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Governor won`t answer why National Guard plans changed, leaving soldiers on sideline
Fox 2 News ^ | Dec. 3, 2014 | Chris Hayes

Posted on 12/06/2014 1:43:54 AM PST by greeneyes

(KTVI) – While parts of North St. Louis County burned, hundreds of National Guardsmen waited on the sidelines.

We`ve learned that all 2,200 Guardsmen were in St. Louis area before the Darren Wilson Grand Jury decision. Not all of them were used, when it appears they were most needed. Hundreds of them were part of a special force ready to act, yet remained on standby while businesses burned.

During FOX2 live coverage the night of November 25th, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said, ‘It`s one in the morning. There are fires all over North St. Louis County, buildings burning in Ferguson, Jennings, Dellwood, unincorporated North St. Louis County and (the National Guard is) nowhere in sight. At this point the promise is unfulfilled.’

Meanwhile hundreds of Guardsmen remained stationed nearby. Video obtained by FOX 2 shows soldiers ready for action inside a building near Lambert Airport

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; nixon; riots
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To: greeneyes
Or bought up cheap by some Tony Rezko type real estate developer with a plan for redevelopment.

Ultimately, perhaps.

The pattern, though is that the residents of the affected area who had businesses will likely get out. In other areas this has been described as "white flight". As they move out, the community will spread, shopping in other areas because they drove the businesses out. If lawless behaviour persists, that will cause a shift in customer demographic for those stores, and ultimately in those neighborhoods.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The pattern is well enough established.

At some future date, it is possible that a developer will move in, snap up enough cheap real estate (often in some urban renaissance sweetheart deal) to build an enclave or new neighborhood, but it will have its back to the people who destroyed the old one. That may or may not work out for the new residents, but the developer will make out.

21 posted on 12/06/2014 3:52:45 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Texas Eagle

So we elect Whigs ans what changes? NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZERO. Two wings of the SAME party = one party rule. One party rule = despotism.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Declaration of Independence


22 posted on 12/06/2014 3:54:35 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: greeneyes

Nixon won’t explain who dropped the ball on the Water Patrol’s merger with the Highway Patrol. Three years after he headlined this initiative, none of the Patrol higher ups have had water training.
Where the heck is the news media ?


23 posted on 12/06/2014 4:04:35 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: greeneyes

President? The man is the biggest damn idiot for a Governor I have ever heard.


24 posted on 12/06/2014 4:25:00 AM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: greeneyes

The democrat party counts on made up outrage and union organized violence to spark their next round of phony talking points. The war on women has run it’s course and actually started to hurt them....so the women go under the buss and the war on blacks by police come out. The National guard was kept on the sidelines because the democrats need the evening news to be filled by protesters and looting.


25 posted on 12/06/2014 4:25:42 AM PST by ontap
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To: Rome2000

I believe they have forfeited a lot of black vote as well....most of those store owners were minorities.


26 posted on 12/06/2014 4:29:00 AM PST by ontap
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To: ontap
I believe they have forfeited a lot of black vote as well....most of those store owners were minorities.

Nope. The usual 90-95% will stay on the Dem plantation.

27 posted on 12/06/2014 4:35:46 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: greeneyes

Governors govern. What a miserable failure. He could have done a lot more to control the looting and rioting that destroyed the property and lives of law-abiding, hard-working citizens.


28 posted on 12/06/2014 4:37:15 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Rome2000
...the marxists have now forfeited the white vote in Missouri.

That's the biggie.

29 posted on 12/06/2014 4:39:34 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

And Pennies to donuts that there was a phone call from on high, telling Nixon that Ferguson needed to burn.
it is called not letting a crisis go to waste.


30 posted on 12/06/2014 4:52:55 AM PST by Tupelo (Abby as in Abby Normal.)
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To: greeneyes
Wonder why the occupants didn't shhot the arsonists. Hannity had the owner of an insurance agency on. He said that the rioters threw Molotov cocktails into the floor above his office and that those upstairs put out the fires.

That's attempted murder. You are still allowed to defend yourself.

31 posted on 12/06/2014 4:59:12 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Tupelo

BINGO!

This was ordered by obamatollah/val-jar to allow the burning, looting and destruction of private property by the leftist racists.


32 posted on 12/06/2014 5:02:50 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: greeneyes

In the Katrina episode at Ferguson, the school busses were played by the National Guard

There were 700 NG actually deployed to 100 different sites to answer phones etc while the cops were out standing on the streets


33 posted on 12/06/2014 5:05:50 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: windsorknot

The parents of the drowned Iowa kid just filed a federal lawsuit against various officers in the Missouri Highway Patrol. Nixon had better prepare to get creamed.


34 posted on 12/06/2014 5:14:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Arkansas is in the Upper South: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upland_South

It was also part of the Confederacy, thus, a Southern State.


35 posted on 12/06/2014 5:34:02 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: Ken H

I know what you saying but simply is not true. When Obama leaves the 90% figure goes away. A lot of these people will go back to not giving a crap when there is not a black on the ballot’ Percentages will still be high but not as high but the total number will drop off drastically.


36 posted on 12/06/2014 6:06:21 AM PST by ontap
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To: Eagles6
You are still allowed to defend yourself.

Well, no, actually you are not allowed to defend yourself if the Government has their way.

The Rulers want you to cower helplessly and submit when the predators show up. Maybe they will send somebody along later to clean up the mess.

Plan accordingly.

37 posted on 12/06/2014 6:38:46 AM PST by flamberge (What next?)
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To: flamberge

True.


38 posted on 12/06/2014 6:42:02 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: greeneyes
Don't know what the motivation on Nixon's part to not send the National Guard was but in the aftermath of the riots we have learned that it is the intent of President Obama and Eric Holder to turn the Mike Brown affair into two separate national movements.

One movement is professional community organizer organized National Protest movement led and trained by Holder DOJ Community Outreach Officers, professional Communist and Anarchist agitators and members of the New Black Panther movement.

On the Government side , Holder is using the Mike Brown protests to mobilize a national crusade to enforce a federal power play on state and local police departments.

Obama and Holder wanted riots to push this two track agenda

39 posted on 12/06/2014 7:27:46 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Smokin' Joe

“...and lives were more important than property.”

Yeah, I bet lives wouldn’t have been more important if it was *his* property that was gonna get torched.


40 posted on 12/06/2014 7:36:49 AM PST by PLMerite (Why did my tagline disappear? I didn't delete it.)
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