DarkStar Spouts Off

Latest Drop Squad Candidates

I present the members of the New Black Panther Party to be Drop Squaded for offering a bounty on George Zimmerman. Yes, I think Zimmerman belongs in jail and then should get a court date for murder, but offering a bounty on him? Way beyond uncalled for.

I also present Spike Lee for tweeting Zimmerman's address and if that wasn't bad enough, the address was wrong!

Actually, Drop Squading provides the opportunity for these people to get back in the good graces of Black people. Forget the Drop Squad. They should be forever banned from being Black!

Yeah! I said it! WHAT!!!!!

It's Not About The Hoodie

Keeping it 100.

Maybe I've lost my street edge. I never thought of Black teens or men in hoodies as threatening.

If it is cool or cold and I'm being approached by a brother in a hoodie? I'm not threatened.

If its hot outside and dude isn't looking like he's working out? Yeah, I'm rolling in the opposite direction.

Dude has on a hoodie and then starts to look around and pull up the hood or is peeping around the corner and pulls up the hood? Yeah, I'm rolling out HARD.

It wasn't about the hoodie. I'm not even convinced it was about race. Zimmerman was looking for trouble and he found Trayvone Martin.

Why Does Baltimore City Have A NFL Sky Box?

From the Baltimore Sun:

A government watchdog group said Thursday that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has politicized invitations to her office's Ravens skybox, and urged her to include more working-class residents.

"The mayor has made the choice to turn this into a political skybox and not the people's skybox," said Susan Wichmann, the director of Common Cause Maryland. "We call on the mayor, going forward, to use the skybox to highlight good work being done by people in the city. There's no reason why she couldn't invite the firefighters and the police officers and the good students and the teachers."

...

The stadium was built with $200 million in public financing, and the offices of the mayor and governor were given premium skyboxes as part of the lease agreement for the stadium in 1995.

O'Doherty said skybox tickets were not intended as a reward for campaign donations or political support, adding that the mayor invites people of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

I really don't care about the political games the mayor played with the seating in the sky box. The issue is, why the city of Baltimore continues to have a sky box in the first place? Especially since the current mayor won't pay a judgement against the city to lead paint victims. In fact, one set of lawyers have confiscated city property to settle the judgement!

Doomsday: Prequel II

Rod is in the toll caused backup on I-95. Two years ago, he would have
bypassed this by using the EZ Pass lane, but one year and 11 months
ago, he discovered his identity had been stolen, and one year and 11
months later, he is still trying to get it straightened out.

One year and 11 months ago, Rod rolled past the toll with his EZ Pass
in the window. He thinks, in less than 5 minutes later, he is out of
the car, on the ground, surrounded by police officers with guns drawn.
Once in the police station, he learned that "he" had rented a car,
robbed two banks, and was on the run from authorities. He was in jail
for 3 days before his wife was able to convince police and prosecutors
that Rod was not in the area of the robberies, didn't look like the
picture taken of the robber, and that Rod's identity had been stolen.

Even though the EZ pass was convenient, he canceled the account.
Unfortunately, all of his financial accounts had to be frozen while
the mess was worked out. It took 3 months before the accounts were
unlocked and he was able to get new accounts. He had to get loans from
family members to pay some bills while the financial mess was being
resolved. The bank that holds his mortgage still has not updated his
credit report correctly, despite filings with the state and financial
regulators and hiring a lawyer.

Since then, he has decided to go "off the grid" as much as possible.
He and his wife don't do financial transactions on-line anymore. After
getting new social security numbers, they also got individual tax
identification numbers that are used when they are forced give a SSN
for some purpose. But they found out that when you push back against
giving your social security number, 9 out of 10 people don't press the
matter.

During this time, Rod has become a part of the underground barter
network. He has been able to barter his computer skills and his
handyman skills to learn how to butcher wild game. The local butcher
needed help with his computer system and Rod bartered his expertise
for lessons on butchering game. Rod also has learned how to hunt deer
and wild fowl. He already knew how to fish, and enjoyed it, so he
feels confident that if the world goes to hell, he could keep his
family fed.

Rod's wife, Pam, doesn't like it, but Rod is now a gun owner. During
the time the bank accounts were frozen, Pam feared they would have to
do something drastic to keep food in the house. She thought about
shoplifting! So, Pam sees this as a way to have a back up if something
happens. She's not as far into the apocalypse scenario as Rod, but she
has been through enough to worry.

As Rod gets closer to the toll booth, he makes sure the pouch on the
dashboard and the pouch on the ceiling, are within easy reach. Rod had
placed documentation of his identity theft, the arrest and release,
and any other documentation he thinks is needed in case he gets
stopped by police again, for being a bank robber.

Doomsday: Prequel

Prequel

Facebook continues to get people to place all of their personal
information into their "database." In one of the many changes that
Facebook makes, Facebook says they will start to sell AGGREGATED
information to those who want it. People will assume it is about them,
only, but what they don't realize is Facebook has already created
enormous relationship graphs, not just of people who "know" other
people, but of married couples, couples in relationships, those who
say they are family members, etc. They also create graphs based on the
common names people create for their "personal lists."

How many people have, say, "Fam" as a list, or "bootie calls" as a
list or...? How many "pages" to people "like"? How many are associated
with churches, businesses, personalities, causes, diseases, sports,
television shows, etc? There will be an uproar but the graphs are
created or are able to be created at the push of a graphics button.

And how many pictures have you tagged? You already know Facebook has
basic facial recognition software that is accurate enough.

Wow. Did you like a financial company? Why would you like a financial
company if you are not a customer?

Do you think your deleted page really is deleted?

So they sell the aggregated data or the "analytics" that Facebook
created to derive the information you want. But they also provide the
API that lets you plug in your own analytics, and although the data is
supposed to be anonymized, there are bugs, and face it, Facebook gets
hacked.

Meanwhile, for years, financial institutions have been getting hacked
for information and money and have paid ransoms to cyber-thieves to
"get information back." We all know your credit card has been
compromised because the credit card processing middleman was hacked.
And those Linux systems that are all over the Internet? A major Linux
software repository has been hacked and has yet to come back on-line
because analysis is still begin done to determine what code was
compromised.

Meanwhile, all of the anti-virus vendors have code that "phones home"
for updates and uploads computer architecture and usage information.
Kapersky anti-virus, a major AV maker today, was created by a former
KGB agent. Did you install just an anti-virus system or are you now
one node in a Bot Net?

And then one day, someone has enough of Goldman Sachs and pays a cyber
team to awaken the bots...

Jaguar C-X16

They Must Get Government Money

For a group to do something THIS stupid and THIS desperate, they must get government funding based on how many people are in their program.

A Northeast Baltimore clinic that once pitched on-demand methadone to desperate addicts during the late-night hours is focusing on a new idea — paying addicts to come in for treatment.

"We are targeting a non-traditional population of addicts that isn't so interested in treatment," said the Rev. Milton Williams, who runs Turning Point Clinic, housed in his New Life Evangelical Baptist Church. "This will be an incentive."

The state has yet to approve the original on-demand, or "open access" idea, citing federal rules that require, for example, a lengthy examination of anyone getting methadone, a Schedule 2 narcotic. The incentive, $20 supplied by a private foundation or other group yet to be named, is a "Plan B," one Williams believes doesn't need any special approvals because the program would be run as a traditional clinic, just at night with no appointments.

Yes, I'm sure they get money from the government. Regardless, it's a dumb idea. First off, methadone "treatment" isn't treatment at all, it's just substituting one drug for another. Next, PAYING addicts to come in off the street and do methadone treatments? When the "treatment" requires recurring doses?

Is there ANY common sense with ANYONE who works in that program?

Remembering Katrina and NOT Remembering

I heard a few media people commenting on the "anniversary of Katrina", and I noticed something big missing. Yes, there were comments about the failure of FEMA, a comment asking why Ray Nagin was speaking about failures in the Katrina response when he was one of the main people who failed, and how New Orleans isn't coming back. 

But no one mentioned the police who killed a man on a bridge leading out of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS — In a verdict that brought a decisive close to a case that has haunted this city since most of it lay underwater nearly six years ago, five current and former New Orleans police officers were found guilty on all counts by a federal jury on Friday for shooting six citizens, two of whom died, and orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up in the hours, weeks and years that followed.

The defendants were convicted on 25 counts, including federal civil rights violations in connection with the two deaths, for the violence and deception that began on the Danziger Bridge in eastern New Orleans on Sept. 4, 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees failed.

“The officers convicted today abused their power and violated the public’s trust during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, exacerbating one of the most devastating times for the people of New Orleans,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said.  “I am hopeful today’s verdict brings justice for the victims and their family members, helps to heal the community and contributes to the restoration of public trust in the New Orleans Police Department.”   

And, as always, there was complete silence by the "law and order" conservatives about the police who broke the law and were convicted. Not one conservative mentioned the "Jack booted thugs" of the New Orleans police department, but they hadn't mentioned it up until this point, so why expect otherwise?

If There Is A Violent Revolution, It's Going To Be Because of TSA

If there is a violent revolution in the United States, I swear it is going to be because of the insanity that happens under the guise of "security" by the TSA.

In the latest controversy surrounding Transportation Security Administration policies over intrusive body pat-downs, the agency sought to defend its actions in the case of a 95-year-old cancer patient who was forced to remove her adult diaper during a search.

Jean Weber of Destin, Fla., said she was escorting her mother, who suffers from leukemia, to Michigan on June 18 to live with family members before moving into an assisted living facility, according to published reports.

 

Weber told CNN that a TSA officer at Northwest Florida Regional Airport near Pensacola, Fla., felt something "suspicious" on her mother's leg during a patdown. Weber said her mother was taken to a private room. The officer then told Weber that her mother's Depend undergarment was wet and was getting in the way of a complete search. The officer asked for it to be removed, which Weber did in a restroom.

 

"It's something I couldn't imagine happening on American soil," Weber told the Panama City News-Herald Friday. "Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this."

I swear these folks, who have questionable IQ, do it for sick kicks. Seriously, are the people hired forced to undergo psychological evaluations? HOw many have control issues or are socio-paths?

Police State Increasing, Part 2

I am at a loss of words for this one: http://tinyurl.com/3pox6gs


INDIANAPOLIS -- People have no right to resist if police officers
illegally enter their home, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in a
decision that overturns centuries of common law.

The court issued its 3-2 ruling on Thursday, contending that allowing
residents to resist officers who enter their homes without any right
would increase the risk of violent confrontation. If police enter a
home illegally, the courts are the proper place to protest it, Justice
Steven David said.

"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home
is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth
Amendment jurisprudence," David said. "We also find that allowing
resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore
the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the
arrest."

Justices Robert Rucker and Brent Dickson strongly dissented, saying
the ruling runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment
against unreasonable search and seizure, The Times of Munster
reported.


Wow.
How many public conservatives have said anything about this one?

Police State Increasing, Part 1

While people were waiting on Trump to confirm he won't run but where
indulging on building his ego, the Supreme Court re-affirmed their
commitment to building a police state.

And public conservatives continue to re-affirm they love the police
state while talking out of the side of their mouths about freedom. How
many public conservatives have complained about this ruling? Or does
it have to be a Janet Reno type of Nifong type to get them in an
uproar?

http://tinyurl.com/6zdhj3q

The Supreme Court on Monday gave law enforcement officers new
authority to enter a home without a warrant when they have reason to
believe that drug evidence is being destroyed.

The court ruled 8 to 1 that Kentucky police who smelled marijuana at
an apartment door, knocked loudly and announced themselves, and then
kicked in the door when they thought the drugs were being destroyed
did nothing wrong.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said the
conduct of the police before they entered the apartment was “entirely
lawful” and neither violates nor threatens a person’s Fourth Amendment
protection against unreasonable searches or seizures.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg strongly disagreed.

“The court today arms the police with a way routinely to dishonor the
Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement in drug cases,” Ginsburg wrote.
“In lieu of presenting their evidence to a neutral magistrate, police
officers may now knock, listen, then break the door down, nevermind
that they had ample time to obtain a warrant.”


The police lie, and everyone knows it. Who expects the police to say
they announced themselves before busting into a home? They lie now and
say they do announce and then multiple witnesses OUTSIDE will say the
police didn't, but the prosecutors will still believe the police.

Baltimore City Public School System Screws Teachers and Tax Payers, Again

The Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) system is screwing the
teachers and the tax payers again. First, some background.

The Maryland state assembly was going to cut millions of dollars from
the education budget for the state. Because BCPS, and Prince Georges
County, gets money directly from the state as a result of a settlement
of a lawsuit, known as Thorton, the BCPS faced "drastic cuts." City
and county legislators protested the cuts and parents got involved to
restore the money cut from the budget. They were successful in the
effort. Also, historically, BCPS is administration heavy and, in fact,
has the highest ratio of administrative costs to education costs in
the state.

School head Alonso, who stinks in my opinion, previously said BCPS has
to decrease its costs, and asked for a SECOND round of incentives for
experienced teachers to retire:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-second-school-buyout-20110509,0,5203590.story

On the heels of 330 teachers' accepting early retirement packages from
the city school system, officials will propose a similar deal for 500
of its most experienced instructional support staff.

According to an early retirement incentive plan scheduled to be
presented at the city school board meeting Tuesday night, the school
system will look to trim its pool of paraprofessionals who have more
than 10 years' experience by offering them 50 percent of their base
salary for a year and a sick-leave payout to be put into a school
investment plan.

According to the proposal, 10 job titles are eligible,
including paraeducators in ESOL, pre-kindergarten and
special education. Those eligible will have to decide
by June 16 whether or not to take the deal. At least 100, but not more
than 500, paraeducators would have participate for it to be offered.


So, let's get this clear, the BCPS system has had two rounds of
incentives to get the most experienced teachers, meaning most
expensive teachers, to quit to save money. After this, the putz Alonso
does this: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-school-management-positions-20110511,0,5337862.story


Even as city schools are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars for
staff and programs, schools CEO Andrés Alonso has proposed hiring 14
new executives and a deputy CEO at six-figure salaries as part of his
central office reorganization.

Alonso informed the city school board this week that the system wants
to hire the directors at salaries of $125,000, for a total
cost of $1.75 million, to strengthen management and support
school leaders. Alonso has also budgeted a $175,000-a-year deputy CEO
position that has been vacant for the past two years.


Alonso, the putz, wants to get teachers to retire early to save money
so that he can increase the BCPS administration staff, which is
already top heavy and the most top heavy in the state, DESPITE the
BCPS system being the worst performing school system in the state of
Maryland.

If politicians who worked to get BCPS system funds restored didn't
know about Alonso's plans, they should feel like suckers. The parents
DEFINITELY should feel like suckers, AGAIN, as they got it without
benefit of Astroglide.

I repeat: the BCPS system needs to be blown the hell up.

Defense Against Sex Abuse Charges: I Didn't Do It I Don't Like Black Women!

Football player, Albert Haynesworth, is facing sexual assult charges:

WASHINGTON -- Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor sexual abuse for allegedly fondling his server's breast at a Washington hotel.

A grand jury returned an indictment formally charging Haynesworth. The waitress' allegations have been reported by the media after the alleged incident in February.

...

According to the U.S. attorney's office, the government's evidence shows Haynesworth slid a credit card down the front of the server's dress and fondled her breast.

So, this fool goes to court and won't plead out. That makes sense if you didn't do it or if you think you can defeat the charges. But HOW does dude defend himself? He says he doesn't even like Black women!

"I didn't touch her. I don't even like black girls. I know what this is about, she is just upset I have a white girlfriend. I couldn't tell you the last time I dated a black girl. She was trying to get with me, " Haynesworth said.

Dude has had many issues before this, but this defense for being a brute is really over the top. For this one, not only do I throw the NP flag, I also nominate this fool for being Drop Squaded.

Wait, forget the Drop Squad. He's waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy beyond gone.

 

Schools Are Out of Control

The following items show how much public schools are out of control.

Item 1: Zero tolerance run amok:

Outrage is growing after two high school students are suspended– one
taken away in handcuffs– over items found in their lacrosse equipment
bags. Those items are banned from school property.

...

Laura Dennis’ son Graham had a pen knife and a Leatherman that school
authorities found while they searched a team bus before it headed to a
game. He now faces jail time and damage to his permanent record.

“A police officer came and took him away in handcuffs and they said
‘Give us 40 minutes, we have to process him,’ Laura Dennis said. “So
they did mug shots and they fingerprinted. I was able to pick him up
from the police department 45 minutes later.”

Doug Edsall’s son Casey had a lighter he also used to fix his lacrosse
stick. The school classified it as an explosive device.

Both items are used to fix lacrosse sticks. And, to make this clear,
both students were playing for the school team, which doesn't provide
anyone to repair the equipment.

Item 2: Fat patrol

 

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_ce1a393c-7b4e-11e0-b418-0019bb30f31a.html

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • An Illinois lawmaker says parents who have obese
children should lose their state tax deduction.

"It's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids," said state
Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga. "Take the tax deduction away for parents
that have obese kids."

Cultra has not introduced legislation to deny parents the $2,000
standard tax deduction, but he floated the idea Tuesday, when
lawmakers took a shot at solving the state's obesity epidemic.


If your kid is fat, the kid is fat. It's not up to the school to
tattle tale and it's not the government's damn business!

Item 3: Cutting a fart got kids in trouble?

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/05/11/for-parents-sons-suspension-smells.html

Two Canal Winchester Middle School students were booted off the school
bus last week for, well, passing gas.

James Nichols and Kristine Kuzora are upset that their son's
flatulence was designated as an obscene gesture by school officials.

Their 13-year-old son and another boy were on the school bus Thursday
when they both experienced an emission. Children being children, the
flatulence apparently caused a ruckus on the bus amid a flurry of
laughs, jeers and lowering of windows, Nichols said.

Canal Winchester Middle School officials cited the boys for making an
obscene gesture in violation of the student code of conduct in
revoking their rides to school Friday.


My kid loves milk. My kid farts as a result of drinking milk. If I
drink milk, I blow out everyone in the room. Kicking kids off the bus
because they bust butt?

Don't schools have more important issues to go after than the ones presented?

Release The Damn Photo!

Pres. Obama won't release the photograph.

RELEASE IT!

Don't want to incite more violence? Then why kill OBL??????

Damn! You look like a PUNK!

You think it was bad, BEFORE, when they were asking for the birth
certificate? OH, now it's ON!

Facing 20 Years for Using a "False" Address!?!?!?!

Here we go again. A woman, who is homeless and splits her time between a friend's house, a shelter, and a van, sent her son to a school in a district "where she didn't leave." The end result is she is facing 20 years for using a "false" address!

Connecticut authorities have filed theft charges against Tanya McDowell, a homeless woman, alleging that she used a false address to enroll her son in a higher-income school district, The Stamford Advocate reports. If she's convicted, McDowell may end up in jail for as many as 20 years and pay a $15,000 fine for the crime.

McDowell is a homeless single mother from Bridgeport who used to work in food services, is now at the center of one of the very few false address cases in the Norwalk, CT, school district that is being handled in criminal court--rather than between the parent and school. Authorities are accusing McDowell of enrolling her 5-year-old son in nearby Norwalk schools by using the address of a friend. (Her friend has also been evicted from public housing for letting McDowell use her address.)

McDowell says she stayed in a Norwalk homeless shelter sometimes--but she didn't register there, which would have made her son eligible to attend the school.

"I had no idea whatsoever that if you enroll your child in another school district, it becomes a crime," the 33-year-old told the paper.

Come on!

Really?

This "Woman" Has Two KidsThis

This woman has two kids. She was concerned about them AFTER getting arrested.

She sure gains mother of the year nominations from me!

I trust you read that with the sarcasm that was intended.

DMV Awards and Chris Rock

Chris Rock did that famous bit about "African-Americans vs. Niggers".
Some people at the time were mad about what Chris Rock
said while others defended him. I was a defender.

[ UPDATED ]

Well, the DMV Awards proved Chris Rock was right.

SMH.

She Must Have BIG Hooters

OK, that title was wrong and I shouldn't have thought it and
definitely shouldn't have put it out there, but I did it. Why?

Two FBI agents were at the front door of their two-story brick
colonial in Mitchellville.

"Don't answer it," the county executive said, unaware that more agents
were listening in.

Johnson ordered his wife to find and destroy a $100,000 check from a
real estate developer that was hidden in a box of liquor.

"Do you want me to put it down the toilet?" Leslie Johnson asked.

"Yes, flush that," the county executive said.

But what about the cash? she asked - $79,600.

Put it in your underwear, the county executive told his wife.

She replied, "I have it in my bra" - which is where
agents discovered the money after she answered the door.

Like the title says, she must have big hooters! $79,600?

 

CUBE Members Are On Crack

This is just unbelievable.

The Baltimore school board has been nationally recognized for excellence in urban education.

The National School Board Association presented the award to the district Saturday during the annual 2010 Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) conference, held at the downtown Renaissance Harborplace Hotel.

City school leaders took part in the conference, an annual gathering of educators from more than 110 urban school districts in 35 states and the Virgin Islands, to discuss challenges facing urban school districts. It's was Baltimore's ability to overcome its challenges that earned it the award, said the president of the National School Board Association.

A school system that, GENERIOUSLY, graduates 45% of its Black male students is "recognized" by a group called "Council of Urban Boards of Education"?

What?

What do they recognize? FAILURE?

Yeah, This Is Funny!

Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer speak out against the Republican Delaware candidate running for congress  and now the conservatives go on the attack against them and blast them with the "ESTABLISHMENT" label?????

Yeah, *THAT'S* funny!

Ummm...

Ummm....

I don't know what to say. Sophia Loren is in her 70s and kinda hot looking here....

They Were Just Getting Ready For The New Defensive Scheme

I was over an in-law's house enjoying the New Year's Day festivities and watching Penn State Football (ugg) when I saw a crawl across the bottom of the screen which stated Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton had pulled guns on each other(!) in the locker room(!) because "Agent 00", the man who can't defend a blind man, owed Crittenton money on a bet and wasn't going to pay up. (If that fool was going to pull a gun on someone, it should be Shaq who has been smashing Arenas' fiance for YEARS. Gil? Whose the baby daddy? Better call Maurey)

I understand athletes carrying guns. I DON'T understand them going Wild Wild West in the locker room.

Both should be permanently removed from the league.

She Should Have Learned To "Clap" It

She should have learned to "make it clap".

A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has died over the weekend from complications resulting from cosmetic surgery, friends say.

"This woman who had everything is dead because she wanted to have a slightly firmer ass," said Roberto Piazza, a fashion designer and close friend of Solange Magnano.

Magnano, Miss Argentina 1994 and a married mother of eight-year-old twins, went under the knife on Thursday at a plastic surgery centre in Buenos Aires.

She was rushed to the hospital on Friday suffering from a pulmonary embolism, and died on Sunday, her friends said.

Just, wow.

Ladies & Gentlemen! In Ring #1!!!!!!

Let the circus begin!!!!

NEW YORK (AP) - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.

"Their assessment is negative," he said.

Do I really have to write anything?

I mean really. Do I have to write anything?