re: This board has convinced me that race is not an issue

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I came here expecting many on the board to be complaining and criticizing the big-government overreach and police-state tactics on full display in Ferguson. I expected this "libertarian" board to be disgusted by displays of excessive force and intimidation as well as restriction of the press. I thought that maybe I'd find common ground with folks I usually argued with. Instead, I feel like the general tone of the board is that Michael Brown was a criminal that deserved to be shot and that the protestors are in fact violent looters who deserve to be put under martial law. Why does it seem like so many supporters of individual freedom have gone silent or flipped sides when Big Brother isn't after them?

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"one side seems right until the other speaks"

Media and Black America say the boy was shot cold blood by a white cop and "We are not stopping until the correct verdict is made" .

the cops/autopsy report says:

1. Brown smoked pot that day
2. He robbed a store that day
3. He pushed the little man working the store that day
4. He disobeyed an officer's request
5. He reached into the cops vehicle and assaulted the officer
6. He tried to get the officers gun, gun went off
7. He taunted the officer and began to run at him while facing gun point.
8. Brown also has a 2nd degree murder charge on his record..

98% of Americans would not do or be involved #2-#8...

Brown just happens to be black...

Sorry, but this isn't about color...but the media is making all about color

The journalist on MSNBC is spewing "the officer must be arrest for murder and there will be unrest until an arrest is made"

That woman should be put in prison for making such inaccurate and inflammatory comments that are in my judgement blatant lies or at the very least complete ignorance that is divisive and very damaging to this community.

She is throw gas on the situation

Ed Shultz is like "thanks for the update"