By Mark Esposito, Weekend Contributor
Watching the waves roll in here in Duck, NC, I have to admit things seem pretty peaceful and serene. It got me wondering why the folks in Ferguson, Mo. are demonstrating on a daily basis about their policing. Wonderment stopped last evening when I came across this video by 35-year veteran of the St. Louis County Police Department, Sgt. Major Dan Page.  Former Green Beret and supervising cop, Dan’s vaguely known to most  CNN viewers as the enlightened peace officer who shoved reporter Don Lemon from a Ferguson street corner as he tried reporting on the mass protest of 17-year-old Michael Brown’s police-facilitated killing. Lemon was shoved and then was herded to some “Free Speech Zone” in a remote parking lot. Now street-savvy Page is back … and with a right-wing philosophy and blood thirsty vengeance that you’d have to go to 1970s Cambodia to match — “We can kill you anyway we want!”
Speaking before a group called the Oath Keepers who bill themselves as “a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to ‘defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” (they sure look like a group of Doomsday Preppers to me), Page waxes eloquent and profane about all manner of right-wing blood boilers from his utter revulsion at the “Sodomites” on the United States Supreme Court ( four of ’em, you know) to those “weak” women in the military who are taking elite combat positions away from more qualified men to the race-based mess in Ferguson. By his own admission, Page “don’t trust nobody and I hate everybody. I hate y’all too I hate everybody. I’m into diversity. I kill everybody.”
What’ s even more remarkable is that his audience just loves him. This self-proclaimed group of “military, police and first responders” seems mesmerized by the rant which covers topics from the NDAA of 2012 explaining it’s just like the movie, Escape Plan, with Sly Stallone (That boat’s real. I know”) to domestic violence situations (“just shoot each other and get it over with”.)
Sarg also  tells us the word “gay” means happy and that’s it.  A pox on those sodomites. He doesn’t like lawyers. Not crazy about women. He reminds us that the President has no control as Commander in-Chief over the Marines or the Air Force since the U.S. Constitution doesn’t say so. (See, gotcha).  He calls the Marines the world’s finest fighting force but decries it’s “feminization” (as in allowing women to serve in combat roles) at the hands of Obama and it’s “log-head” commandant. Page even mixes in a little fire and brimstone jurisprudence reminding us that you can’t have the Constitution without the Bible and he stands at the podium thumping the Good Book. Page can’t resist that favorite of all right-wing circus acts that Obama is really an illegal alien from Kenya.  All in all it’s quite an audition tape for a pundit job on Fox News.
The video did serve to answer my question about all the fuss in Ferguson, but curiously left unanswered  why the whole audience of people Missourians hire to protect all of them didn’t walk out en masse. Maybe they agree is one chilling answer. After all, Page did get a snazzy Oath Keepers patch for his trouble to the vigorous applause of the audience.
My advice to the folks in Ferguson is that if this guy is a core sampling of the prevailing attitude of the public servants in St. Louis County …  well, since we’re talking movies here, remember that classic horror flick, When a Stranger Calls?:
 Jill, Jill. We traced the call! It’s coming from inside the house! Do you hear me? It’s coming from inside the house! You need to get out! Jill?
If you’ve got the stomach, here’s the video and a play-by-play from Crooks and Liars:
1:07: Talks about all men being created equal then went on to say “That does not mean affirmative action”.
1:26: Rants about hate crime laws
3:22: Black (little?) Perverts [ed. note: I think he said “black robed perverts” but the other way ’round wouldn’t surprise me]
5:25: Talks about doing a fair share of killing
15:40: Calls supreme court justice a homosexual sodomite.
18:30 “If I die I go to heaven… I died a long time ago”
20:30: Talks about St. Louis County schools
26:40: Calls President Obama an illegal alien
27:00: We can kill you anyway we want
31:38: Goes on anti-muslim rant
37:00: Talks about being a Saint Louis County Cop
43:00: Talk about killing people again
46:41: Goes on rant over being briefed about the 9/11 attacks on Aug 1st 1999 then says 9/11 happened 30 days later also talks about no weapons of mass destruction being found in Afghanistan.
49:22: Continues rant about having secret clearance at Fort (Leavenworth?) and training with Russian spetsnaz
52:40: Says people involved in domestic violence should “just shoot each other and get it over with”.
53:15: Somebody like me is going to come in and kill you
56:20: I don’t trust nobody and I hate everybody. I hate y’all too I hate everybody. I’m into diversity. I kill everybody.
58:02: Audience member: So what happens when good men like you are retiring from the military. What kind of military do we have left then?
58:15: Sodomites and females. End of statement.
1:01:00: Rants about female green beret
1:03:00 He’s handed an oathkeeper patch
Epilogue:
St. Louis County Police Chief  Jon Belmar, who immediately defended the shooting of  Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson,  issued the following statement about Page via Twitter:
Some of you may have already seen the video of the St. Louis County Police Officer speaking off-duty at an Oath Keepers event. If you haven’t we are sure you will in the coming days as news circulates the release of the video.
Chief Jon Belmar was notified of this video’s existence today and upon a abbreviated viewing of the video was disturbed by the conversation being had. Chief Belmar does not expect this kind of rhetoric from his officers, just like they don’t expect it from him.
Chief Belmar, on behalf of the St. Louis County Police Department, would like to apologize to the community, anyone that video has or will effect, and to the other hard working officers on the detail with the officer in question because they deserve better than that. While the officer has never been involved in an officer involved shooting, the statements made about killing are unacceptable and not what we are about as a Department.
We hold our officers to a high standard of honor both on and off duty. While we as a department do not have an issue with officers expressing themselves, this was disturbing and unacceptable. The officer is a 35 year veteran of this department and has been deployed numerous times in military service. He had passed the evaluations upon returning from deployment and there was no indication of this attitude.
Chief Belmar would again like to apologize to anyone this video has offended and ask any videos of this nature be reported so we can take proper action against any officer not meeting our standards.
Being from Missouri, Belmar should have no problem with  my skepticism:  Show Me.
~Mark Esposito, Weekend Contributor
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Fiver, maybe that Molotov Cocktail was emulsified and, after a brief period, it reverted to its original, separated state. Sometimes it takes active manipulation of the emulsified materials to keep them emulsified or they revert and separate to their original state. Have you ever seen a photo of oil floating on water? Yep, it happens. You know emulsification doesn’t last, it reverts.
Those pesky facts are always getting In the way, huh?
The bane of liberal existence.
P.S. How’s that Hollandaise?
It’s better that they use their vote to speak than a Molotov cocktail, no? It’s what happens when people feel powerless, they TAKE power back, one way or another.
It seems as if they are afraid of helping minorities to have self determination, all the while accusing them of being ‘children of Uncle Sam’. I can guarantee that some folks are going to defecate in their pants if the minority turnout is massive in the next few elections.
@Max-1
Yes, max-1, I understand your point. Rushing to judgment and lynching a black man is sooo much different than rushing to judgment and then trying to convict a white guy. Sure it is. NOT!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Annie
It’s not admirable IF one seeks to maintain a dominance over another…
Like I said the other day, the disenfranchisement movement is alive and well (it needs to catch a cold and whither away).
fiver, Maybe this will make you happy.
http://i2.wp.com/www.christenacleveland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/molotov-ferguson.jpg
@annie
Oh gee, how noble your sentiments! I guess if the republicans do a repeat of Willie Horton, and tie that in with a voter registration drive, you will ignore the circumstances, and applaud American’s right to vote??? Somehow I don’t think so. . .
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky
a left wing lynch mob to register new voters.
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Do I need to play the Nina Simone song again?
Lynch mobs were a movement AGAINST blacks in America.
Like I told you before…
In 1914 they used rope, in 2014 they use bullets.
Max-1 – lynch mobs were used against more than blacks, especially in the South by Democrats who were members of the KKK.
Rafflaw, you must be the first person “insulted” on this thread. That is so manly.
If the phantom “filter” is defective, install a “filter” that does not censor…or just go bareback. “Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you.” Don’t be so afraid. Excuses are like smiles, everybody’s got one.
Professor Turley, usually, manually deletes on merit.
The fact is that the site on the weekend has censored posts and to this point, I still do not see my original post on this thread and multiple posts on adjacent threads that occurred this weekend…even after repeated requests to retrieve.
Shall we deal in fact?
Annie
Why would anyone not want Americans to vote?
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I left a similar comment on Breitbart News and added the hashtag #unamerican. It is odd, no? The same site that employs a ragtag reporter that frames black voter registration as being bad, Shirley Sherrod, and ACORN. I would guess that the team there has a thing against black people and enjoy baiting their loyal followers into the same. And some dare call that, journalistic integrity.
Squeeky, one of the reasons they only have one or two black people representing them in their 70% black community is because of low voter turnout. It’s a step in the direction to self determination to vote for your own best interests. They have a right to do so and it’s an admirable effort.
Annie – I am all for voter registration. I think they should have more people registered. I am just appalled they they are ‘waving the bloody flag’ to get the potential voters to register.
Squeeky, while that is a wonderful explanation of your motivations for calling others here cultists, it doesn’t explain the baiting behavior of a certain other commenter.
No John O. It’s actually a little gift from me to that Tired person.
It was his sign from the last Oath Keepers rally he attended.
John O. That commenter with the bad spelling was a troll who was only commenting to bait and start trouble. Do you think for a minute that person was sincere? Really? Then I have a bridge to sell you….
Squeekers, at least he didn’t get us two confused.
JohnO. I’m not at all surprised.
The Oath Keepers were formed in March of 2009. Why then? Why do they exist?
You could Google Oath Keepers to get your answer. I know you know how to do that.
Elaine and Rafflaw, perhaps those who want to inform new commenters About otjer commenters should simply put their email on every one of their comments so as to make the transfer of the ‘scoop’ more accessible. That way the scooper can relay anything about any commenter without the person in question refuting such ‘info’.
Annie and Elaine – each of you have complained about other people, but have not advanced the topic. It is clear you have a mutual admiration society going on, but it would be nice to see some input on the subject or any subject other than long gone GBers and Nick.
Wow, Max. A major housecleaning needs to be done in Americas Police Departments. No wonder, truly no wonder. They seem to think THEY are above the law. Ferguson in particular.
And it didn’t start in 2009.
JohnO, you’re making assumptions.
Has anyone known a person who loved to stir the hot pot, but when it gets to the boiling point that pot stirrer innocently steps back and exclaims “Oh my, it’s getting too hot, my own toes are being burnt!”
For those referring to the photo of guy in the American flag shirt as evidence of Molotov cocktails being thrown, look a little more closely.
Notice the sparks; notice the smoke. Molotov cocktails don’t do that. CS gas canisters do. He’s throwing the cops’ tear gas back at them (while holding a bag of chips 😉 )
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu7bY0KCMAAVTkM.jpg
Max, “Why would the police need to conceal evidence related to an officer involved shooting?”
Hmm. I don’t know. Could it be that the case has not yet gone before the Grand Jury? Unlike situations in which charges are filed by Information, the Grand Jury subpoenas witnesses. Would you want those witnesses to be influenced by release of the incident report?
There is no reliable evidence to support that the Chief signed an incomplete incident report.
@Max-1
What they are decrying is the using of a left wing lynch mob to register new voters. Imagine the hue and cry from the left if the Righties used an alleged murder of a white man or woman by a black man too launch a voter registration drive.
You should also have caught on to what I said above at 12:54pm, to wit;
“I don’t think all Democrats are race baiters, but I do think the party leaders, and their supporting cast of shills and hacks, tend to run that way because it gets votes and keeps the money flowing. The same reason why the old Southern politicians did it.”
is proven by the voter registration drive stuff. Stir up the blacks, then do a voter registration. How cynical.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
concerned citizen
It was the narrative delivered along with a video of Michael in a convenience store… A Side show distraction that the Chief of Police stated had nothing to do with the slight of hand non police report he refused to release because… he hadn’t seen one then but had a video that wasn’t related to the shooting so, “Look what I can do. Made ya look.” And then the narrative was about a strong armed robbery and that morphed into, “he had it coming”. He might have as well shown a Dumbo film. Dumbo was 300lbs, too.
Max-1 – the store video goes to the victim’s state of mind. If he had already used violence to steal the cigarellos, then he might be predisposed to use violence against the officer. If there is a trial for Wilson,, that video is going to be a centerpiece.
Max-1 asked Jack:
“Why would the police need to conceal evidence related to an officer involved shooting?”
Indeed.
I think it’s truly uplifting to see the oter registration efforts in Ferguson. That’s a positive way of making their lives better. Why would anyone not want Americans to vote?
Jack
Why did the Ferguson Chief of Police sign off on an incomplete police report 9 days late?
Jack again — “… if Brown had already assaulted Officer Wilson, and was then bumrushing the Officer…”
And all of that is in the official police report/s produced the day of the incident? And of course, it’s reflected in the officer’s recorded statement made immediately after the shooting? Or is this the narrative that was constructed much later?
Why would the police need to conceal evidence related to an officer involved shooting?