♦ GILLUM & THE ANTI-COP, ANTI-ISRAEL GROUP CALLED DREAM DEFENDERS
Democrat candidate Andrew Gillum with his friend Phillip Agnew, leader of the radical Dream Defenders.
Via Sunshine State News:
Some Floridians might not understand the Dream Defenders’ “manifesto” or the extent of Gillum’s interest in it.
This is a radical organization that demands an end to “disaster capitalism,” espouses socialist-style principals, rants against Independence Day and is active in the movement to boycott Israel while promoting anti-Israel conspiracies.
And Gillum and the Dream Defenders have had a long, close relationship which, frankly, has been largely unexplored in the mainstream media.
The Defenders’ agenda is so markedly anti-police and socialist in nature that last week the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association, the union for Broward deputies — traditionally as blue as their uniforms — came out in support of Republican DeSantis.
Jeff Bell, president of the union, explained why.
“When you look at Mr. Gillum’s track record, and with his association with groups such as the Dream Defenders, which is an anti-law enforcement, anti-government radical group, which calls for Andrew Gillum to sign a pledge, which he did, to promise if he is elected governor of the state of Florida to divert money away from law enforcement and away from prisons in the state of Florida … Now, taking away money from law enforcement does not protect the citizens of Florida,” Bell said. “It weakens the ability of law enforcement to actually protect the innocents.”
Andrew Gillum & Phillip Agnew go way back:
[G]illum’s connection with Dream Defenders does not begin months ago. That protest he mentioned, as he lauded the members and proudly joined? That was following the Trayvon Martin shooting while he was a city commissioner. In 2014 Dream Defenders shut down a police parade staged in Tallahassee, and the group touts that then Mayor Gillum ensured they were not to be arrested. That same year he penned a lengthy article[*] praising the founder of the organization, Phillip Agnew, which is not all that surprising. The two knew each other as student activists as far back as 2003 while attending Florida A&M.
*Gillum’s lengthy article praising Phillip Agnew in 2014, “We need more Phillip Agnews”:
Gillum was then director of George Soros-financed People For the American Way Foundation’s Youth Leadership Programs [Young People For (YP4)] and a City Commissioner in Tallahassee (FL):
[Link of Gillum praising Agnew: #https://ibw21.org/editors-choice/we-need-more-phillip-agnews/ or archived here.]
In the 10 years since People For the American Way Foundation started a program to support the next generation of progressive leaders, we have seen what can happen when organizations make real investments in young people.
… But at PFAW Foundation’s Young People For (YP4) program, we’ve learned that these short-term approaches to leadership development are a tiny component of what actually goes into developing a catalytic leader.
Take, for example, Phillip Agnew of the Dream Defenders. Agnew catapulted into the national spotlight last year when he led more than sixty young people into Florida Governor Rick Scott’s office three days after the jury handed down a heartbreaking “not guilty” verdict in George Zimmerman’s trial. But long before he was a national leader, Phillip Agnew was a business administration major at Florida A&M University who decided to join the inaugural 2005 fellowship class of Young People For. […]
Seven years later, in response to the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, Agnew built on his past social justice experiences and connections to form the Dream Defenders, which helped bring national attention to the Martin case. From Governor Scott’s office, the Dream Defenders pushed for a repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and a special legislative session on racial profiling and the school-to-prison pipeline, among other demands.
♦ GILLUM SIGNED PLEDGE WITH RADICAL “DREAM DEFENDERS”:
Via Sunshine State News:
The Pledge includes numerous alarming elements that show Floridians should indeed question Gillum a little more closely on his priorities:
“I will fight for a Florida that will divest from prisons, detention centers, guns, and police,” reads the Pledge, “and invests in the basic needs and safety of its people, especially its children.”
(Of note, at the top of the Pledge is a well-circulated photo of the interior of a passenger van that has been retrofitted with rows of child restraint seats. Once dubbed by leftists as Trump’s “prison buses for children,” it later was revealed these were commissioned in 2016 by the Obama Administration.)
♦ GILLUM SHOUT-OUT TO RADICAL ‘DREAM DEFENDERS’: “I’M PLEASED & PROUD”:
Via Sunshine State News:
In similar fashion to the signed Pledge, a member of Dream Defenders took the stage at the Primary debate and asked all the candidates to promise not to accept money from private prisons. And they promised.
During his turn, Gillum stated that private prisons should be illegal in the state. He expounded on his Pledge, noting a time when members of Dream Defenders had occupied floor space in the Capitol, staging a sit-in protest. Gillum boasted that he had snuck food in for the protesters every night, and that he was proud “to stand up for you, and stand beside you,” during that time. (See the YouTube clip on this page, or click here.) This is the group to which he tried to feign ignorance of pledging on Sunday.
[YouTube link: #https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq4DfTY_WJQ&t=120]
♦ DREAM DEFENDERS LINK TO PALESTINE RADICAL GROUP:
♦ GILLUM & DREAM DEFENDERS WANT TO ABOLISH I.C.E.:
SOURCES:
– Andrew Gillum Truly IS in Bed with the Dream Defenders (October 24, 2018)
#http://sunshinestatenews.com/story/andrew-gillum-actually-bed-dream-defenders
– Cornell Professor William A. Jacobson, “Andrew Gillum’s ties to anti-Israel, terrorist-glorifying Dream Defenders should be a disqualifier” (Nov. 4, 2018)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/11/andrew-gillums-ties-to-anti-israel-terrorist-glorifying-dream-defenders-should-be-a-disqualifier/
– Gillum Aligns With Groups That Support Boycotts of Israel (September 12, 2018)
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/gillum-aligns-groups-support-boycotts-israel/
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