The Rude Pundit - In Brief: A Thought Experiment on Ferguson
Let us say, and why not, that starting last week, large groups of armed black men and women blockaded the roads to their neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri. Let us say, and, indeed, why not, that those armed African-Americans said that they were sick and tired of being bullied by the government in the form of the police, with the killing of Michael Brown being the last straw, the one that broke the motherfuckin' camel's back.
And maybe they would declare that they were engaged in an act of civil disobedience against government overreach, that they had the right to walk the streets without being constantly subject to government interference in their daily lives. Perhaps the leaders of the protest would declare that God told them to stand up to the authorities. Perhaps they'd even say that they don't recognize the legitimacy of the police force. Perhaps they'd demand a restoration of government welfare programs that have been cut. Perhaps African-Americans from other cities would show up, armed, to join the Ferguson residents in defiance.
Then, let's say, and, remember, we're still in the realm of fantasy here, just having fun, you know, that a group of law enforcement officers, maybe cops, maybe state troopers, showed up with their armed vehicles and pointed their guns at the protesters. And then the protesters pointed all their guns back, declaring that they were willing to die, that they were making a stand and no one was going to get them to end it or take away their guns.
What would happen? Would law enforcement back down? Would they drive their BearCats back to the station? Would they lower their weapons and leave? Would senators stand with the Ferguson rebels? Would Fox "news" invite them on to praise their attack on a government gone mad?
Or would the cops just fucking waste them because they aren't white ranchers like Cliven Bundy, wanting free shit from the government? Hell, look what the cops are doing now and the Ferguson protesters have done nothing remotely as violent or threatening as the Bundy ranch assholes.
As for the Tea Party and the NRA, all those brave people who stand for "freedom" have pretty much scattered like fleas on an itchy dog and run when it comes time to oppose actual violence, not just playing cowboy. Freedom ain't free, but it sure is white.
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the "entitled" elite and their paid Army surplus equipped stooge armies. It's just the "server and protector's" way of saying, fuck the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, we've got our Army Surplus Army gear and we need some live targets.("good training for the boyz"
Do the citizens mean no more to the "authorities" than pop-up silhouettes at the shooting range?
The policeman supposedly told his lady friend, that, "The kid punched him in the face." Should an 18 year old kid be executed for that on the spot, or should the cop have called for back-up and collared the kid like it was his job to do, when help arrived on the scene? Is that county and city, so hard up for money, that they no longer plan to try citizens for their alleged crimes, before a jury of their peers, but shoot them down in the streets instead? Just execute people on the spot now, because the officer is angry? Sounds like how the Gestapo dished out "Justice." And...as with any crime...the cover-up is almost as wrong as the crime.
I'm an old, white, southern, democrat, man, who thinks this young man was cut down by a man who should have known better, simply because this policeman was probably angry, over being hit in the face. The shots were fired from a distance, so says the powder burn evidence. If the policeman was no longer physically engaged with the young man, why did he shoot? Was the kid charging at the officer? The absence of powder burns, seems to indicate, that the danger to the officer, may not in fact, have been life threatening. If the kid was falling down when the officer fired the fatal shot, the worst criminal of the two, may still be walking around wearing his badge and Army surplus, taxpayer funded, military hardware.
