FERGUSON PART IV: THANKSGIVING

On this day of giving thanks, I hope you’re all with friends and family and, if you’re caught in the Northeast storm, I hope you get through it OK.

And if you’re in Ferguson, Missouri, well, condolences. I hope you get through that storm, too.  If you’re NOT in Ferguson, you have one more thing to be thankful for.

For me, I’m thankful that I only have to watch CNN, currently the “all Ferguson, all the time” network, when I want to.  Not until last night did they even mention the murder of the young black man who may have witnessed the Michael Brown shooting and given honest testimony that favored Officer Wilson. However, CNN didn’t make that connection.  Conservative Treehouse did, a day or two before.  Thanks, Treepers!  .  Indeed, some of the most incisive commentary on this whole case can be found at the Treepers’ main website   This element of the case needs more investigation…

A lesson: mad dogs bite anyone, including their own. Among the casualties are the burned-down African-American church that Michael Brown’s biological dad attended.  And the bakery of the nice black lady who, throughout the whole mess, had been providing free food for protesters.  The difference between mad dogs and rioters is that no one blames you if you shoot rabid dogs.

Meanwhile, a couple of New York Times reporters have published the new address of Officer Wilson and his new wife. If that home is burned down, I think those reporters and their paper will bear significant responsibility.  (Someone on the conservative side has, in turned, put the addresses of the two reporters on the Internet. Please, folks, encourage everyone to leave that alone: don’t let them turn “us” into “them.”)  It would seem that some elements of the lynch mob have already put a price on Darren Wilson’s head.

Thanks to all the emergency service personnel who are sacrificing their holiday with their families for the safety of the good citizens of Ferguson and other locales that have caught the sparks of civil disturbance.

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