Posted on 08/19/2014 1:27:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
We Are All Complicit in the Warzone that Has Become Ferguson, Missouri The President, our Congresspeople, the governor, the police, and maybe even you.
By James Joiner on August 19, 2014
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As I'm writing this, people are in the streets in Ferguson, Missouri for the sixth night in a row. Journalists are being threatened and detained—not arrested, so, God forbid, they will not have their day in court and force some semblance of legal reckoning—and therefore kept from performing their duties. These are duties which are, remember, firmly and unequivocally protected by the very first amendment to this country's supreme law.
Amnesty International, the human rights organization normally found in war zones like Gaza and near terrorist organizations such as ISIS, have dispatched observers to Ferguson, their first time ever doing so in the United States. This is not a move they make lightly; they didn't do it in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and they didn't do it after the L.A. riots. It’s done now because they recognize that human rights are being violated.
Acts of despotism are being carried out, by a mostly white militarized police force, upon a mostly black, mostly lower class populace. When our President addressed the situation in Missouri today, cutting short his vacation in part to do so, he said that the people of Ferguson should be calm and stifle the “small minority” who are undermining the peaceful protests with their violence.
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It’s my fault. I left my privilege unchecked the other day.
No Swisher Sweets, no peace!
It’s my fault. I ate the burrito.
Yeah, I’m feeling pretty awful about the whole thing myself. Of course, it could be the bean burritos I had for lunch. Could go either way.
I vow revenge.
(Walks off muttering darkly)
The comments are dead on -
“What a stupid, thoughtless piece. I am not complicit. A criminal attacked a police officer and was shot. End of story.”
“People rob stores. Shoot at civilians. Throw firebombs. Attack Police.
Police respond
Lib mag calls them a “Hostile Force”.”
Not me. I didn’t conceive thousands of Back babies out of wedlock, resulting in two generations of feral youth roaming the streets as predators.
Black, not Back...sorry for typo
Is the author on that wacky backy or something?
This article reminds why don’t read his rag.
I didn’t make Michael brown steal from that store or attack that policeman...
“’WE’ meaing ‘YOU!’”
Tried to read the comments but it seems I cannot from here.
The fault of the collective. THIS was expected. Here it is.
Go eff yourself.
I am not “complicit” in a darn thing. I was home, having some beers, and minding my own business. One mile outside of Detroit. Where do you live, Mr. Joiner?
3 words: Air. Sick. Bag.
I didnnot make the thug take his drugs.
Attack the store owner.
Rob the store
Attack the cop
I did not make rioters riot, loot, shoot at cops, throw bottles and bricks either.
These elitist self centered people up in the likes of the north east have no idea what the real world is about. they live in their elitist liberal mostly white and homosexual communities .
Exactly!
As a journalist, Joiner just “reports” the events and does not find himself complicit in any way.
And we thought Rove / Romney were elitist...
LOL!
“It’s all my fault, just ask my ex!”
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