In the heartland of America, a descent into the madness of Apartheid.

Tom Dennen 

War is one thing, civil disorder quite another. It’s one thing to watch Americans destroy middle east nations, but watching the same military-style ‘containment’ of American Citizens on American soil is, again, quite a different matter.

Everyone in Ferguson is calling for “Justice”. Obama wants Justice. Eric Holder wants Justice. The current chief of Police, Colonel Thomas Jackson. wants Justice. The National Guard wants Justice.

So do the people who live in that suburb.

Even Amnesty International is there “to protect” 

“America thinks it can take Justice for granted. But in Ferguson, that is being tested. Justice is looking slovenly, amateurish and slow.

“And it’s looking ugly.”

Love didn’t stand a chance.

“I am whispering in their ears, telling them to move on, that we care and that we love them,” says the Rev Michael McBride of the Way Christian Centre in Oakland, California. He has come because he is horrified. “If only police departments across the country would do the same. Whisper in their ears, tell them they love them.”

“Love, however, has for the time being taken its leave from Ferguson, a suburb on the north-western edge of St Louis, Missouri.

It flew away at about four minutes past noon on 9 August when a police officer, identified as Darren Wilson, 28, fired six bullets into the unarmed man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, and robbed him of his young life.

It was gone when the police let his body lie on the street for hours before finally taking it away.

Or perhaps it was gone long before that in a town where to be black is to feel disenfranchised, relegated to life’s lower divisions, oppressed.

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