Has anybody besides me noticed that the "Ferguson Incident" has turned into a three-ring circus?  The media have inflamed the public with impassioned (and unproven) adjectives, lawyers have already smelled the sweet aroma of cash payouts and have begun trying their cases in the public, the governor stepped into a local problem that will probably be a political nightmare for him in the future, a state police captain is playing both sides of the isle and can't do any better at quelling the rioting and looting than the local police can, and we now have three autopsies in play.  (The state police captain should be fired.)  The local police have been criticized for pointing out the fact that the "victim" had just committed a strong-armed robbery and that in the process of talking to Brown, the officer just happened to put two and to together.  The President has interjected his rhetoric, Sharpton is busy stirring the pot, 40 FBI agents who depend upon state and local police to work with them rather than against them are interviewing witnesses who have already made up their minds as to what happened, and local and visiting thugs are looting and pillaging the village.  Protest leaders assert that protestors are not armed, nor are they throwing rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails at police while TV cameras catch it all in the background.  Now the National Guard has been called in.  Of course the police have already been militarized so nobody will be able to tell the difference between the police and the Guard.  And since the Guard will be there on a peace-keeping mission they, too, will be armed with their M-16's while they are decked out in full body armor.  Oh, and let us not forget that the local police are now resentful of the state police and the FBI and the Justice Department.  Meanwhile, the officer involved in this circus has already been convicted of murder and the Attorney General is weighing in.  Excuse me?

The victim's mother today called for peace.  Came the question: "How can peace be restored?"  Her answer: "Justice."  And how can justice be obtained, she was asked.  "Be fair.  Arrest and try the officer."  Left unsaid was, "Then hang him in the public square."

First of all, peace does not assure justice, and anybody who holds to the stupid slogan of "no peace, no justice"  or "no justice, no peace" is a fool.

I believe that it is doubtful that justice will ever be served in the "Ferguson Incident".  First of all, they are courts of law, not courts of justice.  We've learned that we get closer to justice through rule of law than by mob-think or any other system, but it it isn't perfect.  I think it is doubtful that we will ever know exactly what happened and if somebody figures it out, half the population will reject it, so it really doesn't matter.  There will be no such thing as a fair trial, which incidentally, the officer is also entitled to should criminal charges ever come his way.  And, in the event he should ever be vindicated by clear and convincing evidence (which he does not have to do under the Bill of Rights--it's called reasonable doubt and he doesn't have to prove anything), his career is over.  He will be lucky to get a job as a parking lot attendant.

I don't know if the officer is guilty of criminal wrongdoing or not.  The only facts we have are lay opinions and prejudiced agendas and soon-to-be conflicting theories by pathology experts.  I'm not sure if this is a railroad or a circus.  Perhaps it is a circus on a railroad.  Police have another term for what is going on, and in this case it is very appropriate.  I will not repeat it here, but trust me, it aptly applies.