House of Eratosthenes

Do not bother rebuilding. Your customers do not want you. They tore up your stores — twice. And after one of them robbed a store. These are not protests. They are pogroms aimed at the middle class. Take the insurance money and run.

Police officers, too, should leave. Why risk a criminal trial or worse for doing your job?

Homeowners, too. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic — it does not matter. You are middle class. They do not want you. Leave.
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Backed by looters and violent people, liberals are telling the American middle class they do not want you. They want an America where you are either a billionaire knocking down tax subsidies, or jobless and on federal assistance. This is why Obama is importing 5 million more poverty cases illegally from Mexico and points south.

Obama is a courtesan of the very rich…The riots serve his greater purpose to cleanse the nation of the middle class…

To which, Instapundit adds, “It does seem like you need to either be a New Oligarch or a member of the dependent classes to get any attention from these folks.”

Surber links to Forbes:

MITT ROMNEY GETS a lot of heat for his billionaire donors, but President Obama has his fair share of support from the country’s richest, too. FORBES counted well over a hundred billionaires who’ve been invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since Obama’s inauguration, some of whom have thrown parties to fundraise for the President and given big to both his campaign and super PACs supporting him.

The cursory-overview list offered at the Forbes article: Penny Pritzker, James Crown, Steven Spielberg, Marc Lasry, Warren Buffett, Haim Saban, George Soros and Tom Steyer.

Continuing,

The looters won, thanks to President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Governor Jay Nixon — Democrats all — who ignored the truth and the facts of the case to fan the flames of violence, across the country. People have begun calling these the Obama Riots. Expect more.

My advice to businesses, residents and officials of Ferguson is to move. Become ex-Fergusonians and maybe, ex-Missourians. And then vote straight Republican tickets after that. They may not be much but at least they will not encourage people to rob you and then burn down everything you own.

Conventional wisdom says the democrats are the party of the middle class. This is less an item of eternal timeless wisdom, than a perishable commodity with a limited shelf life. And we’re well past it.

Related: John Hawkins tallies up the seven things we’ve learned from the tragedies involving Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown:

1. The initial story you hear is probably a lie.
2. The Left has zero interest in discussing why black Americans are really more likely to be shot by police officers.
3. It’s time for cops to start wearing body cameras.
4. You better arm yourself because you can’t count on the police to protect you.
5. The mainstream media is more interested in promoting the idea that America is a racist country than the truth.
6. Most people on the “Left” care more about the narrative than the truth.
7. “Black Leaders” are looking to ratchet up the tension, not ease it.

If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton show up somewhere claiming that a wonderful black kid who was going to college was shot for no reason and nobody is doing anything about it because of racism, you can safely assume you’re being taken for a ride. The police do make mistakes. The Akai Gurley case is a great example of that. There are also bad cops out there. The cops who tortured Abner Louima in New York City fit that description. But, it’s better to let a court sort through the details under oath to get the facts rather than relying on rumors and people who see dollar signs in their eyes every time someone yells “racism.”
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The mainstream media helped create the angst over Trayvon Martin and the riots in Ferguson. NBC falsely claimed George Zimmerman used a racial slur and edited his call to the police to make him sound bad while the whole media used an old picture of Trayvon Martin that made people think he was 12. On the eve of the Grand Jury verdict in the Michael Brown case, the New York Times published THE STREET Darren Wilson lives on with his new wife. Beyond those egregious offenses, the mainstream media helped create many of the initial myths about both cases, was slow to correct the facts and habitually slanted its news coverage to portray Zimmerman and Wilson as guilty, even when it didn’t fit the facts. Everyone knows the mainstream media is biased, but when its coverage plays a role in getting people’s businesses burned to the ground, it has gone too far.
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It’s extremely ironic that most of the businesses that burned in Ferguson were minority-owned because black leaders like Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, the New Black Panthers and, yes, Eric Holder and Barack Obama helped make it happen. Yes, they gave bloodless, CYA condemnations of violence, and then went back to hyping people up instead of calming them down. See, when people get mad, they give donations. Peace doesn’t make money. Peace doesn’t get your name in the newspaper. Peace doesn’t get anyone on TV. [bold emphasis mine]

Not to go all Godwin here, but history has lessons for those who will listen. Namely: when you’re surrounded by people who are actively hostile towards you, and publicly proclaim they want you gone, and vote for parties that make it their explicit mission to get you, you should probably take them at their word.

If the inhabitants of Ferguson want to be violent, illiterate, slum-dwelling savages, so be it. History has lessons here, too — you can’t force civilization on those who don’t want it, as any bare-assed Ostrogoth shitting in the ruins of the Forum can attest.

Yes yes, this is “racist.” Fuck it. I don’t care anymore. If it’s “racist” to call this gibbering lunacy what it is, then fine, I’m guilty as charged.
- Severian | 12/01/2014 @ 08:09

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