Ferguson has gone on long enough. It has become a polarizing event that has produced a virtual stalemate between state and local officials and the discontent they have failed to prevent (the sole job of a public servant is to enact the wishes of the majority while protecting marginalized portions of the populace, i.e. the minority). Now a new tactic is being tried by state officials, as the statement by the Lt. Governor of MO (Peter Kinder-R)so clearly illustrates.
An aside should be mentioned here in that the Lt. Governor’s tactics are nothing new, he is simply saying the motto of most Americans: “It’s not my fault I can’t do my job, it’s x’s fault. In fact I did do my job, but the other side won’t quit saying I didn’t so I have to cast the blame because my own personal ambitions prevent me from recognizing any fault of my own.” In it’s shortened version it is, “It wasn’t my fault, everyone else is just wrong (though I can’t prove it, and the evidence says it really was my fault).”
This kind of thinking and the gross ignorance of “leaders” across America and concentrated in DC has led both sides to the wrong conclusion. The following things must be remembered:
1) Race is a myth. No one is black, white, asian, etc. because to think they are is to assume that there are subspecies (race, by definition, requires enough of a difference in DNA to delineate who is black, white, etc. The overwhelming empirical evidence dispels this possibility) and that race, even if it did exist, is significant in any way other than possibly correlating medical issues (much like taking a family history). Race, however, does not exist. We are humans and we all have the same DNA that makes us different than other types of life, but is not different from “race” to “race.” All that said, as long as we fixate on a pattern that doesn’t exist, we will be a polarized and exceptionally gullible people. This is not to diminish that this Ferguson affair is based upon perpetuating the myth but is based entirely upon how much melanin one produces and boils down to bigotry that can’t even justify its selection of who to be bigoted against (a “white person” with a tan can produce the same reaction). We as a people MUST dispel this myth lest we be destroyed for a lie and bomb each other back to the stone ages out of ignorance and refusal to examine the evidence.
2) Bigotry is not a myth. People in power, when they are incapable of understanding what any kindergartner knows intuitively, i.e. we are humans, not races, regardless of sexual orientation, and in no substantive way (excepting congenital illnesses like congenital heart failure) different from each other apart from our choices, will endorse, perpetuate, and use any means to gain more power while vilifying whoever necessary to accomplish this. Even the “Truth” anti-tobacco people who were created to inform, break the rules for their own selfish (and wildly bigoted) agenda. Any doubt in this can be dispelled by watching the “Left Swipe Dat” commercials as the song states, “Do not judge people based on the content of their character but what they hold in their hands.” Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud.
3) Any police officer or politician who wonders why they are viewed progressively more negatively is unfit for office. Our police officers (though exact numbers are hard to obtain because of loyalty to the office instead of loyalty to the well-being and education of the people. That said it should be assumed a significant minority espouses this traitorous state) seize property without just cause and under unjust laws, harass the populace with unnecessary expenditures and selective enforcement of the law, abandon their oath in the interest of power, money, or simply as much criminal thinking as those they choose to arrest (or ticket, e.g. officers will not typically ticket their fellow officers even when that officer is not on duty or has even retired, and they will be hesitant to arrest them as well. This selective enforcement could scarce be considered any semblance of justice and has all the rancid hallmarks of the “old boys club,” as it were.), and are oblivious to the almost universal depiction of them as fat, indolent dunderheads, a sign of their inability to observe, much less, enforce the law. Our politicians do the same things, though they may not arrest, but our politicians are even worse. Despite being tasked with serving the public, they have set the nation on edge with their undesired wars that have thus far provided only orphans, widows, widowers, and grief wrought parents along with ever increasing national debt, and a world where America is nearly universally loathed, polarizing its people with an archaic and destructive party system (rather than running as a representative of the people they run as a representative of a party that few people understand but dedicate themselves to out of ignorance and want of any patriotic spirit; willing to sacrifice their freedom for perceived safety and willing to sacrifice democracy to partisan politics out of sheer laziness), murdering the populace by expending enormous amounts on their wars at the expense of the poor, the educational system, the nation’s intelligence, and opening the door for any foreign invader who sees we have left very few to defend the actual nation, and they do all of this with televised idiocy, some not understanding our own history and most not understanding how this social contract is supposed to work (GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED; NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION; GIVE ME LIBERTY—OR GIVE ME DEATH!). Is there any doubt that the national trust has been broken by a minority of police and a majority of politicians and both, every officer and every politician, must regain that trust (one bad apple spoils the bunch, and we got a lot of bad apples)?
4)Stop protesting, do something real if you want to eject oppression. Boston Tea Party, Continental Congress (a criminal assembly at the time, as far as George III was concerned, that addressed the political issues and helped orchestrate the forming, funding, and supply of militia), Common Sense by Thomas Paine, boycotting British goods, etc. were all used together to attack on as many fronts while still offering peace when the King treated them fairly. Ultimately it comes down to if you feel you are under oppression so great that it cannot be withstood anymore and the recourse to law is useless, the Declaration of Independence gives you the RIGHT to alter or abolish the government that is causing it, but your protests are not working and neither is the interminable publicity over the affair.
Ferguson has gone on long enough, do something substantive to change things or shut up. There is a time for protest but when that fails one must have the courage to fight oppression and be willing to die for liberty. Only a coward hides behind a sign when he genuinely believes, and can show proof for that belief, that he has been betrayed and abused past the point of legal remedy. I have no opinion on Ferguson specifically but if the protester’s cause is liberty, equality and a nation free of what amounts to the monarchy of both state and federal governments in their own spheres, then my support is yours and my counsel to you is this: Rise up and fight for what you believe in, but do not do it hastily. Gather the Sons of Liberty and get the job done right. If your concern is only this one event, then handle it and leave the people free to examine the many injustices that happen everyday and prevent those in power from continuing to distract the people more than they already do.
The Valeyard 