[White Supremacy is Big Business] Ferguson protests send Taser stock up 30%

From [HERE] As the protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police shooting of Michael Brown, shares of Taser International (TASR) have soared 28%. The company is most well-known for its taser guns that shock people, but it also makes wearable video cameras used by law enforcement.

Investors are betting that allegations of heavy-handed police tactics during the Ferguson conflict will spur sales of the video cameras.

The thinking is simple: If the film is rolling, a record will be made of any officer who engages in police brutality. At the same time, the videos could provide another layer of credibility for police by showing what they are seeing when they are out on patrol.

Interest in equipping police with body cameras has swelled nationwide. Pilot programs using Taser's products are underway in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, and London. New York may soon follow suit as a result of scrutiny of its controversial "stop and frisk" policing.

Even smaller police departments like Rialto, California, a city of 100,000 with a police force of 115, have been experimenting with Taser's cameras for some time. Taser is one of only main two companies currently making the cameras. The other, Vievu LLC, is private. [MORE]

The same makers [white people] of tear gas canisters being fired at Palestinians [non-whites] by Israeli [honorary whites] forces have also supplied Missouri authorities

From [HERE]  Tactics and ammunition used by area police and Missouri National Guard forces against Ferguson protesters - as well as bystanders and journalists - have come under deep scrutiny, as RT has previously reported. The heavy-handed response to civil unrest highlights the overall trend amid the “wars” on terror and drugs in previous decades to arm local police departments with the fruits of the military-industrial complex.

In Ferguson, those on ground have been subject to the use of tear gas, armored vehicles, rubber bullets packaged in cluster grenades, flash bangs, smoke bombs, sound cannons known as Long Range Acoustic Devices, bean bag guns, pepper spray, wooden batons, the presence of German shepherds, the issuance of a no-fly zone over the area and darkness aided by night vision goggles, not to mention other violent threats made with firearms.

Citizens, activists, and journalists have chronicled much of the weaponry - including Cold War-era riot grenades - used by state forces in Ferguson.

Manufacturers of these munitions have come under fire, as well. Activist Mariam Barghouti pointed out that the same makers of tear gas canisters being fired at Palestinians by Israeli forces have also supplied Missouri authorities.

YES! Magazine reported that the company is Combined Tactical Systems based in Pennsylvania. With American funding, the company has also supplied tear gas canisters to regimes in Bahrain and Egypt for use against protesters, according to Mondoweiss.

The St. Louis County Police Department is using Combined Systems munitions, according to Truthout,while the Ferguson police and Missouri State Highway Patrol have used products made by Defense Technology, a division of The Safariland Group. The two contractors are responsible for the bulk of 'less-than-lethal' ammunition used in Ferguson, according to the report.

As it so happens, Combined Systems, Inc. and the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which is navigating state forces against angry and concerned citizens in Ferguson, are both scheduled to take part in the 73rd annual Military Police Expo to be held next month in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, hosted by the Military Police Regimental Association. Fort Leonard Wood is a major US military base and headquarters for the United States Army Military Police School. [MORE]

Missouri Lt Gov: 'Justice is one of the great advances of Anglo-American civilization' - [Justice Rises No Higher than the Stupidity or Treachery of those who have been [s]elected to administer it']

From [HERE] Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (R) on Tuesday called for Gov. Jay Nixon (D) to reinstate the curfew in Ferguson to allow the justice system — which he said was a product of “Anglo-American civilization” — to do its job.

Following Monday night’s clashes with police in the wake of the death of slain teen Michael Brown, Kindler told MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow that Nixon had been wrong to end the curfew in Ferguson.

“I don’t understand an argument for not reinstating it,” he insisted. “I don’t understand that. I’m not trying to be overtly political. I am saying, the people of Ferguson, the people of the state of Missouri are crying out for leadership.”

Before Farrow ended the interview, he asked the lieutenant governor if he agreed with Ferguson Mayor James Knowles that “the perspective of all residents” was that there was no “racial divide” in the city.

Kinder said there was “no question” that race was playing a role in what was happening in Ferguson.

“We do not do justice in America in the streets though,” he argued. “We have legal processes that are set in motion, that are designed after centuries of Anglo-American jurisprudence tradition, they’re designed to protect the rights and liberties of everyone involved.”

“That includes the Brown family, for justice for them and for the community. It also includes the officer who has not yet been charged,” he added. “Our constitutional and our Bill of Rights protections have to be followed here, and we do not do justice in the streets.”

“That’s one of the great advances of Anglo-American civilization, is that that we do not have politicized trials. We let the justice system work it out.”

White man charged with hate crime for running over Sikh [non-white] man with Truck and Dragging him Down the Street

From [HERE] A 55-year-old New York psychopathic white man accused of mowing down a Sikh man with his pickup truck after calling him a terrorist has been arrested on hate charges. [a hate crime? How about Assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder? white supermacy/racism] 

Joseph Caleca, of Setauket on Long Island, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of attempted murder as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime and leaving the scene without reporting. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Authorities say Caleca and 29-year-old Sandeep Singh exchanged words in Richmond Hill, Queens, on July 30 because Singh’s car door was open. They say Caleca got back into his truck and drove head-on into Singh, dragging him several feet before fleeing. Singh was treated for abdominal and back injuries.

Leadership as Performance: Sharpton Inspires in Ferguson but Offers No Concrete Plan (except for funeral)

[MORE] Rhyme and rhetoric have yet to neutralize white supremacy.

Is it Time to Question Obama's [democrats] Vicarious Leadership? He Does Little to Challenge White Domination - the Only Problem Facing Black People

On Tuesday in the wake of Michael Brown's death at the hands of a white police officer, President Obama advised: "We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Clearly, he was not talking about the system of white supremacy. It probably is a good time to question Obama, the Democratic Party and other Black & Brown leaders & so-called Black & Brown organizations who do little to challenge the system of white domination, the root cause of the social, economic and political issues plaguing non-white people, yet claim to zealously represent us.  

NBC states: Criticisms of President Barack Obama’s approach to race relations are unlikely to fade in the wake of his comments about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Some black activists say Obama’s response to this and similar situations show that he is too reluctant to address directly issues of race. Nafees Syed of CNN urged Obama to push a racial profiling [targeting] bill - stating, "President Obama is our best chance for the "more perfect union" he called for as a presidential hopeful in 2008." [MORE] Of course, the best way to "perfect the union" is to dismantle white supremacy. 

Hopes of the moral suasion of white folks who have no morality where race is the variable [MORE] ignores the painful reality of white supremacy domination. Civil rights legislation like any other laws will be primarily enforced, executed and remedied by white police, white prosecutors, white legislators and white judges - in other words by racist suspects filtered into the system. This kind of proposal is about as constructive as rapping or making a police brutality app to address the problems caused by white domination. 

These illusions also ignore the greater context of the white supremacy system. Dr. Cress Welsing breaks down Reality here: Black people throughout the world, live under the power of the white supremacy system of total oppression and domination, implying the absence of any true power to determine ultimately what happens to their individual and collective lives. This is the major and only problem facing Black and all other non-white peoples throughout the world. This is precisely why they are called and classified as Black and non-white, to setthem specifically in oppositional contrast to, and in conflict with, the genetic reality of white. [MORE]

Racism/White Supremacy is the cause of issues such as police brutality. In other words, police brutality is a symptom of white supremacy. Like many other issues crippling non-white persons - it must be understood in its proper context. To deal with police brutality non-white people must face reality and get over their fear of confronting white supremacy once and for all. Black people especially must transform their emotional response to white supremacy into a pragmatic, analytical and tactical response to end this power relationship that is destroying us. 

Senator: "Ferguson shooting proves need for racial profiling bill" - (civil rights laws are enforced [police], funded [legislators], administered [prosecutors] and remedied [judges] by white folks [racist suspects])

'Civil rights is not liberation. If there is a choice between your survival and white peoples then they will ignore the law and do whatever they please in a white over black system. Your salvation is more likely to lie in power not in hoping for the good will of white people or on laws on the books.' [MORE]

The Hill 

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) called on Congress to pass his bill that aims to end racial profiling after an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo.

“This cycle of needlessly sacrificing our teens to violent ends must end,” Cardin said Friday. “Congress should take up and pass my bill, the End Racial Profiling Act [S. 1038].” Cardin’s bill would support programs to educate law enforcement officials in the differences between suspect descriptions and racial profiling.

“Racial profiling is un-American. It has no place within the values of our country,” Cardin said. “As far too many of our communities have learned, people can be hurt.”

Noam Chomsky on BDS and How the Israeli Occupation is "Much Worse Than Apartheid"

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon selects Black [driver man] to oversee "security" in Ferguson (White Supremacy is Deception. Belief in the Illusion is its power)

From [HERE] 

Ferguson protests highlight gentrification (negro removal is a vital part of white supremacy)

The outpouring of anger on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, over the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown is partly a reaction to a long history of marginalization experienced by African-Americans, a process exacerbated by gentrification, argue experts. It should be no surprise, they say, that the latest racial flashpoint is not in the inner-city but in the modern suburb.

Ferguson is an outer suburb of St. Louis, the 16th fastest gentrifying city in the U.S., according to Census data. Not unrelatedly, a 2011 study by Brown University showed that the St. Louis metropolitan area was the 19th most segregated city in the U.S.

The social and economic inequality in the St. Louis area, which is divided along racial lines, is a microcosm of a problem playing out across the U.S.: Wealthier, typically white residents move into a previously economically disadvantaged neighborhood in the city, pricing out black families and displacing them to suburban outskirts, according to a recent Brookings report.

In 2008, the population of poor people in suburbs across the nation grew twice as fast as in city centers, the report said. By 2008, U.S. suburbs were home to the largest share of the nation’s poor. 

In the St. Louis area, this type of population shift transformed the predominately white town of Ferguson into a largely black one.

In 1990, white residents of Ferguson comprised 73.8 percent of the total population, while those identified as black made up 25.1 percent, according to the U.S Census. By 2010, 29.3 percent of residents identified as white and 67.4 percent as black. [MORE]

Members of the media covering the unrest in Ferguson have been repeatedly asked by local law enforcement to stop video-tapping and photographing the protests

From [HERE] Members of the media covering the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri have been repeatedly asked by local law enforcement to stop video-tapping and photographing the protests — orders that legal experts say are not supported up by court precedent and amount to First Amendment violations.

Federal courts have repeatedly affirmed the rights of both citizens and members of the press to record on-duty police officers — despite a rash of arrests, confrontations and court cases that have occurred over the years.

Citizens have been arrested under both state wiretapping laws that ban audio recording in some instances and for other offenses like obstruction or interference with an ongoing investigation.

In Ferguson, journalists have repeatedly been asked to stop filming police actions in the days since protests, vigils and occasional violent looting have broken out following the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police officers in the majority African-American town.

In the most prominent example, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery was ordered by police to stop filming a police raid on a Ferguson McDonalds. He declined and officers later arrested both Lowery and Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly. Both reporters said the reason given for the arrest was trespassing — and both were released without charges.

The National Press Photographers Association sent a letter Thursday to Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson — objecting to his department’s treatment of the media operating in and around the town.

The U.S. Record on Racial Discrimination is on the UN Agenda (White Supremacy is a Global System)

From [HERE] As the United Nations this week debated America's record on race, one name was on everyone's minds: Michael Brown. Not only Americans have been riveted this week by the tragic killing of the unarmed teenager, the subsequent protests, and the militarized response of law enforcement in Ferguson, Mo.

The events in the overwhelmingly black suburb of St. Louis came as the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reviewed U.S. compliance with the world's leading anti-discrimination legal instrument, which the United States ratified 20 years. The gap between the rights guaranteed by our Constitution on one hand, and the reality of persistent racism that continues to plague our society on the other, could not have been made more relevant by current events.

That gap is just as stark when viewed from the lens of international human rights law. This week, in Geneva, Switzerland, the U.N. committee that oversees compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination placed the U.S. record under the spotlight. Committee members, along with leading human rights and race discrimination experts from all over the world, heard from high-level representatives of the U.S. government in a large delegation as well as from advocates and victims of human rights abuses. [MORE]

Remembering Black Revolutionary Sam Greenlee - R.I.P.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee has died in Chicago at the age of 83.

He was best known for his 1969 novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which was later adapted into a political drama movie.

Pemon Rami, a friend who also was a cast member in the movie, said Mr. Greenlee died early Monday.

Mr. Greenlee was one of the first African Americans to join the U.S. foreign service. From 1957 to 1965, he worked for the U.S. Information Agency, serving in Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia and Greece.

“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” tells the story of a black CIA agent who becomes a revolutionary training young Chicago blacks for a violent rebellion. 

He was born in Chicago, attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago  He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He served in the military (1952-4), earning the rank of first lieutenant, and subsequently worked for the United States Information Agency, serving in Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Greece between 1957 and 1965.

Leaving the US foreign service after eight years, he stayed on in Greece.  on the island of Mykonos, where he began to write his first novel published in 1969 as "The Spook Who sat by the Door", the story of a black man who is recruited as a CIA agent and having mastered the skills of a spy then uses them to lead a black guerrilla movement in the US. Mr. Greenlee’s other works included “Baghdad Blues,” in which he described witnessing the 1958 revolution that brought down Iraq’s British-backed monarchy.

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