Weeks after the shooting of Michael Brown on a street in the middle of Ferguson, Missouri, the debate over what happened rages on, and citizens across the country are being fooled into being polarized.
If one believes the whole point of the incident Ferguson is that an unarmed black man was shot by a white cop, the shout over that belief becomes “you’re a racist.” If one believes that the action the cop, Darren Wilson, took was overreaction under the circumstances, the shout over that belief becomes “you’re a COP-HATER.”
And while both beliefs were at one point perhaps valid (if only for a few days past the weekend of August 9), the fact that they’re lingering on in the lexicon of America’s conversation about the entire thing has served two purposes that our errant, runaway government WANTS: Divisiveness, and distraction.
And if anyone out there still is under the misapprehension that Disclosure went to Ferguson for EITHER ONE of those things, allow me to inform those people: You are delusional.
Because the reason we went, when we did (long after riots and calls for Darren Wilson’s head on a platter) was to show one thing and one thing only, which is the headline of a Page 2 article we produced following coverage of our trip to Ferguson (you can read about that here, here, here, here and here) and which we now present to you without further ado for your noontime Read the Lead: The police state is here and you are funding it.
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In the nearly twelve years that Disclosure has been in publication, one of the “mission statements” of the organization—from the very outset, in early 2003—was to let people know of “the implementation of the police state in order for the government to control we the people as it moves toward federalization/globalization.”
That mission statement is the first of many listed at Disclosure’s website and Facebook page. It is topmost on the list of national subjects Disclosure has repeatedly told the public about as one of the many threats to this nation’s well-being and continued existence as leader of the free world, along with other subjects of importance such as illegal immigration, economic collapse, new and emerging diseases and the hijacking of Americans’ civil rights.
That mission statement has never changed. In the ensuing years since its inception, Disclosure has gradually acclimated readers to the facts of militarized police, and what the ultimate goal of “leaders” in this country, seeking to change the face of how America runs and is being run, plan on doing with all police forces in the nation. There has been resistance: Some blindly refuse to believe that Officer Friendly is no more, and is being trained to be Officer Menacing. But the facts are there, and they are incontrovertible. References to “nationalized police force” are now being made in police training material; and young, inexperienced, lower-IQ people are being sought and given preferential treatment for police employment over older, seasoned, officers who are the last of the old “gentle, neighborhood cop” to which youngsters could run if they see trouble.
Officer Friendly is no more. What has been developing in the years since September 11, 2001 is a brutal, unthinking, unyielding “Peace Officer” (NOT ‘police officer’) who does not ‘serve and protect’ the public, but is instead used by the corporations that hire them (all municipalities and states are incorporated, as are most counties) to “keep the peace” as a reactionary measure, not “police the town” as a preventative measure.
And if there’s no peace to keep, the officers trained to do so are now in many situations ensuring that the peace is disturbed, in order to “go in and ‘keep’ it.”
And nowhere has this notion been more abundantly clear after what happened in mid-August in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black man, after committing a strong-arm robbery, was shot dead….
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