"Outside agitators"--that's what they're saying on CNN

[panader0]

Many of those arrested were apparently not from the area. Isn't that what they used to say in the South during the Civil Rights movement in the 60's?

[octoberlib]

1. It's what our GOP Governor Pat McCrory calls the NC

Moral Monday protesters.

[BronxBoy]

2. Yes....:

But I listen to one of the Black nationally syndicated radio shows in the morning and people from within the community are saying it too

[hobbit709]

3. I remember one time after a prison riot the warden blamed it on "outside agitators"

[panader0]

4. I think being "agitated" is appropriate at times.

If the people there need help-- well OK. I do not advocate violence.

[4139]

5. From where? A couple days ago CNN said Oakland, link:

https://m.

[pampango]

6. That's what conseratives always say. I heard it in the South and in Ukraine and Syria.

The local folks are never unhappy enough to protest the ruling class in their city or country. It always must be outsiders - 'northern liberals', 'EU liberals' or 'American agents' - must be the source of the discontent and protests.

[4139]

7. CNN : Among those arrested are residents of Chicago, Brooklyn, Washington, San Francisco, Austin...

Des Moines, and Huntsville, Alabama, according to jail records."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/missouri-ferguson-agitators/

[Lex]

8. Their fellow citizens aren't allowed to protest with them?

The more police tear gas, shoot, and bully, the more people will come from all over to stand with the people of Ferguson.

[panader0]

9. YES!

[treestar]

10. Silly as people hear about it and go there to join them

It's not like some outside organization planned the whole thing, which never would have occurred to the local people at all - they are too docile to react on their own? And merely being from other cities does not prove those people are the ones that planned and instigated the local people.

One of their young people was shot, but they are not going to protest. Only when people from other cities come do they think of that. Absurd.

[Brigid]

11. That's what Homer Stokes said.