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Ferguson – Sending In The Bigger Guns
And so it begins?
National Guard called in after second night of chaos in Ferguson, Missouri
Missouri's governor said on Monday he would send the National Guard into the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson to restore calm after authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd protesting last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by police.
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At around dusk on Sunday, hundreds of protesters in Ferguson including families with young children fled to safety after police wearing gas masks and body armor fired tear gas and smoke canisters to scatter them hours ahead of the curfew.
"The smoke bombs were completely unprovoked," said Anthony Ellis, 45. "It (the protest) was led by kids on bikes. Next you know they're saying, 'Go home, Go home!'"
The Missouri Highway Patrol said "aggressors" were trying to infiltrate a law enforcement command post and that armored vehicles were deployed to ensure public safety.
According to Billmon's research the Missouri National Guard has some supremacists/neo-nazi problems. One wonders how diverse such a force is. It has some Military Police battalions all of which have experience with handling "sandniggers" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The National Guard will surely find this or that "aggressor" in Ferguson to justify a further escalation.
One hopes that other cities will join in with the protests in Ferguson and protest against what even conservatives describe as much too militarized and aggressive use of force against citizens prevalent in the United States.
Marijuana?
No wonder Michael Brown went ballistic and madly attacked a kindly neighborhood policeman, lustfully sitting on his lap in order to see what “popped up.” When he discovered it was a gun, he “shot up” and danced sprightly away, then faked a surrender while spinning around like a defensive end, and rushing the officer from 35 feet away, with several bullets in his arm barely holding him back, in his attempt to headbutt Offissa Williams with deadly force.
Or so our two resident trolls, ostensibly preaching caution and reserving judgment, would have us believe in their fairytale version of “Brown meets a Brownshirt: Duel at High Noon”.
Seriously, some nice work by many on this thread, jsore and bevin, some old barflys, and others. Especial thanks for that accounting of police deaths for the year. Imagine if the Gazans had managed to kill that many Israelis. Accidentally, of course.
Some thoughts:
*The bullet which entered the top of Brown’s head, exited below his chin, signifying that Brown’s head was inclined at greater than ninety degrees to the ground, a position it would be impossible to run in.
* We are always told how scared cops are when they are “forced” to draw their weapons. But how scared are those peering at the other side of the barrel?
*The pigs knew they were in trouble from the start. The fix was in from the beginning:
*Confiscation of cell phones with evidence.
*Deliberate transgression of basic crime scene procedure.
*Giving Brown the “Princess Diana” treatment (waiting four hours until he was stone dead before removing the body in a police truck, where any untoward evidence could be massaged, removed or planted before he reappeared in public custody). Come to think of it — this was the same Presidential treatment accorded JFK on the way to his utterly bizarre autopsy, where the body was “altered” to disguise the direction of the bullets.
*Bringing in the government “handlers,” like ex-mob confidanté Al Sharpton, a man who was described in a recent “Smoking Gun” exposé as having been in “the civil rights business.“
Of course, any crisis is an opportunity for the ruling class to implement a domestic “strategy of tension” — or as Jay Gould says “paying one half of the working class to execute the other half.” It’s even easier when the other half isn’t even working because there are no jobs. It’s like a football game: “Hate” vs. “Fear.” Or is that the coming court case?
Actually, I am really rather heartened to see Americans waking up from their hypnotic stupor and fighting back. There is more life in Ferguson this week than there ever was in any “occupy” encampment. Let’s keep it going.
*I love it how cops drive around in multi-million dollar assault vehicles, but web cameras and recorders would be “prohibitively expensive.”
*What ever happened to “neighborhood” policing, where you knew the cop on the local beat? Moreover, why doesn’t s/he live in the neighborhood — that is, unless you purposely want unaccountable mercenaries.
*Sure, more “opportunity” would be good for neighborhoods like Ferguson, if you’re a liberal who buys the matrix lies of society about Obama trying hard to “chip away” at the unemployment rate — but what about demanding full employment and a living wage for all. The Soviet Union, for all its flaws, could do it, why can’t we? God knows there is enough work in this sick society that needs to be done. And a small Tobin Tax on financial hyenas would pay for the entire project. I have an entire bookshelf full of pompous titles, like “Structural Unemployment in Western Europe” and “Solutions to Social Problems” and “Ineqality and Stratification” — all picked out of the trash of some of our best Universities, by the way, and yet none of them will admit that these problems are social problems, not “structural” problems, and that they are the result of societal choices in resource allocation — due to propaganda, often unconscious for all but the ruling class. But they continue to train our planners and social workers to “chip away.” It’s the “values,” stupid.
Anyway, it seems President Hopey Changey has racked up another gold star for merit in militarizing and polarizing our society. He should be well on his way towards his second Nobel Prize by now. Perhaps the new nation of ISISstan will bestow some kind of “Founders” medal on him too.
When, in 2013, Obama declared that slain teen Trayvon Martin “could have been me,” he meant that if he had half the huevos of JFK in confronting the evil powers bent upon destroying the entire world in an insane nuclear first strike, he too could have a least given some meaning to the life of being “the decider.”
In 2009, when Obama exacerbated tensions by saying police acted “stupidly” by arresting a black Harvard University professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., at his own home, he at least was cagey enough to leave out the more obvious thought in the back of his head, it “could have been me” at the University of Chicago.
This time, when an 18 year old was gunned down in cold blood the day before he was to begin college, he did not think that the police had acted “stupidly:”
“There are young black men that commit crime,” the president said. “We can argue about why that happens — because of the poverty they were born into and the lack of opportunity or school systems that fail them or what have you — but if they commit a crime, then they need to be prosecuted, because every community has an interest in public safety.”
Robin Williams used to love making fun of George Bush’s malaprops in his comedy acts. Who will take up the cudgel with Obama’s inanities?
Posted by: Malooga | Aug 19 2014 10:06 utc | 97
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