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 detainednot arrested, so, God forbid, they will not have their day in court and force some semblance of legal reckoningand 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. Its 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
Hey James! You should go live on Neverland Island with the rest of the children who wouldn’t grow up.
Its my fault. I always lock the doors to my car and you can hear the click a mile away.
I didn’t know “Esquire” was still being published.
No, James, we are not.
As far as Michael Zbrown I concerned, nd his death...he is responsible.
He chose to rob the store.
He chose to walk in the middle of the street.
He chose to ignore an officer’s lawful instruction to get out of the street.
He chose to scuffle with the police officer.
He chose to punch the officer and break his orbital bone.
He chose ignore the officer’s order.
He chose to bum rush the officer.
This resulted in his death. Not anything you, or I, or anyone else did.
As far as the riots, that is on the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Black Panthers, the President, Holder, etc. who are presenting false narratives and not facts. They are doing this for political gain, but they are living.
Them, and the people noxious to believe them.
Particularly the ones who want to use it to commit crime.
But not us, James...no, not the rest of us at all.
they want the soft men, tough women of non-color to feel (key word) unworthy of being above the (false) narrative of a 300 lb THUG getting lead poisoning for rushing a cop.
Challenge - REJECTED.
TL;DR - LIBS Being LIBS.
WOW, I didn’t even think it might be my fault. I have been so busy for the past 40 years working full time, paying taxes, raising kids, working, and then working some more, paying more taxes. It never crossed my mind that I was contributing to the delinquency of so many in a certain race and several generations. (/s)
NO.
I think the media, including Esquire, politicians and opportunists have created the Ferguson show.
Initial local reaction may have been organic, but it’s been synthetic since then.
It’s now a bunch of outsiders who’ve come in to use the locals as pawns for their own agendas.
Ok...I admit it....I’m responsible....
I personally spiked all the water taps just in black homes with chemicals to make normal people to loot, steal, do drugs, shoot eachother over a street border....
I also made all those black women in the 90’s to do crack and have numerous crack babies...
What else could it be...?
You know the tables are starting to turn when liberals want to share the glory.
I wish they would give the rioters gallons of gasoline and a box of matches. I am rooting for them to burn the city off the face of the map. I sick of hearing about it. No one even knows all the facts.
Isn’t Esquire a “gay” magazine?
If we would JUST allow Swisher Sweets to be purchased with EBT/SNAP cards, this wouldn’t have happened! /s
I was watching Fox News late last night. The reporter “on the scene” in Fergeson said there were about 50 protesters, about 200 cops and about 500 media people in the area. He added “we have become the story here.” He had a point.
No I’m not unless they’re talking about the fact that I pay taxes to support those ungrateful slugs.
And where is the $60 trillion dollars we gave to these scumbags anyway?
Did they waste most of it on dope and spend the rest on disposable diapers for 4 million fatherless babies?
My conscience is completely clear.
I think I’ll go shoot myself now...
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