{"id":7370,"date":"2014-11-25T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:46:33","slug":"thoughts-on-the-ferguson-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/11\/25\/thoughts-on-the-ferguson-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Ferguson Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some thoughts via Twitter, from the night of the riots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\" >\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a>: No 60&quot; Plasma TV; no peace! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qPSlld2OQi\">pic.twitter.com\/qPSlld2OQi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537110586648440832\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On some of the shinanigans that went on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> scanner reports private homes are being broken into and set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537149462205177856\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a>:  Arsonists carrying canisters of kerosine spotted.  &quot;Spontaneous peaceful protests&quot;???<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537136715186851840\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Looks like Charles Manson is getting his &quot;Helter Skelter&quot; as a wedding present: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckDyWm5qSS\">https:\/\/t.co\/ckDyWm5qSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537130338536136706\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Sounds like quite a few reporters are getting the hell out of there.  &quot;Peaceful <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> protest&quot; indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537103807231328256\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It just got worse from there:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Police need to shut this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> riot down.  The more they let the rioters have their way, the worse the rioters will be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537109235499552768\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Police need to shut this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> riot down.  The more they let the rioters have their way, the worse the rioters will be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537109235499552768\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Dear police in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a>.  The idjit wearing Guy Fawkes masks are rioters or instigators.  Arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537097310371840001\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>And the stolen loot \/\/  RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MisguidedGhostg\">@MisguidedGhostg<\/a> YES. PROTEST. RISE. FIGHT BACK. YOU ARE THE PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE THE POWER. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537097496917721088\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>What we are seeing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> isn&#39;t chaos.  Chaos isn&#39;t planned.  The agitators race-hustling poverty pimps planned this.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537113800949104640\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OccupyWallStNYC\">@OccupyWallStNYC<\/a> The &quot;protesters&quot; sure are persistent at arson and looting! | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537120856506650625\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>&quot;Green&quot; is the fashion color of choice for violent druggie thugs \/ MT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/state_chumps\">@state_chumps<\/a> can we all wear green tomorrow for mike brown? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537105098129043457\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The &quot;protesters&quot; that shout &quot;No Justice, No Peace&quot; in actuality want neither. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537100797969203201\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>According to many twits tweeting about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a>, facts are racist.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537084041775026177\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course there was some levity, including watching DailyKos have a conniption fit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The only &quot;idiotic display&quot; is by ijdits like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailykos\">@dailykos<\/a> that prefer that innocent people be indicted in the name of &quot;social justice&quot; &amp; such.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537074353922265088\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailykos\">@dailykos<\/a> Failing to indict an innocent man on a quixotic charge for &quot;social justice&quot; is hardly incompetence or malfeasance. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537075938778161152\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Seeing lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ferguson?src=hash\">#Ferguson<\/a> pics with graffiti that says &quot;FTP&quot; &#8211; Surprised that many people know what File Transfer Protocol is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/537108655150493696\">November 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until the next violent riot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ferguson-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ferguson cartoon\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ferguson-cartoon.jpg 559w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ferguson-cartoon-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Thoughts on the Ferguson Riots\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Some thoughts via Twitter, from the night of the riots.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ferguson-cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some thoughts via Twitter, from the night of the riots. #Ferguson: No 60&quot; Plasma TV; no peace! pic.twitter.com\/qPSlld2OQi &mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) November 25, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On some of the shinanigans that went on: #Ferguson scanner reports private homes are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/11\/25\/thoughts-on-the-ferguson-riots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[15,22,46,24,42,30,48],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-democrats","tag-fail","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-scoamf","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}