Posted on 02/11/2015 11:27:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
The mayor of Ferguson said Wednesday that he had tried in vain to urge Gov. Jay Nixon to deploy the National Guard in his town as people burned and looted buildings in protest of a grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown case. […]
Nixon declared a state of emergency a week before the grand jury decision and had said the National Guard would be available to help local authorities “protect life and property” in case protests turned violent, as they did after Brown was shot Aug. 9
(Mayor James) Knowles (III) said he originally was told by St. Louis County police that the Guard would be available to protect the Ferguson police and fire departments and City Hall when the grand jury’s decision was announced. But Knowles said the county police chief later told him the Guard would not be there, because of a decision by the governor.
When protesters began destroying property on Nov. 24, Knowles said he tried unsuccessfully to call two Nixon staff members. He said he then reached out to U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster and state Treasurer Clint Zweifel for help in urging the governor to send in the National Guard. Knowles said it was his understanding that they also were unsuccessful. …
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I don’t believe one has to be a conspiracy theory nut-job to think the events in Ferguson on Nov. 24th were entirely scripted.
That’s about the opposite story compared to what many heard last year. Based on the Mayor’s reputation for being a wishy washy white-guilted Mayor, it’s easy to believe he followed somebody’s (Holder?) orders and just let er rip, all the while, knowing the National Guard were nowhere around to intervene.
in protest of a grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown case”
…this BS has to stop. They burned, robbed and assaulted Ferguson because they don’t work or earn a living. They wanted free stuff. So they took it. That’s exactly how it should read.
I’m glad the guard wasn’t there. It would have only escalated.
Rush described that kind of “reporting” as “the narrative”. It’d take a miracle to utterly stop these propagandists masquerading as journalists, after all these decades.
Escalated into what? Did the “protesters” have weapons that could withstand the Guard?
It took the Guard to quell the chaos in Los Angeles post-Rodney King. Have they lost this ability?
This is a riot.
“” Elements of the 82nd and 101st U.S. Army Airborne Divisions were mobilized outside of the city. As the situation in Detroit worsened, Romney told Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, “We gotta move, man, we gotta move.” Near midnight on July 24, President Johnson authorized thousands of paratroopers to enter Detroit.
Johnson went on national television to announce his actions and made seven references to Romney’s inability to control the riot using state and local forces. Thousands of arrests took place and the rioting continued until July 27. The final toll was the largest of any American civil disturbance in fifty years: 43 dead, over a thousand injured, 2,500 stores looted, hundreds of homes burned, and some $50 million overall in property damage.
Of interest.
If that’s the case, why didn’t the situation really explode when the Guard WAS finally sent in?
Nixon is very intelligent and a formidable politician, but every narrative I’ve heard is that Nixon made his decision and would not listen to anyone, or even keep them further informed. Can you say “Dysfunctional”?
I think it would have gotten worse. It could have ended up with the Guard being attacked, the Guard defending themselves, then the blacks striking back even worse. Yes, it could have escalated.
No, it would not have “escalated”. It did not “escalate” once they came in. The “protesters” (rioters) are not suddenly undefeatable monsters compared to how they were in the past.
I listened to the State Police scanners that night and the guard was referenced as being staged. Someone decided not to deploy them, even though both local and state police were getting their arses kicked, and the town was under siege by all sorts of local and trucked-in trash.
Nixon got what the left wanted.
These issues have to escalate to let nature take its course; what hope do these areas have if private property isn’t protected?
Would you ever build a home or open a business there?
“It could have ended up with the Guard being attacked, the Guard defending themselves, then the blacks striking back even worse.”
Isn’t that what the Guard is for? How can anyone just lie down to lawless gibsmedats? If you had something at stake in Ferguson you would wish they’d take whatever steps are necessary to protect you hard-earned investment.
The Guard was posted in town but Gov. Nixon held them back and allowed the city to burn.
Damn him...
Nixon was answering to a higher power, of that I have no doubt.
His lack of leadership that night and lack of availability was by design, and he should have been removed from office.
He let Ferguson happen, on purpose.
The mayor has limited power, and by most accounts has been a very good mayor and a good man.
But what we witnessed that night was a government sanctioned riot, sponsored at the State and Federal levels, and there should be hell to pay for that.
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