Police Run Amok in Ferguson While Gov. Jay Nixon Prays, Meets With 4H Club

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While the SWAT teams were setting up their sniper rifles and putting on their camouflage uniforms and getting ready for a night of tear gas and rubber bullets, Missouri governor Jay Nixon was having a lovely meeting with the St. Louis 4H club.

But that’s not all. He was also doing a lot of praying.

“Like them and all of you I’ve done a lot of praying the last few days,” says Governor Nixon. “We stand together tonight reeling from what feels like an old wound that has been torn open afresh, a would that hadn’t quite healed right in the first place, and now the pain is just as searing as when the injury first occurred.”

UPDATE at 8/13/14 8:55:39 pm by Charles Johnson

Apparently Gov. Nixon has suddenly realized there might be a situation that needs his attention, and as a result he’s canceling his planned trip to the county fair.

UPDATE at 8/13/14 9:00:31 pm by Charles Johnson

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690 comments
1 Kid A  Aug 13, 2014 8:46:40pm

I pray that you resign, sir.

2 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 8:47:23pm

This is worse than Perry praying for rain during the drought. Shame on you Governor Nixon. You wanted this job, Do your job.

3 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 8:47:27pm
4 Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2014 8:48:29pm

re: #3 Lidane

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Sad that he had to be shamed into doing his job.

5 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 8:49:06pm

re: #3 Lidane

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So nice of him to take the time to tweet.

6 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 8:49:11pm

Needs to be fired.

7 Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2014 8:50:05pm

re: #6 jaunte

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Needs to be fired.

Yeah, “restraint.” Just like Bull Connor showed “restraint” by not letting the dogs loose.

8 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 8:50:16pm
9 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 8:50:48pm

re: #3 Lidane

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10 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 13, 2014 8:50:59pm

re: #6 jaunte

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Needs to be fired.

Ya think?!
Restraint is not aiming guns at unarmed protesters. Obviously the mindset is to put down the protest rather than endure it.

11 paladin183  Aug 13, 2014 8:51:03pm

re: #6 jaunte

What utter bullshit that was. One does not deploying tear gas, concussion grenades and rubber bullets on peacefully protesters and call it “restraint”.

12 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 8:51:06pm
13 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 8:51:13pm

re: #6 jaunte

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Needs to be fired.

Needs to be investigated too.

14 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 8:51:47pm
15 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 8:51:54pm

re: #6 jaunte

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Needs to be fired.

Translation: “If it had been up to me, I’d have slaughtered the lot of ‘em.” Showed restraint? Who the fuck does he think he’s kidding? MRAP vehicles and body armored cops vs. unarmed youth? Fuck you, Chief.

16 andres  Aug 13, 2014 8:52:00pm

re: #3 Lidane

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Seems like his prayers were answered.

By very angry Missourians, ashamed from his inaction.

By the Media, showing to all America (and the world) what kooks are in the Ferguson PD.

17 allegro  Aug 13, 2014 8:52:09pm

re: #9 Gus

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He should have been in Ferguson days ago kicking some LE ass. WTF

18 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 8:52:23pm

re: #12 jaunte

Posse Comitatus. The county sheriff is “in charge”. Bleah.

19 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 8:53:12pm

twitter.com

20 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 8:53:40pm

“Suddenly it got unpeaceful.”

21 Kid A  Aug 13, 2014 8:53:46pm
22 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 8:53:51pm

re-posted from downstairs, with one edit

Internet social media probably is the thing that breaks the whole black/white relations in the United States wide open. People are noticing. White people, black people, it doesn’t matter, people can see sickening existential racism in real time.

23 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 8:54:05pm

re: #7 Targetpractice

Yeah, “restraint.” Just like Bull Connor showed “restraint” by not letting the dogs loose.

If this shit is restraint, what will they do when the gloves come off?

24 Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2014 8:54:51pm

If gassing peaceful protestors, hitting them with rubber bullets, and arresting reporters is “restraint,” then I’d to know what the fuck the chief thinks would have been “unrestrained.” I get the feeling the answer would be a lot of unarmed people shot dead on live TV.

25 aagcobb  Aug 13, 2014 8:55:32pm

Wonder if the freepers are getting excited that the race war they have been looking forward to is finally starting. The actions of the police in Mo makes me wonder if the people in charge there are freepers.

26 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 8:55:40pm

Antonio French still silent.

Got a bad feeling about this.

27 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 8:56:05pm

re: #23 Lidane

If this shit is restraint, what will they do when the gloves come off?

Kent State.

28 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 8:56:10pm
29 klys  Aug 13, 2014 8:56:26pm
30 klys  Aug 13, 2014 8:56:44pm
31 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 8:57:02pm
32 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 8:57:34pm

re: #19 jaunte

This:

Says everything you need to know about how not to handle a fucked up situation.

33 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 8:57:43pm

re: #29 klys

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Holy fucking shit.

34 Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2014 8:58:02pm

re: #29 klys

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Somehow, I knew that was coming.

35 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 8:59:50pm
36 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 9:00:13pm
37 allegro  Aug 13, 2014 9:00:14pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

re-posted from downstairs

Social media probably is the thing that breaks the whole black/white relations in the United States wide open. People are noticing. White people, black people, it doesn’t matter, people can see sickening existential racism in real time.

The Whole World’s Watching.

I remember so vividly watching in 1968-69. I remember the burn of the tear gas in my eyes and lungs in Grant Park, Chicago after a mysterious bottle was thrown turning a protest suddenly “unpeaceful”. Can’t believe the lessons we thought were learned have been so completely forgotten and now with even greater force and more deadly tools. WTF is this tomorrow morning shit? Blood is flowing tonight. Now. Fuck.

38 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:00:16pm
39 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:01:59pm

How many of them are news reporters?

40 Teukka  Aug 13, 2014 9:03:44pm

re: #39 NJDhockeyfan

How many of them are news reporters?

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All of them? I’m wondering whether this might be the proper juncture to encourage arrested, intimidated and threatened journos to file charges with the FBI for civil rights violations?

41 GunstarGreen  Aug 13, 2014 9:04:20pm

re: #37 allegro

The Whole World’s Watching.

I remember so vividly watching in 1968-69. I remember the burn of the tear gas in my eyes and lungs in Grant Park, Chicago after a mysterious bottle was thrown turning a protest suddenly “unpeaceful”. Can’t believe the lessons we thought were learned have been so completely forgotten and now with even greater force and more deadly tools. WTF is this tomorrow morning shit? Blood is flowing tonight. Now. Fuck.

The lessons were not “learned” because those involved had no desire to learn them.

What is happening in Ferguson is the wet dreams of every Conservative gathering website come true. Courageous white Christians beating back the savage colored hordes.

42 andres  Aug 13, 2014 9:04:21pm

re: #38 NJDhockeyfan

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Woah… Even more respect to Mr Antonio French. Doing the work Gov Nixon should be doing.

43 Charles Johnson  Aug 13, 2014 9:04:36pm
44 allegro  Aug 13, 2014 9:04:53pm

I wish I could zap bed bugs into Gov. Nixon’s bed. At least then he’d have an itch. Something. The thought of him getting a good night’s sleep brings me to rage.

45 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:05:03pm
46 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:05:09pm

re: #41 GunstarGreen

The lessons were not “learned” because those involved had no desire to learn them.

What is happening in Ferguson is the wet dreams of every Conservative gathering website come true. Courageous white Christians beating back the savage colored hordes.

Yes.

47 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:05:15pm

St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page editor:

48 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 9:06:05pm

re: #29 klys

re: #31 jaunte

Arrested the fucking alderman? Are you kidding me?

49 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:06:10pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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It will not stop now. People will be back tomorrow night and the night after that.

50 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 9:06:32pm
51 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:07:13pm
52 andres  Aug 13, 2014 9:07:16pm

re: #47 Lidane

St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page editor:

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Isn’t the St. Louis Police Chief the one who said they were showing “restrain”? Because if he is, then the solution is worst than the problem.

53 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:07:23pm
54 Targetpractice  Aug 13, 2014 9:08:20pm

re: #49 Aunty Entity Dragon

It will not stop now. People will be back tomorrow night and the night after that.

I expect the first thing we’ll hear tomorrow is a curfew being announced, in the interest of “public safety.”

55 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:08:23pm

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

56 andres  Aug 13, 2014 9:08:35pm

re: #48 Joanne

Arrested the fucking alderman? Are you kidding me?

In their defense, all blah people look the same.

//-Heavy. This is in now way a defense of their behavior.

57 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:09:11pm
58 darthstar  Aug 13, 2014 9:10:53pm

re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon

Someone will start a kickstarter just to grift. He doesn’t need bail. He’ll be out by morning. Police are fucking this up every way they can think of, and other ways by natural instinct.

59 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:11:21pm
60 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:11:38pm
61 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:12:43pm
62 Whack-A-Mole  Aug 13, 2014 9:13:03pm

Anyone have a link to a good feed for events in Ferguson? I can’t stand to watch the local Fox2 news anymore.

63 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:14:05pm
64 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:14:16pm

re: #61 Gus

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Wow just wow. Sheriff must have gotten the playbook from 1960’s.

65 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:14:57pm

How about actually investigating Mike Brown’s murder? That might be a good start.

66 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:15:56pm
67 klys  Aug 13, 2014 9:17:16pm
68 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:17:19pm

re: #62 Whack-A-Mole

Anyone have a link to a good feed for events in Ferguson? I can’t stand to watch the local Fox2 news anymore.

Try one of these:

Scanner feed set up special for this Live Feed:
Ferguson PD, RIOT-A, RIOT-C, RIOT-D, RIOT-E, County Mutual Aid, and County Precincts 1 & 2.
ustream.tv

St. Ann Police Live Scanner feed: (Up and down for “safety reasons”) DOWN broadcastify.com

North St. Louis County Fire and EMS Live scanner feed.
broadcastify.com

St. Louis County Police Dispatch - 1st Precedent scanner feed: DOWN broadcastify.com

Livestreams:
fox2now.com
feed.matthewkeys.net
ksdk.com

69 allegro  Aug 13, 2014 9:17:27pm

re: #65 Lidane

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How about actually investigating Mike Brown’s murder? That might be a good start.

How about talking to the people in Ferguson and not pointing rifles at them while referring to them as animals… and worse. Respect. How’s it work?

70 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:17:43pm

re: #65 Lidane

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How about actually investigating Mike Brown’s murder? That might be a good start.

No shit.

71 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:18:20pm
72 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:18:48pm
73 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:19:45pm

Whatever Obama chooses to here, the right wing shits are going to flip.

74 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:19:57pm

re: #63 NJDhockeyfan

Bad stuff. Damn.

75 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:20:56pm

Clusterfuck. Wow. This is seriously one fucked up situation.

76 jayjaybear  Aug 13, 2014 9:21:27pm

re: #52 andres

Isn’t the St. Louis Police Chief the one who said they were showing “restrain”? Because if he is, then the solution is worst than the problem.

The St. Louis COUNTY Police Chief was the one who talked about restraint. The St. Louis Police (the city police) are a different organization.

77 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 9:21:53pm

Reading the comments those cops posted on their little cops only board turned my stomach. I’m seriously reconsidering my “the majority of cops are good guys” because none of those schmucks were good guys.

78 klys  Aug 13, 2014 9:22:11pm

Guys, just a reminder, check the sourcing on tweets. The racist chief’s wife meme hasn’t been accurately sourced that I’ve seen.

There’s enough shit going on that we don’t need to be inaccurate to boot.

79 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:22:12pm
80 Teukka  Aug 13, 2014 9:22:25pm

re: #75 Gus

Clusterfuck. Wow. This is seriously one fucked up situation.

CHARLIE FOXTROT. Aye.

81 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:22:38pm

re: #52 andres

Isn’t the St. Louis Police Chief the one who said they were showing “restrain”? Because if he is, then the solution is worst than the problem.

Belmar (Mr. Restraint) is StL County.

82 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 9:22:59pm

re: #52 andres

Isn’t the St. Louis Police Chief the one who said they were showing “restrain”? Because if he is, then the solution is worst than the problem.

County chief is running it now—they’re suggesting St Louis city chief.

83 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:23:09pm

re: #79 Lidane

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Only thing that’s missing is calling them communist operatives.

84 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:23:15pm
85 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:23:43pm
86 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:23:45pm

re: #77 Joanne

Reading the comments those cops posted on their little cops only board turned my stomach. I’m seriously reconsidering my “the majority of cops are good guys” because none of those schmucks were good guys.

Same here.

87 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:24:41pm
88 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:25:09pm

re: #79 Lidane

89 GunstarGreen  Aug 13, 2014 9:25:23pm

re: #84 Lidane

Michael Steele? As in, former RNC chairman Michael Steele?

Is he trying to be ironic, or something? Given that he stood with the party that openly endorses what’s happening in Ferguson right now?

90 Jenner7  Aug 13, 2014 9:25:56pm

re: #63 NJDhockeyfan

Inexcusable. So is the police reaction to the mostly peaceful protests. A few don’t get to represent the whole and I’m sick of the RW media reporting it that way. I really hope it doesn’t get worse, but I’m not holding my breath. :(

91 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:26:09pm

re: #88 jaunte

92 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 9:26:11pm

re: #61 Gus

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We Didn’t Know—Tom Paxton—1965

We didn’t know said the congregation,
Singing a hymn in a church of white.
The Press was full of lies about us,
Preacher told us we were right.
The outside agitators came.
They burned some churches and put the blame,
On decent southern people’s names,
To set our colored people aflame.
And maybe some of our boys got hot,
And a couple of n*****s and reds got shot,
They should have stayed where they belong,
And preacher would’ve told us if we’d done wrong.

93 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:27:21pm

I know it well the portrayal of the FBI at least was inaccurate but I can’t help but to think of the film Mississippi Burning here.

94 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:28:08pm

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Only thing that’s missing is calling them communist operatives.

You forgot “unhygienic”

95 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:29:16pm
96 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:29:21pm
97 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:30:03pm
98 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 9:31:45pm

Does this sound like good cops? Sorry, to me they sound like total schmucks.

Comments at Policeone:
No, I am not going to link.

Posted by cpo2gilman on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:31 AM Pacific Report Abuse

Is this not an act of terrorism? How is it this is going on in any North American city, let alone an American city? I think it’s time for the military to deal with this!

Posted by doubletap1 on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 04:53 PM Pacific Report Abuse

all my brothers in Missouri, please stay safe, these dirtbags WILL kill you.

Posted by NOVA540 on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 07:04 PM Pacific Report Abuse

Hey VON1, You have to realize “Ol’ Boy” is probably busy golfing or vacationing with his family at our expense to be concerned with incidents going on in our country ! Animals seem to just want to use the incidents like this as an opportunity to go out & commit more crimes….. I dealt with it for 30 years and can’t see it changing in my lifetime. The race card itself seems to be the cause of too many issues of this nature ! ……. Just keep our brothers & sisters in your prayers, they have a rough road ahead.
stay safe……

Posted by scaatylobo on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 07:26 PM Pacific Report Abuse

Anyone that wants to push the ‘race card’ has to be totally blind to not note that race relations have not been this bad in MANY DECADES.
So it would appear that having a “black president” was not a really healing or good idea.
OR one could take note since this asshat has taken office,HE has had very bad relations with the white race !.
He took sides during the Martin / Zimmerman case in Fla.
He took sides during the arrest of a “black professor” against a police officer.
He has taken sides in this incident [ NONE OF HIS BUSINESS ].
And with Sharpton on the scene ,it got worse = add the “new black panthers” to the mix and of course threats to the life of the officer,now we have a real party.
Sad that I was on marches during the 1960’s for the NAACP & CORE [ national assoc. of COLORED people = great name huh ? ] and we accomplished NOTHING.
Unless you call MUCH worse actions from young backs as a improvement ?.

Posted by gnf122 on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 07:51 PM Pacific Report Abuse

prayers to our brothers and sisters in blue as the news media is continuously being completely one sided and fueling the fire.

Posted by scaatylobo on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 07:28 PM Pacific Report Abuse

AND would the press PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE ask any of the talking heads about the HUNDREDS of blacks shot down by their own kind all day and all year ?.
One police officer shoots in self defense and its a riot —— a few HUNDRED die in many citys every year = NOTHING is said ?.

99 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 9:32:03pm

re: #84 Lidane

!!!

100 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:32:05pm

re: #96 Gus

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Seriously fucking hypocritical asshole has no fucking shame at all. Go away deadbet dad.

101 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 9:32:14pm

re: #36 darthstar

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Mr Wright has the right to his own views, but not his own facts. There was a post here of an MRAP at the Bundy ranch and an M113 tracked APC as well.

102 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:32:54pm

re: #94 Aunty Entity Dragon

You forgot “unhygienic”

I thought that was reserved more for the anti-war protesters.

103 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:33:32pm
104 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:33:41pm
105 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 9:34:10pm

re: #96 Gus

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When he lost to Tammy Duckworth, I was honestly glad a liberal Democrat had defeated a Republican.

Joe Walsh: The north end of a southbound horse.

106 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:34:38pm
107 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:34:57pm

Tweet changed. I didn’t know the photo of Mike Brown’s body would be in there.

108 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:35:24pm
109 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:36:20pm

re: #105 Dark_Falcon

When he lost to Tammy Duckworth, I was honestly glad a liberal Democrat had defeated a Republican.

Joe Walsh: The north end of a southbound horse.

If you looked more closely at more people in your party that lose to liberal democrats, I think you’ d honestly feel that way more often. I don’t think Duckworth is really much of a liberal though. Compared with Walsh, sure, but more of a moderate liberal than liberal.

110 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:37:03pm
111 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 9:37:23pm

re: #89 GunstarGreen

Michael Steele? As in, former RNC chairman Michael Steele?

Is he trying to be ironic, or something? Given that he stood with the party that openly endorses what’s happening in Ferguson right now?

Micheal Steele had to learn that he’s not part of the club the hard way.
So did Colin Powell.

112 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 9:37:31pm

re: #96 Gus

Gus, how do you do it?

113 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:38:07pm
114 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 9:38:51pm

re: #108 NJDhockeyfan

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Nazis.

115 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:38:51pm

re: #102 HappyWarrior

I thought that was reserved more for the anti-war protesters.

It was used in the early 60’s as well. usually against CORE workers and the NAACP.

116 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 9:39:54pm

re: #96 Gus

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Doesn’t he have some child support he needs to pay?#STFUAlready
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117 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:40:10pm
118 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 9:40:51pm

I am at wits end tonight with Ferguson, MO. I mean, fucking @AntonioFrench is sitting in jail right now.

119 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 9:40:53pm

re: #107 Lidane

Excellent article.

120 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:40:53pm

re: #115 Aunty Entity Dragon

It was used in the early 60’s as well. usually against CORE workers and the NAACP.

Ahhh okay. Gotcha. Man though thinking about the CORE workers and NAACP in those days. I can’t imagine. I think about guys like Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney what courage they must have had to do the work that ended up resulting in their murder. It still infuriates me that it look forever to get justice on that case and even so there was little justice.

121 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:41:25pm

re: #117 NJDhockeyfan

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Did Rand Paul tell them that the Republican Party once respected them as human beings 150 years ago?

122 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:41:31pm
123 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:42:17pm

re: #117 NJDhockeyfan

That photo near drives me to tears.

The police in Ferguson have no idea what they have started here.

124 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:42:59pm
125 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:43:38pm
126 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:43:52pm

re: #124 Lidane

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I don’t blame him.

127 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:44:59pm
128 SteelPH  Aug 13, 2014 9:45:12pm

This whole situation in Ferguson is making my sick to my stomach.
What the fuck.

129 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:45:48pm

re: #127 Lidane

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Can’t wait to hear what he has to say.

130 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:46:08pm
131 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 9:48:10pm
132 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:49:24pm

re: #130 Lidane

That cops body language was practically screaming “I want to kill one of these fuckers!”

133 GunstarGreen  Aug 13, 2014 9:49:54pm

re: #131 Lidane

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And this is different from a teenager who happens to not play that particular video game… how?

134 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 9:50:23pm
135 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:50:55pm
136 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 9:51:07pm

re: #132 Aunty Entity Dragon

That cops body language was practically sreaming “I want to kill one of these fuckers!”

“I’ve got a shot…can I take it?!?”

137 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:51:31pm
138 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:53:45pm
139 HappyWarrior  Aug 13, 2014 9:54:01pm

re: #135 jaunte

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140 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:54:09pm
141 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 9:54:30pm
142 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:55:21pm
143 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 9:56:12pm

re: #132 Aunty Entity Dragon

That cops body language was practically sreaming “I want to kill one of these fuckers!”

Looked like that guy who’s just waiting to fuck up.
Like if a bee flew in front of his scope, he’d startle and start firing away.

144 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 9:56:16pm
145 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:56:22pm
146 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 9:58:18pm

re: #134 Joanne

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Gov. Nixon (who is a Democrat, to be clear) needs to order in the Missouri State police. The St. Louis County police need to be send away except for those who are investigating Michael Brown’s death. The Ferguson police department needs to be stood down entirely for a month at minimum while its members are evaluated to determine if they can be retrained to do their jobs properly.

147 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 9:59:03pm
148 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 9:59:08pm
149 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:00:18pm

A good, but very sad, read.

150 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:00:37pm
151 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 10:01:10pm
152 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:01:33pm
153 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 10:02:23pm

re: #152 jaunte

I’m sure any excuse would have worked.

154 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 13, 2014 10:02:25pm
155 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:02:30pm

re: #146 Dark_Falcon

St. Louis County needs to go, too. Let the Feds investigate. Every LEA in MO thus far has lost all credibility and sanity. They are beyond clueless doing everything they can to escalate and nothing at all to de escalate.

156 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:02:31pm
157 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 10:02:52pm

re: #146 Dark_Falcon

Gov. Nixon could be the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and he’d still be a miserable failure. His party affiliation doesn’t mean shit. He didn’t do his goddamn job today.

Neither did Roy Blunt, BTW. Look at his Twitter TL and it’s just as pathetic as Nixon’s. The only high ranking Missouri official that seemed to even give a shit was Claire McCaskill since she at least hit the phones to try and do something today.

158 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 10:04:39pm
159 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 10:05:48pm

Military Equipment for Local Police
As the nation’s wars abroad wind down, many of the military’s surplus tools of combat have ended up in the hands of state and local law enforcement. Totals below are the minimum number of pieces acquired since 2006 in a selection of categories.

Image: 06TK-nat-ARMS-web-Artboard_1.png

nytimes.com

For some reason, the image won’t show the copy—it is in the story, but basically

432 MRAPS
435 Other armored vehicles
44,900 Night vision pieces
533 Aircraft
93,763 Machine guns
180,718 Magazines

160 Teukka  Aug 13, 2014 10:06:27pm

re: #158 Kragar

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I doubt you’ll hear much more than… *crickets*

161 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 10:06:52pm
162 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:06:56pm

re: #159 BeachDem

163 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 10:07:28pm
164 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:08:35pm

re: #163 Kragar

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SWAT doesn’t need no stinking miranda rights.

165 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:09:02pm
166 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 10:09:36pm

re: #152 jaunte

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re: #153 Kilroy01

I’m sure any excuse would have worked.

Let’s be grateful that they didn’t decide to shoot him too.

167 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:10:04pm
168 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 10:10:34pm

The keyboardist for Umphrey’s McGee (who are playing a show at the Fox Theater in St. Louis on Friday) tweeted this five minutes ago.

169 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:11:03pm
170 ausador  Aug 13, 2014 10:11:15pm

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Only thing that’s missing is calling them communist operatives.

Some discussion going on about some people in the protestor crowd wearing “Avakian” t-shirts, apparently some members of the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) have shown up.

So yeah, some of them ARE communists…which is bad news because the RCP has a history of exploiting things like this to push their own message. They don’t give a damn about the locals input or message as long as they get a chance to distribute their own propaganda.

Like this…
sfweekly.com

171 Lidane  Aug 13, 2014 10:11:17pm

OK. Going to try and sleep. Here’s hoping that the cops don’t raze Ferguson to the ground overnight.

172 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:11:41pm

re: #159 BeachDem

Too bad they couldn’t have gotten some training other than SWAT.

173 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:12:37pm
174 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 10:12:46pm

re: #157 Lidane

Gov. Nixon could be the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and he’d still be a miserable failure. His party affiliation doesn’t mean shit. He didn’t do his goddamn job today.

Neither did Roy Blunt, BTW. Look at his Twitter TL and it’s just as pathetic as Nixon’s. The only high ranking Missouri official that seemed to even give a shit was Claire McCaskill since she at least hit the phones to try and do something today.

His party affiliation does mean something, if only because many here are always quick to point out that a Republican who screws up is a Republican. Well, on this occasion its a Democrat who has blown the call, and think its important to make that clear.

To be clear, though, no one here is excusing Gov. Nixon’s failure. Even if the party label isn’t applied by some here in this case, the more important ‘MAJOR FAIL’ label is being correctly applied.

175 Hyped Up On Ganja  Aug 13, 2014 10:14:23pm

Dark, if this is the same as Bundy Ranch, and they had the same treatment as the protesters in Ferguson have, why are all your right wingers against the protesters now?

176 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:14:27pm

re: #169 jaunte

Damn it all. Just…fuck idont know. I lost it when i saw that picture. Sitting here crying sgin.

177 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 10:14:30pm

re: #170 ausador

Some discussion going on about some people in the protestor crowd wearing “Avakian” t-shirts, apparently some members of the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) have shown up.

So yeah, some of them ARE communists…which is bad news because the RCP has a history of exploiting things like this to push their own message. They don’t give a damn about the locals input or message as long as they get a chance to distribute their own propaganda.

Like this…
sfweekly.com

The RCP is Leninist in that way. “The worse, the better.”

178 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 10:14:37pm
179 Teukka  Aug 13, 2014 10:15:17pm

re: #174 Dark_Falcon

His party affiliation does mean something, if only because many here are always quick to point out that a Republican who screws up is a Republican. Well, on this occasion its a Democrat who has blown the call, and think its important to make that clear.

To be clear, though, no one here is excusing Gov. Nixon’s failure. Even if the party label isn’t applied by some here in this case, the more important ‘MAJOR FAIL’ label is being correctly applied.

I think we’ve gone into EPIC FAIL territory here, Sir.

180 RadicalModerate  Aug 13, 2014 10:15:53pm

Let’s do a quick check here:

Highly secretive on members of their organization.
Heavily-armed marches on city streets wearing distinctive uniforms.
Engages in violent intimidation tactics toward minorities
— as well as anyone who dares to side with them.
More interested in keeping themselves in absolute power than in justice.

Are we talking about the Ferguson police here, or the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? I’m really, really having difficulty telling the difference now.

181 GunstarGreen  Aug 13, 2014 10:16:20pm

re: #176 Aunty Entity Dragon

Damn it all. Just…fuck idont know. I lost it when i saw that picture. Sitting here crying sgin.

It is a photographic expression of the raw, unfiltered, horrifying truth:

In the United States of America, in the year 2014, Existing While Black is a crime as far as the (mostly white) police are concerned. One that they are quite happy to summarily execute you for on any given day.

182 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:16:55pm
183 Hyped Up On Ganja  Aug 13, 2014 10:17:04pm

re: #179 Teukka

Well, to be fair, nowadays, a Democratic politician in Missouri is basically a Republican from 1985.

184 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 10:17:10pm

re: #180 RadicalModerate

Different tailor

185 Shazam  Aug 13, 2014 10:17:26pm

re: #174 Dark_Falcon

You’re right, it is important. It’s important to note that when a Democrat fucks up, liberals are on his ass, while when a Republican fucks up, conservatives are quick to defend him. The more he praises Jesus and claims he’s now found the light, the better the conservative response.

186 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 10:18:13pm

re: #162 jaunte

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Sigh.

187 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 10:18:47pm

re: #175 Comfortable, Fortunate, Oppressed, White Person

Dark, if this is the same as Bundy Ranch, and they had the same treatment as the protesters in Ferguson have, why are all your right wingers against the protesters now?

It’s not the same thing and the police are behaving badly this time around. But that tweet I replied to was saying that “up-armored cops” weren’t at the Bundy Ranch when in fact they were there. Mr. Wright would have been on solid ground if he had noted that those cops at the Bundy Ranch conducted themselves in a professional and essentially decent fashion, which the Ferguson Pd has clearly not done.

After all, the real issue is not body armor but the actions of the man wearing it.

188 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 10:18:47pm

re: #174 Dark_Falcon

His party affiliation does mean something, if only because many here are always quick to point out that a Republican who screws up is a Republican. Well, on this occasion its a Democrat who has blown the call, and think its important to make that clear.

To be clear, though, no one here is excusing Gov. Nixon’s failure. Even if the party label isn’t applied by some here in this case, the more important ‘MAJOR FAIL’ label is being correctly applied.

I know it’s just got you giddy as a schoolboy to think that you can get some political mileage out of pointing out that Nixon is a Democrat, but you’re a bit late for that, because I did that wayyyy earlier when I castigated the fuck out of him for his abject inaction on Ferguson:

re: #94 TedStriker

For a Democrat, Nixon’s completely fucking this situation up like a Southern Republican.

I should know, living in TN as I do.

189 jaunte  Aug 13, 2014 10:19:50pm

Social media and transport.

190 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:20:43pm
191 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 10:22:04pm

re: #180 RadicalModerate

Let’s do a quick check here:

Highly secretive on members of their organization.
Heavily-armed marches on city streets wearing distinctive uniforms.
Engages in violent intimidation tactics toward minorities
— as well as anyone who dares to side with them.
More interested in keeping themselves in absolute power than in justice.

Are we talking about the Ferguson police here, or the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? I’m really, really having difficulty telling the difference now.

My great-grandfather, the town sherif, was in the Klan.
(Heh, go figure…my family tree is full of nuts.)
The difference is, they couldn’t / can’t wear the sheets on the outside during the day.

192 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:25:45pm

I am exhausted, emotionally and physically. I need to walk away for my own good now.

See you all tomorrow.

193 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 10:27:31pm

re: #188 TedStriker

I know it’s just got you giddy as a schoolboy to think that you can get some political mileage out of pointing out that Nixon is a Democrat, but you’re a bit late for that, because I did that wayyyy earlier when I castigated the fuck out of him for his abject inaction on Ferguson:

Thank you for calling him out, sir.

194 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 13, 2014 10:28:58pm

last tweet:

195 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:29:00pm

re: #192 Aunty Entity Dragon

I am exhausted, emotionally and physically. I need to walk away for my own good now.

See you all tomorrow.

Night night.

196 klys  Aug 13, 2014 10:30:51pm

Another note/reminder, the spoiler tag exists. If there’s something you feel is important to post but might be on the graphic side, this is a great time to use it.

197 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:32:27pm
198 Dark_Falcon  Aug 13, 2014 10:35:55pm

Good Night, All.

199 Gus  Aug 13, 2014 10:36:41pm
200 Tigger2005  Aug 13, 2014 10:37:14pm

re: #1 Kid A

I pray that you think very carefully about what you’re saying. No, maybe Nixon hasn’t handled this as well as he could have. But he is a decent Democratic governor of a state that could easily go full red. He has kept our crazy Republican legislature from doing plenty of stupid crap. You want him to resign and be replaced by some Sam Brownback clone? THINK. The situation has thrown the governor for a loop but he will learn from his mistakes.

201 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 10:41:33pm

re: #200 Tigger2005

I pray that you think very carefully about what you’re saying. No, maybe Nixon hasn’t handled this as well as he could have. But he is a decent Democratic governor of a state that could easily go full red. He has kept our crazy Republican legislature from doing plenty of stupid crap. You want him to resign and be replaced by some Sam Brownback clone? THINK. The situation has thrown the governor for a loop but he will learn from his mistakes.

I don’t necessarily want Nixon to resign myself, but he has to be held accountable for his abject inaction over the past few days, especially the last two, because it’s fucking unacceptable.

If I were a MO Democrat, I’d be absolutely furious and burning up every line of communication to the governor’s office I could find in order to tell them to do something constructive to the situation (and not doing fucking photo ops miles away from where all of this shit is going down).

202 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 10:43:42pm

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

203 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:46:43pm

re: #201 TedStriker

He’s between a rock and a hard place. Cops are going to hate him if he does anything. Much of white MO doesn’t care; how many see Ferguson as Those People?

That’s where courage comes in. Which as of yet, is sorely lacking.

204 WhatEVs  Aug 13, 2014 10:49:55pm

Night all. Sweet dreams.

205 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 10:52:33pm

re: #203 Joanne

He’s between a rock and a hard place. Cops are going to hate him if he does anything. Much of white MO doesn’t care; how many see Ferguson as Those People?

That’s where courage comes in. Which as of yet, is sorely lacking.

As a fellow Eagle Scout (right now, I’m having to swallow a little bile to say that), I wouldn’t want Jay Nixon to have my back right now.

Hey, Jay…I think that it’s time to do a little review of the Scout Law and Oath, because you you sure as hell aren’t being ‘helpful’, ‘brave’, or are ‘helping people at all times’ for Ferguson right now.

206 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 10:54:18pm
207 klys  Aug 13, 2014 10:54:23pm
208 teleskiguy  Aug 13, 2014 10:54:35pm

I’m out. Ice-T was on to something in 1992.

Youtube Video

209 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 10:54:53pm

re: #206 Kragar

re: #207 klys

Jinx!

210 ausador  Aug 13, 2014 10:56:48pm

re: #197 Joanne

Somebody is confused, that is from Washington state police about tweeting during active manhunts and such and tipping off the bad guys…

SEATTLE (AP) - Police in Washington state are asking the public to stop tweeting during shootings and manhunts to avoid accidentally telling the bad guys what officers are doing.

The “TweetSmart” campaign began in late July by a coalition of nine agencies, including the Washington state patrol and the Seattle police, and aims to raise awareness about social media’s potential impact on law enforcement.
komonews.com

211 sagehen  Aug 13, 2014 10:57:00pm

re: #121 HappyWarrior

Did Rand Paul tell them that the Republican Party once respected them as human beings 150 years ago?

It was more recent than that… it was all the way up until 1963.

212 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 10:58:07pm

re: #191 OhNoZombies!

I guess my point is, is that none of this is new. However, unlike in the past, it can’t be hidden. No more putting a bandaid over the bullet hole, cause this racism shit smells like almonds. It’s gonna kill this country.
My hope is that exposure to the sun will act like a disinfectant.

213 goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2014 10:58:42pm

Remind me again why retired cops should automatically be considered as having good cause for a concealed weapons permit?

These Ferguson / STL assholes can’t even demonstrate basic long arm muzzle discipline when they’re on the goddamned job vs. distant unarmed protesters. Yet I’ve repeatedly been told I’m supposed to trust them after their unprofessional asses have gotten old and they no longer have any managerial oversight.

Fuck that.

214 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 10:59:39pm

re: #206 Kragar

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And for the eleventieth time tonight, I say—unfuckingbelievable.

215 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:03:10pm

Antonio French is so guilty…

Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 574
Offenses Against Public Order
Section 574.040
Unlawful assembly.

574.040. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful assembly if he knowingly assembles with six or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this state or of the United States with force or violence.

2. Unlawful assembly is a class B misdemeanor.

Class B Misdemeanors - up to six months in jail fine up to $500.

216 Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 13, 2014 11:03:13pm

re: #206 Kragar

Good luck getting that fucking charge to stick.

I’m sure some lawyers will be lining up to represent him on that one.

217 ausador  Aug 13, 2014 11:04:10pm

re: #206 Kragar

re: #207 klys

Those assholes…24 hours? Whats the excuse…

“Sorry but the judges dog got sick so there wont be any bail hearings in the morning”

218 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:05:12pm

re: #217 ausador

Those assholes…24 hours? Whats the excuse…

“Sorry but the judges dog got sick so there wont be any bail hearings in the morning”

They don’t believe they need an excuse. Haven’t had any for the awful conduct so far, why start now?

219 Shazam  Aug 13, 2014 11:06:01pm

“Unlawful assembly”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

220 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 11:07:57pm

Youtube Video

When they kick at your front door,
How you gonna come?

221 Shazam  Aug 13, 2014 11:09:19pm

White folks be all like, “If they come any closer, let’s shoot them. And, also, let’s use the womenfolk as human shields.” Black folks be all like, “Please don’t shoot us. We have our hands up.”

222 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 11:09:32pm

re: #217 ausador

Those assholes…24 hours? Whats the excuse…

“Sorry but the judges dog got sick so there wont be any bail hearings in the morning”

re: #218 Kilroy01

They don’t believe they need an excuse. Haven’t had any for the awful conduct so far, why start now?

The cops have surmised that French has been one of the most prolific people on the scene that’s getting info out to the rest of the world on this, so they probably think that by keeping him on ice for at least 24 hours, they have less to worry about.

Fools, bloody fools…

223 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:11:17pm

re: #222 TedStriker

I’ll be it won’t last that long. French will be on the street in the morning the moment the press says “boo”.
But whoever arrested him sure feels good at the moment.

224 goddamnedfrank  Aug 13, 2014 11:12:40pm

re: #215 Kilroy01

Antonio French is so guilty…

Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 574
Offenses Against Public Order
Section 574.040
Unlawful assembly.

574.040. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful assembly if he knowingly assembles with six or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this state or of the United States with force or violence.

2. Unlawful assembly is a class B misdemeanor.

Class B Misdemeanors - up to six months in jail fine up to $500.

My money says they’re going to drop the charges tomorrow. There’s basically zero chance of prevailing against him in court, protesting is not a violation of criminal law. This shit happens over and over again, cops make mass arrests at a protest but in the chaos are unable to collect any hard evidence or produce any probable cause to justify those arrests.

Ironically it’s the police resistance to wearing body cams that results in the lack of evidence, and the police brutality that causes the protest in the first place. You can trace everything back to the deliberate lack of accountability.

225 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 11:14:49pm

French kinda screws up that whole “outside agitator” premise, I think.

226 klys  Aug 13, 2014 11:15:28pm

re: #225 OhNoZombies!

French kinda screws up that whole “outside agitator” premise, I think.

Nah, he’s from St. Louis. Clearly not a Ferguson native.

/////

227 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:16:32pm

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

My money says they’re going to drop the charges tomorrow. There’s basically zero chance of prevailing against him in court, protesting is not a violation of criminal law. This shit happens over and over again, cops make mass arrests at a protest but in the chaos are unable to collect any hard evidence or produce any probable cause to justify those arrests.

Ironically it’s the police resistance to wearing body cams that results in the lack of evidence, and the police brutality that causes the protest in the first place. You can trace everything back to the deliberate lack of accountability.

He was arrested and then they picked the charge. I’m surprised they had the guts to go that far. Look how fast they released the other reporters.

228 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 11:16:40pm

re: #223 Kilroy01

I’ll be it won’t last that long. French will be on the street in the morning the moment the press says “boo”.
But whoever arrested him sure feels good at the moment.

Oh, you know it, just like with Wesley Lowery and Ryan Reilly earlier:

“I hope you’re happy with yourself,” one officer told [Lowery]. And [Lowery] responded: “This story’s going to get out there. It’s going to be on the front page of The Washington Post tomorrow.”

And he said, “Yeah, well, you’re going to be in my jail cell tonight.”

washingtonpost.com

This is not law enforcement, it thuggery and intimidation by the gun.

229 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 11:17:03pm

re: #217 ausador

Those assholes…24 hours? Whats the excuse…

“Sorry but the judges dog got sick so there wont be any bail hearings in the morning”

Their excuse is that he’s doing a good job of making them look bad. I do see big things in Mr. French’s future. He has been fantastic, both on TV and on social media.

230 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:18:27pm

re: #227 Kilroy01

He was arrested and then they picked the charge. I’m surprised they had the guts to go that far. Look how fast they released the other reporters.

Opps.. forgot he’s black. That changes everything.

231 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 11:18:54pm
232 klys  Aug 13, 2014 11:19:48pm

re: #231 Kragar

While making sure their backs are covered, are you fucking kidding me.

It’s like an action film to them.

233 OhNoZombies!  Aug 13, 2014 11:21:09pm

Welp, I’m out.
G’night folks.

234 BeachDem  Aug 13, 2014 11:22:55pm

The young msnbc.com reporter who was with Lawrence O’Donnell on the phone tonight was right in the thick of the gas too. At one point, the only response you could hear was “Oh shit.” Lawrence didn’t quite know what to do—you could see he didn’t want to cut away in case the young man was in trouble, but you could also see he was afraid of what was coming next.

235 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 11:22:57pm

re: #231 Kragar

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re: #232 klys

While making sure their backs are covered, are you fucking kidding me.

It’s like an action film to them.

Gassing a news crew, then confiscating “rescuing” their camera and sound gear from the scene after the news crew runs for their lives.

For the news crew’s own safety, of course.

236 Kilroy01  Aug 13, 2014 11:23:34pm

re: #231 Kragar

Ok.. that one finishes me off for the night.

This clusterfuck is beyond my tolerance for incompetence.

No nothing illegal here.

237 ausador  Aug 13, 2014 11:29:01pm

re: #235 TedStriker

Gassing a news crew, then confiscating “liberating” their camera and sound gear from the scene after the news crew runs for their lives.

For the news crew’s own safety, of course.

They were only “protecting it from looters” dontcha know. ;)

/

238 TedStriker  Aug 13, 2014 11:30:04pm

re: #237 ausador

They were only “protecting it from looters” dontcha know. ;)

No doubt.

239 Shvaughn  Aug 13, 2014 11:42:17pm

I finally got a twitter account. Now I just have to find some of you to follow. I’ve already got Charles and Gus…

I’m @ShvaughnS.

240 Kragar  Aug 13, 2014 11:59:52pm

FYI: NOT FERGUSON

241 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 13, 2014 11:59:54pm

ovr at newsmax.com, another Fox-like site, the only mention of Ferguson is a headline buried below the fold:

Ferguson Mayor: Black Leaders Don’t Want Sharpton Here

Which can be correctly interpreted as:

Ferguson Mayor Doesn’t Want Sharpton (or anyone else) There

242 sagehen  Aug 14, 2014 12:10:57am

re: #208 teleskiguy

I’m out. Ice-T was on to something in 1992.

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Video

if you’re going with musical commentary, there’s a more obvious choice

Youtube Video

243 Amory Blaine  Aug 14, 2014 12:33:05am

Check this 6 hour old Politico comment.

Reporters arrested in Ferguson
Kyle Lyles DrSquishy • 6 hours ago
Let them. We need to round up all of the Liberal propagandists and hang them all.
20 (likes)

244 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 12:37:52am

Well at least he finally said something, hopefully tomorrow he will finally do something.

245 Teukka  Aug 14, 2014 12:39:24am

re: #243 Amory Blaine

Check this 6 hour old Politico comment.

Reporters arrested in Ferguson
Kyle Lyles DrSquishy • 6 hours ago
Let them. We need to round up all of the Liberal propagandists and hang them all.
20 (likes)

*sigh* You guys in the US have a serious problem on your hands :(

246 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:41:03am

Dog the Bounty Hunter cares more about accountability than the fucking Ferguson cops.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Exclusive: Dog ‘Bounty Hunter’ claims he’s close to ‘War Machine’ arrest

Are cameras rolling right now?

Yes, I’m employed by CMT. I don’t know how much you know about the show, but we signed a contract. And whatever we do, the cameras are following us. We can’t say, “Don’t share this,” or “Don’t do this.” Cameras actually protect everybody — it’s the reason mostly all cops use them on their dashboards now. The camera protects everybody. We’ll give him a chance to tell his side of the story, if there is a side to that.

247 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 12:43:55am

Maybe they will gas or attest governor Nixon now.

248 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 12:44:59am

This twitter thing is kind of addictive. Kragar, how do I turn it off so I can sleep? :)

249 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 12:52:01am

re: #248 Shvaughn

This twitter thing is kind of addictive. Kragar, how do I turn it off so I can sleep? :)

Youtube Video

250 Teukka  Aug 14, 2014 12:53:34am

re: #246 Kragar

Dog the Bounty Hunter cares more about accountability than the fucking Ferguson cops.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Exclusive: Dog ‘Bounty Hunter’ claims he’s close to ‘War Machine’ arrest

Which number on the “Top 10 signs your law enforcement department is rotten to the core” list would that be? o.O

251 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:10:01am
252 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 1:13:21am

re: #251 Kragar

Conservatives are such lovely human beings.

253 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:14:18am
254 Kragar  Aug 14, 2014 1:16:16am
255 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 14, 2014 1:17:13am

re: #251 Kragar

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She is the living embodiment of “the stupid is strong in this one”.

256 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 14, 2014 1:21:14am

re: #252 Shvaughn

Conservatives are such lovely human beings.

Don’t know about that - haven’t seen any lately. Lots of reactionaries and wannabe fascists but no conservatives. Burke would laugh at them.

257 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 1:22:08am

re: #254 Kragar

They love a police state that enforces their rules.

That sums it up pretty nicely.

258 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 1:23:36am

Ok now I’m friggin embarrassed…

259 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 1:26:35am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

That sums it up pretty nicely.

They do seem quite fond of that Putin fellow for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on…

/

260 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 1:31:04am

re: #259 ausador

They do seem quite fond of that Putin fellow for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on…

/

And Generalissimo Franco. And Pinochet.

They aren’t “conservatives”…..they’re authoritarians. As long as they get to be the ones in charge.

Strutting through the streets in jackboots and jodhpurs, whip in hand, ready to mete out the lash to those whom they consider “undesirable”.

They’re fascists. They just lack the intellectual honesty to admit it.

261 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 1:37:50am

So much for the lawful protest outside of the police department over the jailed protestors (including Antonio French)…

262 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 1:37:54am

Goodnight!

263 klys  Aug 14, 2014 1:42:00am

Stitch stitch stitch.

264 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 1:51:17am

There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear/
There’s a man over there with a gun, tellin’ me to get out of Ferguson…

265 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 2:02:22am

re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear/
There’s a man over there with a gun, tellin’ me to get out of Ferguson…

You send out a tweet, the man come, and take you away…

266 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 2:13:07am
267 Mentis Fugit  Aug 14, 2014 2:15:29am

You have to hand it to the Ferguson and St Louis County PDs. It’s been how long now? and they haven’t made a single, solitary right step the whole way. That takes TALENT.

268 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 2:19:32am

re: #267 Mentis Fugit

You have to hand it to the Ferguson and St Louis County PDs. It’s been how long now? and they haven’t made a single, solitary right step the whole way. That takes TALENT.

I guess they hoped this would blow over…then when unrest started, they ramped it up, either intentionall to distract from the shooting or simply because they are that incompetent…now they are trapped in a downward spiral of stupidity and incompetence and sucking the entire community down the drain with them

269 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 2:28:33am

Listening to the 55:00 audio of them talking to people in Ferguson.

Edit: This is actually pretty good audio, 15 minutes in and so far it is doing a good job of holding my attention.

270 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 2:34:44am

The more the US lowers the plank, the easier it is for the actual bad guys in this world.

271 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 2:38:15am

re: #270 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The more the US lowers the plank, the easier it is for the actual bad guys in this world.

Bad Guys out there are the excuse for lowering the plank…

…talk about globalization.

272 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 2:45:43am

Medvedev’s twitter account was hacked, that’s merely fun. But apparently his mail account was hacked too, and that might get interesting.

273 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 2:50:08am

re: #272 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Namely, this is claimed by “Shaltay Boltay” (“Humpty Dumpty”), who has been publishing some scandalous high-level hacks, including messages from Dvorkovich. SB’s blog was banned in Russia. twitter.com

As a preview, SB provided these photos allegedly from M’s IPhone:

274 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 3:06:03am

re: #272 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Medvedev’s twitter account was hacked, that’s merely fun. But apparently his mail account was hacked too, and that might get interesting.

Is Snowden getting bored?

275 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:20:19am

Strelkov still hasn’t appeared despite persistent rumors about wounding and even death.

276 andres  Aug 14, 2014 3:21:18am

re: #76 jayjaybear

re: #81 jaunte

re: #82 BeachDem

I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware there was a difference between the two…

Thank you for the clarification!

277 andres  Aug 14, 2014 3:27:29am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Is Snowden getting bored?

I pretty much doubt Snowden could get out of an open paper bag with the bottom cut off even if he used a GPS and scissors.

Still, it would be interesting what the hacker(s) find, whether they are discovered and, more importantly, what they publish.

278 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 3:31:55am

re: #275 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Strelkov still hasn’t appeared despite persistent rumors about wounding and even death.

I saw that mentioned in Blesk, the Czech tabloid; they were reporting he’d been severely injured - or possibly killed - and his current whereabouts are unknown.

279 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:34:33am

re: #278 Dr Lizardo

I saw that mentioned in Blesk, the Czech tabloid; they were reporting he’d been severely injured - or possibly killed - and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Seems more likely with each passing hour.
Strelkov is a symbol, a model for the “rebels”, so it’s pretty improbable that this is some kind of a trick, this negatively influences the morale.

280 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:36:01am

Here’s a description of the hack:

themoscowtimes.com

The best comment about the whole situation:

“Medvedev’s twitter was hacked by conscience.”

281 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 3:36:56am

re: #279 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Seems more likely with each passing hour.
Strelkov is a symbol, a model for the “rebels”, so it’s pretty improbable that this is some kind of a trick, this negatively influences the morale.

Exactly….a disappearing act wherein Girkin hotfooted it back to Russia and left the separatists to their fate would cause whatever morale they have left to pretty much collapse if that were the case.

282 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 3:39:58am

re: #281 Dr Lizardo

Exactly….a disappearing act wherein Girkin hotfooted it back to Russia and left the separatists to their fate would cause whatever morale they have left to pretty much collapse if that were the case.

Where is Ted Nugent when you need him?

283 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:40:58am

re: #281 Dr Lizardo

Fyodor Berezin, a sci-fi writer who became Strelkov’s deputy, made a weird joke (?) to the journalist Pavel Kanygin, to the effect of “Maybe there was no Strelkov? Maybe it’s all just the Matrix anyway?”

284 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:43:00am

BTW, this is Berezin and Arsen Avakov (now the Minister of Internal Affairs), good pals back in 2009:

How time flies…

285 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 3:47:34am

re: #283 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Fyodor Berezin, a sci-fi writer who became Strelkov’s deputy, made a weird joke (?) to the journalist Pavel Kanygin, to the effect of “Maybe there was no Strelkov? Maybe it’s all just the Matrix anyway?”

I do wonder though…..perhaps Strelkov said, “Well, screw this noise - I’m outta here. If anyone asks, tell ‘em I’m dead or whatever.”

286 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 3:52:30am

re: #285 Dr Lizardo

I do wonder though…..perhaps Strelkov said, “Well, screw this noise - I’m outta here. If anyone asks, tell ‘em I’m dead or whatever.”

I suppose it’s possible, though maybe not that probable. He doesn’t look like an opportunist or a coward, he really believes all the ideological crap he spews. On the other hand, he may feel that Putin betrayed him, so the running away part is certainly not excluded - but not in this way, IMHO.

287 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:01:25am

I do like the theoretical idea of the thousands of armed and pissed off “rebels” forced to retreat to the Russian territory, by then hating Putin more than the “junta”, and how Putin would deal with the problem, esp. on the political field.

288 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:03:08am

Bolotov has resigned.

289 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 4:03:21am

re: #286 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I suppose it’s possible, though maybe not that probable. He doesn’t look like an opportunist or a coward, he really believes all the ideological crap he spews. On the other hand, he may feel that Putin betrayed him, so the running away part is certainly not excluded - but not in this way, IMHO.

I guess what made me think that was the cynical and bombastic death announcement of a particular dictator who put a bullet through his head when the Russians were practically at the door of his bunker.

IIRC, it went something like;

Our Führer, Adolf Hitler, fighting to his last breath against Bolshevism, fell for Germany today at his command bunker in Berlin.

It was something along those lines. In any event, no mention was made of the fact that he’d shot himself.

I could see Strelkov’s buddies doing something similar.

290 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:03:37am

re: #288 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Bolotov has resigned.

We should name a cocktail after him…

291 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 4:04:30am

re: #288 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Bolotov has resigned.

Sounds like the gig is up, and the separatists know it, or at least their leadership does.

292 ausador  Aug 14, 2014 4:07:38am

re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We should name a cocktail after him…

Bolotov Cocktail: Same as a Molotov Cocktail with the exception of added blue food coloring.

293 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:08:20am

re: #292 ausador

Bolotov Cocktail: Same as a Molotov Cocktail with the exception of added blue food coloring.

Blue Bols liqueur, of course!

294 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 4:12:28am

Morning Lizardim from the cool and dry wild north country. Winter is coming. How go things? What happened while I was away in the land of sleep? Is Ferguson still standing?

295 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:15:02am

re: #294 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim from the cool and dry wild north country. Winter is coming. How go things? What happened while I was away in the land of sleep? Is Ferguson still standing?

Yes, but only because brave policemen with guns are propping it up against hordes of enraged protesters.

/

296 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:15:12am

That’s the problem with (proto-)fascist dictatorships. Some crazy nationalistic idea cannot be argued with, because only “enemies of the people” and “liberals” can be against it. So one acts on an impulse, the long-term effects are not thought through, which leads to sorry results.

297 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 4:16:09am

re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, but only because brave policemen with guns are propping it up against hordes of enraged protesters.

/

Heh. I was mostly worried the police would go all LAPD and start torching things.

298 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:19:14am

re: #296 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

That’s the problem with (proto-)fascist dictatorships theocracies. Some crazy nationalistic religious idea cannot be argued with, because only “enemies of the people”heathens and “liberals” heretics can be against it. So one acts on an impulse, the long-term effects are not thought through, which leads to sorry results.

299 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:19:33am
300 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:20:16am

translate.google.com

301 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:21:20am

re: #294 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim from the cool and dry wild north country. Winter is coming. How go things? What happened while I was away in the land of sleep? Is Ferguson still standing?

Yes yesterday, as I unpacked my mega shipment of Kleenex from Amazon Subscribe & Save, I thought to myself Winter is Coming.

302 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:22:40am

re: #300 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

translate.google.com

please send original link

303 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:23:42am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

navalny.com

304 RadicalModerate  Aug 14, 2014 4:24:08am

Normally, I would take something like this with a huge grain of salt, but given the actions of the Ferguson PD as of late, and the fact that this person doesn’t have a history of trolling or inflammatory tweets, I’m leaning toward not doubting her account of this at all.

305 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:24:10am

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Only thing that’s missing is calling them communist operatives.

306 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:27:07am

Purina Dog Photos

too cute

307 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 4:28:07am

re: #304 RadicalModerate

Whoa, wait a minute. They ARRESTED ANTONIO FRENCH?!

308 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:29:35am

re: #304 RadicalModerate

Even if I do take this account with a grain of salt, I can totally imagine this happening, having spoken to average folks from the South in an international chat. They couldn’t get why comparing Obama to a monkey was at all offensive.

309 RadicalModerate  Aug 14, 2014 4:31:04am

re: #307 thedopefishlives

Whoa, wait a minute. They ARRESTED ANTONIO FRENCH?!

Check upthread. He was arrested for “Unlawful Assembly”.

310 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 4:31:08am

Apparently the U.S. doesn’t have a monopoly on stupid or “we won’t change the name because it’s always been that way”:

311 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 4:32:14am

re: #303 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

navalny.com

спасибо

312 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 4:34:19am

re: #309 RadicalModerate

Check upthread. He was arrested for “Unlawful Assembly”.

I’m reading it now. This isn’t real. This can’t be happening. It’s like I went to bed and woke up in an alternate dimension. Or maybe the Missouri state border is a portal to another dimension, I don’t know.

313 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:35:36am

re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

спасибо

не за что

314 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:36:52am
315 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:44:27am

A very thoughtful atheist take on the issue “Is there something about Islam?”. Not your typical Gelleresque fire-breathing hatred.

kenanmalik.wordpress.com

316 BongCrodny  Aug 14, 2014 4:44:32am

I don’t know whether this has been posted yet — CNN shows a time of 6:40 this morning — but it appears that another witness has emerged in the Michael Brown tragedy:

Witnesses to Michael Brown’s shooting detail his last minutes

While Michael Brown appeared to tussle with an officer before he was shot dead, he didn’t enter the police cruiser as authorities claim he did, two witnesses told CNN.
The women’s accounts corroborate that of a previous witness, all three of whom said the officer fatally shot the unarmed teen.

This story just gets creepier and creepier with every passing hour.

I think it would make a good page, if someone has the time. Unfortunately, that excludes me — I’m late for work, so…

317 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:46:29am
318 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:48:02am

It’s Left-Hander’s Day???

319 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:48:12am

This reminds me a lot of the news shows that I used to watch back in the day, during the ‘68 Democratic convention:

“Beat The Press” and “Mace The Nation”

320 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:49:59am

re: #309 RadicalModerate

Check upthread. He was arrested for “Unlawful Assembly”.

WAIT . JUST . A . MINUTE

We have such a thing as “unlawful assembly” in this country??????

I thought that was, like, part of the Constitution or something.

321 Lancelot Link  Aug 14, 2014 4:50:40am

re: #305 Pie-onist Overlord

Oh lovely, it’s Chairman Bob Avakian’s personality-cult RCP. Those clowns are so obnoxious, the other communists can’t stand them.

322 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:52:17am

re: #321 Lancelot Link

Oh lovely, it’s Chairman Bob Avakian’s personality-cult RCP. Those clowns are so obnoxious, the other communists can’t stand them.

What are they, like, the Westboro of Communism?

323 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:52:21am

re: #321 Lancelot Link

Oh lovely, it’s Chairman Bob Avakian’s personality-cult RCP. Those clowns are so obnoxious, the other communists can’t stand them.

Well, that’s only fair - nobody can stand those other communists too ;)

324 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 4:52:45am

re: #322 Pie-onist Overlord

What are they, like, the Westboro of Communism?

They’re even more cultic than the rest…

325 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 4:54:05am

re: #219 Shazam

“Unlawful assembly”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I’d really like to see the evidence.

One could argue that an NRA Convention/meeting in Missouri would be a Unlawful Assembly. They talk about guns and shit.

326 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 4:54:45am

re: #125 jaunte

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I want to comment on the complete lack of leadership of apparently every organization involve here:
The Ferguson police chief? ‘Damn, I didn’t know there were racial tensions in a community of ~21,000 which I’m responsible for policing.’

The St. Louis County Police Chief? ‘We’re not telling you anything about the investigation, so piss off.’

Whoever is in charge of the Missouri State Police? To tell you the truth I don’t think I’ve seen a picture or video of him in this coverage. If they were a professional organization, they should be handling the use-of-force investigation and would have told the Ferguson police to go sit in your police station and try not to fuck anything else up.

The Governor, Jay Nixon? Too busy attending a 4H meeting to make sure the State Police, which are his responsibility, aren’t screwing up more stuff.

327 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:56:12am
328 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 4:56:31am

re: #320 FemNaziBitch

WAIT . JUST . A . MINUTE

We have such a thing as “unlawful assembly” in this country??????

I thought that was, like, part of the Constitution or something.

The government can place “responsible” restrictions on protests, such as requiring permits, date and time restrictions, etc.

But, in this case, it’s pretty obviously a “contempt of authority/cop” arrest.

329 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 4:57:45am

re: #327 Pie-onist Overlord

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Is that guy illiterate, or was that supposed to be poetry?

330 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 4:58:39am

re: #266 ausador

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I’d been waiting for, and dreading, international reaction. The cops in St. Louis are utterly oblivious to this, of course.

331 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 4:59:19am

re: #329 Timothy Watson

Is that guy illiterate, or was that supposed to be poetry?

I am sharing the VERY BEST OF TCOT this morning, but only in link format so everyone is warned before clicking on it.

332 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 5:03:41am

re: #331 Pie-onist Overlord

I am sharing the VERY BEST OF TCOT this morning, but only in link format so everyone is warned before clicking on it.

Thank you. I really don’t need the heartburn right now.

333 Ryan King  Aug 14, 2014 5:03:54am
STL County Police Chief Belmar: “We’ve done everything we can to demonstrate a remarkable amount of restraint.”

Boom, there it is. Not enough time and words to respond to this.

Belmar is out of touch and from another era. They should yank his ass now before people start dying.

334 Dark_Falcon  Aug 14, 2014 5:06:47am

re: #327 Pie-onist Overlord

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The Twitter version of a pipe full of raw sewage. Yeesh, that’s nasty.

335 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 5:06:47am

It is against the law to point a weapon at someone except in the case of an imminent threat. Cops are not exempt. Protestors with their hands in the air do not qualify as such a threat. No wonder these fascists wear face masks.

I’ve seen enough, especially the attacks on the press. Nixon needs to sent in state police and national guard, push the local yokels out of town entirely and restore some semblance of the rule of law. If he won’t do that, President Obama needs to take the next step: Federal marshals and federal troops.

336 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:07:54am
337 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 5:08:37am

During the funeral of his grandson, the Great Patriotic War vet asks the Russian vets: why is Putin sending your grandchildren to kill our grandchildren?

Youtube Video

338 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 5:09:16am

re: #335 Shiplord Kirel

It is against the law to point a weapon at someone except in the case of an imminent threat. Cops are not exempt. Protestors with their hands in the air do not qualify as such a threat. No wonder these fascists wear face masks.

I’ve seen enough, especially the attacks on the press. Nixon needs to sent in state police and national guard, push the local yokels out of town entirely and restore some semblance of the rule of law. If he won’t do that, President Obama needs to take the next step: Federal marshals and federal troops.

Cops aren’t exempt from the law? What are you, a hippie?

339 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:09:27am
340 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 5:09:52am

re: #335 Shiplord Kirel

It is against the law to point a weapon at someone except in the case of an imminent threat. Cops are not exempt. Protestors with their hands in the air do not qualify as such a threat. No wonder these fascists wear face masks.

I’ve seen enough, especially the attacks on the press. Nixon needs to sent in state police and national guard, push the local yokels out of town entirely and restore some semblance of the rule of law. If he won’t do that, President Obama needs to take the next step: Federal marshals and federal troops.

Which will run the risk that “Second Amendment” types will converge to confront the federal troops…

I am sure that everyone is aware of what a powder keg we are sitting on here.

I agree that higher authorities need to use pressure, but they should try to apply it at different points.

341 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:10:29am

re: #163 Kragar

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Someone want to tell a reporter, who is supposed to covering legal/crime issues, that a Miranda warning is only required for a custodial interrogation?

342 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 5:10:33am

re: #273 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Namely, this is claimed by “Shaltay Boltay” (“Humpty Dumpty”), who has been publishing some scandalous high-level hacks, including messages from Dvorkovich. SB’s blog was banned in Russia. twitter.com

As a preview, SB provided these photos allegedly from M’s IPhone:

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And it begins.

344 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 5:14:24am

re: #342 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

OK, the hacker warns that there isn’t much interesting stuff there. Nothing “top secret” anyway.

345 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 5:14:51am

I’ve been monitoring various outlets for signs of a run on guns and ammunition. So far, nothing significant.
Btw, I wanted to thank DF for turning me on to wikiarms and its real time price and availability monitoring. What a great resource.

I’m also looking at Free Republic and some other RW outlets. A very significant minority on the right is extremely critical of the police and their tactics in Ferguson, even though it means siding with the “librul media” and black protesters. I think this is an important sub-text and a good indicator of just how widespread the opposition to heavy handed law enforcement really is.

346 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:14:54am

re: #328 Timothy Watson

The government can place “responsible” restrictions on protests, such as requiring permits, date and time restrictions, etc.

But, in this case, it’s pretty obviously a “contempt of authority/cop” arrest.

SIX or more people?

I think it’s 3 in Malaysia. People have to get a permit to have a baby shower.

347 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:16:02am

re: #345 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been monitoring various outlets for signs of a run on guns and ammunition. So far, nothing significant.
Btw, I wanted to thank DF for turning me on to wikiarmsand its real time price and availability monitoring. What a great resource.

I’m also looking at Free Republic and some other RW outlets. A very significant minority on the right is extremely critical of the police and their tactics in Ferguson, even though it means siding with the “librul media” and black protesters. I think this is an important sub-text and a good indicator of just how widespread the opposition to heavy handed law enforcement really is.

There was a story yesterday that sales locally in Missouri were up according to anecdotal evidence from gun stores.

348 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 5:17:15am

re: #344 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

349 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:20:27am

re: #347 Timothy Watson

There was a story yesterday that sales locally in Missouri were up according to anecdotal evidence from gun stores.

Here’s a link to one story (CBS News):
St. Louis-area gun sales increase in wake of teen’s shooting

350 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 5:22:35am

The new head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) seems to be an asshole. Has just said something extremely tactless, if not insulting, about the causes of the Holodomor, also implied that more people died in Russia from the famine (not true).

351 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:24:48am
352 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 5:26:18am

Anon posted the name of the officer in Ferguson that shot #MikeBrown

See @TheAnonMessage for details if you choose.

353 Dark_Falcon  Aug 14, 2014 5:27:04am

re: #345 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been monitoring various outlets for signs of a run on guns and ammunition. So far, nothing significant.
Btw, I wanted to thank DF for turning me on to wikiarms and its real time price and availability monitoring. What a great resource.

I’m also looking at Free Republic and some other RW outlets. A very significant minority on the right is extremely critical of the police and their tactics in Ferguson, even though it means siding with the “librul media” and black protesters. I think this is an important sub-text and a good indicator of just how widespread the opposition to heavy handed law enforcement really is.

You are welcome.

re: #335 Shiplord Kirel

It is against the law to point a weapon at someone except in the case of an imminent threat. Cops are not exempt. Protestors with their hands in the air do not qualify as such a threat. No wonder these fascists wear face masks.

I’ve seen enough, especially the attacks on the press. Nixon needs to sent in state police and national guard, push the local yokels out of town entirely and restore some semblance of the rule of law. If he won’t do that, President Obama needs to take the next step: Federal marshals and federal troops.

I don’t think Obama will do that, because of the politics. As this stands the Democrats can use this to mobilize black voters without a federal presence. But if Obama sends in feds, he risks mobilizing conservatives with lines such as “Obama won’t send troops to defend the border but he’ll send them to protect rioters!”

354 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:31:41am

re: #352 Franklin Brewsevelt

Anon posted the name of the officer in Ferguson that shot #MikeBrown

See @TheAnonMessage for details if you choose.

How do we know they didn’t get it wrong? It’s not like they give a shit about truth or accuracy, ya know

355 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 5:32:37am

re: #354 Pie-onist Overlord

How do we know they didn’t get it wrong? It’s not like they give a shit about truth or accuracy, ya know

We don’t, and I’m not about to just take Anonymous’s word for it.

356 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 5:32:39am

re: #354 Pie-onist Overlord

How do we know they didn’t get it wrong? It’s not like they give a shit about truth or accuracy, ya know

For sure, and exactly why I didn’t post the tweet directly :)

357 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:33:05am

There must be a “Random Fake Quote Generator” that wingnuts use, that matches a random quote with a random famous person’s name & photo.

358 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:34:12am

re: #354 Pie-onist Overlord

How do we know they didn’t get it wrong? It’s not like they give a shit about truth or accuracy, ya know

Someone want to explain to Anon that the St. Louis Police Department != Ferguson Police Department?

359 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 5:34:33am

Australia News is following up:
Men tweet arrest as ‘warrior cops’ terrorise city

There is quite a bit of analysis in this article.

360 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:36:38am

OMG!! Feral Girl woke-up feeling healthy, happy and ready to BURN ENERGY! After a bout of tug and jaw wrestling, Brat Puppy sought asylum in his crate. She wasn’t having any of it.

Finally, I decided to grab one of those industrial tug toys and go outside with her. WE worked on JUMP, TAKE, GIVE AND KILL. Meaning, I made her jump for the toy a couple of times before I threw it. She ran after it, shook it (to break it’s neck) and then brought it to me. Rinse. Repeat.

WE came inside for water (on leaseh) and went directly back out side for more work.

3 more rounds and she decided to lay flat in the grass and chew a while.

More water and some serious business (the kind dogs are supposed to do outside) and she is again inside. Brat Puppy is in the crate and the FO has taken over. She showing normal overtired toddler behaviors.

I think it’s morning nap time (crate induced)

It’s amazing what a couple weeks of good nutrition, a loving home and a lack of parasites can do for the mind and body of a pup.

361 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:37:35am

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

You are welcome.

I don’t think Obama will do that, because of the politics. As this stands the Democrats can use this to mobilize black voters without a federal presence. But if Obama sends in feds, he risks mobilizing conservatives with lines such as “Obama won’t send troops to defend the border but he’ll send them to protect rioters!”

You have to understand that that would only help him in the polls.

362 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:40:13am

I spoke too soon.

Brat Puppy has risen for another round.

363 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:42:15am
364 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 5:42:15am

re: #360 FemNaziBitch

I fed Outdoor Cat this morning. When I returned from putting the food bag away, she was on the ground, looking rather agitated. On top of her kitteh box (where her food bowl is) was a most unwelcome guest: A raccoon. I chased it away and just brought the food inside. Mrs. Fish can put it out for her when she gets up.

365 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:42:56am

re: #364 thedopefishlives

I fed Outdoor Cat this morning. When I returned from putting the food bag away, she was on the ground, looking rather agitated. On top of her kitteh box (where her food bowl is) was a most unwelcome guest: A raccoon. I chased it away and just brought the food inside. Mrs. Fish can put it out for her when she gets up.

Gutzy Raccoon!

366 Dark_Falcon  Aug 14, 2014 5:43:56am

re: #361 FemNaziBitch

You have to understand that that would only help him in the polls.

I do not agree, but I have no time to debate. I’m sorry, but BBT.

367 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:45:47am

Stupidest meme so far today (of course it’s early in the morning, there are bound to be stupider memes)
The picture of Obama is from the 2009 inauguration not last night.

368 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 5:46:06am

re: #365 FemNaziBitch

Gutzy Raccoon!

Outdoor Cat actually attacked the raccoon. I was surprised at her gravitas; that ‘coon easily doubled her weight and size. She was very displeased.

369 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:47:38am

People no longer believe that a gathering of brown skinned people is inherently dangerous. They no longer believe that drugs cause crime.

It’s become painfully obvious that we create such myths to justify State (corruption, elitism, racism, xenophobia) sponsored crime.

370 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:49:07am

re: #368 thedopefishlives

Outdoor Cat actually attacked the raccoon. I was surprised at her gravitas; that ‘coon easily doubled her weight and size. She was very displeased.

It is disappointing when one’s opponent is not easily beaten. FO must need moar coffee.

371 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 5:49:27am

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think Obama will do that, because of the politics. As this stands the Democrats can use this to mobilize black voters without a federal presence. But if Obama sends in feds, he risks mobilizing conservatives with lines such as “Obama won’t send troops to defend the border but he’ll send them to protect rioters!”

Not to mention the chance that armed “Second Amendment” types will converge on the city to “defend” it against the “federal interlopers”. It could turn into a real clusterfuck.

372 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:49:47am

re: #367 Pie-onist Overlord

Stupidest meme so far today (of course it’s early in the morning, there are bound to be stupider memes)
The picture of Obama is from the 2009 inauguration not last night.

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Besides, the only part they’re “concerned” about is the picture on the right. They don’t care about the one on the left.

373 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 5:51:06am

re: #366 Dark_Falcon

I do not agree, but I have no time to debate. I’m sorry, but BBT.

Because, protecting us from an invasion foreign children is more important than protecting civil rights domestically?

374 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 5:53:59am

Here’s the same meme, different context
HURR HURR WHY ISN’T OBAMA PERSONALLY IN IRAQ RESCUING TEH IZIDIS!!!! (BUT DON’T LET THOSE BROWNS COME IN TO ARE COUNTRY) WHY ISN’T HE PERSONALLY IN FERGUSON TELLING HIS VOTERS TO STAND DOWN!!!!!

JUST LIKE RONALD REAGAN WITH HIS OWN HANDS PERSONALLY TORE DOWN TEH BERLIN WALL BRICK BY BRICK

375 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 5:56:20am

re: #374 Pie-onist Overlord

Here’s the same meme, different context
HURR HURR WHY ISN’T OBAMA PERSONALLY IN IRAQ RESCUING TEH IZIDIS!!!! (BUT DON’T LET THOSE BROWNS COME IN TO ARE COUNTRY) WHY ISN’T HE PERSONALLY IN FERGUSON TELLING HIS VOTERS TO STAND DOWN!!!!!

JUST LIKE RONALD REAGAN WITH HIS OWN HANDS PERSONALLY TORE DOWN TEH BERLIN WALL BRICK BY BRICK

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I sure hope Ronny wasn’t dancing while CIA station chief William Francis Buckley and United States Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins were being tortured to death.

376 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 5:56:38am

re: #345 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been monitoring various outlets for signs of a run on guns and ammunition. So far, nothing significant.
Btw, I wanted to thank DF for turning me on to wikiarms and its real time price and availability monitoring. What a great resource.

I’m also looking at Free Republic and some other RW outlets. A very significant minority on the right is extremely critical of the police and their tactics in Ferguson, even though it means siding with the “librul media” and black protesters. I think this is an important sub-text and a good indicator of just how widespread the opposition to heavy handed law enforcement really is.

I noticed they are torn on freep (will not provide a link). A lot of them want the “looters” gunned down. But the Right has also been screaming about the militarization of domestic law enforcement because they are convinced the Usurper plans to impose an islamo-marxist dictatorship, and they can see that militarized police confronting protestors could create a precedent.

377 ninja cat  Aug 14, 2014 5:56:48am

re: #371 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Not to mention the chance that armed “Second Amendment” types will converge on the city to “defend” it against the “federal interlopers”. It could turn into a real clusterfuck.

But that would put them on the side of the blah people and I don’t see that happening.

378 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 5:57:14am

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

But if Obama sends in feds, he risks mobilizing conservatives with lines such as “Obama won’t send troops to defend the border but he’ll send them to protect rioters!”

So what you’re saying is that Obama would piss off the bigots because he wouldn’t send troops to intimidate children on the border, but he’d send them to protect American citizens from an out of control police force.

I’m having a hard time finding the downside here.

379 Cassidy  Aug 14, 2014 5:57:17am

That’s mighty white of them to restrain themselves and not shoot people who are peacefully protesting.

380 ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2014 5:57:25am

Morning all. Just checking in to see the status of America. I’d put it in the ‘not good’ range.

At this time the country seems to be held together by crazy glue.

381 Flounder  Aug 14, 2014 5:58:11am

How much money to you keep in your car?!

A survey of 3,567 drivers by a website that goes by the sleek name couponcodespro.com says Americans keep a total of $2.4 billion in their cars. That’s an average of $21.48 per car.
Eighty-eight percent of those who responded said they did keep cash in their vehicle. And in case you are one of those people who break into cars, you’d do best looking in the glove compartment because that’s where 47 percent stash their cash. The ashtray is second at 23 percent, while 8 percent just throw the money on the floor.
Money is easy come, easy go in California, where owners leave an average of $43.11 in their cars, while in New York thieves would have to order off the dollar menus with the paltry $3.66 motorists leave lying around.

I keep less than a dollar (and out of sight), my wife, a couple hundred, in pennies, dimes and nickels. She then gets mad at me for swiping it any chance I get.

382 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 6:00:31am

re: #381 Flounder

How much money to you keep in your car?!

I keep less than a dollar (and out of sight), my wife, a couple hundred, in pennies, dimes and nickels. She then gets mad at me for swiping it any chance I get.

$0.00.

I used to keep a couple quarters in the center console in one car because of toll roads, but I don’t drive that route anymore.

383 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 6:02:51am
384 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 6:03:28am

re: #377 ninja cat

But that would put them on the side of the blah people and I don’t see that happening.

Not really; they would say the Usurper is sending in federal stormtroopers to support the looters in an uprising against legitimate state authority.

385 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 6:03:36am

re: #377 ninja cat

But that would put them on the side of the blah people and I don’t see that happening.

It sounds illogical, but any chance to line up a Federal Officer in a sniper sights might be interesting for them

386 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 6:04:35am

Wait, what??

387 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 6:04:40am

re: #381 Flounder

How much money to you keep in your car?!

I keep less than a dollar (and out of sight), my wife, a couple hundred, in pennies, dimes and nickels. She then gets mad at me for swiping it any chance I get.

I grew up in Detroit in the 1970’s. I keep little if any money in the car. I do need a quarter for a grocery cart at Aldi, I try to always have a quarter. The rest of change—mostly pennies, I keep for drive-up windows. I say about 42 cents total.

388 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 6:04:49am

re: #381 Flounder

How much money to you keep in your car?!

I keep less than a dollar (and out of sight), my wife, a couple hundred, in pennies, dimes and nickels. She then gets mad at me for swiping it any chance I get.

I have some change sealed into cupholders by sticky soft drink residue; I can’t pry it out to see how much is there.

389 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:06:13am

re: #386 Franklin Brewsevelt

Wait, what??

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He’s a nice guy, you heartless bastards! *sob*

390 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 6:06:21am

re: #381 Flounder

How much money to you keep in your car?!

I keep less than a dollar (and out of sight), my wife, a couple hundred, in pennies, dimes and nickels. She then gets mad at me for swiping it any chance I get.

I don’t keep any in my car. My wife has some assorted change that gets cleaned out and put into the change jar (by me) every so often. Probably no more than $2, maximum.

391 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:06:42am

re: #387 FemNaziBitch

I grew up in Detroit in the 1970’s. I keep little if any money in the car. I do need a quarter for a grocery cart at Aldi, I try to always have a quarter. The rest of change—mostly pennies, I keep for drive-up windows. I say about 42 cents total.

I have $1 in the console, change from when I gave a fiver for the toll at the Windsor/Detroit tunnel.

392 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 6:07:12am

re: #388 aagcobb

I have some change sealed into cupholders by sticky soft drink residue; I can’t pry it out to see how much is there.

soak with soapy water.—condensation from a cold drink works too!

BTDT

393 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 6:08:49am
394 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 6:09:06am

re: #374 Pie-onist Overlord

Old Spoonie only cares if it is Christians that are being killed? Dance all you want if it is Atheists, Muslims being killed or Yazidis? How generous of him.

395 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:09:18am

OK this is now the DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY
(I did not even notice the Godwin at the bottom, makes it EVEN MOAR TEH STUPIDS)

396 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 6:10:26am

re: #391 Pie-onist Overlord

I have $1 in the console, change from when I gave a fiver for the toll at the Windsor/Detroit tunnel.

I keep nothing of any value in the car —dog crate, dog travel stuff —bottle of water, poop bags, plastic drinking bowl, cheap extra leash.

If anyone wants to steal my various charging cords, they are welcome. They can also have the owner’s manual.

I don’t even carry cash in my purse. I lock my door when the window is down. I look under my car as I approach it with my keys threaded thru my fingers. I look in the back seat before I get in.

I lock the car doors as soon as I get in the car. I do not wait for the automatic locks to engage.

Behaviors I cannot rid myself of.

397 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:10:51am
398 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 6:11:00am

re: #395 Pie-onist Overlord

People have the right to protest and to assemble
People DO NOT have a right to riot & loot

Is that the same thing the British soldiers in Boston said before they opened fire on March 5, 1770?

399 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:11:16am

Just got caught up on the Ferguson situation. My God, what a fuck up. Absolutely horrible.

Again, this needs to be pointed out again and again:

1) It becomes more apparent everyday that the Ferguson PD is trying to cover up one of their own murdering a 17 year old black kid by threatening an entire city, the majority of whom are black.

2) To anyone who thinks racism is dead or on the wane in America, two words for you: Bundy Ranch. A group of white men aim assault weapons at government agents who are doing their job, among other things, and are basically left off the hook.

Black people using their Constitutional rights to protest a cop slaughtering a kid get sniper rifles pointed at them.

400 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:11:19am

re: #395 Pie-onist Overlord

OK this is now the DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY

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Six million Jews trusted the Nazi propaganda? A new word in WWII history.

401 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:11:42am

I got into an argument a while back with a reader here who took exception to my comment that a black guy open carrying and walking into a Southern business would likely be blown away by the cops. Unlike the white guys who have the cops look at them and shrug their shoulders.

I’m hesitant to call the Ferguson situation proof, but it does nothing to dissuade me from my views.

402 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:11:46am

re: #396 FemNaziBitch

I keep nothing of any value in the car —dog crate, dog travel stuff —bottle of water, poop bags, plastic drinking bowl, cheap extra leash.

If anyone wants to steal my various charging cords, they are welcome. They can also have the owner’s manual.

I don’t even carry cash in my purse. I lock my door when the window is down. I look under my car as I approach it with my keys threaded thru my fingers. I look in the back seat before I get in.

I lock the car doors as soon as I get in the car. I do not wait for the automatic locks to engage.

Behaviors I cannot rid myself of.

I live in Detroit and that’s over the top. OK not in Detroit Detroit but still…

403 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:12:17am

re: #400 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Six million Jews trusted the Nazi propaganda? A new word in WWII history.

THEY TURNED IN THERE GUNS WHEN TEH GOVERNMENT SAID THEY WOULD PROTECT THEM!!!!!!!!

404 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 6:13:01am

re: #402 Pie-onist Overlord

I live in Detroit and that’s over the top. OK not in Detroit Detroit but still…

In the 1970’s, the riots were still very fresh in everyone’s mind and well, crime was pretty awful.

405 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:13:11am

re: #399 Mattand

Yes, you’re not alone in making the comparison. The difference couldn’t be starker.

406 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:13:21am

Hm….no assault rifles pointed at this protester…what’s different?

407 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:13:52am

re: #403 Pie-onist Overlord

This somehow assumes that they had guns in the first place.

408 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:14:11am

re: #401 Mattand

I got into an argument a while back with a reader here who took exception to my comment that a black guy open carrying and walking into a Southern business would likely be blown away by the cops. Unlike the white guys who have the cops look at them and shrug their shoulders.

I’m hesitant to call the Ferguson situation proof, but it does nothing to dissuade me from my views.

With the way the cops are acting, if any of the black protesters in Ferguson were openly carrying guns the police wouldn’t have hesitated to start mowing people down in the street with live ammo.

409 FemNaziBitch  Aug 14, 2014 6:14:43am

AH FINALLY,

I can safely take my morning nap.

bbl

410 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 6:14:54am

re: #397 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m hearing reports that The Weathermen and some Black Panthers snuck into Ferguson last night thru Hamas terror tunnels…

Industrious bastards, aren’t they? Just what I would expect, though, from people so clever they can “take over” and institute “shahara law” as soon as they reach 3% of the population.
/

411 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:15:58am

re: #409 FemNaziBitch

AH FINALLY,

I can safely take my morning nap.

bbl

*snore snore*

:P

412 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:16:08am

I also look at the situation in Ferguson and realize it could happen anywhere. I live fairly close to Camden, NJ and Philly, towns that have both high crime rates and police forces who are known for fucking with minorities often because they can.

If the cop who most like murdered Mike Brown gets away scott free (a likely scenario in the US), it’s a real possibility that we’re going to see a repeat of 1968; maybe worse.

And quite frankly, while I don’t condone that level of violence, I can’t blame anyone for feeling that angry and disenfranchised.

I’ve probably been living closer to a few powder kegs than I realize.

413 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:17:01am

Have a bit of morning humor at the expense of the RWNJs:

Sovereign country of Breitbartistan established online, tells Obama ‘you’re not the boss of me’

Oh, this is soooooooooo adorable that it will make you want to shit kittens who wear little pirate hats and speak with baby voices…

One of the lesser idiots at Breitbart, but an idiot all the same, has written one of those cute manifestos that overly wordy weirdos write from time to time, usually followed by standing on a kitchen chair — SpongeBob SquarePants bath-towel tied around the neck like a cape for dramatic effect — and delivered to several disinterested cats lazily grooming themselves and planning their own worldwide domination.

David Shapiro, angling for a spot to become the most mocked Shapiro (and good luck with that, Sparky) at at Ghost Breitbart’s House of Cash Your Paycheck Quickly is not going to take your shit anymore, you guys.

414 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 6:18:15am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Parts of the area are finally drying out after the rainfall of historic proportions yesterday. Islip LI and several nearby areas got more rainfall in a 24 hour than any other place in NYS. Ever. More than seen by upstate during Hurricane Irene. More than during Floyd or any number of major storms, including the Long Island Express of 1938. Now imagine nearly all of that rainfall coming in a 2 hour period.

Weather I can deal with.

What I can’t deal with is the fact that the right wing echo chamber is busy smearing Michael Brown and making unsubstantiated claims about his acts prior to being shot and killed by a Ferguson cop. Or their blaming the community for riots while ignoring the heavy handed tactics by both Ferguson PD and the St. Louis County police departments.

Overnight, the county police trotted out their armored vehicles, and put their LRAD sonic devices to crowd control use. Mind you, these vehicles were intended to give local police the ability to respond to terror attacks, to school shootings and mass casualty events. But they’re using them, along with cops in body armor that are busy pointing loaded weapons at civil and peaceful demonstrators. These same cops have harassed journalists (arresting and detaining two yesterday without charges or an apology), and even arrested @AntonioFrench.

As he walked out of the Ferguson Jail this morning, French wore his signature oxford shirt and talked with reporters about his experience. He said he was near the burned-out QuikTrip at about 9 p.m. Wednesday when police in riot gear ordered protesters to disperse.

“Police had just given a final warning to disperse and released smoke bombs, people scattered and ran,” French said. “Police started to move forward with riot gear and tear gas started to come.”

“I moved away when it looked like they were throwing what I thought was tear gas … it turned out to be smoke bombs,” French added. “I realized the best place (to be was in my) car with the windows rolled up. That’s where I was.”

When a reporter asked French today how he went from being in his car to being arrested, he said: “They open your door and drag you out.”

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

These cops are intent upon causing a scene, but don’t want cameras to capture any of their actions. They’ve sought to limit coverage by the media from the air with a NOTAM that has dubious merit, and have gone out of their way to target people with phones/cameras because it would show just how heavy-handed the response has been.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has a mess on his hands, and he’s doing the bare minimum to get the police to stand down in a town with two officer involved shootings in as many weeks; the first involving Michael Brown and the circumstances of which are dubious at best, and the second appears to have been justified (with police recovering a firearm at the scene, and the suspect may have been involved in a shooting just minutes earlier).

French, who has been covering the protests on the ground since they began, notes that the situation and tensions have been ratcheted up since the police have added more SWAT teams and brought in the heavy gear. Instead of reducing tensions, the county police are courting even more violence.

Moreover, French is right to note that the right to protest doesn’t end at 9:00pm. Purposefully attacking peaceful protesters with smoke bombs, pepper balls, etc., who are forced to disperse before the imposed 9:00 deadline actually precipitates conflict.

Meanwhile, the ACLU and STL Post Dispatch have both sought the name of the officer via FOIA requests, and have been rebuffed. Next stop would be court. Balancing the risk versus the sunshine of identifying the officer would go a long way to reducing tensions in the community, which sees hiding the identity of the officer as part of the department’s coverup of events. I get that some in the department and the public think that this increases risks to the officer and his family, but the department could take steps to protect the officer (like shifting a car or two of cops from “riot” patrol to protecting the family. But the Department should see benefits outweighing the risks - instead it sees only the risk, and in doing so, it causes more grief for itself and the community.

415 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:19:37am
416 bratwurst  Aug 14, 2014 6:20:00am

Mouth breather alert:

417 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:20:54am

re: #416 bratwurst

Exactly how is an unarmed black teenager getting murdered by a cop politically convenient?

418 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:21:53am

re: #415 darthstar

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Purely physiognomically he reminds me of this guy:

419 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:23:31am

re: #414 lawhawk

I get that some in the department and the public think that this increases risks to the officer and his family, but the department could take steps to protect the officer (like shifting a car or two of cops from “riot” patrol to protecting the family. But the Department should see benefits outweighing the risks - instead it sees only the risk, and in doing so, it causes more grief for itself and the community.

Officer Rambo should have thought about that before he decided to murder a kid in cold blood.

No fucking sympathy from me.

420 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:23:45am

re: #417 Lidane

Exactly how is an unarmed black teenager getting murdered by a cop politically convenient?

HURR HURR DISTRACTION FROM BENGHAZI!!!!!!

421 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:24:42am

re: #417 Lidane

Exactly how is an unarmed black teenager getting murdered by a cop politically convenient?

It enables mouth breathers like Nolte to claim black people are animals, using Willie Horton tactics to try to get Republicans elected.

Yeah, this whole Ferguson thing has in a real foul mood.

422 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:25:02am

re: #418 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Ed Norton?

423 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:26:02am

re:
#417

Because it conveniently blows a great big hole in our fake tyranny complaints. And because shutup.

424 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:26:04am
425 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:27:15am

re: #423 Bulworth

re:
#417

Because it conveniently blows a great big hole in our fake tyranny complaints. And because shutup.

I don’t think there’s anything fake about the tyranny of killing unarmed youth because of their skin color.

426 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:27:28am

re: #422 darthstar

Rather, Derek. OK, a bit inflammatory ;)

427 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:27:37am
428 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 6:28:06am
429 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:28:08am
430 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:28:41am

re:
#425

I was referring to RWNJ complaints about tyranny.

431 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:29:02am

re: #424 darthstar

Some would call that an infringement of the 1st. I would say no, that is outright revocation and denial of 1st amendment freedom of speech and press.

Justice Dept lawsuit anyone?

432 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:29:03am

re: #425 darthstar

I don’t think there’s anything fake about the tyranny of killing unarmed youth because of their skin color.

But there IS something fake about wingnuts claiming tyranny over at Bundy Ranch while the very real tyranny the cops are showing in Ferguson gets ignored.

433 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 6:29:32am
434 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 6:30:12am

I asked this last night but haven’t had a chance to look for the answer: Is there anything Obama can do about this?

I mean, at this point, we have cops holding a town hostage because said cops killed a kid and are trying to cover it up. It’s hard to believe that the leader of the free world has to sit by, watch this, and go “Sorry, it’s a state thing. I’m not allowed to be involved.”

Just so we’re clear, I’m not blaming the president, but goddamn; someone needs to get in there and tell this group of white Southern ISIS wannabes to stand down and fuck off.

EDIT: Sorry. The strikethrough was uncalled for and I should know better.

435 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:30:34am

re:
#432

And “tyranny” of expanding healthcare, tyranny of IRS “targeting”, tyranny of etc.

436 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:33:24am

re:
#417

There was Luting….four days ago!!!!!!!111 One of the blahs stold a TV!!!!!11

437 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:34:10am

Gov. Nixon has finally gotten off his ass and said something:

Aug. 14, 2014

Statement from Governor Nixon on events in Ferguson

Jefferson City, MO — Gov. Jay Nixon tonight issued the following statement on events in Ferguson, Missouri:

“The worsening situation in Ferguson is deeply troubling, and does not represent who we are as Missourians or as Americans. While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

“I have been closely monitoring the situation and will continue to be in communication with local leaders, and I will be in north St. Louis County tomorrow. As Governor, I am committed to ensuring the pain of last weekend’s tragedy does not continue to be compounded by this ongoing crisis. Once again, I ask that members of the community demonstrate patience and calm while the investigation continues, and I urge law enforcement agencies to keep the peace and respect the rights of residents and the press during this difficult time.”

So basically, Nixon is useless. He’s just offering the expected mealy-mouthed bullshit about being concerned and that ‘s going to take a look around, but no concrete actions or solutions.

Pathetic.

438 ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2014 6:35:10am

I’m starting to see some criticism of President Obama in how he is being too quiet about Ferguson. I figured this would be coming.

I think he is in a tough spot due to the backlash he took over Trayvon Martin, not doing anything in Chicago, how he has handled the immigration/border enforcement, and how he is helping folks in the Middle East and not here.

This issue will cause everyone to attack him, no matter the political sides. Also, I expect him to get grief from African American too. This is a raw sore and the country is bleeding all over.

I know one thing. I would not want his job right now, no way no how. I feel for him.

439 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 6:35:51am
440 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:36:57am

LOL. I just stumbled upon Zombie’s latest - well, it’s been a while, the piece is dated March of this year.

He basically argues that liberals are anti-black racists, but the way he does it is so precious… you gotta read for yourself, if you have the stomach for it…

donotlink.com

441 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:37:39am

re: #174 Dark_Falcon

His party affiliation does mean something, if only because many here are always quick to point out that a Republican who screws up is a Republican. Well, on this occasion its a Democrat who has blown the call, and think its important to make that clear.

You DO understand that Southern Democrats are more conservative and can often be indistinguishable from Republicans, right? Listen to some of the Texas Democrats sometime. Some of them are only Democrats because their districts are blue/purple.

Nixon is a failure no matter what party he’s in. I don’t care what letter is after his name.

442 GunstarGreen  Aug 14, 2014 6:37:59am

re: #437 Lidane

Doesn’t represent who we are as Missourians or Americans?

Fuck you, Nixon. Try reading the internet sometime. Ferguson represents exactly who and what America is in the year 2014. A group of minority citizens being openly oppressed by local law enforcement, one party of people who are horrified to see assault weaponry trained on peaceful citizens, and one party of people cheering it on.

443 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:40:06am

Joe Scarborough has an opinion, you guys. He even felt compelled to share:

Scarborough: Reporters Detained In Ferguson Just ‘Want To Get On TV’ (VIDEO)

Wesley Lowery, who was one of the reporters that got arrested, was not amused:

“Well, I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where he’s sitting and sipping his Starbucks smugly,” Lowery said during a Thursday morning appearance on CNN. “I invite him to come and talk to the residents of Ferguson, where I’ve been since Monday afternoon having tear gas shot at me, having rubber bullets shot at me … I would invite Joe Scarborough down here to do some reporting on the ground, then maybe we can have an educated conversation about what’s happening here.”

444 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:42:11am

re: #440 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

LOL. I just stumbled upon Zombie’s latest - well, it’s been a while, the piece is dated March of this year.

He basically argues that liberals are anti-black racists, but the way he does it is so precious… you gotta read for yourself, if you have the stomach for it…

donotlink.com

I have seen each and every one of those talking points from the more “intellectual” wingnuts, like Ms. Inez.

445 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:42:38am

re:
#443

JoSco also said that when cops command people need to obey.

Just like when feds requested Clive Bundy and his militia to move off the federal and they were occupying. //

446 Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2014 6:42:45am

re: #395 Pie-onist Overlord

OK this is now the DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY
(I did not even notice the Godwin at the bottom, makes it EVEN MOAR TEH STUPIDS)

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People don’t have the right to kill doctors in their churches but the right don’t seem to have a fucking problem with that crime. Just some lone wolves, but the looting was endemic of the black community when out of town lone wolves do it.

447 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 6:43:26am

re: #437 Lidane

Gov. Nixon has finally gotten off his ass and said something:

So basically, Nixon is useless. He’s just offering the expected mealy-mouthed bullshit about being concerned and that ‘s going to take a look around, but no concrete actions or solutions.

Pathetic.

That is about the blandest political statement that could possibly be made about this situation.

448 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 6:44:09am

Today’s a British rock kind of day.

Old…

Youtube Video

and new(ish)…

Youtube Video

Another promise, another seed
Another, packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
And all the, green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
So come on

449 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:44:54am

More of this please:

450 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:45:07am
451 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:46:11am
452 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 6:47:22am

re: #443 Lidane

The cops went into a McDonalds, where the reporters were. And they frogmarched them out - even though they did nothing - because the cops wanted to close the store (how and why this was necessary, is not known).

A Washington Post reporter and another journalist were arrested by police earlier in the day by officers who ordered everyone out of a McDonald’s restaurant, an arrest the newspaper’s executive editor called illegal and unjustified. Wesley Lowery said he was slammed into a soda machine and arrested after recording officers. Also arrested was Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly.

These weren’t reporters trying to get the store about themselves, but rather reporters who were arrested because they were trying to do their jobs and the police didn’t want their acts to be seen or recorded for posterity.

That’s the reason for the NOTAM. It’s why they’re targeting people with cameras and smartphones. They don’t want the world to see what they’re up to, which is no good.

453 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 6:47:53am

re: #449 Lidane

More of this please:

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How does one deal with semi-sentient robots?

454 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 6:48:32am

re: #449 Lidane

More of this please:

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This whole thing could’ve gone away if the Ferguson PD had suspended the cop(s) involved and done a reasonably transparent investigation. Instead, they doubled down on stupid and now are at war with an American town because of it.

455 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:51:13am

TYPICAL==>

456 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:52:42am

LOLWHUT
White Privilege on parade

457 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:52:58am

re: #455 Pie-onist Overlord

It’s amazing that Hoft gets through the day without a crash helmet.

458 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 6:53:23am

re: #456 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWHUT

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Is IRS harassment > getting shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas during civil unrest? Douchecanoe.

459 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:54:14am
460 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:54:42am

re:
#455

This is surprising. I thought the Dont Tread On Me, Stop The Tyranny 2nd Amendment Solution crowd would be rather upset with the police tactics in Missouri. ///

461 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 6:54:55am

Alderman Antonio French free; says he was arrested because “I didn’t listen”
Link
fox2now.com

French said, “we broke no laws.”

462 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 6:54:56am

re: #456 Pie-onist Overlord

Getting shot and killed for being black; getting harassed day in and day out for being black, trumps every perceived slight Nolte thinks he’s been on receiving end of.

IRS doesn’t harass people for sake of harassment. Nor does it have the personnel or ability to go after everyone who cheats on their taxes. Asking a taxpayer for more information isn’t harassment. It’s their job to administer the tax code.

463 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 6:55:30am

re: #458 thedopefishlives

Is IRS harassment > getting shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas during civil unrest? Douchecanoe.

IRS Harassment=not immediately getting 501(c) tax-exempt status for your “END THE IRS!!!!” organization

464 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 6:55:35am

re: #456 Pie-onist Overlord

Sounds like Hannity:

Hannity: I’ve Had Easy Time with Cops, so Let’s Not ‘Taint’ Law Enforcement Overall

Douchebag is a white millionaire and TV personality. He’s never going to have the same experience with cops that a poor black person is going to have. Ever.

And yes, it’s not ALL cops that are bad. I have cousins that are cops, and others in the FBI. But the cops we’re seeing in Ferguson are shitty cops that are completely out of control. That’s undeniable.

465 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:56:36am

re:
#456

all this protest BS in Missouri and riots and stuff doesn’t compare at all to our political party’s attempt to get tax-exempt status. The IRS sent us mail!!!!!!11

466 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 6:56:52am
467 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:57:11am

re:
#466

Here’s my surprise face.

468 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 6:57:43am
469 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 6:57:57am

re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Which will run the risk that “Second Amendment” types will converge to confront the federal troops…

I am sure that everyone is aware of what a powder keg we are sitting on here.

I agree that higher authorities need to use pressure, but they should try to apply it at different points.

Not gonna happen. The 2nd Amendment enthusiasts will stand up for black Americans right after the TPGOP nominates Ben Carson.

470 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 6:58:40am

re:
#463

The riots by blahs and outside agitators Chicago commies in Ferguson is a distraction from IRS Scandal!!!!1

471 darthstar  Aug 14, 2014 6:58:42am

re: #468 Charles Johnson

And what if Anon is wrong?

472 Lancelot Link  Aug 14, 2014 7:02:36am

re: #395 Pie-onist Overlord

OK this is now the DUMBEST MEME OF THE DAY

Well, it’s early yet.

473 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:02:48am
474 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 7:02:58am

re: #396 FemNaziBitch

I keep nothing of any value in the car —dog crate, dog travel stuff —bottle of water, poop bags, plastic drinking bowl, cheap extra leash.

If anyone wants to steal my various charging cords, they are welcome. They can also have the owner’s manual.

I don’t even carry cash in my purse. I lock my door when the window is down. I look under my car as I approach it with my keys threaded thru my fingers. I look in the back seat before I get in.

I lock the car doors as soon as I get in the car. I do not wait for the automatic locks to engage.

Behaviors I cannot rid myself of.

Jeez. Where do you live? If I remember I didn’t lock the door, I don’t get out of bed to lock it.

(A kid in The Bronx pretty much cured me of locking my car when he broke a $75 window to steal a $10 toolbox.)

475 nines09  Aug 14, 2014 7:03:07am

re: #460 Bulworth

re:
#455

This is surprising. I thought the Dont Tread On Me, Stop The Tyranny 2nd Amendment Solution crowd would be rather upset with the police tactics in Missouri. ///

I keep looking for a Gadsden flag. MIA? Curious, no? Crock of shit Tea Party and all their bogus white trash buddies.

476 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:04:11am
477 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:04:57am

478 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 7:05:55am

re: #417 Lidane

Exactly how is an unarmed black teenager getting murdered by a cop politically convenient?

Its all being orchestrated by the Usurper so that he can justify declaring an emergency and imposing sharia law!

479 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:05:56am

re: #468 Charles Johnson

Even other considerations aside, why would anyone trust them?

480 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:06:54am

I’m no fan of Al Sharpton, but he’s not the one who’s trotting out up-armed riot police that have more gear at their disposal than many military units from just a few years ago. Sharpton isn’t the one who shot an unarmed black man.

Sharpton isn’t the one intimidating a community with a brazen show of arms.

The ones who need to be held accountable are the Ferguson and county police, both of which appear to be acting extra-judicially in their tactics and methods, which include harassing and arresting reporters while they were inside a McDonalds.

481 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:07:28am

Cognitive dissonance part 132633:

482 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:09:19am

re: #481 bubba zanetti

White guys with guns who have broken the law versus a black community grieving over the loss of one of their own who are lawfully protesting.

Which one isn’t like the other…

483 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:09:26am

re: #481 bubba zanetti

Cognitive dissonance part 132633:

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No cognitive dissonance = no shame.

484 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:09:31am
485 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:10:08am
486 bratwurst  Aug 14, 2014 7:10:18am

Guess who has tied Ferguson to his psychotic hatred of Israel?

487 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:10:32am

re: #481 bubba zanetti

It’s not cognitive dissonance. Look at the skin color of the Bundy Ranch folks and then look at Ferguson. There’s your disconnect between Nolte’s opinion then and now.

488 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:10:41am
489 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:11:18am
490 Lancelot Link  Aug 14, 2014 7:11:46am

re: #466 Charles Johnson

OH LOOK. the Mayor of Ferguson HAS SPOKEN to wait for it… NEWSMAX and complains about Rev Sharpton

Newsmax? That’s no surprise - Mayor Knowles was the president of the Missouri Young Republicans until 2011.

491 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:11:55am

re:
#488

Stop trying to distract from real tiranny like IRS scandal and missing emails and Obummer taking are guns!!!!!11

492 nines09  Aug 14, 2014 7:12:15am

So just envision patrol officers who now resemble “fighters” from around the world on your street with full auto weapons, Kevlar camo suits and helmets with ballistic face shields and stun grenades on their vests wishing you a “Nice day”. No better than a third world backwater.
Those folks know from experience, and so do I, that if they did not protest this murder would have been swept under the carpet and nothing besides administrative leave for a week or so would have been the punishment for the officer. I see a dead kid. Assholes see a mob.

493 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:12:43am

re: #486 bratwurst

Guess who has tied Ferguson to his psychotic hatred of Israel?

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Wow so journalism

494 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:13:06am
495 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 7:14:28am
496 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 7:15:04am

re: #477 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

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That is an extreme overload of cuteness!

497 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:15:09am

re: #495 NJDhockeyfan

Because Sharpton is what matters in Ferguson. WTF.

498 bubba zanetti  Aug 14, 2014 7:15:23am

Ha, the callout:

499 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:15:29am

re: #495 NJDhockeyfan

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MLK’s niece is a certified wingnut, using her uncle’s name to promote her anti-choice agenda

500 PhillyPretzel  Aug 14, 2014 7:15:40am

I am posting a link to Wikipedia regarding the 1985 confrontation with MOVE in Philadelphia. While not the same in many aspects there are some similarities to Ferguson.

en.wikipedia.org

501 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:17:10am

re: #489 bubba zanetti

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Lolol.

502 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 7:18:00am

Questioning whether my organization “TEA PARTIERS FOR IMPEACHING THE KENYAN LIBTARD USURPER PAC” is a nonpartisan organization or not by the IRS is worse than anything that the Ferguson mooching class looters are going through!!

503 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 7:18:24am

re: #498 bubba zanetti

Ha, the callout:

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OH SNAP

504 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:20:10am

re:
#498

“No, we’ll talk to Sean Hannity, or maybe Ben Carson will have some important insights.”

//

505 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 7:20:15am

re: #484 Pie-onist Overlord

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The right is seriously split on the events in Ferguson. Their leaders will probably resolve this by focusing on Sharpton and the comic-book commies who have shown up.

506 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:26:38am

re:
#505

Also, along with Sharpton and some Che t-shirt wearing dude from Pioria there might be someone who knows one of the guys who used to be in the New Black Panther Party in Ferguson.

///

507 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:26:46am

re: #486 bratwurst

508 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:27:03am
509 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 7:27:21am

re: #505 Shiplord Kirel

The right is seriously split on the events in Ferguson. Their leaders will probably resolve this by focusing on Sharpton and the comic-book commies who have shown up.

Its a conundrum; the images of the militarized police confirm their gravest fears of government tyranny, but its combined with their other grave fear of blah people who need killing.

510 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:28:42am

Need to see this confirmed by official sources: [update] Derek Wallbank is a Bloomberg reporter:

That’s a good start.

511 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:29:33am

re: #509 aagcobb

Its a conundrum; the images of the militarized police confirm their gravest fears of government tyranny, but its combined with their other grave fear of blah people who need killing.

The right wing in a nutshell:

An assembled group of white people at Bundy Ranch = resistance against tyranny.

An assembled group of black people in Ferguson = looters & rioters that need killing.

512 GunstarGreen  Aug 14, 2014 7:29:35am

re: #508 Pie-onist Overlord

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You know what the difference is between that picture and all of the gun-fucking pseudo-porn RWNJs love to post and cheer on?

Gun Ownership While Black.

He’s even exercising actual, responsible trigger discipline, unlike all the photos of white people with guns — notice his index finger is alongside the pistol, off of the trigger.

513 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 7:29:40am

re: #500 PhillyPretzel

I am posting a link to Wikipedia regarding the 1985 confrontation with MOVE in Philadelphia. While not the same in many aspects there are some similarities to Ferguson.

en.wikipedia.org

Jesus, I can’t believe I forgot about that. It’s not like I didn’t watch that live on TV or anything.

So forget my comment about being doubtful Philly cops would react like the Ferguson PD.

514 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 7:29:40am
515 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 7:30:36am

Wouldn’t give his name or badge, well now he gets to we famous on the twitter.

516 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 7:30:40am

re: #497 Lidane

Because Sharpton is what matters in Ferguson. WTF.

It fits in with the narrative of “outside agitators”.

517 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 14, 2014 7:33:24am
518 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:34:11am

re: #512 GunstarGreen

You know what the difference is between that picture and all of the gun-fucking pseudo-porn RWNJs love to post and cheer on?

Gun Ownership While Black.

He’s even exercising actual, responsible trigger discipline, unlike all the photos of white people with guns — notice his index finger is alongside the pistol, off of the trigger.

So before the cops shot him, they looked up his profile on Facebook to see the picture of him pointing a gun at them?

519 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:34:23am

re:
#510

So State Police will take over?

520 Danny  Aug 14, 2014 7:35:04am

re: #507 lawhawk

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Same thought I had when the guy with a bullhorn was trying to get protesters to chant “end the occupation of Gaza and Ferguson” right before the tear gas started flying last night.

521 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:37:06am

re:
#512

So that means since the Bundy Militia guys were all holding guns the feds should have just shot them all and it would have been OK?

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522 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 7:37:27am

re: #495 NJDhockeyfan

Alveda King is a hard core wingnut.

523 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 7:37:42am

re: #518 Pie-onist Overlord

So before the cops shot him, they looked up his profile on Facebook to see the picture of him pointing a gun at them?

The question is not of his “innocence” or his past record, it is one of whether the policeman in question was justified in using lethal force against him.

But the RW talking points are all about how he is a thug and therefore deserved it.

524 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:37:51am

Ted Cruz Defends Reporters Arrested In Ferguson

He defends the reporters but he’s still a weasel about Mike Brown’s murder:

“Together, we should all mourn the loss of life in Ferguson, Missouri and work to keep our communities safe and free. Police officers risk their lives every day to keep us safe, and any time a young man loses his life in a confrontation with law enforcement, it is tragic,” he said.

“Civil liberties must be protected, but violence is not the answer. Once the unrest is brought to an end, we should examine carefully what happened to ensure that justice is served,” Cruz concluded.

Here’s a simple summary, Ted — a cop murdered an unarmed black kid in the street. The cops have been in cover-up mode ever since and have now moved to open suppression of the residents of Ferguson and to arresting reporters. That’s what happened.

525 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 7:38:17am

Outside agitators.

526 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:42:30am

Dudebro whine alert:

Libertarians Have Not Been Silent About Ferguson

We’ve totally been talking about this, you guys! It’s not our fault you ignore us!

527 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 7:43:31am

re: #526 Lidane

Dudebro whine alert:

Libertarians Have Not Been Silent About Ferguson

We’ve totally been talking about this, you guys! It’s not our fault you ignore us!

We were talking about Ferguson before it was cool.

528 HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2014 7:46:37am

re: #524 Lidane

Ted Cruz Defends Reporters Arrested In Ferguson

He defends the reporters but he’s still a weasel about Mike Brown’s murder:

Here’s a simple summary, Ted — a cop murdered an unarmed black kid in the street. The cops have been in cover-up mode ever since and have now moved to open suppression of the residents of Ferguson and to arresting reporters. That’s what happened.

Hypocritical asshole was right there with the Bundy thugs actually threatening federal law enforcement and has no problems kissing the ass of the “This time we came unarmed” and he has the nerve to lecture about violence.

529 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:49:09am

re: #508 Pie-onist Overlord

White guy with a gun = 2nd amdt. Patriot.
Black guy with a gun = death-deserving thug.

530 HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2014 7:49:14am

re: #486 bratwurst

Guess who has tied Ferguson to his psychotic hatred of Israel?

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He must be bored.

531 HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2014 7:49:30am

re: #529 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

White guy with a gun = 2nd amdt. Patriot.
Black with a gun = death-deserving thug.

That unfortunately is quite true.

532 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:50:56am

re:
#529

But the NRA was created to help the blahs in the South after Civil War!!!!!!11

533 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 7:52:44am

This guy thinks he’s found the REAL problem.

Black people, get to it with that condemning of a tiny fringe group with no power or influence, cuz this white man demands it! Stop whining about cops pointing guns at you ////

534 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 7:53:05am

No “Liberal Utopia” has ever existed, anywhere.

535 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 7:53:31am

re: #511 Lidane

The right wing in a nutshell:

An assembled group of (heavily armed) white people at Bundy Ranch = resistance against tyranny.

An assembled group of (unarmed) black people in Ferguson = looters & rioters that need killing.

FIFY

536 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 7:53:56am

re: #534 Pie-onist Overlord

No “Liberal Utopia” has ever existed, anywhere.

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They really call themselves BreitTwit without getting it?

537 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 7:54:33am

The details still need to be worked out, but looks like state and local officials are trying to get the county police out of the situation; they’re the ones with the armored vehicles, and the most heavily armed officers (in body armor) who have done the most to disrupt the community.

538 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 7:54:57am

re: #533 Shvaughn

Comments from who, chief of what?

Pathetic.

539 Shvaughn  Aug 14, 2014 7:55:37am

Only people who pay attention to the New Black Panther Party are racist white folks. Black people too busy trying to live their lives without getting shot, don’t listen to a handful of people who happen to also be black.

540 Belafon  Aug 14, 2014 7:56:08am

Seems their may be some relieving about to happen:

Clay: “The gov. just called me and he’s on his way to St. Louis now to announce he’s taking St. Louis County police out of the situation”— Derek Wallbank (@dwallbank) August 14, 2014

(I can’t do twitter from work. This is a copy from someone else.)

541 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 7:56:42am

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like nytimes.com has moved the Ferguson story to the top of the page for the first time. IIRC, they’ve been burying the story either below the fold, or not placing it on the home page at all.

Pretty much the same for philly.com (aka Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, aka home of some of the most virulent racist commenters on the net.)

Your liberal media in action, kids.

542 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 7:56:56am

re: #443 Lidane

Joe Scarborough has an opinion, you guys. He even felt compelled to share:

Scarborough: Reporters Detained In Ferguson Just ‘Want To Get On TV’ (VIDEO)

Wesley Lowery, who was one of the reporters that got arrested, was not amused:

I suspect that Joe would be willing to go down there… if he could put on the armor and help shoot the rubber bullets.
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543 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:57:31am

re:
#534

So the Police State is A-OK now, RWNJ?

544 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 7:58:14am

re: #543 Bulworth

re:
#534

So the Police State is A-OK now, RWNJ?

If they were really honest with themselves, it’s actually exactly what they want… They just want to be the police.

545 Belafon  Aug 14, 2014 7:58:16am

re: #535 aagcobb

Not a fix. The character of these groups is being judged by the color of their skin, not by the size of their guns.

546 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 7:58:38am

re:
#535

Yup

547 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 7:58:49am

St. Louis mayor:

548 Belafon  Aug 14, 2014 7:59:18am

re: #541 Mattand

To be cynical, they’re probably trying to get a jump on the Washington Post, who actually had one of their reporters arrested.

549 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 8:00:23am

re: #543 Bulworth

re:
#534

So the Police State is A-OK now, RWNJ?

As long as they are doing their job of keeping the n-clangs in line, of course.

550 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:00:33am
551 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:01:31am

re: #543 Bulworth

re:
#534

So the Police State is A-OK now, RWNJ?

Breitwit will probably tell you that nazi Germany & the USSR started out as “Liberal Utopia”

552 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:01:42am

Some people just can’t help being racist shitbags:

Steve King: Since Ferguson Rioters Are All Of The Same ‘Continental Origin,’ Racial Profiling Is Not A Concern

553 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 8:01:42am

re: #480 lawhawk

I’m no fan of Al Sharpton, but he’s not the one who’s trotting out up-armed riot police that have more gear at their disposal than many military units from just a few years ago. Sharpton isn’t the one who shot an unarmed black man.

Sharpton isn’t the one intimidating a community with a brazen show of arms.

The ones who need to be held accountable are the Ferguson and county police, both of which appear to be acting extra-judicially in their tactics and methods, which include harassing and arresting reporters while they were inside a McDonalds.

Need to get Gus or another Photoshop artist to put some body armor and weaponry on Officer Big Mac.
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554 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:01:48am

Allegedly, Lugansk has been fully surrounded.

555 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 8:04:17am

re: #545 Belafon

Not a fix. The character of these groups is being judged by the color of their skin, not by the size of their guns.

If the protestors in Ferguson had pointed weapons at the cops like the militia at the Bundy Ranch did, a lot of people would’ve died last night.

556 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:04:57am

re: #548 Belafon

To be cynical, they’re probably trying to get a jump on the Washington Post, who actually had one of their reporters arrested.

That’s not cynical, that’s accurate.

Since I work at home, I’m not really around a lot of people anymore. If my FB feed is any indication, most people in the Philly area don’t know or don’t really care what’s going on. I get the feeling even if they did, they’d zero in right on the looting part; zooming right past that inconvenient ‘Kid murdered in cold blood by a cop’ deal.

557 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:06:35am

re: #543 Bulworth

Ferguson PD is still appropriate for crowd control; it was the county police that turned things into a fiasco with their heavy handed tactics. Yes, the Ferguson PD is under a microscope for their handling of the Brown case to date, but they need to be part of the solution too (and reform of the agency is a must). They need to see what their own actions have wrought.

Hiding behind the county cops that are armored and armed to the teeth isn’t how to change a culture within the departments at the heart of the crisis in Ferguson. They mayor and police chief must be a whole lot more open about what’s going on, and must reveal the name of the officer involved. There’s no good reason to shield the officer from further scrutiny.

And in fact, the events following Brown’s death highlight problems with the county police force as well. It’s an agency that looks to be spoiling for a fight - and to use all the gear given to them over the years through DHS grants in the name of counter-terrorism, but which is now being used to intimidate and silence the black community by a predominantly white police force.

Racism is still alive and well.

558 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 8:06:53am

re: #553 Feline Fearless Leader

Need to get Gus or another Photoshop artist to put some body armor and weaponry on Officer Big Mac.
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Well Ronald is still in the can.. Guess he didn’t get out in time. /j

559 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:07:29am

re: #558 Kilroy01

Well Ronald is still in the can.. Guess he didn’t get out in time. /j
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About time. Have you ever tasted a McRib?

560 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:08:58am

re: #557 lawhawk

Well wrote a little opinion piece on the tactics and gear used by police last night. Anchored of a very extensive piece at the ACLU site. Paged.

I hope it’s good food for thought moving forward.

561 aagcobb  Aug 14, 2014 8:09:51am

re: #557 lawhawk

Ferguson PD is still appropriate for crowd control; it was the county police that turned things into a fiasco with their heavy handed tactics. Yes, the Ferguson PD is under a microscope for their handling of the Brown case to date, but they need to be part of the solution too (and reform of the agency is a must). They need to see what their own actions have wrought.

Hiding behind the county cops that are armored and armed to the teeth isn’t how to change a culture within the departments at the heart of the crisis in Ferguson. They mayor and police chief must be a whole lot more open about what’s going on, and must reveal the name of the officer involved. There’s no good reason to shield the officer from further scrutiny.

And in fact, the events following Brown’s death highlight problems with the county police force as well. It’s an agency that looks to be spoiling for a fight - and to use all the gear given to them over the years through DHS grants in the name of counter-terrorism, but which is now being used to intimidate and silence the black community by a predominantly white police force.

Racism is still alive and well.

I bet a lot of the St.L. County cops have been planning a long time to defend suburban whites from the city’s African-Americans in the coming race war. It certainly looked like they were prepared for war last night.

562 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:11:51am

Erik Rush is off his meds again: Gays Aligned With ISIS

Coming full circle, we note with some irony that those true-believing useful idiots on the left – some of them homosexual themselves – share the same big tent with another political special interest and beneficiary of progressives’ largesse: Muslims, those who would just as readily and just as severely persecute homosexuals, women, children and, of course, non-Muslims in America as they are doing in Iraq.

563 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:15:32am

MEMEs, UR DOIN IT WRONG:

564 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:15:34am

The clown show in Mississippi is rolling on:

McDaniel To File Legal Challenge Of Senate Primary Results Thursday

Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) will file a legal challenge of the U.S. Senate primary results in court on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

He lost the primary to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) by 7,667 votes, but McDaniel claims that there were illegal crossover votes from African-Americans and Democrats.

McDaniel spokesman Noel Fritsch said that the lawsuit will be filed in Jones County, Miss., according to the AP.

The Party of the Sore Loserman meme now has their own sore loser. Awesome.

565 Belafon  Aug 14, 2014 8:15:38am

re: #552 Lidane

Um, aren’t we all of the same “continental origin” whether you believe in evolution or creation.

566 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:15:47am

re: #552 Lidane

Some people just can’t help being racist shitbags:

Steve King: Since Ferguson Rioters Are All Of The Same ‘Continental Origin,’ Racial Profiling Is Not A Concern

Continental Origin!?!?!?

Holy Dog Whistle Batman!

567 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:15:56am
568 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:16:23am

re: #565 Belafon

Um, aren’t we all of the same “continental origin” whether you believe in evolution or creation.

I’m a Pangean American.

569 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 8:16:24am

re:
#557

OK, thanks. So the counties have generally been the ones to get all the new military toys but not the city police so much?

570 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:16:26am

re: #560 Rightwingconspirator

Thanks.

571 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:17:04am

OFFS

572 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:17:07am

re: #566 b.d.

Continental Origin!?!?!?

Holy Dog Whistle Batman!

That’s not a dog whistle. It’s an air raid siren.

573 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:18:10am

re: #562 Lidane

Erik Rush is off his meds again: Gays Aligned With ISIS

Well, if gays are responsible for Hitler, ISIS seems like a plausible version in comparison./

574 HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2014 8:21:14am

re: #562 Lidane

Erik Rush is off his meds again: Gays Aligned With ISIS

Erik, please seek help now.

575 HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2014 8:22:54am

re: #571 Pie-onist Overlord

OFFS

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Is Hoft going to complain next that Brown got blood all over the nice officer’s uniform? I don’t get the point of this. The was shot- s-h-o-t and unarmed. But DimJim never met a story involving a minority that he couldn’t use to blame that person.

576 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:24:17am

I’m sure TCOT will get a Kickstarter going to help out:

KKK raising money for ‘hero’ Ferguson cop who shot ‘Jewish controlled black thug’

“We are setting up a reward/fund for the police officer who shot this thug,” said an email from the Klan group. “He is a hero! We need more white cops who are anti-Zog and willing to put Jewish controlled black thugs in their place. Most cops are cowards and do nothing while 90 percent of interracial crime is black (and non-white) on white.”

577 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 8:24:21am

re: #562 Lidane

Erik Rush is off his meds again: Gays Aligned With ISIS

Because Islamists just love them some gays, just like the Nazis…

578 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 8:24:34am

re:
#571

Another Accuracy In Media Award!!!!!!!1111

579 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 8:25:14am

On other subjects.

I started reading Shirer’s _Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_. Partially due to a Lizard recommending it.

And I just finished Beevor’s _D-Day: The Battle for Normandy_. The latter is a decent one volume coverage from the invasion through the liberation of Paris published in 2009 and thus relatively recent in terms of scholarship. If want more detailed coverage of the various events during that period there are books out there concentrating on subjects such as the individual beaches during the initial landings, the paratroop drops, Operation Fortitude, etc.

And Chat Noir is currently in the cat hospital. Vet was alarmed by some of the numbers from his blood test and thus had him brought in for some additional tests and a night or two on IV fluids. Kidney toxin levels primarily, so tests are to see if there is any permanent damage, or signs of an infection, kidney stones, etc. Initial report is no sign of kidney stones or infection. Nothing life-threatening, but he might end up on a special diet at a fairly early age.

580 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 8:26:58am

No idea what the subject will be.

581 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:27:39am

re: #569 Bulworth

re:
#557

OK, thanks. So the counties have generally been the ones to get all the new military toys but not the city police so much?

In this instance, it was the county police who got the grants from DHS for the armored vehicles that have been prominently featured in various photos of the protests and police in body armor looming over protesters.

I’d have to research further to see how much gear went to local police; since these were grants, agencies that had more resources were able to apply and get funds more easily than smaller departments.

The question isn’t just whether all this gear was necessary, but whether the departments had the rules of engagement and policies in place to use them in appropriate situations. But since they have them, County Police decided to use them, since their only other appearances so far have been in parades (they are garage queens otherwise).

582 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:28:27am

BTW, since Greenwald tweeted his nonsense linking Israel to the Ferguson crisis, others have picked up on this tripe.

583 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:31:27am

Nope. No racism here at all:

584 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:31:28am

re: #571 Pie-onist Overlord

Ummm… pulled in to a police car by an overzealous officer through the driver’s side window (in a department that already has a pretty bad history of race relations and disproportionately stops blacks)? Or purposefully going for the gun? Which makes more sense, given what we know of Brown so far? The former.

How can we know for sure what happened? Do the forensics, interview all witnesses, and investigate fully.

What’s Hoft doing? Making unsupported assertions that are based on a police chief protecting his own and shielding his department from further scrutiny when sunlight is needed.

585 Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2014 8:31:55am

re: #506 Bulworth

re:
#505

Also, along with Sharpton and some Che t-shirt wearing dude from Pioria there might be someone who knows one of the guys who used to be in the New Black Panther Party in Ferguson.

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Bill Ayers drove through Ferguson on his way to his highschool prom.

586 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 8:32:55am

Apparently, it’s Obama’s fault after all… O_o

587 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 8:33:30am

re: #400 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Six million Jews trusted the Nazi propaganda? A new word in WWII history.

The propaganda that blamed them for all the problems in the world, and that they were going to pay for it. Does the poster mean that propaganda, because, regarding the Jews, there was no other.

588 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 8:33:46am
589 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:34:08am

re: #565 Belafon

Um, aren’t we all of the same “continental origin” whether you believe in evolution or creation.

I spontaneously generated from the ooze of the Old Ones in R’lyeh, forged by the screams of the damned as their souls were devoured for sustenance.

And let me tell you something, you would not believe the red tape involved in getting your birth certificate.

590 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:35:09am

re: #583 Lidane

Yeah, all while ignoring that local residents of Ferguson are volunteering to clean up the market, and to fix the damage done.

On the fourth morning after Michael Brown’s death, residents from different parts of the region came together in Ferguson, trying to pick up the pieces.

Some were young, some old. The majority arrived as part of the faithful. Others trickled in after spotting volunteers marching up and down West Florissant under the hot sun. Carrying brooms and large garbage bags, they collected whatever they could find: rubber bullets, broken glass, liquor bottles, tear gas grenades.

“I needed to come out today just to get some stability,” said Gary Park, 34, an auto mechanic who lives near the area in Ferguson where Brown was shot and protests erupted. Close by is the looted and burned QuikTrip that sits as a symbol of the severity of the unrest that has resulted from an unnamed cop fatally shooting an unarmed 18-year-old.

“I wanted some encouragement,” Park said.

Park is a member of Passage Community Church in Florissant, which together with a few other local congregations, organized the Wednesday morning cleanup. Pastor Joe Costephens said that although the trash-collecting effort was a last-minute plan, more than 100 people joined the endeavor.

It was a simple act but not an insignificant one, especially since authorities had reported two shootings only the night before. In fact, the continued violence has put any future volunteer efforts on hold, Costephens said.

591 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 8:35:11am

re: #588 Charles Johnson

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What? an unsubstantiated Internet rumor from an anonymous source?

592 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:35:25am

re: #588 Charles Johnson

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Anonymous was wrong?! Unpossible!

593 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:37:22am

re: #588 Charles Johnson

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We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
We are dangerously and sloppily wrong
Expect us.

594 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:37:27am

re: #587 Skip Intro

The propaganda that blamed them for all the problems in the world, and that they were going to pay for it. Does the poster mean that propaganda, because, regarding the Jews, there was no other.

Objectively, the poster doesn’t even mean anything - the creator simply wanted to mention the Holocaust, for whatever reason. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever…

595 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:37:47am

re: #580 Backwoods_Sleuth

No idea what the subject will be.

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<conservative>
Maybe he finally bestow overdue Medals of Honor on those brave Bundy Ranch patriots.
</conservative>

596 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 8:38:21am

re: #579 Feline Fearless Leader

{{{Chat Noir}}}

597 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:38:39am

re: #580 Backwoods_Sleuth

No idea what the subject will be.

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I hope he gives us an update on that Hillary hug!

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598 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:39:36am

Youtube Video

599 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:40:13am

Good for Gov. Nixon to do this; much of the turmoil in the community is directly linked to how the county police have operated, and Nixon should go further by opening investigations in to how the county police operate; the tactics used in Ferguson highlight significant problems that are likely the tip of a huge iceberg.

The county police are throwing their considerable weight around with gear that they got from DHS grants, and it’s like they want to use it by ratcheting up the fear factor and intimidating a local community already shocked by the death of Michael Brown.

600 TedStriker  Aug 14, 2014 8:41:46am

re: #352 Franklin Brewsevelt

Anon posted the name of the officer in Ferguson that shot #MikeBrown

See @TheAnonMessage for details if you choose.

Nope, ain’t going to do it, because they’ve already been putting out bogus shit (like trying to pass off a picture that was supposedly from Occupy Oakland as a picture of what was going on in Ferguson).

601 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:42:26am
602 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:43:09am

I don’t know who fucked up, Anon or Dim Jim, but 8-14 is Thursday (today)

603 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:44:57am

re: #601 Pie-onist Overlord

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Oh, please, let the Day of Rage’s first act be knocking Gateway Pundit offline. Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease Ohplease!

604 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 8:45:21am

re: #602 Pie-onist Overlord

ANON is calling TODAY the “day of rage” (fuck them). DIM is the one that messed up. As always.

605 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 8:45:24am

re: #416 bratwurst

Mouth breather alert:

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Sort of defines the old “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.” OPEN YOUR EYES, NOLTE.

606 Ryan King  Aug 14, 2014 8:45:57am

re: #495 NJDhockeyfan

I watched/listened to Al Sharpton a few times since he’s arrived in Ferguson.

His clear and concise message about working for and demanding justice without violence and destruction has been spot on. Very righteous and powerful. This is the wishes from the family.

607 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 8:46:02am

Great, now that doxxed guy (who is the WRONG GUY! my surprise, etc.) is all over Teh Internets.

FUCK YOU ANON

608 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:46:08am

re: #602 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t know who fucked up, Anon or Dim Jim, but 8-14 is Thursday (today)

His own damn headline:

ANONYMOUS Calls for National Day of Rage - Nationwide Protests on Thursday 8-14

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 14, 2014, 10:39 AM

What a moran.

609 Kilroy01  Aug 14, 2014 8:46:48am

Found this little nugget on St Louis from 2012.

• The famous Dred Scott case was first filed in St. Louis. The United States Supreme Court eventually rejected Scott’s bid for freedom and declared that African Americans could not claim citizenship in the US.
• Former slave William Wells Brown: “Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.”
• The East St. Louis race riots of 1917, in which “white mobs formed and rampaged through downtown, beating all African Americans who were found. The mobs also stopped trolleys and streetcars, pulling black passengers out and beating them on the streets and sidewalks.”
• This story from CharlieL: “I was just shopping when two teenage male African Americans walked behind me and one said to the other ‘I hate chinks.’”
• The Manhattan Institute has deemed St. Louis one of the most segregated cities in America.

Police Brutality? Yes.
gawker.com

610 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 8:47:17am

Day of rage! Storm your local Ecuadorian Embassy!

611 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 8:48:09am

Ferguson Mayor Defends Police Dept.: ‘Can’t Second Guess These Officers’

Yeah, actually you CAN second guess them, especially when they’re treating Ferguson like a goddamn war zone.

612 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 8:48:22am

re:
#579

And Chat Noir is currently in the cat hospital.

Oh no!! Glad to hear may only need a special diet. Supplemented by cat treats.

613 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 8:50:29am

re:
#611

“You can’t question second-guess the authorities officers.”

614 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Aug 14, 2014 8:50:44am

Police in Ferguson Assaulting unarmed protesters. This isn’t “crowd control” or “disbursement” this is assault, full stop.

Youtube Video

615 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:51:10am

re: #611 Lidane

Ferguson Mayor Defends Police Dept.: ‘Can’t Second Guess These Officers’

Yeah, actually you CAN second guess them, especially when they’re treating Ferguson like a goddamn war zone.

When a cop murders a kid and the department calls in military-grade hardware to cover it up, the least you can do is question it.

Hopefully Mayor Knowles gets his ass handed to him if runs for re-election.

616 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 8:51:12am

re: #613 Bulworth

re:
#611

“You can’t question second-guess the authorities officers.”

RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!

/God, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to use that meme

617 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 8:51:29am

Likely posted last night, but….

618 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 8:51:33am

re:
#607

Heckuva job, Anonymous!

/

619 TedStriker  Aug 14, 2014 8:52:12am

re: #471 darthstar

And what if Anon is wrong?

I guarantee they’re wrong.

620 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 8:54:08am

And for your unintentional funny of the day:

621 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 8:54:59am

re: #466 Charles Johnson

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So the Ferguson police chief goes on Fox, the mayor to Newsmax—now all we need is a Stormfront interview and we have a hat trick.

622 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 8:55:08am

The anti-cop contingent at Free Republic not only exists, it is quite militant (as freepers usually are about any and everything).

Here, freeper Southack (a devoted prepper) not only advocates violence but suggests some, er, fairly unusual weapons.

freerepublic.com

623 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:55:29am

re: #619 TedStriker

I guarantee they’re wrong.

Already proved that they’re wrong. I haven’t seen anything useful from the Anon lately.

624 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:56:59am
626 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:58:01am

re: #611 Lidane

Sounds more and more like Cartman every day…

Youtube Video

627 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 8:59:01am

re: #622 Shiplord Kirel

Caltrops… learned a new word.

628 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 8:59:23am
629 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 8:59:24am

A long running script is completely buggering my lgf use today. This appears to be the culprit: ajax.googleapis.com

It freezes while loading and won’t post most graphics, especially including the menu above the posting dialog box.

Stopping this damned thing will let the page load but the graphics are still fubar.

630 Ryan King  Aug 14, 2014 8:59:42am

Yesterday was a plethora of right wing radio downplaying Ferguson and false equivalences such as ‘a white kid got shot by police here, why no media?’

Another common narrative is ‘this is all the media’s fault, it’s not the big a deal just the media getting us worked up over nothing.’

I was driving or I literally would have thrown a desk.

Many white people, especially conservatives, are exceptionally ignorant and downright heartless to this crap. That’s why it continues.

631 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 8:59:49am

re: #622 Shiplord Kirel

The anti-cop contingent at Free Republic not only exists, it is quite militant (as freepers usually are about any and everything).

Here, freeper Southack (a devoted prepper) not only advocates violence but suggests some, er, fairly unusual weapons.

freerepublic.com

He forgot this one: Youtube Video

632 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:00:32am

re: #625 Ryan King

Dafuk?

Mall cop ignores racist harassing Seattle protesters and pepper sprays black bystander instead

Bad craziness.

“When in doubt, always spray the black guy. Worst case - still no consequences for you.”

633 nsmith25  Aug 14, 2014 9:03:19am
634 BeachDem  Aug 14, 2014 9:04:18am

re: #506 Bulworth

re:
#505

Also, along with Sharpton and some Che t-shirt wearing dude from Pioria there might be someone who knows one of the guys who used to be in the New Black Panther Party in Ferguson.

///

Couldn’t sleep and while flipping channels, saw the rerun of the Fox Tea Party Panel discussion. Opened with the bubble-headed-bleached-blond furrowing her brow, shaking her head and saying that the FBI is really “concerned” about the New Black Panther presence. I lasted about 15 seconds.

636 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 9:06:07am

re: #579 Feline Fearless Leader

Another very good book by William Shirer is The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 published by Simon and Schuster, 1969.

Worth reading.

637 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 9:07:05am
638 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 9:07:10am

Since it’s going to be another long day and night in the news, here’s another funny diversion:

639 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:08:21am

re: #638 Franklin Brewsevelt

wtflolstupid

640 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 9:09:27am

re: #637 Backwoods_Sleuth

That account isn’t suspended.

641 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:10:41am

re: #640 Charles Johnson

That account isn’t suspended.

Hmm, where I am, it is…

642 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 9:10:46am

re: #630 Ryan King

Yesterday was a plethora of right wing radio downplaying Ferguson and false equivalences such as ‘a white kid got shot by police here, why no media?’

Any one is this is all the media’s fault, it’s not the big a deal just the media getting us worked up.

I was driving or I literally would have thrown a desk.

Many white people, especially conservatives, are exceptionally ignorant and downright heartless to this crap. That’s why it continues.

Keep in mind that these people see everything, and I do mean everything in zero sum culture war terms. Civil rights for non whites means their own rights are being abridged. Giving anything at all to the polictical opposition, no matter how anodyne, means they are surrendering.

This is a world view as absolutist, sterile and inimicable to our polity as anything you can find in a Wahabist madrassa.

643 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 9:10:55am

re: #636 Dr Lizardo

Another very good book by William Shirer is The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 from 1969.

Worth reading.

Two more from Shirer: The Nightmare Years1930-1940 from a reporter who saw it all happen first hand, and Berlin Diary, a first hand, as it was happening, account.

644 Danny  Aug 14, 2014 9:11:18am

re: #640 Charles Johnson

That account isn’t suspended.

I’m getting the suspended message.

645 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 9:11:24am

No racism here, HURR HURR WE’RE JUST CRITICIZING TEH PRESIDENT’S POLICIES!!!!

646 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 9:11:35am

re: #641 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Hmm. where I am, it is…

It is for me, too.

647 Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2014 9:12:03am

re: #643 Skip Intro

Two more from Shirer: The Nightmare Years1930-1940 from a reporter who saw it all happen first hand, and Berlin Diary, a first hand, as it was happening, account.

Both are excellent as well.

648 Franklin  Aug 14, 2014 9:13:05am

Weird, I can get to it, but his backup account is tweeting as if the main was suspended:

649 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 9:13:11am

re: #642 Aunty Entity Dragon

Keep in mind that these people see everything, and I do mean everything in zero sum culture war terms. Civil rights for non whites means their own rights are being abridged. Giving anything at all to the polictical opposition, no matter how anodyne, means they are surrendering.

This is a world view as absolutist, sterile and inimicable to our polity as anything you can find in a Wahabist madrassa.

The only thing that is not “Zero Sum” to them is giving tax cuts & more money to the very rich.

650 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2014 9:13:40am

re: #640 Charles Johnson

That account isn’t suspended.

I checked before I posted the tweet. It’s suspended as far as I can see.

651 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 9:13:44am
652 Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2014 9:14:01am

Not here. It comes right up. Maybe it was briefly suspended, then reinstated.

I notice that article at The Wire doesn’t say anything about it being suspended.

653 Mattand  Aug 14, 2014 9:15:52am

re: #648 Franklin Brewsevelt

Weird, I can get to it, but his backup account is tweeting as if the main was suspended:

[Embedded content]

Well, given the very low bar of Twitter’s harassment policies, it’s kind of like boasting that the crack in the sidewalk won’t keep you from walking.

654 Danny  Aug 14, 2014 9:16:18am

re: #652 Charles Johnson

I had clicked the link a few hours ago and got “page not found”. Now it gives me the account suspended message.

655 Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2014 9:17:15am

Here’s what I’m wondering. You remove the county police from the situation to defuse it….what’s to stop them from returning and starting shit up again later?

656 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:17:51am

re: #652 Charles Johnson

Not here. It comes right up. Maybe it was briefly suspended, then reinstated.

I notice that article at The Wire doesn’t say anything about it being suspended.

Still suspended and redirects to twitter.com

657 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:18:51am

huffingtonpost.com

The St. Louis County Police Department will no longer be involved in the policing Ferguson, Missouri, the suburban community rocked by protests after the death of an unarmed black teenager who was shot by a police officer last week.

Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), who represents Ferguson, told Bloomberg on Thursday that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) is expected to announce the decision later today.

“The gov. just called me and he’s on his way to St. Louis now to announce he’s taking St. Louis County police out of the situation,” he said.

658 lawhawk  Aug 14, 2014 9:21:53am

That’s a local reporter getting intimidated by police running amok last night.

This is what the county police, Ferguson PD, and law enforcement in Ferguson have been up to in the days since a Ferguson officer shot and killed Michael Brown. This intimidation of journalists is an outrage and deserves its own special investigation on its own right. Those involved must be accountable for their actions as well.

659 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 9:22:21am

I believe, with no evidence whatsoever, that what we’re seeing is the direct consequence of the Feds non-action in the battle of Bundy Ranch. A total Fed surrender at the time, with no further action against the terrorists, and now a full blown police riot under the control of a RWNJ mayor and police chief, again with no Federal action.

Keep letting these assholes get away with this, and there will be another civil war in this country. Half the country is just lusting for it.

660 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 9:22:23am

And here we have opinion from the neo facist contingent at ABC.com:

WorkingMan > Th3Acadia • an hour ago
A few things:

1) That ‘boy’ looks like at least 200 lbs and I have seen pictures of him throwing up gang signs. Hardly the image of an innocent cherub on his way to Sunday Bible class.

2) The facts aren’t out. The investigation (local, state AND federal) is ongoing. No one knows for sure what happened. On one hand you have friends (bias?) and likely criminals painting this as how you say it went down, and on the other side, you have cops saying the opposite.

3) The thugs ARE rioting and attacking innocent bystanders. They are looting innocent businesses in the area. They are shooting at helicopters (cop and news). They are throwing molotov cocktails at the riot cops. They are standing on the hoods and roofs of cars and destroying public property. The Clive Bundy people did none of these things.

4) These scum did the same thing in NOLA (where I’m from)…they shot at National Guard helis at the Superdome. This incident is believable because of the facts on the ground and because of past behavior.

Sorry if you have an axe to grind about the cops, I don’t like them much either—I think they protect criminals too much—but at the very least the facts aren’t out yet, and until they are, these buffoons are acting like just that…buffoons. Violent, dangerous buffoons.

661 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 9:24:14am

So “The Intercept” hired three intrepid new reporters with Pierre’s money. Think they will be able to put out an article every day now?

662 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:25:10am
663 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 9:25:13am

re: #659 Skip Intro

I believe, with no evidence whatsoever, that what we’re seeing is the direct consequence of the Feds non-action in the battle of Bundy Ranch. A total Fed surrender at the time, with no further action against the terrorists, and now a full blown police riot under the control of of a RWNJ mayor and police chief, again with no Federal action.

Keep letting these assholes get away with this, and there will be another civil war in this country. Half the country is just lusting for it.

Could be something to it. Just a few years ago, police departments were very conscious of bringing the feds down on their heads if they tried stuff like this. Now they openly thumb their arrogant noses at the Constitution, with no apparent fear of federal action.

664 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 9:25:20am

TPM has the lawsuit documents here.

665 b.d.  Aug 14, 2014 9:27:06am

re: #661 Pie-onist Overlord

So “The Intercept” hired three intrepid new reporters with Pierre’s money. Think they will be able to put out an article every day now?

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Welcome to The Intercept, where you will become one of the finest non-writers of the day

666 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 14, 2014 9:27:11am

Stan, Stan.

667 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 9:27:17am

re: #659 Skip Intro

I believe, with no evidence whatsoever, that what we’re seeing is the direct consequence of the Feds non-action in the battle of Bundy Ranch. A total Fed surrender at the time, with no further action against the terrorists, and now a full blown police riot under the control of of a RWNJ mayor and police chief, again with no Federal action.

Keep letting these assholes get away with this, and there will be another civil war in this country. Half the country is just lusting for it.

In a way, Obama is not the President to deal with it. Remember how that half of the country went apeshit when he made a minor criticism of a shitty Boston cop who arrested a Harvard black prof in his own home for being annoyed at police investigating his entering his house?

BTW, the cop who did that got a standing ovation at a LE national event later that year.

Anything the POTUS does to remedy this in a tangible fashion will almost certainly backfire, and he knows it. His own skin color works against him …even in the Oval Office.

668 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 9:27:54am

OT: Anyone ever worked someplace where they got the impression that no one knew what they were doing?

669 Ryan King  Aug 14, 2014 9:28:44am

Ferguson PD is a cesspool. Their comments from the top and bottom just reek of privilege and racism.

670 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 14, 2014 9:29:27am

re: #668 Timothy Watson

OT: Anyone ever worked someplace where they got the impression that no one knew what they were doing?

Vietnam

671 Timothy Watson  Aug 14, 2014 9:30:27am

re: #670 Shiplord Kirel

Vietnam

Touche.

672 thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2014 9:30:48am

re: #670 Shiplord Kirel

Vietnam

…Well played.

673 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 14, 2014 9:31:34am
674 Jenner7  Aug 14, 2014 9:32:23am

The Mayor was on CNN and his demeanor was “eh, whadd’ya gonna do?” It’s clear they don’t give a damn about Mike Brown OR the citizens of Ferguson.

675 gwangung  Aug 14, 2014 9:33:05am

re: #659 Skip Intro

I believe, with no evidence whatsoever, that what we’re seeing is the direct consequence of the Feds non-action in the battle of Bundy Ranch. A total Fed surrender at the time, with no further action against the terrorists, and now a full blown police riot under the control of a RWNJ mayor and police chief, again with no Federal action.

Keep letting these assholes get away with this, and there will be another civil war in this country. Half the country is just lusting for it.

I don’t agree at all.

This is the result of long standing police policy. And it’ a RACIST policy, that has fed a “us vs. them” mentality that has spiraled outward.

You don’t get this level of fucking up in just a handful of months.

676 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 14, 2014 9:34:31am

re: #675 gwangung

I don’t agree at all.

This is the result of long standing police policy. And it’ a RACIST policy, that has fed a “us vs. them” mentality that has spiraled outward.

You don’t get this level of fucking up in just a handful of months.

True.

677 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 9:36:26am

re: #661 Pie-onist Overlord

678 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 9:37:40am

re: #664 Lidane

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TPM has the lawsuit documents here.

I wouldn’t be surprised if St Louis County/Ferguson had no records of any of this.

679 Bulworth  Aug 14, 2014 9:39:18am

re:
#673

hurr hurr hundreds of businesses all week long!!!!!111

680 Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2014 9:39:35am

re: #583 Lidane

Nope. No racism here at all:

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And Bundy ranch looked like a KKK rally.

681 Lidane  Aug 14, 2014 9:41:31am

I’m so tempted to Godwin this, but I’ll let Mat Staver speak for himself:

Mat Staver: Refusing To Oppose Gay Marriage Like Keeping Silent About The Holocaust

Mat Staver, the head of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law, criticized Republican politicians who have been largely mum as a string of federal court rulings have knocked down bans same-sex marriage, including one affecting Liberty University’s home state of Virginia.

He likened such politicians, and those who support marriage equality, to those who were silent in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Staver told Radio America host Greg Corombos yesterday that officials who don’t speak out against marriage equality will be harshly judged.

682 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 9:42:22am

re: #680 Eventual Carrion

And Bundy ranch looked like a KKK rally.

Well, after Bundy even drove away Sean Hannity with his comments, we found out that it was.

683 Eventual Carrion  Aug 14, 2014 9:44:06am

re: #611 Lidane

Ferguson Mayor Defends Police Dept.: ‘Can’t Second Guess These Officers’

Yeah, actually you CAN second guess them, especially when they’re treating Ferguson like a goddamn war zone.

Checks and balances of power, how does that work? Or is Ferguson a fiefdom or kingship or something?

684 Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2014 9:44:18am

Congressman John Lewis just called for POTUS to declare martial law in Ferguson and bring in the National Guard.

685 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 9:46:08am

Archived live feed of the protestors… apparently that night of Brown’s murder.

gawker.com

686 Danny  Aug 14, 2014 9:52:24am

re: #685 GlutenFreeJesus

That was last night.

687 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 14, 2014 9:54:56am

re: #686 Danny

My bad. You’re correct. Thank you!

688 SteveMcGazi  Aug 14, 2014 10:00:23am

re: #643 Skip Intro

Two more from Shirer: The Nightmare Years1930-1940 from a reporter who saw it all happen first hand, and Berlin Diary, a first hand, as it was happening, account.

The History Channel (when it’s in the mood to actually show history programs) has a 2 part series “Third Reich - The Rise” and The Fall. They are really compelling.

689 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 14, 2014 10:01:28am

re: #655 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s what I’m wondering. You remove the county police from the situation to defuse it….what’s to stop them from returning and starting shit up again later?

In an ideal world, there will be inquiries and investigations into their practices. In real life, though , it will be just as you asked.

690 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 14, 2014 10:29:39am

re: #630 Ryan King

Yesterday was a plethora of right wing radio downplaying Ferguson and false equivalences such as ‘a white kid got shot by police here, why no media?’

Another common narrative is ‘this is all the media’s fault, it’s not the big a deal just the media getting us worked up over nothing.’

I was driving or I literally would have thrown a desk.

Many white people, especially conservatives, are exceptionally ignorant and downright heartless to this crap. That’s why it continues.

Maybe you should become a secret agent and then *drive* a desk in order to simplify things. And be able to throw a desk while driving as well.

Doing paperwork during the morning commute


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