For Some, Ferguson Isn't About the Gentle Giant; It's Trying to Relive Their Civil Rights Era Glory

Full Title - "For Some, Ferguson Isn't About the Gentle Giant; It's About Trying to Relive Their Civil Rights Era Glory"

RUSH: So the grand jury has reached a decision, but nobody knows what it is. Well, some people know what it is, but it hasn't been publicly announced. So everybody's on pins and needles now trying to figure out what it's gonna be and prepare a response based on how it goes. Let's go to the audio sound bites. Let's go to the Meet the Press Sunday morning. Correspondent Ron Allen was interviewing a protester in Ferguson by the name of Rasheen Aldridge, and the correspondent for NBC News said, "Do you think that they're going to indict the police officer, sir?"

ALDRIDGE: If there was an indictment, we wouldn’t stop protesting. We would continue to be out there trying to seek change. Change is changing the system, the justice system. So people are not in the system for time that they don't need to be in. And change could be a livable wage for people so they don't have to continue to live paycheck to paycheck. They understand this isn't the same standard civil rights protest. This is a group of folks who are just tired of being pushed against the wall. And once you're pushed so far, what do you do? You fight back.

RUSH: Well, what are we to make of this? So we're sitting here, we're minding our own business, we happen to stumble across an audio sound bite from Meet the Press yesterday in which a protester on the ground in Ferguson says that they're not gonna stop protesting even if the cop is indicted, because it's not about that. It's about changing the system, the justice system. So that people aren't in the system, that they don't need to be in it, and it's about a livable wage for people so they don't have to live from paycheck to paycheck. This is a group of people tired of being pushed against the wall. Once you get pushed so far, what do you do? You fight back.

So as everybody who wants to be honest about this knows, it isn't even about the gentle giant. Not anymore. And this guy just said it, even if there's an indictment, we are going to keep going. On Face the Nation yesterday, Bob Schieffer interviewed the president of the NAALCP, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People. His name is Cornell William Brooks. And Bob Schieffer said, "As you well know, this grand jury may well not return an indictment here. They may take no action. And what I'm hearing, it's gonna be a very hard case for the prosecutors probably to prove. Now, are you concerned about, if that happens, what the reaction of the community will be? Do you think it will be violent if there is no indictment?"

BROOKS: I am concerned. I am concerned because we have a prosecutor who had five complaints filed with the Justice Department concerning his police departments by the NAACP. He failed to take action. This was before Mike Brown. He then conducts a grand jury process where he essentially dumps evidence into the laps of the grand jury with little direction. So are we concerned? Yes. But we're more concerned about the failure of the grand jury to be given the kind of direction as is typically the case, and we're concerned about a grieving family and an outraged community. We want justice for them first and foremost, but we want to prevent more Mike Browns.

RUSH: Right. So he's worried there's gonna be violence, and he would know. So Schieffer said, "Are you urging people in the community not to commit violence? Are you saying to them, 'Look, this is not gonna help. In fact, it could hurt our cause,' or what are you telling them, sir?"

BROOKS: Absolutely. The NAACP has always stood for civil disobedience, nonviolent protests.

BROOKS: -- members of the community to respond to this decision in a nonviolent fashion.

BROOKS: There's an asymmetry of responsibility. The police have the greatest responsibility to keep peace and order and to behave in a fashion that encourages nonviolence, not to agitate the situation.

RUSH: See, so the facts don't matter here. The police are supposed to sit aside, stand aside, they're supposed to let whatever happens happens, because if you make agitators mad, they're gonna get angrier and you got a worse situation, so let the agitators go. If you got people that are looting, let 'em go. If the cops move in to stop 'em, it's just gonna make 'em mad. We can't have that. The police have the greatest responsibility here. Even if a suspect launches himself into the police car and even if a suspect attempts to get the cop's gun, the cop should do nothing about it, because to try to stop the assailant would just anger the community.

Well, that's what I heard, 'cause I'm comparing what he said with the facts that we have as to what happened with the gentle giant.

Now, CNN's really invested in this case, folks, as they are invested in most news stories and their outcome. I've been paying a little attention here during the breaks, and over at CNN they're saying, they're hoping that at the very least the grand jury will come up with something, even if it's a lesser charge against the cop. They say at CNN that the grand jury knows the public expects them to charge him with something, and by "the public," CNN means the professional protesters in Ferguson and around the country.

Another analyst at CNN just said, and I'm paraphrasing: the grand jury go home during the week. They only meet once a week or so, so they must be hearing what the people in the community want, and therefore the grand jury must weigh what the community wants against the evidence in the case.

Totally wrong. What the public wants is irrelevant in a sterile and uncorrupted world. But we are not in a sterile and uncorrupted world. And what the people want should have as much or some influence on the grand jury every bit as much as the evidence, thank you CNN. They want the grand jury to be directed. So they want to hang somebody. (interruption) The civil rights movement in part, ladies and gentlemen, came into existence to fight and stop mob rule. They were the victims of it. They were the victims of mob rule. And the civil rights movement was born out of that, and therefore it had, as part of its charter, if you will, to stop mob rule.

Now they're asking for it. At least this analyst on CNN is asking for mob rule. (interruption) Do they not understand how dangerous it is? I don't think they have any concern about how dangerous this is. Look, all of this is a product of many things. At the top of the list is how desperately bad public education is. That's number one. Number two, what has replaced public education in how certain people are raised. The idea the grand jury is supposed to listen to the public? They think the same thing of the Supreme Court. And so in effect, this particular analyst at CNN is actually seeking a form of mob rule.

If the grand jury is supposed to go home and pay attention to what the community, quote, unquote, whoever that is, wants, and then they are supposed to mix that in with the evidence that they have heard. You've also got here, it's a very subtle thing, but the intimidation of the grand jury has been going on here, too. I mean those people live in the community, just like the officer did. There's a whole lot of factors here that go into play. And of course when these kinds of statements are made on CNN, there's nobody at CNN to correct them.

There's nobody at CNN to say, "Are you sure this is what you want? Are you sure you want the grand jury to acknowledge and pay attention to the mob?" That's what it's been in Ferguson. You want the grand jury to listen to the mob, i.e., the protester, and factor that in? But you don't hear that at CNN. You see a bunch of nodded heads as though they completely understand and think it's a totally understandable, legitimate reaction.

Now, I mentioned earlier -- grab sound bite number nine -- I mentioned earlier that John Lewis, congressman from Georgia who was beat upside the head down in Selma back in 1964, his career was launched because of Selma, and he has been very vocal about what's going on in Ferguson and calling it the second coming of Selma. We had that sound bite for you last week. Well, they asked Obama, Obama was on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, and Stephanopoulos said, "One of your heroes, John Lewis of Georgia, has suggested that if there's no indictment in this case it would be a miscarriage of justice and another turning point like Selma. Do you agree with that?"

OBAMA: You know, I love John. I didn't see the quote so I don't want to comment on what John specifically said, but I will say this, that the kinds of ongoing problems we have with police and communities of color around the country are not of the sort that we saw in Selma. We're not talking about systematic segregation or discrimination. They are solvable problems if, in fact, law enforcement officials are open to the kind of training that -- and best practices that we've seen instituted in a lot of parts of the country.

RUSH: Uh-oh. It sounds to me like Obama's not down for the struggle. (interruption) Well, he did throw the police under the bus, but he also told 'em this isn't Selma. He told 'em it's not nearly as bad now as it was back in Selma. So he's not down for the struggle. I mean, if he wanted to confirm what John Lewis said, he would have said, "Yes, I think we're seeing Selma unfold again, sadly, very unfortunate." But he didn't. This isn't Selma, come on. We don't see this kind of massive systematic segregation or discrimination. Ah, we still have some problems. We got the cops that don't know what they're doing out there like that guy up in Cambridge, but nevertheless it's not nearly as bad. He said the cops are still stupid, but we can train 'em. We have some reeducation camps all set up. We have some sensitivity training centers and everything will be fine.

RUSH: All right, here's what I saw on CNN. I'll play the audio for you. This is Don Lemon. Our old buddy Don Lemon, fresh off lessons on oral sex on CNN, is now talking to... (interruption) Well, yeah, that's what he was doing. That was last week. I didn't play the bite. (interruption) I didn't because there are children, as evidenced by our last caller. There are children, there are readers of the Rush Revere series listening to this program, and I can't have that kind of stuff on this, with Don Lemon advising a woman on how to punish a guy during oral sex.

(interruption) Educating her? Advising her? (interruption) Yeah, she didn't know. She claims she didn't know. He was educating her, "Well, why didn't you...?" It was about using teeth, okay? That's as far as I'm gonna do, and then Lemon apologized for it if anybody found it offensive. The only thing he didn't say was, "That isn't who I am." But it is, obviously. Anyway, we love Don Lemon.

I hope they never, ever farm him out to some distant bureau as a street reporter. At any rate, he's talking with the justice correspondent Evan Perez about the news that the grand jury in Ferguson has reached a decision. Don Lemon said: About your protest. Does it have any teeth? 'Cause I know about teeth. No, he said, "The charges that are under consideration if Officer Wilson is indicted. Take us through that."

PEREZ: There's a variety of charges including, obviously, murder and manslaughter, and that's been the big discussion is whether or not this grand jury, having heard all of the evidence that's been presented, and also all the concern, whether or not they will... Uh, they will choose to do something perhaps on the lesser charge. There's a very high bar, Don, as you know, for some of these cases. Given the facts that we know publicly, there is a very high bar typically in these cases with law enforcement and police shootings. So the concern was perhaps, you know, you'd have a grand jury pressured into one of the lesser charges in order to placate the public. They know, as you said, what the media's been saying and all the public reaction to it.

RUSH: This is not a civil rights activist. Yes, it is. He's called a CNN correspondent, though. He's the CNN justice department correspondent, and he is the guy who suggested the grand jury be pressured into one of lesser charges in order to placate the public because they know -- the grand jury knows -- what the media's been saying, and they know what the public reaction to it will be.

Therefore the grand jury knows what the people (i.e., the mob) expects. The thing is, I don't care what you think you know. You don't know all the evidence that was presented that grand jury -- no matter what you think -- including you, Mr. Perez. This is the thing. Nobody knows all the evidence that was presented in there. I'm kind of surprised how little of it's leaked, to tell you the truth.

Some of it has. I don't know if it constitutes leaks, but there are always things. The thing about the media is they all think they know everything. Sad to say, the media are some of the most uninformed people in our society, because they're so tunnel visioned. They know what they think is important, they know what their outcome and desire is, and anything outside of that doesn't register. So then when they find out...

Like the Luke lacrosse case. What a classic! When that case was finally thrown out, they were floored! They could not believe it, because they fell for every bit of hyperbole from that prosecutor. Nifong was his name. They just fell for it hook, line, and sinker. They could not believe that case was thrown out, nor could the faculty who wrote the letter demanding that the three students be kicked out of school.

When the real facts were known, they didn't know how to process 'em, because they hadn't even considered anything other than what they know. I tell you, you know the way to visualize this? The media look at what they look at through a straw. Not even rose-colored glasses. They look at it through a straw. The universe that you can see with your two eyes looking at something? Put a straw up to your eyes.

That's what they see, and they aim that straw at what they want to see, and that's all.

CNN hired this person to be a correspondent, and this person's out describing things that are illegal if they happen in a grand jury, and he's describing them as though they should happen and they probably are happening, because the media has talked about the it -- and everybody watches the media, and everybody pays attention to the media, and everybody's afraid of the media.

“Civil rights era glory”

Oh you mean the civil rights that the Democrap party these same blacks vote overwhelmingly for every election were against? You know, like Robert “Sheets” Byrd who I believe filibustered against.

Exactly what I was saying. It’s allllllll about money. The cop represents the government and the government got the money, so they play the race card up as much as possible for the lawsuit. Same with the looting, act outraged so they have an excuse to steal and line their pockets. All of them, a bunch of frauds. They know daaamn well this Mike Brown was a punk, but they don’t care, they just want to “git paaaaaaayyyyeeeeed boooooooyeeeeee” This is exactly why Trayvon Martins mother trademarked his name and why Mike Browns mother shook down a guy selling tee shirts with his name on it.

I’ve thought this about Holder for a long time. Even his armed takeover at Columbia was the action of a late to the scene wanabee radical who say the 60s on tv and imagined himself as another Bobby Seale or Eldridge Cleaver.

Post-grand jury "narratives" have been well massaged by the liberal media & 'community ~~organizers'~~ agitators/race baiters'.

So much so, that this morning I heard one Fox news segment mention these protests are "history in the making" which will be in school textbooks/lessons which will include Michael Brown beside Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. I don't have a link to the video, but here is a print story following the same narrative posted by the Washington Post four days ago...

St. Louis psychologist offers game plan to parents on Ferguson
November 21 By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
(C)(W)(Sh)ould Rosa Parks or MLK view this as part-&-parcel of their "struggle" . . .
Elderly man carjacked in Ferguson, run over with his own car

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