On
Your Mark. Get Set....
 Over
the past several election cycles the Republican
Party has relied on various emotional memes
to drive the conservative electorate to
the voting booths. Subjects like gun control,
wars for "freedom", gay marriage,
death panels and,
of course,
good old racism have served the GOP well
over the past decade, at least on the state
level. Unfortunately, these scare tactics
are
starting to wear
thin on the simple minds of Republican
voters. After all, Obama hasn't taken anyone's
guns
away,
bin Laden's in a watery grave, gays are
getting married all over the place, and
the ACA is slowly gaining acceptance. So
what's left in the Republican Boogie-Man
Bag?
How
about a race war? Right before the elections.
My, how... convenient.
Am I suggesting that the GOP has a guiding
hand in the events in Ferguson, Missouri? Let
me put it this way.... the completely inept
handling of almost every aspect of the
murder of Michael Brown is for someone's
benefit, and it ain't the ACLU.
Unsurprisingly, Fox
News,
the
official mouthpiece
of the
GOP
(Or
is it the
other way
round?) has
gleefully lent support at every opportunity
to the heavy-handed police response to
citizen
unrest. (And why is CNN running fake
news stories about fake protests?)
This may sound strange but the events in
Ferguson remind me a bit of the U. S. invasion
of Iraq, especially if you consider that
our purpose
there was not to install democracy but
to ensure the type of failed state that
destabilized the entire region. (Peace
is not profitable, remember?) After the
U.S. invasion the populace of Iraq hunkered
down
and
hoped for
the best. That's when Blackwater's finest
began cruising the city in armored Humvee's
shooting up the place, culminating in the
horrific murder of four American
contractors in Fallujah and, ultimately,
creating support for
foreign terrorist operations.
The Ferguson PD seemingly did everything
they could to similarly incite the African-American
populace
to violence, and there's even proof that
agents
provocateur were at work (Just like
in the Occupy protests) but there have,
thankfully, been no further deaths. But
the damage has been done and a picture
now exists in the minds of the average
American, at least through November, that
the blacks are running wild in Missouri
and the only thing that can save us
is a militarized police force and a Koch
brothers toady in the state house.
=Lefty=
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