Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

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Who's ever defended any of these riots?

 

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But you haven't condemned them! You're letting them slide!

 

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We might be twins...

 

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It's not a riot unless Anderson Cooper and the CNN team show up to do live broadcasts.

 

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The more cynical part of me suspects that people are trying to provoke riots by making such a big stink about them.

"Man, we sure do hope there isn't any rioting! Oh please don't riot! That sure would suck! We'd hate it if the people who are frustrated with us do this one thing we keep making a big deal about! If we talk about it a lot, that'll stop them, right?"

Then when it happens, they get to clutch their pearls and mutter code words about hoodlums and thugs and animals.

 

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Forgot the word that proceeds Shiftless.

 

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That was basically why they waited all day and then made the announcement at night, right?

The fact that people got angry enough to riot about the decision justified the decision.

 

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I condemn them.

Next topic.

 

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The pressure to riot didn't come from pearl clutching white racists.

The pressure to riot came from the media and the African-American community, who would have been let down by Ferguson if they didn't respond by, "burning the bitch down."

If there's one thing worse than an African-American "acting white" by speaking proper English, or earning good grades in school, its an African-American without the common decency to burn loot and/or burn down his own city in response to a disappointing ruling from the criminal justice system or a natural disaster.

 

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Not harsh enough for me.

 

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The Missouri Lt. Governor -- who apparently does not have a speaking relationship with the Governor, and whom I'm guessing is a Republican -- gave an interview where he said that state Dems told him the local DA made the announcement that night because they were worried that the decision would be leaked by the Holder Justice Department.

If true, it puts the decision in a whole different light.

 

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That'd be in keeping with the DA playbook of blaming everyone else and praising himself.

That is a Ferris Bueller's Day Off kind of chain of citation for that quote, though. We're about five removed from the actual "source," except there isn't a "source" in the first place.