The police shooting of Michael Brown initially renewed calls for increased use of videocameras to record evidence of abuse, a reform I’ve long supported.

However, the Friday release of security footage of Michael Brown stealing and physically bullying an immigrant shop clerk minutes before his fatal police confrontation has led to demands from respected black leaders, the Democratic governor of Missouri, and President Obama’s Department of Justice for heightened protection of the Public’s Right Not to Know.

From CBS New York:

Sharpton In Ferguson, Mo.: Release Of Michael Brown ‘Robbery’ Video ‘Insulting FERGUSON, Mo. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Addressing a congregation in Ferguson on Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the release by police of a video purportedly showing Michael Brown robbing a store shortly before the unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer. … Police released surveillance video they say showed Brown shoving a clerk before he left the store with a $50 box of cigars. “I have never in all my years seen something as offensive and insulting as a police chief releasing a tape of a young man trying to smear him before we even have his funeral or his burial,” Sharpton said. “First of all, if this is the young man, y’all quit trying to exaggerate,” the Harlem civil rights activist said. “That was shoplifting, not robbery. … Robbery, you break in, stick something up. Shoplifting, you take some cigars. It’s wrong if he did it, but call it what it is.” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon [D-MO] said Sunday the video produced a negative reaction. He said his office did not know the video was going to be released. “I think it had an incendiary effect,” Nixon said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “When you release pictures and you clearly are attempting to besmirch a victim of a shooting, shot down in his own street, a young man, and at the same time you’re releasing information … to tarnish him, then properly, there was a lot of folks that were concerned about that, and I do think it flamed it back up and has caused us to have to deal with some of that.”

It’s a simple concept: any found footage that undermines the Democratic-Media Narrative Complex storyline of the moment should never see the light of day. The public deserves to be protected from any Doubts.

You see, if it’s President Nixon demanding a cover-up, that’s the biggest crime of the age. If it’s Governor Nixon demanding a cover-up, well, that’s statesmanship.

And from Yahoo News:

Sharpton Strikes Defiant Tone In Speech To Huge Crowd About Michael Brown Shooting … Sharpton was definitely the orator the huge crowd came to see, and he did not disappoint. He began a short, powerful, applause-line-filled speech by declaring that the shooting of Brown represents a pivotal moment in what he views as a much larger fight for the rights of people around the world against the repressive forces of government. “We…have…had…enough!” Sharpton pronounced, adding that people who agree with him could make a difference at the ballot box. “Nobody can go to the White House until they stop by our house!” The famous activist demanded to know why police had released a videotape of Brown shoplifting from a now-looted and burned-out convenience store. Sharpton said that he does not condone shoplifting, but he also doesn’t believe the tape has anything to do with the subsequent shooting of Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.

Sharpton was of course the main inspiration for the Rev. Bacon character in Tom Wolfe’s 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities, which remains the single most relevant explanation of racial politics in America in 2014.

Let me sum up.

It would be a very good thing if police officers could always nonlethally subdue belligerent 6’4″ 292 pounders accosted during their crime sprees. In fact, it may very well be that the cop screwed up in various ways in this case and should be disciplined.

But the important issue is what has been revealed once again about how the dominant worldview spread by the national media and the White House is based not on a careful regard for facts but upon equal parts stupidity, lies, hate, and opportunism.

We are told over and over about how white racists are waging war on black babies and other improbable assertions. And repeatedly, the incidents upon which the American Establishment chose to wage metaphorical media war upon average Americans turn out to be travesties. But any resistance from skeptics is only demonized as more proof of white racism.

Personally, I refuse to be browbeaten.

By the way, I’m going to dial back the frequency of blogging for awhile as I have some sizable amounts of domestic business to attend to. As I recall, I made the same promise 13 months ago, but then the George Zimmerman verdict came down … But this time I’m really going to go easy for some number of days. I will be checking in and putting up new posts and moderating comments and the like, but not on the usual 65 hours per week schedule.

Please let me thank everybody who has chipped during the first four days of 2014’s second quarterly iSteve fundraiser. I greatly appreciate your help in making my writing career feasible.

I now have seven ways for you to send me money, including Paypal, Bitcoin, and fee-free bank transfers.

First: You can use PayPal (non-tax deductible) by going to the page on my old blog here. PayPal accepts most credit cards. Contributions can be either one-time only, monthly, or annual. Monthly subscription rates start as low as $2.

Second: You can mail a non-tax deductible donation to: . Steve Sailer

P.O Box 4142

Valley Village, CA

91617-0142. .

Third: You can make a tax deductible contribution to VDARE by clicking here. (Paypal and credit cards accepted, including recurring “subscription” donations.) If you send VDARE a check make sure to put “I like Steve Sailer” on the Memo line. Note: the VDARE site goes up and down on its own schedule, so if this link stops working, please let me know.

Fourth: You can use Bitcoin:

I’m using Coinbase as a sort of PayPal for Bitcoins.

The IRS has issued instructions regarding Bitcoins. I’m having Coinbase immediately turn all Bitcoins I receive into U.S. dollars and deposit them in my bank account. At the end of the year, Coinbase will presumably send me a 1099 form for filing my taxes.

Payments are not tax deductible.

Below are links to two Coinbase pages of mine. This first is if you want to enter a U.S. dollar-denominated amount to pay me.

Pay With Bitcoin (denominated in U.S. Dollars)

This second is if you want to enter a Bitcoin-denominated amount. (Remember one Bitcoin is currently worth many U.S. dollars.)

Pay With Bitcoin (denominated in Bitcoins)

Fifth: if you have a Chase bank account (or even other bank accounts), you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Chase QuickPay (FAQ). Just tell Chase QuickPay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address (steveslrATaol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). If Chase asks for the name on my account, it’s StevenSailer with an n at the end of Steven. (Non-tax deductible.) There is no 2.9% fee like with PayPal or Google Wallet, so this is good for large contributions.

Sixth: if you have a Wells Fargo bank account, you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Wells Fargo SurePay. Just tell WF SurePay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address steveslrAT aol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). (Non-tax deductible.) There is no 2.9% fee like with PayPal or Google Wallet, so this is good for large contributions.

Seventh: Google Wallet, which I’ll put below the fold: