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Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Subject: [New post] NC Senator, Kay Hagan, Joins Stalinist ANSWER Coalition
in calling for Multi-Billion Dollar Pigsford Funding (Video)
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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> NC Senator,
Kay Hagan, Joins Stalinist ANSWER Coalition in calling for Multi-Billion
Dollar Pigsford Funding
(Video)<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/nc-senator-kay-hagan-joins-stalinist-answer-coalition-in-calling-for-multi-billion-dollar-pigsford-funding-video/>
*Scotty Starnes
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27, 2010 at 7:07 PM | Tags: black
farmers <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/black-farmers/>, Kay
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North Carolina <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/north-carolina/>,
Pigsford <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/pigsford/>, Pigsford vs
Glickman <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/pigsford-vs-glickman/>,
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The Pigsford scam is well documented. 80,000 Black farmers joined the
lawsuit when the U.S. Census Bureau shows there have never been more than
27,000 Black farmers at the time of the lawsuit. Remember Shirley Sherrod?
She is tied into this Pigsford scheme.
Liberty News Online <http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29166.php>
reports:
Pigford v. Glickman was a class action lawsuit against the United States
Department of Agriculture (the "USDA"), alleging racial discrimination in
its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1983 and 1997. The
lawsuit ended with a settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay
African American farmers $50,000 each if they had attempted to get USDA help
but failed.
To date, almost $1 billion has been paid or credited to the farmers under
the settlement's consent decree.
CASE HISTORY:
The lawsuit was filed in 1997 by Timothy Pigford, who was joined by 400
additional African American farmer plaintiffs. Dan Glickman, the Secretary
of Agriculture, was the nominal defendant. The allegations were that the
USDA treated black farmers unfairly when deciding to allocate price support
loans, disaster payments, "farm ownership" loans, and operating loans, and
that the USDA had completely failed to process subsequent complaints about
racial discrimination.[1]
After the lawsuit was filed, Pigford requested blanket mediation to cover
what was thought to be about 2,000 farmers who may have been
discriminated against, but the U.S. Department of Justice opposed the
mediation, saying that each case had to be investigated separately. As the
case moved toward trial, the presiding judge certified as a class all black
farmers who filed discrimination complaints against the USDA between 1983
and 1997.
The plaintiffs settled with the government in 1999. Under the consent
decree, all African American farmers would be paid a "virtually automatic"
$50,000 plus granted certain loan forgiveness and tax offsets. This process
was called "Track A".[2]
Alternatively, affected farmers could follow the "Track B" process, seeking
a larger payment by presenting a greater amount of evidence — the legal
standard in this case was to have a preponderance of evidence along with
evidence of greater damages.
THE RIPOFF OF THE TAXPAYERS BY BLACK ACTIVISTS:
Originally, claimants were to have filed within 180 days of the consent
decree. Late claims were accepted for an additional year afterwards, if they
could show extraordinary circumstances that prevented them from filing on
time.
Far beyond the anticipated 2,000 affected farmers, 22,505 "Track A"
applications were heard and decided upon, of which 13,348 (59%) were
approved. $995 million had been disbursed or credited to the "Track A"
applicants as of January 2009[update], including $760 million disbursed as
$50,000 cash awards.[3] Fewer than 200 farmers opted for the "Track B"
process.
Continue reading>>> <http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29166.php>
Be sure to read Ron Wilkins article
<http://www.counterpunch.org/wilkins08022010.html>about Shirley Sherrod and
the Pigford scandal. All this explains why she was canned so fast by Obama.
The truth is coming out about this spread the wealth scheme.
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