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On August 9, a man named Michael Brown was walking in the street in Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer stopped him. According to the friend that was with him, Brown put his hands up to show that he was unarmed. The officer shot him in the back. Brown's body was left in the street for hours before being removed.
Since then, the incident in Ferguson has overshadowed the Ohio Wal-Mart shooting. Protesters have been gathering, and demanding answers from the police, who have become increasingly skittish and violent. Journalists are being told to turn off their cameras, local residents are getting tear gassed.
Nobody knows exactly what happened, but whatever the facts may be, things certainly look bad now. To most Americans, this is the stuff of horror films: A sleepy rural town being terrorised by an advanced military.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/why-isn-tea-party-sending-mili-2014815134020871476.html
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)d_r
(6,907 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)there is one thing to be thankful for.
Now my impression as to why the Cow-Pie vigilantes weren't called in.
First off let's not call them the Tea Party militia. I conceder it something like the domestic 'law' enforcement arm of the GOP.
The GOP typically uses the U.S military for foreign profit,,, errr I ,mean 'law' enforcement. (See Iraq).
As someone already pointed out these people were of the wrong 'continental origin'.
There isn't much profit in aiding people of the wrong 'continental origin'.
Their is profit in grazing Bundy cows on tax payer supported public lands.
Once that is generally accepted........
Their is great profit in guarding Koch strip mines on tax payer supported public lands.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)seemed more like ancaps to me. We're they Tea Party folks? Perhaps both?
malaise
(268,846 posts)the Ferguson cops