Ferguson MO, USA

Interesting, the situation in Ferguson, MO. For one thing, the protests keep going on day after day! Bravo! Though I've gotten wind of no other "disturbances" breaking out around the USA. JUST Ferguson. Also, the reports from the mainstream are interesting in terms of what they DON'T say, as well as what IS talked about. To wit: it took until Yesterday, when I saw a pic of a burnt-out convenience store to realize the situation is "For Real," and that the looting and burning aren't just a media-driven concoction. I'm serious about this - I had no real way of knowing just what are the facts on the ground - for all I knew the general state of mayhem might have been made up out of whole cloth. Thearbiters of public opinion are THAT hesitant to describe what's going on, lest the contagion spread, I guess! I also listened to some radio reports, particularly on the Thom Hartmann show, almost always a good source. The police repression has been pretty severe. The cops are using CS gas, which is notoriously disabling and tossing highly incendiary outdoor flash bombs. One man had his clothes on fire; whether he was an actual rioter, that wasn't entirely clear. If the police and their overrseers what this to stop, they need to stop shooting and killing unarmed youth, in a disproportionately LARGE percentage of such cases, black youth. http://www.stltoday.com/news/special-reports/michael-brown/#utm_source=stltoday.com&utm_campaign=hot-topics-2&utm_medium=direct