John Eddie 'J. J.' Jones, businessman and former NFL Jets Quarterback.
Posted: April 1, 2008 To Original News Story On This Subject
IN RESPONSE TO SHELBY COUNTY WOMEN & ASSOCIATES' REQUEST
FOR
INVESTIGATION INTO $29 BILLION HUD ALLOCATION
By John Eddie 'J. J.' Jones
I applaud the Shelby County Women & Associates Democratic Club (SCWADC) who announced the urgent need to hold a press conference in Memphis, TN, APRIL 4, 2008, 11:00 AM (on the 40th Anniversary Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) requesting a congressional investigation into the whereabouts of the $29 Billion Dollars allocated through the 1997 HUD 2020 Reform Plan initiated by Bill Clinton's HUD 2020 Executive Order. The idea of the HUD 2020 Reform Plan was to create a unique policy position, as President Clinton and Al Gore sought to change the reactionary policies of the federal government by creating a unique action policy of people empowerment from the "bottom-up" concept, that the Republican controlled U.S. Congress approved in 1997.
As I understand the "Separation of Powers" concept of United States of America governance, the Legislative Branch creates money or appropriations and the Executive Branch executes or carries out the spending of the money or appropriation. So, the Memphis-Based SCWADC is truly seeking is to establish a National Voice for the purpose of locating and securing a platform to conduct a congressional investigation into what the Clinton Administration did with that $29 Billion Dollars. The Public Administrators distributing those funds worked for the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.
In this regard, several questions must be posed. Who are or were the Public Administrators distributing those funds?
Where are the authorizing warrants (paper work) that allowed $29 Billion Dollars to float away without reaching the intended public beneficiaries of the so-called unique action policy of people empowerment from the "bottom-up" concept?
Who were the actual recipients (Government Contractors) of that $29 Billion Dollars? What was the relationship between those actual recipients (Government Contractors) and the Executive Branch's Public Administrators that distributed those funds? Did any of that $29 Billion Dollars find its way back to contributions to any Clinton Administration Public Administrators or even to the Clinton Presidential Library? Was there "Organized Coordination" in the actual distribution of the $29 Billion Dollars that didn't reach the intended public beneficiaries of that so-called action policy of people empowerment from the "bottom-up" concept?
The concerns of the Shelby County Women & Associates
Democratic Club quite closely resemble articles written and legal actions
spearheaded by me John Eddie "J.J." Jones as a Member of the Board of Directors
and as the Title VI 1964 Civil Rights Act Specialist for the Pacific Northwest
Chapter National Black Chamber of Commerce (PNCNBCC). I wrote in 1999 an article
"SEATTLE Organized Crime INVESTIGATIVE REPORT" that I now amend to reflect the
issues of today.
"I thought it was so interesting to hear long time CNN African American
Anchorman Bernard Shaw speak on C-Span at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government from the George Washington University School of
Communications. He was talking about the lack of media coverage and public
criminal enforcement against white-collar crime. Today Enron and Global Crossing
and World-Com represent white-collar crime. A few years ago it was the
Keating-Five. And do not forget the Savings and
Loan white-collar crime spree that almost brought down the entire United States
banking industry. Yet, even today, the once long time held U. S. Department of
Justice position that organized crime does not exist in America; only
strengthens the case that there is
a real need to investigate and to enforce the laws against the ORGANIZED
WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities administered in America,
MASCARADING AS THE I-200 ANTI-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MOVEMENT.
It has become abundantly clear that ever since the U.S. Government’s formal recognition of Organized Labor, ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME in America has considered the THEFT OF ANY ECONOMIC activity in America as fair game and as an American Governmental expenditure that could, through bribes, kick-backs and legal contributions become a corruptible racket.
If discrimination is a crime and if an organized effort exists to discriminate, then the perpetrators of such an organized criminal effort are ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME. If this supposition is true, then this ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME should be prosecuted under the Federal Government’s Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act.
The greatest trick that Satan has ever played upon human-kind is Satan’s fostering of the illusion that he Satan does not exist. So ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME being Satan under a "white-hood or a white-sheet", or a whatever, has so spun the same illusion to the America public.
A. Phillip Randolph, the founder of The International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and one of the prime moving forces behind the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, insisted on the inclusion of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to protect the ECONOMIC activities of Federal, state and local governments’ procurement and construction contacting from discrimination based upon race, color and national origin.
This Title VI protection in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to exempt the protected classes of the (NUMERICAL) minority citizens of African Americans and other persons of color and emigrant communities from the financial depression that would be caused by the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities in public contracting.
This protection for those in a (NUMERICAL) minority status in America was so fundamental that it was carried over to include the vast minority of "Poor White Folks!" You see in 1968, Paul Fletcher, the son of the "Father of Affirmative Action" Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher, wrote into law Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 as a race neutral provision to provide "Living-Wage" employment from tax-payer based economic activities to anyone on welfare.
Of the 37 million persons on welfare, 31 million are poor white folks, so you would have assumed that the American public being made up of a (NUMERICAL) majority of white folks would have supported Section 3 to end their own poverty.
That devil, Satan comprising some few Government Contractors has deceived the vast majority of White Folks in America to believe that African Americans and other (NUMERICAL) minority People of Color make up the majority of the welfare roles. So, when the Republican Congress’ "Contract With America" kicked in the mid-1990’s with welfare reform, poor white folks were up in arms protesting and they are yet protesting today.
When former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich visited Seattle in 1996, more than two thousand people picked the Westin Hotel where he was staying.
Only a handful of those protesters were African American or Persons of Color, the rest were poor white folks.
The moral of that story is that the devil, Satan, that ole Trickster comprising some few Government Contractors, has tricked White America into believing that welfare only benefits poor People of Color, African Americans, ethnic Americans and American Indians. Not!
Evil is COLOR-BLIND. Satan comprising some few Government Contractors takes all victims of EVIL no matter what color they might be, and the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities in public contracting is a Satanic act comprising some few Government Contractors that violates the TENTH COMMANDMENT that "Thou shall not covet that which is thy neighbors!" It seems that the most dominant thing Satan comprising some few Government Contractors has going on in America today is violating the last of the TEN COMMANDMENTS, number ten.
But in the Holy Scriptures Book of James, Chapter 2 and Verse 10, it is very clear that "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." Yes, some few Government Contractors' coveting others economic rights is not the same in man’s lawful eyes as murder, yet it is the same as murder in God’s ALL SEEING EYES.
Economics structure the creation of all U.S. Contract Laws, and as such the economics of Contract Law for any civilized community or society should be enforced to highest degree of enforceability. From the United States Constitution, which the President of the United States swore under solemn oath to defend with all the resources of the United States, Article I, Section. 10, Clause 1, clearly gives instruction that: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility." The Constitutionally operable phrase here is "No State shall… pass any… Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…"
Yet the State of California with Voter Proposition 209 and the State of Washington with Voter Initiative 200 is violating Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S Constitution. The predominately white folks controlled election process has allowed for the creation of two new laws that in-fact does impair the obligations
of the Title VI 1964 Civil Rights Act Assurance CONTRACTS signed by each State in order to continue to receive Federal funds. Those Title VI 1964 Civil Rights Act Assurance CONTRACTS forbid the denial of benefits from or participation in economic activities, based on race, color or national origin, generated in whole or in part from Federal Government Tax Dollars.
The damaging aftermath in public educational accommodations and government contracting and procurement against African Americans and other People of
Color in California is undeniably clear. Five of the Eight Causes of Action have prevailed against the Motion To Dismiss in the $500 Million Title VI 1964 Civil Rights Act Breach of Contract Federal Law Suit Number CO1-1208-L, filed by the Pacific Northwest Chapter National Black Chamber of Commerce in
Seattle Federal District Court against the State of Washington, the City of Seattle and the County of Martin Luther King, Jr., where the 2002 U.S. Department of Justice referred our PNCNBCC complaint Number 134103 to each Federal funding agency to investigate for possible Civil Rights Act violations.
When I saw President Bush being urged to speak out in the Affirmative Action case in Michigan about racial diversity in higher education, I could have agreed with his logic. But where is the logic in the Federal Government’s allowing a Federal Grand Jury Finding against some few Government Contractors to be covered-up by the Federal Court’s sealing of more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000) in stolen Federal ECONOMIC activities because of a SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR ($600,000) fine paid by the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME culprits comprising some few Government Contractors.
You mean those ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME culprits comprising some few Government Contractors got away with NINE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($999, 400,000) profit. Who is doing the math? Who received campaign contributions from those Government Contractors? From what school of mathematics did those Federal government prosecutors graduate? From what court of fairness was that presiding Federal Judge selected Who appointed and confirmed that Federal Judge?
I truly believe in the comments by President Bush that "Our Constitution makes it clear that people of all races must be treated equally under the law;" our Constitution also makes it very clear in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 that "No State shall… pass any… Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…"
So, whereas, I applauded the President for finding the need to speak out on the issue of the Constitutionality of diversity in education; I now employ the Presidential candidates of 2008 to speak out on the issue of denying the WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC Civil Rights by those violators of Law comprised of some few Government Contractors.
Where WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC Civil Rights by those violators of Law comprised of some few Government Contractors is violating the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 that "No State shall… pass any… Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…."; then in the alternative, Federal funds to those States should be withheld until such time the violations to the Constitution ceases! People should not get credit for that $29 Billion Dollars if they did not in-fact receive its benefits.
The PNCNBCC federal Title VI complaint filed on February 2, 1999 with the Department of Justice and the Federal Title VI Breach of Contract lawsuit filed in
Seattle Federal District Court on August 6, 2001 are both based upon ECONOMIC activities administered by Executive Branch Public Administrators under the supervision of the U.S. President. Even though, U.S. laws are bridged for the "Public Welfare", it all to often appears that the only economic welfare laws seem to benefit America's Corporate
Giants comprised of some few Government Contractors. These ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS are continuously trying to destroy the African American community, by the systematic THEFT of ECONOMIC activities in public contracting.
Therefore, we of the African American, People of Color and White Women communities, as the beneficiaries of the Legacies of the Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Phillip Randolph and Dr. Arthur Allen Fletcher, must ask each 2008 Presidential Candidate "Will you as President enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that is still the LAW OF THE LAND to give African Americans, People of Color, White Women and persons of foreign ethnicity protection from the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT of ECONOMIC comprised of some few Government Contractors?"
The U.S. Department of Justice has not vigorously enforced Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 since 1992. This lack of an Executive Branch resistant force has allowed the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities in public contracting by some few Government Contractors of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America. Yes, we must identify the AGC as trade association comprised of some few Government Contractors that filed in 1969 the first law suit in Philadelphia Federal District Court against the enforcement of the Revised Philadelphia Plan, signed in 1969 by Nixon Administration Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards the Late Dr. Arthur Allen Fletcher, followed by President Nixon's Executive Order 11249 establishing "Affirmative Action". That same trade organization Associated General Contractors quickly withdrew their 1969 law suit when they realized that the Revised Philadelphia Plan, signed in Dr. Arthur Allen Fletcher, was in-fact a "Collective Bargaining Agreement" for the fair and equitable treatment of African Americans, People of Color, White Women and persons of foreign ethnicity.
As the Late Dr. Arthur Allen Fletcher summed up late in his life, this AGC trade association comprised of some few Government Contractors cleverly begun an attack on the Revised Philadelphia Plan, and demonized it as "Affirmative Action!" Yes, enforcement of the ECONOMIC rights of African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity has ceased as a priority of each Presidential Administration since Richard M. Nixon.
President Jimmy Carter eliminated the Office of Minority Business Enterprise of the U.S. Department of Commerce, thereby disposing of banking institutions minority business loan applications declination reporting and enforcement regulations. President Ronald Wilson Reagan launched his 1980 Presidential campaign to recruit what we call "Reagan Democrats" in the home of the Confederate Klan of America in New Albany, Mississippi and vowed not to enforce
"Affirmative Action" laws. The tide turned under the Administration President George Herbert Walker Bush when he appointed the Late Dr. Arthur Allen Fletcher Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, where enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 took on a new priority. Under the Clinton Administration that the Shelby County Women & Associates Democratic Club claim that President Clinton set the stage for a unique policy position, an unprecedented attack on "Affirmative Action" laws began with the Richmond, Virginia Supreme Court case, then the Denver, Colorado Supreme Court case involving Clinton Transportation Secretary 'Latino" Fredrico Pena, then the Recommendation Letters from Clinton Secretary of Labor "African-American" Alexis Hermann and then Transportation Secretary "African-American" Rodney Slater requesting President Clinton sign Executive Order 12250 for the cancellation of Nixon Executive Order 11249 that established "Affirmative Action". And now with the George Walker Bush Administration there has been a total in-difference and lack of enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In order to conform to the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings requiring the "Disparate Impact Provision" not only to identify the AGC trade association Government
Contractor thieves of ECONOMIC Civil Rights, but also to specify how much money these thieves have stolen. Therefore, all Americans must know exactly how much money in addition to the $29 Billion Dollars that didn't reach the intended public beneficiaries of that so-called action policy of people empowerment from the "bottom-up" concept is owed from those Executive Branch Public Administrators who released funds to the AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves for the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities from African Americans, persons of color and other persons of foreign ethnicity.
For instance, the AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through a contractor member, initiated Proposition 209 in California and Initiative 200 in the State of Washington. Those popular voter ballot movements were to counteract as they claimed the Educational "Reverse Discrimination" of Affirmative Action. But the AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through a contractor member, also included the enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for public construction and procurement contracting violating the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 that "No State shall… pass any… Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…"
The Washington State voter ballot Initiative 200’s language included a NULL AND VOID clause, if it resulted in lost of Federal funds to the State of Washington.
We venture back to the basics of Latin to get the answer "WHY?" Yes, "WHY" is this NULL AND VOID clause included in that "FAKE" Civil Rights voter initiative in the State of Washington? The AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through that contractor member’s desire was to perpetrate the ORGANIZED WHITE-COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities from African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity, so long as the AGC does not lose its own ECONOMIC public contracts collective bargaining agreement.
This innocuous NULL AND VOID clause in Washington State’s Initiative 200 points out the ACHELLES HILL of that AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through their contractor members, that of their not wanting to loose their own public construction and procurement collective bargaining agreement contracts.
By "HOOK OR CROOK" elected officials, public administrators and AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through their contractor members are
depriving African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity of eligible public construction and procurement collective bargaining agreement true "Affirmative Action" contracts. This criminal act is depriving African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity of ECONOMIC activities. Hence, the African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity community should support the Shelby County Women & Associates Democratic Club request for a congressional investigation into the whereabouts of the $29 Billion Dollars and all other appropriations that never reached its intended beneficiary home.
With all this being said, one might wonder that if anything said here is not true then it is an invitation to a lawsuit. You would be right. A lawsuit would also allow for the entirety of discovery of documents from those duplicitous and crooked elected officials, public administrators and from those AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through their contractor members. Yes, African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity would surely welcome the airing of this dirty and evil laundry before the LIGHT of the American people and the Courts.
Maybe in the end African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity will put an end, for itself to the ORGANIZED WHITE-
COLLAR CRIME THEFT OF ECONOMIC activities in public contracting by those AGC trade association Government Contractor thieves, through their contractor members. Then and maybe only then will the African Americans, Persons of Color, White Women and other persons of foreign ethnicity communities provide their own people with some equitable and legitimate livable wage work and employment through much needed ECONOMIC activities within the African American Community and throughout America as well.
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Mr. John Eddie "J.J." Jones is a Freelance and Opinion Blog Writer
on Mid-South Tribune-Online and The Black Information Highway at
www.blackinformationhighway.com
Senior Vice President, Housing, Development and Construction Services for
Pacific Rim Development Group, LLC; And is a
Board Director and Title VI Civil Rights Act Specialist For the
Pacific Northwest Chapter National Black Chamber of Commerce
You may reach J.J. Jones at email:
jjjones3333@msn.com or call: 253-460-3141