There seems to be a conflict in the minds of some people;
why is it so wrong for police to
confront protestors in Ferguson, Mo with armored vehicles designed for land
mines with machine gunners setting on top aiming their weapons at sign carrying
protestors and it is so right to
allow anyone who wants to own military assault weapons. The shocking scene of assault
weapon carrying police wearing camouflage and jackboots firing tear gas at crowds
of people was so alien to American cities that it caused people to consider
that we have to do something. This is exactly what Naomi Klein described as
happens in her excellent and edifying book, Shock
Doctrine. The strange twist in the current Ferguson story is that what people
are proposing is something to help people verses doing things to harm people; in
other words, they are turning the right wing weapon on the right wing.
I am delighted to think punks who think they look brave and
tough in pictures taken of them selves pointing oversized assault rifles off
into space. Finally, they have the opportunity to see the same stupid looks on
the faces of those “pseudo” military toughs toting assault weapons who were setting
behind machine guns on the roofs of armored vehicles confronting unarmed
people. The same stupid look we see on the faces of heavily armed people on the
boarders with Mexico confronting 8-year old children. I am reminded of the
stupid look on the face of their baseball cap-wearing idol, Ronald Reagan at
the wheel of the USS Missouri after spending untold millions of tax payers
dollar rehabilitating it; a battle ship is a useless weapon in the modern world
of missile warfare. Did he not realize that usually a low-level sailor is the
helmsman, the person who actually steers the ship?
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