Morons Riot in Ferguson to Defend Rights of Stupid Big People to Rob, Beat Up Small People

[jordan179]

After Michael Brown, a really stupid big guy, strong-armed a box of cigars from a store, he was stopped by Officer Darren Wilson, who caught him with the cigars.  Because Michael Brown was a really big guy, and really stupid, he thought he could beat up Officer Wilson, and began doing so.  Officer Wilson then proceeded to demonstrate to him that

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[galadrion]

As I posted elsewhere:

"Bah. They want mob rule so bad, let 'em have it. Wall off the area; give people as long as it take to build the wall to get the hell out. Then withdraw and let 'em live by whatever mob law they care to concoct. No one gets out after that. If someone wants in, let 'em... but make it absolutely clear that once the line is crossed, they can expect no aid whatsoever."

Yes, I am a dedicated fan of Robert Heinlein. Yes, this is a direct application of Coventry. No, we don't have the interdict wall he describes in that story, but placing a two-mile-deep artillery-covered zero zone would be just as effective.

[little_e_]

I'm fine with letting people go their own way, and have no desire to coerce anyone into staying part of a system they don't want to be part of. I do wonder if it might be a good idea to make an exception for children who have no choice now but later decide they'd like to leave.

[little_e_]

I lost most of my friends after people who weren't me got in a fight over Trayvon Martin on my LJ and then started yelling at me for, I don't exactly recall, probably not making everyone shut up.

Since the Marshall Coulter protest, I have completely abandoned the idea that people can respond rationally to such events. They are brain poison; ordinary people have little interest in facts, and even less tolerance when experiencing emotional extremes.

If we cannot agree upon standards of conduct and justice, then we are lost. The nation cannot function, and we descend into factions.

A sad state, IMO.

Why so many?

[marmoe]

There don't seem to be reliable statistics on the number of people killed by the police each year, but it appears to be on the order of 1000 people a year in the US, out of a population of 320 million people. In Germany we have about 10 such killings per year out of 80 million people. The US rate is 25 times higher than that. Do you have that many morons - as you make Michael Brown out to be - or is there a fundamental difference in officer training, or what?

Re: Why so many?

[jordan179]

At a guess, it's because we're a more diverse society and our police are willing to aggressively enforce the law all over our cities, rather than accept de facto "no go" zones. You're going to pay for this in the future, when you finally get sick of letting foreigners carve off pieces of your country, and the emboldened Muslim minorities resist having the law enforced on them like everyone else

Re: Why so many?

[marmoe]

I find it funny how the official story changed over time. Several days after the shooting the Ferguson Chief declared that Wilson was unaware of the robbery at the time of the altercation. Now the official storyline is that Wilson stopped Brown for matching the description of a suspect. It was widely reported that Wilson had an orbital fracture, now it is clear that he had a slight bruise

Re: Why so many?

[jordan179]

It was widely reported that Wilson had an orbital fracture, now it is clear that he had a slight bruise.

Um, CNN claimed he had only a slight bruise. However, how did he acquire this "slight bruise?" If Brown hit him, he committed assault and battery against a police officer in the performance of his duties, which was also resisting arrest.

According to Wilson's testimony he approached the two because they were walking in the middle of the road. Only after Johnson told him they were almost where they wanted to go and Brown threw expletives at him did he see the cigarillos and suspected them to be the suspect robbers.

Yes, so? "Walking in the middle of the road" was suspicious (and really idiotic) behavior. So was Brown's cursing at the police officer. That drew Wilson's attention, and at that point (accurately) suspected them to be the robbers.

He calls for reinforcement but does not wait and forces a two-on-one encounter. He also drives up so close that Brown can lock him inside his car. Is any of this standard procedure? Or

[jordan179]

He's stupid because he (1) stole a box of cigars in front of the storeowner and a security camera, then (2) having committed a witnessed crime, strode down the middle of the street (not sidewalk, he was on the active roadbed) and (3) when confronted by the police, was rude and then physically violent to the investigating officer. This is why he is now dead.

Since I am not racist, I hold big black guys to the same standard of intelligence that I do little East Asian guys, medium-sized American Indian guys, or anyone else. It is you who are making the implicit assumption that blacks can't be held to the same standards of intelligence that one would hold whites or East Asians.

[gossamera]

Because my iq is off the charts and I am known to pocket things that aren't nailed down.

talk about slippery slopes in an argument, but really this whole sentence is a bleeding oxymoron. lol

[eta_ta]

(s)he meant off the charts in the negative quadrant... < "0"

[celestialrain52]

Thanks for clearing this whole thing up.