One of the tried and true ways that government gets messy stuff out of the headlines is to form a "commission". Here's a pro-tip: Government-formed "commissions" cannot (by nature) correctly analyze the real problems. And if they can't identify the real problems, they have no chance at implementing the correct solutions.
Furthermore, by the time the "commission" comes out with its findings, Americans will have moved on to the next new and shiny object (like Renee Zellweger's plastic surgery). Time is a wonderful friend to a government that forms a "commission".
When it comes to Ferguson, HuffPo gives us the details on how Missouri's Governor is putting the issue out to pasture:
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said Tuesday he was setting up a special commission to examine the social and economic conditions in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that have fed ongoing race-related protests following the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in August.Nice touch by the Gov....This is a "special" commission.
The commission will be made up of leaders from business, education, public safety and religious communities as well as "ordinary citizens," Nixon said. Its task will be to examine concerns that include poverty, education, governance and law enforcement, and offer recommendations for making the region "a stronger, fairer place for everyone to live," Nixon said.By looking that the makeup of this "special" commission, do you think they will come out for the privatization of all policing? How about for the abolition of the minimum wage, or across the board cuts to government and its swath of regulations that kill the economy?
Do you think they will come out in support of private and voluntary charity, instead of state coercion? Lower taxes? How about getting rid of the brainwashing factories called public schools?
Don't bet on any of it.
There may be some musical chairs, or new faces replacing old. But the game will be exactly the same. That's how government rolls.
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"to examine the social and economic conditions in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that have fed ongoing race-related protests following the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in August."
ReplyDeleteAll he really needed to do was to read Radley Balko's piece on the subject
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/03/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty/