Thursday, October 23, 2014

Mike Brown, Jamis Winston and Evert Golston

Two posts under Lex warns of an October surprise involving Ferguson, MO.  The jist is that Dopes will arrange for the grand jury acquittal of the involved police officer, Darren Wilson, just in time to inspire black outrage and a massive black turn out on Nov 4th.  Perhaps the Dopes do not have that much influence in Ferguson.  What to do then?  Well you just leak the information from the grand jury.  It has the same effect.

There has been a steady drip, drip, drip of information coming out of Ferguson on the Wilson/Brown shooting.  First Darren Wilson's grand jury account of what happened to him leaked.  Then the police chief claimed there was nothing to indict Wilson on.  Now the coroner's report has been released.  It substantiates Wilson's claim that there was a struggle for his weapon inside the police car and Brown was killed while facing the police officer with his hands down.

For the usual rebel rousers demanding truth and justice, the truth makes no difference as long as they get their peculiar form of justice.  There is no win here for anyone.  Even if the truth acquits Darren Wilson, his life is ruined.  If he's convicted and gets the chair, Mike Brown will still be dead.

The truth in this case is uncomfortable for a lot people. Here's what we think we know now:

Mike Brown is a criminal. He robbed and roughed up a convenient store owner minutes before the shooting.  Only an idiot would believe that the convenient store robbery was Brown's first brush with crime.

Mike Brown was high on marijuana when he was shot.

Mike Brown instigated the incident by not complying with the police officer's order to get out of the middle of the street.

Mike Brown was shot in the hand at a range close enough to leave gun powder residue in his wound supporting Wilson's contention that Brown tried to take his weapon and was shot during that struggle.

Mike Brown's other wounds are all front to back indicating Brown was not trying to leave the scene.

Mike Brown's wounds indicate that the palms of his hands could not have been facing the officer in a traditional "hands up don't shoot" surrender mode when he was shot.

On second thought, the truth is not the least bit uncomfortable for the "hands up don't shoot" crowd.  They could not care less about the truth or Mike Brown.  All Ferguson is to them is an opportunity to loot and spread their hateful message.  In that regard they are far more racist and destructive than their lily white DemoDope heroes like George Wallace, Booby Byrd, Ernest Hollings, William Fulbright, Orval Faubus and a long line of Dope segregationists.    

Here's the unpleasant truth: 
Mike Brown was a thieving petty criminal and thug who got his azz shot off while so high on drugs he could easily have been hallucinating at the time of his death.  Not exactly a Martin Luther King figure.  Had the police tried to spare his life by subduing him physically, no doubt there'd be another Rodney King episode. 

He has probably been on a path to destruction for a while.  Only after his death, it seems, does anyone take an interest in Mike Brown and his conduct. 

Along that line, let's compare two college quarterbacks.  FSU coach Jimbo Fisher walked out of his weekly presser when he got repeated questions about his troublemaking QB Jamis Winston.  Jimbo said he was tired of answering questions about Winston when Winston "had done nothing wrong."  YGBSM Jimbo!  We know he's a thief.  He stole soda from a Burger King and shop lifted from a campus grocery.  We know he's an immature dope who would jump up on a table in the student union and shout expletives at the top of his lungs. We know he has autographed over 2,000 items that have been sold online.  We know he has been accused of sexual assault.  The assault was swept under the rug by you and the university.  So yeah, he's done quite a bit wrong.  His only discipline to date is to miss a couple of baseball games and one football game.  Other than that Jimbo and FSU could not care less what activity Winston gets into as long as it's not so public that they can keep it quiet and sweep it under the rug.

Compare FSU's handling of Winston to Notre Dame's handling of their start QB Evert Golston.  Golston got caught in an academic scandal at ND.  According to my ND insider, Golston provided test answers to another student.  I don't know that it makes a difference, but some may cut the kid giving the answers some slack and hammer the guy stealing the answers.  At ND it's all the same.  Golston sat out an entire year of his college eligibility.

This isn't about the kids.  It's about how people in positions of responsibility handle the kids.  Who is better served in the long run, the never disciplined always excused Mike Brown's and Jamis Winston's of the world or the Evert Golston's of the world?

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