Showing posts with label Bobby Jindal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bobby Jindal. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2009

BOBBY JINDAL AND MORE REPUBLICAN LIES

Rudolph Giuliani (on MSNBC with Carlos Watson) said that stimulus money was going to areas where Democrats won. Well, considering that Democrats won in huge majorities in many states, and Republican governors rejected stimulus money, why is Guliani even bringing the subject up? Well, most of us who are paying attention know why.
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Republicans are in the minority and have taken a political beating and they are pretty much the party of no ideas, and have said "no" to almost every piece of legislation. Giuliani himself has not contributed anything since he left office other than to be an obstructionist who is hell bent on propping up his own Party and destroying President Obama and his agenda (even though the American people voted for that agenda). If you have no ideas (and think about this), what do you do? You try to beat up the other person. So Republicans are beating up on the Democrats and President Obama. They are engaged in propaganda and lies.
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Furthermore, Republicans are huge supporters of big business and insurance companies. They have consistently drafted legislation that benefited big business and hurt the consumer.

Ex: GRAMM-LEACH-BILEY which helped lead to today's crisis and "too big to fail". They helped create this financial crisis and these huge job lay-offs. Republicans don't want you to remember any of that. Nor do they want you to remember that they got us into two wars, one (Iraq) which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in a place where we should never have been.

Now Bobby Jindal is trying to take credit for something that he initially rejected. Jindal rejected the stimulus money. He wanted no parts of it. Now he's going around handing out money, half of which comes from the stimulus. HYPOCRITE!
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Friday, December 19, 2008

KATRINA'S HIDDEN RACE WAR

According to the Color of Change:

“A new report in "The Nation", documents what many have claimed for years -- for some Black New Orleanians the threat of being killed by White vigilantes in Katrina's aftermath became a bigger threat than the storm itself."

"After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will-- with no threat of a police response. For the last three years, the shootings and the police force's role in them have been an open secret to many New Orleanians. To date, no one has been charged with a crime and law enforcement officials have refused to investigate.

The facts are finally seeing the light of day. Now we must demand action. Given Louisiana's horrible record when it comes to criminal justice and Black folks, it's the only path to justice.

In the two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the media created a climate of fear with trumped-up stories of Black lawlessness. Meanwhile, an armed group of White vigilantes took over the Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans and mercilessly hunted down Black people. "It was great!" said one vigilante. "It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it."


You can help. Join in calling on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a full investigation of these crimes and any police cover-up. It takes only a moment to add your voice and to invite your friends and family to do the same: "
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/


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-- James, Gabriel, Clarissa, William, Dani, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team December 19th, 2008
References
1. "Katrina's Hidden Race War," The Nation, 12-18-2008 http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=1748-378357&cat=nation&link=1
2. "Body of Evidence," The Nation, 12-18-2008 http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=1748-378357&cat=nation&link=2