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And how is the government different from the mob? I guess the only distinction is we vote for our mob. But this is the same think a mob boss would do. I think this is to be expected. Once you give people such power they will either be corrupted, or corrupt people will be the ones seeking to work for the organization.

"the old sheriff who put out the "contract" was black"

Doesn't that also make the old sherif a DNC water carrier?

But the DNC need not worry if their trial lawyers can get just one loyalist on the jury it will be hung.

This was NOT a case of an old redneck sheriff murdering his replacement. I doubt if there was a racial motivation but the old sheriff who put out the "contract" was black so that erases the old stereotypes.

Not necessarily. Though both the former sheriff and his challenger were black, it should be remembered that Derwin Brown enjoyed support from both the white and black communities, and that the corruption that has flourished under sheriff Sidney Dorsey includes both black and white criminals feeding the Dorsey payoff machine as well. The factions cross colour and family lines, as might be expected when money and power were the motivating factors. But there were those in both the white and black communities who wanted the status quo to remain unchanged so that their own pyramids of power in their respective subcultures would remain unchanged or at least enhanced.

The idea that an honest cop would come along to change all that really terrified some folks who saw their sand castles washed away in the tide of change that Derwin might have brought fourth. Whether those factions took an active role in the murder or not, their tacit support made the reformer's murder do-able in the political climate present in DeKalb County.

I doubt if there was a racial motivation but the old sheriff who put out the "contract" was black so that erases the old stereotypes.

Quite simply, it was a case of a corrupt ex-sheriff trying to keep his butt out of prison. And he knew the new sheriff would be the one to do it. I will wait for events to unfold, but if all is as presented, metro-Atlanta lost a dynamic force when Derwin Brown was murdered.