What we're not watching while we're watching Ferguson in flames

There are no stats on how often white cops have shot down Black Americans.

Nobody knows...

Suffice to say, this is not the first time.

But it should make you wonder why this time, whether it's more or less than 1,756,342, it's getting this massive media attention.

To the think tank here at Falling Downs, it looks like a "public spectacle" that's been cooked up by various levels of government, with the full connivance of the usual social justice entrepreneurs like Reverend Al, et al.

And of course, the main stream media are all aboard, as they inevitably are in every government initiative designed to take your eye off the ball.

Here are just a few stories we're not seeing while we're focussed on this completely routine cop-killing that has mysteriously hogged the spotlight for months:

• looks like that Afghanistan war is not over after all!
• Israel just made apartheid official state policy
• the Iranian "enemy" is almost in from the cold
• Africa's biggest oil producer, biggest economy, most populous country, and biggest US ally, moves closer to being a failed state every day

Those are but four stories we're ignoring, and there are many more from Ukraine to Libya to the farthest reaches of the American Empire, that Americans ignore at their peril.

Did Darren Wilson invent systemic racism?

The anti-climatic conclusion to this grand jury drama that has played out in Missouri, is that officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted.

Well, he should have been.

On the other hand, that would be letting the bigger villains off the hook.

Why are cops today trained to use overwhelming force first?

Darren Wilson is a product of his training and his socialization. Darren Wilson did not invent systemic racism.

Both Michael Brown and Darren Wilson are products of that system of institutionalized systemic racism that saturates America 150 years after Lincoln allegedly freed the slaves.

World news business patiently waits for riots to break out in Ferguson

Not only is Ferguson Mo. jam-packed with satellite trucks from every serious news organization in the world, but the new media and the citizen journalists are there in their multitudes too.

That's a lot of folks who will be very disappointed if there is no rioting in Ferguson after the grand jury decision is announced.

Which raises an interesting question; to what extent will the reaction to that announcement have been shaped by all that media attention?

It's the Heisenberg effect writ large.

It's also the last act in the transmogrification of a profound social justice issue into sheer media spectacle.

Or for lack of a better word; "entertainment."