“provide tuition-free and low cost trainingto state, local, campus, tribal and territorial

Not only are federal agencies such as the Departments

of State, Energy, and Agriculture forming police units,

Washington is nationalizing our local police.

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TSA mission creep: Federal Amtrak Police K-9 teams patrol at Penn Station on January 30, 2014in New York. Local law enforcement are getting “help” from TSA’s Visible Intermodal Preventionand Response (VIPR) teams for “sweeps” at bus and train stations, highways, and ports.

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moving full speed ahead for nationalizationand militarization of America’s local lawenforcement. Indeed, he has done more tomilitarize law enforcement and transferredmore weapons and military equipment tolocal law enforcement than perhaps anyother president in U.S. history. When theriots and violence broke out in Ferguson,Missouri, following the police shooting ofMichael Brown, many television viewersnationwide were as alarmed by the fear-some images of armored military vehiclesand police in military gear as by the scenes

of rioting and looting. Incredibly (but trueto form, nevertheless), in his August 14,2014 press conference, President Obamadenounced the Ferguson police response.And he warned, “There is a big difference

between our military and our local law en-forcement, and we don’t want those lines blurred,” as though he had had nothingto do with blurring those lines. Likewise,Obama’s liberal Democratic sidekick inMissouri, Governor Jay Nixon, claimed hewas “thunderstruck” by the sight of policein military gear on the streets of Ferguson.But only a few months earlier, Governor

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