Title: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: Chef Ramsay on March 05, 2015, 04:04:39 AM Quote President Barack Obama today introduced his plan for a progressive takeover of state and local policing. “We have a great opportunity… to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations,” he said Monday. “We need to seize that opportunity… this is something that I’m going to stay very focused on in the months to come,” Obama said, as he touted a new interim report from his Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Obama also instructed his media allies to help federalize policing, and to sideline the critics of centralized policing rules. “I expect our friends in the media to really focus on what’s in this report and pay attention to it,” he instructed. ......................... State and local policing may need to be subordinated to federal social policy, Obama suggested. “Our approach to our drug laws, for example, and criminalization of nonviolent offenses rather than taking more of a public health approach — that may be something that has an impact in eroding trust between law enforcement and communities.” More...http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/02/obama-unveils-national-obamalaw-plan/ (http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/02/obama-unveils-national-obamalaw-plan/) This guy is completely out of control and it seems the more he acts on his own w/o restraint from Congress, the more he feels invisible from any sort of curbs on his growing power. The large part of him being pussy footed around with is because he's black and you got the liberal white guilt on one side and the panty wastes in the GOP that can't handle the liberal mainstream media leveling racist bullcrap at them for putting their foot down on this guy once and for all. Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: BADecker on March 05, 2015, 11:49:20 PM Quote "Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband. "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered. Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world," Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting. Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce and mince-meat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey. And ever since the government officially changed the name of "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020 to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster. Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric company - be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter. Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family. Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort. "The RHC's resources are limited," explained the government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss." Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines-for everyone but government officials. The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there. Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in. Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids. Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists." Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost. The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact. "A living Constitution is extremely flexible," said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. "Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example," she added. Winston's thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it. His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism or any of a number of other calamities were "just around the corner," but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility. It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being. Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13. The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth." This time they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful. Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement. At least he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential. Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them. He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2011, when all the real nonsense began. "Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the chance," he thought. Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so. :) Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: Possum577 on March 06, 2015, 05:33:40 AM You should read more than the Daily Caller...their articles have a lot catchy headlines but little in the way of supporting facts. I'd love to know what Obama's plan is for "federalizing" state and local police, but the Daily Caller can provide those facts because they drastically pervert the truth.
What else do you read? It's OK to not like Obama...half the country (at least) dislikes any sitting US President at any point in time. But you shouldn't let weak rhetoric called "news" support your dislike, there's plenty of real news to do that. You can bet that if what you're reading in Daily Caller isn't being reported by Fox News, it's not true. Wake up, kid! Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: Possum577 on March 06, 2015, 05:34:50 AM By the way, what Obama plans to do and what he does are two different things. Obama "unveiled a plan" to close Guantanamo Bay Prison, how far did he get with that?
Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: pattu1 on March 06, 2015, 06:06:12 AM Decentralization of power is happening across countries.
This seems to be a regressive step. Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: Possum577 on March 06, 2015, 06:26:55 AM It's not, if you do some research on what Obama said you'll realize he's not proposing the Feds take over local or state authorities, police, etc.
Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: (oYo) on March 06, 2015, 06:56:08 AM This guy is completely out of control and it seems the more he acts on his own w/o restraint from Congress, the more he feels invisible from any sort of curbs on his growing power. The large part of him being pussy footed around with is because he's black and you got the liberal white guilt on one side and the panty wastes in the GOP that can't handle the liberal mainstream media leveling racist bullcrap at them for putting their foot down on this guy once and for all. The puppet masters certainly know what they're doing and almost certainly placed him in power for this very reason, knowing they'd have free rei(g)n. Do you think it will work as well, by calling critics misogynists, if (let's say) Hillary were to take the throne?Title: Re: Obama unveils plan to start federalizing state and local police Post by: Agestorzrxx on March 06, 2015, 10:33:17 AM Federalizing local law enforcement would give him that powerful, national law enforcement force. The force that would be equal in power and ability to the military, just like he dreamed about six years ago. Maybe he can design a nifty new arm band for this new federal force.
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