Jena 6 DA's "Undying Gratification" - Thanks to Jesus a Disaster averted!
By Siun Wednesday Sep 26, 2007 8:30pm
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Reed: The only way and let me stress that, the only way that I believe that me, or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community. (loud applause) I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that!
There was a "press conference" today with the Jena 6 prosecutor DA Reed Walters. Or there was supposed to be a press conference but instead Walters played host for a gathering which sounded more like a revivalist tent meeting. ,While reporters noted they had never before been allowed to bring cameras into the courtroom, Walters had quite a show set up complete with about 60 local residents - described as "white supporters of the DA" on CNN who broke into applause when he appeared. I guess they had loved his performance back in 2006 when Black students protested the hanging of nooses in the "white tree." Then Walters arrived at the school with a group of police and warned the peaceful student protest that “I could end your lives with the stroke of a pen.” This is the same Walters who consistently claimed "This case is not and never has been about race" and who "credits the 'imaginations' of African-Americans for the heightened racial tensions around the case." Today, his words were less overtly threatening but the racist message was just as clear.
Walters talked a whole lot about Jesus - and not much about justice. He did make a special note that it was only through the "direct intervention of Jesus!" that last week's demonstrations were peaceful - a pretty outrageous claim when the demonstration was a peaceful and amazing gathering and participants even picked up the trash before heading out of town.
Walters wasn't much on answering press questions but he was asked - once again - why the white students who hung nooses in the "white tree" after black students asked the school's vice principal if they could sit under the tree too (they were told yes) but Walters shrugged this off saying there was no crimes involved that he could charge.
He was not asked why he did not charge the white area residents who beat up a black student at a party the weekend before the final incident nor why he charged a black student for an altercation outside a convenience store that weekend - but not the white resident (involved in the party attack the night before) who pulled a gun on the black student.
CNN actually did a pretty solid job of covering this so-called press conference today - the anchors were clearly more than a little startled by the tone and content. And they featured an interview with Pastor Shipley, a local minister who had tried to question Walters' claims. As he noted the DA was polarizing the situation once again, pitting "his jesus against ours" rather than seeking unity.
It's interesting to note that that bastion of liberal media (yeah sure) seems to see Walters as a worthy fellow. As Alan Bean wrote in "After ignoring Jena, NYTimes gives Reed Walters a pulpit."
The New York Times didn’t cover the Jena story until they were faced with a protest so big that they had to put it on the front page. But now, apparently they can find the space for this disingenuous screed from Reed Walters, the D.A. responsible for the Jena debacle.
Reed Walters complains that hanging nooses is no excuse to jump a white boy. But he conveniently leaves out his own shameful role in fanning the flames of racial unrest in Jena. He neglects to tell America how he also refused to protect Jena’s black youth from a series of attacks by white youth, in the days leading up to the attack on Justin Barker. He neglects to mention how a black youth was assaulted by a gang of white youth at a party, and how another white high school graduate threatened black youth with a shotgun outside a convenience store. This is the critical information we need to understand the attack on Justin Barker–it was the mirror image of a similar attack by white youth on a single, defenseless black youth that weekend. Except Reed Walters didn’t punish all the participants in that attack. Apparently some young people are worth more than others.
Update: Mervyn from Color of Change has just emailed that Myhal Bell is finally being released on bail. Keep an eye on Color of Change for more news and ways to support the Jena 6 campaign.
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Great Intro!
Thanks Jesus!
I had nothing to do with that shit... I was on vacation, with Buddha.
Stupid f*ckers...
When there is no one to blame for your embarrassment it is time to blame and time to THANK JESUS!
isn't that a violation of the separation of Church and State? This DA should be disbarred...praise Jesus he should be disbarred
This country is about to head over the cliff. Honest to Christ. Right straight over the cliff.
He pronounces "Jena" like "Jesus"
AND he claps like a girl.
Why was he giving a press conference? To celebrate getting his ass kicked in the appellate court?
Oh, and was that Al Sharpton asking the question?
Another self serving sniveling deflection intensive spinner.
Get DOWN on your KNEES! Tell GOD ALMIGHTY that you are a SPINNER and BEG for FORGIVENESS!
as long as he's slumming with the tards .....wonder who Jesus sees in the World Series?..
Undying "Gratification". not just gratitude, but gratification, that man was EXTREMELY happy with those officers service.
Glad I don't have to do anything to help people any more. Sounds like Jesus has it handled.
If Dana Perino leaves this man may be on his way to Washington. He can lie like a rug and he has that down home flavor.
Oh good god... "The Lord Jesus Christ placed his influence on those people."
Guess the Lord Jesus Christ also influenced those kids that tied nooses to that tree.
Reed oughta go out to dinner with O'Reilly.
Maybe they can bring Imus along to say grace.
Thing Fish @ 14:
snark//It was God's will! If the Lord had wanted black people he would have made them white!//snark
The D.A. needs to seek gratification in Senator Vitter's diapers, or Ben Stein's pants. I hope he takes a wide stance on this issue and ..............he .................then.............it.............oh well, sheesh. They can't out-holy Sen. Larry Craig when it cums to seeking undying gratification!
Who would Jesus hang?
It's really not too late to let the South seceed...
Baghdad Massacre?
From McClatchy:
From an account of the Boston Massacre:
Of course, the British soldiers eventually faced charges.
Obviously, Reconstruction failed.
Well, at least one of the people present at the press conference recognized the stupidity of giving all the credit for a good thing to an imaginary friend, completely discounting the actual work by the actual people that made it happen.
Joe Thomas @ 20:
And were acquitted. John Adams for the Defense.
Walters is your typical racist, they make inflammatory statements and then deny that they are being racist. It's an unconscious prejudice that they can't perceive in themselves. Much like the rabid anti-Semites who often pollute left wing blogs with their dogmatic "anti-Zionist" sentiment, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the legitimate security and national claims of both sides of the issue and who shout "Zionazi" whenever a Jewish person does something they don't like. Focusing like a laser beam on someones ethnicity when they disagree with you and discounting out of hand any other motivation is racism. We saw a lot of this on the thread about Ahmadinijad speaking at Columbia U the other night. Let's combat racism and intolerance whenever it rears its ugly head, no matter who it is directed at.
Place your hands over your monitor and feel the warmth of my sincerity.
The DA and all in the state subordinate to the glory of JESUS?! Lol, well I guess we don't need the DA anymore, we don't need cops, lawyers, congresspeople, the president. We don't need the military, garbage collectors, scientists teachers etc etc God has it all under control.
Clearly with interventions like this we don't need to worry bout the coming recession or paying taxes or traffic tickets, we're gonna be raptured soon.
Uh,
What a moron ya got there for DA ...
xoites defends Constitution @ 16:
Nah. Just have to out the "curse of Ham" explanation.
Really these people hurt my head. He complains about the trauma endured. I'd say he's being honest there. Truth is like a very, very bright light. I'm sure it hurts.
Southern man
better keep your head
Don't forget
what your good book said
This country needs to be divided up into smaller countries. I read things like this and feel I am not the same nationality as these people. They are completely alien to me.
I'm betting that he knows he's now a nationally-broadcast laughingstock who won't have much career left, and he's angling for one of those sweetheart deals that Judge Roy Moore got. It seems like once an idiot Republican realizes they're about to get put out on their ass, they start going on TV and busting out the 700 Club routine about how we need more religious control over government.
When I meet Jesus, he's got a lot of explaining to do!
'''The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient.'
Westmoreland said that in the Oscar-winning 1974 Vietnam documentary '''Hearts and Minds.'"
Keep these words in mind when you listen to this District Attorney discuss any aspect of this case, bearing in mind this is the same man who told the entire black student body that he could, "End your lives with the stroke of a pen."
Also keep it in mind when Bush starts babbling about Iran.
"...[and] Jesus wept."
This guy, David Duke, and Ted Haggard should get a room and talk this over. I'll bet they'll come to some Revelations. No pun intended.
This guy can't even hide his bigotry... Conyers is definately going to investigate his double standard Jim Crow justice down there... unbelievable!
I hope the justice dept takes a look at his pattern of racism... can't believe he charged a black kid with theft of firearm for taking a gun away from someone that was trying to kill him.. and allowed the gunwan to walk.... crazy bigot!!
Snowball @ 24:
I didn't realize this was a thread about Zionism or the middle east.
Californian @ 35:
It's not, it's about racism. Let's knock it off.
So the cops were great and professional...
But he can't compliment the protesters, they were under the influence of Christ.
Snowball @ 24:
I think we try, but i still disagree with Israel's policies.
Apparently, Jesus intervened to protect the whites. With up to 30,000 protesters, mostly blacks, Jesus had to do something. Give me a break!
Give JESUS a big hand for controlling all those blacks!
Anyone want to bet that Walters has used the term mud races more than a few times when talking to his friends and family.
Mike @ 37:
Is it illegal to protest under the influence? Where can I get me a bottle of Jesus!
Where was Jesus when that White kid's head was getting stomped? Jesus can intercede for a protest but not at an ass-whoopin?
So do I xiotes, so do I.
tblade @ 43:
Jesus let him get his ass kicked because of his sins.
Whose ass would Jesus kick?
xoites defends Constitution @ 38:
Ditto.
Thanking Jebus? Did he win a rap award or something?
the law enforcement has his undying GRATIFICATION
I see he went to the Bush school of speechifying
Stupid negro to challenge the white DA
/snark
"I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that!"
A direct intervention? Wow that doesn't happen too often...
What a crock of shit. The poster child for redneck. Just look at those fat fucks in the background. What is so courageous about hanging out at the donut shops. No wonder the south lost.
fiver @ 8:
The questioner was a local black minister - Pastor Shipley (I hope I've spelled his name right!) who challenged Walters.
Understand, Walters' Jesus is blond haired and blue eyed. He knows not what of which he speaks. Living in Indiana, a red state, I meet and work with plenty of people like that. They are motivated out of ignorance and fear.
Post American @ 6:
I've managed to ignore MSM for the last weeks and honestly, I don't know what Jena 6 is, what it means and why the f**k I should personally care. No TV, No drama full of lies and tricks. Period. When you get to that point when TV is finally ignored completely, the more you hear about Jena 6, the more the fraud and media manipulation becomes apparent. Let me see, Nancy Grace is all over it, the story takes hours of coverage, way more than the Iraqi coverage during the same period, issues of race are debated for hours, you hear Sharpton, Jackson, while Clinton is going bye, bye and Barack starts studying “The Best of presidential F**k Ups” to see what the f**k he’s doing wrong this time, chapter 1. Kerry and Swift Boat monkies, chapter 2. Dean and why you should not scream and shut the f**k up when you lead. 3. chapter 3. Unfinished - the destinies of Gulianni and Clinton. Geez.
Let's see why the elites can do what they do.
WHAT is USofA.
1 Elites:
Politicians, CEOs, financiers, DAs, corporatists, billionaires (those who have stolen the first million, been donated one or inherited one), government scientists and engineers, elite doctors and inventors, think tanks and yes THE MEDIA, the elites through association ONLY, but let them be what they think they are, even though they are the worst kind of them all.
2. The Middle Men
Policemen, FBI, CIA, Army, lawyers but not quite the elite ones, elite professors and thinker, regular doctors, commentators and foreign secret agents.
3. Commoners
95% of Americans, the people, yes here are we.
A few words on how the system works.
1 uses 2 to keep 3 as 3, let some of 3 be 2 so 3 stays 3 and never endangers 1 through reforms, revolutions or simple exercising of their influence as drawn in the Constitution, but thanks to cooperation of 1 and 2, the rights written in Constitution get twisted, hidden or gradually destroyed so 3 can focus on Jena 6 and elect Clinton or Gulliani, while 1 continues feeding off of 3 and totally giving shit about 2 in the process.
Scenario.
A commoner wants to protest. A politician/president sends the policemen. A commoner wants to conspire to protest more radically and effectively. The elites send the FBI. A commoner managed to conspire to the extent that his message, simple, true and honest found a group of listeners, the group gets stronger and starts talking, making other groups that think the same, finding the common cause that everyone understands to be the good one. The elite sends CIA, CIA sends surveillance experts, CIA asks ATT and Verizon to join the team to protect 1 of which they are the members, 1 manages to keep 3 again where its place is, utilizing as much 2 as possible in the process. The message got stronger, it got out and 1 is in real danger now, 1 sends lawyers, IRS agents, doctors like psychiatrists to take out as many psychos from 3 and put out of the system completely as possible. The message is way too strong now. Philosophers, thinkers, professors, Bollingers, now it's your turn so don't even dare to f**k a thing. Red alert! Red alert! 3 is getting close to revolution. Who do we call now? Of course, THE MEDIA comes to the rescue, self-proclaimed “1” but not really 1, utilizing as many "commentators" as it can find in Sector 2 and the eyes of the Elites from sector 1 can only wait to see what happens now. Gulliani wins??!!! Oh shit!! Hm, the democratic barometer doesn't handle the downward pressure and inevitably explodes. The system remains intact. Sector 3 is thermally closed and sealed.
The United States of the 3 Sectors. America in short.
yes, wishing really hard to an invisible sky genie saved your redneck community from political annihilation.
Is it any wonder why people don't take the south seriously?
Forgot the link. Here it is.
http://cosmicpenguin.com/Lindauer/
Tomorrow Dr. Phil's show will be about the Jena 6. He is going to discuss the previous beatings of the black students and the noose.
Should be interesting.
Go ahead and shake that family tree, Mr. Walters... see if a few people of color don't fall out.
The DA is a ridiculously racist hayseed, but these are the types of politicians one finds in the small towns of the South. The Republicans didn't call their racist election tactics the "Southern Strategy" for nothing.
BTW xiotes, I have never found anything you've ever said to be anti-Semitic.
Snowball @ 61:
I certainly hope not. I just had a Jewish roommate for the past two years. He would be very annoyed. :)
Jesús @ 3:
Yeah... what he said! We were down in Cabo getting drunk. ;)
Invoking religion ought to be enough to get this man fired on grounds of complete incompetence.
Siun @ 53:
Thanks Siun. I heard Rev. Sharpton's name at the end and confused it with the questioner. I finally caught Rev. Shipley's (sp?) name the 2nd time through the video.
pinkobait @ 51:
Walters could tell because the wrinkles in his hood formed a shadow of the Lord's face last night.
Look, you people are quoting him out of context. Sure, he seems racist, but we don't know if he was suprised that the negros didn't rise up against the white oppressors or that he was surprised that Jesus is a big Xanax. Plus, the context is the guy is mentally ill.
this guy is a throwback to the jim crow south
it was his non prosecution of the noose hangers and other events that led to the most recent assault
please explain to me how hanging nooses in response to black students sitting under a tree cannot be seen an a direct threat and therefore be an offense
30,000 people demonstrated peacefully in a tiny racist town without incident. The police could not possibly be the reason. In this nitwit's mind it could not possibly have been because the demonstrators were peaceful. It had to be the will of Jesus.
You know, because the demonstrators were black.
this guy thinks jesus calmed the darkies
i lay odds he is a lufa boy viewer
Are the people in guys county embarrassed enough yet to give him the boot? His comments in addition to his handling of the case would get anyone else fired in any other part of the country.
xoites defends Constitution @ 68:
what don't you get? african americans are natural hethens who need to find Christ.
What you fail to grasp is that all previous ships were created on the Holodeck as a graduate degree project and otherwise never existed.
Yeah.. without Jesus, who knows what would have happened with all those black people in town!
wanker....
These kind of statements prove why separation of church and state is so vitally important. Reed should be fired immediately. Keep this Jesus crap in the churches not in government business.
When you are exposed as a fraud, either praise Jesus or blame the terrorists.
JohnnyThief @ 18:
They would prolly have hang Jesus... people say he wore a white cloak, had a black beard and was from the middle east.
I would like to take this time to personally thank Jesus for shinning his eternal light on GOP family values hypocrites like David Vitter and Larry Craig. I would also like to thank Jesus for the Democratic house and senate he gave us in the last election. I praise Jesus for Bush's 29 % approval rating and for insuring he goes down as the worst president in the history of America. I praise Jesus for Keith Olberman and blogs for countering reich wing propaganda, lies and the corporate media shills. I praise Jesus for allowing me to escape from my native southland and to the northeast away from the bible thumping zealots. Last but not least I praise Jesus for being a Democrat.
In his name, amen.
BaScOmBe @ 1:
odanny @ 77:
Trying to come up with the right combination for a song.
Nine eleven
Jesus
Praise Jesus
Terrorism
Islamofascist Freedom Fries
JESUS!
Preemptive Strike
Preemptive Liberation
Bring 'em on
Mission Accomplished
Praise Jesus for controling the blacks!
I don't know what we would have done if they started demanding
Mother Fucking Iced Tea!
BaScOmBe @ 80:
That is very good news.
michael @ 52:
Hey, fuckball. I happen to be fat. But the sitemonitors don't step in to protect hate speech against fatty. Fat people, the last bastion of acceptable discrimination.
xoites defends Constitution @ 68:
Everyone in Canada and Switzerland (among other countries) has health care. I'm sure Jesus has nothing to do with that. He wouldn't have time. He's too busy keeping the coloreds in line for this guy and Bill'O.
Kald @ 78:
Well, Jesus did have dark skin. Which means if they didn't hang him they would have enslaved him or hired him as cheap foreign labor while simultaneously bashing immigration.
xoites defends Constitution @ 81:
Free people are free to do bad things
and there are known knowns, and known unknowns
but for the disruption of Al Qaeda and the end of a brutal dictator
The Iraqi peole know freedom
Praise Jesus and pass the ammunition!
odanny @ 86:
You, sir, have defiled my use of the phrase "Mother Fucker!"
Kald @ 78:
you mean Jesus was some sort of terrrrist?! What about his cousin Jeebus?
there is going to be a nationwide walkout in various cities by both college and high school students on Monday in protest for the Jena 6 and injustice in the legal system. just thought you guys might want to know.
PurplePatriot @ 83:
I'd rather think of you as pleasantly plump, but I get your drift. Being short and skinny, I get it too. A few months ago at work, I overheard a girl talking about how she hates short guys. Thank the Heavens, she was fired shortly after that for wearing work inappropriate clothing, incompetence and insubordination. I think the obnoxious sexism should have been enough.