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No, sorry. The President and Attorney General both set the tone of the whole thing when they came down on one side and expressed sympathy for Martin and the protestors. If the DoJ was involved in it at all then we all know what they were up to.
We could make that assumption, if we were given to wildly making assumptions absent any evidence.
Or we could look at the evidence.
I do agree on one point, though. The protests were going to happen whether the DoJ got involved or not. I question, though, whether the DoJ's real role was to ameliorate the anger or gin it up.
Read the FOIA stuff that's been provided courtsey of Juducial Watch.
Other than baseless accusations it's all we've got to go on (at this point).
As I said, I've actually read it and to all appearances the intent was to ameliorate the anger not gin it up.
Case in point: The DoJ CRS arranged for the safe transport of protestors to a city meeting. The protestors then barracaded the meeting and forced the resignation of the police chief.
In other words the government facilitated the peoples' ability to peacefully exercise their Constitutional rights (freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, right to petition government for redress of grievances).
Those tyrants!!!
If we had a decent government they would have been rounding up those angry people, stripping them of their rights, and sending them to reeducation camps in the high desert!
Also: According to the Orlando Sentinel, The CRS ended up offering advice and assistance to the protestors. … The CRS was viewed by the protestors as a quietly protective, on-the-ground force, the Sentinel story makes clear.
So by channeling the protesters' anger into peaceful and constructive activity the CRS was somehow overstepping the bounds?
I fail to see how.
Look, if Sanford had errupted in riots, lynchings, people were hurt, property were damaged, buildings were burned down and etc... and it came to light now that the CRS was the party responsible for whipping up the crowd into a frenzy and setting them off on a rampage then, sure, I'm right there with you, "Bad CRS. BAD!!!"
But what really happened was a group of people (both the people of Sanford and other citizens of Florida and the United States more generally) got really, really angy over what they perceived to be an injustice, then the race hustlers moved in and did everything they could to capitalize on that discontent.
So the Miami-Dade CRB got in touch with the DoJ CRS and said, "Hey, give us a hand in keeping the lid on this racially motivated protest scene because we fear that if we (the government) don't step in and "ameliorate the anger" other parties (the race hustlers) are going to gin it up and we're going to lose control of the situation.
So basically the CRS served the exact purpose for which it was created.
I say again, YAWN, over.