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WE ARE BEING HUNTED & EXECUTED

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Messenger: RastaGoddess Sent: 7/7/2016 7:09:32 PM
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OVER 560 MURDERS OF BLACK PEOPLE THIS YEAR, AT THE HANDS OF THE POLICE!!!

INI have witnessed yet another BLATANT EXECUTION of 2 innocent Black Men in the last 2 days: Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile, both murdered by police, right in front of their children. We mothers, wives, and daughters of Black Men are overwhelmed with profound sadness, fear, anger, OUTRAGE and yes…the desire for revenge, JAH KNOW!

For those who would rather suggest a more non-violent reaction, I say PURE BLOOD KLAAT FIYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been nothing BUT non violent for over 500 years! And for what? We have sang, marched, prayed, boycotted………..WE HAVE DONE IT ALL! And for what?


“IF EVERYTIME THEY KILLED ONE OF OUR CHILDREN THEY LOST 2 OF THEIR OFFICERS, POLICE BRUTALITY WOULD STOP” – Sista Letava


“According to The Guardian’s “The Counted” project, Sterling was the 560th person killed by police this year. Castile was the 561st. Despite a year of mass protests, despite the proliferation of videos of police violence and brutality, and despite a shifting national mood that acknowledges police brutality as both racially unjust and part of a broad pattern of behavior.










“…If incidents of police brutality—even killings—seem like routine elements of American life. It’s because they are. They are not aberrations, but the predictable and inevitable consequence of common encounters enabled by policy and sustained by the will of society. If there actually is any resolve to keep history from repeating itself and to end the parade of death, Americans will have to challenge the state’s authorization of violence beyond individual police acts, and investigate the purposes of policing that drive its use. Until then, people will continue to die.”



Messenger: RastaGoddess Sent: 7/7/2016 7:23:28 PM
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Not only in ameriKKKa...

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No Charges For French Soldiers Who Raped African Children

French soldiers in CAR are accused of raping African children as young as 6-years-old.

AFRICANGLOBE – As French investigators prepare to return to Central African Republic to look further into two-year-old accusations that French soldiers deployed in the country raping children, there is no sign of any criminal charges being laid any time soon, let alone of convictions being secured.

This is despite the fact that accounts provided to UN staff by child victims and witnesses in May and June 2014, and given to French authorities in July 2014, included the names of the children and some nicknames and physical characteristics of 11 alleged perpetrators serving in France’s Sangaris military mission.

The force deployed with the blessing of the UN Security Council and at the request of CAR’s president in December 2013, a time when clashes between rival armed groups gave rise to fears of genocide and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

The reported abuse occurred in a camp for displaced civilians at Bangui airport, under the protection of French and UN peacekeepers.

The allegations described in these accounts include French soldiers requesting and in several cases receiving fellatio from young boys in return for food and money; one French soldier urinating in the mouth of one of his victims; and soldiers from Chad and Equatorial Guinea deployed under the UN mission anally raping young boys. The alleged abuses took place in late 2013 and early 2014.

These incidents, and four other cases of alleged physical abuse committed by Sangaris troops in CAR, are currently under investigation.

No Progress

The office of the Paris prosecutor in charge of the dossiers told reporters there had been no significant progress in the main case since May 2015, when discreet preliminary investigations launched the previous August were upgraded into a full-scale, well-publicised criminal enquiry involving the appointment of magistrates. The change in status came soon after the Guardian newspaper broke the story of the alleged sexual abuse.

In the absence of military courts, crimes committed by French soldiers abroad are dealt with by the civilian justice system, specifically the military wing of the office of the prosecutor of the High Court in Paris.

France’s justice system is inquisitorial, rather than adversarial, which means the role of these magistrates is not to build a case for the prosecution but to look impartially into the circumstances of an allegation to determine whether criminal charges are merited.

Until convicted in court, suspects enjoy the presumption of innocence, a point that has been emphasised by the army high command in the main CAR case. (There is a separate case of alleged sexual abuse against two minors, one aged five, by two French troops deployed in Burkina Faso: the pair were immediately suspended. The Paris prosecutor is also looking into this case.)

When accusations involve members of the armed forces, military police are also involved in the investigations.

“We are not going to see anyone before all the facts are verified,” the head of military police told a French documentary last year when asked why investigators had not yet questioned any of the Sangaris suspects.

The investigators returning to CAR this summer are due to talk with child victims and witnesses who have not yet been interviewed. But this doesn’t necessarily mean any charges will then be brought.

“They are right,” a source in the Paris prosecutor’s office said of those who have lamented that the case is very unlikely to come to trial. While declining to comment on whether the veracity of the allegations had been established, the source said none of the cases had actually been dropped.

Zero Tolerance?

This is a case that illustrates the apparent chasm between regular public pronouncements about zero tolerance for crimes committed by troops serving in peacekeeping missions and actually delivering justice for victims of such human rights abuses and international crimes.

“The longer this drags on, the more perpetrators are emboldened, seeing colleagues getting away with dreadful stuff, perpetuating a culture of impunity,” said Paula Donovan of Code Blue, a campaign run by the NGO Aids-Free World to end impunity for UN peacekeeping personnel.

The chronology of the case suggests that key events could have taken place sooner. For example, French investigators only interviewed the children in June 2015. This was almost a year after senior human rights official Anders Kompass – who has since resigned from the UN – handed the interview summaries taken by the UN human rights officer (HRO) in Bangui to the French diplomatic mission in Geneva.

Moreover, the officer herself insists she informed Sangaris commanders in Bangui of the allegations as early as May 2014.

The source at the French prosecutor’s office revealed that the June 2015 interviews “did not shed enough light to indict anyone”. Only five of the 14 suspects mentioned in the original summaries could be identified, the source added.

The French investigators interviewed these five in December 2015 – two months after the documentary aired.

UN Foot-Dragging

Within the UN bureaucracy, the contortions and delays in reporting key information were set out in excruciating detail in a report issued by an external panel of experts in December 2015.

As well as lambasting a range of senior UN officials for their actions and inactions in the affair, the report lends credence to France’s claims that its investigations were severely hampered by the UN’s refusal to allow key staff members to be directly interviewed and its insistence that convoluted “official channels” be followed.

“Exchanges between the French Permanent Mission [in New York] and the UN, including with their respective senior officials and legal offices, took weeks for each round of communication,” according to the panel.

French investigators initially approached the HRO and a UNICEF staff member in Bangui in August 2014. But it wasn’t until the following April that, guided by the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs, she provided answers to their questions, which had to be submitted in writing, nor until July 2015 that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon waived her legal immunity, a privilege all UN staff enjoy.

“[I]mmunity should not be a bar to UN officials and experts on mission when they are called to testify as witnesses to crimes of sexual violence,” the panel said in its recommendations.

In Denial Over Abuse?

Emmanuel Daoud, a lawyer for ECPAT, an NGO working to end the sexual exploitation of children and acting as a “civil party” in the criminal proceedings, agreed that the use of immunity had been a problem for the investigators. But he dismissed any suggestion that French investigators had been dragging their feet, insisting they had worked “very professionally”.

He said it wasn’t unusual for such investigations to take so long and pointed out that this was a particularly complex case, not only because the crimes took place in a foreign country in the throes of violent unrest (with interviews requiring translators), but also because the implicated Sangaris troops had rotated out of CAR – in one case to Afghanistan.

Even when conducted in France, criminal investigations in rape cases last three years on average, with trial verdicts coming only five years after complaints are lodged, according to a 2013 book entitled Rape, an Almost Ordinary Crime.

For its part, the UN Secretariat maintains it acted correctly all along. In May 2015, Ban’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters: “We very much cooperated with the French judicial authorities on this… And I think the issue of [the] lifting or not lifting of immunity is not really pertinent in this case.”

Perhaps surprisingly, given its own vociferous criticism of the UN’s inability to prevent and punish sexual violence committed by peacekeeping troops, Code Blue agrees.

“In this particular instance, the argument about immunity as the main impediment to the French investigation doesn’t hold water” because of the extensive details contained in the HRO’s initial report, explained Aids-Free World’s Communications Director Gill Mathurin.

But this doesn’t mean Mathurin believes mistakes weren’t made. Had the UN alerted the French authorities back in May 2014, “it is likely that they could have prevented subsequent abuses from occurring”, she said.

In April 2016, the UN said 108 more victims in CAR, mostly underaged girls, had come forward with accounts of sexual abuse (including bestiality) committed between 2013 and 2015, allegedly by UN and French troops.

Three months earlier, reports had come to light of yet more abuses, allegedly committed in 2014 by troops from France and other countries on children as young as seven.

By: Anthony Morland

http://www.africanglobe.net/africa/charges-french-soldiers-raped-african-children/


Messenger: Voodooruuts Sent: 7/7/2016 8:30:07 PM
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Looks like Alton was the wrong guy!


Messenger: Jah Seeker Sent: 7/8/2016 11:14:12 AM
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At this point enough is enough. InI don't even care about the 5 police officers killed by sniper, i don't care what damage protesters do. Take down every cop,every senator,every institution. TAKE DOWN BABYLON!


Messenger: RastaGoddess Sent: 7/8/2016 12:40:59 PM
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Seen.

As dem say, Jah works in "mysterious" ways.

Laws of Nature at work. Ancestors dem doin their thang...

INI observing this whole thing unfold. The media spins. The choice of keywords being used. The manipulations. The reactions.

No prayer for America from I.

Until that day...

HOTTAH FIYAH


Messenger: Har-Tema Sent: 7/8/2016 3:14:08 PM
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"Many more will have to suffa, many more will have to die, don't ask me why" #NaturalMystic


Messenger: LiberatedSoul23 Sent: 7/8/2016 4:14:10 PM
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Rastagoddess do you think the rumors of a war, martial law etc are coming soon? With the fema camps etc. Ive seen all of these comments


Messenger: Hemphill Sent: 7/8/2016 6:35:37 PM
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Purposefully creating civil unrest.. Politicians create the regulations that allow police to kill without consequence. The 'elite' are proficient with social engineering. They use a problem, reaction, solution system to controll the population.. Create a fully militarized police that is trained to kill (discriminatly). This causes a problem in brutality and injustice which in turn causes a desired reaction -- civilians fighting police -- which allows them to sweep in with thier 'solution' of martial law.. Just as 9-11 justified a 15+ year war that the population would have never accepted without the tragedy (problem), the running problem of police brutality and the subsequent reaction of fight back justifies martial law that the population would have never accepted. With media spins and lies, martial law will be seen as our saving 'solution'..

Police are the grunt boots on the ground and easy to see as the evil, yet the ones who order and control police actions remain unseen and avoid accountability. This is bigger than racists cops, this is bigger than a sniper, this is systemic. This is one part of a larger agenda to destroy Afrika and humanity. See U.N agenda 21..



Messenger: JAH Child Sent: 7/9/2016 2:35:32 AM
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Greetings and Love All
RastaGoddess I Overstand the I outrage, but I don't think the answer is to turn the same blind hate and violence onto the other side. Killing officers who didn't hurt anyone is not retribution for the Black lives lost. If it were the exact officers who had perpetrated those killings who were being targeted, that would make more sense, but to I it is senseless and only serves to make the problem worse for everyone just to start attacking all police.
Hemphill is exactly right. Both sides are being played off each other, and they are playing right into the hands of the ones who want to destroy both sides. If we don't want to see more Black men die, then why encourage people to do what Xavier Johnson did? He is dead too, not only the 5 police he killed. The manipulators are out there laughing and celebrating 6 deaths. They don't care about the color, they want everyone dead but themselves.
I don't want to see anyone killed, not police, not senators, not even presidents/prime ministers or the so-called queen of england, and definitely not any more confused and victimized brothers and sisters who turn weaponized against those they perceive to be the threat and killing themselves in the process. I don't find any pleasure in the murders of anyone. Because no matter how evil the one being murdered is, the one who does the murdering lets evil into themselves just by completing that act, and they themselves almost always end up being killed also. And then the whole entire event is turned into a media showpoint and used to take away more human rights and eventually lead to far more killings than had even prompted the backlash.
Just look at the militarization of police:

Alternet: 19 June 2016 LRAD's, Steel Batons and Armored Personnel Carriers: Cleveland Cops Stocking up before GOP Convention - Police have admitted that they have loaded up on riot gear.

"Cleveland police are rumored to have obtained LRAD’s (Long Range Acoustical Device) normally used to keep pirates from boarding ships by emitting a non-lethal, but painful, beam of sound to drive people away, making it a popular tool for riot control.

"Police have admitted that they have loaded up on riot gear — including full body armor — 2,000 retractable steel batons, 10,000 sets of plastic handcuffs, 16 Pointer Illuminator Aiming Lasers, security cameras, and riot-control staple tear gas — while keeping funds in reserve for anticipated overtime pay for officers who will have their hands full.

"It is the unknown purchases that have civil libertarians worried, who also note that much of the equipment purchased stays long after the crowds are gone[...]

"We know that other cities have used these events to obtain equipment for large crowd control and surveillance that doesn’t leave town when the event is over, potentially changing how the city will be policed. But there is really just so much we do not know. And that’s what is really worrying."



engadget: 9 July 2016 Dallas' bomb robot sparks debate around police militarization - "What was sci-fi a generation ago is the new normal," says Dr. Peter Singer.

"The Dallas PD's actions appear to mark the first time in US history authorities have used a robot or drone armed with a bomb to kill a civilian. This comes at a time when police forces across the nation are being criticized and scrutinized for using military-style tools. After a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, riots broke out in the area and police responded with weapons, vehicles and gear intended for armed combat[...]

"'It's a first [that an armed robot has been used against a civilian], but the tech was already widely proliferated,' Singer told Engadget. 'US military already had some 12,000 ground robotic systems -- and 80 other countries have robotics as well -- while police around the world have robots used in various bomb disposal and SWAT surveillance roles.'"


Obviously, the police feel threatened more so than ever before, and does anyone really think that this response is going to result in fewer cases of police brutality or killing?

I wish I had the immediate and fail proof answer to this problem, but I don't think there is one... its going to take Overstanding and a rise in the Irit of HUMANITY, which takes time... and least effective of all solutions is ramping up total and misdirected violence (which is itself the problem.)
JAH guidance


Messenger: Voodooruuts Sent: 7/9/2016 7:12:02 AM
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Black never have and never will receive justice by peaceful means in a whitr society. As long as the fire stays hot the water will continue to boil til it boils over.
What creature in nature never fights back? Its not natural to be abused and not fight off your abuser, that pure mental decay or brainwashing or should I say braindirtying. We tried not fighting back but they just keep on punching, well it may be time to start punching back.
Sometime parts and pieces get removed for the greater good of the whole.
In struggle and war lives will be lost but the spirit of encouragement lives on for the continued fight for freedom and justice. Many Africans lost them life in the Haitian revolution and Maroon wars!

I remember seeing a video of a 90s speech by a Hopi Indian of a Hopi prophecy who said Blacks in America would have 2 revolutions before they got free, a peaceful one and a violent one. We try peace in the 60s!

No justice no peace, no racist ass police!





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