The storm clouds are gathering…
Sometime this week or next, we’re most likely going to learn the fate of Ferguson, Missouri police officer, Darren Wilson. Whether he will or won’t he be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown. And that set off weeks of riots across I-70 on the less friendly side of the state in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.
In a strange twist of events, protesters have issued a list of demands, that they are calling “Rules of Engagement” for what will be an almost certain riot.
Among their demands:
• 48-hour notice in advance of the grand jury decision for riot prep (presumably to stockpile rocks, bricks, bottles, etc)
• Unrestricted use social media and cell phones to shift and focus riots with impunity and without communications interference
• The ability to assemble mobs as large as they want, wherever they want, for as long as they want
• Police officers must allow rioters extensive latitude in their actions, while heavily restricting police response
• Police to have minimal defensive protection against rioters, no military type weapons or body armor
• Assurance the police won’t use the tools that may be needed to break-up riots once they turn violent
• “Get out of jail free cards” and ability to engage in “minor law breaking” such as throwing water bottles at police, who the protesters would like to be attired in khakis and polo shirts
Where do we live, America?
These riot organizers are so far out of touch they’re sending their rules of engagement to the police, as to what they will and won’t tolerate.
In the words of that great American philosopher, Jerry Garcia, what a long, strange trip it has been.
You are no longer in the “peaceful protester” category if you want a hall pass for “minor infractions.”
I don’t know many police who think it’s funny to have water bottles hurled in their direction and under no circumstances should they negotiate with crazy people.
As one person said, it’s surprising they didn’t ask for time rioting to count towards fulfilling unemployment job seeking requirements since the entire town seems to be unemployed and on drugs.
Wesley Lowery
Maybe rioting time could count towards time served if they’re arrested.
Your well coiffed Scribe kicked himself for not going over to cover the first riots, but that’s all about to change.
I’ve been in contact with Wesley Lowery, the Washington Post reporter who was arrested in the first riots. He’s gone back to wait for the outcome and has graciously agreed to meet with me, let me interview him on his experiences there as well as show me the ropes in Riot Coverage 101.
Stay tuned, it’s going to get interesting.
Karl, every major media outlet has positioned it as “rules of engagement” as you’ll see in the Washington Post headline and any other place you look. No race baiting, just covering what its already been called. I didn’t make it up, just reported it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/07/morning-links-ferguson-protest-leaders-ask-for-rules-of-engagement-for-police-response/
STL Post Dispatch – Rules of Engagement….
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/group-proposes-rules-of-engagement-for-grand-jury-announcement-in/article_1bf6dce8-4493-50d1-9789-d170f4cf96d3.html
Maybe Karl should read beyond the soft sell of CNN’s banner of “requests.”
AGAIN SHOE DOG MISREPRESENTS THE TRUTH…
OR JUST USES B.S. TO CHANGE THE STORY…
GO READ THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT….THERE ARE NO
“DEMANDS”…NO “hard standing demands”…read the statement…
PROPOSED…YES PROPOSED RULES OF ENGAGEMENT!!!!
and we have no information what group or idivdual
presented these and who they represented.
READ THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT…AND MANY OF
THE ITEMS WERE FAIR…SOME WERE EXCESSIVE BUT
WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE EXCESSIVE USE
OF FORCE AND OPENED THE NATIONS EYES TO THAT
FACTV THATTHESE POLICE DEPARTMENTS WERE
SO HEAVILY ARMED!
PROPOSAL AND DEMANDS ARE 21COMPLETLY DIFFERENT
ACTIONs!!!!! don’t you get it.
Lets go to a junior high and ask the kids if a proposal
and demands are different.
Fox channel 2 in the STL – rules of engagement. I’ll let it drop now. It wasn’t my idea, wasn’t my wording, Karl. Nice try, but I don’t make crap up….
http://fox2now.com/2014/11/05/protesters-want-prior-notice-of-grand-jury-ruling/
I hope the police come at them with everything they have. This entire deal is ridiculous over a thug….Take them down from the start…no more mr nice guys….
Agree totally, Mr. Steve, but as you can see above, I’m just a race baiter, JC style.
Good call, Steve. All this outrage over a cop shooting a punk who tried to wrestle his gun away from him. Here’s a novel idea…don’t try to take a cop’s gun!
My advice to the GOOD citizens of Ferguson?
Stock up on ammo.
….and pass the offering plate. After they burn down their own homes and realize they aint got no place to be livin…… what then? Oh, I forgot, FEMA will come in and build them a new town, likely.
What a choice of dwelling-moldy FEMA trailer, or ashtray.
Hmmmmm……..
They could move in 1,000 trailers and it would look like the projects in 90 days! Nice take, as usual, Lib.
I’ve made a conscious decision to not respond to our favorite short bus rider, Harley, as it serves no purpose. But while his jets are cooling in moderation, where all his worthless comments go before the get posted, I’ll respond to his upcoming accusations.
First in his list of things I didn’t get right, he brings up the “JoCo Stalker Case” and one Eric Kaplan. I covered that for weeks in its infancy. It was allowed, through lots of daddy’s cash and the the slow machine the court system can be turned into, to simply get continued and reset for months. And months.
Kaplans case came to a head and was reported in the Star on June 6th. I was in the courtroom for the final verdict but had so little interest in rehashing it a year later, I simply didn’t write it.
But the Star said; http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article509982/Stalker-guilty-in-Johnson-County-case.html#storylink=cpy
In August he was sentenced, I was there for that as well. He got 2 years probation with a back up 11 months in prison for any violation which includes a no contact order, no drugs, DNA testing and possible GPS tracking and polygraphs at his probation officers discretion.
So on the stalker case, Mr Harley, you are wrong. It was real, it was real all along and he was convicted. I hope this kid gets the help he needs or you will see him again. He had the kit in his back seat, he wasn’t kidding around.
Complaint Number One – Harley = WRONG
You should pay more attention to the news, then you’d know not only what happened to the stalker, but the IRS case you said would be dead TWO Memorial Days ago is still very much an issue.
Don’t rebut why, or that its really not, it IS. Plain and simple.
Then we move to the “jewel thief” which was, by the way, not my story. That was Hearne’s but you don’t pay attention to details. Hearne wrote it, he simply called me one day when I was in transit and asked if I would do a drive by, go in his office and see what was there. That’s what I did, and I reported back what I saw. So all this time, you’ve wrongfully connected me to the jewel thief story, it wasn’t even my story. I obliged my editor and took some pictures for him and reported what was in the suite. Period.
Complaint Number Two – Harley = WRONG
On the Sprint merger, I said one thing, held one premise through the entire story line, my people inside the FCC said it WOULD BE APPROVED as a merger. Nothing more, nothing less. Sprint voluntarily pulled out of the deal at Son’s direction. They simply changed paths. Had they gone forward, it would have gotten full approval. I think it was an enormous mistake on their behalf as they could have bought into the solution for all their woes if they went the T Mobile route.
Complaint Number Three – Harley = WRONG
With regard to the protesters “rules of engagement”, those are “demands” by anyone’s definition. I’m using the same terms every major news outlet and TV station is using. CNN used the soft sell of “requests” in their lede, I went with what all the other media is calling it; rules of engagement. If you have a complaint with me, you have it with the Post Dispatch, the Washington Post and the local TV networks in the STL. Take it up with them, asshat, I’m busy, I don’t have time to spoon feed you everything, that’s your moms job, not mine.
Complaint Number Four – Harley = WRONG.
Don’t get used to this, I’m not responding to any more of your drivel unless you bring up a cogent fact worth hearing. To date, I’m not sure when that’s happened. You were just so off base, someone with a brain had to set you straight this time.
There is no refuting what I just said, you don’t read closely. You can’t disprove what I said, you’re simply wrong.
Now go back to the basement, eat your Mom’s lunch she just brought down there, and stay out of the way. You’re going back on ignore, I just had to take this time to show you for the fool you are, IF, IF… your comments ever get approved.
There’s a reason you don’t get to post things directly to the comment section anymore, and its not because of ME. Its because you’re a repetitively redundant idiot that writes at the 3rd grade level with nothing of any value to say, even when it is posted.
Now be a good boy, take your meds and go back to make poop roll ups in your padded room.
no one knows whats going to happen. I will get back with my sources.
Shoedog is always wrong so why pay attention to his b.s…unluess
you live in Chillicothe or mayberry.
Someone..please tell me what shoedog has been right on.
I’m waiting…please because he’s got a 000000 per cent of being
correct on everything…it would be interesting to see if he actually
had anything right on kcc.
lets all pray that this comes out and there’s no violence.
but I’ve told you people for months now…theres a non violent revolution
brewing and if this thing spirals out of control it will affect all of us.
Dead on the money Paul.
Thank you, Chuck.
glad a guy like chuck agrees with shoedog. This is chuck’s kind of article.
One having to do with race…surprised you haven’t posted the same
vile crap you’re famous for at tkc. they love you there…you’re
their hero.
hahahahahahahah!
Most of the people in Ferguson want this to be over and quickly, no matter what the outcome. The media, on the other hand, are giving platforms to just about any out of town “coalitions” that have no business being in Ferguson. A majority of the arrests are rabble rousers from out of town. No matter what happens, there won’t be any winners here. The damage has been done to Ferguson and to St. Louis.
So correct, Randy; always the voice of reason.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
It would be interesting how many citizens are actually involved in the media circus. And how many undercover police are involved doing what they do best, stirring up the crowd and showing ’em how it is done.
Only the citizens of Ferguson can solve the problems there. Others can offer help and assistance but only those with the problem can solve it.
And of course America equates finding and pointing out a problem is the same as solving the problem.
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
I doubt that any of these protesters give a hoot about the two little girls that were killed in drive-by shootings in KCK and SKC.
The gentle giant was a thug.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause but no, doesn’t stop in Ferguson any more because apparently we can’t “all just get along,” Rodney.
Shy seeing the Rules of Engagement/’requests’ screen grab top of this article, would not (have wanted) believe it – more ridiculous than the old Bill Cosby comedy routine, ‘Toss of the Coin’ circa 1966-67 (because it’s conceivable in this topsy turvy day & age.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MGYoCNU5es