Whitney Curtis for The New York Times)
That was absolutely bizarre and surreal to witness. I found live feeds and social media was fairly useful in this story gaining national attention. I am talking about the militarised, police presence. There are actually a lot of different topics going on in relation to the assassination of Mike Brown. For this entry, I am sticking to the police state angle, on the aftermath of the brutal murder of unarmed teenager and apparent cigar aficionado Mike Brown. I found some stuff.
But first, I dropped a tweet on the Nick Gragnani mentioned in the above article.
I did a bit of socratisation, i.e. googling. This guy is tied to the hip of both the M.I.C. and the St. Louis County Police Department.
(Update: This loser has scrubbed both his linkedin and his Twitter account. So the next link is broken. Was it something I said?)
This guy is hardcore military. His linkedin account proves it.
Anyway, take a moment and reflect on Gragnani's money quote from the NYT's article:
“The focus is terrorism, but it’s allowed to do a crossover for other types of responses,” he said. “It’s for any type of civil unrest. We went by the grant guidance. There was no restriction put on that by the federal government.”
This dude was with that county police racket for over 18 years and then went directly into this Homeland Security crap.
You all probably recognise Jon Belmar at this point. He was the one in charge of the militarised police.
This is scary stuff, if you think about it. Without a doubt, the military is in control of St. Louis County, Missouri. These documents prove it. Granted, Alex Jones to the side, it was a fluke that Ferguson 2014 ever developed. Where else in the country could that type of police response have ever occurred? I know they locked down Watertown because of the Boston Marathon bombings, but no way in hell would Massachusetts police ever pull this kind of anti-constitutional, Kent State garbage. This was surreal and you know it. This crossed an incredibly hard to believe line. Thank God for what social media accomplished with this story, despite disinfo agents/police being all over comment sections. Here's more from Belmar's Linkedin:
Oooh, Special Operations.
His Linkedin reveals that he is just another Mr. Homeland Security pig. They surely went Stasi style indeed in arresting and attacking journalists with militarised police brutality. That was not very bright. This was truly a wow, wtf moment in American history.
Good sources and images explain it all.
Aaah, what's this?
Mass casualty drill held at Chesterfield Mall
(excerpt - emphasis mine)
(KMOV.com) – Chesterfield Mall was the scene of a multi-agency mass casualty drill on Sunday night.Oh, did I mention that Belmar also has FBI training to go with his homeland security skills?According to the Monarch Fire Protection District, the drill focused on decision-making, coordination and integration with other organizations during an active shooter scenario.
The drill included two active shooters who randomly shot at citizens throughout Chesterfield Mall. One of the shooters detonated a backpack IEP after he was shot by police. The second shooter heard an explosion and took hostages... Chesterfield Police, St. Louis County Police, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were among those who participated.
Here is a nice news story which reported on this specific Homeland Security corruption taking place in a sizable chunk of a state.
Homeland security: 'Did we spend the money wisely
An Abe Cook is prominently featured. This guy and all these people must be raking it in pretty good off of the taxpayers.
That is the group getting all the millions if not more of dollars for the War on Terror hoax. There is your smoking gun, from their very own website.
This explains why it went so nutty in Ferguson. I'm sorry, but I am not from a redneck state where this could ever have happened. Those people are totally fried in the head. It's called authoritarian personality disorder.
This is what it boils down to. The St. Louis County Police Department is run by Homeland Security, which itself is part and parcel of the Military-Industrial Complex and emerging fascism. I tweeted the Governor. I told him to remove the militarised police at once.
And the man heeded my wisdom. Good for him. He fired the SLCPD military numbnuts and replaced them with the regular guy state trooper schtick. We all love the state troopers over the other cops. They still suck. But they tend to have guys e.g. who smoke weed and don't sweat the small stuff. But this is a pure gratuitous digression. I am sorry.
This was basically the easy, Captain Obvious move for Nixon to make. I am not sure why he didn't see this coming to begin with. Maybe he has the Richard Nixon gene. Though I doubt they are related. It is a fairly common last name. There was this guy on the Red Sox, another redneck, named Trot Nixon. He really has nothing to do with this report. Mike Timlin and Curt Schilling are certified wingnuts, though. I can confirm that as a witness.
The expenditures by STARRS are disgusting. You can check out some of them (pdf's):
ST. LOUIS AREA REGIONAL RESPONSE SYSTEM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 11:30 A.M.
AGENDA
ST. LOUIS AREA REGIONAL RESPONSE SYSTEM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 11:30 A.M.
EAST-WEST GATEWAY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
My work here is done. Now you know the rest of the story.