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Ferguson, Bundy Ranch, & 'Dancing The Night Away' With The Obamas
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
“My administration has been closely monitoring the situation in Egypt, and I know that we will be learning more tomorrow when day breaks. As the situation continues to unfold, our first concern is preventing injury or loss of life. So I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors.
The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.”
- U.S. President Barack Obama, January 28, 2011 (official statement here).
The events in Ferguson, Missouri went from what could have been just another all too common and tragic incident in which an unarmed black man is killed by an overly aggressive and unprofessional police force, to what may be a historically significant event in American history. So how did this transformation occur and what does it mean going forward? Those are the two questions I intend to address in this post.
There are two primary factors that have collided to create the current out of control situation in a suburb roughly 15 miles northwest of St. Louis, which before this past weekend, almost no one had ever heard of. The first factor is the underlying tension in American society that I have been writing about for several years now. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than in the minority majority inner cities or their outskirts. Being a privileged person, I have thankfully never experienced the dehumanization and oppression felt by so many in these disenfranchised communities, but I can still understand the fact that these neighborhoods are ground zero in the civil unrest that is likely to continue into the foreseeable future.
The second factor is the entirely inappropriate and dangerous militarization of police forces throughout these United States. While extreme tension between impoverished communities and the police has been well documented for decades and expressed through music and movies (I grew up with NWA’s Fuck Tha Police and Colors), the cops were generally speaking merely men and women driving around in patrol cars with guns and batons. Not to dismiss the violence that can and has been inflicted through those means, but the police in recent years have taken things to a whole new frightening level: Total Militarization.
I consider this trend to be such an existential threat to freedom and civil liberties that I have expended a considerable deal of time and energy over the past several years highlighting it. I have covered the topic too many times to list here (I will provide a compilation at the end of this post), but there is one in particular I want to mention. The post was published two months ago and was titled: The Militarization of Police Continues…Machine Guns, Grenade Launchers, Silencers and More. In it I quoted the following from a New York Times article:
During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.
The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”
I then concluded the post with the following observation:
Of all the bad ideas currently being implemented in these United States, turning the police into soldiers is certainly near the top of the list.
Indeed, and we are now reaping some of the rewards from this absurd and fascist policy. One that must be reversed immediately. If you think I or others may be exaggerating the threat here, think again. Social media and the internet generally is filled with veterans reacting in horror at what they are seeing unfold domestically. Here are two of the most powerful tweets I came across:
The gentleman on the left has more personal body armor and weaponry than I did while invading Iraq. pic.twitter.com/5u6TxyIbkk
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 14, 2014
I leveled my weapon twice overseas. Leveled. Not fired. I had legit threats and went through proper EOF. Stop fucking up, Ferguson PD.
— Broken Handmic (@13F2PL7) August 14, 2014
At this point I’d like to remind everyone that crime in the U.S. has been dropping since the 1990′s. So why has domestic police force militarization been growing exponentially since then? Ostensibly, it is for the “war on terror” and to keep us safe. In reality, we know this is bullshit. Just like the NSA’s constitutional spying hasn’t stopped a single terrorist attack, turning local cops into a domestic army hasn’t done a single thing to make us safe.To the contrary, it is creating an environment where the general public harbors increased resentment and skepticism toward police, and the police view the citizenry as the “enemy.” This takes the societal tinderbox that already exists and makes it downright explosive. Ferguson is just the latest example of the tension bubbling to the surface, but there will likely be many more in the future.
While the above exposes the excuse for militarization for the lie it is, it doesn’t answer the question. As I have maintained for years now, I believe all police state activities, from NSA surveillance to the militarization of the police, is a entirely deliberate program being implemented by the status quo (oligarchs, Wall Street, politicians, intelligence agencies, etc) to put in place a police state ahead of the civil unrest and dissent they know is coming. How do they know it’s coming? Simple. They know better than anyone else the extent of their collective theft and lawlessness and they know full well domestic blowback is coming. They are just getting geared up ahead of time.
So where do we go from here? What does all this mean and can we expect more of this in the future? One of the more disturbing aspects of this entire affair, particularly to the black community, must be President Barack Obama’s complete indifference to the entire incident. He had been pretty much silent on the entire thing, yet Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz found the time to release the following statement last night updating the world on…Obama’s vacation. Here’s the official press briefing:
Tonight, the President and First Lady attended the birthday celebration for Mrs. Ann Jordan at an event at the Farm Neck Golf Club. There were approximately 150 guests in attendance.
Among the attendees seated with the Jordans and the President and First Lady were former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett and her mother Mrs. Barbara Bowman, Ursula Burns, Kenneth Chenault and his wife Kathy, along with other friends and family of Mrs. Jordan. President Obama honored Mrs. Jordan with a toast before dinner, as did Mr. Jordan and Secretary Clinton and others. The President and First Lady have known the Jordans for over twenty years, and were grateful to have been able to share this special evening with them.
The President and First Lady also were happy to have the chance to spend time with Secretary Clinton and former President Clinton.
A little color: in his toast for Mrs. Jordan, President quipped that he met Vernon and first, but liked Ann more. The menu consisted of surf and turf and pasta. The Obamas danced nearly every song. A good time was had by all.
Glad you had such a fun time as the death of American civil society was being broadcast to the world. I’m dying to know. How was the lobster? More importantly, compare Obama’s apathy toward what is happening in Ferguson to his impassioned expression of support he officially voiced toward the protesters in Egypt. It’s quite telling to see how much more interested he is in the freedom of people halfway across the world than within his own nation. That’s all you really need to know.
*Note: Since writing this piece, Obama has made his first public statement on Ferguson (see here). Apparently he is doing damage control after his dance party press release last night. What I find so interesting is how he first calls for calm on behalf of the protesters and then afterward addresses the police. Compare that to his statements on Egypt at the top.
At this point I want to make a comparison that relatively few people have zeroed in on. The similarities between the Bundy Ranch confrontation earlier this year and the unrest in Ferguson. While the superficial differences are stark (one group being white, rural and likely relatively well off, with the other being black, urban and poor), I believe the root cause of the unrest is more similar than you might think. There is seething anger at what is correctly perceived to be oppression and authoritarianism on behalf of the “status quo.” The key distinction here is that poor, black, urban communities have been dealing with this for generations, while it has only more recently targeted its sights on formerly middle-class white communities. This makes for an absolutely explosive situation going forward as the looting and pillaging of the power structure continues without repercussions for the offenders. So why am I bringing up the comparison to the Bundy Ranch in the first place? Because I don’t want Americans to be divided and conquered further based on false superficial differences. All of us as citizens are involved in a monumental struggle not against each other, but against the status quo. The quicker we recognize this, the quicker we can deal with the real problem. Very early on, I attempted to focus on the similarities between the the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street so that those two movements could join forces. I highlighted the following graphic whenever possible:
Although we are now starting to see libertarians and progressives unite in Congress on some very important issues such as domestic surveillance, the demonization of each others’ movements by both sides as somehow less pure or enlightened than the other prevented a much wider and united action for social and economic justice. It was a huge missed opportunity and I don’t want this to happen again. The Bundy Ranch affair and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri should be seen as two sides of the same coin. The American public finally getting fed up with the authoritarianism of the corrupt status quo. One of my most popular posts of 2014 was the piece on the Bundy Ranch titled: Why the Standoff at the Bundy Ranch is a Very Big Deal. I concluded that piece with the following:
However, my long-term fear is that unless the government and its puppet masters on Wall Street and elsewhere in big business change course, social upheaval will prove inevitable, whether the Bundy Ranch sparks it, or some other incident down the road. These are troubled times and they are likely going to get worse before they get better.
We are seeing some of what I feared back then play out in Missouri right now. I found the following tweet to be extremely powerful and poignant:
Dear liberals comparing protests to Bundy Ranch: are you saying protesters should have more guns, or are you regretting lack of Bundy blood?
— Lucy Steigerwald (@LucyStag) August 14, 2014
The last point I want to address is the historical significance I think Ferguson will ultimately command. This could’ve simply been an incident such as the one recently in New York City in which a cop killed an unarmed black man with an illegal chokehold. A huge part of the reason it has escalated to the current level is because the local police force decided to come out dressed like soldiers wanting to play war with American citizens. However, even that in itself wouldn’t translate into the historical significance I believe this event will ultimately hold.
I believe Ferguson will be seen as a major turning point. The point in which many well-intentioned, but incredibly naive folks in white mainstream America woke up to what we have become. Many people, particularly those in the media, have been willfully ignorant about the destruction of freedom and civil liberties in America. The events in Fergus have taken a gigantic mirror and successfully pointed it squarely at our civil society and the image it has reflected back is one of a horrific, militarized, authoritarian monster.
If it takes two reporters (one from the Washing Post and one from the Huffington Post) being unlawfully arrested to shake some sense into the privileged class in America, then so be it.
The only question now is, having been awakened from our blissful slumber to the sober nightmare that is reality, what are we going to do about it?
As promised, here are some of my many articles warning of police militarization over the years:
19-Month-Old Toddler in Critical Condition After Cops Throw Flash Bang Grenade into Playpen
An Iowa City with a Population of 7,000 Will Receive Armored Military Vehicle
There are Over 50,000 SWAT Team Raids Annually in America
Retired Marine Colonel to New Hampshire City Council: “We’re Building a Domestic Army”
Video of the Day – Thuggish Militarized Police Terrorize and SWAT Team Iowa Family
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"is it too soon," yes, "is it too soon..." - believe it or not, Bryce, we're actually listening to you...
"A little color: in his toast for Mrs. Jordan, President quipped that he met Vernon and first, but liked Ann more. The menu consisted of surf and turf and pasta."
Wookie approved, apparently.
"The Obamas danced nearly every song. A good time was had by all."
And the fucking ignorant don't know whether to be envious or outraged.
I think I can be both, even at the same time. Honestly I'm not envious of much but I'm definitely enraged.
If I had to go cheek to cheek with the wookie I don't think I would be envious.
"Known these people for over twenty years..."
1994 or earlier he was being groomed for this. These people have Obama and Clinton at their birthday party... these Jordans are of the oligarch class and they are the people who brought you Obama...
I'm glad they had a nice party.
these are the people who "bought" you Obama
Stopped reading at the "unarmed black man is killed by an overly aggressive and unprofessional police force" part.
This is bullshit. Blacks act this way on every continent. The "protesters" in Ferguson are actually violent drug-addicted looters waiting for a catalyst. They got it when an 18 y-o thug got capped by a cop, probably acting in self-defense.
We do seriously have some problems with out-of-control government in the USA. But this is not an example of that.
Michael Brown’s rap sheet on casenet. Note that he also has a juvenile criminal record that is sealed. Also keep in mind he wasn't 18 for long.
Description: Burglary - 1st Degree { Felony B RSMo: 569.160 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 1401000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD
Description: Armed Criminal Action { Felony Unclassified RSMo: 571.015 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 3101000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD
Description: Assault 1st Degree - Serious Physical Injury { Felony A RSMo: 565.050 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 1301100
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD
Description: Armed Criminal Action {
Felony Unclassified RSMo: 571.015 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 3101000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD
I'll assume thats legit.
I'm shocked, really, just shocked. Shocking. Fuck Al Sharpton, the ugliest mofo on TV.
EDIT: There's some doubt as to the reliability of that 'rap' sheet. I'll withhold judgement, but that mofo Sharpton is STILL one ugly ass.
Get a clue...the use of deadly force is a last resort. "This can get ugly fast" because once you start wacking people in the name of State power then it is We the People who have the problem...not the State. Stores looted, property destroyed...sorry but there is a serious problem with the redistribution by the redistributionists who are in fact in charge.
I agree this is looking like a turning point away from the status quo and towards the future. This dude who got nailed should have been just another statistic. The fact that the top dogs are speaking out against this says to me you're either on board the freedom agenda or not. Simply put the stupendous bonanza that is the US economy going on five years now has passed the bulk of the American people by.
This most unsurprising of blowbacknconditions has been met by the most tone deaf wanna be elites in history. Both the Clintons and Obamas have scaled the cliffs of insanity by standing firm on the status quo and "working it out in committee." We'll see how all this plays out...but I guarantee you it won't be on the dance floor.
We saw how the modern rules of engagement worked out for our soldiers. If we tell cops they can't shoot if they truly think they are in danger you won't have any cops anywhere near these neighborhoods. People railing against these cops probably have never had to live in these neighborhoods. All you guys so convinced the cops are over reacting, drive your car into one of these areas and see what is left in the morning. And poverty is no excuse for crime. There are lots of honest hard working people trying desperately to get their families out of these areas. I'm tired of people making excuses for bad behavior, in ghettos, DC or wall street.
Black savages are going to savage when the get to go feral without consequences. Just the way it is.
Red arrow for the factual observation if you will. Just remember though, my opposite gold standard is a hypothetical blackout in Salt Lake. I bet you turn off the juice there for 3 days and only have people come up to you asking if you need anything.
Having lived in Salt Lake City for two months...
I know that what you wrote would be true.
That was the friendliest place I ever was at.
where you there?
I was.
You understand tee-vee (TV), Talk Radio and the associated forums, of
have given you a fine scrub?
How many sovereigns, where, ya know, dem aaaw duh saym, have the soles of your boots tread upon, masa?
Gist of the article and comments related, those which served a purpose unrelated to "ZH's 2014 Mostest Erudite Wisdoms Comment of 2014"
...poverty is no excuse for crime...
I think it not your intent to be divisive, in divide and conquer manner, but, for utilitarian and kinetic reasons, at the absurd juncture we (I do mean we /no sarcasm) have an event of significance, which, to my welcome surprise, after talking to blacks in that county, were keen on the mil-state, study some history regarding the split-state (1862-5), where my white, yes white cousin was lynched in the early 80s by whites for dating a black. He worked a family farm in rural Illinois. Old dogs can learn new tricks, if they desire so.
There are countless towns in the rural Midwest, with a 99.9% white demographic- on a per/cap basis, crime, the kind which often follows a leatherface-gore narrative...is plain ol' nuts. I've been attacked by white dudes, with oozing pustules, open sores, and a few teeth, under 40 yrs old.
This sounds stupid..."All whites are the same everywhere, you think you know [how it is] these puss-leaking, caterpillar shit wearing, freeloadin' thugs/punks...you go drive into their trailer park, god-damn whites with their septic tanks overflowing, they shit, like a monkey on the ground, and rob their local circle k for booze and cigs". The cops (being teleported japs from WW2 GI Camps) should do their job...I'm tired.
Well, so are the thousands of ppl in Fergusen, who get up at 4;30 to take a bus 20 miles to soccer moms Taco Bell, to work for 7.75 FRNS an hour. Then going back to your ghetto, welcomed by corrupt LEOS, who get off terrorizing them.
It's fucking terrible for both whites and blacks, who incidentally happen to be "the poverty".
I came down hard during the Bundy Mess, on the whites who Know How It Goes, from the enlightened left- They pissed me off for the same reason..."up there, they screw pigs you know. They're the same, all those white pig fuckers. They can't read...and they have tiny dicks...Blah blah guns, blah". That maybe worse, because 1. They speak because they know, because they read that in a study, 100 w.... 2. They possess this weird angry-pseudo compassion, it that makes sense. Would they go to Ferguson? Not a chance in hell. But fuck the cops and...your rayciss!
In personal experience, it's white ppl who've never come close experiencing a beatdown, slur- they're the ones calling out racissss!
Poverty is a universal equalizer which reveals the inner guts. Same with the other but less so, after a certain amount of material wealth is gained. Asshole factor goes hockey puck. Minus the whole race PsyOp crap, again speaking for myself, the kindest "class" of people I've come across on the earth are middle-class (pre-21st middle class) "folks" and flat out homeless.
I'm not trying to bust chops, but until the fan goes brown, i'll continue to trying to connect both sides, which btw, ain't fun.
Also- did they show footage the day after looting of "them" cleaning up the place? Interviews with some looters (most of the looters came from far away, lots from Chicago) , presumably locals expressing their regret, admiting what they did was awlful?
Some professional thieves, white and black, came out my way (homes are 250-1m+, and ROBBED a bank, big food store, two auto-dealers.
Point- i think I'm sure how things will go down, and of course that's stupid. For the first time, in real life, I talked to ppl who live in ferguson, and wow...and waking-uppers waking up, that's rare. People close to me, family- I'm batshitnuts. Understand, black folks have been dealing with Bundy-ranch happenings for some centuries and despite the lack of school-like education, there's a LOT of whip-smart people. I did a short film a while back, in black and white one can't tell the difference between the black part of the city and parts of Germany a few years post war. The zio-holly-shits unfortunately have honed their craft so well, There are hundreds of thousands of whites and blacks who live out their life without ever(!) having 1 genuine conversation with the other. Also the police chief, if you caught it (search) in charge, went to izrahell in 2012 for urban terrorist whatever, kill/eat babies school.
Can't spell check. Must stop.
Get a clue...the use of deadly force is a last resort. "This can get ugly fast" because once you start wacking people in the name of State power then it is We the People who have the problem...not the State. Stores looted, property destroyed...sorry but there is a serious problem with the redistribution by the redistributionists who are in fact in charge.
I agree this is looking like a turning point away from the status quo and towards the future. This dude who got nailed should have been just another statistic. The fact that the top dogs are speaking out against this says to me you're either on board the freedom agenda or not. Simply put the stupendous bonanza that is the US economy going on five years now has passed the bulk of the American people by.
This most unsurprising of blowbacknconditions has been met by the most tone deaf wanna be elites in history. Both the Clintons and Obamas have scaled the cliffs of insanity by standing firm on the status quo and "working it out in committee." We'll see how all this plays out...but I guarantee you it won't be on the dance floor.
A guy on another thread about Ferguson posted this link it has photos of Mike Brown flashing BLOOD gang sign
http://exposethemall2.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/teen-killed-by-cop-fergus...
help me out here, so are you for summary execution for everyone with any criminal record? logically, that is where this shit about his record goes.
this is all very simple, he got shot by a cop who was not under any type of threat that could justify shooting this kid. Cop fucked up. any one of us did that and we would be on trial for a very serious crime.
Don't sound so foolish. No one has said anything like that. Simply the victim has been portrayed as this innocent college student and just because his buddy backs him does not me he did nothing wrong. His criminal record has e erhything to do with the credibility of the cops claims. After years of watching nearly every black person on the planet excuse every thing Obama has done and call every criticism racist, you are going to accept the word of hoodrats in this kids defense? We really are fucked. America is defeated, crushed like a bug if everyone would accept the word of street kids over anyone serving in our government. I have been pretty cynical up to this point, but these attitudes are giving me pause. Maybe ZH IS full of crackpop conspiracy nuts. I was looking for some contrast but this is becoming stupid.
Summary executions occur in third world countries for less than this in places like Brazil. It happens every day.
What are Democrats, liberals and blacks complaining about? They voted for this TWICE! They voted to turn America into a third world shithole and it is happening.
You libs, Dems and blacks voted for Obama flooding America with illegals and Latino drug gangs. Why are you upset?
Why are you f**kers complaining about? You got what you voted for.
First the USA is not supposed to be Brazil.
Finally it was George W. Bush that signed the Patriot Acts into law in the first place. That allowed for the suspension of Civil Rights and the militarization of the Domestic Police Forces.
I did not vote for him either.
Of course Obama has made it worse, not better. But George W. overstepped his boundaries when it came down the the God Damned Piece of Paper...the US Constitution...which HE DID NOT OBSERVE.
Voting for the Red Team or Blue Team is a waste of time.
The animals rioting in Ferguson are codependents of Blue Team, courtesy of their War on Poverty, which has cost taxpayers more than all our wars combined, and produced...this type of shit. They ruined the black family. The Blue Team.
In other words the cop created this situation through escillation/provocation.
When law enforcement does this in any capacity they are at fault (same with Bundy, and every raid for a warrant.)
This is rapidly turning into another Trayvon Martin circus. Eric "My People" Holder is sending the same "advisers" who helped organize protests after the Martin shooting. Protesters are being bused in. The civil rights mafia is getting involved. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Forward (over the cliff)!
If only the 'militarized' cops would mow them all down before they leave town. That's my Jesse Jackson inspired rhyme for today.
Rodney King
Trayvon Martin
Michael Brown
Just to name three.
Yes, there is a trend here for sure...
the trifecta
fck political correctness
Not apologizing for a criminal, but that is an arrest record from a single date. Was he convicted of anything? When I wander into a SBUX these days, I sometimes see cops and their whole presence/posture is different than when I was a kid. Not sure what they need to prove in suburbia, but they are like robo cops. If the young man was walking down the street...well, in the street...how does the cop end up shooting him and then chasing him down the street and shooting him more? We have a local coyote in the hillsides around my home - if I shot that coyote, let alone chase it down the street shooting at it, I'd be in jail. Granted, I'm not a cop, but if those are the facts of this case, then someone needs to go to answer for his actions. What I guesss happens, is the popo kick the investigation down the road and the family gets a big civil settlement.
not at all relevant to the facts at issue here. The tapes from Anonymous convinced me. The cop executed the kid and didn't call it in per procedure.
Hating your absurd caricature of "niggers" is blinding you to what the preponderance of the credible evidence suggests, at least to this point.
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/michael-brown-ferguson-shooting-no-criminal-background/14023731/
"St. Louis County Prosecutor's office confirmed that Brown had no prior misdemeanors or felonies against him."
No convictions, then.
"I am the democrat party's worst nightmare. A thinking black man." Charles Ramsey in "Dead Give Away."
Yes, thatthing...government is good when it kills people that you don't like, but it's bad when it makes people you do like pay more money in taxes. Spoken like a true Contradictarian.
Yawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_argument
By God I think he's got it. I despise street thugs and people like me pay too much in taxes to support the War on Poverty. I'm against that particular war.
thatthingcanfly
Contrarily, I think if we care to we look behind curtains, we find that everything's connected.
Fair point.
The left screamed "Drone the Bundy Ranch" why because free range cattle graze. Do they know what factory farming is, how cruel it is and how bad the product is?
its too far gone to join hands.
The left hates white people unless they are gay, im white and not gay.
I won't join the people who hate me.
This is what comes up when you type white babies into google...
white babies are ugly (thats what comes up first!)
white babies born with blue eyes
white babies born to black families
white babies
white babies for adoption
Lucky,
Did all of the left scream "Drone the Bundy Ranch" or just some of them? Which ones screamed this?
Notice that it was overwhelmingly the far left in Congress that called the Bush administration on its lack of evidence of Saddam's WMD's and opposed the Iraq War.
Drones were developed mostly under the Bush Administration as well. Granted, Obama has continued the oppressive and deadlypolicy of drone strikes started under Bush, and so both the left and the right bear responsibility for not opposing drone strikes more strongly.
To my knowledge, no one was calling for the Bundy Ranch to be droned.
P.S. Thanks for telling us that you're not gay, Lucky.
I've had to militarize my family to protect us from the police.
Whenever ZH posts the number of different military equipment types that have been given to police and where they are by State, I always laugh at the rifle/magazine count. They only received 2 mags per rifle. LOL. 24 is my MINIMUM. 12 for handguns.
And we train in this household. Way more than the piggies do. And I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one...
Some of us are good shots tho
I got a bullet-proof vest for my dog.
Don't forget the plate.
You are the smartest on ZH today.
Look at The Public Be Suckered that is our USA status quo.
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1230886
Operational guidepost is "F___ the people!".
Ya! das goot! fantastish! DU HAAS! DU HAAS MISH! oh mooochelina.................. do the chicken neck fandango for me moooooooooooooooooochelina
Because so many Americans are afraid here at home, the U.S. has constructed an anti-terrorism enterprise so immense, so costly and so inexorably interwoven with the defense establishment, police and intelligence agencies, communications systems, and with social media, travel networks and their attendant security apparatus, that the idea of downsizing, let alone disbanding such a construct, is an exercise in futility. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/08/americans-should-show-little-spin...
For my part, just beat cops would use this:
http://mlb-s1-p.mlstatic.com/estilingue-esportivo-funda-atiradeira-atira...
hehe.
Reggie was singing "Come on baby, let's do the fist!"
Obama was doing the tube snake boogie on Reggie's lap......
Someone clue me in. Who the fuck is REGGIE?
You've heard of Air Force One?
Reggie is Butt Fucker One.
FUCK the Fuckbamas, the Jordans (Mister Board member eltist cunt/banker
tallywhacker wanker) and especially the FUCKING CUNT CLINTONS..
The banking mafia have used mass immigration and offshoring to turn America - large middle class - into Brazil - mass of poor, tiny middle class. Hilarity will inevitably ensue.
But now we are being tested again by a new wave of immigration larger than any in a century, far more diverse than any in our history. Each year, nearly a million people come legally to America. Today, nearly one in 10 people in America was born in another country; one in 5 schoolchildren are from immigrant families. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within 5 years, there will be no majority race in our largest State, California. In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States.* No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, June 13, 1998 William J. Clinton, President of the United States
*Spontaneous eruption by students cheering, standing on chairs, applause
Trey adds a nice argument...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASwxIr3-cM
These power crazed goons are our government's claws. Cretinous is an inadequate description. http://politicalblindspot.com/police-officially-refuse-to-hire-applicant...
Hiring quotas are in place in all government positions as well as most corporations. Government has never had to be efficient or productive but business has only recently received enough government protection through cronyism to afford hiring dumb unproductive people. The worst part is that the few smart and productive ones left learn to give that shit up quick, like they were working in a union.
The same narrative with the same douchbags stirring the pot. Boring.......
That is not an M-16... is it a kalishnikov?
Yep
This was the OLD America you know 90% WHITE, RACIST, CHRISTIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, but now the US is sooooooooooo much better, right?
And once upon a time, in a land called America, the people would come in from their mountain cabins, farms, and mill towns with their young ones to joy in the closeness of community on warm sultry summer nights. The American dream was never about grand mansions, designer wear, exotic vacations, health clubs, silicone implants, Viagra love affairs, fortress malls, boutiques, forever war, the prison industry, or slave labor junk stores. It was about a man being able to make a living for his family. It was about a simple life of small town living, where people congregated on Main Street for the Fourth of July parade. It was about swimming holes, country lanes, fields of corn, teachers who challenged the young to greater heights (not social engineering! ), doctors (not technocrats), marshland songs, a whippoorwill, splashing streams, and woodlands with secret paths. It was about rain washed streets; where barefoot children splashed in puddles, blew magic bubbles, caught fireflies, and played hide-and-seek long into a muggy summer's night. It was about concerts in the park, the clink of milk bottles, and visits to Grandma's house; with her blue hair, flowered dress, and flour dusted apron. It was about the certainty of love with the slamming of a screen door, a child running in flowered meadows, and at day’s end, neighbors gathered on darkened porches, holding tight the wonderment of the day. It was about Hometown. — Judith Moriarty
gosh, if i could distill my mission on earth, that post would do mighty-fine for a thesis...Skip, all i can say is kudos!
and i'll add invictus,
janus
. . . and then there was Smeagol . . .
Well, we're past that now. The future of America depends on credit expansion to buy the shit that will make all of this worthwhile. We have lost our way, actually we have been steered off our path, but lost nonetheless.
Sounds a lot like my childhood. (I'm an old timer.)
I've often thought that those riots that occured in the 1960s resulted in "The War on Poverty", one result of which was to teach the rioting class that the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
It was then that many elements of the big DOLE flowered.
And where has it gotten us?
immigration reform in the 60s guaranteed whites would become a minority.
guess which ethnoreligious minority group was very disproportionately involved in reforming the law in a way most people were strongly opposed to....
That group has gained in their proportional share of American wealth and media control ever since.
Coincidence to be sure.
Krieger,
janus is feeling mighty ornery and obstreperous tonight; and, besides which, there are scores to settle.
did janus not, on these very pages, petition the legal system of alabama and do-gooders everywhere to deliver justice for the family of Gil Collar (shot dead by a colored cop)? i believe that i did.
no justice; no peace.
and since every injustice in this country has to be predicated on one's affiliation with some hyphenated identity, then, well, 'coloreds' go fuck yourselves. since a white injustice means nothing to you, your injustice means less to me. in point of fact, i say hip-hip ferguson PD...keep those humvees a rollin!
and though i likewise cringe when i review clips of cop brutality, i have never (not once) been abused or mistreated by any member of any PD (and, believe me, janus has shot his mouth off a time or two...but, ultimately, i have respect for the badge). all of which is to say, i can only appraise the world through the prism of my own experience. and to extend the point, i will from henceforth only evaluate the world as accords my own hyphenated identity: white-american.
i have all the progressive bona-fides and do-gooder trophies one could ever want to cram on the most ample mantle...yup, janus was once a 'liberal'. but my observations and experience demand more of my thinking. there aren't just two amoricas, there's plenty. and since the rest of them could give two-shits about any injustice not associated with race/creed/color or sex-affiliation...if generic injustice (independent of predicate) isn't sufficient to rile the indignation of a dopey nation transfixed by this New Religion...well, then, fuck them all. overcome on your own fuckin dime; the heart of janus bleeds for you no longer.
funny thing: the tea-party types were all in a tizzy, thinkin these FEMA camps were sculpted with their intransigence in mind...janus has known, for quite some time, that they were modeled for minorities -- and it was for that reason i opposed them. but, now, i'm starting to see the big-picture. maybe i'll call in a favor or two...see if'n i can't get me a spot on the 'strategy' side of the FEMA army.
so, rainbow-warriors, call janus when you start to think of yourselves as Americans (unhyphenated-like)...otherwise, prepare to be ignored some more...or possibly worse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M
it's all my fault,
janus
P.S. Krieger, the lobstah is oh-so succulent...up here, it's half the price of beef...the trick is, you've gotta boil em in the crisp & clean (and radiation free!) waters of the north atlantic -- do not underestimate the importance of sea water when boiling lobstah!
But this was one righteous sister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALAWxatDoD0
couldn't agree more...and through the refinement of their own superior communities and the interaction afforded by the internet, i cannot but predict more and better tinas to come (but from a distance...maybe she can get a visa to come and tour)...only problem is, i fear that we may have sacrificed so many Mozarts for to cultivate a society that esteems nickelodeon and vaudevillian prurience over and above the development of music.
this guy ain't so bad either...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJWiJVOoFY
i dunno...again, i love tina and everything...but, in the end, a raspy voice and a sassy strut ain't all that hard to find (i've come across at least a dozen my day...all of them frisky fucks) genius bristling with creativity is, on the other hand, oh-so rare; and if we're to lay things out in equivalence, well, it would take somewhere around 10,000 tinas to match one single Bach (and i'm being very generous).
but we've certainly 'progressed' since the age of Bach...haven't we?
janus
That there Bach fellow is a nice way to start a Friday with a cup of joe. Thanks J man.
Haha Janus I woulda gone with Welcome to the Terrordome on that one!
PEACE FIST!
Dave,
my brother, i'm reluctant to reply...inasmuch as janus is by nature cagy and by fate doomed to consistent misunderstanding...all the same, i wanted to take the chance to right now comment on your varied & very clever comments. you often get greenies from janus, and at times you least expect them -- thought you should know this -- and i'm demanding that Tyler permit me unlimited up-arrows for that which i decide worthy.
it's the right thing to do, TD.
Mr. Thomas, some of us are more deserving of more. it's called the Natural Order -- let me welcome you to it.
"PEACE FIST!" it is!!! even if it means war!
okay, give me just a moment...you deserve a song with some thought in back of it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbtS_APwnJQ
nothing but flowers/
you got it -- you got it,
janus
Let us understand ...
The guy loved a woman and married another ...
Made the wrong choice right away.
He was a lawyer and as everyone knows, a lawyer does not like peace,
He won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaking of which, that award was created by a guy who invented dynamite.
Will understand the irony of this world ...
After all, the guy is political.
Can you trust a guy like that?
hehe.
I'll assume most detractors of this article and those still talking the divide and conquer angle are posting from a government building.
I think they should frame the Obama report as "Unarmed black man ruins party at Martha's Vineyard."
Great article. Thanks for meaningful work well done.
"I believe the root cause of the unrest is more similar than you might think. There is seething anger at what is correctly perceived to be oppression and authoritarianism on behalf of the 'status quo.'"
Perceived oppression? Can't we be a bit more specific?
How about the documented fact that the authorities committed felonies in both cases? With Bundy, the Bureau of Land Management tried to sell his cattle:
http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/78117ba9-f740-4d72-a3fa-... (reiterating “our concerns with the Bureau of Land Management’s plans to transport cattle seized in Nevada to Utah for sale.” (emphasis added)).
The court order in the Bundy case merely gave the BLM the right to prevent his cattle from trespassing; it did not (because legally there's no basis to) convey title to the cattle from Bundy to the BLM. I suspect this is in fact what riled up the locals so, but as usual MSM ignored the facts to peddle divisive nonsense.
In Ferguson, the police shot an unarmed man in the back.
In both cases, authorities--which in actuality are no more than the private goon police force for their criminal superiors--violated black letter law in the bright light of day. Seems like I read something once about the people having the right and duty to throw off such a government.
Rock solid post.
One observation: those at Bundy Ranch were not tear-gassed or stun-grenaded.
How many at Bundy started fires and threw molotov cocktails and robbed their brothers' businesses?
That is because the people at the Bundy Ranch had guns and would fire back.
The people in Ferguson were not armed...I watched that episode live. There was no looting going on. There was a Christian Preacher speaking the Word of God. And then all Hell broke loose.
Had they been armed then they would not have been gassed. Perhaps many would be dead...on both sides of the divide.
To hell with guns. Use Rocket Propelled Grenades and Poison Gas instead. They know no respect other than that of the business end of a gun....BOTH SIDES.
Peaceful protest is NO LONGER AN OPTION. Bundy Ranch and Ferguson has taught me that lesson. I watched the results.
I was waiting for some opportunistic person to take out that asshole cop sniper laying atop his armored vehicle and pointing a loaded gun at innocent people. What a douche to put himself in that position so open to death. A rooftop shooter with an off the shelf rifle could have popped his ass.
The Federales always target white folk, or set them up. The local cops do the same to the blacks. The Federales represent the Jewish masters(until we End the FED) who look to destroy white Christians. The local cops represent said whites. This is the pecking order.
"The federales always target white folk"
-All US presidents have been white Christians except one, who is a half white Christian. Members of Congress and the Supreme Court have also been disproportionately white protestant Christians.
-Large corporations, especially big banks, energy companies, and the military-industrial complex is mostly white
-The mortgage tax deduction primarily benefits the white middle class
-Social Security has been protected and lobbied for by mostly white lobbies of retirees
There is no war on whites and/or Christians by the federal government. That is just your paranoia talking.
There DOES seem to be a war against the Constitution by the deep state (i.e. military-industrial-intelligence complex) and some lobbies have a ridiculous amount of influence in government (e.g. the Bar Association, banking lobbies, insurance lobbies, military contractors).
But that is not quite the same divisive claim that you are making, daveO. Your specious claim divides, while an effort to reduce the size of the government AND the influence of the corporations that control it can unite American citizens of all races, religions, economic strata, and political party.
LBJ was probably Jewish.
You disqualified yourself as soon as you suggested that Soetero was Christian.
surprise, surprize the democrat controlled big cities are getting what they voted for.
The USA shifted from a manufacturing economy to a service sector economy that resulted in unionized jobs being lost and replaced with
service sector economy jobs which are largely part time jobs today.
Multinational corporations moved their money offshore and that forced governments to increase borrowing and increase deficits resulting in
credit downgrades and a general mistrust of the USA to ever repay their loans to foriegn creditors. BRICS formed to send the land of the oppressed a message that the USA sleeps with the fishes when it comes to reserve currency status. The rest is history in so far as there will not be a second chance for world domination by the administration of the USA or their affiliate MIC cronies in Israel or
England. The CIA and MI6 as well as the entire MIC and security establishment is going down for the count along with the failed
architecture of a corrupt Ponzi/pyramid scheme that blew up in their collective faces on March 10th 2008 @ 11:00am Bear Stearns time. The MIC and CIA, MI6 don't know shit-from-shine-O-la when it comes to Quantum Physics or Quantum Behavioural Economics
and that's why the are up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle en masse.
Equilibrium Economists are on the same boat as the motherfuckers in the MIC.
Bon Voyage, SUCKERS.
The USA shifted from a manufacturing economy to a service sector economy that resulted in unionized jobs being lost and replaced with
service sector economy jobs which are largely part time jobs today.
Multinational corporations moved their money offshore and that forced governments to increase borrowing and increase deficits resulting in
credit downgrades and a general mistrust of the USA to ever repay their loans to foriegn creditors. BRICS formed to send the land of the oppressed a message that the USA sleeps with the fishes when it comes to reserve currency status. The rest is history in so far as there will not be a second chance for world domination by the administration of the USA or their affiliate MIC cronies in Israel or
England. The CIA and MI6 as well as the entire MIC and security establishment is going down for the count along with the failed
architecture of a corrupt Ponzi/pyramid scheme that blew up in their collective faces on March 10th 2008 @ 11:00am Bear Stearns time. The MIC and CIA, MI6 don't know shit-from-shine-O-la when it comes to Quantum Physics or Quantum Behavioural Economics
and that's why the are up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle en masse.
Equilibrium Economists are on the same boat as the motherfuckers in the MIC.
Bon Voyage, SUCKERS.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/226454/anonymous-releases-identity-of-fe...
Anonymous releases alleged identity of Ferguson officer who shot Michael BrownEarlier this week, Anonymous vowed to go after police in Ferguson following their shooting of Michael Brown. On Thursday morning, they followed through, providing the supposed name of the officer who shot the unarmed teen.
The St. Louis County Police Department responded, claiming that Officer Willman doesn’t work for them.
Anonymous is promising to release further info on a set schedule. At 10 a.m. CT, they delivered on their promise to release a photo of the officer, from one of his Facebook posts.
If he is in fact the shooter, his Facebook comments—in which he’s clearly trying to hide his identity online, and claiming to be bored—are incredibly damning.
...
And of course like Ukrainian rebels claiming to have downed flight MH370 on twitter done by someone else to discredit them.
...
It’s worth noting that previously, @TheAnonMessage account tweeted a fake pic of a KKK protest in Ferguson, before deleting it. According to the Twitter account @Crypt0nymous, the Anonymous IRC channel named ~4 other potential shooters (h/t Adrian Chen). The officer named, however, still might be the correct shooter.
At 12 p.m. they will disclose his address, and at 2 p.m. a full dox on the officer.
Update: The @TheAnonMessage account has been suspended by Twitter. A second account, @TheAnonMessage2, has been created.
...
See how this one plays out and if Anonymous gets it right.
And word of advice to Anonymous
http://twister.net.co/
Set up an account and mirror your twitter posts so if someone hacks the account and posts shit to discredit you use this one as verification....
deserves a trial, not a mob.
You can't have a trial by jury if the jury doesn't know who the perp is and the authorities won't release their name let alone charge them.......
As an aside to this.
Remember the yenta who got a visit for googling backpacks and pressure cookers by your friendly fusion center representatives. She also wrote for this website here. Yeah I bet they didn't profile her as a domestic terrorist because she wrote for this website as part of their rational for giving her a little visit. It is not like she even wrote poltical commentary either since she was a music critic writing for the site.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/about/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/01/google-pres...
Its probablt already been said but fuck you Nero and your fiddling while the US burns
Kudos to Mr. Bundy for having the forethought and initiative to be white.
"Death of Amercan civil society?" Wikipedia Race Riots" of 60s and 70s.
Said it before and I will say it again: what's come through loud and clear over the last few days is that many so-called libertarians on this site are perfectly OK with a militarized and brutalized police state - as long as that police state is targetting a section of the public they don't like.
First they came for the blacks but I did not speak out because I was not black etc etc...
Show me some brutality - not from the rioters but from the popo
More likely progressives masquerading as Libertarians just az they masquerade as everything else.
Blue and red progressives are behind the police state
DaveO, I lived at 314 E. Capitol Street in 1968. That is three blocks east of the capitol. I was out in the streets on Pennsylvania Avenue South East during the riots and looting, less tha six months later I was in Vietnam , November 1968, Where was your dad again????
OWS was a completely Soros manufactured that much is clear, the author is an idiot.
+1!
There is a website called discover the networks or something similar; I remember it showed massive amounts of "leftist" funding to "OWS." Additionally, there were paid professional leftist operatives on site. The issues with corporatism do not need provoking by those with a different political agenda.
This is perfect for diverting your attentions from upcoming war with Russia.
That Venn diagram on the fascist convergence of the State and Corporate power is right on target.
Too many younger people here do not remember the 68 riots and other riots of that era.
I can remember marines landing at the Washington Monument and occupying capitol hill during the Vietnam War demonstrations. I was a young intern. We had a machine-gun emplacement in the tunnels under the Hill. These gyrenes were in full battle-rattle. Our Police in those days did not have the military equipment we see today. Older guys like myself who spent time in LEO work would have snickered at the idea of playing army. Police Work is 100% different from Infantry, and I have done both.
The underlying issue is these smaller departments have benefited from USG supply grants for equipment, but NO TRAINING in the use of said equipment and its relationship to police work and proper tactics for use in crowd control.
The smaller departments have not been trained to use psychology to de-fuse situations like Ferguson without quickly resorting to a military-style escalation.
Pyschology/Human Relations is your first and best weapon. Communication. When you go to Gas, you have already lost control.
Why? It's easier to dump off a load of taxpayer-paid army stuff than to find the funds for training for use of force under the restraints of the US Constitution.
Additionally, it seems the Chief of this particular force has too loose a management style. He does not seem aware of what various parts of his department are doing, as in arresting reporters, roughing up reporters, just for starters.
Hopefully this will bring a National Discussion quickly to the Front Page.
I would suggest there needs to be a complete management change in this particular PD. Other Chiefs around the country had better get smart and get with it, or they are going to have a serious problem in the near future.
A good community Peace Officer who does his job right will rarely have to resort to force. He will Communicate and treat Citizens with Respect. He will have Respect in return. He will have community support, not condemnation.
How can these personnel be regarded as peace officers when their bosses are largely domestic enemies of the people of the United States? Do you expect the untrained lower ranks to do any critical thinking or will they take the taxpayer lucre and proceed to move forward as thugs against those who ultimately feed them and their political masters.
Obama's golfing has gone past ridiculous into the absolute absurd. I know he's a puppet and all, but come on...
The author (using the term loosely since an author usually writes something of substance) of the above article almost immediately cites his affiliation to NWA, a gangster rap group that was one of the earliest to unleash "musical" filth and degradation into our children's/teen's worlds. As I was raising my teens during that time, it was a constant battle to keep the filth from entering our home.
But, of course, it wasn't just our home. Other, less vigilant parents allowed NWA to be coiled into the hearts and souls of their teens, when they should have been spending the neurons on how to become a better citizen, a great parent, and to contribute to their society.
What is interesting, too, is that for the first time in our history, and in the history of hte world as far as can be perceived, the "parental" generation decided to abandon all lines of decency and control in order to (themselves) indulge in endless sexual trysts with varied partners, continued drug usage...let's all smoke dope!...and an anything goes agenda. However, anything goes doesn't work to well to keep the society held together. In fact, one of the sinlge greatest problems the black community has is it's ever-present attitude that whatever you want to do is just fine because, after all, it's your business.
But to the point. at the moment when race relations truly had an opportunity to become truly melded, the rappers took hold and destructed and deconstructed as fast as they could. Along with them came the pornification of America, massive use of meth and now heroin is uping the stakes. In confronting these problems, cops too have upped their stakes in a tit-for-tat scenario.
And what would you have them do? Let the gangs take over completely? Let drugs run rampant among our youth; their prime targets and who they don't care if they kill them off since there is always another group coming-of-age.
In my local area, one of the nicest of cops was killed when he walked up to a car he had pulled over. He was one of those cops who wanted people to know that cops are on "your" side and tried to be the "friendly" police. But they took out a gun and shot him. Every day, all those cops, go to work knowing that.
So I'd say, we owe cops a country that is decent, moral, drug free, and where they are respected and appreciated and then this would never have happened because this 6-foot-300-pound "kid" would never have thought of tussling with a cop.
This doesn't disallow the need for police departments to have monitoring of themselves or that there won't be criticism.
But suppose we take all the police out of Ferguson for, oh say two weeks? What cha got then? Ya got another Detroit. Personally, I really like it that if I have a problem and I call the police, they come lickety split. So for whatever happened here, considering how rare this is....if you really want to beautify this guy and to crucify this cop, don't call them next time you have a problem.
What a steaming pile. Stop sucking cop cock long enough and you might notice an uptick in roided out fascists who do things like shoot unarmed men in the back and then get their cunt brothers to back them up.
Why don't you spend some time looking into the absurd number of police and federal agent overkill. I'm including firing 200 + rounds into a boat in suburban Boston at a patsy who didn't have even have a gun and ergo could not have "fired at officers."
Why don't you come out and say what you mean - this nigger got what he deserved.
Yeah the looters had no excuse, but you chickenshit fuckin' pussy asshole hero worship types have lost the fucking plot.
Now then, good night officer, and go fuck yourself.
The MSMedia is NOT being "willfully ignorant". I listened to 3 nationaly syndicated conservative radio shows today. To a man they defended the cop(s) and pushed a pro-status quo agenda. These assholes are fully aware that if they don't spew corporate propaganda they'll be out of a job rickeytick. Listening to them made me want to vomit.
a reminder that for libertarians or people who are libertarian minded - both progressives and the right wing are ideological enemies.
For some reason though, I usually find the Daily Kos/Huff Po types more irritating. But then I catch some Hannity or Prager and remember how much I hate those fucktards.
I'd never admit it but I kinda like Limbaugh. Disagree a good amount, of course, but find him entertaining and funny, generally, even when I don't agree.
Hannity I want to choke to death no matter what he says.
He, and the whole Fox brainwash ops are cunts.... and I hope they all suffer before the End.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_icVWKO4_o&list=UUEHsSWvrGVSIA63OV3J6vh...
When I really want to fuck with my blood pressure, I flip back and forth between Fox News and MSNBC....
Vastly unequal societies are never cohesive and need to be held together by force.
Thw wealthy need to protect what they have.
The poor are not afraid to turn to civil un-rest when they have so little and need to be actively restrained.
21st Century America is a tinderbox.
Just look at the sub-prime episode - Wall Street was bailed out and the poor were thrown on the streets - there is going to be trouble.
Not a bad little synopsis.
Louis XVI and Czar Nicholas II discovered the problems with unequal societies.
CHICAGO (AP) — Following a year when Chicago led the nation in homicides with more than 500, the city's Police Department said Wednesday that in 2013 the city recorded the fewest killings since 1965 and saw its overall crime rate fall to level not seen since 1972.
The city, which ended the year with a 16 percent drop in crime, saw the numbers of violent crimes, including robbery, aggravated battery and criminal sexual assault drop significantly — some by double digits— as well as drops in burglary and motor vehicle theft.
But it has been the city's homicide rate, especially the toll on young people, that has captured national attention.
The year did not start promisingly, with more than 40 homicides recorded in January, including that of 15-year-old honor student Hadiya Pendleton, who was gunned down a mile from President Barack Obama's South Side home. But the rate slowed considerably after that, and by the end of the year the city had recorded 415 homicides, 88 fewer than in 2012 and 20 fewer than in 2011...
FEWER THAN 500 MURDERS? WOOHOO! more than 500 murders in 2012 and nobody riots, no protests on the national news. funny how well all that crime is tolerated but let one police officer (supposedly) get out of line and boy howdy let the rioting, looting, and pillaging begin! burnin' down the hood bitchez!
nice straw man.
and apparently, all the APCs and assault rifles the taxpayer has provided the boys in blue hasn't fucking helped, now has it?
So by all means - lets let cops execute someone now and then with no repercussions - after all, they've earned it, right, there, Sally?
nice straw man to you too. let the police pull out, cordon off the area, and watch those maggots eat each other i say. most of them hate the police anyway. fuck 'em. i prefer to pay taxes to keep the scumbags at bay myself but to each his own.
It's the rules of engagement, yet again. Loosening some of those up might actually help the good people in some of these democratically blighted areas.
I think this article is a bunch of nonsense.......I'd guess 95% of White America is in favor of a ultra-strong police presence (as seen in St Louis). And as far as the media goes, these narcisstic whores only care about keeping their jobs and getting promoted.
Read some mainstream forums to get an idea where people stand on the St Louis situation. They seem to condone the killing because the dead guy was probably going to end up a life-long criminal anyways.
Yep, all the soccer moms and their nutless husbands want the government to protect them against every tiny threat. Big mistake. Good thing is that those people will stand aside when the revolution hits.
this is where American's are totally stupid. The President does not run anything. He's just a telepromter reader. You people should be banging on the CFR's door!
Obozo and first tranny are but playing the morons we are all known as citizens. In fact, the reality is that we are all serfs in the land of the fascist/nazis (I'm not joking when I write this)
Most American's think that becoz its not on their door step its ok. Well, thats how they have conditioned people. From the actions of the police, people can see the strength of the police force nowadays and the brutal force its imposes. You step out of the fascist line and that is the force that you will be met with in the very near future. At that time, it will be too late.
Obama partying like there is no tomorrow. Well, the music is still playing, so there is still some time. How much is anyone's (but a few insider's) guess...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMESSnWlP4Y
This is probably more of a rant than an intelligent ideal presented but here goes. When I left my sleepy little hamlet in West Lake, Ontario (population of about 5000) I did not miss the police, the schools or the local opinion oriented people. I moved away from Canada to Malaysia. I do not miss it.
The biggest problem in our little community was all the government hand outs and employees sitting everywhere that they thought they would be seen. Part of everything as if they actually created it. Sadly they did not. The place was created by the farmers and the factories that were there at one time. Not a lot of wealth but better than the psudo wealth that is there now. We have a police force the size of what a small city should have instead of tiny town that we have. Now they set up training there too with even more police coming there. Of course it is a vacation area in the summer and a very nice retirement area so well....you fill in the blanks there.
Now kids better not party under age (like we did) because some police will show up and break it up. Goodness forbid if you don't have your boat license now on the water (yep coming to you too USA'ers soon), and if you don't have up to date and the right safety equipment. If you have beer on board well....dead meat. Better not be speeding on any of the local little highways either. Oh you have a four wheeler do you? Well so do they and they'll be on the trails where you ride watching you, with skidoo's too so that you don't have a drink or two when you are on the trail. Of course the coutny folk who have been doing this for decades wouldn't be very good on their own. They need a fine or two to remind them how important the laws are. Of course it goes to the city coffers to pay for the sea doos and boats that they buy. Maybe to offset a budget or two. Perhaps to pay for one of the budding retirees salaries. You know police are paid pretty well up here in Canada.
Oh your child is home from school. Don't foget to phone the school now. Tell them why you child is away from the outdated and overly expensive, institution. Didn't phone? Don't let it happen too many times or the CAS just might show up on your door step and charge you with being a poor parent. Maybe even take your children away? The CAS hmmmm.....isn't that a government sponsored NFP too? Oh ya it is? Paid for by us.
I could go on and on but you get it. This stuff makes me sick to my stomach. What is nice is I don't see it at all anymore here in Malaysia. Corruption and all it still functions better than my own little country.
The hypocrisy and the double standard that is now waved in front of you is somehow the norm now in the western world. They claim it is better. They say that we have made strides. In exactly what way I might ask? if having a nanny state is what people wanted well....you got it. I however did not want it. These bottom feeders will continue to occupy our cities and our towns until you have had enough. All I can say is big government is NO answer to your personal freedoms. In fact it is absolutley the opposite.
I would surmise that everyone on this site is well aware of the militarization of our police, and the majority are deeply concerned about it. But to paint the protesters as innocent or noble disturbs me also.
It is possible to have impassioned yet peaceful demonstrations. Rioting, looting, and arson are still crimes and need to be opposed with force.
Let's not conflate issues here. Our country faces a lot of problems: absentee fathers, entitlement mentalities, black disdain for authority, black violence, pervasive drug abuse, lack of decent jobs, nanny state politics, lack of personal responsibility and initiative, racism (both directions), media influence, corrupt politics, elitism of TPTB, police disengaged from communities, and yes, militarization.
This article takes a monochromatic view of the situation in Ferguson. Everything I listed above can be seen there, and across the country. If we take away all the weapons from police except the old stick and a .38 revolver, we will still find ourselves in the same helluva mess.
Values really matter, and they begin with the individual. As a country we have lost our moorings. It is not just about money or lack thereof.
Your so-called moorings/values have been monetized by the lawless. Frankly only fools have morals - poor fools at that - but that may be your point. The ass clowns tearing stuff up aren't blameless. One guaranteed fix is no EBT with a Felony conviction.
Also, isnt rioting and looting of "stuff" what insurance is for? Why are cops provoking violence over insurance?
Police can't break the law because they are "incorporated," and without consequence.
Incompetent leadership can and will get cops killed. Provocation and escillation are two amateur, incompetent mistakes where the Fascist police state is naked and putting itself at risk. Bundy made this very clear, as hopefully others do in Fergie and everyone else does in their homes.
I know my rights and will defend them. If that means killing a cop that is bent on killing me contrary to my rights then send his body back to the tyrants. Rinse, repeat.
Sounds like a plan, especially a plan meant to win a pyrrhic victory for the late and long forgotten Pee Wee. Sorry to be so blunt but that would be the reality.
The outcome you desire and also having a chance of being alive to enjoy the outcome will need all citizens to understand that if we "don't hang together, we will most assuredly hang separately."
Why wouldn't he dance the night away? This is the chaos and mayhem he'd hoped for.
Fundamental transformation. He brings it every day.
Things that make you go Hmmm...
The only factions shooting and killing were the Authority in MO. With all the other incapacitating weapons that do not result in deadly force at the disposal of the Authority, they chose to use the deadliest weapon even when a citizen did not have a weapon. One wonders, with all the new "anti domestic terror" toys procurred by domestic Authority, what training have they received? Did a new, different, more aggressive training come with the new toys that has led to the "shoot first ask questions later" mentality that we have witnessed in our domestic Authority in the last 2 years in particular?
'I believe Ferguson will be seen as a major turning point.'
Nah, football season is about to start. The only thing turning is the channel for the next game.
WTF? Heavily arm the last people who get to the scene of a crime? Oh yeah, makes PERFECT sense to me...Cops - the new praetorian guards...Charge them $10,000.00 for every shot fired unnecessarily and unjustified, that'll slow 'em down, quickly...Empty your semi-auto recklessly and you work for free for the next 2 years...
And Maobama danced as Amerika burned.
We will know we have equality when you see lily white kids stopped and frisked, lily white kids shot for driving while white, lily white kids choked out for smarting off at the cops, lily white kids forced out of their cars sitting on the curb while their car gets tossed.
Obama's speech continued with a few more words.
"... And the United States will stand up for them everywhere...at our discretion."