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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsan announcement at night (i.e. ferguson)
Even airheads like Andrea Mitchell question why this was made at night. Why not during the day, when sunlight and work during the day would have discouraged riots.
It could not have anything to do with the fact the prosecutor got to interrupt prime time TV,as if he were the president.
It had nothing to do with the fact it allowed the prosecutor to get a good night's sleep after whisking himself off the podium and scurrying off to wherever,nor the fact it gave the Ferguson PD a whole night for whatever lawyers,experts, and other professional liars to do damage control.
It had nothing to do with the fact that a riot would look good for Ferguson's cops, as if to say "see, you know those peopleriot, and we alone protect you form those animals!"
It had nothing to do with the fact that it would make it harder for the churches and others to organize efforts to contain the riots.
It had nothing to do with the fact that it made fires show up so nice for cameras, especially that one BBQ that they keptf ocusing on, as if to say "see, they burn their own businesses down, they are too stupid to be trsuted.:
No, this has nothing to do with the fact that Riots, and the ability to focus on riots, were needed by the powers that be to both hide their screw up, and corral all the suburbanites into little tunnels of fear so that they shut up and vote people back into office.
and it most certainly had nothing to do with the fact that just asriots are done at night, so are other things peoplewant to keep hidden, like the sheer incomptence of the prosecutor who even hard core prosecutors state at the very least did things different, not frumalting and presenting a theory of guilt to a grande jury like every other Prosecutor does, but instead want to make this a "truth finding process". When will this become the new standard, hint, not when a young black person is beeing prosecuted.
The fires do burn in the night ferguson, but the match was a crime that was done in the courtroom, by people who, unlike Rioters, can use the law to make sure they are never held to account.
Side note. To all the people who leap on here and defend Wilson, just like you did Zimmerman, just like you willthe next time some angry dude with the right skin tone shoots some kid with the wrong skin tone, I say this: before the middle of this centiry, thetime when you and your kind can hide behind your skin color and prvileges thereof will be over. Even if you banned immigration tomorrow, the very money that is the base of that power is being given away to elites around the world. Even the PBR you are sucking down now is owned by China. When the foriegner comes to treat you like you treated them, do NOT expect tohide behind us, because those of us with the different skin tones know you never meant for US to share in what you thought this country was.
VScott
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(14,449 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Did you notice they cut in for this low level public servant - into primetime . . .
But we had to go find the Commander in Chief's immigration statement?
So the lower pn the food chain white guy . . .
Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)To make cracking down on the large, peaceful protests coming more justified.