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In reply to the discussion: Ferguson and Agent Provocateurs ... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I know many people get emotional at these events, can anyone blame them? But generally the people who are video-taping and tweeting live reports are not there to give false impressions. They are merely eyewitnesses to what is going on. Many have had no instructions on how to transmit information. But there are some who have experience with these protests. The main reason for video-taping everything possible is to get an overall view of what they don't want the public to see.
It's also possible that a few people are just so angry, they express it.
But watching the first round of Ferguson protests, and following as many eyewitnesses as I could, I did not find most of them to be acting irrationally at all.
The 'authorities' however, which even the normally complicit Corporate Media, finally exposed as the raging, rabid lunatics some of them are.
The MSM did film these abusive authoritarians in action, leading to the dismissal of at least one of them, perhaps two.
There was NOTHING by any citizen journalist that I saw that compared to the rage and expressed bigotry of some of those cops captured on film by the MSM.
To focus on a few minor things the public is likely to do in any large group, when the GROSS ABUSES of those entrusted with the welfare of the people they are supposed to be serving, is DISTRACTING from the horrific injustices, rather than continuing to point them out.
What do we want as a nation? As far as I know, Democrats at least, want an end to discrimination and bigotry especially in Law Enforcement. THAT is the issue that should remain the front and center focus when it comes to Ferguson.
What THEY do and will do and are doing. And when they try to discredit the protesters, point it out that it is NOT the protesters (we had ample evidence of how the protesters HELPED those people whose businesses were attacked by criminals, NOT by protesters) who are rioting or instigating rioting, they did not.
As for what may happen after the GJ results are released, we know what is planned by the authorities, and we know that no matter how peaceful the protesters are, they will be attacked, arrested, discredited and bigots will jump on that bandwagon.
Imo, the people should not give them what they are salivating for.
They should not take to the streets where the corrupt authorities are preparing their militarized operation.
Foil them, let them come with their tanks and military garbed robo cops. Make fools of them by working from other venues, preparing boycotts, eg, from home, taking to Social Media to gather support for a Federal Investigation.
But that's just my opinion. Because the outcome is inevitable IF protesters take to the streets of Ferguson.
Or maybe they should march on DC, or plan such a march while the Cops are waiting for them in Ferguson.
Whatever they/we do, don't play into the hands of the authorities. They know well how to play this game.