Posted on 12/02/2014 9:12:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson protestor Cat Daniels, along with a number of others, have caused quite a controversy following their recent statements during an interview with USA Today. The 53-year-old financial consultant has openly shared her disapproval of her generation’s impact on their children’s lives. Unfortunately, she feels her generation has failed, and the series of events that have ensued following the highly publicized death of Michael Brown has only made her perspective more evident.
Daniels, affectionately known as Mama Cat to younger protestors, feels that little progress has been made since the civil rights era, which is why the fight for justice continues today. “This is 2014, and we are still confronting the problems that our mothers and fathers confronted back in the civil rights era,” said Daniels. “My generation came along, and we fed off what they did. We didn’t fight and keep the fight going. Now, because we didn’t keep the fight, our children have to fight.”
Another avid protestor named Jay Daniels also shared his perception of the message America sends about the importance of African American lives when officers like Darren Wilson are not indicted. Now, as a result of the grand jury’s decision, many are fighting back with a vengeance, which could unfortunately lead to the death of many. Potential martyrs in this defining moment are open to leading the new civil rights movement and reportedly aren’t worried about the possibility of fatal consequences.
“Some people are going to have to die for the cause. It’s sad to say, but this is the new civil rights movement for our generation, and there will be casualties and there should be bloodshed.”
However, arguably many readers have a different perspective of Brown’s death as a “defining moment.” Although Brown was an unarmed, African-American teenager killed by a white police officer, many are viewing the fight for equality as the support of a “thug” who robbed a convenient store. Many readers have stated justice “would have been served” if the store owner had killed Brown instead of Wilson — an officer allegedly just “doing his job.” Others see the Ferguson protestors as agitators, inciting riots and havoc, instead of individuals partaking in a civil rights movement for justice.
Here’s what some readers had to say:
“Justice would have been served if the shopkeeper Brown robbed and assaulted had pulled a pistol and shot the 6’4 drugged-out 300lb thug Brown dead on the store video… that would be justice… and save an innocent policeman trying to do his duty from being assaulted, beaten, having his career and life destroyed… and saved all the innocent Ferguson store owners from having their property looted and burned by mindless, violent, lawless criminal Democrats… It’s all about skin color, when racists call a ‘child’ a 6’4 300 pound thug who robs and assaults an innocent little shopkeeper, then attacks, assaults, punches, grabs for the gun of a Cop..Brown was armed… with aggression, hatred, bad attitude, and a 300 pound body..”
“Starting a civil rights movement by supporting a thug criminal like Brown? Yeah that makes sense…NOT. Here’s a movement for you – try to not commit crimes, push around shopkeepers, and attack cops,” wrote Brett Guyer via USA Today.
“The ones who deserve to die are the communist/anarchist agitators. As they should, thanks to our second amendment given to us to fight this terrorism and tyranny,” another reader wrote.
Do you think Michael Brown’s death is a defining moment in civil rights? Share your thoughts.
Okay. You first.
What a dipstick. Another Broken Eggs for Omelettes guy. The funny thing about turds like him is that when the acton starts, they are nowhere to be found. Key thing is, sure, some people are going to have to die, they just never think it will be them.
I lived in the Yokosuka Naval Base for several years when I was a kid between the ages of 8 and 11 (1967 - 1970)
Suffice to say that for an eight year old gaijin kid, Japan was a very strange place. Odd toilets that you had to squat over...open sewers...the smell of fish...large groups of people walking around wearing face masks, pachinko ball machines...restaurants with bizarre plastic food in the front windows...
But one of the oddest things to me was that whenever an aircraft carrier came into port, there would be these HUGE anti-nuclear weapon demonstrations outside the base.
At around 9:00 AM several hundred Japanese riot police would assemble in a field near my house, then on cue shortly thereafter, the crowds would assemble outside the fence near the main gate with banners and megaphones...I seem to remember large groups, but it might have only been 500 or even a thousand. They would get vocal and demonstrate for a while, then again, on cue, some of them would go over and begin climbing the fence. The fire trucks inside the base parked nearby would begin spraying the demonstrators on the fence with fire hoses, knocking them off, then they would begin spraying the other demonstrators through the fence.
Shortly thereafter, the demonstrators would disperse, the area would be quickly cleaned up, and when the water evaporated, there was no indication that anything had transpired.
When I think of it now, it seemed like one big, huge, ritualized kabuki dance. Everyone knew their roles on both sides, the whole thing went down like clockwork, and then it was over until the next time.
I remember my brother and I going over and talking to a bunch of the Japanese riot police, and inviting them back to our house after the demonstration was over. We went into the cabinets and opened up a bunch of cans of stuff and poured them into bowls. I recall that we had maybe ten bowls of things like chick peas, corn, whatever.
My mom came home, and politely told the Japanese guys to leave, which they did. I have no idea what my mother thought of that. I think she must have thought we were just crazy.
Oh, good God.
We don’t know what REAL poverty is in this country. Our “poor” people are fat, have cell phones, televisions, cars, clothes, roofs over their heads, clean water to drink...
Lower to middle class nowadays (and not just in this country) would be viewed as wealthy by many, and fabulously wealthy by some.
Class is not the main issue here. Culture is.
He was Bosnian according to the news reports I saw. I’m not sure where Serbian is coming from, but this is the second time I’ve seen that asserted.
These people are so stupid, they defy reason...we should start our own hands up protest...OK we give up, you are stupid!
“marked down meat”- yummy
OK, Jay - let's start with you.
Spot on. I posted a suggested town to get this stuff started the other day. They're cowards.
You want bloodshed? Bring it on b@#ch.
“Some people are going to have to die for the cause” .....
I’m all for that, which one of the protestors wants to be first?
Unfortunately, when/if these “Street Rat” no-minds decide to spread their hatred in communities other than Ferguson (like beating someone to death with a hammer), it is going to be VERY rough for them. Yes, they will kill more innocent people but I can guarantee their numbers will be drastically reduced. People are getting really pissed and about to demonstrate enough is enough. We all know that is what odumbo wants and the media would crap all over themselves trying to get the stories.
I’m still waiting for my CHL to arrive, but carry daily anyway.
I’ll take jail over the morgue.
F’em...I only applied for the permit out of respect for the laws of my new home BTW.
Some of you probably read about the protests last week at Westlake Center Mall in downtown Seattle during the annual tree lighting ceremony. There was a kids choir there and they got scared by the protestors and didn’t sing - had to leave.
I heard our new female Chief of Seattle PD on the radio yesterday. She said that was unacceptable. Yet, the police officers stood by and did nothing (some said it was because the wimpy mayor (a dumb, super lib) didn’t want them to do anything - you think some would have learned their lesson after the WTO riots here). It sounded like the police wouldn’t be standing down the next time for non-peaceful protestors (I hope that’s the case).
She did say that many of the so-called protestors were agitators that were recognized from previous protests (such as the May Day one) and that they apparently do this as part of their regular lives (I’m paraphrasing - I don’t recall her exact words - FReepers have discussed on various riot and protest posts in the past that some of these protestors were paid to do so and bussed in). She did say that they had received a lot of video and would be looking for some of the agitators.
So, the thugs here (mostly commies I suspect), ruined the tree lighting ceremony for the families, scared children, who had been practicing and excited to sing Christmas carols for the ceremony, and terrorized shop owners in a very nice mall in the middle of downtown Seattle.
I hope the police go hard on them next time, but I’m not holding my breath.
That attitude could come back to bite mama cat on her big ole a$$...
Bingo! They think that only they can break the rules and no one else will. Touching, naive and wrong.
I lived in the Yokosuka Naval Base for several years when I was a kid between the ages of 8 and 11 (1967 - 1970)
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I was in and out of Yokosuka 57-60 and homeported there 60-62. Yes, the demonstrations were definitely ‘street theater’ and had to do with Nuclear armed and powered ships.
(Any excuse for a get together).
Funny how the Merchants, Bar Keeps etal were ‘quiet’ about the ‘demonstrations’ until it started to take a toll on their business. THEN they started to ‘fight back’.
If the Govt etal had any gonads, they would tell the ‘rioters’ in Ferguson to wrap it up AND tell the Merchants that there would be NO ‘Urban renewal’ plan...
Watch names get dropped and arrests start then. As long as the ‘Authorities’ continue to ‘protect’ the demonstrators, the people trapped there can take NO action....
Tell the press to go home and quit interviewing these clowns and it will end quickly.
BTW, I ‘looked’ at your page and your father looks vaguely familiar (the ‘official portrait) of course I am at the age where about every other person one sees they swear they have seen them before.....<: <: <:
They seek anarchy and mob justice.
That’s one of the tenets of Communism - any revolution HAS TO BE violent.
Otherwise, it won’t “stick”, because the interim state of the society is misery.
Have to have that threat of death hanging over people to “get them over the hump” into paradise (which never comes).
What ships were you on? My dad was on some tin cans near that time frame (USS Rooks, USS Bristol, and a supply ship USS Oglethorpe (LOL...un less my brain is getting mixed up with the movie Slapshot!)
We say it jokingly but, at the heart of it, that truly is IT. We are allowing a ever larger and growing segment of society that finds it's meaning and outlets for their emotional disturbances in left wing causes to dictate how our society will run.
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