Posted on 11/16/2014 7:46:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The shorter version of this week's news out of Ferguson is basically this: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. The grand jury investigation of the shooting of teenager Mike Brown, by the Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson has dragged on for weeks, from the hot summer afternoon when Brown's corpse was left to rot on the street for four long hours, to this week's polar vortex. This cold snap makes it even more likely that authorities will finally announce the decision they've been carefully grooming for weeks, that Officer Wilson will not be charged with murdering an unarmed 18-year-old.
Still, even with the way that officials have unlawfully and selectively leaked pro-Wilson tidbits from the closed door legal proceedings, the news conference held on Tuesday by the beyond-ironically named Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was a remarkable show of force...and I mean that in the worst sense possible. Flanked by six uniformed officers (most closely by two black lawmen, who never spoke), Nixon's entire purpose was to show zero tolerance for violence that hasn't occurred yet, to show he's ready for an "uprising" (a racially loaded term he used twice). The youth whose life was taken from him, Mike Brown, was never mentioned, not once. Meanwhile, CNN seems weirdly excited about what it claims is a spike in gun sales in and around Ferguson. I guess vigilantism is the new, Ebola.
People, we seem to have lost the entire thread of what Ferguson is all about -- the reasons this story has stirred the passions of millions of Americans. The so-called leaders of St. Louis County, the scene of the crime, have spent most of the last two months focused on these three things. 1) Stocking up, and I mean stocking up big-time, on the latest state-of-the-art riot control equipment....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Is Will Bunch’s middle name “panties”?
Just askin’.
Unarmed teen thug.
Strong-arm robber.
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I heard "loaded" is a racially loaded term as well. Just because they are black doesn't mean they are drunk. I definitely think Huffington should fire this writer because of racism.
“Will Bunch is a veteran political journalist and author of three books — most recently The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama — an in-depth look at the rise of the New Right, including the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, the Oath Keepers, and radical extremists in Congress. Will is also author of 2009’s Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/
Purely objective reporter here. Hopefully, he will doing be front & center reporting from the scene of the Ferguson (non) “uprising”.
“Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson told reporters that the police officer, at his police car, fired at Brown when he was just 35 feet away, a distance that made it somewhat more plausible that Wilson felt threatened. But the numerous photos of the scene prove that Brown was 100 feet away, a much greater distance that alters the narrative.”
What? He hit he kid six times from 100 feet away with a police service handgun? That sure does change the narrative!
This whole article is mere agitprop.
I admire Bunch’s demonstration of Liberal restraint. He managed not to call Mike Brown a “youngster” even once, although he came close with “youth”.
Multiple eye witnesses confirmed that Brown was charging Officer Wilson. But, in our racially charged country, the truth doesn’t matter. Harkening back to the OJ verdict, many of OJ’s supporters simply didn’t care he was a murderer. And the manipulators allowed the murderer to go free. I saw a trailer for the new MLK movie, Selma. All I could think of was ‘these people are pretending that this country is stuck in the 50-60’s’. This country is nowhere near the attitude of the 60’s. And allowing that narrative to prevail is divisive and damaging to our National conscience.
Oh for God’s sake! I’m so tired of people stuck in, or who want to be stuck in, 1968! This crap is just ridiculous.
Free Huey!
“Stonewall, stonewall, stonewall: “ An antigay dogwhistle for sure!
Correction -"he will be doing front & center reporting"
Really, HufferPo? This is what you've been reduced to? Not just pushing the race button but slamming it with a sledge hammer like it's carnival game?
All I have to say is (using my best Simon Cowell impersonation) that's pathetic.
The writer should be thrown in prison for inciting violence. This is pure agitprop.
Will sure has his panties in a Bunch.
“the news conference held on Tuesday by the beyond-ironically named Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon-—”
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This shows what a deep thinker this man is.
He’s even snickering at a NAME.
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But the only one intent upon murder didn’t get away with it. He ended up dead in the street.
You do mean the thieving feral punk thug who was trying to steal the officers firearm don't you?
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