Comments on: #Ferguson Police Are At Your Door

By: mal duroque

mal duroque — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:35:10 +0000

#19 – I didn’t know that Fox News interns read this blog.

By: dean

dean — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:27:58 +0000

They have been responsible for both propagating utter lies about the original incident as well as encouraging anger and violence in response to police doing their job by attempting to impose law and order in a community that obviously needs a lot of it imposed.

utter lies? Do fill us in on what those are and how you know them to be such. Facts would be best – although with the lack of information from the town, it will turn out you don’t have any.

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:56:57 +0000

Jim Thomerson: Not clear how much the police at Ferguson think they re dealing with friends and neighbors.

They aren’t. The population of Ferguson is almost entirely black, the police are white. I doubt most of the police even live in Ferguson. It’s certain that they have never interacted with the local populace in a civilian context.

By: Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:27:31 +0000

I think the police have some justification in lobbing tear gas at the media: the media have shamelessly exploited this situation to whip up riots in order to sell news. They have been responsible for both propagating utter lies about the original incident as well as encouraging anger and violence in response to police doing their job by attempting to impose law and order in a community that obviously needs a lot of it imposed.

By: ron

ron — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:29:42 +0000

Small town out of control.

Self defense is en vouge.
Gun sales soaring
http://tinyurl.com/p6asztm

The State fails, again.

By: WolfInSheepskin

WolfInSheepskin — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:30:43 +0000

Well, who is surprised by that? The USA isn’t a democracy any more. It’s on oligarchy. Face the truth.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:06:59 +0000

Jim @14: "Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all– the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."--Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, 1968. At the time it was considered a gaffe, but now we see that it was actually prophetic.

By: SmarterThanYourAverageBear

SmarterThanYourAverageBear — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 06:32:11 +0000

i reccomend people watch Naomi Wolf – The End of America revisited – New Hampshire Liberty Forum 2014 http://youtu.be/fJSp1skVIkA – it’s very appropos to what is going down now.

By: Jim Thomerson

Jim Thomerson — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:27:55 +0000

I received riot control training two times, in different Army National Guard units. The basic idea was that the rioters are your friends and neighbors caught up in mob insanity. Our job was to break them up into small groups, whereupon they would become sane again and go home. We were not there to inflict pain and injury, or kill anyone. I assume the guard unit which killed friends and neighbors at Kent State had had no trining. According to my training, they did everything wrong.

Not clear how much the police at Ferguson think they re dealing with friends and neighbors.

By: GregH

GregH — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:21:55 +0000

There does seem to be pretty good scholarship around the idea that deindividuation is part of the group psychology of police/military uniforms.