Ferguson Protesters Want Their Money

[Abyssal Echo]

It was reported buy the Washington Times most of the Ferguson protesters were actually hired by a spin off group of Association Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) called Missourians Organization for Reform and Empowerment (MORE). The protesters were being paid 5,000 a month to burn buildings and be destructive in Ferguson.

www.beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2015/05/ferguson-protesters-want-their-money-3012922.html

www.shark-tank.com/2015/05/26/ferguson-protesters-want-their-money/

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/

[Microcosm]

That's pretty sad that you can actually pay people so much that they'll throw their lives away and/or do stupid things.

If the movement actually mattered to them, then they wouldn't be burning buildings like immature animals. They'd utilize their right to peacefully protest. However, I think their real agenda is perhaps something greater. The Ferguson riots are just so they get momentum. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

[Cognizant]

That's pretty sad that you can actually pay people so much that they'll throw their lives away and/or do stupid things.

If the movement actually mattered to them, then they wouldn't be burning buildings like immature animals. They'd utilize their right to peacefully protest. However, I think their real agenda is perhaps something greater. The Ferguson riots are just so they get momentum. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Makes me wondered if other protests around the country such as the freeway and train blockings only occurred because of incentive...

[Microcosm]

Makes me wondered if other protests around the country such as the freeway and train blockings only occurred because of incentive...

That's definitely possible. If there's one way that a democracy turns to shit, then it's when someone inside breaks the system and uses his own money and influence to assert his power. It's possible that a low-key group or individual is doing just that and the riots are merely instruments by which is distresses order. That would really just amount to conspiracy, but this article seems like a pretty good testament to the fact that things like this do happen and it is possible that a smaller, unknown-to-the-public group is pulling strings to put themselves in positions of power.

[Sugaree]

That's pretty sad that you can actually pay people so much that they'll throw their lives away and/or do stupid things.

If the movement actually mattered to them, then they wouldn't be burning buildings like immature animals. They'd utilize their right to peacefully protest. However, I think their real agenda is perhaps something greater. The Ferguson riots are just so they get momentum. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Of course they would burn buildings, at least if the price is right. Considering the amount of "protesters" that were looting and burning, it doesn't surprise me that they would take the offer to do what they did for 5 grand a month. Hell, I'd probably take that money if I knew I could get away with it.

Besides, everyone knows ACORN is a radical organization that will do anything to further the narrative they want. If that means paying people to destroy property, public or private, they'll do it.

[Syrum]

No one thought this? Money makes world work. In my country everything is solved with a bit of cash. I assumed this. I knowntheynnormprotesynwhwn you flip cars.

[thatcountrykid]

If so the the leaders of the group should be charged with inciting a riot and the protesters charged.

[Vlerchan]

There's no evidence that the organisation directed the people hired to riot - and the people aren't going to admit to this because it makes them liable. So as far as the law was concerned the organisation was within it's legal rights (free speech).

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Presuming this happened. The Washington Post cites an extended article in FrontPageMag (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/ferguson-rent-a-mobs-exposed/). The article claims that the protestors are hired. But the evidence provided seems to indicate that the sit-in served as a protest against the "Non-Profit Industrial Complex" who its claimed are taking advantage of their suffering to make cash.

The wording of a blog post cited in FrontPageMag is indicative of the above.

“Black activists held a sit-in at the office of MORE … on Thursday to press their claim that groups led by whites have collected tens of thousands of dollars in donations off of the Black Lives Matter movement without paying the Black participants their fair share.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/we-gonna-just-you-up-black-ferguson-activists-threaten-white-liberals-for-protest-pay/

The blogpost cited also doesn't make claims about salaries of $5000 a piece. That seems to just be a figure FrontPageMag made up and other right-wing 'newsites' copied without doing proper fact checking (I'm being generous here).

The open letter the sit-in group produced doesn't support the claims either. It just refers to a state of affairs where white-run nonprofits collect donations off their suffering - without making proper utilisation of this funding in light of the problems black people face. That lines up with what I read in the blog post which seems centred - though it seems lost on the right-wingers that cited it.

So whilst MORE might be a despicable organisation - it doesn't seem so for this.

[DylanDanger]

Also- if even if they did get $5k, the articles also say there was pot of $150k that was to be used for protestors. that means if all that was used in one month, that would be only 30 people out of the thousands that was there, and the protests went on for over a month! things in the articles do not add up, and no where in any of the articles did it say the people who did the destruction were paid to loot and destroy things.