Showing posts with label Public Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Opinion. Show all posts

June 15, 2016

Harvard University Weighs In On Orlando, Florida Muslim Terror Massacre




"In his remarks, Minister of Memorial Church Jonathan L. Walton slammed the National Rifle Association for what he described as 'John Wayne fantasies and insecure masculinities.' Did the Muslim shooter, described as homosexual (like John Wayne) by several Pulse patrons and his first wife, pledge support to the NRA? 



"We will not accept a new norm of one nation under a gun,” Walton said. Will diversity keep us safe from those who want to destroy us? [. . .] "The Office of BGLTQ Student Life released a statement expressing support for BGLTQ people of color, noting that the shooting 'specifically targeted Latinx BGLTQ.'" But the Muslim shooter was homosexual, from Afghanistan. Do Afghans hate Latinos? [. . .] "Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana encouraged students to consider adding hashtags of support in the wake of the tragedy to their online posts." Now that's what I'm talking about. Action, to change the world by hashtags. Go get 'em.


http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/6/15/harvard-orlando-vigil/

Harvard Mourns Victims of Orlando Shooting
By BRANDON J. DIXON
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
June 15, 2016

January 21, 2016

Mass Bay Transportation Authority Hearings




Harvard University could invite what are called "members of the community" (Ew!), to share the HU shuttle van services, which run very late night as if they are ride-sharing taxis. HU could charge some chump change to ride along. MBTA (once known as Mr. Bulger's Transportation Authority) could keep paying remarkable pensions to their retirees and maintain their large taxpayer funded budget. Spending Other People's Money Society rules the Commonwealth. Donald Trump where are you?



http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/1/21/residents-criticize-MBTA-proposals/

Local Residents Criticize Potential MBTA Cuts
By JOSHUA J. FLORENCE and MIA C. KARR,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
January 21, 2016

December 11, 2015

Boston Herald Wins Lawsuit Over Protected Opinion Coverage




[From article]
The court ruled, in a unanimous decision, that the paper’s coverage concerning the suicide of former Boston lead singer Brad Delp was opinion protected under the First Amendment.
Scholz sued the Herald in 2010, claiming that articles published by the Herald’s Inside Track columnists in March 2007 implied that he was responsible for Delp’s decision to take his life.
The court ruled otherwise.
[. . .]
In the 23-page decision, the court was clear the coverage of Delp’s March 9, 2007, suicide was based on opinion.
Scholz’s law firm, Todd & Weld, referred a request for comment to the rocker’s publicist, who said Scholz was “disappointed that the court has decided to allow a tabloid newspaper to avoid having a jury decide the facts.”
The Herald’s position was supported by a friend of the court brief filed by more than 25 newspapers and journalist groups, including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the American Society of News Editors, the National Press Club, Time Inc., National Public Radio and The Washington Post.
The court also upheld the Superior Court’s ruling requiring Scholz to pay the Herald over $132,000, not including interest, for the court costs incurred in defending against the litigation.
[. . .]
"The ability of journalists to interpret information they present to the public is a vital component of free speech,” National Press Club President John Hughes said. “We are relieved this essential activity will not be curtailed.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2015/11/news_groups_praise_heralds_victory_in_free_speech_case

News groups praise Herald's victory in free speech case
Joe Dwinell, Owen Boss
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Joe Dwinell for Boston Herald
joed@bostonherald.com

November 21, 2015

Americans Alienated From The United States, Trump Feels Their Pain




[From article]
Trump’s continued dominance of national and state-level polling has vexed the GOP establishment and pushed it to near-panic as voting nears.
A recent survey of public attitudes by Reuters/Ispos, though, suggests caution for the GOP establishment.
Whatever failings there may be in his specific policies, Donald Trump’s campaign has tapped into a strong, visceral feeling of millions of Americans. Seeking to destroy Trump, the candidate, may further alienate the Republican party from a rapidly growing block of voters.
According to the Reuters survey, 58 percent Americans say they “don’t identify with what America has become.” While Republicans and Independents are the most likely to agree with this statement, even 45 percent of Democrats share this feeling.
More than half of Americans, 53 percent, say they “feel like a stranger” in their own country. A minority of Americans feel “comfortable as myself” in the country.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/20/majority-americans-feel-like-stranger-country/

Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country
by MIKE FLYNN
20 Nov 2015

April 19, 2015

Columnist Objects to Skepticism




Standardized tests, i.e., Common Core, are not "settled established norms." Testing teachers is also relatively new. If Goodwin's thesis was true, Noam Chomsky would be on network news every day. He is still marginalized, while Kennedy family celebrities get national recognition for misguided policies. Does Goodwin mistake opposition for radicalism? Has conformity become the default position on all matters?

[From article]
Ideas that only recently were relegated to the fringes are now going mainstream. And policies that were settled, established norms are under vicious assault. Here’s the real shocker: The radicals are not limited to Occupy Wall Street and other anarchists demonstrating against cops, capitalism and all authority. Instead, respected public figures and government officials who would normally defend the establishment are leading the charge against it. [. . .] The San Jose Mercury News found that 87 percent of kindergartners at the wealthy Berkeley Rose School had vaccine exemptions because the parents believed in “more alternative health care,” according to a school spokesman. The school, where half-day kindergarten costs nearly $12,000 a year, says it offers “judgment-free” education. Children handwrite their own textbooks, learn to knit in first grade and, despite its proximity to Silicon Valley, the school features an anti-tech culture that emphasizes experience over facts. No kidding.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/18/radicalism-is-going-mainstream/

Radicalism is going mainstream
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
April 18, 2015 | 11:04pm

June 19, 2014

TV News and Congress Have Lost Faith of Americans


[From article]
Only 18 percent of the Americans surveyed expressed either a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in that news medium.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/gallup-public-confidence-tv-news-all-time-low

Gallup: Public Confidence in TV News at All-Time Low
June 19, 2014 - 1:15 PM
By Michael W. Chapman

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[From article]
Americans' confidence in Congress has sunk to a new low. Seven percent of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Congress as an American institution, down from the previous low of 10% in 2013. This confidence is starkly different from the 42% in 1973, the first year Gallup began asking the question.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/171710/public-faith-congress-falls-again-hits-historic-low.aspx

June 19, 2014
Public Faith in Congress Falls Again, Hits Historic Low
Of major U.S. institutions, Americans most confident in the military
by Rebecca Riffkin

June 5, 2014

Secret Service Seeks Software To Detect Sarcasm



[From article]
The Secret Service is also seeking software that can complete very succinct tasks within massive sets of continuously flowing social media data, such as locating users and detecting sarcasm.
“Ability to detect sarcasm and false positives,” reads the request.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/04/secret-service-requests-software-to-track-social-media-trends-detect-sarcasm/

Secret Service Requests Software To Track Social Media Trends, Detect Sarcasm
June 4, 2014 10:45 AM
CBS News Washington DC

May 3, 2014

Multi Millionaire Athletes and Celebrities Stir Up Racial Animosity

Posted April 29, 2014 8:36 PM ET; Last updated May 3, 2014 1:36 AM ET

On Friday May 2, 2014, ABC News 20/20 broadcast a segment about Donald Sterling. Three of their prominent on-air journalists, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, and David Muir all asked the same question, "Is Donald Sterling a racist?" Here is one of many misguided concerns of major network news organizations. There is first of all no discussion of what they mean by the word "racist." But even if they did define what they meant, what is the problem with "BEING" a racist? Is it a crime? Are there legal punishments in the United States for being anything? Is it a crime to be black? Is it a crime to ask stupid questions? If so many journalists would be in jail for many years. 

Under American jurisprudence two elements are necessary for being convicted of a crime. One is mens rea. That is the mental element which shows that the actor, accused, knew what he did was wrong. The second element is actus reus, an act which is a crime. Speech is not an act. Speech expressing an opinion is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. and most state constitutions. There are accusations of speech being a crime, which is one more nonsensical pattern of misguided obsession of journalists and ordinary citizens. On 20/20 all three asked if Sterling IS a racist. Being a racist to these misguided journalists is a crime? Only in the minds of propagandists, racists who condemn white people for their opinions but allow black people to have similar or worse opinions of whites but are not held accountable. Here's my question. Is it part of human nature to dislike people who are different? Is the demand to eliminate racism from humans only possible if you eliminate all humans? 

[The day after posting the below comments a young black man reportedly working for the FBI began conducting surveillance and harassment. It began with the usual psychologists conducting evaluations as I did errands. Evaluations without consent or court order are violations of state and U.S. privacy statutes. But as psychologists and the FBI believe that laws do not apply to them.

This young black racist FBI thug replaced (for a few hours) the thoughtful graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School who leads the daily harassment, surveillance, sleep disturbances and computer tampering for the past three years.


That was followed by the usual young women as bait as I did other errands. And later at my residence owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College where he used high tech illegal firearms for attempts to cause me to have a heart attack or a stroke. That may be attempted murder, with malice aforethought. This is how young black men act toward elder white men. They act out their hatred, especially if they are criminal thugs employed by the FBI. Just as James Bulger was allowed to murder up to 60 persons during his reign as crime boss in Boston these young black racist FBI employees do similar criminal acts. 

That is how Rev. Sharpton abuses his FBI authority. When he speaks his racist venom, is he speaking for the FBI? He does not say. Is he held accountable for his racist rants and for stirring up mayhem and murder? Not at all. Because the FBI uses criminal thugs like this young man. After 43 years of previous FBI abuses, he attacks a 70-year-old white man. Local, state and U.S. governments refuse to protect me even after they used me to fight organized crime for 15 years and did not pay me. That is what happened to that formerly great law enforcement agency. They are now criminal thugs who abuse their power for personal and for political purposes. Young black males are sacred victims, privileged, and may not be criticized. Nor can anyone that they admire be criticized. Anyone who does especially if it is a white man, can be attacked and threatened. He included threats "We will kill you." in his harassment in the early hours of May Day 2014.

One more criminal thug joins the long line of predators attacking a vulnerable civilian. He works to destroy the remains of spirit, hopes and dreams, which were killed off by previous criminal thugs, who abused their government authority.  

One more bottom feeder conducting the same pattern previously conducted by the CIA, then the FBI, then Communists, then local police, then crime families, then Harvard University campus police and then Cambridge school department holy thugs. Who is this latest criminal black racist trying to provoke violence at stores, at libraries and as I sleep? Is he the same FBI thug who harassed me and threatened me for 19 years? A reliable source reports that a black homosexual was employed by the Cambridge police, and worked for the Bulger faction of the Boston FBI. He was allegedly seen speaking with Bulger in December 1994, one month before Bulger became a fugitive. That is what it looks like from here.

One more of the Bulger thugs employed by the Boston FBI office. No wonder they were unable to prevent the bombings at the Boston Marathon and catch the Cambridge middle school teacher who loves child pornography and placed a video camera in a Somerville middle school. They are too busy harassing me every day. Public safety priorities in Massachusetts on the Harvard University campus.

Here is what makes the idiocracy that runs Massachusetts so precious. Especially if you believe major news organizations and their priorities. They focus reporting about a billionaire who owns a professional basketball team. He asked his employee not to bring black people with her to basketball games. She is allegedly a daughter of a black parent and a Mexican parent.

Millionaire thug athletes and celebrities demand that this man sell his franchise.The head of the NBA banned him for life from attending NBA games. This sounds like the greatest atrocity since Genghis was in Kiev. One player said they are slaves. Slaves earning millions of dollars a year to play basketball? Yes they are all sacred victims, professional victims. Thus said Al "FBI informant" Sharpton, and Jesse "Show me the money" Jackson.

So who do the intellectuals at Harvard University, which dominates the state government in Massachusetts, choose to conduct criminal abuses of a white 70-year-old man who survived 43 years of government abuse? Of course the most victimized victim, a black homosexual who works for the FBI in Boston. How fitting in Massachusetts where the FBI is known to have enabled 60 homicides and framed four white men for murder, which the FBI knew they did not commit. Add to this the fact that Barack "Typical white person" Obama and his acolyte Eric "White people are cowards" Holder, refuse to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner. See, e.g., J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky's book, Who's Counting?

In Massachusetts at Harvard University it is acceptable for a black racist homosexual employed by the FBI to harass, to provoke, to follow and to broadcast character assassination targeting a 70-year-old white man who survived 43 years of criminal government abuses. But the criminal FBI thug is a victim. Victims can do what they want because of their victimhood.]


[From article]
Today, a team owner can sit with his mistress at games, give her millions of dollars in gifts, precipitate a lawsuit from the old coot’s wife demanding return of their community property — and none of that even merits a mention in the first 14 paragraphs of the scandal stories about him.
Yes, what he said about blacks — under the ham-handedly leading questions of his mistress — was nasty. You were expecting this guy to be a prince on race relations? Perhaps if a little more attention had been paid to Sterling’s years of whoring, we wouldn’t be so shocked at his trashy comments about black people.
About a decade ago, Sterling sued a prostitute he had been seeing, for the return of property he had given to — as he called her — this “$500-a-trick freak.”

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/04/30/a-man-of-sterling-character/

A MAN OF STERLING CHARACTER
By: Ann Coulter
4/30/2014 04:00 PM
Human Events

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[From article]
Jason Riley, the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary editor, does not find the NAACP’s reaction to the controversy surrounding racist remarks made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to be particularly genuine. Riley noted that the NAACP gave Sterling a lifetime achievement award and was prepared to give him a second so long as they benefited financially from their association with him. Riley noted that this “pattern of behavior” from groups like the NAACP and MSNBC host and activist Rev. Al Sharpton.
[. . .]
“This is another example of how the civil rights movement has become an industry,” Riley added. “You have groups like the NAACP, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, others who basically go around the country shaking down corporations and individuals for money.”
“This guy gave them money,” Reilly said of Sterling, “and that’s what’s most important to them.”
[. . .]
President Barack Obama’s comments on the Sterling controversy were fine, but that the president is not supportive of “racial unity.”
“When you pal around with Al Sharpton, you are not into racial unity,” he concluded.

When will these race mongers be required to define what they mean? Why are they silent about the black youth gangs violently attacking vulnerable white people? Why are they silent about the refusal of Holder and Obama to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner? Expressing one's opinion is constitutionally protected speech. Is the concept of free speech only for speech that you like?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/wsj-editor-naacp-backed-sterling-when-he-lined-their-own-pockets/

WSJ Editor: NAACP Backed Sterling When He ‘Lined Their Own Pockets’
by Noah Rothman
3:14 pm, April 29th, 2014

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[From article]
Lee said he also wishes white NBA players spoke out.
“Outside from Dirk Nowitzki, I really never heard from the white players,” Lee told CNN.
[. . .]
President Barack Obama said Sunday that comments reportedly made by Sterling are “incredibly offensive racist statements,” before casting them as part of a continuing legacy of slavery and segregation that Americans must confront.

Spike Lee wants white players to speak out about speech that he does not like. "That is speech protected by the U.S. Constitution." How's that for speaking out? Or "Well, why do black people remain silent about violent criminal acts by gangs of black youth, who target vulnerable innocent white people? That is not protected speech but criminal acts directed against white people." Lee equates multi millionaire thug athletes to slaves. Is he neurotic, or psychotic? Or is he just broadcasting propaganda and stirring up racial animosity among the young and uneducated? Millionaire thug athletes and Spike Lee are ungrateful for the opportunity to earn millions and to live like millionaires while others scrape by during this major economic downturn. 

As for Obama's misguided attack on white people who voted for him, and the 600,000 white people who died to end slavery he should resign before he gets impeached. Obama, like Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, does not define racism. He just uses allegations to attack white people. And what law does "BEING" a racist violate? Status crimes of being a drug addict and being black are not crimes. But being a racist is a crime? Stuff it. Obama is the most lawless president that I know of. He shows no remorse while his Attorney General exploits the sympathy of white citizens. No shame indicates that Holder and Obama are psychopaths. Spike Lee is a multi millionaire race monger who joins FBI informant Sharpton abusing his FBI protections as James Bulger did in Boston. These racialist thugs show no shame using race to avoid criminal liability.

Why does Spike Lee, Holder and Obama remain silent about gangs of black youth attacking vulnerable innocent white people? See Colin Flaherty's White Girl Bleed a Lot, and his web site by the same title. Those are violent criminal acts nationally. To these race mongers, stirring up racial animosity has a higher priority than stopping crime. Why not celebrate the 600,000 white men who died in a war to end slavery? Why do Obama and Holder refuse to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner? Are they racists too? Discrimination based on race is unlawful. It violates laws. Opinion speech is protected speech. See J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky's Who's Counting


http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/29/spike-lee-sterling-has-mentality-of-a-slave-master-sees-his-players-as-slaves/

Spike Lee: Sterling Has ‘Mentality Of A Slave Master, Sees His Players As Slaves’
April 29, 2014 10:06 AM
CBS News Washington DC

November 15, 2010

Arrogance Unleashed

[From article]
"'Public opinion is the lord of the universe,' Thomas Jefferson said. The Obama Democrats governed in blatant defiance of it."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/before_obama_fall_JnbWzKfQpWO4SX0HHa9w7M

Before Obama's fall
Pride preceded 'shellacking'
Rich Lowry
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:40 AM, November 6, 2010
Posted: 9:53 PM, November 5, 2010