{"id":1724,"date":"2014-12-05T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2014-12-05T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:33:36","slug":"heya-right-wangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Heya, right-wangers!!!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.<\/p>\n<p>So for the last few days we&#8217;ve all been inundated with the (mostly) right-wanger cries of vindication of their views having to do with the &#8220;left-wing&#8221; media portraying what happened the Ferguson events as &#8220;inciting&#8221; and &#8220;hyperbole&#8221; and &#8220;infotainment&#8221; and &#8220;sensationalizing&#8221; etc etc etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which is of course, all true.<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t even get me started on what I think is happening with the media, tho I vehemently disagree with the right-wang on *what* is wrong with the media, I definitely DO agree that *something* damn sure is.)<\/p>\n<p>But not on this.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a pretty stark situation where the state of Missouri has systematically and for 29 years allowed to let stand a definition of how, why, and what circumstances allow the police to use deadly force, that has been <strong>struck down by the Supreme Court, 29 years ago<\/strong>!!!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;if this is true, (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/lawrence-odonnell-missouri-atty-general-admits-ferguson-grand-jury-was-misled\/');\" title=\"Raw Story O'Donnell report\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/lawrence-odonnell-missouri-atty-general-admits-ferguson-grand-jury-was-misled\/\">and it definitely appears to be<\/a>), then in order to believe that this isn&#8217;t a systematic and deliberate strategy to allow the police to be more &#8220;lax&#8221; with their freedom to kill, we would have to believe that for <strong>29 YEARS, <\/strong>every single Attorney General and every legislator and every governor and in fact every single person involved on the prosecutorial side of the entire Missouri Judicial System just <em>kinda<\/em>\u00a0 <strong>MISSED THAT LITTLE ITEM!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For 29 years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an awful lot of people at least smart enough to cheat their way through law school and\/or get a job that pays way more than MINE to miss something <strong>THAT FUCKING HUGE!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my contention that when something like that happens, it&#8217;s no &#8220;accident&#8221; or &#8220;slipup&#8221;. (It&#8217;s like Facebook and their &#8220;Privacy Settings&#8221;. When a company has billions of dollars and some of the best legal and computer tech minds available in the world on their staff, it&#8217;s no damn accident that you can&#8217;t make heads or tails of what the hell to do with all that garbage they throw at you to protect yourself on Facebook,<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.wired.com\/2010\/09\/six-reasons-why-wired-uks-editor-isnt-on-facebook\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2010\/09\/six-reasons-why-wired-uks-editor-isnt-on-facebook\/\"> it&#8217;s because they WANT it that way, it&#8217;s EXACTLY how they want it to be, incomprehensible<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also my contention that if that is INDEED that case, then there needs to be kinda a whole <strong>SHITLOAD OF JOB OPENINGS IN MISSOURI, COMING RIGHT UP!! <\/strong>That kind of <strong>FUCK-UPPERY<\/strong> is historic&#8230;&#8230;and anyone involved in it should be replaced and fined&#8230;retroactively.<\/p>\n<p>Now, one immediately has the thought that &#8220;well, at least the defense side of the equation here should have been able to effect some sort of change&#8221;, but remember, the ACCUSED in these cases would\u00a0 be COPS, not your average person. Someone who is part of that same Judicial System, being charged by that system. Not a single entity in that &#8220;contest&#8221; has any benefit in the law being upgraded to &#8220;non-prehistoric&#8221; status.<\/p>\n<p>A reasonable person might think that this is the reason why it was never changed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a reasonable person.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the stats, but I&#8217;ll go out on a limb and guess that not only are there very few to no convictions of police for shooting people in Missouri, but that any convictions of cops for such a thing were when the shootee was white, and UN-poor. UN-poor being WAY more important than skin color.<\/p>\n<p>So do you think that guy Darren KNEW that the policy they were operating under was 29 YEARS out of date, <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA\">or that the grand jury knew that too&#8230;.?<\/a> Or not&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"on.msnbc.com\/1yQRwfv\">Did you buy that AG&#8217;s little song and dance at the Grand Jury decision announcement?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Especially when they DID kinda pull a little weasel on it? &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA\">&#8220;There are two clear possibilities here. \u00a0Either the St. Louis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office was aware of this conflict and deliberately attempted to give the Grand Jury a false impression of the law, only to slip in a unclear, unexplained &#8220;correction&#8221; at the last minute which would be far too weak to override the prevailing impression gained from weeks of testimony which had been reviewed through a jaundiced lens&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA\">Or&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/04\/1349421\/-Missouri-AG-Confirms-Michael-Brown-Grand-Jury-Misled-by-St-Louis-DA\">The St. Louis County and other DA&#8217;s throughout the state have been <i>regularly misleading juries and grand juries<\/i> with the mistaken and wrong impression that probable cause is not required for law enforcement before deliberate deadly force can be deployed legally because they just don&#8217;t <i>know any better<\/i>.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at these links, and definitely watch the O&#8217;Donnell clip.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1725\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"on.msnbc.com\/1yR6QZv\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1725\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1725\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-1.24.43-PM-1024x614.png\" alt=\"O'Donnell show working over Missouri state AG.\" width=\"474\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-1.24.43-PM-1024x614.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-1.24.43-PM-300x179.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-05-at-1.24.43-PM.png 1729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">O&#8217;Donnell show working over Missouri state AG.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Right-Wangers&#8230;.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. So for the last few days we&#8217;ve all been inundated with the (mostly) right-wanger cries of vindication of their views having to do with the &#8220;left-wing&#8221; media portraying what happened the Ferguson events as &#8220;inciting&#8221; and &#8220;hyperbole&#8221; and &#8220;infotainment&#8221; and &#8220;sensationalizing&#8221; etc etc etc&#8230; Which is of course, all true. (Don&#8217;t even get me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,331],"tags":[614,111,580,612,351,610,611,613,116,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}