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Did you hear Cameron talking about the sequels this week? He promised, and I quote, that "they will be bitchin." :lol:

 

 

True statement. After a new Avatar movie people will be bitchin' on the internet

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Looks like the UN took time off from condemning Israel for war crimes to look into this matter.

 

http://www.mediaite.com/online/un-committee-condemns-u-s-police-brutality-after-hearing-from-brown-parents/

 

hearing directly from the parents of Michael Brown[/url]. And while the report does not directly address events in Ferguson, it does hit on issues raised by Ferguson like police treatment of minorities.

The U.N. committee expresses concerns about extraordinary rendition (Guantanamo Bay in particular), the lack of military accountability for such abuses, and interrogation methods like sleep deprivation––all directed at the United States.

Domestically speaking, the U.N. addresses sexual violence and rape in the United States, deaths of inmates while in custody, and, of course, police brutality. Here’s what they have to say:

The Committee is concerned about numerous reports of police brutality and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, in particular against persons belonging to certain racial and ethnic groups, immigrants, and LGBTI individuals, racial profiling by police and immigration offices and growing militarization of policing activities… It also expresses deep concern at the frequent and recurrent police shootings or fatal pursuits of unarmed black individuals.

They recommend that all instances of police brutality be investigated “promptly, effectively, and impartially.”

One of the committee members said in a separate statement that what happened in Ferguson was a “tragedy,” but they need to respect the grand jury decision.

You can read the full report here, via The L.A. Times.

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Damn Woodrow Wilson

 

Never trust a dork who looks like your nerdy kid brother

 

But when you are the nerdy kid brother, for Christ's sake never trust the putz you could beat up

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Progressive Mythography :Officer Wilson should never even have been brought before the grand jury.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

 

As Ferguson burned this week, the law books got a workout. Suddenly, grand-jury procedure was all the rage. Commentators better known for parroting the bromide that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich went berserk when the sandwich on offer was a white cop and the grand jury refused to bite.

 

As it turns out, there was no need to thumb the legal treatises of Blackstone or Joseph Story. If you were going to hit the books, Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism would have served you better. Brilliantly illustrating modern liberalism’s roots in 20th-century progressivism — a movement as comfortable marching lockstep with Stalin as it was borrowing copiously from Mussolini — Jonah homes in on the centrality of myth. It is irrelevant whether an idea around which the Left’s avant-garde rouse the rabble is true; the point is the idea’s power to mold consciousness and rally the troops.

 

For the American Left, a bedrock myth is that white cops kill black kids. It derives from the overarching myth that casts racism as our indelible national sin. As Heather Mac Donald explains, citing exhaustive criminology studies, it flows seamlessly from the quackery that dismisses the disproportionately high incidence of violent crime in African-American communities as an illusion — as the product of police racism and the consequent hyper-targeting of black boys and men, rather than of racial differences in patterns of defending.

 

Darren Wilson was a white cop and Michael Brown was a black teenager killed in a violent confrontation with Wilson. Therefore, Brown was the victim of a cold-blooded, racially motivated murder, Q.E.D. That is the myth, and it will be served — don’t bother us with the facts.

 

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All very reasonable, but let’s not pretend reason has anything to do with what happened in Ferguson this week. In Liberal Fascism’s focus on myth, Jonah recalls Mussolini’s assertion, “It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd.” The crowd in Ferguson was moved to riot on the article of a false faith that condemns America and its police forces as incorrigibly racist. It is from this condemnation that all purported “reasoning” proceeds.

 

Such reasoning dictates that our constitutional right not to be indicted in the absence of just cause should be subordinated to the mob’s demand for a public trial. Succeeding in that legerdemain, it next dictates that our constitutional right not to be convicted in the absence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt be subordinated to the mob’s demand for a guilty verdict.

 

Such a verdict that would have had only the most tangential connection to the tragedy of an 18-year-old’s death or a police officer’s well-founded fear for his life. But it would have fed the myth.

 

 

More at the link:

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Black Residents Armed With Assault Rifles Stand Guard Outside White-Owned Business During Ferguson Riots.

 

A group of black Ferguson residents armed with high-powered rifles stood outside a white-owned business in the city during recent riots, protecting it from rioters that looted and burned other businesses.

After a grand jury returned no indictment against Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed black teen Michael Brown, protesters took to the streets and the demonstrations quickly turned into rioting. Several buildings were set ablaze, but a group of heavily armed black men stood outside a Conoco gas station.

One of the residents, a 6-foot-8 man named Derrick Johnson, held an AR-15 assault rifle as he stood in a pickup truck near that store’s entrance. Three other black Ferguson residents joined Johnson in front of the store, each of them armed with pistols.

In a city torn apart by racial tensions, the fact that black residents took up arms to defend a white-owned store made headlines.

The men said they felt indebted to the store’s owner, Doug Merello, who employed them over the course of several years.

The men said Merello always treated them with respect.

“He’s a nice dude, he’s helped us a lot,” said a man identified himself as R.J. The 29-year-old R.J. said the group chased away several groups of teenagers who wanted to loot the store, but also nearly got into a brush with soldiers from the Missouri National Guard, who initially mistook them for looters.

 

 

 

 

‘Oh the irony’: Protesters in Ferguson chant in favor of ‘communist revolution’

 

http://twitchy.com/2...evolution-vine/

 

Yeah, because the police in Communist states are always really, really sweet cuddly teddy bears.

 

 

 

 

 

Because “SOCIAL JUSTICE” is all about making little children cry: Kids Singing At #Seattle’s Christmas Tree Lighting Surrounded By Protesters, All Now Crying.

 

I wish someone had given them the “sod off, Swampy!” treatment.

 

Related: Ferguson and the sad state of American protesting.

 

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/29/us/ferguson-protests/

 

Officer Wilson resigns.

 

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot unarmed Michael Brown in August, has resigned from the police department, his attorney told CNN Saturday. The resignation comes five days after a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson. CNN has independently reached out to Darren Wilson's attorney and the Ferguson Police Chief.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he lands at Fox News as a contributor.

 

 

It's replies like that that demonstrate the ignorance of the poster.

 

 

 

 

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There is a better chance that the Bills will win their next four games due to brilliant offensive play calling than there is that any of those commies will apologize.

Couldn't agree more.

Obama is a festering boil on the azz of race relations in this country.

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