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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:02 PM Mar 2015

Kris Kobach: 'Not A Huge Jump' To Think President Obama Could Ban Criminal Prosecution Of Blacks

Source: Right Wing Watch

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the chief architects of the anti-immigrant movement’s legal and legislative strategies, told a caller to his radio program that it would not be a “huge jump” to predict that the Obama administration could call an end to the prosecutions of African Americans for any crime. Claiming that “it’s already happened more or less in the case of civil rights laws,” Kobach told listeners that “I’ve learned to say with this president, never say never.”

Kobach was discussing the University of Minnesota’s decision to stop including race and other physical descriptions in email alerts of crimes on campus unless they have “sufficient detail that would help identify” a perpetrator, when a listener named Stu called in to share a theory. “Given the situation in Minnesota, given the recent story that Obama was instructing immigration enforcement to not enforce the immigration laws against illegal aliens, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch, Kris, to envision an announcement that any black person accused of a crime, charged with a crime, is not going to be prosecuted, regardless of the crime,” he said, adding that “we’ve already seen it from Eric Holder in his failure to prosecute the Black Panthers.”

Holder, Kobach agreed, “basically made it clear….that the civil rights laws were only to protect minority races, and he was not going to be enforcing them to the benefit of white people who were discriminated against on the basis of their race. So, that’s basically what you’ve described.” “So the word is going to come down that there just won’t be any prosecutions of black criminals,” Stu predicted. “And I can see it happening. I don’t think I’m nuts for envisioning it.”

“Well, it’s already happened more or less in the case of civil rights laws,” Kobach responded. “So I guess it’s not a huge jump, I think it’s unlikely, but you know I’ve learned to say with this president, never say never.” Kobach got national attention back in November when a caller presented the outlandish scenario that a Latino majority in the U.S. would embark on an “ethnic cleansing,” to which Kobach responded in a similar noncommittal way, saying that while he didn’t “think it’s going to happen in America,” under Obama “things are strange and they are happening.”



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this guy is truly dangerous...
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Kris Kobach: 'Not A Huge Jump' To Think President Obama Could Ban Criminal Prosecution Of Blacks (Original Post) big_dog Mar 2015 OP
Not a huge jump at all uhnope Mar 2015 #1
If he wants to make a jump rpannier Mar 2015 #3
And there are people who say the criticisms of Kansas are unfair rpannier Mar 2015 #2
Dear Blue Kansans, pennylane100 Mar 2015 #5
At this point I'm not sure where the worst state is any more rpannier Mar 2015 #17
what an F-ing moran irisblue Mar 2015 #4
the tea party religious nuts are in control of the Kansas Legislature big_dog Mar 2015 #6
You are .. sendero Mar 2015 #7
Hey white people......BOO! SoapBox Mar 2015 #8
Well, in Kobach's defense, Obama's Justice Department has banned prosecution of banksters. Scuba Mar 2015 #9
Good one, Scuba n/t gelsdorf Mar 2015 #14
Agree- NOT a HUGE JUMP - by HIS STANDARDS benld74 Mar 2015 #10
What is wrong with these people? tanyev Mar 2015 #11
they are stupid, cowardly bullies samsingh Mar 2015 #19
pathetic cowards Skittles Mar 2015 #28
It's not a huge jump to think Kobach would like to ban blacks for voting. Jack Rabbit Mar 2015 #12
Yes, he would, He is a loathesome, nasty, vicious racist clown, n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2015 #15
The Black Panthers? KamaAina Mar 2015 #13
It's amazing SteveG Mar 2015 #16
he's a disgusting piece of shit samsingh Mar 2015 #18
Yeah, but he got a purty mouth. mike in raleigh Mar 2015 #24
isn't there somewhere you need to be right now, mike in raleigh? Skittles Mar 2015 #29
I'm still waiting for TX, MO, OK, KS, AZ vkkv Mar 2015 #20
racism is not an exclusive trait of the south Skittles Mar 2015 #31
I look foward to Kansas going bankrupt Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #21
Angry White Men .. be afraid, be very afraid. The Black Man's coming to rape your wife. YOHABLO Mar 2015 #22
No, women are running from the mostly white, rape defending MRAs to black men. n/t freshwest Mar 2015 #25
At least if you're a moronic loon! 6000eliot Mar 2015 #23
Do these people understand that the POTUS is not a king? Iris Mar 2015 #26
I detest pictures of gun humping cowards and their kills Skittles Mar 2015 #27
Dangerous? He's an idiot, and a tiny number of bigger idiots follow him. arcane1 Mar 2015 #30
Kansas is wholly owned and operated by the Koch bros workinclasszero Mar 2015 #32
Using that logic crim son Mar 2015 #33

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
2. And there are people who say the criticisms of Kansas are unfair
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:07 PM
Mar 2015

With Brownback as governor and this dingus, it's hard for them to make that case

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
5. Dear Blue Kansans,
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:15 PM
Mar 2015

I feel sorry for myself because I live in red area of blue state, I cannot imagine how it must feel to be blue in the most red state in the nation. Stay strong.

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
17. At this point I'm not sure where the worst state is any more
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 07:26 PM
Mar 2015

Idaho? Wyoming? Kansas?
When I went to Washington State University (82-5), we were pretty close to Coeur d'Alene. There was a fairly sizable Aryan Brotherhood compound near there.
I heard most of it is gone now -- they moved.
Friends of mine from just across the border in Moscow used to say there are three parts to Idaho: Mormon south, Klan Panhandle and Boise

irisblue

(32,950 posts)
4. what an F-ing moran
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:09 PM
Mar 2015

Kansas, this is an Ohio resident talking to all yall. When our SOS moron stole an election, we tossed his sorry ass next go round. Kansas, you're toeing the edge of owing the country big time as well.. What the hell is wrong with yall that this, this...twit gets reelected.
how could he know so little law?





 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
6. the tea party religious nuts are in control of the Kansas Legislature
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:16 PM
Mar 2015

so Kobach will probably run for governor next since he can't be fired

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
8. Hey white people......BOO!
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:16 PM
Mar 2015

Fucking racist little man...that stoops so low, just to try and keep power and control over the Fuks News crowd.

Pathetic.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
12. It's not a huge jump to think Kobach would like to ban blacks for voting.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:40 PM
Mar 2015

And he would if he thought he could get away with it.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
13. The Black Panthers?
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 06:45 PM
Mar 2015

Are there still any? Or could King Doofus be talking about the "New Black Panther Party", which has about as much relationship to the real Black Panthers as French fries do to France?

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
29. isn't there somewhere you need to be right now, mike in raleigh?
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:22 PM
Mar 2015

you know, where you would be APPRECIATED

 

vkkv

(3,384 posts)
20. I'm still waiting for TX, MO, OK, KS, AZ
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 07:39 PM
Mar 2015

AND the ENTIRE South to SECEDE so we Northerners can finally get going on that BORDER FENCE.

BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN.

The North has enough sensible, leftist voters to rule over any WI, MT, NV, NE, UT, ND or SD Wingnuts.

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
31. racism is not an exclusive trait of the south
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:36 PM
Mar 2015

they seem more proud of it here but believe me, racism would not stop at any "border"

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
27. I detest pictures of gun humping cowards and their kills
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:19 PM
Mar 2015

gawd they are pathetic (their racism and ignorance go hand-in-hand with that mentality)

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
32. Kansas is wholly owned and operated by the Koch bros
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:49 PM
Mar 2015

Their own little fiefdom in the middle of the country with their well trained and neutered lapdog Brownback leading the state back to the Dark Ages.

They are busy buying up more of the country as the SCOTUS allows.

Abandon rational thought all ye that enter here!

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