Gosh, if you can't trust FARCEBOOK...

It's human nature to make a bad situation worse. Especially if it's the "unarmed black teenager" news story. It's a cue for all the opportunists and racists to raise hell. You'll see the loudmouths like "civil rights leader"...blacks only) Al Sharpton come in, experts at getting publicity (mostly for themselves). You'll see the rednecks growl that the dead person was actually no angel and got what was coming. Various liberals will wring their hands over "why can't we get along," while various conservatives will just keep quiet and wait for it to all blow over.

BUT...in these times of instant news, CCTV cameras everywhere, eyewitnesses crawling out of every crack in the pavement...there's plenty of room to make a rush to judgment or just be ridiculous.

There is, for example, the world's oldest media whore, Hedy Epstein, who got herself arrested at age 90. Yes, she went down to Ferguson, in the midst of the rioting and strife...JUST to get her name in the paper, get her face on TV, and get arrested for protesting. Her claim to fame? She's a holocaust survivor who has a thing for black boys and Palestinians.

So she uses the heft of six million dead Jews to stand on their graves and deflect attention to the maligned terrorists of Hamas, and some kid who may have had some run-ins with the law, and may have not been very wise in being among gangsta types who put cops on edge. It only takes a moment for somebody with nothing better to do, to pull out a gun and shoot Whitey in the back. Anyone remember the name of that guy from Australia who got it in the back because a few "gangstas" were bored?

Ignorance is rampant. The world knows about this stupid shit town of Ferguson because blacks rioted to get TV sets and blamed it on racism. The fact is, nobody knows for sure what happened. Today's NY Post:

"Multiple witnesses in riot-torn Ferguson, Mo., said that the unarmed black teen killed by a white cop attacked the officer in his patrol car before the teen was shot, according to a new report." The report is from St. Louis Post-Dispatch crime reporter Christine Byers: " “Police sources tell me more than a dozen witnesses have corroborated cop’s version of events in shooting."

But why actually wait and find out what happened, when you can steal some TV sets? Get yourself arrested for protesting and be able to use that fame to charge a few more thousand bucks for a lecture appearance?

Meanwhile, on FARCEBOOK, a bunch of people are shouting about the case...they weren't there, only know what their prejudices tell them...and they are exercising "freedom of speech" and of stupidity.

So here comes a cop who accidentally put a picture of a look-alike black guy on FARCEBOOK, and oooh, it turns out it wasn't the late great Michael Brown:

This officer is now getting hell for not only stating an opinion on FARCEBOOK (there must be a law against that, right?) but for NOT getting a photo right. And Lord knows, even if you can't libel a dead person...there must be SOMETHING that can be done to right this wrong. Like shine the bright hot magnifying glass on this guy and make him the target for cranks everywhere.

The thing is, this IS the site we call FARCEBOOK, and it's no different from the London Daily Fail or blogs, or forums or any other toilet bowl on the Internet. Facts aren't checked. Gossip is rampant. Apologies appear in very small print, if at all. Rumor is the rule not the exception.

This cop didn't fact-check a photo? Oooh! As if everyone else does, especially people who have a FARCEBOOK page. It seems to me they write what they please, slant as they please, and have no trouble artfully distorting facts or using a real photo in a damaging way.

It's all a part of every idiot piling wood onto the pyre. Instead of minimally covering the riots and looting and the rest of the shit...the media rages about it and makes things worse...while self-righteously huffing about how it's "such a tragedy."

The first thing people do now, and I'm guilty of it too, is rush to FARCEBOOK or a blog to take the attention away from the actual news sources and reputable sites, and shout opinion.

In the midst of it...the truth is lost.

I'm not only talking about the truth of the incident. Right now, nobody is exactly sure what, if anything, this kid did to make an officer NOT known for violence or racism fire six shots. The truth didn't stop Hedy Epstein from showing up to get her old media whore face on TV and get herself arrested for a good cause. She wasn't around when a rabbi was shot in Florida a few days ago. A holocaust survivor coming to town to mourn a dead Jew and ask for justice? Meh. Not a story.

The truth is that if you want to either look like a gangsta or hang out like one...you are doing it at the risk of your life. And maybe that's as it should be. These are dangerous times. You shouldn't be a fucking asshole. You shouldn't strut around with what appears to be a knife handle in your belt. You shouldn't be wearing a burka. You shouldn't be a punk (white or black) jeering the cops and giving menacing glowers, and hanging with your homeys when you should be doing something a lot more useful.

I mean, take a look at the fuckers on the left side of this picture. THEY are raging like they should be caged or tranquilized...and they act like this every night...they don't even need an excuse for it.

Take it down a notch? That's asking too much?

Take a look at that guy with the mask half off his hideous face, and his pants halfway down. Would you face him without a gun? How close would you let him get before firing one at him? Cops are supposed to exercise tremendous restraint like this is the Old West...and wait for the gunslinger to fire first? That's Wyatt Earp bullshit, friends. Wyatt Earp (or Marshall Dillon, or Dan Troop) was fast enough to let the bad guy draw first...the bad guy who always missed...the bad guy who was then dropped. Real life? You're likely to be dead if the bad guy draws first. It's a tough job, night after night, every single second, to always know who is a threat and who isn't. So there might be one in a million, in ten million...where a lethal shot IS fired. OK, let justice take its course and don't assume what happened, or riot or make it worse.

Did we learn NOTHING from the case of poor Trayyyyyyyyvon? This was a kid who would be alive today if he wasn't sulking and sauntering around like Mr. Gangsta, trying to prove to some asshole that he was dangerous. Brown? We don't know...the fact that we don't...is a pretty good indication that he was doing shit that he should not have been doing. Just like a rabbi walking around without a body guard? Like a white guy sucker-punched by a black the other day because "the knockout game" is so much fun? Why is it the media chooses which stories to play up and which to ignore, and why is it only CERTAIN people go out rioting if one of theirs is a victim?

The bottom line is that new is supposed to be amusement and entertainment...and the more heinous you make it, the more inflammatory you make it...the better the ratings and the more money you can charge for a website banner ad. People gravitate to the news like they do to a sports event or a disaster of any type...because they are adrenaline junkies who are thrilled by bad news and delighted to have something to spit about. And that's disgusting.