Some of the people Johnson is marching with are masked, and wearing the colors of the Bloods.
But at the same chaotic press conference, Captain Johnson made clear that Nixon’s mistake is not really being reversed:
Johnson…said law enforcement would not be heavy-handed in enforcing the curfew.
“We won’t enforce it with trucks, we won’t enforce it with tear gas,” he said.
The fragile peace shattered in Ferguson earlier in the day when looters again targeted neighborhood businesses while law enforcement in riot gear largely looked on without intervening.
[Missouri governor imposes curfew in Ferguson, declares emergency, by Ralph Ellis, Jason, Hanna and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN.com, August 16, 2014. Emphasis added].There has to be a limit to how much there is to steal in a poor community like Ferguson and to how many nights its young men want to spend roaming the streets (especially when it rains, as it began to do on in Ferguson Saturday morning).
So it’s possible Nixon and Johnson may get lucky and things will just calm down.
But they will flare up again—quite possibly if and when the local authorities dare not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer involved—particularly because the Left is obviously gearing up to use this type of discontent as an excuse to launch more social engineering drives to seek out and destroy America’s remaining whitopias. (See Ferguson Is a Microcosm of Our Racially—and Politically—Polarized Country| In the St. Louis suburb, the white ruling class has created de facto apartheid, by Brian Beutler, New Republic, August 16, 2014 [note comment thread!]; Around St. Louis, a Circle of Rage, by Tanzina Vega and John Eligon, New York Times, Aug. 16, 2014)
So here are some pointers to consider when this racial melodrama is replayed—either in Ferguson in the next few days or a similar town disturbingly near you in the future:
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This sign says it all: We want Blood, and we don't care if it is from an innocent white cop or not - we want Vengeance even though it is not warranted here -- The OJ Syndrome ! After this, I am saying no more about it. Rome is burning and Ferguson is a microcosm, a diversion from bigger Fish frying
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http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/08/18/anderson-cooper-accidentally-tweets-mindset-of-ferguson-community-protestors-why-wont-police-offer-just-one-cop-for-a-sacrifice/
Good one. Thanks.
DeleteI support Officer Darren Wilson. He is being used as a sacrifice to appease the
ReplyDeletenatives. We have all seen the video of Brown robbing the store and assaulting the shopkeeper, if it was NYC or LA, the shopkeeper would have blown him away! Then no riot PERIOD. And, no condemned Officer Wilson.
I bet the shopkeeper is armed now.
DeleteRegarding the arson of the QT store, I read that insurance does not
Deletecover for civil disturbances. Hard to believe if true. The store owner
is just a hard working guy trying to survive. There is no excuse for
deliberate destruction of property.
There is no excuse for deliberate destruction of property.
DeleteBut they'll probably get away scot-free this time.