Thomas Sowell on "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Ferguson Slogan: "I Thought Of Joseph Goebbels"

Real Clear Politics ^ | Dec 3, 2014 | Staff

[Whenifhow]

.... Dr. Sowell, it's a catchy slogan, there's one big problem with it. It's fiction. Michael Brown, according to the eyewitnesses, did not have his hands up. What's your reaction? Why are members of Congress repeating something that they know is not true?

THOMAS SOWELL, ECONOMIST: Oh, for political reasons. I thought of Joseph Goebbels' doctrine, people will believe any lie if it's repeated often enough and loud enough. They're repeating it often enough and loud enough. And it will pay off for them personally and politically. People who are out to forward their political careers say and do things that have no relationship whatever to reality or to anybody else's interests but their own. I think what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, it is going to adversely affect blacks yet unborn who will still be paying the price for it 10, 20 years from now because you're not going to have businesses there that you had before. I've seen this happen in other cities. Detroit, is a classic example. Harlem. You run through the whole list of them. A city doesn't get over this kind of stuff in a few years.

[Whenifhow]

4:53 Minutes
Thomas Sowell: Economics and Ferguson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr16VSZLZaU

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I saw this on FB:

Pants up, don’t loot!

[Dilbert San Diego]

That’s what gets me too. This hands up don’t shoot symbolism is all based on a lie.

Those Rams players were perpetuating the lie with their demonstration.

We now know that Brown did not have hands up and ask not to be shot. To the contrary, he was charging Wilson when the fatal shots were fired.

The real symbol should be head down and charge people like you are a bull, if we want to symbolize what really happened.

[allendale]

That “hand up, don’t shoot pose” is the new icon of the Left. Soon somebody will create a sculpture copies of which will be dedicated at colleges and Leftist urban strongholds.

[Vigilanteman]

Just as 5000 years of recorded human history means nothing to Libtards, so does decades of real life consequences.

I had a conversation with one of these nitwits who told me all that matters is the "here and now".

Think of your most vile, spoiled adolescent brat and put it on steroids and you still don't even come close to your average libtard.

[Slings and Arrows]

Mike Brown: America’s Pavel Morozov.

[CrazyIvan]

Makes me think of Lenin. “A lie told often enough..........”

[TalBlack]

Sowell is right, it’s all a bunch of NAZI crap. I give zero respect to anyone mouthing it. I call it what it is to their damned faces.

[MeshugeMikey]

it was ALL caused By That Grainy Viral Image of the Gentle Giant Assaulting the guy in the convenience store.

[Loud Mime]

good reading!!!

[PGalt]

I thought of Joseph Goebbels' doctrine, people will believe any lie if it's repeated often enough and loud enough. They're repeating it often enough and loud enough. And it will pay off for them personally and politically.

The lie is the weapon used most often by the National Socialist, totalitarian, collectivist, criminal, deceiver, scumbag. The amplification of the lie for the agenda-drivers to move masses to loot, plunder and murder opposition is a lesson in history and a teachable moment in current events.

Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - 23.11 Ch23; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

[BilLies]

I nominate David Ruenzel.
He was sacrificed on the altar of Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Whitey Screed”.
‘Goes around, comes around.

[Vaduz]

Race pimps and media live by those words.

[Enterprise]

I would also make a comparison to Horst Wessel.

[jazusamo]

Excellent video linked in post #2 of Dr. Sowell on Hannity. Thanks for posting, Whenifhow

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[Slings and Arrows]

I would also make a comparison to Horst Wessel.

Agreed. Rachel Corrie also comes to mind.

[Slings and Arrows]

How so?

[MrB]

Pants Up, Don't Loot, Yo!

[Travis McGee]

A link to the full-text Free Republic thread.