60 Minutes of Madness...proclaimed by a senior police officer from Ferguson - now suspended.
"I've killed a lot. And if I need to, I'll kill a whole bunch more."
Racist, sexist, homophobic speech from St Louis County police officer in Ferguson who pushed CNN's Don Lemon live on-air
St Louis County police officer Dan Page has been suspended after a video of him giving a hate-filled speech to far-right group surfaced
Page was seen on CNN last Monday pushing anchor Don Lemon as he reported live from Ferguso
Page spews vitriol about black people, gay people, President Obama, Muslims and more
His extreme views include that the government is trying to indoctrinate children to spy on their parents at public schools
He claims there are 'four sodomites in the Supreme Court' as he rages against hate-laws
He says, 'I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord savior, but I'm also a killer. I’ve killed a lot. And if I need to, I'll kill a whole bunch more'
Page calls Obama 'my undocumented president'
He claims to be a Vietnam veteran and has 35 years with the St Louis County police. He is 60 years old. On 29 March 1973, the last American combat troops left Vietnam. Though military advisors and Marines, who are protecting U.S. installations, remain, Page's claims that he was in combat as a Green Beret in Vietnam does not add up.
The speech was made in 2012 to a group of St. Louis and St. Charles Oathkeepers. The Oathkeepers website says that Page does not represent their organization or their views. Oath Keepers is an American nonprofit organization that advocates that its members (current and former U.S. military and law enforcement) disobey any orders that they are given if they believe they violate the Constitution of the United States.
Timeline Highlights:
About a minute in, the hate already begins to show as he explains that all men are created equal. “That does not mean affirmative action,” he says.
At around 1:20, he says “We’re all equal. God does not respect persons–so we have no business passing hate crime laws–NONE–because we’re setting aside a group of people special. We got a Supreme Court out of control with the laws on sodomy and that’s what they are. The word gay just means happy. It does not mean ‘wrong.’
At around 3:20, he explains that the Bible is the foundation for the Constitution, adding, “I don’t know what them black little perverts don’t understand down there. But they need me to talk to them. I’ll square them away for you. Take me about a minute.”
At around 15:40, he explains that “There are four sodomites on the Surpreme Court.”
At about 21:30, he explains to the crowd that the public school system is going to place our children in camps, rarely allowing them to return home, as they train our kids to spy on us.
He explains that President Obama is an illegal alien from Kenya at around 26:40. “Now this here is Kenya. I had my own airplane…” He says that he visited because his “undocumented President” is from there. “So I flew to Africa and I went to our undocumented President’s home. He was born in Kenya.”
31 minutes into his rant, he lets his Islamophobia fly. “Do you know how the Muslims take care of you? They cut your head off. Obama is allowing hundreds of thousands of Muslims to come in ever week…Muslims are passive until they gain parity with you or they exceed you in numbers–and they will kill you.”
At 35:50, he explains that there is “no such thing as an Executive Order.” He says that he left the military because “I’m not going to obey an undocumented President.” He tells the crowd he took two years early retirement because he did not want to obey Obama’s orders.
At 51:45, he says that “The EBT cards are going to shut down. Can you imagine what’s going to happen to North St. Louis and St. Louis County when the EBT cards go down? When the ATM machines don’t work?” Rioting, of course! “When the inner cities start to ignite, people are going to start killing people they don’t like.”
More from Dan Page:
Interview on TruNews Radio (an Apocalyptic Evangelical Outreach)
CNN Clip of Don Lemon being pushed back by Page in an effort to make a crowd move in Ferguson (for reasons that are not all that clear). The incident led SNN to do the background investigation that revealed Page's speaking engagements.
CrossPosted at Daily Kos, Yabberz and PlanetPOV
Special Thanks to bakeneko for locating a public version of the Oathkeepers video and to Wayward Wind for editorial corrections in an earlier version of this post.