It was never designed to be either.
It is a place where the common good of the people lie. It is benevolent and not aggressive against the people. Government relies on law and not the power of violence that it owns by its very nature.
When Eric Holder went to Ferguson, Missouri he didn’t send in the National Guard or the military to govern. He didn’t declare a police state. He didn’t disrupt government or governing, he assessed the response of government to the people and determined it to be too harsh and outside the law of any real purpose. Attorney General Holder held those that governed responsible for their misdeeds in carrying out their responsibility.
The violence that existed across the country was in response of the cultural hubris that exonerated Kyle Rittenhouse. Those unarmed men he killed never received a fair trial.
The Kenosha police stood down to the anger that was filling the air. Rittenhouse and the cultural forces that turned him loose, including media, never followed the same good strategy of police who put life before property.
It was a time when African Americans felt very threatened. There is a long history of disruption by African Americans when they feel the hate of racism as was the case with Rodney King. It has always been the response of government to stand down and not cause escalations of any confrontation. There was always a clear understanding that life is more important than property. When angry people are afraid for their lives it can erupt in the only vehicle they have and that is fire. It is common globally. France and it’s fire brigades are a clear example.
Michael Brown and Kyle Rittenhouse were both 18 years old. Yet their outcomes were very different. Michael Brown was never afforded an hearing or a trial. The officer’s gun was his jury.
Unarmed people, like the men in Kenosha, Wisconsin didn’t have a chance against Rittenhouse with his illegally possessed weapon. Yet those men were gunned down as if common criminals destroying someone’s precious property rather than men who LEGITIMATELY feared for their own lives and wanted the world to know. Three dead men and a self-righteous bigot and the bastard walked. Why?
We, as a country are entering a very dangerous time. The USA is a tinderbox due to violent MAGA rhetoric and a president that seeks retribution not only for himself but the people that backed his particular form “of hatred of the other.” Trump has openly said he intends to declare a national emergency and he is already backed by an extremist House Speaker that has no valid proof of 3 million dangerous undocumented.
The hate “of the other” is all too familiar a partner to those that want to justify violence. We have a problem and it has been stoked for the past four years. The anxiousness of Trump’s intentions are palpable. Americans should act now to write the elected representatives to end the freely exhibited racism and cultural hubris before it gets started.
National emergency?
Where?
Texas?
Take it to the governor and tell him to do his job rather than whining about it.
