Friday, October 31, 2008

Freedom Of Assembly


Those people gearing up to disrupt the conference next week put on by the European American Unity organization may be in for a bit of a surprise. Looks like they have bitten off more than they can chew. Especially if they think their intimidation tactics are going to work. These aren't some teenage kids with a Ford Ranger advertising some weekend gathering on a Myspace page. Just hanging out at a motel party room drinking kegs of beer and listening to punk rock music. This is obviously a well organized group with money, meeting at a large conference and meeting facility. That has an agenda and the means to carry it out.

This really boils down to the right to assemble. As long as they don't cause harm to others. It doesn't matter that David Duke is their leader. They are free to meet all they want. Long as they don't burn any crosses or hang anyone. I don't think they plan to march down the streets of Olive Branch with white sheets over their heads either. They are meeting to address these very same type situations. In an area where it is obviously still a problem. Here blacks are trying to deny them the right of a peaceful assembly, not looking at the flip side of that. What happens when they start to deny access to public places because they represent blacks? Like NAN and the NOI for instance. They both have ties to violence in the past. Let's be objective. The constitution gives everyone the right of freedom of assembly.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't much like it either but they have the right to assemble.

Just as Mayor Herenton had the conference for only black mayors not long ago this organization has there right, of course I do recognize the difference.

As long as they remain peaceful and keep there racist views to themselves they are guranteed this right in the constitution.

6:57 PM  
Blogger Common said...

The only one who has given any indication of violence are those planning to protest the conference.

I'm not condoning this organization, but I can't protest against them either. Like most people, I don't really know anything about them.

9:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't know much either but there leader is David Duke so that kind of tells me some things about them already.

9:16 AM  
Blogger Common said...

See that's what I mean. All we know is David Duke is the President of this group. He is a former member of the KKK not a member now. There's a big difference.

What if we took the same attitude with former gang members or former members of the Black Panthers. We have a sitting congressman who was a member of the NOI. All who have a history of violence much like the KKK.

12:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New Panthers' war on whites
By DANA DiFILIPPO
Philadelphia Daily News

difilid@phillynews.com 215-854-5934

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve.
Minister King Samir Shabazz wears his on his forehead. Right between the eyes.

"If you want to stop the revolution, that's what you got to hit," Shabazz said, pointing to the target tattooed onto his forehead. "I fight my oppressor, and I give him the target."

Shabazz is chairman of the New Black Panther Party's Philadelphia chapter. In black beret atop dreadlocks and a black military uniform, he spends most weekdays near City Hall condemning "crackers" and exhorting black passers-by to rise up against their "slavemasters" - and to give him $2 for the party's semi-annual newspaper.

He is one of the most recognizable black militants in a city known, since the days of MOVE, for its vocal black-extremism community.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate activity globally, listed the New Black Panther Party as among the most active and tough-talking of black-separatist groups.

Black Hebrews also have grown increasingly active in recent years, according to the SPLC, especially in Philadelphia, where robed street preachers shout out their beliefs daily near City Hall, the Convention Center, Germantown Avenue and other heavily trafficked areas.

Followers of the movement claim that African-Americans are God's true chosen people because they, not the people traditionally known as Jews, are the real descendants of the biblical Hebrews.

Their views, while often just as extreme, tend to be couched in religious rhetoric about "Edomites" (the descendants of Esau) and such terms that barely slow the stride of most passers-by.

But Shabazz is more blunt in his views:

* On whites: "I'm about the total destruction of white people. I'm about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy. . . ."

* On Jews: "I don't care how much they try to promote the Jewish Holocaust. The African people have suffered a hell of a cost. . . . "

* On Barack Obama and voting: "He's a puppet on a string. I don't support no black man running for white politics. I will not vote for who will be the next slavemaster." Besides, he added, Obama is "a Negro who doesn't even support reparations for black people in America."

* On white supremacists: "They're sissies; they want to put their feelings on a flier. Well, come into the black neighborhood with that rhetoric and we will show you what a strong awakened black man looks like."

* On the Phillies: "They can kiss my ass. The Phillies are not doing nothing for our 'hoods."

Shabazz, who also considers himself a Black Hebrew, said that his beliefs are rooted in high school, where lessons about slavery led to an "awakening."

He doesn't like to talk about himself. He won't divulge his real name, which he shed years ago because it was a "slave name that still had an umbilical cord on it."

He lives "wherever black people is, that's where I live."

He's 38 and has children, but he won't say how many or provide any more details about his personal life, partly for security reasons but also because this reporter is a "cracker."

He listens to "revolutionary, cracker-killing hip-hop" on his headphones and says things like: "I'll get black to you on that."

And he says that he never worries what response his violent rhetoric might provoke in listeners.

"The only thing the cracker understands is violence," said Shabazz, whose face also bears the tattoos "Freedom," "BPG" (Black Power Gang) and "NBPP" (New Black Panther Party). "The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder.

"You got to take violence to violence." *

6:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well there are extremists on both sides.

I don;t think it's really fair for him to group all white people together and hate the race. Just as it is not fair for some whites to group all black people together and hate the race.

People like that are just extreme nut jobs who belong in Bellvue. If he is so unhppy with this country he knows how to get the hell out

6:04 AM  
Blogger Common said...

No chamce of that happening.

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