Patricia at The Polygon has a great post about the declaration of a state of emergency in Missouri in the runup to a grand jury decision regarding P.O. Darren Wilson's slaying of Michael Brown. On the right side of the dial, we have bloviators such as Mike Huckabee and Sean Hannity (in a discussion with Mark Fucking Fuhrman, no less!) talking about "mob action" and violence in anticipation of street protests.
To me, this is a clear cut case of working the refs- they are preemptively poisoning the meme stream against any protestors so that any violent response on the part of the police will seem legitimate, indeed inevitable. It's a case of screaming "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO TO YOU!" in advance of a potentially ugly bout of brutality.
It stinks, it's repugnant, and it's as transparent as hell. Maybe "Anonymous" needs to turn some of its efforts against the media normalizers of violence as well as the KKK.
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It all comes down to the Grand Jury's decision - we played this game before with Rodney King.
Something like Murder 2, or even volutary manslaughter, and the people will likely be content to wait for the trial.
Wilson walks with no charges, Katy bar the door.
Something like Involuntary Manslaughter is a wobbler, but if he's not going to get some serious time (5+ Years?) the people are going to recognize it for what it is - Open season on THEM...
We're never gonna win when the plutocrats own both teams.
E.g., Occupy.
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The plutocrats will fall the same way they always have, from Rome to the Sun King...People taking back their country and reminding those who deign to lead that that while the rewards can be great, the costs of overstepping the power granted, ultimately, by the people, are very, very high...
Wilson walks with no charges, Katy bar the door.
And away we go!
We're never gonna win when the plutocrats own both teams.
The problem with the working class whites in this country is that they view minorities as leeches sucking the creamy goodness out of society, rather than the canaries in the coal mine. If it's considered "normal" to see a black kid gunned down in the street and left out for hours, how soon before it becomes acceptable for, say, Xe employees to shoot a white XL Pipeline protestor in the interest of national security? "Goddamn hippy got what was coming to him!"
The plutocrats will fall the same way they always have, from Rome to the Sun King..
With this current batch, I don't think it'll go like that- it's too easy for a few well-armed hirelings to kill a whole lot of people effortlessly. I think they'll fall because they've looted so much that there's nothing left to take, so the entire economy collapses.
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