It looks like the morons in Ferguson are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Crowds of people from all compass points have converged on the small Midwestern town outside of St. Louis, MO. While many of those folks truly believe in the cause of justice; I feel many are there just for the party.

Instigators of violence and anarchy, who probably don’t give a rat’s patootie about Michael Brown, have found in Ferguson a place to rage against the machine, and, oh, by the way, pick up a few “souvenirs” of their days of glory. The concerned citizens of Ferguson, those who believed there was a miscarriage of justice and were peacefully protesting it, were caught in the middle between the sharks of anarchy and the dogs of the law. A bad scene, man.

What really happened? Was Michael Brown the brutal thief on the video surveillance from the convenience store? Where did they find the stolen cigars? Was officer Darren Wilson really afraid for his life? Was Michael trying to surrender when he was fatally shot? Reports vary in subtle ways, spinning to support the views of the authors.

The main question, to me, is why did Darren Wilson feel he had to shoot Michael Brown?

One thing seems clear. Though size and weight are hard to assess from pictures and video, it seems pretty obvious that Michael was a much larger person than Darren in height and weight.

The surveillance video from the convenience store shows a large, black man shoving a much smaller store clerk around. Michael Brown is the alleged assailant. If so, Mike was a person not unused to brutality. Apparently he had no qualms about stealing either.

Friday, August 15 (USA Today)

Noon – An attorney for Dorian Johnson, who is an eyewitness interviewed by law enforcement, says that Dorian Johnson and Brown took part in the convenience store robbery prior to the shooting. <end quote>

The evidence shows the convenience store perpetrator was most likely Michael Brown.

So, we subsequently have a clash of wills between the smaller Wilson, an officer of the law and duty-bound to uphold it, and the considerably larger young bully (obvious from the convenience store video) who has just committed a crime for which he can be arrested and punished.

Is Darren Wilson a racist sociopath who had and took an opportunity to gun down an unarmed teenager? Or was he a man facing a brutal and enraged person capable of beating him down and perhaps even taking his life?

Situations like that don’t have answers written under them. Situations like that require immediate action, no time for deliberation. Emotions spiral out of control and you have dead people laying around. Same same for the subsequent violence of the protesters in Ferguson and elsewhere.

Darren Wilson was duty-bound to arrest Brown, even though he faced a person capable of and threatening to do him harm. Michael Brown could not surrender without being arrested and punished. Ergo, the unstoppable force meets the immoveable object-something’s gotta give.

I think the real culprits here are Michael Brown’s parents. If they had instilled in Mike respect for others, regardless of race, taught him that bullying and stealing were wrong, we wouldn’t be talking about it now.

All Mike had to do was submit to the officer’s requests and let the law work as it’s supposed. But he couldn’t do that could he?

Our nation is based on the rule of law. That means if you break the law you will be arrested, tried by peers, and punished. There are no exceptions in the eyes of the law (Maybe naïve, but that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Don’t like it? Change it). Profiling exists and is an unjustifiable evil that should be stamped out wherever it raises its ugly head. That is, however, no excuse for insurrection.

The alternative to rule of law is anarchy, like what’s going on in Ferguson right now. It makes no sense, no change, to destroy yourself in a fit of burning rage over perceived injustice.

Some carpenter about 2,000 years or so ago said, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Who cares who said it? The philosophy is profound. What would be the result if something like that were applied to the unrest in Ferguson?

Or would you like to live in a world dominated by the “eye for an eye” approach of ISIS?