FERGUSON : A REPLAY OF TRAYVON MARTIN

Good morning friends. By now you've all seen the reports of more rioting and the plans for demonstrations all over the country. My feelings? What a crying shame. Why that? Because it might not be happening at all if the mainstream news had covered the story properly from the beginning.

Just as they did in the Travon Martin case, they refused to report the FACTS, and instead reported what they wanted to. Which is a viewpoint that fits into their political worldview. Much of the evidence and testimony examined by the grand jury was reported very early on by alternative news sources. But CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the leftist print press IGNORED the EVIDENCE. Is it any wonder the people are so upset? I'm not condoning rioting in any way, but the way this case was reported made it seem like another an out and out incidence of police abuse of power. They report on the huge imbalance in the number of blacks vs whites in the prisons, but they don't report that the reason for that is because blacks are committing crimes at the same ratio.

Here's a link to an excellent article on this subject : http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/family-secret-what-the-left-wont-tell-you-about-bl/

Why is it a huge deal every time a white cop shoots a black person, but it's nothing when a black cop shoots a black? If you wanted to spend a day digging, you could come up with a thousand instances of that happening that you never ever heard about. Maybe the letter writing campaigns need to start targeting the news outlets. Demand they pay for all the millions of dollars of damages that are occuring right now and will occur in the following days.

Martin Luther King was a great man who accomplished a tremendous amount of good. Jesse Jackson / Al Sharpton et al have done nothing but instill an angry victim attitude in their followers. And those who stand up and speak the truth are reviled as Uncle Toms.

Let's all hope this passes quickly
Dumb Farmer

WHERE IS THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE???

This mornings news had two reports that finally tripped my trigger to write a post. But it wasn't just those two reports, it was the accumulation of similar reports over the past several years. This is a large country, with a population upwards of 300 million, and one needs to take that into consideration when you see an item here and there about official misconduct, or just stupid behavior. But when report after report after report of outrageous (and many times illegal) conduct by police all over the country keep surfacing daily, sooner or later you have to realize, Houston, we have a problem.

Another instance (this makes at least a dozen I've seen in the last several months) of a police swat team conducting a no-knock raid ON THE WRONG HOUSE. Two or three of which resulted in severely injured children, and several with completely innocent people killed. The latest also involved the FBI and the suspect hadn't lived in that house for FOUR, yes 4! MONTHS. How in the hell does that happen? What kind of incompetent morons are running these "investigations"?

Just a couple right off the top of my head:
Police running "no refusal" DUI checkpoints where every driver stopped is forced to take a breathalyzer test, and a refusal results in a trip to the police station where a nurse is on duty and they FORCEFULLY take a BLOOD SAMPLE.

Virginia police trying to take a 17 year old boy to a hospital and have him injected with something to cause an erection so they can photograph it and compare it to a picture he sent to his girlfriend (who was also sending him nude pics, this wasn't some unwanted harrassment).

Police in Nevada arresting and hauling  a man off to jail because he refused to let their swat team use his house as a headquarters.

The picture of  CHP "officers" pointing their rifles right in the faces of innocent drivers at a roadblock not even driving the type or color of the car of the guy they were looking for.

I could go on and on. These kinds of things were totally unthinkable in this country just 10 or 20 years ago. So, what has happened to the land of the free?

And what about the home of the brave? What has happened to our young men? Reports from the very recent FSU shooting reminded me of the UVA mass shooting several years ago. The one person who tried to stop the guy instead of cowering under desks was an 80 year old Holocaust survivor professor. There's no more fist fighting, that takes guts. Now they shoot each other. Really a cowards way out if you think about it.

The problems in our society today are complex, and there is no easy solution to getting back to the realization that our individual problems are OUR problems. That they are not the fault of our family, friends, government, or society. Back to individuals taking responsibility for their own actions. For feeding themselves and their families. But we CAN do something about widespread abuse of police power. Time to write your elected officials - local, state, and federal - again. Demand they reign in the unconstitutional heavy handed behavior becoming so widespread in police forces around the country.

Stand up for what you believe. I remind you again, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Dumb Farmer