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Inside U.S.A.: Ferguson: No Justice in the American Police State
Posted on Saturday, August 23 @ 00:33:58 UTC
Topic: USA
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By Paul Craig Roberts
August 23, 2014
- There are reports that American police kill 500 or
more Americans every year. Few of these murdered
Americans posed a threat to police.
https://www.dojmedia.com/u-s-police-have-killed-over-5000-civilians-since-911/
Police murder Americans for totally implausible
reasons. For example, a few days before Michael
Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, John Crawford
picked up a toy gun from a WalMart shelf in the toy
department and was shot and killed on the spot by
police goons.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/family-man-killed-cops-walmart-demands-surveillance-video
It appears
that the murder of Michael Brown did not satisfy the
blood lust of the goon thug cop murderers. Less than
four miles from Ferguson, goon thugs murdered
another black man on August 19. The police claims of
“threat” are disproved by the video of the murder.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/kajieme-powell-shooting_n_5696546.html
You can see the entire scene much better here. This
is a clear case of outright murder of a man by our
Nazi Gestapo police.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cell-phone-video-emerges-refutes-st-louis-cops-version-shooting/
The police then handcuff their dead victim.
Clearly,
the American police are an enormous danger to the
public. It will be interesting to see what excuses
the police shills will come up with to justify this
murder. It is not American civilians with carry
permits who murder 500 people a year. It is the goon
thug police. Gun control should be applied to the
police who lack sufficient intelligence and judgment
to go around armed.
Five
hundred is more than one killing by police per day.
Yet the reports of the shootings seldom get beyond
the local news. Why then has the Ferguson, Missouri,
police killing of Michael Brown gone international?
Probably
the answer is the large multi-day protests of the
black community in Ferguson that led to the state
police being sent to Ferguson and now the National
Guard. Also, domestic police in full military combat
gear with armored personnel carriers and tanks
pointing numerous rifles in the faces of unarmed
civilians and arresting and threatening journalists
make good video copy. The “land of the free” looks
like a Gestapo Nazi state. To much of the world,
which has grown to hate American bullying, the
bullying of Americans by their own police is poetic
justice.
For those
who have long protested racial profiling and police
brutality toward racial minorities, the police
murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson is just another
in a history of racists murders.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/20/racial-repression-and-the-murder-of-mike-brown/print
Rob Urie is correct that blacks receive
disproportionate punishment from the white criminal
justice (sic) system. See, for example:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/william-norman-grigg/mother-faces-11-years-in-prison/
Myself, former US Representative Dennis Kucinich,
and others see Michael Brown’s murder as reflective
of the militarization of the police and police
training that creates a hostile police attitude
toward the public. The police are taught to view the
public as threats against whom the use of violence
is the safest course for the police officers.
This
doesn’t mean that racism is not also involved. Polls
show that a majority of white Americans are content
with the police justification for the killing.
Police apologists are flooding the Internet with
arguments against those of the opposite persuasion.
Only those who regard the police excuse as
unconvincing are accused of jumping to conclusions
before the jury’s verdict is in. Those who jump to
conclusions favorable to the police are regarded as
proper Americans.
What I
address in this article is non-evidential
considerations that determine a jury’s verdict and
the incompetence of Ferguson’s government that
caused the riots and looting.
Unless the
US Department of Justice makes Michael Brown’s
killing a federal case, the black community in
Ferguson is powerless to prevent a cover-up.
What
usually happens in these cases is that the police
concoct a story protective of the police officer(s)
and the prosecutor does not bring an indictment. As
Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, are
partially black (in skin color alone), the black
majority community in Ferguson, Missouri, might have
hopes from Holder’s visit. However, nothing could be
more clear than the fact that Obama and Holder,
along with the rest of “black leadership,” have been
co-opted by the white power structure. How else
would Obama and Holder be in office? Do you think
that the white power structure puts in office people
who want justice for minorities or for anyone other
than the mega-rich?
The 1960s
were a time of black leadership, but that leadership
was assassinated (Martin Luther King) or co-opted.
Black leaders sold out for prestige appointments and
corporate board memberships. Today black leadership
is marginalized and exists only at local levels if
at all.
If the cop
who killed Brown is indicted and he is tried in
Ferguson, the jury will contain whites who live in
Ferguson. Unless there is a huge change in white
sentiment about the killing, no white juror can vote
to convict the white cop and continue to live in
Ferguson. The hostility of the white community
toward white jurors who took the side of a “black
hoodlum who stole cigars” against the white police
officer would make life for the jurors impossible in
Ferguson.
The trouble
with purely racial explanations of police using
excessive force is that cops don’t limit their
excesses to racial minorities. White people suffer
them also. Remember the recent case of Cecily
McMillan, an Occupy protester who was brutalized by
a white goon thug with a record of using excessive
force. McMillan is a young white woman. Her breasts
were seized from behind, and when she swung around
her elbow reflexively and instinctively came up and
hit the goon thug. She was arrested for assaulting a
police officer and sentenced by a jury to a term in
jail. The prosecutor and judge made certain that no
evidence could be presented in her defense. Medical
evidence of the bruises on her breast and the police
officer’s record of police brutality were not
allowed as evidence in her show trial, the purpose
of which was to intimidate Occupy protesters.
In America
white jurors are usually sheep who do whatever the
prosecutor wants. As Cecily McMillan, a white woman,
could not get justice, it is even less likely that
the black family of Michael Brown will. Those who
are awaiting a jury’s verdict to decide Michael
Brown’s case are awaiting a cover-up and the
complicity of the US criminal justice (sic) system
in murder.
If there is
a federal indictment of the police officer, and the
trial is held in a distant jurisdiction, there is a
better chance that a jury would consider the facts.
But even these precautions would not eliminate the
racist element in white jurors’ decisions.
The
situation in Ferguson was so badly handled it almost
seems like the police state, in responding to the
shooting, intended to provoke violence so that the
American public could become accustomed to military
force being applied to unarmed civilian protests.
Ferguson
brings to mind the Boston Marathon Bombing. Two
brothers of foreign extraction allegedly set off a
“pressure cooker bomb” left in a backback that
killed and injured race participants or observers.
The two brothers were deemed, without any evidence,
to be so dangerous that the entirety of Boston and
its suburbs were “locked down” while 10,000 heavily
armed police and military patrolled the streets in
military vehicles conducting door-to-door searches
forcing residents from their homes at gun point,
while the police ransacked homes where it was
totally obvious the brothers were not hiding. Not a
single family evicted from their residences at
gunpoint said: “Thank God you are here. The bombers
are hiding in our home.”
The
excessive display of force and warrantless police
home intrusions is the reason that aware and
thoughtful Americans do not believe one word of the
official account of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Thoughtful people wonder why every American does not
see the bombing as an orchestrated state act of
terror in order to accustom Americans to the
lock-down of a city and police intrusion into their
homes. Logistically, it is impossible to assemble
10,000 armed troops so quickly. The obvious
indication is that the readiness of the troops
indicates pre-planning.
In Ferguson
all that was needed to prevent mass protests and
looting was for the police chief, mayor or governor
to immediately announce that there would be a full
investigation by a civic committee independent of
the police and that the black community should
select the members it wished to serve on the
investigative committee.
Instead,
the name of the cop who killed Michael Brown was
withheld for days, a video allegedly of Michael
Brown taking cigars from a store was released as a
justification for his murder by police. These
responses and a variety of other stupid police and
government responses convinced the black community,
which already knew in its bones, that there would be
a coverup.
It is
entirely possible that the police chief, mayor, and
governor lacked the intelligence and judgment to
deal with the occasion. In other words, perhaps they
are too stupid to be in public office. The
incapacity of the American public to elect qualified
representatives is world-renown. But it is also
possible that Michael Brown’s killing provided
another opportunity to accustom Americans to the
need for military violence to be deployed against
the civilian population in order to protect us from
threats.
Occupy Wall
Street was white, and these whites were overwhelmed
by police violence.
This is why I conclude that more is involved in
Ferguson than white racist attitudes toward blacks.
The
founding fathers warned against allowing US military
forces to be deployed against the American people,
and the Posse Comitatus Act prevents the use of
military forces against civilians. These
restrictions designed to protect liberty have been
subverted by the George W. Bush and Obama regimes.
Today
Americans have no more protection against state
violence than Germans had under National Socialism.
Far from
being a “light unto the world,” America is
descending into cold hard tyranny.
Who will
liberate us?
This
from BloombergBusinessweek:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-21/ferguson-economic-political-conditions-fuel-protest-fury?campaign_id=DN082114
How
Tyranny Arises
By Paul
Craig Roberts
Law & Order
Conservatives continue to shill for police as goon
thugs continue to violate constitutional protections
and abuse the public:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/henderson-family-sues-police-breaking-their-homes
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/think-third-amendment-irrelevant/
Gullible
Americans have been trained to be fearful of crime,
blacks, Muslims, terrorists, “domestic extremists,”
and now Russia. These fears result in the public
accepting illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral
actions by police and government. With the passage
of time the wrongful police and government behavior
become institutionalized as the young are born into
the system and know no different and the old who
remember accountable government and liberty pass
away. This is how liberty and freedom die, citizens
become serfs, and the rise of tyranny is
accomplished.
The
transformation of the US into a tyranny is far
advanced. It is a revolution that owes its success
to the gullibility, ignorance and unconcern of the
majority of the American people and to a corrupt and
cowardly national media that betrays liberty and
fosters tyranny.
As a voice
against this Revolution of Tyranny, I am under
constant attack.
This website
has grown dramatically in US and international
readership. Its continuation depends
on your
support.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street
Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps
Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has
had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following.
Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
Dissolution of the West and
How America Was Lost.
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