“Protesters”? No, this is what a riot looks like:
In what was slated as a peaceful “March to the Arch” by Ferguson demonstrators, more than two dozen people were arrested and pepper spray was used by police. The melee unfolded as protesters tried to storm the St. Louis Metropolitan Police headquarters building.
About seventy-five people marched through the downtown area and eventually went to police headquarters. There, with the building on lockdown, the group took the opportunity to rush an open door. Several people pushed in.
Upon entry, protesters read a list of demands to department officials. Those demands included a meeting with Chief Sam Dotson, Mayor Slay and Board of Aldermen President, Lewis Reed. They also requested an immediate termination of Officer’s Hayes and Flannery. They want amnesty for protesters who have been charged with non-violent offenses, the creation of a diverse Citizens Review Board with subpoena power and a seven day release of all information regarding police shootings, not limited to transparent release of all unedited videos and audio.
(Via Memeorandum.) These “protesters” are anti-democratic, pro-criminal anarchists. The city of St. Louis has an elected government, and the police are hired by that government to enforce law in the city. If a majority of the citizens are dissatisfied with their government, their laws or their police, they may make their grievances known at public meetings, or they may elect a new government.
What these “protests” are about is a lawless minority, who are in fact supporters of the city’s criminal element, attempting to impair law enforcement by creating public disturbances. Their liberal sympathizers in the media are enabling these advocates of anarchy by depicting the rioters as representatives of legitimate interests.
UPDATE: Daily Caller reports:
Mckesson’s videos show protesters walking in chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Later, they can be seen sitting on the floor, hands raised chanting, “No justice, no peace.” One video shows protesters fighting with officials to get through the doors while chanting, “This is what democracy looks like.”
No, this is what anarchy looks like.
This is what incipient fascism looks like. These are brownshirt tactics, representing a menace to public safety by dangerous people whose real goals have nothing to do with either “justice” or “peace.”
I prefer the term “brownskirts” as it evokes the history metaphorically. It teaches people something about the ones so involved, and infuriates the anti-skirtists who can’t stand the thought of dressing like a childhood FDR, who (by their objections) insult the guys that buy utilikilts.
Win/win/win.
Oh, I’m sure these people would love that.
Right up to the point that they realize, “Oh, sh!t!!! You mean WE don’t control them????”
I don’t buy that. While outside pressure can (and has) gotten the right people into the right jobs, mere b!tching and moaning by any number of “citizens groups” will not accomplish much. It’s very easy for the corrupt insiders to ignore, stonewall, or otherwise pass the buck.
What is needed, again, is the right man in the right job with a brief to clean things up and the power to do it. The problem is that the corrupt amongst us take good care to keep the incorruptible out of authority.
Human flaws and political conflict is a fact of life, but in a place as relatively peaceful and prosperous as an America tens of millions are risking their lives to come to we have to start asking ourselves some hard questions.
Flawed individuals are one thing, a sociopathic ideology being mainstreamed into the heart of America another. We have already identified a racist, sexist and supremacist ideology that seeks to work outside the constraints of laws with call and after call after call for extra-legal star chambers. Current law is of no interest to them except as it benefits them. If they don’t like a Grand Jury, that’s that.
We have already identified how this ideology repeatedly creates Sudetenland fear-hoaxes constructed around identities that must not be institutionally touched or disagreed with, namely women and blacks. They thrive on Gulf of Tonkin incidents that are not only murky but even if 100% true are complete aberrations, like Trayvon Martin, Ferguson and Eric Garner. They collude to create rape hoaxes.
These people include journOlists and literary writers who publicly collude to racially and sexually lie and discriminate. For people who think this is not dangerous, you have to ask two politically assassinated police officers how dangerous hate speech is and an entire city that has had its low-level laws unilaterally decriminalized by an angry police force. That could go nation-wide in a heartbeat.
When the entire movement is tacitly led by the President of the U.S., who appointed Eric Holder to oversee this “dialogue,” that is real trouble. When everything from 9/11 to gang culture to rape is laid at the feet of all straight white men as a bill of particulars, including the open collusion to demographically overthrow America, that is flat out dangerous.
The irony is it is most dangerous for the blacks and women behind this social justice movement. Get rid of the Constitution and make it a free-for-all and you have something like the East India Company, not an Amazon Third World-immigrant coalition ruling the world. Get rid of the Pax Americana and you have beheadings, slavery and rumblings of empire in Russia and Asia. Liberals better take stock of what they’re hiding within their midst while they still have liberty.
How much financial power do you need to be on a city council? And I like the way you used “self-serving” without a hint of awareness, since that is what your “argument” is. One can’t change a “system” when that system is said to be the moral failings of white men.
This is not an attack on a system but nothing more than group libel.
If one is going to target all cops as too white and evil then one will inevitably come to the same place with blacks as criminals and evil. You can’t have this argument both ways, and that is precisely why it is so dangerous. Social Justice Warriors do not fight racism, they create it by setting precedent.
There are also two thing now lost in time that were commonly understood at the time. The first is “all men are created equal” is a shot across the bows of the idea a King rules other men by divine right. The new Americans delegitimized that idea that had been sacred in European thought for over a thousand years. It was not a statement about equality. Why would slave-holders write such a thing? There was no tacit anti-slavery agreement among them.
The second is the greatest fear of all: Balkanization of the new America. Have three countries instead of one over a thing like slavery and you have a situation where a thing like the East India Company or Cortes can come in, play one off against the other and give us 1,500 years of European wars on the American mainland. That fear was so great that Lincoln still wouldn’t give into abolishing slavery until the Civil War all had feared for 80 years was half over.
Perfect!
I disagree. Bubbles will burst.
That’s part of the issue yes.
But it’s not so black and white as all that. You have to look at how government and “public” action made a criminal culture desirable. People respond to incentives. If the only way they can find power and pride is by breaking the law, then the strongest will do exactly that.
Papan survived the ”Night of the Long Knives” and continued working for the German government throughout the war.
And Hitler successfully escaped to the Argentina.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie, it matters what they see as the truth. This isn’t a rational argument, they won’t accept an “answer” that doesn’t give the perception that they can take back power for themselves.
The problem you see is not the problem they see.
Most of our ”money” is mere data, not even currency let alone real money.
No he didn’t, but Papan died May 2, 1969.
You are right 😛
Wake up, sheeple!111!!!!!!111
Hilarious. What did you expect them to do? Go home like good little ____ ?
The fact that these protest are happening in St Louis as opposed to Ohio demonstrates the protesters have no rational concept of justice or injustice. They’re like children insisting ”it’s not fair” whenever they don’t get what they want. In Ferguson the law was enforced, that’s what they’re protesting against. They protest justice and ignore tyranny.
“Dudettebroads.”
Well we certainly can’t humor their delusions of persecution. If they can’t take reality for answer, then there is no answer to, or for them. Which leaves only the question of what to do with them.
Nah, that would be the goof equating a handful of those protesting killings by police, protestors belonging to the most policed, arrested, and imprisoned minority in history, with “brownshirts.”
It’s sheer lunacy. It’s like calling Polish Jews in 1938 “a threat to European order.”
That would have a certain clarifying effect.
Dictionary? Seriously?
You could lurk more and save yourself some embarrassment, or continue to provide a source of comedy. Either way is fine.
By reform they mean nationalization of state and local police forces.
You’re comparing incarcerated criminals to Polish Jews? Are you suggesting that most of those incarcerated don’t belong there?
This whole, stupid, anti-cops thing is all about suggesting that certain people should be free from answering to law enforcement.
It’s also a really stupid mistake. Law enforcement is what saves these thugs from having to answer directly to the people.
I think they can be reached, I just think we should appeal to their passion as well as their reason.
Probably more passion than reason.
Yes.
Just as they were taught.
And shame on us for letting that happen.
Precisely the problem they’re all passion and no reason, even worse they’re passionate about their delusions, not very promising.
WE didn’t do that.
I’m not so ready to give up on them.
If we’re not wise enough to show them reason using passion, we’re doing it wrong.
And we’re locking the law into whoever has the biggest guns.
I don’t want to live like that.
It’s a fact of life in many communities…
I’m not sure I would want to live with the alternative either…
We let it happen.
We bought the lie that compassion triumphs practicality. We “accepted” that “blacks” deserved more privileges because of history. We let generations be victims when they deserved to be heroes.
That’s why it’s so irritating about these morons incessantly whining about ”disparate” incarceration rates. The disparity is in the crime rates.
Part of the job description.
Law Enforcement is their best option, but the fools don’t know it! Lynch Mobs and rules…
don’t compute…
Maybe you have some culpability in this but I don’t, I never bought any of that nonsense. For the record; they didn’t deserve to be heroes merely the opportunity to be so.
Yes they do, but you don’t understand what. In your ditzy world, hate speech results in only 2 outcomes:
A.) Genocide
B.) Nothing
It is comforting that according to Godwin’s Law, there is nothing in between. If there were, we’d be in a lot of trouble.
The Eric Garner case was a “hoax”? No, and the consensus on both sides of the political spectrum is that police used excessive force, and that lead to Mr. Garners death. thsts as clear as day. keeping police in check, since they work for the people, is paramount, and when they screw up someone needs to be punished for it. As it stands the police police themselves and always find a justification for their actions. As far as the protesters are concerned: they shouldn’t have tried to storm
a police station, but to call them Nazi Brownshirts over it is laughable. Brownshirts broke heads, and that included those of the police.
*shrugs*
So you don’t have culpability but they have to obey the law.
Hmm.
Correct. I didn’t do this to them and had no say in the matter when others did this to them. Further, society didn’t this to them either. Just because people who had no good intentions managed to prey on their gullibility doesn’t remove their responsibility for what they’ve become.
We don’t answer to law enforcement. The cops simply force you to answer to the people that supposedly uphold the law – the courts. Alas, the cops have lost the knowledge of their real place in society and they see themselves as a privileged bunch instead seeing themselves in terms of their responsibilities. That’s why they write you and I tickets for things they do as a matter of course.
But, we no longer have rule of law.
Why, that would be dangerous. They might get knifed or shot. It’s far safer to bust into Police HQ.
That’s known as “personal responsibility”. I suspect that you are familiar with the concept.
Ever try to reason with a person who has been conditioned to be exclusively emotive?
Best of luck, Neo. You’re going to need a lot of it.
I agree.
And please note that I made no mention of race in either of my posts.
I thought for them, that happened in November 2008.
Man, that’s for sure.
It is black and white. A criminal culture was made desirable via the influence of media mind control upon the weak-willed and weak-minded.