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For those who believe 10 gunshot wounds from a Sig Sauer P229 semi-automatic pistol were what it took to down unarmed Michael Brown, here's the medical rundown of both his and Darren Wilson's wounds:On the surface, Ferguson may be about complicated mixture of racial issues, community organized crime, civil service corruption, predation and retaliation. But it goes deeper and wider than that. The bigger picture is the ever-encroaching total authoritarian control of The American Police State. Ferguson is a test run - a profile to be studied, perfected and ultimately unleashed. We are not in Kansas anymore. Welcome to purgatory.
M.B. Gunshot wounds: top of head, forehead right side of chest, right side of chest near the armpit, through and through upper right arm, through and through right forearm, graze/abrasion upper right arm, right interior thumb.
M.B. Abrasions: inside left forearm, right hip, left thumb, left wrist, right front shoulder, forehead, bottom lip.
M.B. Damage caused by a bullet to his right eye and what looked like an exit wound on his right facial cheek.
M.B. Doctors removed one bullet from Brown's head, one from his right lateral back, and one from his posterior chest.
DW: red marks on his face, blood (not his) on his hand, uniform disheveled and shirt pockets open.
"I, Darren Wilson, hereby resign my commission as a police officer with the City of Ferguson effective immediately. I have been told that my continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance that I cannot allow. For obvious reasons, I wanted to wait until the grand jury made their decision before I officially made my decision to resign. It was my hope to continue in police work, but the safety of other police officers and the community are of paramount importance to me. It is my hope that my resignation will allow the community to heal. I would like to thank all of my supporters and fellow officers throughout this process."
Comment: No longer a day goes by that one doesn't hear of a man, woman or child getting severely abused, or even killed by an "officer of the peace". And it's clearly getting worse. Far worse. If we look at the author's comparison of developments in Nazi Germany to today's militarized US police state, we notice that the changes there, as here, occurred incrementally. First new laws and institutions, then the "crackdowns" on dissent. And much of it occurring oh so covertly. One would not be incorrect in extrapolating the events of today into the near future and using one's imagination to see how far this can and will go.
"Never in America"? Don't count on it. The Nazis, fascists, totalitarians, pathocrats - choose your own descriptive - are already doing their will, and have the spilt blood to prove it.