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Cash for Chaos
I looted this liquor store in Ferguson and all I got was this lousy t-shirt, well I did get a case of booze. I thought I was supposed to get paid too, where’s my money?
As businesses were being destroyed in Ferguson a lot of cash was flowing into Ferguson, cash that was to pay activists to keep the street party alive. Well it turns out the activists have been stiffed. The activists are not happy about being stiffed. Some of them expected $5,000 a month to cover their expenses. Organizing chaos is hard work. After you’ve spent the day getting the mob together for the TV cameras you would think they would share the cigarettes, liquor, and the opiates they’ve taken from the local pharmacy, but they don’t.
ACORN’s successor group in Missouri has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to generate civil unrest in Ferguson, the troubled St. Louis suburb where black youth Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer last August.We know this because some of the protesters haven’t been paid and, now, they are demanding what they were promised. They held a sit-in at the offices of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) and posted a demand letter online.
Even activists have to pay their rent in whatever city they have come from to bring Ferguson to its knees. Destroying someone else’s city is hard to do when you have to worry about paying the rent back home.
The Left likes to point to Walmart as the Great Satan of worker exploitation. If the activists had gone to work for Walmart they would be able to pay their rent. As a letter from the activist organization MAU indicates it may be the “Non-Profit Industrial Complex” that might be the Great Satan.
This isn’t about MORE. This is about black lives in the Black Lives Matter movement who are literally broke and starving. There is an insidious strand of racism and white supremacy that exists in this movement and it is called the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. As a by-product, it provides decent salaries and comfort to many people who are not affected by the disparities that they are trying to address. This money is typically in the hands of white people who oversee the types of services that the non-profit provides, while having select token black people to spearhead the conversations within and to the community.
There is much more to this story and you can read the rest of it here.
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That is just beautiful, Doug!
Here is another quote from this heart-warming story:
Say what you will about The Man, but his checks don’t bounce.
It takes money to defeat the Running Dogs of the Capitalist Exploiters. The Glorious Hot Tub of the Peoples Revolution ain’t exactly cheap.
1. Doug, thank you.
2. If Soros is underwriting this effort, can he be sued for the damage that was caused? Undoubtedly he has very good legal representation but going after him in a court of law for the money to repair that city would seem to be a good idea.
Gorgeous, Doug!
Unfortunately I don’t think Mr. Soros will see the inside of a courtroom for his financial support of the activist groups involved in this type of activity.
Sometimes I wonder if the desire of the government to control the internet has nothing to do with cost but the desire to spike stories like this. Stories that you will never see on 60 Minutes. I don’t think the government has too much to worry about. When the Caitlyn Jenner Vogue Magazine cover becomes a story on NBC Nightly News it doesn’t give me much hope that enough Americans will seek out a story about Rent-a-Mobs.
You just made my day a bit happier. It is good to see you here. Pax Christi friend.
I think you are wondering in the right direction, and it isn’t just the government– it’s also their MSM lackeys. I’m trying to read Sharyl Attkisson’s Stonewalled, in which she explains how the press, too, spikes important stories, but it’s so depressing that I have to put it down for mental health breaks. A lot more is orchestrated than we’d like to think.
In the age of Obama, the bar has been raised on what to call a conspiracy theory.
It’s remarkable how much we discover the MSM knew — after the fact. Apparently, it was common knowledge at the time that Hillary used her unsecured homebrew email server. Apparently it was common knowledge at the time that Hastert had, er, unconventional relationships. But now the MSM seems to see its job as protecting the public from itself — as protecting the narrative and preventing the public from drawing the “wrong” conclusions.
Unfortunately it’s behind the paywall, but Heather Mac Donald wrote an outstanding essay in the latest NR print edition entitled The Riot Show! calling out journalists for creating yet another addition to reality television.
Glad to do so; I’m here as Yeti’s guest for a couple days, savoring the people I cherish. Pax Christi! I’ll be visiting your blog – now you’ll have to write for it more, too! :-)
Nanda, your contributions are always welcome! Peace be with you!
I’m hearing echos of Evo Morales’ Movimiento A Socialismo” here.
(Explanation: Evo Morales is the left wing nutcase “president” of Bolivia. I’d take that out of quotes, except somehow the constitution got amended to keep him in power. His party is named the “Movement Towards Socialism”, which in Spanish acronyms to MAS, the word for “More”.)
How long till they pin it on the Koch brothers?
The parallels between all these various Leftists are indeed interesting and unfortunately all too clear. Hugo Chavez rode a similar wave of thuggery to power fueled by his street gangs of “chavistas”, as they called themselves. The same old October song played over and over again, just in a slightly different key each time.
Rent a Mob? This story is sadly, very funny as well as being unbelievable. What has happened to our country? Paying thugs to be thugs? What happened to the US when we had two parties but they were for the good of this country? It is so out of control I don’t know what the answer is. The changes (no hope in there) are coming fast and furious – try getting health insurance on your own right now – then this article today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?_r=0
How do we get our country back? Secure, prosperous, self-sufficient, respected, and decent TV again?
I hate to remind you folks but 2012 was the tipping point, which means our country is sliding downhill and, like most things that go downhill, will continue to pick up speed and momentum.
I should add that one can still live well, however.
Interesting graphic to illustrate this excellent posting. It reminds me of a little history: during the Reconstruction Era Congress appointed General US Grant to make a tour of the South and report on conditions there. After reviewing his Commission’s report and recommendations they passed The Civil Rights Act of 1871, commonly known as the Anti-Klu Klux Klan Act. Among the provisions of that Act was a prohibition of conducting public demonstrations while wearing a face covering.
If we had officials that were interested in providing public order I wonder how these activists would react when being held accountable for their “activism” by being charged under the Anti-KKK Act.
Yet. Sigh.
Why aren’t they charged under the RICO statutes for racketeering?
Oh yeah, because Holder and his Just US Justice Dept.
Donald,
Very interesting suggestion. There are Israeli groups that have sued terrorists and their supporters.
It would take a real bulldog of a legal mind. You sink your teeth into Soros and you don’t let go no matter how long it takes.
Regards,
Jim
You need to ask Eric Boehlert that question.
I was going to make a cynical, juvenile comment about how Obama should find some way to use government money to pay them. According to the article, he already has. Not that they will get paid, of course.
I would like to see the funding sources for these groups. I suspect that we the taxpayers are funding some of the unrest. We know that the Federal government gives grants to community organizer groups, and while those groups may be able to show that the Federal dollars were spent on legitimate causes (I doubt it) but assume they can, then if the same group or some controlled branch of it, is paying these activists, then we are, since money is fungible, and if Federal dollars pay for one area they support, then dollars that would otherwise pay for the “legitimate” work instead can be spent on fomenting riots.
Isn’t it a crime that involves prosecution when you pay people to cause destruction and incite rioting to the point of harm being done to people and property, and isn’t it a crime when people take the money to commit those acts? It’s not legal for the mafia, why do we accept that this is legal here?
there is a huge unreported story out there: the role of the professional rioter at ferguson and baltimore. we got a wiff of it here but nothing really since then: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/04/28/social-media-analysis-suggests-links-between-baltimore-and-ferguson-violence/
it may take some courage but woodward and bernstiens ancient advice from deep throat, follow the money, applies here. who are these people that are being paid to “agitate” and where do they come from? it’s a great story but no one is following it….
A quote from the article I linked to in my essay