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25. It probably does, it probably has to become much much worse.

Mon Apr 20, 2015, 01:29 PM

Apr 2015

It might be too late for it to work through the electoral process.

Our culture is locked in a shallow absorption with consumption and sports and entertainment.

Bread and circuses, we are self-medicating while the powerful few figure out more ways to take away what's left of our power.

I'm very passionate about this and hope it comes sooner but I'm also fearful.

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Michael Brown's memorial tree 'cut down' after one night in Ferguson [View all] n2doc Apr 2015 OP

What vile creatures lurk in the sewers of mankind! What a dispicable act! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #1

Truer words. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2015 #136

Time to plant another one and set up a camera. nt Quackers Apr 2015 #2

Great minds!!! nt MADem Apr 2015 #4

Lol Quackers Apr 2015 #5

I would want to witness that in person and undetected, undetected at first anyway. nt Snotcicles Apr 2015 #34

Plus they should plant an even bigger tree as a giant middle finger towards cstanleytech Apr 2015 #36

Plant 100 of them Evergreen Emerald Apr 2015 #98

Right. Great idea. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #50

+1 Hoyt Apr 2015 #68

Plant another one, quietly, and quietly stash surveillance cameras in nearby houses/parked cars and MADem Apr 2015 #3

I say no rtracey Apr 2015 #96

I disagree. If you let them define your memorial, they win. MADem Apr 2015 #99

or rtracey Apr 2015 #105

If that's the case, you also get the symbolism of the kid paying for, and planting, another tree MADem Apr 2015 #108

that wasn't the Mike Brown tree notadmblnd Apr 2015 #117

Link Roy Rolling Apr 2015 #6

It does not, but here is another link n2doc Apr 2015 #9

Racists are emotionally damaged children who stopped maturing when they were pre-teens. No mentally GoneFishin Apr 2015 #7

What evidence is there phil89 Apr 2015 #12

You are correct. As a factual matter I do not know. GoneFishin Apr 2015 #14

Evidently no one knows who did it or why. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #22

Someone hates these cans! hueymahl Apr 2015 #33

LOL Dragonfli Apr 2015 #81

Ha!!! wendylaroux Apr 2015 #91

So what, do you think the people that did this- they're just tree haters? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #31

Didn't you ever hear of vandalism? My town virgogal Apr 2015 #39

Better question. Why stick you head in the sand and ignore the recent past? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #42

If the vandalism was by bigots I apologize but virgogal Apr 2015 #45

Wait. You are serious? Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2015 #77

Yes,I was serious. I saw nothing in the original virgogal Apr 2015 #90

Head, sand, stuck notadmblnd Apr 2015 #110

With this having something to steal RegexReader Apr 2015 #131

Cameras don't appear to be stopping cops from shooting or beating people to death notadmblnd Apr 2015 #132

Pretty lame vandals wendylaroux Apr 2015 #92

Absolutely possible they did it less for racist reasons and more to get a rise out of folks like you Oktober Apr 2015 #106

I think you're grasping at air. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #109

Well... Oktober Apr 2015 #111

You're suggesting a consipracy? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #112

Not at all... Oktober Apr 2015 #113

so you are sayng that there are people out there that just want to make notadmblnd Apr 2015 #114

Amusement... Oktober Apr 2015 #115

amusement? How? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #116

I don't know how to say this any simpler.... Oktober Apr 2015 #118

Who is group A and who is group B. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #119

Group A is led by a man named Bob... Oktober Apr 2015 #120

You responded to my post originally so who is trolling who? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #121

I told you... Oktober Apr 2015 #122

and I asked you what specifically could the possible reason outside of bigotry be? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #125

No one is claiming certainty... Oktober Apr 2015 #127

that's because you can't give me a REASONABLE alternate reason that can make me believe that notadmblnd Apr 2015 #128

You are obviously very emotionally attached to your belief that it must be racism... Oktober Apr 2015 #129

Now you want to make it personal. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #130

I calls em like I sees em... Oktober Apr 2015 #133

Might want to get your eyes checked notadmblnd Apr 2015 #134

No doubt many people get persnickety merely from reading benign speculation on a message board. LanternWaste Apr 2015 #37

would love to hear your theory.. frylock Apr 2015 #38

the evidence heaven05 Apr 2015 #47

Racists did it. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #54

Well, ya know, there's this little thing called Occam's Razor... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #56

^^^THIS^^^ Tom Ripley Apr 2015 #88

that's patently not true. are you at all familiar with the literature on racism? La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2015 #51

Thanks. I am sure there is an enormous body of information of which I am unaware. But in this GoneFishin Apr 2015 #89

Or maybe it was actual pre-teens. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #76

Just horrible. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #8

I bet the police are looking really hard to find the perp rurallib Apr 2015 #10

When they find the perp, I wonder Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #16

! rurallib Apr 2015 #18

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2015 #41

Ouch. nt F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #72

Yes really hard. So they can beat him to within an inch of his life. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #57

One day, the good will win and the evil will be eaten. nt NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #11

It won't just happen, it has to be fought for, ideally through the electoral process. The civil still_one Apr 2015 #24

It probably does, it probably has to become much much worse. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #25

I agree with you. still_one Apr 2015 #26

quite a few heaven05 Apr 2015 #49

People died for their rights.. haikugal Apr 2015 #60

You have so much more faith than I do AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #101

Hateful people suck. eom Blanks Apr 2015 #13

With video cameras everywhere, it's a shame this wasn't caught on video. Sucks! C Moon Apr 2015 #15

The police say they have no idea. I don't believe a word. The Ferguson rhett o rick Apr 2015 #17

Oh. lighten up on them, Rick. They're probly right Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #19

I'm betting there were high-fives at the local cop bar. nm rhett o rick Apr 2015 #20

Me too. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #58

The klan moves in predictable ways. n/t SpankMe Apr 2015 #21

Very, very true! haikugal Apr 2015 #63

Racism, pure and simple still_one Apr 2015 #23

Leave the damaged tree as a memorial - it clearly shows the situation in this community. jwirr Apr 2015 #27

Depending on the type of tree, it may come back as a bush. -none Apr 2015 #35

It's braches looked like someone with their hands up underpants Apr 2015 #28

It must have charged at them n/t n2doc Apr 2015 #30

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2015 #43

Looking like a demon. A demon tree. bravenak Apr 2015 #52

"It was reaching for its trunk, I tells ya!!" bullwinkle428 Apr 2015 #97

Investigators should treat this for what it is . . . . A HATE CRIME! citizen blues Apr 2015 #29

Post-racial Murrka... truebrit71 Apr 2015 #32

Black people aren't allowed to have anything in this country... MrScorpio Apr 2015 #40

That moves me deeply this morning. JimDandy Apr 2015 #65

The cops have 'no idea'....right. blackspade Apr 2015 #44

"Residents of the city were shocked." And no sarcasm tag. n/t jtuck004 Apr 2015 #46

Will the police find out? Do you think? JDPriestly Apr 2015 #48

Just look at the depth of this hate. The Jungle 1 Apr 2015 #53

Hateful fuckers! haikugal Apr 2015 #55

The condition of this nation is dire. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #59

Indeed, my friend... haikugal Apr 2015 #61

Disgusting excuse for human beings. These are neanderthals. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #62

Neanderthals had more humanity. haikugal Apr 2015 #66

I think they did. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #67

I bet off duty cops were the vandals workinclasszero Apr 2015 #64

Why? Not enough hate in the world? mountain grammy Apr 2015 #69

......... TRoN33 Apr 2015 #70

I would like to be a part of the Michael Brown Memorial Forest. Scruffy Rumbler Apr 2015 #71

tree must have FlatBaroque Apr 2015 #73

K&R DeSwiss Apr 2015 #74

Shows you what 'we' value, doesn't it? FiveGoodMen Apr 2015 #75

That applies especially to Golden Calves... Art_from_Ark Apr 2015 #83

They can't assault him anymore...... DeSwiss Apr 2015 #85

And somewhere in New York, there was a battered wife with a restraining order.... Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2015 #78

And even that's a 50-50 proposition calling them for domestic violence cases. DeSwiss Apr 2015 #86

I'm sure every state today has one of their own once again being ignored. AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #102

They damn sure protected that mammon idol workinclasszero Apr 2015 #79

Indeed! DeSwiss Apr 2015 #87

Sick heartless fuckheads!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 #80

What kind of piece of shit would do such a thing? Un-fuckin-believable. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2015 #82

Hateful Trajano Apr 2015 #84

I say we send undercover people into the usual places and have them brag that they did it,.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2015 #93

Sick davidpdx Apr 2015 #94

Replant the tree and plant cameras nearby. romanic Apr 2015 #95

Michael Brown Was Cut Down Too DallasNE Apr 2015 #100

Next person will be more subtle and put plant killer in the soil... Oktober Apr 2015 #104

One step at a time DallasNE Apr 2015 #123

Probably not worth the effort and cost for a symbol... Oktober Apr 2015 #124

How awful. As if the community hasn't grieved enough. myrna minx Apr 2015 #103

The older I get awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #107

Has anyone started a gofundme on this yet? Hugin Apr 2015 #126

What an awful thing to do. City Lights Apr 2015 #135