Posted on 08/21/2014 7:59:06 AM PDT by Jeff Head
The left, the race batters, and this administration want a particular narrative about Ferguson, and they have a willing and abetting media to help make it happen and maintain it.
Simply put...that's why this incident is lasting so long in the media.
This Ferguson narrative of a white cop deliberately executing an unarmed black teenager who was just walking down the street continues their race touble propaganda, distracts from the much more serious issues of the day, and they hope will give them political cover for the fall election.
This Ferguson narrative also has no basis whatsoever in the truth.
Eyewitness accounts make plain that:
1) Michael Brown profaned a police officer who at first simply asked him get out of the middle of the street.
2) Micael Brown refused to follow a lawful police instruction to get out of the middle of the street.
3) Michael Brown assaulted the police officer when he returned to question Brown, striking him several times in the face, attempting to the get the officer's weapon in the process.
4) Michael Brown ran from the police car after assaulting the officer.
5) Michael Brown turned around and taunted the police officer when that officer gave chase and told him to stop.
6) Michael Brown then charged the police officer.
7) Michael Brown was killed by gunfire from the police officer as he charged that officer, Darren Wilon.
The police incident report agrees with this sequence of events.
Conversation from two bystanders discussing what happened on a YouTube video agrees with this sequence of events.
Other eyewitnesses agree with this sequence f events.
The medical report on the officer indicates he was severely beaten about the face and head...beaten almost unconscious...and sustained a fractured orbital bone to his left eye.
I believe that forensics and ballistics will prove this sequence of events.
Michael Brown was a large, very powerfully built and strong young man who was also a violent criminal and thug. He had strong-arm robbed a store minutes before this confrontation.
This officer, Darren Wilson, was heroic in his actions.
After significant injury to himself, and at moral peril to himself, he confronted a violent criminal and attempted to do his duty and apprehend the criminal. He then had to defend his life against the criminal and shoot him.
God bless you officer Wilson, and God keep and keep you.
It does not have to be a black vs white riot.
Unless and until whites are shown being rounded up and executed - most of Suburbia will simply express disbelief and applaud whatever measures are taken to ‘return things to normal’ so they can get on with their lives unhindered by such concerns.
And this is the goal.
All it takes is widespread mayhem in the streets, and Obama knows a majority of the country’s emoting populace will accept the justification to do whatever is necessary upon the pledge to ‘return things to normal’ - even when they will include measures that END their liberty permanently.
This is why this case will be stoked to achieve the maximum carnage as widely as possible with the non-state actors.
This scenario works for rioting blacks, latinos or Jihadists that have had an open door to waltz in here unimpeded.
Now someone tell me Obama is ‘incompetent’ again. He’s not.
He’s an insidious genius - empowered by Satan himself.
“He’s an insidious genius - empowered by Satan himself.”
I would not say that he is ‘genius’ but I do NOT agree with all of the opinions about his ‘incompetency’.
I do agree with you to the extent that he is definitely not incompetent. He knows exactly what he is doing and some dismiss him as being incompetent. They are wrong.
He seems aloof and uncaring about many issues but that is by design.
I use the term ‘genius’ to describe his success in pulling the wool over the entire nation’s eyes and still get away with everything he is doing.
Genius in getting the GOP to surrender in total to him and his policies.
Genius in convincing the populace he is not responsible for everything he has done.
Genius in pitting Americans against Americans while opening up our borders and flooding us with insurgents both third world socialist and Jihadist.
Genius in getting the country to accept Marxism and Communism as hope and change.
Genius in empowering Jihadist Islam to establish their much-desired global Caliphate.
Yep.
So, how’s Iraq? Lois Lerner? the VA? Benghazi? the EPA? Obamacare? Jobs?
You can’t leave out the absurd militarized rollout by the police. I never thought I would see a manned, tripod-mounted machine gun on top of an APC in this country, but the police did that in Ferguson - along with cop-troops sticking rifles in everyone’s faces and firing tear-gas into private yards. They deliberately incited the rioting by these acts, nothing less. It was obscene and dangerous and inexcusable. Anyone who doesn’t see it as a major incrementalism step towards acclimatizing the population towards totalitarianism is simply in denial.
When is that idiot governor up for re-election?
Amen… but you do not dare say that among some in this crowd.
You will be accused of being a ‘race-baiter’.
Not sure...but not soon enough IMHO.
Not well for blacks in general, very well for JJ and AS concerning business.
Nailed it.
Does it matter? The governor is not the problem. The fools who keep him in the house are the problem.
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Why should they do that?
When it exists, yes.
Sorry, SWAT teams have existed for decades. With gangs and drug cartels the need for special weapons and tactics is obvious.
When confronting large crowds of angry people, who begin throwing rocks and then Molotov cocktails at officers, nd who reuse to disperse...tear gas is routinely used, then rubber bullets, etc.
This was not an incitement, it was a response to escalation, being driven by agitators and a wholly false narrative.
Not one...not one protestor has been injured by police. Several have been injured by other protestors, and several police have been injured by thrown rocks and bottles.
IMHO, when protestors begin initiating violence against law enforcement, they should be told to disperse. When the do not do so, but continue with violence the police should take measures to clear the streets. They did, using tear gas, and rubber bullets.
Had the crowd escalated it further, I am sure the billy clubs would have come out. I am grateful they did not.
One of the good things I have seen has been large numbers of protestors, lined up to keep agitators from approaching police line...and some of them specifically pointing out the offenders to police who then arrested the perps.
Good for those law abiding folks. I am sure they have helped prevent far worse violence.
I’m not sure what your point is since I have not come out against the existence of SWAT teams or effective and appropriate riot control or police self-defense.
If, however, you are justifying the setting up of a manned, tripod-mounted machine gun on top of an APC pointed at the crowd, or having SWAT officers roam the crowd pointing loaded M-16s at people or firing tear gas into private yards containing peacefully assembled people, then yeah, I have a problem with that.
A big one. Call it a 230+ year-old philosophical difference of opinion.
" deliberately inciting the rioting by these acts, nothing less."
I indicated that the police were not inciting rioting in the least, rather, they were responding to increased violence, Molotov cocktails, looting, burning, etc.
Also, if you think that US civil law enforcement has not responded in the past to rioting, looting and armed violence in this nation with overwhelming and deadly force in its 230 history...you are sadly misinformed. There is no 230 year old difference in founding US philosophical principles here.
As it is, in Ferguson, no resort to the use of heavier weaponry has been necessary, thank God. Rioters and protestors have been arrested, tear gas has been used, but that has been done to date with no protestors being injured by law enforcement.
The LEO actions, to date, have clearly served to reduce increased violence and illegality instead of inciting it.
So, thus far their tactics are working without the need for resorting to any harsher means. But they have shown, in a potentially very violent and explosive civil unrest environment that the rioting, looting and violence could also be put down if it got terribly out of hand.
Let's all pray that does not happen.
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