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Rand Paul–Ferguson: End OF War On Crime (picture)
WASHINGTON — The crisis in Ferguson, Missouri has become the unlikely coming of age moment for the growing portion of the conservative movement that sees heavy-handed police forces, and their expensive military-style equipment, as the latest target in their half-century campaign against big government.
Libertarian Kentucky Senator Rand Paul stunned many on the ground in Missouri when he denounced the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the pages of Timelast week, writing that “if I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.”
His words built on a decade’s intellectual foundation laid by conservatives like the anti-tax campaigner Grover Norquist, one of the leaders in a campaign to break with decades of tough-on-crime posturing, and the race-baiting that has at times accompanied it, and to instead make common cause with liberals and black leaders to slash budgets for arming police and jailing young men for non-violent offenses. MOREHERE
Worm on a hook.
