Sorry for yet another Baltimore/Freddie story. But, this is too much! I wouldn’t blame da Neegrows if they burned down Baltimore … they should start with the copfuk headquarters.
Soooooooo ….. Freddie BROKE HIS OWN BACK!!
First, you must watch the video. Go to the 1:43 mark.
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“It never fails. As soon as one of these excessive force stories breaks, there’s always a cop ready to leak something suggesting that the victim did it to themselves, just like Victor White. In that case, the coroner and police department said he managed to shoot himself with a magic gun while his hands were cuffed behind his back.
Tonight the police leaked a document suggesting that Freddie Gray tossed himself against the walls of a police van in order to sever his own spine.
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate’s safety.
The document, written by a Baltimore police investigator, offers the first glimpse of what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional evidence backs up the prisoner’s version, which is just one piece of a much larger probe.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/police-maybe-freddie-gray-severed-his-own
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Things we don’t know …
- The identity of the prisoner, which was intentionally left out of the police document as a condition for its release.
- The identity of the officer who took the statement from the prisoner.
- Whether there is any additional evidence that would corroborate this account.
- Why Gray would have intentionally tried to injury himself after being arrested for a minor crime.
- The name of the officer who leaked the report, and why he chose to do so
Look at the video … then consider this comment someone made;
“I can speak with some authority on spinal cord injuries. I’m 67 and fractured my neck in a diving accident in 1965. I was 17 at the time and I’ve been a quadriplegic and wheelchair user ever since. Watching the video above and looking at the screen capture, you can see Freddie lost bladder control and wet himself. When he’s being dragged to the van, he’s as limp as a wet dishrag. He’s not faking or just going limp to resist. He’s paralyzed from the neck down. This how it looks; I know. I’ve lived it. This man died a horrific death. He must have been in severe pain and shock the entire time. Any idiot who claims he did it to himself is lying or ignorant beyond belief.”
Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking self-serving lying copfuk pieces of shit!!!! Burn the motherfucker down!!
Yep, it’s a black thang…
Keep on telling yourself that. Keep on believing that somehow we need these thugs to keep black kids from smoking pot and trying to mentally escape the hellhole their parents, grandparents and betters demanded and created.
Someday all the cop defenders will see someone they love at the wrong end of the societal/morality cops. Everything is now illegal and everyone is now open to finding themselves in the presence of our modern Judge, Juries, Executioners, ‘er, I meant LEOs and Federal Jackboots.
Surrounded by morons that have no idea the death and horror their need to control others has wrought.
Don’t judge, love, don’t follow anyone except the one above. Nope, not what his message was.
Control. Dominate. Kill. For mankind’s own good. And the chrillen.
Somedays, like today, nice and gray, my heart aches for what we have become and the atonement many of us are going to face. In both this world and the next.
I just read anout this on yahoo news and laughed out loud.
The other prisoner heard him banging off the walls but couldnt see him and comes to the conclusion he did it to himself? “Yeah those slams definitely sound self-inflicted.”
His name cant be released because iteither never happened/doesnt exist or this other nameless prisoner will be allowed to walk for peoviding this bullshit story.
This will probably be an official piece of evidence when it goes in front of the grand jury, if it even goes that far.
i cant wait to find hear the “findings” tomorrow.
Just because copfuks murder people doesn’t mean all interactions are copfuk murders. This one could well be, but I’m withholding judgment. When the Trayvon story came out, I thought some white vigilante had killed an innocent kid. Turned out to be complete bullshit. A complete reversal of the fact that Trayvon picked the wrong Peruvian Jew to jump. Then Mike Brown was shot while surrendering and saying “hands up don’t shoot”. Only he turned out to have wrestled for the cop’s gun and doubled back on the cop (as proven by the blood drops that were 12+ feet behind where his body fell. It seems unlikely that someone would break their own neck, but Freddie Gray was already getting an insurance company payout for having ingested lead in a house his family had rented. So he knew about winning big lawsuits. Trying to make himself look like he’d been roughed up isn’t implausible. Look at those people a couple of years ago (Detroit, I think) who directed their nine year old son to run into a passing car (a shakedown attempt). The white driver stopped and was nearly beaten to death. Cities are paying out millions in settlements due to brutality. I’m sure that’s known on the streets. I’ll wait to see the forensics.
@Iska – I like the idea of waiting till all the facts are in before rendering judgment, but who does the forensics work? Who pays their salary? Who are their close associates?
” …. but Freddie Gray was already getting an insurance company payout for having ingested lead in a house his family had rented ….” ————— Iska Waran
Not accusing you of this IW … but, you do see what is going on here? It’s called the Blame The Victim Game. Discredit the victim. Turn him into a thug. Besmirch his character. Cause him to have zero credibility. Make us despise him, hate him …. to make you say, “Yeah, that SOB deserved it!”.
To HELL with evidence!! One moment he’s entirely whole, able to run, the next he’s limp, screaming in pain, and soiling himself. Yet, they don’t know what happened? Seems to me to be a fairly open-and-shut case. But, nooooo, let’s talk about Freddie eating lead. I’ll bet they soon discover he pulled legs off of ants.
We live in a world where NO AMOUNT of clear-cut overwhelming evidence is enough to convict copfuks and others in power. Simple denial works. Change the narrative works. Make up your own shit works. For fuksake, we has a PRESIDENT who denied his guilt by arguing over the meaning of the word “is”!!!!
Amerika has taken the Art Of Lying to a level never before seen in the annals of human history.
Turns out that Freddie also suffered a crushed voice box. I just fuckin hate it when Neegrow utes punch themselves in the throat.
Well said, Stucky. To Iska’s point, yeah, these guys surely aren’t saints (and who among us are?)…but that’s the whole problem. So many people want to give the cops the presumption of innocence and let the process work, but everyone in Iska’s rant was NOT afforded the same consideration. This is the very DEFINITION of corruption!
Yeah, because we all can just sever our own spines when it suits us. I would like to know the amount of force needed to sever a spine. When I initially heard about this my first thought was that one of the officers probably had his knee on Freddie’s neck either during the arrest or in the van. That kinda pressure could definitely sever a spine.
I also read this “news” this morning and laughed out loud. There’s a lot of people who worship the state, the states law enforcement protectors and will believe anything that is “reported” as long as it serves the state.
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin’.
I see those bad times today.
Don’t go around tonight,
Well it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
bb
I feel sorry for you. You’re the biggest fucking moron on this site. Shitting here yet once again. Wait … I don’t feel sorry for you. Fuckoff, and die.
Today is National Honesty Day…………really. So, is anyone here surprised about this????
It has been great fun hanging out with you all for a few days, even Sensetti. I have been assigned to a new part of the universe….catch you on the flip side.
Stucky- Only I can tell people to fuck off and die. Stop trying to take that away from me!
I’m sorry, Stephanie, but you cannot copyright “Fuck off and die.” It belongs to all of us.
Fine, I’ll just claim “go piss up a rope”.
” … without acknowledging his arrest record is 50+pages.” ——– bb the donkey-dick sucker
Go fuck a FedEx muffler. I already posted his arrest record once. He was NO angel … although I’m sure he’s 10x the man you are. It should be noted that all but three offenses are drug related … which makes him no different than 90% of other Baltimore utes …. and perhaps you’ll say all their backs should be broken also.
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March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)
Sorry again, already taken. It’s even the title of a Ween song.
I pretty much ignore bb and his shitting all over like a little hamster. You can see what a god fearing statist he really is though.
Create any new law? Then you had better bow to it, or if the law enforcement goons get to you, you may die, and if you do? Why you deserve to die because you broke a LAW.
What average citizen does not break some bullshit law every single day? So what if Freddie Gray broke some laws? Every interaction with any copfuck could result in many manufactured infractions.
The guy did not deserve to die because of his ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRy04Hn_-k
Yeah, there’s never been an arrestee who wanted a couple of bruises to help in a lawsuit against the cops… I’m not saying that’s what happened. I’m just saying that after so many of these high profile cases turning out the exact opposite of the initial reports, I’m going to wait until the forensics are reported. Who does the forensic report? White guys in white coats hired by a state government that’s elected in a state that’s 30% black. I guarantee that Freddie Gray’s family will have the ability and means to call in experts to dispute the forensic report if it needs disputing. I’m “blaming the victim”? That’s lame, Stuck. That’s like saying we shouldn’t even have trials. That’s what they said about the Duke University Lacrosse team accuser – “you’re blaming the victim”. I’m just pointing out that Freddie Gray had already won one lawsuit that resulted in his getting a stream of money. So I’ll wait & see. If I had to bet, it would be that a cop leaned too hard on him with a knee on his neck and should face some charge for excessive force.
I’m with IW on this one. We’ve been lied to and manipulated too many times by the jewish led, anti-white, media for the last 4 decades. Sorry I don’t believe any of our major media outlets. Not one.
Also, let me think for a second if I care about Freddie. Ah, no. I don’t. Do I care about the liberal shitty called Baltimore. Hmmm. No, I don’t. Long ago I had the misfortune of having to live there a few short months, in the city, with my brother. The place was then a crime ridden hellhole. That it burns to the ground today makes me yawn. On the day I left, as I was loading up my shitmobile suburu wagon, a vibrant yoot smashed the driver side window and stole the boombox given to me by my girlfriend. Seriously, I had gone up to go to the head one last time and when I returned the crime had taken place. 5 minutes. And so I drove up to Maine, a 12 hour trip, getting rained on and gawked at by passing cars on I95. Thanks a lot fuckface.
I do think we may want to consider a government “addition by subtraction” plan of action regarding inner city yoots. The ultimate afternoon basketball program, so to speak, some of us TBPers have been advocating. My version is this. Give each yoot (and their “parents” for that matter) a check for $10,000 issued directly from the US Treasury, redeemable in cash only from a participating Liberian bank in local currency. I believe theirs is called the “Dindu”. One way free ride on US military planes and a giant bag of skittles thrown in.
Any white or Jewish social justice warriors enraged at this plan are likewise encouraged to join them on said transport. Have a great flight assholes.
We’re getting ass-covering propaganda from both barrels. It’s surprising that they actually think people would believe anything they have to say at this point.
Was bb just banned? I do not see the comment Stuck referenced. If so, no loss there.
Fact #1: Gray was CLEARLY injured before he was placed in the back of the police van. He is screaming and his legs do not appear to be working.
Fact #2: The people filming the video are angry because they see him in pain as well.
Fact #3: It took the police nearly 38 minutes to get Freddie to the police station. Fact!! ..the police station is TWO MINUTES AWAY!!!
Fact #4: The van made at least two more stops THAT THEY DID NOT REPORT. Only security footage from a business forced them to admit it.
Fact #5: SIX DAYS AGO the fucking POLICE COMMISSIONER HIMSELF stated that was no erratic driving by van driver and Freddie mostly quiet.
Fact #6: Comments from the other prisoner in the van is PURE HEARSAY. There was a solid metal sheet separating him from Freddie so he SAW NOTHING.
Fact #7: Per his screaming, Freddie’s voice was just fine when the copfuks threw him in the van. Somehow, between the time he was thrown in the van and the time he arrived at the police station …. he was able to crush his own voicebox …. a superhuman feat few, if any, can accomplish even when they are fully healthy.
Fact #8: We are to believe Freddie fractured his own neck by banging against the wall of the van. I wish some docs would weigh in and tell us how much force is required to do that. Nevertheless, there SURELY MUST have been significant other facial / head injuries, and blood. There was NONE.
Fact #9: One of the copfuks told Jayne Miller, a radio investigative reporter from WBAL the DAY after the “accident” that Freddie was NON-RESPONSIVE at THE TIME when the second prisoner was picked up!! That means the prisoners claims of Freddie banging around are completely bogus. The statement from the copfuk has either been scrubbed and/or hidden from the public.
What a lying bunch of fucking bullshit.
You know one of the other real tragedies about all this? That these fucking lies from the copfuks needs to be debunked in the first place. I don’t care what the blacks do to Baltimore … I just hope they pick better targets, not their own neighborhoods.
Stuck – you are outraged because the copfucks say they did not do it?
Let’s look it it, shall we?
If they murdered him, , they are going to deny it and say they did not do it, and come up with whatever wild theory they can.
If, by some chance, they did not do it, their response is going to be identical.
Wild stories and denials is the ONLY thing that they are going to say. No point in being outraged, imho.
Cops cannot be allowed to murder folks, and it is happening every day. IT IS OUTRAGEOUS.
But we also need to ask, how was Gray still breathing air? He was a career criminal. Society – not cops – should have eliminated him from the gene pool long ago. His rap sheet was longer than my dick.
We can argue that his crimes were drug crimes, and drug crimes maybe should be abolished. But at the moment, that is the law of the land, and society needs to eradicate folks that commit crimes not once, not twice, but literally dozens of times. I do not care if those crimes are breaking and entering or shoplifting – society should not allow career criminals to exist. Gray was a career criminal.
Society, not cops, should have put an end to him.
Given that cops catch these same career criminals time after time after time after time, is it any wonder that they ultimately behave as a law unto themselves? Society will not punish criminals. What kind of message is that to send to those charged with catching criminals?
Society is to blame. Society allows cops to be what they are. Until criminals are punished, and rogue cops are punished, this shit will continue unabated.
It is not going to change.
True Story.
Ms Freud literally just got home 30 minutes ago …. from her traffic court appearance (driving with a suspended license). She forbade me from going … not trusting me, felt I wouldn’t be able to help myself with the copfuk. It was the right decision.
She hired a lawyer. $750 bucks up front. The guy barely talked to her in the past two weeks. Told her “not to worry”, he’ll take care of everything.
She gets there … he’s not there …. he sent one of his “associates”.
He tells her he arranged a “plea bargain”, a lesser charge, no points, but another $500.
She says, “But, I’m not guilty! I have proof here (shows him the ticket and the notice from the State) that I got the suspension letter A WEEK AFTER my ticket!”
He says; I know you’re innocent. But here’s how it works. The prosecutor doesn’t care … and is willing to take this to trial. This will cost you another few thousand dollars in attorney fees, plus your time off work. There is absolutely no guarantee you can, or will win. You’ll get points. You’ll be fined. And you might even lose your driver’s license, as it’s up to the judge’s discretion. I would take the deal if I were you.
So, she did.
And that there, folks, is justice in America. And that’s just a fucking traffic ticket!!!
God help your sorry asses if the State ever pursues you for a criminal charge. You be fucked six ways to Sunday.
Wow – I get two thumbs down already, and Stuck posts a story illustrating exactly what I am saying.
Society is allowing this shit. There is no justice. Innocent people get fined, and the guilty career criminals walk the street free. What a fuckjob.
You cannot expect honest, lawful cops in such a system.
We are doomed.
Stuck – sorry for Mrs. Freud’s experience.
“Society, not cops, should have put an end to him.” ———- Llpoh
Mass executions, even for non-violent crimes, eh?
Maybe we should execute them in the public square. Hangings? Beheadings, like in Saudi Arabia? Maybe we should kill people if they have too points on their license, since that’s a crime also?
Your suggestion is abhorrent to me.
Stuck – I suspect the lawyer was a lying sack of shit. I would be amazed if the prosector was happy to go to trial.
Everyone knows, though, even if you win, you lose. Shyster fees would have been outrageous.
That is why the system picks on the non-rich. Rich folks will go to court. They do not want that. Settle is the name of the game.
Stuck – career criminals need to be eliminated. Imho. Not for single instances of non-violent crime, but why would society put up with someone whose lifetime job is burglar, or shoplifter, or car thief? No thanks. And who wants to pay to incarcerate them? Not me.
I’ve done a COMPLETE ANALYSIS of the situation, and am offering it to the Baltimore Copfuk Association, in hopes of saving them tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money.
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What is a career criminal? 5 times? 10?
What if he/she steals a loaf of bread to feed his family? Kill them too? If so, you will love the move Les Miserables.
Look, I am NOT a fucking bleeding liberal, feeling sorry for career criminals. I don’t have a solution. I do know my gut tells me your solution is much too violent, much too unjust …. millions of executions across the USA? Are you kidding me??
Not accusing you of this IW … but, you do see what is going on here? It’s called the Blame The Victim Game. Discredit the victim. – Stucky
I’m pretty sure that he didn’t have any credibility to begin with…
Turn him into a thug.
He WAS a thug before this incident.
Besmirch his character.
What character?
Cause him to have zero credibility.
See above re: no credibility.
Make us despise him, hate him …. to make you say, “Yeah, that SOB deserved it!”
Do I need to say it?
But – all that aside – once the cops take a person into custody – no matter how big a shitbag he or she might be, they are responsible for their health and well being while in custody.
There’s no getting around that. Scumbag? Yep. Thug? Yep. Did he deserve it? “Deserve” has nothing to do with it…
But he got croaked while the copfuks had control of him. THEY are responsible, period. The End. There’s no defense for this shit. At all.
Probably more than 5, but less than 50.
And your comment re the bread thief is irrelevant. We are not in that situation. I am talking about folks that choose career crime over actually working. Or even living quietly on welfare.
When folks need to steal in order to eat, we can discuss your bread thief then. Otherwise, it is totally a smokescreen to hide the real argument – society is allowing career criminals to suck the blood of society forever. And if I were king, I would not allow it.
But as I will never be king, it is a mute point.
Have you rammed your head against a wall? I didn’t think so. When I heard that I almost laughed if it wasn’t so sad. If you believe it, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Police have become punishers for any behavior that seem disrespectful of their exaggerated opinion of themselves. Most don’t know that it is a policy of dog handlers, K-9 units, when the dog apprehends a suspect, the dog is rewarded. What’s the reward, you ask? Not Kibble-bits, but putting the dog on the suspect and allowing the dog to bite after the suspect is in custody. For all you die hards who say. “That would never happen in America”. I say, ” You naivety is only exceeded by your stupidity”.
I know from personal experience that police lie and cover for each other when their actions go awry. Don’t get me wrong, I know that there are good policemen out there. It is the bad ones that need culling from the department. Bad policemen that get dismissed for personality disorders just go to the next town and get a job there..
A big investigation will ensue with baseless vaporous accusations, spread over time, till it dissolves into total forgetfulness and everyone goes back to watching TWD and Kardashians.
Maybe, this time it is different.
Cops, and public servants are pack animals. And society has allowed them to become alpha dogs.
A dog owner should always be the alpha. For instance, the owner should always walk through the door first, eat first, etc., to acknowledge their alpha status. The alpha never walks around the eta – he makes the beta move.
Cops should walk around us, should walk through the door last, should eat last, as should ALL public servants. They are servants, after all.
But nope, society has allowed them to assume the alpha position. People now are expected to roll over and show their bellies, lest they be attacked.
Isn’t that just swell.
Freddie Gray may have not been the kind of person you would want to hang with, but he was a human being and was a child of the living God. He deserved better, if not only that better treatment would have elevated the humanity of the cops arresting him.
In situations such as this. I always ask myself, “What would Jesus do”??? Oh ya! Jesus would break his neck. ya.
Homer – I respectfully disagree. He was a blight on the world. He was a parasite, a thug, a career criminal. He did not deserve better – or not much better, anyway.
He just deserved justice from society, not from cops. Cops are servants, not judge and jury.
I agree his spine was broken most likely during the take down. Anytime you are taking a grown man to the ground against his will it is always violent, its violent by definition. For example if two cops were going to attempt to take me to the ground against my will that would be a violent exchange and someone may very well get hurt. So are you saying cops should never under any circumstances force a non compliant suspect to the ground? As long as police procedures are in place to force a non compliant to the ground to be cuffed people will get hurt period, no way around it.
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Homer – I respectfully disagree. He was a blight on the world. He was a parasite, a thug, a career criminal. He did not deserve better – or not much better, anyway.
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He was a petty career criminal, all or nearly all of it drug related. The frequency of his arrests indicates that he didn’t spend much time in a cell, so he was not a major dealer. There is no evidence I am aware of that he was a “thug” or violent in any fashion.
Might want to check out this posting from over at American Digest.
Joys in the Hood: Ramping Up for “The Long Hot Summer” of 2015
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/joys_in_the_hood.php
It’s worth a read.
And, for those of you who think Obama is just a monkey boy being controlled by his handlers and couldn’t fight his way out of wet paper bag, check this out…
I know it doesn’t have beans to do directly with what’s-his-ass getting croaked, but it does have a great deal to do with the overall picture… and how events like the Baltimore situation fit in with everything else…
From 30 years ago… Sherman, set the Wayback Machine…
Z – the little miscreant was arrested for assault in March. Ain’t that precious.
He was a fucking thug. Get over it.
Damn, Z – I gotta keep after you. That is some kinda stupid. You gullible are you anyway? You really think a ghettorat with a rap sheet fifty arrests long or whatever is not violent? Fuck evidence. Use your fucking noodle.
If it walks, looks, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a fucking duck.
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Llpoh–The problem is that you look at life and make a judgements based upon one life time. I understand that. I, however, look at this situation, Freddie Gray, over many lifetimes, and therefore, choose not to be so harsh in my judgement or to even judge at all. Yes, reincarnation, the great gift.
I don’t want to hear that reincarnation is nonsense until you have investigated it in depth. That doesn’t mean looking it up on Wikipedia.
Freddie Gray in another life time may have been virtuous and you may have been a scoundrel. Condemnation of another is a serious thing in terms of soul development. Condemning actions is one thing condemning a person is quite another. Because God is in every living person, condemning another is indirectly condemning the God you pray to.
There is only one sin even tho the Church has sliced and dices sin ten different ways. Mortal sin, Venial sin, sins or omission and sins of commission. The one and only sin is the denial of God. When one denies the God in another one has sinned.
“as you so do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me” and you do it unto your God
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Homer – for fuck sake, you need to get back on your meds. Buddha can blow me. He must be around here somewhere, right?
T4c from your pic
It looks like they have a continuous EEG. He’s also in traction, Dobhoff tube, and centeal line.
“He teacheth my hands to war”. Psalm 18:34
“Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. Psalm 144:1”
[Jesus] said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother; and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say…” Mark 7:8-11
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities… For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Rom. 13:1, 3
For [the governing authority] is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Rom. 13:4
One key aspect where I radically differ from Chris Hedges, whom I otherwise greatly admire, is on the issue of use of violence during civil protests. Chris says it doesn’t work. I say 250 years of U.S. government action & history show quite the contrary …it works just FINE. So well in fact that U.S. foreign and domestic policies are both, in one form or another, completely based upon it.
But in order to work well violence needs to be perfected. Again, I’m speaking based on my observations of its use throughout U.S. history itself. Only DISORGANIZED violence serves no purpose. Key difference! American protestors need to develop similar organized responses to each & every police tactic deployed against them ..and then some. Numeric inferiority against larger forces can sometimes actually be advantageous if the proper tactics and techniques are utilized. Ask the Taliban.
Excellent article, but just to clarify, THIS is how truly stupid your government thinks you are:
Legalized torture, legalized kidnappings, legalized financial fraud, legalized war crimes, legalized massive surveillance of absolutely everyone & everything, a legalized system of privately run Prisons-For-Profit, legalized market data manipulation, legalized highway robbery (aka Civil Asset Forfeitures), legalized secret FISA courts that issue legalized secret warrants, legalized police brutality, legalized drone bombings of children playing soccer on some beach 7422 miles away from here, legalized military invasions of foreign nations based on false pretenses & fabricated evidence, legalized benefits for illegal immigrants, legalized & purposeful dumbing-down of the entire national educational system, legalized usury, legalized bail-outs of failed private corporations at public expense, a completely corrupt judiciary operating a two-tier ‘justice’ system, legalized assassinations of 16 year old U.S. citizens with no judicial review whatsoever (Abdulrahman al-Awlaki), a completely corrupt legislative arm, a completely corrupt & ineffectual president who seems to believe he possesses dictatorial powers, a completely corrupt and subservient newsmedia that only reports what it is told/allowed to report, legalized blacklists, legalized censorship, complete elimination of Constitutional Rule of Law and legalized forcing of the population into buying worthless overpriced “healthcare” plans practically at gunpoint.
And you know what? The mere fact that they can get away with it PROVES THEM R-I-G-H-T !