"FEAR AND LOATHING IN FERGUSON"

Fire bombs hurled at police by rioters in Ferguson

Living in a city with a large black population gives one, perhaps, a more balanced view of the nonsense going on in predominantly-negro Ferguson, Missouri.

First, the police.  No city should tolerate sociopaths working as policemen.  Sadly, we have seen some examples of this in recent years and it is not a pretty thing to look at.  Having said that, and not knowing all the facts of the Missouri case, we are not prepared to state that the police officer who shot the robber Michael Brown can be characterized as a sociopath.  We await the complete story, unfiltered by yellow journalism.

Second, militarization.  Yes, this troubles us as something that in the future could be used against people who demand their natural rights.  We see Ukrainians killing fellow Ukrainians right now in a classic scenario of an arrogant oligarchy crushing those who do not wish to be under the thumb of an oligarchy.  So, yes, it could happen here.  Indeed if things go on as they have been we think it likely.

Third, the rioters.  It would be hard to convince any sensible person that the best way to express your opinion about a police shooting is to loot, fire-bomb and assault.  Many scenes of two able-bodies young blacks hauling away $3500 high-definition television sets are not calculated to inspire much sympathy among those who have experience living in larger towns.  The looting of stores carrying expensive designer sun glasses and the latest overpriced Chinese junk sneakers likewise make us wonder exactly who is oppressing whom.

The basic facts of the case are simply stated in this short piece in Chronicles:

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/fear-and-loathing-in-ferguson/

These facts were already known to us as we watched in amazement the rioting that is going on and getting worse.  That an everyday occurrence like this in America's urban jungles - one that we read about five or six times per week in our newspapers - should spark such outrageous behavior by negroes is an indication of serious problems that short of a miracle will only grow far worse. For example, when government handouts inevitably begin to dry up the carnage to follow can be imagined.

But yellow journalism will always play to the emotions, and emotional people will react accordingly - except those who live in cities with large populations of fatherless, feral young black males with no impulse control and who are indeed genuine sociopaths - as well as a supreme embarrassment to the more cultured blacks who see them bringing shame upon their race.  Those who have to endure everything from boom boxes shaking the windows of one's home to litter and graffiti adorning once beautiful, quiet neighborhoods will understand what it is like to live among blacks who have not been brought up properly and who in over eighty per cent of recorded cases do not know who their father is.  Yes, it is that bad.  When one who has lived in a neighborhood for nigh in fifty years in tranquility must now hear gun shots and the almost constant din of police and/or ambulance sirens disturbing that tranquility it gives that individual a perspective.  As the FBI statistics make very clear: young, fatherless black males are out of control and are a public danger.  If that shocks us, it should.

Those of us who still have our memories of the 1967 riots see in this latest anarchy something all-too-typical.

Humanly speaking we see no solution to this problem.  It will have to be a Divine solution, somehow.  In the meantime we have to keep praying and keep our heads down and our doors locked.  That is the reality in large metropolitan cities today.

The rioting blacks of Ferguson issue a warning