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Who Benefits from the Baltimore Riot?
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30 April 2015
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Who benefits from the Baltimore riot? Not the community. If not for the looting, the media would have been showing the Freddie Gray's funeral. That would have contained a lot of pathos. It would have further humanized the deceased. It would have displayed the dignity of the black community there. The looting hijacked the headlines. It makes protest look dangerous. It makes social change look threatening.
Who posted the notice telling people to loot?
Why did Baltimore close schools and public transportation, dumping thousands of high school students into the streets unsupervised?
There's no doubt that Toya Graham, the lady in the yellow shirt, and her son are real people. A lot of the other looters must be real too. I just wonder of some of them were agents provocateurs.
For years I organized progressive political protests in the US. The groups I was involved with became aware that they were infiltrated by agents provocatuers and agents saboteurs working for intelligence agencies, mostly the CIA and FBI. They plant people to do destructive things. Sometimes they are trying to make groups look more extreme.
Every time there is an economic conference, a "protestor" throws a rock through the window of a Macy's. Macy's isn't on the radar of the protestors, but it is a harmless, nationally known brand. The last time, the rock got thrown through the window of a Starbucks. I guess they finally realized they had to update their cultural references. I believe these actions could well be taken by government agents trying to hijack the headlines. Otherwise protestor's grievances about the disparity of wealth and poverty might make it into the media.
A while back three men protesting at an economic conference in Chicago were arrested in a "terror plot." Their lawyer says that the only thing the government got right was their names. The lawyers said that the police themselves brought the molotov cocktails. When molotov cocktails appeared in Ferguson, I found it suspicious. No one's heard of those things since the sixties.
All the protesters I knew were sensitive, principled people. The worst thing any of them would so would be to not give back an album they borrowed. No one was making molotov cocktails. A rowdy young male might say something, but that is all that he would do. No one would take up the challenge. We were trying to save young people from dying in wars to support foreign dictators, and fighting the return of the draft (which we did successfully.)
The police/federal law enforcement nexus also would like it if the headlines were about violent protestors. That way media coverage makes the protestors look bad. Otherwise the media might cover the protestors' criticisms of the powers that be.
The mainstream media has been far too credulous. They have the resources to find out who turned the Baltimore protests violent. Instead of doing that, they are obsessed with other things. Fox News said they have a source that implicated out of town people in Ferguson, Missouri, whom they referred to as "professional protestors." I guess that would mean that these protestors have been living in Ferguson all this time? Where? It's a small place. Fox News says their source is a data mining company who works for the government. Is this just an attempt to divert blame from government agents by blaming a mythical group of "professional protestors?" (I guess you could call the agents provocateurs "professional protestors" since they actually get paid.) I question if there are authentic "professional protestors" who are that disruptive, based on long experience. Maximum resources should be directed to see if these people are actually government agents.
When the Ferguson stuff was happening there was a report in alternative media about out of town people turning up with Virginia plates. CIA headquarters are in Virginia.
I am impressed with the tremendous dignity of black leaders in Baltimore. I've seen many intelligent people pushing for change. I've also seen some other people. The protests were going well until the day of the funeral. Were Baltimore teenagers the ultimate power behind the events that hijacked the protests? Was any failure to stop harm by police and fire departments incidental, or something more?
Demand more from your media sources.
Keep your eyes open. Not everything is what it seems.
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Read more about what I have to say about politics here:
http://www.longecity...cat-48-politics
Find my Twitter page here:
https://twitter.com/Luminosity3
Who posted the notice telling people to loot?
Why did Baltimore close schools and public transportation, dumping thousands of high school students into the streets unsupervised?
There's no doubt that Toya Graham, the lady in the yellow shirt, and her son are real people. A lot of the other looters must be real too. I just wonder of some of them were agents provocateurs.
For years I organized progressive political protests in the US. The groups I was involved with became aware that they were infiltrated by agents provocatuers and agents saboteurs working for intelligence agencies, mostly the CIA and FBI. They plant people to do destructive things. Sometimes they are trying to make groups look more extreme.
Every time there is an economic conference, a "protestor" throws a rock through the window of a Macy's. Macy's isn't on the radar of the protestors, but it is a harmless, nationally known brand. The last time, the rock got thrown through the window of a Starbucks. I guess they finally realized they had to update their cultural references. I believe these actions could well be taken by government agents trying to hijack the headlines. Otherwise protestor's grievances about the disparity of wealth and poverty might make it into the media.
A while back three men protesting at an economic conference in Chicago were arrested in a "terror plot." Their lawyer says that the only thing the government got right was their names. The lawyers said that the police themselves brought the molotov cocktails. When molotov cocktails appeared in Ferguson, I found it suspicious. No one's heard of those things since the sixties.
All the protesters I knew were sensitive, principled people. The worst thing any of them would so would be to not give back an album they borrowed. No one was making molotov cocktails. A rowdy young male might say something, but that is all that he would do. No one would take up the challenge. We were trying to save young people from dying in wars to support foreign dictators, and fighting the return of the draft (which we did successfully.)
The police/federal law enforcement nexus also would like it if the headlines were about violent protestors. That way media coverage makes the protestors look bad. Otherwise the media might cover the protestors' criticisms of the powers that be.
The mainstream media has been far too credulous. They have the resources to find out who turned the Baltimore protests violent. Instead of doing that, they are obsessed with other things. Fox News said they have a source that implicated out of town people in Ferguson, Missouri, whom they referred to as "professional protestors." I guess that would mean that these protestors have been living in Ferguson all this time? Where? It's a small place. Fox News says their source is a data mining company who works for the government. Is this just an attempt to divert blame from government agents by blaming a mythical group of "professional protestors?" (I guess you could call the agents provocateurs "professional protestors" since they actually get paid.) I question if there are authentic "professional protestors" who are that disruptive, based on long experience. Maximum resources should be directed to see if these people are actually government agents.
When the Ferguson stuff was happening there was a report in alternative media about out of town people turning up with Virginia plates. CIA headquarters are in Virginia.
I am impressed with the tremendous dignity of black leaders in Baltimore. I've seen many intelligent people pushing for change. I've also seen some other people. The protests were going well until the day of the funeral. Were Baltimore teenagers the ultimate power behind the events that hijacked the protests? Was any failure to stop harm by police and fire departments incidental, or something more?
Demand more from your media sources.
Keep your eyes open. Not everything is what it seems.
__________________________________
Read more about what I have to say about politics here:
http://www.longecity...cat-48-politics
Find my Twitter page here:
https://twitter.com/Luminosity3
