Comments: Let's suspend reality for a couple of minutes.
A few days ago that gov came galloping in preaching make love, not war, and sent a professional hugger from the MSHP to make lovers out of the rioters. A couple of days later and he's calling out the national guard, with the tanks and APCs probably on the roll. At the rate he's going, he might become a Republican before this is over.
Posted by BillH at August 18, 2014 10:18 AM
Best thing to do is pull out, tell them you solve this, you kill the looters, the violent protesters OR join them and burn down the f$%king town. Drive out what businesses that are there and then let see what you have left. Then you better find your own money to rebuild.
Only when individuals become responsible for what goes on around them will this crap stop.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at August 18, 2014 10:57 AM
Leftism has always depended upon the knee-jerk guilt-mechanism of the attacked population; its every rhetorical trope is aimed at the soft psychological gut.
Think about it: there would never have been "feminism" without the legions of junior-league Alan Aldas teaching their wives how to drive the truck in the '70s. There would never have been oceans of whining entitled black folks without generations of middle-class suburbanites buying into that whole pimp-rap about RAAAAAAYCISUM!!!
White people gonna have to learn to stop passively hearing and start actively listening. It's surprisingly easy once you start to hear the tune instead of the words.
Posted by Rob De Witt at August 18, 2014 1:24 PM
Has anyone noticed that many of the signs in these protests are printed with "Answer Coalition" across the bottom?
Posted by Uncle Jefe at August 18, 2014 3:42 PM
Ferguson is fast-tracking to be another Detroit.
We can help by isolating them and pulling the infrastructure down. No commercial traffic, no utilities, turn off the water.
Someone said these are mostly provided by White folks so if them Panthers want to consider White people as enemies, let's show them what enemies do.
I have a hunch we will see more of this as things get worse. Setting the stage for Martial Law sure as you're sittin' there and Holder will be weighing in on DCs side.
Posted by chasmatic at August 19, 2014 12:54 AM