The St. Louis Riots: Where's COINTELPRO?

The St. Louis Riots: Where's COINTELPRO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZa1hOh1O8


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The Mike Brown Shooting What You're Not Being Told

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_icVWKO4_o


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The Disturbing Reason Ferguson Police Look Like Soldiers From 'Call of Duty'

The news: If you're following the events in Ferguson, you may be wondering why a group of suburban St. Louis police look like something out of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."





Image Credit: AP

The answer is simple and more than a little disturbing: The Pentagon is giving them weapons.

USA Today reports that the Ferguson police are part of a federal program called "1033." Established in the early 1990s, 1033 lets the U.S. government distribute "hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment" to "civilian police forces" across the country.

What does this mean? Instead of the traditional gun-and-badge combo, local cops look increasingly like they're ready to storm the beach at Normandy.

It's unclear what war they imagine they'll be waging anytime soon. But it's bad news: Their equipment ranges from handguns and automatic rifles to camouflage gear and armored vehicles, all of which they've prominently displayed at protests throughout the week.

In 2013 alone, USA Today reports the Pentagon transferred $449,309,003.71 worth of equipment to police departments nationwide. Cops have received $4.3 billion in ex-military swag since the program launched.

read on:   http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-disturbing-reason-ferguson-police-look-like-soldiers-from-call-of-duty/

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8/16/2014 -- Again! St. Louis Missouri / Ferguson meltdown - rioting, looting, attacks on press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qi1VpIH3MA&feature=youtu.be&t=16m34s


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Curfew declared by Missouri Governor Nixon.

Midnight to 5am.. no one allowed out in Ferguson.

Raw Video: Governor Nixon Press Conference

  http://www.kmov.com/news/mobile/Raw-Video--271532741.html

Transcript below the video.

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A mother's reflection on what's taking place in Ferguson

A Mother's White Privilege

As the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri show us, America’s racial tensions didn’t disappear when George Wallace backed down from the schoolhouse door. Dr. King didn’t wave a magic wand, and we never got together to feel all right. White America remembers this at ugly flashpoints: the Rodney King beatings, the OJ Simpson trial, the Jena Six, Trayvon Martin’s death. White America recoils in horror not at the crimes – though the crimes are certainly horrible. It’s not the teenagers gunned down, the police abuse, the corrupt trials. It’s this: at these sudden, raw moments, in these riots and demonstrations and travesties of justice, White America is forced to gaze upon the emotional roil of oppression, the anger and fear and deep grief endemic to the Black American experience. Black America holds up a mirror for us.

And white America is terrified to look.

To admit white privilege is to admit a stake, however small, in ongoing injustice. It’s to see a world different than your previous perception. Acknowledging that your own group enjoys social and economic benefits of systemic racism is frightening and uncomfortable. It leads to hard questions of conscience may of us aren’t prepared to face. There is substantial anger: at oneself, at the systems of oppression, and mostly at the bearer of bad news, a convenient target of displacement. But think on this.

I have three sons, two years between each. They are various shades of blond, various shades of pinkish-white, and will probably end up dressing in polo shirts and button downs most of the time. Their eyes are blue and green. Basically, I’m raising the physical embodiment of The Man, times three. The White is strong in these ones.

Clerks do not follow my sons around the store, presuming they might steal something.

Their normal kid stuff – tantrums, running, shouting – these are chalked up to being children, not to being non-white.

People do not assume that, with three children, I am scheming to cheat the welfare system.

When I wrap them on my back, no one thinks I’m going native, or that I must be from somewhere else.

When my sons are teenagers, I will not worry about them leaving the house. I will worry – that they’ll crash the car, or impregnate a girl, or engage in the same stupidness endemic to teenagers everywhere.

I will not worry that the police will shoot them.

If their car breaks down, I will not worry that people they ask for help will call the police, who will shoot them.

I will not worry that people will mistake a toy pistol for a real one and gun them down in the local Wal-Mart.

read on:  http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/a-mothers-white-privilege/

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Do you know why the US got to go down ? Because of the JudeoChristian population !

Is it not amazing how the US government in such a short span of time has utterly destroyed the American Dream ? Business shipped to South America and Asia while the American people was put on GMO food stamps and Trash TV.

There is a New World Order now and it does not include JudeoChristianity !

8/18/2014 -- Police state here -- National Guard deploying to St. Louis / Ferguson Missouri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qXyEvfe2A


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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A


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"A Human Rights Crisis": In Unprecedented Move, Amnesty International Sends Monitors to Ferguson

After a week that saw a militarized police crackdown and the imposition of a nighttime curfew, Amnesty International USA has taken an "unprecedented" step by sending a 13-person delegation to monitor the developments in Ferguson, Missouri. It is the first time Amnesty organization has deployed observers inside the United States. We speak to Steven Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA.

Watch video:   http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/18/a_human_rights_crisis_in_unprecedented

Full coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown and the resulting protests in Ferguson Missouri:   http://www.democracynow.org/topics/michael_brown

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RedEzra wrote:Do you know why the US got to go down ? Because of the JudeoChristian population !

Is it not amazing how the US government in such a short span of time has utterly destroyed the American Dream ? Business shipped to South America and Asia while the American people was put on GMO food stamps and Trash TV.

There is a New World Order now and it does not include JudeoChristianity !

I don't quite understand what you mean RedEzra   

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Ferguson, Missouri residents determined to fight police violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrP-rN4pv9s


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The US government is at war with its own population. Why ? Who does the US government work for ? Why transfer technology and industry to China ? Why turn the US into a police state ?

Not so long ago socialism massacred Christianity and Jewry in Europe and the US is the last serious stand of JudeoChristianity. If the US falls to socialism then JudeoChristianity will be wiped out everywhere.

Since socialism has become the governing principle of the US and even got a Muslim president with dictatorial powers through executive orders then it is only a matter of short time before Jews and Christians are persecuted and put to death for their faith in the US like what we now see in the Middle East and also Africa.

RedEzra wrote:
Since socialism has become the governing principle of the US and even got a Muslim president with dictatorial powers through executive orders then it is only a matter of short time before Jews and Christians are persecuted and put to death for their faith in the US like what we now see in the Middle East and also Africa.

The power of Love does'nt need religion to manifest but for those motivated by the love of Power religion is a sad tool used to divide and conquer.

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Ferguson Under Military Occupation – Executive Order Shows White House Knew About National Guard Deployment



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U.S. Preparing To Bomb Syria, FAA Shuts down Airspace To American Planes - Episode 445

Around 14:00 he covers Ferguson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SjVtLWU54g


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8/20/2014 -- Ferguson protests infiltrated by PAID rioters - Clayton, MO + West County next?   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jITlsJQMybg


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Special Ops Contractors & Former Navy SEALS Deploying to #Ferguson

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 20, 2014,

Asymmetric Solutions is a Division of Applied Defense Technologies. The St. Louis-based company is staffed by combat experienced SpecOps vets, including: Army Green Berets, Army Delta, Navy SEALs, SEAL 6, and Agency SOF. The company offers a real-world training environment with exceptional instructors on self defense from criminal violence.

On Tuesday Assymetric Solutions tweeted out that they were being deployed to Ferguson, Missouri.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-special-ops-contractors-former-navy-seals-deploying-to-ferguson/

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Mapping the Spread of the Military’s Surplus Gear


State and local police departments obtain some of their military-style equipment through a free Defense Department program created in the early 1990s. While the portion of their gear that comes from the program is relatively small (most of it is paid for by the departments or through federal grants), detailed data from the Pentagon illustrates how ubiquitous such equipment has become. Highlighted counties have received guns, grenade launchers, vehicles, night vision or body armor through the program since 2006. AUG. 15, 2014

  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/us/surplus-military-equipment-map.html?_r=0

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mudra wrote:

RedEzra wrote:
Since socialism has become the governing principle of the US and even got a Muslim president with dictatorial powers through executive orders then it is only a matter of short time before Jews and Christians are persecuted and put to death for their faith in the US like what we now see in the Middle East and also Africa.

The power of Love does'nt need religion to manifest but for those motivated by the love of Power religion is a sad tool used to divide and conquer.

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Socialism is not religion but the godless governing principle and mass murderer of the 20th century as in National Socialism AKA Nazism and International Socialism AKA Communism.

Socialism is a killer of religions and massacred millions of Jews and Christians in Europe. Socialism is a society of godlessness and that is what also the West has become.

Socialism is a virulent mind virus as is Islam and together they will try to wipe out any trace of true religion in the world and that is why Jewry and Christianity have been massacred and marginalized around the world.

What I Learned from Two Weeks in America’s Warzone Pt. 1

I’ll never forget the pain etched in their faces.

I’ll never forget the screams, the haunting pleas of mothers at faceless soldiers.

I’ll never forget the National Guard on rooftops, and Humvee patrols in an American city. The long lines of riot police, the frustration on the faces of young men.

I’ll never forget the resilience of a battle-worn community. I‘ll never forget the prayer circles, hopeful speech, and the unity, democrats and republicans, libertarians and socialists, standing side by side in the face of oppression.

Once a sleepy suburb of St. Louis, and now America’s warzone, Ferguson Missouri jumped into the headlines after protests over the shooting of a teenager sparked a militarized police response. Because over two years ago, I founded PANDA to prevent this very thing from happening, we have specifically banned 7 jurisdictions from being battlefields, and I needed to see if I could put my talents forward to help the community recover, I went to Ferguson. I was there for two weeks, and here are 20 things I learned living on America’s battlefield:

1. It was not about public safety, it was about officer safety.

When the Pentagon’s 1033 program to give surplus Department of Defense Equipment to local police and sheriffs’ departments started, the argument was to protect the public from drugs and terror attacks. In fact, in the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act that birthed the program, it was placed under “Subtitle C–Counter-Drug Activities” and gives preference to “those applications indicating that the transferred property will be used in the counter-drug or counter-terrorism activities of the recipient agency.

Those excuses are notably missing from the law enforcement leadership in Ferguson.

Not only did heavily armed tactical teams point sniper rifles at protesters in a daytime protest, but after a relatively peaceful Tuesday night, the Missouri Highway Patrol, in control since the previous Thursday, made it clear why the police looked like an occupying army.

“Officer safety is number one.”

-MHP Captain Ron Johnson

Officer safety was. Rights were a nice bonus.

2. The “rules” can be changed at will, for whatever reason

When I arrived in the parking lot of a burned out QuikTrip, the epicenter of the Ferguson protests, on August 16th, the 1st amendment was respected. People were allowed to roam freely, and the atmosphere took on a kind of jovial attitude.

Then, at 3pm, MO Gov. Jay Nixon held a press conference announcing a midnight curfew. Within the next couple of hours, people had to make a decision whether or not to stay after midnight, for no other reason than to break the curfew. Protest leaders made the community aware of the cutoff time and the risks. Still, this happened:

The next night was another midnight curfew, yet the police attacked at 930 PM, gassing several women and children who thought the protest was still “legal” at that hour. In fact, since the National Guard had now been moved in, no one was even allowed in the large parking lot near the police command center after an arbitrary hour of night. The day after that, at 1030 AM, police told everyone around the QuikTrip to keep moving or be arrested. You could stay here, you just had to keep moving. Then, they completely shut the Quiktrip parking lot down (with no authorization from the owner), telling us to leave or be arrested, and removing the main protest gathering place. Later in the day, most of the street was shut down.

The next day, police established an “Approve Assembly Area [sic]” toward the opposite end of W. Florrisant that the QuikTrip was on. We had to gather there, or be arrested.
Photo Credit: Kelly Owens

Photo Credit: Kelly Owens

Except then it wasn’t, because the next few nights you could walk around the streets of Ferguson, you just had to keep moving. I stopped once to update the livestream on my phone, and was threatened with arrest if I didn’t keep moving because “you’re filming.”

Read more at http://pandaunite.org/ndaa-live-from-ferguson-what-i-learned-from-two-weeks-in-americas-warzone-pt-1/#y7Pdz2KPquU0vEME.99

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