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In reply to the discussion: A sober warning (and one of the best essays I have read thus far about Ferguson): [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)travellers outside Santa Monica's old City Hall, I found myself weeping inconsolably as McCulloch droned on and on and as it became clear that the Klayton Kangaroo Kourt was doing what so many had long predicted. I can no longer describe my blood as "at a boil,' as I have now reached some depth of implacable anger I did not know I possessed. I do not know where this shall end up. But like the writer of this essay, I have begun to lose faith in the institutions of this democracy to function as they are supposed to and as I was always trained to believe they should. Amazing that one man, this McCulloch who, by his words and deeds, enabled the monster Wilson to act out the dark subtext of the American experience.
Quoting again from the essay: