Gearing Up For The Ferguson Verdict
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 15th, 2014
Good morning!
I know it’s Saturday and I usually post about Wonderful Women Of The World, but today I just didn’t get it together. So this is what you’re getting…
From Think Progress:
‘Ready For War’: 1,000 Police Officers Mobilized In Advance Of Grand Jury Ruling In Ferguson
Missouri National Guard
CREDIT: AP IMAGES
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said that he will call the Missouri National Guard, should violence erupt after the grand jury decision in the case of Darren Wilson. During a press conference on Tuesday, Nixon also said that more than 1000 law enforcement officials have completed 5,000 hours of specialized training over the past two months, in preparation for the verdict, which will be announced any day now.
In addition to the use of the National Guard, three police agencies including St. Louis County Police, city police, and highway patrol will follow the same command, if Darren Wilson is not indicted and protesters take to the streets. Many departments have invested in new riot gear.
Nixon also said that law enforcement officials have been in talks with “churches, schools, [and] businesses” to “listen to people’s concerns and develop strategies to specifically address them.”
“These measures are not being taken because we believe violence will occur but because we have a responsibility to plan for any contingency,” Nixon said during a press conference on Tuesday. “Violence will not be tolerated. Residents and businesses of this region will be protected.”
He also explained that he wants to maintain public safety while allowing people to speak peacefully.
But members of the community are interpreting a different message. According to Michael Brown’s cousin, Ty Pruitt, “The police are getting ready for war when they should be getting ready for a trial. That to me means they’ve already made their decision. We still feel terrible. Right now we feel about the same way we felt when [Brown] was lying dead in the middle of the street for four and a half hours.”
Activist Ashley Yates of Millennial Activists United also expressed concernswith Nixon and his plan. “Until the governor chooses to truly address the systemic issues that the murder of Michael Brown brought to the surface for many Americans, no press release or commission board will truly help this community move forward from this tragedy.”
Meanwhile, Brown’s parents, Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, spoke before the U.N. Committee Against Torture on Tuesday, calling for global intervention in America’s policing tactics. The couple asked a panel to recommend that “racial profiling and racially-biased police harassment across the jurisdictions surrounding Ferguson” stops, and for the Department of Justice to “conduct a nationwide investigation of systematic police brutality and harassment in black and brown communities, and youth in particular,” adding that the “methodology and findings of this investigation must be made publicly available.”
“Whatever the grand jury decides in Missouri will not bring Michael back,”Brown said. “We also understand that what you decide here may save lives.”
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November 15th, 2014 at 9:10 am
Guess that tells you what the verdict will be.
November 15th, 2014 at 9:56 am
Still don’t see how people look at the black people in Ferguson as the problem. Racism is the only culprit in regards to this Brown case. The cop could have acted appropriately by continuing to shoot after the fact. But instead of examining this, they instead decide to make it about why it shouldn’t be considered a crime to k!ll this young man based on who he was. Black Americans are truly under attack in this country.
November 15th, 2014 at 9:56 am
I don’t believe in life anymore, being black has to be the most unfortunately most beautiful thing that can happen to a human being.
November 15th, 2014 at 9:57 am
I hear you Afred#2. That’s exactly what it’s turned into. Damn shame.
November 15th, 2014 at 10:04 am
How pathetic this entire charade has become. And now the UN actually entertained the clown parents to speak about human rights and torture that occurs in the United States? You have got to be kidding me!
No other group (blacks) would be given a pass to act like they acted during the riots. This entire situation is not helping their cause or debunking any stereotypes…that’s for sure.
November 15th, 2014 at 10:09 am
What #1 Sonia said ^^^ – ZL
November 15th, 2014 at 10:14 am
To you white bastards that attended Gloria’s party yesterday with the claim that you got your facts from Michelle’s blog. No one on this blog said that it was the Native Americans that started scalping.
The truth is like every other horror on the planet, this one was started by white racists. The First Gov. Of California Peter Burnett authorized $1. per Indian scalp to be paid. That was not during any war it was after the US had signed treaty’s with the Californian tribes.
Indian children were sold as servants by Sheriffs at a sale as long as they had no parents. It was legal to shoot and scalp the parents then sell the kids who were consider property as indentured servants; untill they were 18. Indians were hunted and sold by whites and blacks who were free men at the time. Try Facts next time NOT BS! http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/anth6_americanperiod.html Happy fucking thanksgiving.
November 15th, 2014 at 10:27 am
I agree with you Jay#7, no one on this blog said that. But someone on it said that there is no place on the planet where a group of white men with guns have gone that didn’t end in a genocide or attempted genocide of the indigenous people there.
California is but another proof of that fact.
“A war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.”
– California Governor Peter H. Burnett, January 1851
Peter H. Burnett
“We hope that the Government will render such aid as will enable the citizens of the north to carry on a war of extermination until the last redskin of these tribes has been killed. Extermination is no longer a question of time–the time has arrived, the work has commenced and let the first man who says treaty or peace be regarded as a traitor.”
– Yreka Herald, 1853
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I recognize that my race will show their true evil side if given an opportunity and the means.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 15th, 2014 at 10:28 am
Less you think I am making those quotes up. http://obrag.org/?p=1412
November 15th, 2014 at 10:43 am
This account of what happened in Ferguson is the same as the history Americans are taught concerning a white man’s account of what he did during his occupation of this country.
It is ALL lies. There is no true accounts of major events affecting the developing of this country. The murder of 12 million native americans is a low estimate of the holocaust the american nazi got away with.
November 15th, 2014 at 10:58 am
The US nuclear submarine Jefferson City has a 150 man crew and is based in San Diego. It left its homeport on April 9 to record the activities of Aliens leaving the area around the Mariana Trench near Guam.
Now it can be told.
When it arrived the Captain decided that the small size of the aliens (DginWa) he was covering didn’t pose a threat to the huge USS Jefferson City. So he ventured closer than his orders suggested would be prudent.
The DginWa attacked by punching a hole in the sub and entering through that tiny hole. They materialized inside and showed the humans that they could mimic any size they wanted and disable the craft whenever they wished.
This was demonstrated by immobilizing the crew upon entry and taking the form of humans from the waist down while keeping the shapes of various creatures of the deep as their upper torso.
They then shrunk down and left the sub. As punishment for disturbing them they didn’t bother to close their tiny entrance point; neither did they tell the crew how they entered or where.
After they left, the sub’s crew noticed the result from the Aliens not closing their means of entry into the sub. The sub began to leak from the tiny entrance point the DginWa had created somewhere on the sub. That hole would allow a few gallons of water a day to leak into the sub at the moment but the longer they stayed submerged the greater the danger the pressure of the sea could enlarge the hole
Since the crew of the sub did not know where the entry point was they had to go to Guam to see if they could find it. The leak was too severe to risk attempting a return to San Diego.
This all happened on June 20, 2014. They surfaced and headed towards and arrived on Guam the following day. It was almost impossible to discover exactly where the tiny entrance was because although a water leak of some sort was apparent discovering it was difficult because they discovered a small leak could manifest itself as merely increased condensation or it could appear to be a cooling coil leak. The suspects were so numerous that it was not until November 2 that they discovered the tiny entrance point.
Another problem that was discovered is that those of the crew that were actually touched by the aliens now had unstable upper body torsos. They would begin to mimic living things their hands touched in their upper torsos. Scientists discovered that this was do to some type of radiation that transferred from the Aliens that touched them because those who had this ability reacted to a simple test for exposure to radiation that all crew members have to take when they are crew on a nuclear submarine.
This problem was compounded by the possibility that those the crew touched could also develop this ability or anyone the crew touched outside the sub. They were quarantined until the possibility of the transference appeared to be over. The government scientists discovered about a week ago that a re-occurrence of the mimicking problem had appeared in a member of the sub’s crew that they had cleared from having had any contact with the original infected members of the sub.
The scientists decided they would need a more secure location to check out the 150 man crew in, without alarming the world. They and the military decided that Pearl Harbor would provide the cover they needed since the USS Jefferson City was scheduled to undergo a 22 month dry docking overhaul there in the beginning of the summer of 2015. All that would be required was an explanation as to why they had to start the overhaul early.
However securing an area big enough to deal with the need to quarantine 150 men with a good enough reason why they can not have contact with their families and others is another issue. This one will definitely require some mental gymnastics. I am looking forward to their solution.
The government decided to move up the temporary shift of the USS Jefferson’s home port to Pearl Harbor to allow the family members to move there immediately. The plan was to allow those that were of minimum risk to interact with their families with caveats as how those contacts were to be conducted and to monitor the process. There doesn’t appear to be a cure or a way to determine who is affected or what the outcome of the infection will be.
The only thing that the scientists know is that time dissipates the ability of the infected person to mimic what he touches. They know this because non of the original infected are radioactive anymore and they have all lost all their mimicking abilities. Since time seems to be the only factor that stops the mimicking they are hoping that that by the time the sub arrives in Pearl Harbor at the end of November the danger will be over. They could not stay on Guam any longer because it would endanger keeping this secret. If it got out that the crew was contaminated it could panic the small island.
They also discovered that the aliens had tested the viability of leaving tiny robotic facsimiles of the various sea creatures that they mimicked in the shaft and auxiliary seawater systems of the sub as spy devices. This discovery increased the need to head to a place with the scientist who had the expertise to tackle such a problem. Flying them to Guam would not be an option if the government wanted to keep secret the fact that aliens existed and had the ability to thwart the protective ability of the U.S. Navy. So the USS Jefferson is heading to Pearl Harbor with a few alien problems caused again by humans underestimating the ability of beings that have the technological skill to reach across the Milky Way to visit this planet.
More importantly it would ruin Guam’s chief source of income — tourism. Again money is more important than the safety of those on the mainland so they are taking the risk of exposure to Hawaii and perhaps the rest of the the country.
HOWIE
November 15th, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Damn you are good Howie. What a fucking outstanding imagination. Is there really a USS Jefferson?
November 15th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Howie I love your posts. My science class will not have another assignment. That will be to locate and monitor the movements of the USS Jefferson City.
It makes for a great assignment of interest for them, and I get a bunch of unknowing experts finding out more about one of your post.
How do you get this stuff?
November 15th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Howie, the man on all things alien has done it again.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Howie, one word “Movies” you can make a fortune as a screen writer. I would pay to watch any movie based on your alien posts.
You are incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2014 at 3:07 pm
Paul#12, you are an incredible мудак. That russian for asshole.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:27 pm
I again offer you a majority share of the money we could make working together with me as the negotiator, and screen writer and you as the source of our movie ideas.
We are talking the possibility of making $$$$Billions$$$$ of dollars. I will do all the work for the exclusivity. Why are you giving away a fortune. It will just be copied, disguised as a fresh approach and put on the shelf for a year or two and then sold to a movie studio.
What a waste!
November 15th, 2014 at 3:29 pm
Paul#12, あなたが嫌いな人である. You are and asshole.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Howie, did any of the DignWa take any prisoners? Are any still on earth? What were some of the upper shapes the crew took on?
November 15th, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Howie, how long did the change last? Were all able to return to their previous form? Did they gain the abilities of the creatures they changed into or was the look only perfunctory?
November 15th, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Hafa adai Howie#12. Was anyone on Guam affected?
November 15th, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Howie, you rock hombre.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Just an incredible imagination! Take it to novels. Make yourself famous in your own lifetime.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Howie, here in the Philippines, you have a huge fan base. We love Sci-fi here. Your stories are fascinating.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Howie, Wena ngempela Man of All Things Alien!
November 15th, 2014 at 3:46 pm
Howie, Ngithemba ngolunye usuku ukukuhlangabeza. Wena nesizathu sami kokufunda isiNgisi. Ngithola izikhala zakho ukufunda kimi indodakazi yami. Ngineminyaka 72, kodwa ngifuna ukuhlangana ngingakafi.
November 15th, 2014 at 3:56 pm
I would love to meet a man who has the ear of the gods. You either have that or the best imagination on the planet when it comes to posting a tale woven to be this real.
My ex is a sailor aboard the USS Jefferson. I received a notice from his family that he would be quarantined for a brief period do to possible exposure to a radioactive leak aboard his vessel when the USS Jefferson arrives in Hawaii.
His family sent it to me to keep me from flying out to meet with him. I thought it was a lie to keep us apart. But a friend told me to check this blog out.
She said there was this regular on her favorite blog who is a friend to alien gods that tell him stuff about aliens that visit the earth. She said that you posted something that could prove that his mother was not lying.
Unbelievable!@
November 15th, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Howie#12, I read this blog because of your post. I speak english well but it is difficult reading it. You make it all worth while.
November 15th, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Are You Covered?
November 15, 2014
Congresswoman Pelosi discusses the benefits of the Affordable Care Act and how Covered California is working to ensure all Californians have access to affordable health insurance.
Over 1.3 million Californians have enrolled in quality, affordable health care in California’s health insurance marketplace, Covered California. Another 2 million more now receive care as a result of the expansion of Medi-Cal under the Affordable Care Act. The landmark law is strengthening the physical and economic health of our nation as never before, ensuring that health care will be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Starting on November 15th, San Franciscans may apply for Covered California plans for 2015.Open enrollment ends on February 15, 2015. Current Covered California plans must be renewed by December 15th to avoid coverage gaps.
Congresswoman Pelosi joins Chef Tom Colicchio; Richard Carranza, Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District; and Kristin Groos, Revolution Foods CEO, at Mission High School to demonstrate the importance of healthy eating at school and at home.
Happy and Healthy Holidays
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November 15th, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Howie, your Filipino fans are growing bigger by the posts. You are on hundreds of islands in our archipelago.
November 15th, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Thanks for the early Xmas gift Howie.
November 15th, 2014 at 4:30 pm
A man I have been dating exclusively for more than 2 months invited me to see the completion of his new home before he had his official open house. I felt flattered so I agreed to go.
But I had to attend a casting call so I asked my identical twin sister to go. She is a spy buff. She has a camera on almost every part of her clothing. She buys anything that will allow her to spy on people.
I asked her not to leave any of her spy equipment at my date’s house but she did anyway. She left a few devices and told me where they were so I could retrieve them when I went to his home.
I was so embarrassed that I was about to call him to tell him where they were and ask him to remove them. But Erica, my twin, showed me a portion of some conversation he was having with two of his male friends.
They were discussing the best ways to con women into fucking them and the “legal” ways to just “take it.” This guy said that he hadn’t made a sexual pass at me because I was movie star material and he wanted to appear different from the guys I probably met who were only interested in my beauty and hollywood connections.
He said “the bitch has me on some 90 day test which I will pass if it takes 120. I had her over and I didn’t make a single sexual advance. We kissed and petted but I let her lead.
Then he showed them pictures of me using the bathroom, but wondered aloud why his other cameras didn’t work. I later discovered that Erica had taken with her a device that tells you when someone is using a camera to record you and it has the ability to jam the camera’s infra red signal.
This allowed her to plant her own. Now I have pictures of him wiping his ass. I also have pictures of him using a drug that doesn’t knock a woman out but does increase her sexual desire.
They were passing around and discussing the potency and after effects of several different kinds of those drugs. I didn’t know those kind of drugs existed. I thought it was just a male fantasy to have a drug that would make a woman want to have sex.
What’s next something that makes us attack men sexually?
November 15th, 2014 at 4:38 pm
China has agreed to support the US should we have a beef with the russians in exchange for a tourist visa that allows a chinese tourist to stay 10 years in the US instead of the present limit of 1.
Obama feels the more China has invested in America, the less likely they want to go to war with it. He also knows that the more exposure chinese visitors have with the american democracy the less likely the chinese people will want to support a government that wants to go to war with America.
I like the way he thinks.
November 15th, 2014 at 5:48 pm
Wow, Howie, that’s a knock out story. Amazing, I’ll wait anxiously for the answers to to the questions above, they’re what I same up with also.
Kent, you keep talking but when are we going to see one of your movies …
I’d recognize the material, I’m sure … I know Howie has ambivalence but I think this whole blog and the stories within it would make a decades long franchise for a smart writer, paying handsomely the host and Howie amongst others.
Howie, don’t get mad at me, okay, it’s just that someone is going to do it eventually and it’d be a tough call to prove it’s ‘intellectual property’ here or copyrighted, just like a patent all you have to do is change it up 15-20% and you don’t really have a case. I would just hope that it’s done well : ) Luv you and you know it.
And I’m sorry the bigots of Amnesty have let you down, someone here said it though, there are many bigots presenting as non-bigots, they do it in print and point fingers at each other after …
ridiculous and crazy and why the F are people so Xenophobic, homophobic, etc-phobic … small children aren’t as scared as some adults, pathetic.
MikeTM, I think the Chinese are right behind the Brits in owning more US property that Amerikans do so it would behoove us to accommodate, besides which everyone knows in 20 years it’s going to be all about Asia not the US, we better start making some smart alliances. Too many Amerikans just don’t get Obama’s moves bc the man is way ahead of his time and many ‘mericans are just too busy focusing on what OTW progress they can thwart next. Thank you for the info thoug, it’s appreciated.
Luv, Zen Lill
November 15th, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Zen Lill#34, obviously you are not as astute as you think you are about movie plot concepts as you think you are. I have sold 7 of Howie’s post. 6 have been developed into major motion pictures.
Four of those six have been or are presently in theaters. Three of which are major blockbusters. You tell me if you recognize the gem that made the plots.
Kent.
November 15th, 2014 at 7:15 pm
Kent, apologies, I don’t get out much (not to blockbusters, I’m a NetFlix addict : ) though I am headed to go interstellar bc it sounded like something read here with a few twists, I better start scanning the last few years of movies … and catch up!
Thanks for responding.
- ZL
November 15th, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Fuck You Kent, You are nothing but a punk liar. Would you like to know first hand and be the main character in Howie’s next post?
November 15th, 2014 at 8:48 pm
No problem. I can’t name the movies because I don’t want a lawsuit from Howie or the people in my business.
You needn’t apologize. It would be difficult to discern an expert’s manipulation of another’s story. Years of experience has horned our skills on how to evade a plagiarist charge.
It’s just a need of the business.
November 15th, 2014 at 8:55 pm
Chris, just what have I said that would be a lie? I am fully capable of working with Howie with upfront money based on the post he has already done.
If he is not satisfied with the check I will send him BEFORE he agrees to work with me, then you can call me a liar. But until then you are being premature with your accusations.
This is a very competitive business. Sci-Fi is all the rage. The biggest block busters of the next decade will continue to be about space. One day aliens will reveal that they are present.
It will only make the desire to see more alien inspired films grow precipitately.
November 16th, 2014 at 1:53 pm
[…] Nancy Pelosi: Thanks for the reminder. […]
November 17th, 2014 at 9:36 am
[…] Hi, Howie: Hey there – How are you? I am always into the stories that you post. Your last one was certainly fascinating. However, my questions and curiosity has to do with Carr. I am just wondering how often you talk or see each other. And is there ever or has there ever been a time where you were not in communication? I mean if a God lives forever, even if you didn’t speak to him for years at a time, which would be significant for any human, would it only feel like seconds to him? And since the Gods do not want to know everything all of the time, has Carr ever forgotten you because he has removed you from his mind temporarily for any particular reason? And what about his two brothers…are you in communication with either one of them as well, or have you ever been with Carr and one of his brothers together? Since if I recall, one is always missing, and the two are forever looking for the third. […]