Posted on 08/20/2014 2:30:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Those of us who admit that we were not there, and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, seem to be in the minority.
We all know what has happened since then — and it has been a complete disgrace by politicians, the media and mobs of rioters and looters. Despite all the people who act as if they know exactly what happened, nevertheless when the full facts come out, that can change everything.
This is why we have courts of law, instead of relying on the media or mobs. But politics is undermining law.
On the eve of a grand jury being convened to go through the facts and decide whether there should be a prosecution of the policeman in this case, Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri has gone on television to say that there should be a "vigorous prosecution."
There was a time when elected officials avoided commenting on pending legal processes, so as not to bias those processes. But Governor Nixon apparently has no fear of poisoning the jury pool.
The only alternative explanation is that this is exactly what he intends to do. It is a disgrace either way.
Race is the wild card in all this. The idea that you can tell who is innocent and who is guilty by the color of their skin is a notion that was tried out for generations, back in the days of the Jim Crow South. I thought we had finally rejected that kind of legalized lynch law. But apparently it has only been put under new management.
Television people who show the home of the policeman involved, and give his name and address — knowing that he has already received death threats — are truly setting new low...
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I agree. In all these incidents, people decide they already know what happened, without even knowing what happened.
Scripts are a dime a dozen in news rooms these days, I reckun
If it doesn’t match the agenda, it don’t print.
You nailed it, and then there’s people who question why the ones involved didn’t do this or that, like they know exactly what they’d do. Ridiculous.
A too-rare voice of reason.
Profound statement. We are witnessing a modern day version of a lynch mob.
I think that anyone who had sustained an injury from an assailant who appeared to be coming back to finish the job, would be strongly inclined to do whatever they had to do to keep the advancing threat from reaching them. He might beat you to death, or he might get ahold of your service weapon and at that point, you’re in very serious trouble. I would have dropped him before he got within 20 feet of me.
“I would have dropped him before he got within 20 feet of me.”
Maybe the cop’s injuries hampered his ability to drop him.
And they call talk shows stating the “facts”. All they prove is that they are retarded.
This is the Bread And Circus of Rome: government subsidized media entertaining idle government fed and housed subjects.
good point, especially with one of his eyes injured badly.
I suppose that even Dr. Sowell failed to learn that CNN, in the role of advocacy, announced on the air that they had sent out teams to investigate everything about the accused policeman; previous jobs, education, possible previous instances of abuse, by questioning his family, his neighbors, his friends.
Any dirt would do.
No mention was made about investigating the life and times of the "unarmed teenager."
That suggests a new motto for the NYT (or the MSM in general):
All the news that fits the agenda.
“No mention was made about investigating the life and times of the “unarmed teenager.””
No need. Ben Crump will make up a good story for them.
No one's a permanent victim... or oppressor. Groups switch roles depending on power dynamics... much more important than skin color, accent or place of birth. In the Jim Crow South whites were thugs... in Ferguson, it's mixed...Holder's a black thug. Nixon's a white thug...
Well stated, thuggery knows no skin color.
"Among the other unthinking phrases repeated endlessly is "he shot an unarmed man." When does anyone know that someone is unarmed? Unless you frisk him, you don't know "
Dr Sowell you are the prince among scholars
I watched some of the young black kids cleaning up the mess left by looters and it was such a perfect reminder that good people come in all colors...
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