STOP BEING DICKS. YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

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STOP BEING DICKS. YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

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Note to Oathkeepers: Unless you have been hired by business owners as security to protect their stores or other businesses, why are you in Ferguson, MO, walking around in your battle-rattle??

Heavily armed 'Oath Keepers' inject new unease to riot-hit Ferguson
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I just heard them described on the radio news as an "extreme right wing, anti-government activist group."

How many of those are true?
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Like attracts like. I'm sure the extreme anti-government right-wingers will find plenty of company in Ferguson with the extreme anti-government left-wingers already in the crowd.

Speaking of "stop being dicks; you're not helping", throwing frozen water bottles and firing a stolen handgun at police, and crowding Bernie Sanders out of his own event isn't helping make your cause look good either.

Place seems to be drawing the crazies.
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From what I understand, they were invited.
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Yogimus wrote:From what I understand, they were invited.
But by WHOM..???

If it's the local business owners, then OK. Otherwise, not so much.
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Termite wrote:
Yogimus wrote:From what I understand, they were invited.
But by WHOM..???

If it's the local business owners, then OK. Otherwise, not so much.
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Kommander wrote:
Termite wrote:
Yogimus wrote:From what I understand, they were invited.
But by WHOM..???
If it's the local business owners, then OK. Otherwise, not so much.
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I also heard that some shop owners asked them to come and stand in front of their shops. Walking around in the streets did not help much.
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Yea big difference between static defense to protect vulnerable businesses and going on patrols. I don't think things are going to be improved by armed paramilitaries wandering through town.
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