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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:50 PM Aug 2014

Why isn't the Tea Party sending a militia to Ferguson?

On August 5, a man named John Crawford was playing with a toy rifle in an Ohio Wal-Mart. Someone called 911, and police showed up and shot him in the chest. He died.

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
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Why isn't the Tea Party sending a militia to Ferguson? (Original Post) SecularMotion Aug 2014 OP
Too many people of a certain continental origin around. KamaAina Aug 2014 #1
because those are black people d_r Aug 2014 #2
It doesn't appear that the vigilantes were dispatched. At least for that............. wandy Aug 2014 #3
Nah. No one to wave misspelled signs at there. TheCowsCameHome Aug 2014 #4
The folks who went to the Bundy ranch ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #5
Maybe they're already represented by malaise Aug 2014 #6
... napkinz Aug 2014 #7
those militias only assist white people SummerSnow Aug 2014 #8

wandy

(3,539 posts)
3. It doesn't appear that the vigilantes were dispatched. At least for that.............
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 04:16 PM
Aug 2014

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.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
5. The folks who went to the Bundy ranch
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 05:09 PM
Aug 2014

seemed more like ancaps to me. We're they Tea Party folks? Perhaps both?

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