The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/15/2014 5:40:04 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
If you want less government govern yourself in a better manner.
Slaves to a system, not free to act independently, but depend themselves on the system. I was talking to some successful businessmen from China, and they made me believe there was no WELFARE in China, everyone had to WORK>
Those who live in poverty, for the most part, are holding themselves back.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
“Everyone is aware by now of another Trayvon Martin situation, this time in Ferguson, Missouri. An unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer.”
In view of the fact that the opening two sentences establish a lie as the premises for the article I read no further. For anyone who could get past this is there anything of value here?
The fact that the police force and city council of the majority black city are white tells me that they don’t bother to take part in governing themselves.
The fact that they want someone else to correct those perceived wrongs tells me that they have no intent to take part in governing themselves.
Excellent!
I agree.
That's the real problem, he won't be. Case after case is making this very clear. The police can kill with no accountability whatsoever.
I have not researched the details of this incident but it looks to me like this is yet another questionable police shooting. It may have been justified or it may not but one thing is for sure if it was not I doubt there will be any meaningful consequences.
Details that look suspicious to me is the amount of shots fired and where the suspect was found in relation to the police cruiser. To me, it looks as though this suspect was running away. Even if he attempted to take the officers weapon, at the point where he was running away removed any justification for lethal force. We need more details though to determine this for sure.
As opposed to what -- a politically active black community voting in a block sending only tax-and-spend Democrats into political office turning it into another Detroit or Chicago???
There is something to be said of a 70% black community allowing themselves to be ruled by a 90% white council and 94% white PD.
But that has ended now thanks to one brainless white cop.
I have no interest in them staying on the plantation.
>> Everyone is aware by now of another Trayvon Martin situation
Bull
Either you’ll be governed by God,
or, by God, you’ll be governed.
I concede that suggesting government is holding people back absolves them of personal responsibility. It would have been wiser to say that government entices people to dependency.
I’m lost, what’s the lie here? This matter in Ferguson is similar to the Martin case. In both an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed. Yes, the circumstances surrounding how they got shot are different. In Martin a private citizen defended himself, in this new case a police officer was involved though because the investigation isn’t complete the circumstances of the shooting aren’t known yet.
I agree Mr.B. This was what used to make our nation great - people did was was right because they wanted to honor God with their life - not perfectly and not everyone but most of us. The only way back is to return to the One we left. Unfortunately, most of our citizens will try anything except that idea.
There are definitely issues with law enforcement that deserve more attention. The cops often get away with physically harming private citizens who have done no wrong. We don’t know if it happened in this case yet or not, so I’ll withhold judgment. The use of military equipment in the aftermath was disturbing though. The police serve the people and they deserve scrutiny as do all government employees in positions of power.
“In Martin a private citizen defended himself, in this new case a police officer was involved...”
You answered your own question.
My reading (and I said clearly that I went no further than the first two sentences) was that the purpose of the opening is to suggest that Trayvon Martin was an innocent who was killed without provocation as is the second sentence intended for Michael Brown. Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in self defense - all the evidence suggests it and in fact a court held as much despite what the nay-sayers say.
Just because a young black man is killed does not mean there is an equivalence from one event to the next nor does it mean in any way there is a similarity
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