#NCPOL: A primer of sorts on the Saturday activist left #MoralMarch in NC

NC NAACP President / Rev. William Barber
NC NAACP President / Rev. William Barber, NC’s version of Al Sharpton.

Tomorrow is going to be a pretty big day for the unhinged professional activist left here in NC as “Moral March” – an extension of the Moral Monday movement you may have heard about on the news (especially if you live here in NC) – will get under way in Raleigh, NC:

(RNS) North Carolina’s weekly protests against Republican-backed legislative initiatives last year brought thousands of people to the state Capitol in Raleigh each Monday chanting, β€œForward together, not one step back.”

Now the movement is ready to reprise its demonstrations, which recall the tactics of the civil rights era.

The Rev. William J. Barber II and his Moral Mondays team are making final preparations for the kickoff event, dubbed the Moral March, scheduled for Saturday (Feb. 8). Barber hopes it will be bigger than the Selma march for voting rights in 1965 that drew 25,000 people.

Barber, who is president of the North Carolina NAACP and a Disciples of Christ pastor, launched the 2013 demonstrations to protest legislators’ efforts to scale back unemployment benefits and decline Medicaid expansion through the new federal health law. Protesters also criticized voter ID laws, cuts to public schools and tax-reform proposals they said would reduce benefits for the poor.

Clergy were especially prominent in the demonstrations, and many, including Barber, were handcuffed at the North Carolina General Assembly and arrested on charges of second-degree trespass and failure to disperse.

In all, 945 people were arrested in 2013, as demonstrators refused to leave the General Assembly building.

The movement, which brought national media attention, has since spread to Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

Yes, this is the same Rev. Barber I’ve been telling you about for the last several months, the one who believes you’re not a real Christian if you don’t believe in big government, who believes the new voter ID laws here in NC equate to “the crucifixion”, and who has been unapologetic over recent despicable remarks about how he thinks black conservatives like Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) serve as nothing more than puppets and Uncle Toms to their white Tea Party “masters” who seek them out to use them as “mouthpieces” for their conservative agenda. Β  You see, in Barber’s mind, you can’t have a mind of your own if you’re not towing the liberal line about racism … or something.

Anyway, because I know both the local media and national media will be absolutely salivating over tomorrow’s events, painting the marchers – many of who are going to be, you guessed it, bussed in from other states – as “grassroots” independent types who are just fed up with the actions of the Republican-run state legislature and are “rising up” for “change”, I wanted to give you a primer of sorts on what the true picture looks like here as far as this movement is concerned, so you won’t be fooled by what I anticipate to be epic spin on the part of rally organizers and starry-eyed media types.

In reality, “Moral Monday” consists primarily of disgruntled activist North Carolina Democrats in the left wing Triangle and Western areas of NC Β who are sick that the Democrats’ century-plus domination of this state came to a halt in 2010, and even more so in 2012 with a GOP super-majority and GOP Governor. The Triangle area, I should note, is where most of the left wing Blueprint NC think tanks are located, and I’d be remiss in my duties as a citizen journo if I didn’t note that it was reported last February (surprisingly enough by the local media) Β that these think tanks more or less agreed to coordinate to Β try and”cripple” state government in order to try and get what they wanted because they knew they could no longer do it legislatively. Β Now, I’m sure there are rank and file people who are part of Moral Monday who have previously never demonstrated before, but most of them are there because the professional left here – led by “spiritual leader” Barber – have convinced them that the state GOP are racist, sexist, evil capitalist “white men” who want to take us back to Β 60s and before. Ironically enough, that sad and reprehensible time in NC politics happened to be when Democrats were in control, but why bother with that inconvenient little fact?

Not only is this movement controlled by the hateful Barber (the Daily Tarheel today correctly described Barber as the “face” of Moral Monday), but it – and he – have the full endorsement of the NC Democratic partyΒ (more here)Β who, naturally, are never called upon by Raleigh-area news outlets to answer for his outrageous comments, unlike the state GOP, who are forced to answer for every ridiculous and offensive comment a local yokel with no real connection to the party makes. Β  The Democrat party here has been trying to rebuild itself for the last couple of years after a series of corruption scandals rocked the party to its core. They haven’t really recovered from it yet, and are more than happy to latch on to a movement they believe can help them one day return to their power and glory days.

@LadyLiberty1885, my partner in crime here in North Carolina, does an outstanding job daily of calling out and exposing the hypocritical left and their emerging extremist bent, and has many posts on the true nature of Moral Monday and the activist NC left. Β  Here, she writes about Β Occupy/Union/Socialist ties to Moral Monday, and here, she debunked myths being spread by the left about educational spending in NC. She also did a series of posts at Da Tech Guy blog on left wing NC extremism, which should be considered must reads. Β Her latest rips the media-aided rise of Rev. Barber, whose star will continue to be elevated after Saturday’s march, which he’s hoping will eclipse Selma in terms of the number of attendees.

Last but not least, I have a category here devoted to the NC left’s actions over the last year, which I hope you’ll check out – in addition to my Storify page, where I documented hysterical, unhinged tweet ravings from leftists over a variety of issues the NC General Assembly addressed over the past year. In case you’ll be around on Saturday, make sure to grab some popcorn and check out the #MoralMarch Twitter hashtag, which the left has already been posting to in advance of the big day. Β  This tweet, for example, pretty much encompasses the level of brainpower we’ll see on Saturday:

Need I say more? Ugh.

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