oh my fucking god the governor is joking about taking pictures of himself
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
young black men cops behave as though they can abuse, harass, rape, rob, sell drugs and kill because they FEEL like it
fixed
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
this is the worst public speaker I've seen in months
looks a little blue
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
oh look it's the dudes i see at jimmy john's every thursday
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
http://38.media.tumblr.com/fa08cd5548bad2311b5c76a886561a69/tumblr_na79r4cBTX1qjk3vuo2_500.jpg
― fit and working again, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Obama leading with Iraq mission
― heck (silby), Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
that has been going around and repeatedly described as fake xp
― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
christ that military action in Iraq is the good news
xp ah ok my bad.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
lol williamson's very next line is:
These confrontations are a reminder of the eternal question: Who? Whom? Who is to protect and serve whom here? Is government our servant or our master?
yes, this police action strikes me as very much leninist, wouldn't you agree *sips tea*
― goole, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
dunno if Barack Hussein Obama is the president I want to hear defend journalists' right to exercise First Amendment
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
O has gone so grey
― heck (silby), Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
that was such an uninspriing damp squib of a "speech", why even bother if you've got nothing to say beyond "children, behave"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
that's pretty much what he always does iirc
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Rand Paul's piece includes both Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation concern about militarization of police, related to that NRO quote.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tFqIWGN.png
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/10-insane-numbers-ferguson-killing
http://i.imgur.com/gZOJFEa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/J2AaNIa.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
he couldn't resist blaming it on "big government" rather than the perhaps more-accurate "big defense" but man, what's going on in the world
xp infographics are a scourge
― heck (silby), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
On the other hand, I think these stats indicate that, as a white person, my chances of operating a rolling meth lab in Ferguson probably are pretty good! Thanks infographic!
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
― heck (silby), Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Heh
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
did O's mewling at least include the line "Don't arrest journalists, prosecute them"?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
sadly part of the problem in this scenario is that the african american community in ferguson doesnt vote.. hence all the white people runnin/ruinin shit
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
There are still three of the original agencies operating in Ferguson, and nobody is in charge and nobody is accountable. Sigh.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
there is probably a lot on the ground to discourage that from happening xp
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Last time I checked police officers weren't elected
― 龜, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
jingleberries is that a statement from some evidence or are you inferring low voting rates from the current situation?
― goole, Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
seriously that was not good
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
goole my source was an interview on npr yesterday. let me try to find it.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
SIEGEL: We've all heard about how few black police officers there are in Ferguson. There aren't many black elected officials either - 1 councilman in 5. Why is that?BYNES: Well, anything other than a presidential election there is low voter turnout. And the African-American community has been disenfranchised for a very long time. When you have people who are worrying about can I get a job - can I get to work - can I put food on the table - when election day on Tuesday comes around, that is the furthest thing from their minds. And the whites that live in the community - they participate. And so they vote for who they want for counsel and mayor, and they don't always put practices in place that are best for the majority population there.
BYNES: Well, anything other than a presidential election there is low voter turnout. And the African-American community has been disenfranchised for a very long time. When you have people who are worrying about can I get a job - can I get to work - can I put food on the table - when election day on Tuesday comes around, that is the furthest thing from their minds. And the whites that live in the community - they participate. And so they vote for who they want for counsel and mayor, and they don't always put practices in place that are best for the majority population there.
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/13/340153388/between-fergusons-police-and-population-a-racial-divide
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
This is great:https://storify.com/AthertonKD/veterans-on-ferguson
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
SIEGEL: But in a place with population 20,000, I'm a little bit surprised that actually most people don't know who the police officer was. I mean...
BYNES: Robert, I was just going to tell you people in the community have told me who the police is. They know who he is. It's about, I guess, releasing it at the much larger level. But people locally know who the cop is. The kids knew him. They told me that he would harass them all the time.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
wow
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
BYNES: I was actually out there the night of the looting. I was trying to help calm things down, and I know that the people that were looting - they don't live in Ferguson. There have been reports that have been released from people who they arrested and they highlighted that, you know, so many of them came from the city of St. Louis, and they weren't actually Ferguson people.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Never underestimate the power of gerrymandering to ensure that only white people get elected. xp
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
How can we arrange to have FOX News firebombed? Anyone?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qcqRmJLudvY/U-zgG9Ag63I/AAAAAAAATuU/_sjBU9BSByU/s400/enhanced-1267-1408029765-17.png
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i wonder just how different our politics would be if election day were a national holiday. xp
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ, that FOX News still is like one of those Onion editorial comics
― example (crüt), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
because you know it's vote or get fired for a lot of these people who don't vote xp
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
ppl, Fox News is preaching to the perverted
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
and trolling the troll-addicts
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
otoh, the cops have not forgotten H Rap Brown's message, amirite
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Why don't you just write it, it's pretty obvious that you're dying to
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
? i thought people would know it
i'm not dying to do anything. everything's a mess.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Fox News is preaching to the perverted
Yes, and also to relatively well-meaning members of some of our families.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I believe it was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said "disperse!"
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
riot vs. peaceful demonstration becomes a false choice when police are this eager to unconstitutionally suppress lawful free assembly
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
in other words, I lay the blame for everything at the cops' feet #riotapologist
For those unaware, I am assuming the punchline to Morb's joke is "Die, nigger, die!", which was the title of H Rap Brown's autobiography
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 14 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah I think that was not his message, but a cynical book title, but I may be wrong
― mh, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link