Missouri Rulers Cynically Let Black Businesses Burn in Ferguson

I was following the news from Ferguson, and two parallel things stood out. First, the police did their usual thing of refusing to respect the right of people to peaceably assembly (one of those sham paper "rights" "guaranteed" by the U.S. Constitution) and immediately attacked them when the anti-climactic refusal to charge killer cop Darren Wilson with any crime at all was announced. The police attacked with tear gas and various other "sublethal" weaponry.

Soon after, looters and rioters went to work on a street of black-owned businesses, setting fires in about a dozen. Odd, that with the gigantic local, county, and state police forces, plus the National Guard, this was allowed to happen. The white areas were heavily defended, so the angry mob attacked targets of opportunity- predictably. The have-nots got themselves some goods before setting fires. [1] 

Even more damning- no fire trucks showed up for hours.

Conclusion: the cynical political bosses of Missouri conspired in advance not to intervene against actual violence,

I've seen this pattern repeatedly in the U.S. Angry blacks finally pushed over the edge by years of racist oppression have their anger channeled into destroying their own community.

Just as young blacks assert their pride and manhood by forming rival gangs and killing each other.

The white racist establishment must chortle in their cocktails and martinis when they contemplate it.

They can discredit the protesters by lumping them in with looters and rioters. And they divide the black community. I'm pretty sure those black shopkeepers and their families and friends aren't down with having their stores burned out.

Those bastards must be pleased with themselves. They killed two birds with one stone.

My hunch, and analysis, was soon confirmed when journalist Amy Goodman, on the scene in Ferguson, reported as follows:

"Democracy Now! is on the ground in Ferguson Monday night as protesters were met by walls of police officers, many in riot gear and heavily armed. The burning and property damage was worst on West Florissant, a strip of largely black-run businesses. The National Guard, heavily touted by the governor? We didn’t see them there. We did see, though, a heavy police presence just blocks away on South Florissant, home to the Ferguson Police Department headquarters. That’s where we began. We’re here on South Florissant. Down the road are fires. Cars are on fire. We’re following a group of protesters. Right now the police in riot gear. We have also seen state troopers are moving in. So, we are going to follow the protesters who are walking down the street." [2]

"I want to talk about what burned and what didn’t. We were on South Florissant. In fact, I saw Jelani at South Florissant. The riot police were lined up. There were armored vehicles, automatic weapons. They were really taking on the protesters. But when we went to West Florissant where the buildings are, the businesses, mainly black-run businesses, there was no National Guard in sight. When we were here months ago, when we were here months ago on West Florissant, you cannot even make a turn there. They had completely sealed off the area. But last night, to our shock, we drove unimpeded right down West Florissant. People were breaking windows. They were setting the buildings on fire. This is black Ferguson that was left by the National Guard, is that right?" [3]

It's clear from Goodman's description that those in power deliberately wanted black businesses to burn. Now they can say "See? You NEED police to protect you from those hoodlums who protest cop killings. (And sotto voce to the white audience: you see how violent and crazy those blacks are? That's why we have to kill them from time to time.)"

1] I wonder how much of the arson and looting was the work of police infiltrators, informers, and agents provocateur, egging people on and even participating. That is standard operating procedure. A notorious example was the presence of FBI informer Gary Rowe in the car of Klansmen who murdered civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. He may even have been the triggerman. Viola had 5 children when the racist terrorists murdered her.

Another example was when an undercover FBI agent went on a terrorist assassination attempt with a member of an underground fascist terror group in San Diego, California, the Secret Army Organization. The target was a "leftist" professor, A shot was fired into the professor's house, hitting a woman in the elbow and permanently crippling her arm. Oh yeah, this stuff happens all the time in the Land of the Free.

2] "Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing," Democracy Now!, November 25, 2014.

3] "Riot as the Language of the Unheard: Ferguson Protests Set to Continue In Fight For Racial Justice," Democracy Now!, November 25, 2014.

A New York Times reporter on the Washington, D.C.-based "public" radio show the Diane Rehm Show today professed bafflement by the lack of fire and police response. Of course she would have to. Do a systematic analysis like I just did is the kind of thinking that cannot appear in "respectable" media. In fact, it helps if one is literally incapable of conceiving of such a "cynical" thing, in case one should inadvertently blurt it out. The cynicism of course is on the rulers' side, not on those who don't drink their Kool-Aid and instead expose their sinister ploys.