If They Arrest The Motherfucker The "Rioting" Will Stop!

[Cal Carpenter]

45. Yep. Ain't much more to say.

(umm, but apparently I'm saying it anyway)


Until there is recourse and accountability this state of 'emergency' will not end.

You are on point.

The obsession with property has to end, particularly in *this* context when the life of a young black man is worth nothing, when there is a war against the poor and against minorities and so many people refuse to see that this is SYSTEMIC, it is not an exception. FUCK property. It is becoming so obvious that protecting property is the ultimate purpose of the police. And a human body doesn't count as property unless it is lucky or well-connected.

What is a community supposed to do when there is NO RECOURSE?

All these people who thought getting a black man from the highway patrol on the job would do the trick, a symbolic move, while 2 days later after more bullshit from the local cops and now a patronizing paternalistic 'curfew', man this is so deep and the only fucking silver lining is that people are finally seeing it.

The state of 'emergency' is that the people in power are freaked the fuck out and they don't want to dig their hole any deeper in violence but the only way to do that is to *be straight* about what the fuck is going on. To stop with this nominal symbolic shit and confront the fact that CONDITIONS ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AND THERE IS A WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE.

This is not just in Ferguson, MO, this is in NYC and Oakland and Ohio and Hollywood. --MoJo

Damn.


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