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Ferguson: No Justice in the American Police State [Excerpts] 

Copyright Paul Craig Roberts 

August 21, 2014 @ 10:07 am 

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/21/ferguson-justice-american-police-state-paul-craig-roberts/print/

What I address in this article is non-evidential considerations that determine a jury’s verdict and the incompetence of Ferguson’s government that caused the riots and looting. 

The trouble with purely racial explanations of police using excessive force is that cops don’t limit their excesses to racial minorities.  White people suffer them also.  Remember the recent case of Cecily McMillan, an Occupy protester who was brutalized by a white goon thug with a record of using excessive force. 

McMillan is a young white woman. Her breasts were seized from behind, and when she swung around her elbow reflexively and instinctively came up and hit the goon thug.  She was arrested for assaulting a police officer and sentenced by a jury to a term in jail.  The prosecutor and judge made certain that no evidence could be presented in her defense.  

Medical evidence of the bruises on her breasts and the police officer’s record of police brutality were not allowed as evidence in her show trial, the purpose of which was to intimidate Occupy protesters.

The situation in Ferguson was so badly handled it almost seems like the police state, in responding to the shooting, *intended* to provoke violence so that the American public could become accustomed to military force being applied to unarmed civilian protests. 

In Ferguson all that was needed to prevent mass protests and looting was for the police chief, mayor or governor to immediately announce that there would be a full investigation by a civic committee independent of the police and that the black community should select the members it wished to serve on the investigative committee. 

It is entirely possible that the police chief, mayor, and governor lacked the intelligence and judgment to deal with the occasion.  In other words, perhaps they are too stupid to be in public office.  The incapacity of the American public to elect qualified representatives is world-renown. 

But it is also possible that Michael Brown’s killing provided another opportunity to accustom Americans to the need for military violence to be deployed against the civilian population in order to protect us from threats. 

Today Americans have no more protection against state violence than Germans had under National Socialism. 

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Aug 21, 2:49 AM EDT 

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