A Patriot’s Stand on Ferguson.

We’re Looking the Wrong Way!

I don’t support riots or mobs. I support liberty and oppose people from any faction who trample it. But if you’re still debating whether Mike Brown should have been shot, you’ve taken the bait! Ferguson isn’t about race, looting, liberals, conservatives, or police. Ferguson is about division! Days after Ferguson, another young man was shot in the back by an officer and killed. They even have video. The officer got away with it! Days ago, a 12 year old boy was killed by police. But you don’t see those protests, because the facts are too clear and they don’t fit the narrative we’re supposed to be dividing on. Here’s what’s happening.

#1 The Distraction!

While the world was debating, a few were looting, some were rioting. While we were debating that, some were shouting profanities. Others just wanted more accountability and many more were confused. While that happened, a small few were standing for liberty. For a government that respects everyone’s rights. But while all that happened, an overreaching government was doing something worse. They were violating their oath!

#2 The Assault!

On an LA street the day before Thanksgiving, a group of protestors gathered calmly on a corner. It doesn’t matter if you agree with their positions. They were simply exercising their rights. None of us should support looters. But while that’s the narrative many are running with, it’s not what most the protestors are doing.

Then the LAPD showed up and these protestors remained calm. How different from the idea that anyone involved must support looting. — I was watching live and I saw a mass of police surround these citizens. Some wanted to leave but police said they were not allowed to. They remained calm as a a large bus rolled up and a man on a loudspeaker said they were ALL under arrest for “unlawful assembly (video)“. It seemed they were breaking no laws, for there is no such thing as an “unlawful assembly”, only unlawful actions. Though perfectly peaceful, yet ALL under arrest without cause! This is only one example.

#3 The Division!

So while news was buzzing, many were saying “good riddance, arrest those crazy protestors!” While people joined the conversation on both sides, I was aghast. I recalled people saying the same things about us patriots that stood at Bundy ranch against bureaucratic terrorists. Make no mistake, Bundy was more clear and principled than what has resulted from Ferguson. Yet protestors chatted and tried to calm each other as police grabbed them in a surreal display of unashamed tyranny, loading each on a bus. Not for looting, or assault, or for any real crimes that have been committed this week. Simply for being there, on that corner, on that day, at that hour.

I was ashamed for America! I was ashamed of the looters and rioters. I was ashamed of us mocking instead of judging individual actions.  I was ashamed for the images promoting the idea that due process was not for “people” like this. I was ashamed because what I saw from the side who opposed the protestors, was simply another mob carrying a different banner. And I realized that some of us were in that mob.

I was furious we had been duped again. Not by media, or confused protestors. What many protestors are standing against is real, even if the message is broken. Our government is out of control. Lawlessness has come from rioters as well as police all while America is being tricked to sacrifice liberty for false security. This was not about race. It was not even about police. It was about liberty and a lawless government teaching us to tolerate tyranny, so long as it’s coming for our neighbors instead of us.

So I found something positive!

We vowed the Patriot Act would never happen again. How soon we started siding with the heavy hand of government, instead of supporting principle. Everyone turning against everyone else, taking attention from lawless government and it’s cronie whores. Those who have no respect for liberty have been inciting a protest into a mob from the very start.

I STAND ON PRINCIPLE. Obviously looters should be stopped and violence against innocents must be put down. Of course police have a right to defend themselves and we have the same. I have no tolerance for rioters. But were government officials stopping the looters? I saw citizens and business owners having to do it themselves. The stores were looted and buildings burned, while people protesting peaceably were getting arrested. See the tyrants don’t care. They will come after the peaceful and resolute patriot. as much as the rioter and the looter. Are you awake now?

We stand to uphold justice. Did Darren Wilson over react? Did Mike Brown attack him? It’s an endless argument and we can see that neither “side” is in the right here. I don’t side with mobs from any faction! I side with liberty and I look at individual actions. That’s the justice we MUST represent. This week serves as a reminder. We MUST stop falling for division and distractions. If we continue dividing, we will lose liberty.

I’m watching the real evil. Tyrants who dare to think they can take our guns, our speech, our due process and our liberty. We must ignite the sparks of liberty, not riot; of peace, not death. But shame to me if I look at people that do not meet my standards and say, “I care not for their rights”.

The point is we must get beyond bias and judge individually on principle. We support everyone’s rights. Period! We don’t support lawless looters, or lawless government. Ferguson is a wake up call. It teaches us we must stand united, or fall divided. It shows that the real enemy is more organized than us. It shows we must not get distracted. I am standing for my God given liberty, for my children, my neighbors and even those I don’t agree with. I have my eye on the prize, do you?

— Gav

Also read: We’ve Been Duped!