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RKP5637

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7. I've been wondering the same, in fact at one point I was wondering if there

Reply to gldstwmn (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 19, 2014, 11:56 AM

Aug 2014

were a mayor and city council. I searched on Google and saw some statements by them ... but I would think the mayor and city council would be at the forefront of this ... instead they, seem to be in hiding ... letting the cops run the city. It is a deplorable display in Ferguson IMO, text book case IMO of doing everything wrong.

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Stop Night Protests in Ferguson and Start Recalling City Leaders [View all] Little Star Aug 2014 OP

I heard that many of the protesters work and that upaloopa Aug 2014 #1

It certainly appears to be the core problem, TPTB in Ferguson ... that, and the RKP5637 Aug 2014 #2

The core problem is the plantation, not the number of black overseers. TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #4

It is rooted in that, isn't it! I was monitoring several video streams of Ferguson RKP5637 Aug 2014 #6

Yup, there has never been escape velocity from the gravity well of dehumanizing TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #10

+1 leftstreet Aug 2014 #9

If you can't vote your signature is meaningless. Lars39 Aug 2014 #3

Has anyone even seen the mayor? gldstwmn Aug 2014 #5

I've been wondering the same, in fact at one point I was wondering if there RKP5637 Aug 2014 #7

"Shut up and vote!" 951-Riverside Aug 2014 #8

no bigtree Aug 2014 #11