{"id":930,"date":"2017-01-09T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=930"},"modified":"2017-01-09T23:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:16:59","slug":"5-reasons-america-ignore-carnival-barker-al-sharptons-called-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2017\/01\/5-reasons-america-ignore-carnival-barker-al-sharptons-called-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons America should ignore carnival barker Al Sharpton&#8217;s so-called &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/484046890\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.845118% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/484046890?et=kopb5OPRQVl925pxXc4Mnw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=2qC8bzeA8KrJivNmoWuotSOElIxJxG42HFeavPGH_5k=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Al Sharpton (<em>no, I will not call him \u201cReverend\u201d<\/em>) called Senator Jeff\u00a0Sessions\u2019s nomination a \u201cnightmare we cannot wake up from\u201d and called for a season of \u201ccivil disobedience\u201d to protest President-elect Donald Trump choice for attorney general. \u00a0But here are five\u00a0reasons why no one is falling for his\u00a0Henry David Thoreau shtick.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>1. He is a caricature of himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nobody pays attention to this carnival barker anymore. Sharpton\u00a0has been reduced to caricature status. He has to force himself on the public now for attention. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">He reminds me of an over the hill baseball pitcher whose fastball has no zip on it. He should invite Jesse Jackson along and turn it into a \u201cgetting the band back together one last time tour.\u201d The speaking agenda should include black wannabes Shawn King and Rachel Dolezal. That\u2019s how much of a joke this is. It\u2019s laughable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">2. \u00a0He only leads the usual, boring malcontents.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If anybody shows up, it will be the usual suspects: Occupy Movement, Planned Parenthood supporters, a few Black LIES Matter goons and some rowdy juveniles looking for an opportunity to rebel rouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3. \u00a0<strong>Sen. Sessions is a fair and honest man committed to the rule of law.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He will be confirmed as our next U.S. Attorney General and will make decisions based on the rule of law equally for all Americans. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If anybody\u2019s nomination for U.S. Attorney General should\u2019ve been protested it was Eric-the-race-baiter Holder whose \u201cstick it to the white man, colored coded decision making\u201d tenure at Department of Justice\u00a0became the onlyAttorney General in the history of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Click CONTINUE to read the last two reasons to ignore this guy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">4. Sharpton\u2019s civil disobedience only benefits himself.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sharpton has been staging civil disobedience for the last two plus decades by not paying his taxes. It\u2019s time for the IRS to finally treat Sharpton like they would any other tax scofflaw and jail him until he pays up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">5. \u00a0He\u2019s never done anything productive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I challenge anyone to name two significant pieces of civil rights policy he himself was instrumental in getting passed into law. I save you some time. 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