What would Communist China do in Ferguson?

I don't watch the news that often. I seem to get a lot of news from Facebook, Grace, and then snippets from TV and NPR. I'm not really getting conflicting news about Ferguson and it's police department. It just seems the message being sent is conflicting. The killing of an unarmed teen is as harsh as you can get. It is unlawful as well. Rounding up reporters and arresting them unlawfully without procedure is also unlawful and a corrupt nasty way of doing things. But at the same time the police are trying to restrain themselves in the protests. They are being shot at but aren't shooting back. (At least that's what the news said.) And they are trying to take a more conciliatory tone with the protesters, asking them to come out in the day instead so that "criminals hiding in the crowd" will be less likely to cause the deaths or injuries of innocent law abiding protesters.

Apparently there are "agitators" coming from as far away as California and New York. This language sounds so familiar. But I'd rather not compare this situation to something like the Civil Rights movement. It sounds more like the attempt at a peaceful Civil Rights movement in Derry,Northern Ireland. But the police there went nuts cracking down and the result was not good. So the Police in Ferguson don't want that. So now they are being more measured in their language and approach, having a black guy be in charge. It just looks better that way.

The situation had me thinking of protests in Xinjiang and Tibet that got out of hand too. How in Tibet, the Chinese government tried to crack down on journalists, and that backfired. So they learned from that and worked with journalists during the Xinjiang riots. Would the Communists handle Ferguson differently than we are now? Better or worse?

I think people coming into the protests from California and New York may have a bigger picture type of movement in mind. But the family of Michael Brown has said that all they want is Justice and that is the way to end the violence. And really this is true.

The problem is not that the Ferguson police are too harsh, when it comes to the law or what have you. They are inconsistent and hypocritical and that's why people are so pissed off. I'm sure the Communists would take one look at the situation and would have had the police officer arrested and, it's been ten days so in for more days he would have been shot, probably publicly in a stadium, otherwise there could be claims that his execution was faked. There is something to be said for public executions. Even though I am against the death penalty, in a situation like this, wouldn't everything be quiet by now? Wouldn't the family simply be grieving over the loss of their son and not over injustice. Even if somehow, the officer were not guilty of murder, a Communist government would have him publicly executed anyway, if the outcry of the people was so great over just one person, one incident. Whatever the rights of the officer are, ultimately unarmed teen is dead. The evidence coming out points to murder. But even if somehow it was accidental, a public execution would quell the anger of the masses with a snap of the fingers.

But now, when the Police are dealing with their own, suddenly we care about law and due process. And not only that, there is at the same time special treatment given. Even if we don't do things the way China does, throwing the guy in a cell immediately might have done something to put these protests down. Initially people were just looking at this as the problem of an incident. But now people are starting to question the system.

China has no problem sacrificing one of their own, even a party member, if it will make it look good for the public. The protests in China rarely have to do with one incident like this. It is usually really about a whole system. Now China has a ton of problems and can learn a lot about governing from the U.S. But in cases like this, It is clear that what the family and so many people are pissed off about is a sense of consistency, a sense of fairness and a sense of Justice. They would willingly go back to the way things are, the police being harsh and racist and all that, if they were willing to punish this one guy publicly and severely for crossing the line.

I.e. Beat black men up. Okay I can do that.
Racial profiling. Okay you have your reasons.
Kill an unarmed black teen.


A public execution or at least a life sentence, carried out swiftly would really send a helpful message of, "look we really do care about you and all of these little injustices we do, really are for the benefit of society and general and we are trying to not be racist and change slowly. And look, when one of ours crosses the line, we will not allow it."

You don't even have to mean it. You just need to kill someone from your own side as a sacrifice. After all, a young teen is dead.

Or again, at least put him in jail, no messing around. You don't actually have to be fair and just. All you have to do is sometimes make an effort to show that you are trying.

If a soldier kills an unarmed citizen while on duty, isn't he more accountable because he goes through a military court?


So what about a police officer? Shouldn't they be held to a higher standard than a normal citizen? Or at least shouldn't we put forth an effort to make it appear that way?

Then, when you do that and people still protest, you could actually disperse the crowd with real bullets (if you announce it first) and probably people will still respect you. After all. You put the bullet on your own when Justice called for it.

People can forgive and even love tyrants. But not hypocrites.