Ferguson MO

[decatholic]

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Church is less than 2 miles for the heart of unrest in Ferguson MO. Let us remember the most Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle as this unfolds.

Did the president comments help this situation when he said,

“They need law enforcement more than anybody and there are a lot of communities in my hometown of Chicago, for example, who want to actually see more police in but they want to make sure the police are trained so they can distinguish between a gang banger and a kid who just happens to be wearing a hoodie, but otherwise is a good kid and not doing anything wrong.”

I would think a less divisive comment would have been a call to support the decision of the grand jury. A call for peace.

What can the Church do to help the employees impacted (those who cannot get to work because of violence and threatening protests)?
“It is proclaimed by the church in the teachings of social justice of the need to respect employees and their rights to a fair wage, enough work, safe environment to work in, and security in retirement.”

How can we help the workers who cannot go to work because of anticipated and real violence at their workplaces in Ferguson. How can we help the stores who are under a threat of violence from lawless destruction?

 

[meltzerboy]

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Church is less than 2 miles for the heart of unrest in Ferguson MO. Let us remember the most Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle as this unfolds.

Did the president comments help this situation when he said,

“They need law enforcement more than anybody and there are a lot of communities in my hometown of Chicago, for example, who want to actually see more police in but they want to make sure the police are trained so they can distinguish between a gang banger and a kid who just happens to be wearing a hoodie, but otherwise is a good kid and not doing anything wrong.”

I would think a less divisive comment would have been a call to support the decision of the grand jury. A call for peace.

What can the Church do to help the employees impacted (those who cannot get to work because of violence and threatening protests)?
“It is proclaimed by the church in the teachings of social justice of the need to respect employees and their rights to a fair wage, enough work, safe environment to work in, and security in retirement.”

How can we help the workers who cannot go to work because of anticipated and real violence at their workplaces in Ferguson. How can we help the stores who are under a threat of violence from lawless destruction?

Don’t forget the members of the grand jury, who must be under tremendous pressure. I agree that a call for peace in the Ferguson community by Obama would have been a more appropriate statement. I would also add that peaceful dissent is appropriate behavior in our country when we disagree with the decisions of any of the branches of government. Violence never helps the situation no matter how strong or justified emotions may be.

 

[unstoppable_II]

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Did the president comments help this situation when he said,

“They need law enforcement more than anybody and there are a lot of communities in my hometown of Chicago, for example, who want to actually see more police in but they want to make sure the police are trained so they can distinguish between a gang banger and a kid who just happens to be wearing a hoodie, but otherwise is a good kid and not doing anything wrong.”

I would think a less divisive comment would have been a call to support the decision of the grand jury. A call for peace.
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I would say that we have reached the end of the rule of law:

When Tawana Brawley, a young black woman in New York City, invented the story that she had been raped by white men, her cause was loudly championed by people who acted as if the truth or falsity of her story was irrelevant. And after it was shown to be false, her role in the story of black oppression was defended by some who wrote that even if she did fake the crime, her “condition” was the expression of “some” crime against her that entitled her to be the object of our grieving. Paul Butler has carried this way of thinking to its logical conclusion. Writing in the *Yale Law Journal *, he urged African-American jurors to free guilty African-American defendants of nonviolent drug crimes … In a penetrating critique of this mode of thought, [attorney] Jeffrey Rosen shows what should be obvious: Making the legal process the wholly subjective expression of group-determined minds ends the possibility of people from different groups agreeing about anything and converts the objectivity of the law into an expression of group beliefs.

And that means the end of the rule of law. – Prof. James Q. Wilson, *Moral Judgment *

 

[otjm]

I am old enough to have watched the activities around Selma, the freedom marches, the bombings and the lynchings, and heard Martin Luther King, and had friends go to the South in order to help to correct the abusive system.

Since that time, starting with the Civil Rights Act, and all of the subsequent legislation, and all that has been done to attempt to provide more and better education, jobs, and opportunities, for the black communities.

I have also seen the almost complete disintegration of black families. The abortion rates, the number of children born out of wedlock, and the extremely high number of black families with no male parenting is beyond mind boggling.

And while white America, through the legislative process has attempted to provide a hand up, I have seen more and more expressed racism from the black community.

We could sidetrack this whole matter by trying to go into all the causes, and I don’t want to go there. I don’t know why, but part of the bottom line seems to be that there is a strong element of victimhood, and those flames are fanned by the US Attorney General going out to start an investigation (anyone notice how quietly they have been pulling in their horns on that one?), and certain individuals whipping up protest fever, or as one black commentator said, “race pimping”.

I don’t know what the answer is to the issues in Ferguson, as they are the same issues in most communities. Unless and until they can stabilize families, I suspect we will continue to see victimization as the response to everything that happens to them.

 

[CaptFun]

“Hands OFF! Don’t LOOT!”

“Only YOU can prevent “For US!” fires”.

“If you FILM it … they will come”!