The People's Line

The People's Line

No liberals, the police state is not going to commit suicide

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Carl Beijer
Aug 18, 2014
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Governor Nixon has called in the National Guard. This was entirely predictable – authorities can’t allow the spectacle of resistance to persist for too long, but Ferguson’s police force has seemed entirely content to maintain a war of attrition.

The National Guard, it is hoped, will impose some kind of order on the situation through a combination of supe…

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