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What do y'all think about the riots in Ferguson?

Posted on 11/26/2014 10:28:50 AM PST by Jim Robinson

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To: Trillian
I also believe this was planned and exploited to keep something in the news cycle besides Ukraine, Syria, ISIS, Benghazi, Republican victory, illegal amnesty, imperial president lawless against our constitution and congress and courts do nothing to stop him. What does Al Sharpton need to be visiting the WH for if not to help exploit and coordinate the rioting media show at Ferguson.

I watched a brief CNN interview and this airhead lady reported asks, "Why would Michael Brown attack a police officer and run at him, it is not credible, what was he thinking, why would someone do that, it is not believable!"

Well how about the fact his 300Lb kid had four times the normal limit of psychotic elements from Pot in his blood stream and had pot in his possession. How about he was stoned out of his mind and not thinking clearly. those are the Grand jury facts this idiot could not answer her own question with. Leftwing liberal idiocy is a cancerous destroying toxic brain wasting disease.

161 posted on 11/26/2014 11:44:07 AM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: Jim Robinson

An angry political base is a loyal base in the Democrat Party.

Obama and his fellow travelers have succeeded in stoking the anger among the blacks.

From Obama’s viewpoint Ferguson is a raging success and Obama could care less about our opinions.


162 posted on 11/26/2014 11:44:22 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Jim Robinson; All

I remember watching some protestors in Madison, Wisconsin on TV. Although I didn’t see violence in Madison, both Madison and Ferguson seemed like watching a historic scenario with respect to union bullies / socialists / Democrats having indoctrinated otherwise peaceful people, people who have been robbed of their vision of the future by “community organizers,” to hate the “establishment.”


163 posted on 11/26/2014 11:44:47 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: TalBlack

Thanks, I couldn’t remember exactly. Yes, only if black thugs were allowed to kill cops would this be a wonderful world. Ok, pharrell. Personally, I think he did that because he was getting flack for saying on Oprah that he didn’t like Mike Brown’s “bullyish” behavior with the store owner. Hello, Mr. Happy: that was STRONGARMED ROBBERY. He didn’t say “Neener Neener neener” to the man - he robbed hm and roughed him up.

Anyway, maybe now Pharrell has more cred with utter idiots, but he lost me. He is a wonderful musician and absolutely gorgeous but I am over him. He’s an idiot to think that Grand Jury was wrong. Feelings over facts? Nope.


164 posted on 11/26/2014 11:50:01 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: ImNotLying

The riots have nothing to do with the death of Michael Brown. The riots have nothing to do with the verdict of the Grand Jury. These ignorant people will use any excuse to riot, loot, murder, protest to continue the false belief that they have been oppressed because of their race. They are being oppressed alright, by the liberal democrats who have used them and kept them on the plantation for one reason: So they can stay in power. When will they learn to break free from this oppression.

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Never


165 posted on 11/26/2014 11:50:20 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6qZd_xP1w)
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To: Jeff Chandler

President Calvin Coolidge returned home one Sunday afternoon from attending morning worship services. His wife, who was unable to attend, asked him what the preacher’s lesson was about that morning. He replied: “Sin.” His wife then proceeded to inquire more about the content of the lesson. He said: “Well, I think he was against it.”

http://www.family-times.net/illustration/Sin/201978/


166 posted on 11/26/2014 11:50:43 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Jim Robinson
Yep..all that trash and all those destroyed monuments when the Tea Party held those rallies in DC.

Cops just sitting around with nothing to do but monitor traffic.

167 posted on 11/26/2014 11:52:40 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Jim Robinson

I think anyone with half a brain can determine that we are a country of laws and when you break one you pay the penalty it’s called personal responsibility. Operative word here is brain.


168 posted on 11/26/2014 11:54:38 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: Jim Robinson

I saw a video of locals helping the businesses clean up the mess. I guess not everyone shares the rioters mentality


169 posted on 11/26/2014 11:59:33 AM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
one BLT “black pastor”


170 posted on 11/26/2014 11:59:40 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Most property insurance does not cover loss from civil disorder. The small business owners are SOL.


171 posted on 11/26/2014 11:59:43 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Jim Robinson
What do y'all think about the riots in Ferguson?

Frank Zappa sang about Watts:

" Seen the cops out on the street. Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff. And chokin' in the heat."

Some things never change.

172 posted on 11/26/2014 12:00:25 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Jim Robinson

islamist facilitation


173 posted on 11/26/2014 12:00:44 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Jim Robinson

I was too tired to drive down and join them. Working during the day just doesn’t leave time or energy for night time rioting.


174 posted on 11/26/2014 12:01:08 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The cartoon with the gas tanker says it all. The Marxist class warfare plan is coming together. Holder and Obama are smiling. It’s tragic when anyone loses a child. I’ve seen the pain of loss in the lives of many people who have and as a parent of 3 (even though mine are all adults with kids of their own) I can only imagine the unbearable heartache. When I read about police or a SWAT unit storming the wrong house and killing innocents, destroying property (and there’s no restitution) or when a cop shoots someone’s dog with little justifiable reason, when anyone, regardless of color gets jack-up by the police, I’m outraged. This is not the America I grew up in. There’s totally room for improvement and “no” I wouldn’t want to be a policemen in today’s environment. Their job is nearly impossible. We are a lawless nation with corrupt leaders on both sides of the aisle. Do I think the Black community needs to take a good hard look at itself? Absolutely! Have they been played? Yes, but they can’t use that excuse any longer. We all know there are good cops and bad ones. But my main point in writing this is to focus on the morals of our country because, in lots of little ways, we all are responsible for where our nation is at the present time. If we really valued traditional morality, we would not just give it lip service. We would fight for it realizing that evil exists in the world and in our own hearts. We’ve all compromised in little ways with what we knew to be right, yet failed to live up to even our own standards - let alone, Biblical morality. We’ve compromised with evil and now we’re “shocked”, “outraged”, etc., etc. At some point (and this is where the rubber hit the road) where do you draw the line? We’re a long way from swear words in movies (Gone with the Wind, started it I think), in songs, no prayer in schools, pornography displayed in the Git-and-Go service stations, nudity in movies, abortion as a civil right, legalized gambling, corrupt judges that remain in office, and the list could go on and on. People don’t like to be reminded that they are sinners and that there is a price to be payed. We are reaping the whirlwind (but there’s a worse one coming). forgiveness is available and peace with our Creator BUT true repentance is required. When I was growing up in the early 50’s even the crooks and the creeps acknowledged that what they were doing was wrong. Most folks, even if they didn’t go to church and didn’t do what’s in the Bible, gave mental accent to those standards. It wasn’t a perfect world, Leave It to Beaver was a fairy tale and we all knew it. We can’t go back but I wonder in going forward, “What will guide us?” I feel we have passed a tipping point in tolerating and compromising with evil. There’s no return. Possible events on our horizon are not encouraging -an economic collapse, WWIII begins due to our great leaders screwing over other nations and it’s displays of weakness and leading from behind. Do we descend into a police state with increased lawlessness where everyone does what is right in their own eyes? We all know that many in the elite class would love such opportunities. Complete control becomes a real possibility or we are destroyed by a combination Red China, North Korea, Iran alliance. My biggest problem is understanding why most Americans can’t see this. The Progressives have been marching towards their goals for over 100 years. And they’ve achieved most of them. We all know it’s been the frog in the pot example yet most seem to vote for their own suicide. It’s beyond comprehension except to say God has surely given us over to our own reprobate mind to do those things that are “not convenient” - talk about an understatement! Foreigners have not been required to assimilate into our culture since the late 60’s or early 70’s. We are a divided people and our options are mostly terrible. Everyone has their hands out for government goodies. While pain is often a great motivator and one that gives cause and time for reflection, I’m no longer optimistic that even great suffering would change the hearts of enough to turn our country around. There’s a war against God and most of America is on the wrong side. We hate Him and anything that reminds us of Him. I have no good thoughts when I think of the future for our nation. Even if Ted Cruz was elected and he chose Tea Party types for every gov. position, judgeship and office it would not be enough (though I’d like to try it just to prove me wrong). Hearts need to be changed, then lives will follow. Ferguson or something close is looming large on our horizon.


175 posted on 11/26/2014 12:02:05 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: Jim Robinson
What do y'all think about the riots in Ferguson? Rocks, bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails thrown. Stores looted and burned. Private property destroyed. Cars burned. Churches burned. Smoke, tear gas. Gunfire, including from automatic (assault) rifles. Looked and sounded like a war zone.

I think it's self evident that those denizens of Ferguson who are currently engaged in insurrection against the State, are clearly incapable of directing massed and aimed fire in a concentrated and disciplined manner by well-coordinated fire teams in order to effect the societal changes they have communicated a desire for.

Considering the idiocy and ignorance in motivation on display, that is a good thing.

I also find it self evident that amongst those supposed non-denizens of Ferguson who have reportedly traveled to participate in said insurrection, there is a distinct absence of any Von Steubens.

Considering the opportunity at hand for exacerbated Cloward-Piven outcomes by the collectivists, that is an astonishing thing.

Dang. Almost as bad as those tea party rallies the DHS has been warning us about.

Correct, it does not rise to the same level of high performance execution we would anticipate there. That portion of the general population does not require Von Steubens, and already understands the concept of applying 4GW.

It is very sad to see the success the collectivists have had in utterly crushing the integrity of the black family structure and the parallel destruction of the American spirit in their communities. Understandable sympathy for their current state is now being used to hook broader segments of the general population into the same cycle of dependency on the State, and will result in the same devastation.

C'est la vie, c'est la Republique.
176 posted on 11/26/2014 12:02:54 PM PST by Robert Teesdale (III% | 4GW)
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To: humblegunner; Bitsy; PATRIOT1876

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNC4FHR4XLA


177 posted on 11/26/2014 12:03:05 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Jim Robinson

I guess I have read too many books by William W. Johnstone but the store owners should have banded together and shot ever thug. Others would have thought twice about looting. They are criminals and should be treated as such.


178 posted on 11/26/2014 12:04:03 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Jim Robinson

There was too much damage for the number of people involved. It was a handout to the thugs of anarchists.


179 posted on 11/26/2014 12:14:05 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Was Michael Brown guilty?
Hands down!


180 posted on 11/26/2014 12:15:59 PM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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