Jackson Jambalaya

Well said!

Incredible poise and uplifting. Also courageous !

Hope he is appreciated

Sheriff, I hope your tax returns are all filed timely and properly. Because you know that POS Holder is having them scoured. Good luck, Sheriff.

This guy is the genuine article! I haven't seen this on the news.., have you? My hubby and I agree wholeheartedly with him!

An acquaintance is a MO State Trooper that was deployed to Ferguson. He's been shocked at how everything has been portrayed. There have been as much media personnel as "protestors". There are thugs looting, burning and shooting, but on the periphery, there is something much more sinister.

On Sunday he watched 3 busses load up with volunteer protestors.... well not really volunteers. It was a bunch of people from the east coast who were paid by some faction of the Democratic Party to come and protest. $250 per day plus room and a per diem.

There were instructed to protest peacefully and attempt to be arrested but do not resist or cause a commotion. Just submit to the arrest and do it again.

Sometimes "protests" would be staged "here" and it would be set up to ambush responders to a series of fires on the other side of the protests.

2 vehicles loaded with individuals wearing black masks were riding around shooting semi-automatic rifles claiming to be Black Panthers.

There's a bunch of other random comments he's made that I can't remember off the top of my head

Paying protestors is not new. I can remember protestors being paid to travel across the Delta to Greenwood to harass and bump into white shoppers in the 1960's.

It would take and idiot not to see that Obama, Holder, and others are stirring racial divide in this country. At present is seeking election through immigrants, blacks, and the inexperienced/uninformed youth. I would vote to give Obamas, Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others, one way/no return tickets to Venezuela.

Whether you agree or disagree, protests are a part of a democratic society. The stirring of racial divide has more to do with unarmed black males that were killed by law enforcement. People will disagree about use of excessive force in Brown. However, I don't think anyone will disagree that excessive force was used by police in Garner death.

There was a hek of a lot more going on than "paid protestors". What happened that night was HIGHLY orchestrated by people with explosives experience, not just impoverished black people pissed off-
If you saw the ground view then it looked like anarchy; the sky view tells a completely different story.

I don't think excessive force killed Garner. I think his 300 lbs , weak heart contributed. Why come he didn't just get arrested for the 32nd time. He would still be living

It is also the result of the city of NY sending peace officers to enforce peddling laws protecting "storefront businesses" because they got to sell over priced cigs.
The city will go apeshit if you tamper with the almighty tax revenue. Do,you think those cops consider selling cigs the crime of the century? they only go where the store owners direct them .

Wow. Why won't the media play that speech every 2 minutes like they do Al Sharpton or some of the other instigator do nothings? He's right on the money. Very well said!

7 DEC at 9:09 PM,

Something along the lines of your comment was addressed in-depth at the Ace of Spades HQ, which Kingfish has linked in the sidebar. The gist of Ace's argument, at least as far as I can remember, was that we expect police officers to enforce laws, even those laws which are, frankly, a bit silly. If a law is not meant to be enforced, they why have it on the books in the first place?

I know very little about the Garner situation, but I believe that the question of onerous laws and what we expect from law enforcement officers in enforcing those laws is one worth addressing.

8:23 am I would think this a matter of proportionality.

Not all laws are felonies whether " onerous" or not.

It bothers me that no one asks if there were other, more sensible police actions that could have been taken deal with both the Ferguson and NYC incidents.

In both cases, the arrests could have been made with no one being harmed. And, to me, when the " crime" is does not rise to a felony, then law enforcement should know the alternatives that will not put their lives or anyone else's at risk!

Garner didn't die of a heart attack as some suggests. The autopsy was clear on the cause of death and said " homicide".

"In both cases, the arrests could have been made with no one being harmed."

You seem to be a special kind of stupid. Brown, according to eyewitnesses and forensic studies, punched out Wilson and shot off his gun (which is how gunpowder residue got on the deceased's hands). If you grab a cop's gun and shoot it you should expect to die. Cops are not expected to give their lives so thugs can walk away.

Those of us who were raised by fathers as well as mothers know you don't grab a cop's gun, shoot it, and expect to suffer no consequences.