A Hinds County Public Defender advocate abolishing the police. Mr. Adofo Minka, Esquire wrote in the Black Agenda Report:
For those who may be confused, we must be clear. Pointing to Laurel Police Department’s swift punitive actions against the officers who violated Barrett’s human rights is not an endorsement of LPD or any law enforcement agency. Swift punishment for officers who violate the constitutional and human rights of civilians should be par for the course. There is no model police department because in our eyes, such an entity represents a fiction that flies in the face of our political principles and ideology as revolutionaries. Our position is clear. LPD, JPD and every other law enforcement agency throughout this country and internationally needs to be disarmed and abolished. From their inception, they have been used as an occupying force and means of social control of the popular masses and a personal military force and buffer for the wealthy ruling class elites who steal the labor and build wealth on the backs of the popular masses. We simply use the situation in Laurel to pull the covers off of a municipal government administration that claims to be the most radical on the planet, but in actuality it is not even the most “radical” in the central Mississippi region when it comes to holding police accountable to the human rights principles of accountability, transparency, equity, universality and participation.
Read the rest of his essay. This apostle of Rousseau does everything but call the Mayor a sellout. You can't make this up.
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Abolishing the police department would certainly help Minka’s job performance. He is an absolute embarrassment to trial lawyers everywhere. Like that time judge Weil through him in jail for contempt after he intentionally caused a mistrial because he was unprepared, had no defense, and resorted to telling the jury that the prosecutor and the judge were conspiring to convict his client. The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his contempt conviction.
My favorite sentence in his pile of gibberish:
Disband the task force appointed by Lumumba because it is not a genuine representation and expression of the popular masses, but instead is little more than an appendage of the state and its manipulative machinations of the people.
Ummm @ 5:28....
I think you meant "threw", instead of "through".
Umm 5:52 I hope you didn’t hurt yourself making that keen observation
To Serve & Correct
What a bunch of communist propaganda at the place that was published. The "human-rights activist" who said we could learn a lot from Venezuela is a perfect example. The Black Agenda huh, who woulda think it?
5:52
Great contribution
" Our political principles and ideology as revolutionaries."
These clowns are too funny.
Memories of Garrett Morris on 1970's SNL episodes . . . Idi Amin Dada.
Well, I guess we could start with a "NO Popo Tuesday" and see how it goes, right?
Yes, please abolish the police...and then build a fence around Jackson and provide security corridors for folks who work there. Next, hire private security contractors, grant them immunity, and allow them to use deadly force to protect property in addition to life. Most of the thugs will be dead in about a year and then the city can be re-populated.
As a child, I didn’t like school. So let’s abolish teachers!
And while we are at it, get rid of the activist preachers, the likes of which are all over Jackson. Where do you think he gets his material, he can't think that up on his own.
This is a great idea. The only hope for Jackson to be a nice City again is to just let the residents kill each other off.
There is a great deal of discontent in Jackson's black community with Antar. It isn't just Minka. Antar's gallivanting all over the country to flap his gums while those in Jackson have to deal on a daily basis with the misery of this cratering city has not gone over at all. Antar presented himself as a political black wunderkind who was going to achieve rapid results. He isn't and he hasn't.
While we're at it, abolish all traffic laws. Woo hoo.
As I wasted precious minutes reading that idiotic word salad, I was reminded on the old Damon Wayans skit about the jailhouse *intellectual* who used big words to sound intelligent but was really spouting gibberish. But it is funny seeing this otherwise ideological ally of the mayor, trashing him instead.
In the next to last paragraph he call for ending law enforcement however, in the last paragraph he calls for Jackson to follow his list of demands but leaves off ending law enforcement for the city. I guess he covers that under "all of the above".
I'm sorry did I roll my eyes to loud?
11:36 - no way! Traffic citations (when they are paid) result in 'mo money for the government...
Law enforcement has been around for a long time. The first constables (from the Roman comes stabuli, or “head of the stables”) with duties very similar to today’s sheriffs, were around at least since the 9th century, and traveled to the Americas from Europe to supplant the systems that existed there at the time in the 1600s.
At the time of the 9th century, there were roughly 350 million people on earth... the same as the population today in the United States...
The current earth population is roughly 7.4 billion people, more than 20 times the population when they figured out they needed formal law enforcement.
What is the proposal for maintaining an orderly civilization without law enforcement?
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