Dozens of others stabbed, beaten, and seriously injured.
Over 100 guns recovered.
Sounds like one of the
worst crimes in modern American history, right?
Then why do the men above
look like they are tailgating? Smoking cigarettes, others using their cell
phones, nobody in the world could guess that these men were even associated
with such a horrible crime.
Instead, you'd think the
man below was involved.
Nah. He refused to get on the sidewalk during a curfew in
Baltimore. Sprayed in the face with pepper spray, the officers even seemed to
enjoy brutalizing him. See the smile?
It's not a harsh comparison at all.
In Ferguson, Baltimore,
New York, and around the country, protestors were actually protesting against
violence and were often treated as if they were murderers.
In Waco, Texas, when one
of the deadliest, bloodiest, most violent rampages in modern America happened,
the National Guard wasn't called in, the perpetrators weren't beaten or
pepper-sprayed, nobody was hogtied or humiliated, the dogs weren't brought out
to intimidate anyone.
Hell, they didn't even handcuff them or take their phones
away. Instead, they just sat them down on the sidewalk peacefully.
Time after time, all
around the country, protestors—particularly African-American protestors—have
been brutalized by police. That's why, in part, it is so disturbing to see men,
apparently all white men, who actually murdered and maimed others, treated with
so much dignity and deference.
Americans don't really
despise violence, even murder. That's why the Sons of Anarchy, a popular (and
extremely violent) television show covering motorcycle gangs, exploded in
popularity and why this bloodbath in Waco is being called "the real life Sons of Anarchy" all over the world.
Notice, though, how few
images of dead bodies in Waco are being shown in the media.
Notice the lack of
dialogue about bad parenting or absentee fathers.
Notice how the men aren't
really being called thugs—even though everything about them fits this definition.
It's a race thing and if
you don't see it, you're either blind or lying.