The San Francisco Chronicle might get a Pulitzer. No kidding, last weekend after several decades of missing the boat, brave reporters Matthai Kuruvila, Kevin Fagan and Jaxon Van Derbeken finally exposed the entrenched link between a local terrorist Muslim organization and key Democrat Bay area leaders.
Last August black journalist Chauncey Bailey, was assassinated in public, allegedly by an employee of Your Black Muslim Bakery. Bailey was writing a story of the criminality of YBMB. The Bakery has a long and rich history of intimidation, brutality, extortion and murder. However, the Bakery was a long time political force in northwest Oakland to which democrat leaders habitually paid tribute. When we say "paid" – – – the Oakland City Council paid millions to the Bakery for various community projects that never worked.
The Chronicle details some of the democrat leaders closely associated with the notorious criminal enterprise. Founder Yusuf Bey [ Bey meaning a provincial governor in the Ottoman Empire], was recognized and regularly honored by former mayor Elihu Harris, Attorney General Jerry Brown, Congresswoman -personal friend of Fidel- Barbara Lee, FBI investigated Senate Leader Don Perata and Mayor Ron Dellums.
This is one of California’s greatest unknown scandals. Yusuf Bey was about to be tried for "child rape" before he died. His sons have been killing each other to take over the Bakery criminal enterprise.
The Beys used for years White Liberal Guilt to loot public treasuries. Democratic leaders were accommodating in the hope the gangsters could deliver votes.
This is only the latest page from Bay Area democrats. Going back tot he Sixties, Black Panthers, also in Oakland won city support for a school that didn’t have many students. David Horowitz wrote about his personal experiences with the democrats and Panthers. This led David to leave the ‘progressive" movement and become conservative. David witnessed extortion and murder by the Panthers with democrat support. See his piece in Salon:
Later, democrats were signing the praises of Rev. Jim Jones, who could deliver hundreds of precinct workers in a couple of hours, anywhere in the Bay area. Like the Panthers, and the Bakery, Jim Jones was a massive criminal enterprise leading to the massacre his 900 followers, with 276 children, Johnstown, Nov 18 1978, See the Chronicle below:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/12/MN85578.DTL
Eventually Jerry Brown, Ron Dellums and Don Perata will have to admit this long time love affair with black gangster/hustlers will have to end. As the Chronicle concluded, last August, last police raid in the Bakery there was a letter on the wall stating :
" The leadership you provide should be an inspiration to all concerned over the city’s future"
Senator Don Perata
February 1st, 2008 at 12:00 am
That’s all a cheap shot and shows a very poor knowledge of reality in the inner city.
Sean is right that David Horowitz and many others have changed their political views because of the actions of radical extremists and the tolerance of those groups by liberals.
But what he left out of the equation is the fact that many of those so called “radical” groups are the only ones willing to work within poor communities and many current mainstream African American leaders started off as radicals and when they got an outstretched hand from society quickly jumped into the mainstream.
To give an example of what I mean, there are many neighborhoods in South Central Los Angeles where the police or Sheriff’s deputies refuse to patrol on a regular basis (once in a great while they will go in on a sweep just to show the flag). In most of these neighborhoods, there is also no mail service at all and a lack of other support that most of us take for granted.
When people in these types of neighborhoods need to get their mail, they have to pick it up from the post office themselves, which is not very easy for some people, especially senior citizens to do.
But obviously they have to get their mail in order to pay their bills and get their social security checks and all of the rest. So how does it get done? Easy. In most of those neighborhoods, members of the Black Muslim organization will pick up the mail and deliver it to the intended recipients. They don’t have enough members to actually eliminate the problems, but most of those types of groups have a philosophy that includes helping other members of their community on a regular basis.
In other cities, it will be other groups, not the Muslims. But the concept is always the same even if the name changes. Only the most radical groups go into the worst neighborhoods and they are in many of those places, the only ones with any credibility.
So when people like myself ( yes, I am one of those guilt tripped white liberals you talked about) go down and volunteer at learning centers or any other activity, if we want to get participants in what we are doing from the worst neighborhoods, the easiest way is to ask groups like the Muslims (or in days past the Panthers) to encourage people to participate. It works and we take some steps forward. In fact, in many cases, members of groups like that will participate themselves and become very active and mainstream community leaders.
So when a George Moscone makes a mistake in dealing with a Jim Jones (A crazy white preacher with a primarily black following) it is often because that politico is aware that the other person may be the only person doing anything in the worst of areas and if that elected official has a conscience, then he may occasionally make a mistake by dealing with someone like a Jim Jones as George Moscone did. But if you care and you know that in your city, there are large areas that police have literally given away to criminals as they disgracefully have here in the LA area, then maybe you take a chance to try and change what is happening. George Moscone took that chance and it blew up on him. But I would still argue that his mistake was in trying to get something done and in the end, I think he got more accomplished than the people who would never have dealt with Jim Jones, but also would never have been anywhere near the neighborhoods where he was a player.