Copy from The Rude Pundit last week on Mike Brown

[Buddaman]

This is the desperate attempt by Matt Drudge to show that Michael Brown, who was shot down, unarmed, and, from multiple witness accounts, with his hands up and moving away from a police car in Ferguson, Missouri, was some kind of thug. How him flipping off the camera (in a jokey, "I'm-just-scratching" way) accomplishes this only the terrier-fucking Drudge would know. Drudge and other shit-eaters of the right just have to gangsta Brown up in order to protect the power of the cop-soldiers who, until tonight, were acting like total, deranged, over-armed, roided-up cockholes with protesters, reporters, and people at home in Ferguson.

And to what end do Drudge and the cop's water carriers need to show this? To say that it was okay to gun the 18 year-old down?

Let's be fucking clear about Michael Brown:

It doesn't matter if he was the biggest drug dealer in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

It doesn't matter if he was the baddest gangsta in the Ferguson 'hood.

It doesn't matter if he was the biggest pimp in the state.

It doesn't matter if he had committed robberies or purse snatchings.

It doesn't matter how many gang signs he flashed with his hands.

It doesn't matter if he said, "Fuck tha police" every chance he got.

It doesn't matter if he flipped off cops or grabbed his junk while looking at them.

None of that justifies being gunned down by a police officer. None of it.

Of course, Michael Brown wasn't any of the above.

What does matter is what the cop did and what the cops have done and will do. You can bet that the officer who shot Brown didn't ask if he was a future college student. He was just another nigger, indistinguishable from the niggers around him, and that was enough.

[Warpy]

1. It's class, really

All black folks are immediately clicked into "poor, ignorant, dumb" by bigots. Once clicked into that class, they have no way out. It doesn't matter if they have multi million dollar portfolios (and I can point out several of those here in town), they're the underclass to bigots and if the bigots turn their backs on them, bad things will happen. Better shoot first, you know.

I was as poor as a flea on a church mouse, but anyone who heard me talk would instantly click me into upper middle class territory. It was beyond weird, undeserved, and ultimately annoying.

Still, annoyed is a hell of a lot better than dead.

War has now been declared on all citizens of this country since we're all now vulnerable to being clicked into that underclass. The way OWS was crushed was one wakeup call. Ferguson is another. The police have now become an army of occupation and we're all the insurgents and people had better wake up to that new reality.