{"id":2206,"date":"2014-11-29T20:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2014-11-29T20:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T01:10:50","slug":"how-to-increase-public-approval-for-the-police-state-the-burning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"How to increase public approval for the police state \u00ab The Burning Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/11\/29\/how-to-increase-public-approval-for-the-police-state\/\">How to increase public approval for the police state \u00ab The Burning Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">If someone were to design an event to bolster public support for a militarized\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-7\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none !important; color: #0081bd !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-color: #0081bd !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/11\/29\/how-to-increase-public-approval-for-the-police-state\/\" rel=\"police|7\">police<\/a>\u00a0state, what would that event look like? Let us imagine:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<li style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The event involves a controversial use of force by police.\u00a0 The event generates a national controversy and debate \u2014 a debate which the government has sufficient evidence to win in the end.\u00a0 After facing criticism, the police demonstrate to the country that they were right and opponents were wrong.<\/li>\n<li style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The \u201cvictim\u201d is as unsympathetic as possible; a suspect fleeing from an assault and robbery that took place on camera.<\/li>\n<li style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px initial initial;\">All the physical evidence supports the official version of events \u2014 illustrating how witnesses lie to condemn innocent cops.<\/li>\n<li style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Protests emerge and come off as unlikeable as possible, leaving a trail of theft, violence, arson, and destruction.<\/li>\n<li style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The media ends its silence on police brutality long enough to repetitively lionize the police and decry the actions of the deceased suspect and his violent supporters.\u00a0 The media intensely focuses on the wanton violence and the danger of public protests.\u00a0 Every statist pundit in the country chimes in, reiterating the righteousness of the police and the wrongness those who oppose them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">This scenario is not hypothetical. It currently playing out in Missouri, after a grand jury\u2019s decision not to indict Ferguson\u00a0<a id=\"ch-link-5\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none !important; color: #0081bd !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-color: #0081bd !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2014\/11\/29\/how-to-increase-public-approval-for-the-police-state\/\" rel=\"police officer|5\">Police Officer<\/a>\u00a0Darren Wilson after shooting Michael Brown. Dozens of businesses, buildings, and vehicles have been looted and burned to the ground by the aggressive mobs that have exploited the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to increase public approval for the police state \u00ab The Burning Platform. If someone were to design an event to bolster public support for a militarized\u00a0police\u00a0state, what would that event look like? Let us imagine: The event involves a controversial use of force by police.\u00a0 The event generates a national controversy and debate \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,519,635,657],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ferguson","tag-michael-brown","tag-police-state","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}