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Ferguson: "War Zone Or US City?"... The Morning After
Ferguson suffered its 5th night of unrest; as we feared during the day yesterday, when night fell in Ferguson, a combination of massive SWAT team presence and an increasingly disillusioned citizenry were a recipe for disaster. Over 70 heavily-armed police enforced quasi-martial-law in the troubled town, at least 10 people were arrested, tear gas and rubber bullets were unleashed, and 2 reporters were (briefly) arrested. Perhaps Rep. Justin Amash summed it up best, "Is this a war zone or a US city? Gov't escalates tensions w/military equipment & tactics."
"I've had enough of being pushed around because of the color of my skin. I'm sick of this police brutality," said one protester, who gave only his first name, Terrell, 18. "I'm going to keep coming back here night after night until we get justice."
Clashes broke out between police and protesters overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, four days after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
Wow. Police arrest two journalists covering #Ferguson protests: http://t.co/skkSKBFr9W pic.twitter.com/qf2IHdN8Zo
— Slate (@Slate) August 14, 2014
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse some 350 protesters late Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
Some demonstrators hurled rocks at police as others scattered, while smoke engulfed the area. A Reuters reporter saw two young men preparing what looked like petrol bombs in a bus-stop shelter, their faces covered by bandanas. Police said protesters had thrown petrol bombs at officers.
Protesters have gathered every night since Saturday when 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death in the mostly black suburb of St. Louis, during what authorities said was a struggle over a gun in a police car. Some witnesses say he was outside the car with his hands up.
Police have deployed camouflage-clad officers in body armor, including one manning a rifle on a tripod atop an armored car, to Ferguson.
This picture got me yelled at by the police but I'm a journalist. I document arrests. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown pic.twitter.com/e4mGUQipLK
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 14, 2014
More arrests...
A St. Louis alderman, Antonio French [who has become a Twitter celebrity with his Vines], was among some 10 people arrested on Wednesday evening, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported. About 40 protesters have been arrested since Saturday.
But the Police say they are trying to help...
Police Chief Thomas Jackson told reporters his priority was improving race relations in Ferguson, which has seen a stark demographic shift in recent decades, going from mostly white to mostly black. About two-thirds of the town's 21,000-strong population are black. On a police force of 53, three officers are black.
"This is an opportunity to fix what's wrong," he said.
Politicians are anxious...
National figures from President Barack Obama to civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton have called for a peaceful response to the shooting.
Obama, who is vacationing on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, was briefed on Wednesday night about events in Ferguson by senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the White House said.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said in a series of Twitter messages he would visit the area on Thursday, and urged "law enforcement to respect rights of residents (and) press" with the hopes that the "ongoing crisis" does not compound Saturday's "tragedy."
"Situation in Ferguson does not represent who we are. Must keep the peace, while safeguarding rights of citizens and the press," Nixon wrote.
Reporters arrested and tear-gased...
@HuffingtonPost reporter @ryanjreilly arrested when police closed Ferguson McDonalds. #MikeBrown #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/rAz2A8eu31
— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) August 14, 2014
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Spot The Difference...
Top: Baghdad, Iraq - Bottom: #Ferguson, Missouri. pic.twitter.com/eEwWFnxq5G
— ???s (@theblogpirate) August 14, 2014
As Michael Snyder asks - How is it possible that our once very peaceful nation has fallen apart so dramatically?
Let’s be honest – Ferguson, Missouri is under military occupation right now, and the entire world is watching in horror as militarized police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at unarmed protesters. Yes, the rioting and looting in Ferguson needed to be stopped. If order had not been restored, more stores and businesses would have been destroyed. However, there is no excuse for the brutal tactics now being employed. At one point, police snipers were even using laser scopes to target protesters that were obviously unarmed. Sadly, this is just a preview of what is coming to America in the years ahead. As the economy falls apart and people become even more angry and even more frustrated, there will be a lot more incidents of civil unrest like we have just witnessed in Ferguson. And in response, the federal government and our overly militarized police will seek to crush those uprisings with overwhelming force. ...
when police get all of this equipment, it is inevitable that they are going to use it. One result of this has been the astounding increase in the number of SWAT team raids in America. The following numbers come from my previous article entitled “10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know“…
#1 In 1980, there were approximately 3,000 SWAT raids in the United States. Now, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country.
#2 79 percent of the time, SWAT teams are deployed to private homes.
#3 50 percent of the victims of SWAT raids are either black or Latino.
#4 In 65 percent of SWAT deployments, “a battering ram, boot, or some sort of explosive device” is used to gain forced entry to a home.
#5 62 percent of all SWAT raids involve a search for drugs.
#6 In at least 36 percent of all SWAT raids, “no contraband of any kind” is found by the police.
#7 In cases where it is suspected that there is a weapon in the home, police only find a weapon 35 percent of the time.
#8 More than 100 American families have their homes raided by SWAT teams every single day.
#9 Only 7 percent of all SWAT deployments are for “hostage, barricade or active-shooter scenarios”.
#10 Even small towns are getting SWAT teams now. 30 years ago, only 25.6 percent of communities with populations between 25,000 and 50,000 people had a SWAT team. Now, that number has increased to 80 percent.
And of course African-American communities receive a greatly disproportionate amount of attention from our militarized police. Just imagine how you would feel if every time you saw a police officer you cringed in fear because you might be about to get searched again. The following is how author Michelle Alexander put it in her book “The New Jim Crow“…
Ultimately, these stop-and-frisk operations amount to much more than humiliating, demeaning rituals for young men of color, who must raise their arms and spread their legs, always careful not to make a sudden move or gesture that could provide an excuse for brutal - even lethal - force.
Like the days when black men were expected to step off the sidewalk and cast their eyes downward when a white woman passed, young black men know the drill when they see the police crossing the street toward them; it is a ritual of dominance and submission played out hundreds of thousands of times each year.
So what can we do about this?
How can we change the system?
How can we reverse this alarming militarization of our police?
Unfortunately, our system has become so corrupt that there is very little that we can do. In fact, one newly released study discovered that average Americans have a “near-zero” statistical impact on public policy…
A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
The startling study, titled “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,” is slated to appear in an upcoming issue of Perspectives on Politics and was authored by Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin Page. An early draft can be found here.
Noted American University Historian Allan J. Lichtman, who highlighted the piece in a Tuesday article published in The Hill, calls Gilens and Page’s research “shattering” and says their scholarship “should be a loud wake-up call to the vast majority of Americans who are bypassed by their government.”
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no shit. what a completely idiotic delusional statement. Besides, America would not be America without the contributions of black culture. get over it ignorant tools. You are ignoring the big picture. the divide and conquer play is moving into full swing and we are all going to pay the price if people don't pull together and go after the root cause of all this, the financial slavery system in place.
Who did the native Americans take America from?
The mound builders.
History is hard.
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Bullshit. Native Americans are immigrants like everybody else. We all come from Afrika, isn't it?
While in a sense this is true....
Real americans are native americans ;p And we don't have any of those here in europe ;ppp
So.... No!
Being from Baltimore, I say piss off dave and ask how is the water situation in Vegas going?
Dave has access to plenty - he has to fill Shelly Adelson's pool every thursday
He lives in Massapequa
From Baltimore but not living in Baltimore right? What a dump that city is.....Baltimore, city that bleeds.
I lived in Bmore for 10 years. It is the city that "Breeds", although bleeds is quite appropriate as well.
Wrong to have soldier cops.
Also wrong to have people who riot, burn, beat and loot at the drop of a hat.
If the cops shot the molotov cocktail bomb throwers, that would be a calming measure.
Stand and do nothing amidst wide spread burning and looting only gives the looters and rioters a green light.
Hey Dave! Acin' that geography quiz again!
Backward assed fuck
Dave are you suffering from dehydration?
I am sure which is more sad it is the militarized police force and the roid rangers who populate it.
Yup....I agree...citizens turn violent when police brutality ensues...not the other way around.
from 2012, military vehicle exercise on the streets of st. louis. has to make you wonder:
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/866-military-tanks-on-st-louis-street...
I seem to remember those exercises going down in multiple cities that have a Federal Reserve Bank.
The Federal Reserve buildings themselves were always the focus of exercises in those district cities.
All the details are usually secret from the public, but reports from nearly every one of those Rederal Reserve district capitol cities witnissed 'Fall of Saigon' type Blackhawk evacuation drills from the roofs of those buildings. The press always reported the helicopter activity as counter-terrorism and hostage rescue.
No local military units that anyone knows of - guard or active duty - had any direct involvement in those exercises. Nobody I know flew one and nobody knows of any other pilots that flew those Secret squirrel aviation units.
The entire rooftop exercise was pirvate Federal Reserve troops evacuating bankster crony Federal Reserve execs to somewhere safe. They could not count on the U.S. military to help them when the SHTF.
Probably a good idea on their part. Compressor stalls on a Blackhawk engines in flight are an emergency. In those situations, crew chiefs get nervous and tend to start throwing useless shit out the doors as fast as possible. The pompous fat-ass in the nice suit just plucked from the top of Federal Reserve building would be at the top of their list for 'unessential ballast to be jettisoned' at 10,000 ft.
Didn't the dispatcher notify the officer(s) of the shooting, citing a news channel? I would think the officer who fired would've called it in immediately afterwards. Additionally, I see the ever vigilant (and trustworthy /s) Anonymous released the name of the officer who shot the kid. Only problem is the St. Louis County PD denied the accused is an officer.
Hoax?
Ye shall know Al Sharpton by his hoaxes.
Those "thugs" exist to support the militarized police. If this country had a spine and would enforce the laws, we would have either.
"I am sure which is more sad, our militarized police force or our thugish violent citizens."
These rioters/looters are nothing more than "feral negroes".
They don't want a job and even if they did who would hire them?
I'm tired of the excuses...break the fucking chain! If you live in a ghetto, stop complaining, get out, find a mentor, go get a free education, learn a trade, become a productive member of society.
FWIW, I'm not making any excuses for the police...they're out of control.
It's sad to admit that our militarized police force is more fearsome than the violent thugs and I must admit I'm more afraid of the cops than the violent thugs. You can defend yourself against violent thugs but you can't with the police. When you do defend yourself against police you're either dead or be in prison. This is what happens when we the sheep just bent over and do what they want.
In the case of Ferguson, they should have held the shooter cop in custody pending investigation without pay instead of giving him suspension with pay. This should be the case in all cop use of lethal force to show the citizens that application of law is equal to all. If the cop is found not guilty then he can go back to work with backpay. If our military are subject to arrest for shooting a terrorist why not a cop for shooting a citizen?
Those people are idiots thinking they're going to get justice for anything.
And where would the outrage be if the victim was shot by another black teen??
Not to say the cop was justified in shooting him but if the people there want justice then look at the whole picture.
Would need to be a black teen paid to protect and serve him.
as bombdog points out, the government shooting your ass and a citizen shooting your ass are two different things
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/13/outrageous-brutal-double-murderer-eligibl...
Oooop, got distracted by the celebrity rack quiz so conveniently offered by ZeroHedge. Now what was i saying?
Oh yeah. It's like watching Planet of the Apes, live feed.
Keep up with the militarization of America's cities and police corruption here.
http://www.informationliberation.com/
Let me also say though......this is a self-fulfilling kind of thing. The more we allow the real gang bangers.....( our bankers and our politicans )....hollow out this country through the Great Ponzi, we will continue to see desperation and depravity increasing amongst the cities. Which in turns makes the police think more and more they are dealing with the "Walking Dead"....and will arm, prepare, equip, and train themselves as if they are about to go to war with flesh eating zombies....so to speak.
But I am not naive. This has been going on now also because the Powers That Be smell the zietgeist in the air concerning freedom and they can't have that. Hence.....the arming to the teeth of their "protection force". Police agencies in every state have now become the personal body guards of the state and the cronies that run it.
To wit....my question....why is the military in Ferguson, MO. You may say...."What.....there is no military in Ferguson".
REALLY......could have fooled me.
This is not the droid you are looking for.
[sound of respirator]
Merc - I'll double whatever the Hut is paying if you retire that thing right here, right now.
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"...I'll ask you one last time - where's the Wookie and the little garbage can?"
A sledgehammer to crack a peanut. These military styled police are nothing but a bunch of thugs intimidating the public. An open abuse.. it seems they really do not care. Unbelievable.
Boston Mara-con was the rehearsal.
+26.2
This is a journalism free zone.
So when does Putin start handing out cookies?
Journalism has been dead for over 30 years.
Another century of journalism, and all the words will stink.
The whole country is going to turn into a war zone before long. That's what happens in Civil War II.
Don't forget, the Liberals and Progressives who today are complaining about the police tactics in Ferguson, MO, are the same people who were calling in drone strikes and demanding the Feds massacre the Bundy Ranch demonstrators.
Fuck 'em.
Nuff said.
And they are the ones also calling for our guns to be turned in.
I stand corrected. Now nuff said.
and they're the ones that actively encourage the abortion of millions of black babies but lose their minds when a black man gets shot. They are so hypocritical it boggles the mind.
Who cares anymore? These black folks hero Obama is flooding America with millions of illegals. Let's get it started in here. They voted for it. F em.
Anyone think the cops or Feds will be able to control any of this when things start going bad?
Well those union boy cops and govt workers voted for this.
How else will they cram Canada, USA, and Mexico into one country. NWO.
Freddie Anyone think the cops or Feds will be able to control any of this when things start going bad?
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When things go really bad, they won't be firing rubber bullets. It will be mass execution
Keep this in mind: Those cops are trained to come in with overwhelming force and they are trained for high speed, up close and personal shit. Why? Because in most domestic situations, it works. Either the one or two guys that they are after shit their pants and give up, or they get dead.
Knowing that they're trained for up close and personal, if SHTF, what are you are going to do? Go toe to toe with them? NYPD may suck when it comes to shooting, but my local PDs don't. At least not when it is up close. I've seen confused looks on their faces when I am shooting a rifle long distances offhand. It's a completely different position that you get into, and they are not trained for it.
Edit: 300 yard prone rapid fire, from the pitts. (Not me.) That's 10 rounds, with a reload in between with iron sights. For reference, the X ring is 3" in diameter and the 10 ring is 6" in diameter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvFUg8lCDr8
F em all.
The libs who voted for this TWICE along with black folks.
The union boy cops and govt workers who vote Union - strong and proud.
Hopefully the illegals who are gonna get f'ed up when things go south and their f**king drug cartels.
The military and Pentagon who have done jack shit to protect The Constitution. I hope all their pensions are f'ed.
lol
wtf is the point of the camo ???
To make you afraid, of course. And to pretend you are a "sojer". And to be a moronic ignoramus "po-lice". But I repeat myself.
Mind-fuck.
intemidation, as well as to get the populance used to seeing military on the streets.
Autoplay OFF, please.
YEP END THE AUTO PLAY
You have 2 running at the same time
yeah that limey Paypal guy needs a swift kick in the nuts...
Amerika luvs FREEDOM of the Press.
Peace out. You can keep it.
I watched a live feed for about half hour last night around 11:00pm EST and the crowd was mainly black civilians acting very dignified and non violent although there was noticable tension. Some white people there too along side them. I understand there has been some bad behaviour and looting, but the people I've seen have been acting like a credit to their community and country. Just my observation, I assume any bad behaviour is picked up on by the mainstream media and the wishes of the peaceful citizens are ignored.
It's probalby true that 90%+ are peaceful so it's not fair to label them all as looters. But, it's equally not fair to label the police force at black haters or thugs because of one incident.
There is no room for balance here. If there is no hate, there is no debate.
This is true. The police have disdain for ANYONE who isn't part of the badge. Respect my Ahhhhhhtorttahhhhhh!!!!
"If you're not cop, you're little people."
Agree. But the MSM will always lean with the government. First thing I heard this morning was that police were forced to retaliate after protesters became violent. This may be true. But the way they feel so comfortable condoning force against citizens of this country is fucking pathetic.
"not fair to label the police force at black haters or thugs because of one incident."
This is one long unbroken event, and it demonstrates they are thugs in the service of despots, and any other interpretation is cowardice.
White person here who would be honored to stand alongside the peaceful protesters.
All your riot are belong to us.....
First the SWAT teams came for the blacks, and the journalists did not speak out, because they were not black and were paid to look the other way.
Then they came for cannabis users, and the journalists did not speak out, because they were not cannabis users and were paid to look the other way.
Then they came for the poor, and the journalists did not speak out, because they were not poor and were paid to look the other way.
Then they came for the onlooking journalists—but the journalists were professional liars in the pocket of big corporations, so who cares anyway.
TV, journalists, Hollywood and the media. They have ALL been onboard and love Obama. F them. Idiots who still watch TV and Hollywood support this police state too. Retards.
amateurs.
and posers
"50 percent of the victims of SWAT raids are either black or Latino."
This figure is surprisingly low.
You know its out of hand when even the Russian citizens are confused.
I was on a Russian website yesterday trying to get info on the Ukraine war and they had this article reporting about the events in Ferguson. In the comments section the people where asking? discussing trying to guess what kind of troops or special forces had been called into ferguson. I just did not know how to explain to them in Russian that these are only our cops.
Um, you dont.
Use English, and let Google do the rest.
Um, Sorry pal dont I dont touch anything google. That and Im not to lazy to practice in other languages.
M4 is Peace
HalfLethal is Freedom
DoublePlus Armored is Strength.
"Front Toward Enemy"
our system has become so corrupt that there is very little that we can do
I suggest 1 hour of jogging 5 days a week. You see that guy in the blue shirt? The joggers were long gone by the time that photo was snapped.
Slavery: worst ROI in history.
Not if you're a sports team owner for the National Felons League, or other sports.
Or a big tech firm.
If blacks put as much effort into finding a job or creating a job as they do for stealing, looting, and vandelizing, they'd all be millionaires.
Substitute "police" for "blacks", and you won't appear to be such a prejudiced ignoramus.
Except, he's right. Call them what they are.
How many nights has this been going on? How many people are protesting?
I could single-handedly accomplish more stealing, looting, and vandalizing than the thousands of members of that community have in the better part of a week.
If they were seriously motivated to destroy and pillage - they could burn all of St. Louis to the ground in one night.
"If they were seriously motivated to destroy and pillage - they could burn all of St. Louis to the ground in one night"
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You make a good point. Maybe they aren't.
There are certainly dumbasses among the horde. Likely many. But perhaps the majority are simply really pissed-off and are out yelling about it.
But we shouldn't let that possibility get in the way of anyone's "violent/lazy/stupid/whatever nig*er" notion.
Like someone commented on another thread, at least they are out doing something while the rest of the nation sits and takes what TPTB dish out.
I'd have spelled it out, but figured someone would ban me for such 'offensive' language.
Hey Goldie, guess you don't know the difference between doing something and doing the right thing. Sooo if someone hurt a family member of mine I get to go out and beat the shit out of the first person I see regardless if they had anything to do with it or not?
OK.
I'll call them what they are.
Parasitic revenue-collection agents for a thieving bunch of sociopathic looters, each of which should never have been born.
Wait. I thought you meant call the PO-LICE what they are.
Always nice when the Racial Police show up to decide who is racist and who is not.
What people don't understand about blacks is that they are literally the canary in the DC US coal mine.
An American, not US subject.
Millionairs like the rest of us? A good number of people I know have done just that and we're barely scrapping by.
Millionairs. Working 40 years in middle America putting kids thru school and the rest and you have the audacity to say "Work Hard Kid, you'll be a millionair...?
You've been coming to ZH for over 2 years with the Job reports every week and you still have the balls to use that old canard "If they would just get a Job....." bullshit?
As an observer, it looks to me that US is going towards its own "Spring movement" rather quickly.
There is a fight brewing here. No telling when it will be triggered or what event will trigger it. I expect that shit like this is going to be happening with greater and greater frequency. Most probably see it, but they refuse to believe it. I watched some of the live video last night, and it appeared to be just a few people causing problems, and the cops clamped down on everybody because of it. Also, that cocksucker on the Bearcat with the rifle was using his scope to scan the crowd. That's aggrivated assault with a deadly weapon. If SHTF in an area where the people who are pissed off know how to use rifles, that cocksucker would be the first to go.
Very interested in what the anons have to say about all of this...
The acquittal of the cop who shot Brown could be the trigger.
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I don't think there is any shortage of guns in Missouri- if they wanted to bring it, they could...
Yes, but the demographic that is most pissed off right now likley has little knowledge of how to properly handle a firearm.
The risk is that the idiots start something and their slightly less pissed and more experienced and law abiding next door neighbors have to pick up the slack.
41% legal gun ownership puts Missouri in the top half before accounting for the local gangbangers and convicted felons stashes in this specific ghetto. http://www.usacarry.com/forums/general-firearm-discussion/9841-percent-f...
If you have ever lived in the inner city most people welcome the police. They would say, 'where have you been?' and 'what took you so long?' All of these riots are over illegal drugs. When day after day these drug addicts look at you walking by like some wild animal's prey you cheer when the police finally knock them all on their asses....
The white police?
A few years ago I was walking through my neighborhood, which is now considered a ghetto, 10 years ago it was middle-class. A car load of blacks slowly drove past me and saw that I was carrying groceries which meant that I had money. The car stopped and when the doors opened up out came the rap music, crack smoke, and finally the drugged up animals ready to pounce on me. Suddenly a UPS delivery truck rounded the corner with its usual loud engine and all the animals scampered back into the car like rats and drove off. The driver was white so yes I'd say I'll welcome any protection no matter what the skin color.
"What can brown do for you?"
Lots of truth there. North Austin has turned into a huge ghetto of lower income Black/Mexican mixture and when I lived there several years ago the majority of Mexicans and blacks ( who were actually hard working people) held protests and marches almost every month begging for more police protection in the area because they experienced soaring violent thuggery.
The 5-10% thugs make it very hard on the 90-95% law abiding, hard working people. As Global Hunter said above, most of the people (black, white, Mexican, etc) do not want the violence and crime.
Looks like an Article 3, Section 3 treason zone to me.
An American, Not US subject.
Another multicultural paradise.
Enjoy it, goy!
Do these tyrant treasonous thugs have homes and families that are unattended, when pointing red lasers at Americans ??.....
I see dangerous crowds of animalized blacks. As long as I see these animals, and have the knowledge of what they are capable of (in packs, like hyenas) I will feel contempt for them and want the troops to be in position and have at it.
I don't consider them compatriots at all, as per many people's mythical 'Join Together and Fight the Man' armchair patriot dreams.
When they start hitting MY tribe (WASP) I will respond in a coordinated manner with my people.
And that my friends, is how it's going down in my neighborhood.
That be rayciss? Then that be rayciss.
They are gassing JOURNALISTS who are posing no threat to the police whatever, other than perhaps revealing the truth.
How many protestors would there be if there were no "journalists"?
I'm pretty sure the protestors got there before the journalists.
Journalists....????
Truth....?????
Are you that FUCKING STUPID??????
PLEASE tell me you haven't bred......
One day you will find your banker ass under the boot of the State, hopefully soon. We will not come to your rescue.
Who is this "we" that you refer to?
US moral high ground digs itself into a deeper hole.
Big L Libertarians (and many libertarians) are particularly concerned about the plight of middle to upper-middle class white people.
Militarized police departments appear to be OK if they are seen to be protecting these classes from others, and are given the benefit of the doubt, unless it's been demonstrated that the interests of middle to upper-middle class white people have been threatened.
I think you've confused libertarians and conservatives. Libertarianism is NOT a "type" of conservativism.
No, I don't think I have.
I was careful and used words like "many," and "particularly," and I drew a distinction between big L and little l.
I'm an anarchist, do I count as a libertarian? I'm confident the Big Ls wouldn't want me.
Anarchists are the super large L anarchists.
Don't know many real libertarians who advocate a police state, but whatever.
Might want to read Bastiat's "The Law" again, though. Just to reinforce or discredit some perceptions, as it were.
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it is on ZH threads. you've been "here" long enough to have read the electioneering voter-threads, so I'm sure you get my drift. . .
Unfortunately, for the middle-class, the one's that still has some expendable income and savings, will applaud the actions of the storm troopers. This society has been so conditioned to believe that the police are there to protect and serve. I am sickened by what is unfolding by the thugs in camo. Not much hope left until the iron fist is removed from the velvet glove in more cities. The blood, fire, and tears will be a long trail and a trnasition will come, but the question is what is on the other side of the cloud and blood?
And who will you call when they come to burn your house down? We will be forced to take sides, but we can remain "high minded" until then. It has always been the plan. Divide and conquer.
In the end, it's really not about "liberty" at all; it's about preserving what's yours.
Liberty is the tool that enables is to preserve what is ours. That ability for individuals to retain and accumulate wealth has built this country. When liberty has been replaced with tyranny, only those who make the rules can accumulate wealth and power. Individual liberty is the only path to owning the means of freedom.
Massive Free Sh*t Army lives in the large city about 12 miles away.
Should they riot, it would take the Mili..er...cops to stop them.
(sorry, less and less diff)
Down with miitarized cops!
Up with our wonderful Homeland Security and armed Every-Govt-Agency.
Do notice how the "cops" now uses machine guns?
Great stuff for crowd control huh?
Makes it easy to be sure you got that one perp hiding in that crowd of citizens.
Should they riot, it would take the Mili..er...cops to stop them.
You mean the Free Shit Army is more powerful than the NRA? I thought for sure the well-armed Liberty Movement could handle the job.
Huh.
The Liberty Movement is going to lay back awhile and let the FSA soak up some of the 2 billion rounds of ammo before engaging. That's my guess.
teh libertea movement.
they like to watch.
Military/Police/Fed don't have "Machine guns", they have "Personal Defense Weapons" or PDWs which have select fire and/or three-round burst. One trigger pull sends out three rounds, or more.
Civilians have "machine guns" or "assault rifles", which are in fact semi-auto rifles. One trigger pull sends out one round.
See how the definition directly impacts perception? It reiterates an "us vs them" mentality with all Military/Police/Fed organizations.
Boston Stong
Moncton Strong
Back Nine Strong
Ignorant Strong
It's going to take a HUGE loss of life at the hands of the gang in blue for people to wake up....
I don't want to wish harm on people, but if this gets really ugly it could finally shine the spotlight on the USSA's militarization of police.
Remember occupy wall st? The protesters were totally infiltrated with government agents. Next thing you know, they've got elaborate laws in NYC about under what circumstances they'll "allow" you to peaceably assemble.
Now, we've got a show in ferguson mo (basically up and down one street, notice all the action is right in front of the Quick Mart). Soon there will be a lot more laws about how you're "allowed" to assemble, with a lot more access to advanced swat methods available to the thugs.
Yay! I love this show.
it reminds of photos seen in preMandela South Africa
How is south Africa now?
....natives are restless
"How is South Africa now"? So bad it has a lot of blacks demanding the return to the days of apartheid.
this is soviet america. the police are murderers.
"How is it possible that our once very peaceful nation has fallen apart so dramatically?"
You never where peacefully - your country was founded on the extinction of the native americans, the bulls, etc.
Obviously bull is not extinct in your country. That would be bison you are probably thinking of. Neither them or native Americans are extinct.
Hey there's them Al-Jazeera, are they like Al-Quaeda? We better take 'em out!
Some amazing restraint I would say.
Incredibly, it doesn't matter where these people would live, they would destroy the place in a short period of time.
NIMBY; much to the chagrin of the 'progressives'.
GODDAMN SHITHOLE COUNTRY
EVERY DAMN STATE
You're either part of the problem or part of the solution. Which one are you?
I'm obviously not part of your Final Solution.
No, you're right, that'll never happen.
We are ALL part of the problem.
SS109 for the AR’s.
What are you cats suggesting for civilian sniper rifles and ammo type?
TIA.