Black Leader Threatens Mass Boycott Of Kansas City

More Extortion from our tolerant friends on the left, concerning the Frances Semler affair which I have blogged about here, and here, and here.

“We are going to shut you down,” Charles Steele Jr., president and chief executive officer of the lefty Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said.

When is this idiocy going to end? When a kowed and broken Mayor Funkhouser finally terminates his friend, Ms. Semler from the Kansas City Parks board for being a member of the Minuteman organization? It ain’t gonna happen, folks.

In case you are unfamiliar with this story, here’s a quick rundown of the events that have led to this latest affront.

June 2007 – Newly elected mayor, Mark Funkhouser appoints the 73 year old Frances Semler to the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation. The City Council votes to call for Ms. Semler, a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to resign. Funkhouser refuses to ask for her resignation.

August 2007 – La Raza threatens to cancel their 2009 convention in Kansas City if Semler isn’t forced to resign. Funkhouser stands by Semler.

October 2007 – La Raza pulls the convention. Funkhouser stands by Semler.

November 2007 – The Southern Baptist Leadership Conference (SBLC) decides to hold their annual convention in New Orleans instead of Kansas City.

January 1008 – Today. Charles Steele Jr. of the SBLC threatens more boycotts if Frances Semler isn’t fired. Speaking at a news conference, he said:

that Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s appointment of Semler, an opponent of illegal immigration, was part of a pattern of racial insensitivity. “We are asking all civil rights organizations to stay out of Kansas City. We are going to shut you down,” Steele said. “… We will take all the monies away from here. You don’t need to spend no money in no city that still promotes hatefulness and racist mind-sets and attitudes. … Nobody should come to Kansas City.”

The boycott would include marches, Steele said, but beyond that, “I believe in the element of surprise.”

He is also urging the NAACP to cancel their 2010 convention which will be held in Kansas City.

The national NAACP board has voted to hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City, but some leaders have publicly voiced misgivings because of the Semler controversy.

But local NAACP officials have supported keeping the convention in Kansas City.

Funkhouser said in an interview that by pulling their conventions, the civil rights groups were financially hurting Kansas City’s minority residents and businesses. Semler is a good park board member, he said. Funkhouser said minority neighborhoods had been left behind during recent prosperous times.

All this, because one woman believes in “a strong, safe and secure America that begins with borders open only to those who have a legal right to enter, and who have met all the lawful criteria to cross into our territory established by the sovereign American people”. – Section IV of The Minuteman Pledge.

Stayed tuned.

Making Bomb Threats In Wisconsin, Now Illegal

Phew.

But it took the District 1 Court of Appeals to overturn a decision made by a Milwaukee County judge, who had declared the law criminalizing bomb threats, unconstitutional because “it infringed on protected free speech”.

The law says anyone who knowingly gives false information concerning an attempt to destroy property by explosives is guilty of a felony.

The case in question involved a student identified in court as Robert T. who called in a bomb threat to his school because he was bored.

Looks like bored people are going to have to find another way to express themselves.

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

 

Low Voter Turnout In Michigan

Bad weather is contributing to the low turnout at the Michigan Caucus, where there have been little to no waiting at polls.

Another reason for the low turnout would be that on the Democratic side, a dispute about Michigan’s decision to bump it’s Caucus up from February 9, to January 15 has made the Democratic Caucus a pointless exercise. Hillary is the only one on the ticket, and confused voters are being left wondering how to cast their vote for Obama.

It doesn’t matter because the DNC has declared that no delegates chosen today will be seated at this summer’s convention.

Sample precincts:

THE PLACE: Precinct 20 in St. Clair Shores
THE TIME: 10 a.m.
THE SCENE: Nobody in line, I was the 33rd voter. It was a little more complicated this time because when you fill out your card you have to choose what ballots you wanted. They said they had 11 people an hour.
Martha Thierry, Free Press artistShort line in Dearborn

THE PLACE: Dearborn
THE TIME: 9:19 a.m
THE LINE: 5 people.

Who does this benefit?

I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s a Hugh Hewitt joke in there, somewhere.

Come on, DIT, don’t let me down.