And we wonder why police are so brutal to people of color or liberal demonstrators?

[PatrickforB]

Here's an article from Reuters Investigation that talks about how some of the extremists actually have businesses TRAINING cops.

Here's the link: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-extremism/

On social media, Richard Whitehead is a warrior for the American right. He has praised extremist groups. He has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal to former President Donald Trump. In a post in 2020, he urged law enforcement officers to disobey COVID-19 public-health orders from “tyrannical governors,” adding: “We are on the brink of civil war.”

Whitehead also has a day job. He trains police officers around the United States.

The Idaho-based law enforcement consultant has taught at least 560 police officers and other public safety workers in 85 sessions in 12 states over the past four years, according to a Reuters analysis of public records from the departments that hired him. A Washington state training commission in 2015 temporarily banned Whitehead from advertising courses on its website because of instructional materials that referred to a turban-wearing police officer as a “towel head” and contained cartoons of women in bikinis, according to emails from the commission to Whitehead that were reviewed by Reuters. Other marketing literature touted Whitehead’s “deception detection” technique that, among other things, teaches officers not to trust sexual-assault claimants if they use the word “we” in referring to themselves and their assailant.

The billionaire parasites, otherwise known as oligarchs have spent decades propagandizing us, driving wedges, making us hate and mistrust one another, and promoting ignorance so we won't notice them stealing our tax dollars to line their own greed-pockets.

Plus, a brutal extremist-right police forces serve their interests QUITE WELL.

[mopinko]

1. beau of the 5th column talks about this a lot. he used to do it.

quit cuz he kept trying to show them restraint techniques that were safe, but they kept buggin to show them the deadly ones. he couldnt show them why chokeholds kill w/o them taking it the wrong way.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. K and R with anger

[Maraya1969]

6. Don't just get angry. You are smart and you speak well. Follow that guy.

He doesn't have a twitter account but he is on linked in. Here is his contact information.


Richard Whitehead & Associates LLC
1869 East Seltice Way #187
Post Falls, Idaho 83854
Telephone
208.996.2211
Mobile
512.825.3821
Email
Facebook

(Maybe I'll send him one of those studies that show how racist people have low IQs.)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-whitehead-fsa/recent-activity/

[captain queeg]

3. I've considered becoming a consultant. They seem to get some pretty sweet deals.

They get hired by management types that don’t really know the nuts and bolts of a given business. But they are always looking for an out side “expert”. My apologies to folks who really know their biz and sell their services. There are some out there.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. A 'consultant' is......

a person who lost his job and has now been hired to help you lose yours.......

[captain queeg]

13. Never heard that one. Nails it.

[lees1975]

4. The bottom line in attempts to overturn American democracy is so that those who are rich

can continue to suck the resources out of the hands of those who are not. Trump was their ideal leader, an incredibly ignorant narcissist with a mental disorder that doesn't allow him to accept defeat and absolutely no sense of morality or value. Someone willing to go outside the law because he knows he's safe from law enforcement that is paid by money interests that support him.

[MyOwnPeace]

15. You really 'nailed it' regarding IQ45.......

and that's the fear - we CANNOT let him off of the hook again.
FIRST: He DESERVES to be wearing the orange suit - matches his face.
SECOND: If HE gets away with it - you KNOW others will be emboldened - all of THIS came from Gerald Ford letting Nixon ("I am not a crook" ) walk away from it all.

[Maraya1969]

5. I started to troll this guy on linked in. Please join me!!

I verified that it is the same guy by photos. He needs to hear from people who find what he is doing appalling.

We need to fight these people. Make them uncomfortable being their racist selves because, unlike race or gender identify he can change and he should change.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-whitehead-fsa/recent-activity/

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Just keeps getting better....

[lefthandedskyhook]

9. You are not alone

friend

[AllaN01Bear]

10. they always have been so angry . i remember as a kid them screaming and o so jealous .

[Dustlawyer]

11. Great comment at the end except you left out the billionaires own the politicians too!

Between the media propaganda spewed at the behest of the big corporate advertisers and the politicians they own with donations we are screwed unless we realize this and fight it en mass!

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. En mass is exactly right. Think about it.

If money is power in politics 10,000,000 of us contributing $100 EACH equals a Koch or a Mercer or a DeVoss throwing a Billion into the pot to control America. Once Rethugs attack Social Security and Medicare funds and Wall Street is looking at TRILLIONS of new money all bets are off IMO. Who wouldn’t spend Billions to make tens of Billions??

It truly is the fight for the future.

[captain queeg]

14. If the rethugs continue to consolidate power I have no doubt social security will soon be attacked

They’ll portray it as a entitlement, people on the dole. Since we’ve all payed into it to receive benefits even apolitical people will be up in arms. I predict they’ll approach it the same way company pensions suffered or disappeared. They start some Tier II BS and put new people on that. As the oldsters die off and the younger crowd becomes dominate, they’ll point to the elders and say to the young that they are the problem with their generous (just what RW will say) benefits. Wash, rinse repeat.