SEE Jared Taylor’s commentary on Obama’s entirely predictable reaction to a grand jury’s refusal to indict Darren Wilson and the subsequent rioting last night:

Mr. Obama spoke for nearly 10 minutes, and spent about seven of them blaming the police. He said protesters have “legitimate issues of how communities and law enforcement interact,” and called anger over the refusal to indict “an understandable reaction.” He explained that Ferguson is an example of the “broader challenges that we still face as a nation.” He said he has “instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country . . . to train law enforcement so it conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody.”

“This is not just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America,” he explained, adding that the country can look forward to “tackling much-needed criminal justice reform.” “America isn’t everything that it could be,” he said sorrowfully, but “we can make progress not just in Ferguson but in a lot of communities and cities around the country.”

In other words, his friend Al Sharpton is right. The American justice system is deeply flawed.

The president did not have one word of criticism for Michael Brown. Not once did he say it’s a bad idea to get high on marijuana and commit strong-arm robbery. Not once did he say it’s a bad idea to punch a policeman. Not once did he say it’s a bad idea to try to grab an officer’s gun. Not once did he say it’s a bad idea to head towards a policeman who has already fired a few shots at you. People who do those things—whatever their race—have an excellent chance of being shot, and that’s exactly as it should be.

The president did pronounce the words, “there’s never an excuse for violence,” but he wasn’t talking about Michael Brown. He was asking angry blacks—who were already throwing bottles at the police in Ferguson—to direct their righteous rage in “constructive ways.”

Mr. Obama can instruct 1,000 Eric Holders go out and hold hands with police officers. He can spend the rest of his term moaning about “the broader challenges we still face as a nation” and “tackling much-needed criminal justice reform.” But what is the precise flaw in the justice system that caused Michael Brown to die? Or that caused the grand jury to fail to indict? If criminal justice is “broken” like the immigration system, why can’t Mr. Obama fix it with an executive order? Does the president even believe his own baloney?

The problem is violent criminals, not a “deeply flawed” justice system. This is dazzlingly, blindingly obvious to anyone not completely addled by a college education and MSNBC. Ordinary Americans understand this, and they will flood talk radio and dominate the comments sections on news sites. But you’ll be able to count on the fingers of one hand the elected officials or commentators who say anything about Ferguson that isn’t feel-good foolishness or outright anti-white nastiness.

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Paul writes:

The justice system goes out of its way to protect blacks.  I was an indigent defender many years earlier, and all but two of my clients was black.  I was paid a lowly fee ($25 an hour) at the time from the legal fees collected in civil and criminal cases and from a subsidy from somewhere.  Yet I gave my clients my best.  I could not have cared less whether my client was black or white, and I am an “evil Southerner.”  I was interested in learning criminal procedure and the Bill of Rights and in becoming a professional.  I grew up surrounded by the horrible black culture.  But I take my oath seriously, and so I gave them my best.  When I asked professionals for advice, they never asked the race or said anything about race.

I did.  Early one morning before a jury trial that I had prepared for over the weekend, I advised my black client (in his jail) that he was probably going to face an all-white jury.  He said something to the effect, “No way.”  He was guilty as hell.   My pathetic “strategy” was to claim discrimination based on the junk dealer buying stolen cemetery statuary and not being prosecuted for receiving stolen property.  (The number was so high that it made the local paper.)  The curmudgeon of a judge almost did not take my plea agreement with the prosecutor.  He lifted up the long rap sheet on his desk and said, “Your client is a thief.”  Not to be dissuaded (which you absolutely cannot be if you are an attorney), I also asked that my client spend his two years in the local jail rather than Angola prison many miles away.  I said he needed to be close to his family.  The man was a hopeless thief in his fifties.  The judge granted my requests, possibly because I was in my late twenties and looked younger.  (I was still being “carded” for alcohol.)

I am not some saint or bleeding heart.  I would not give terrorists a criminal trial but would give them a brief military trial and execute them by hanging.  I would hang all clearly guilty first-degree murderers and rapists. I would be happy to prosecute even if my practice was still defending lowlifes.

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