Jason Russell: "Don't Touch that Dust"

Headline reads :Kony 2012 campaigner Jason Russell detained for public rampage

Not really a rampage, but they refuse to call the devil by his name (PCP). Abc news reports Jason was seen "in his underwear" but TMZ uploaded a video of Mr. Russel naked , slapping his hands on the pavement then rearing up in a defiant posture . B/C he is a (slactivist) media darling the media suddenly comes to his defense, the UK press has not been as kind as the American press, however. Persons who post using their facebook login are blaming "acid" but the real culprit is obvious: Phencyclidine.

"San Diego police dispatcher transcripts show neighbors began calling around 11:30 a.m. Thursday to report that a man was running around in his underwear in the city's Pacific Beach neighborhood.
"(Subject) is at the corner, banging his hands on the ground, screaming, incoherent," the transcript continues. "People are trying to calm him down, he's been stopping traffic."
Police Lt. Andra Brown said a 33-year-old man was detained and taken to a hospital for medical evaluation. He was never arrested, and no charges are planned."

"A brief statement by the group in the wake of Russell's detention said that being at the centre of a massive media storm may have taken its toll. "Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalised suffering from exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition. He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better," said Invisible Children's chief executive Ben Keesey in the statement.

"The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason's passion and bis work have done so much to help so many and we are are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue."

TMZ video doesn't lie: Russel is seen naked, running and cursing on-coming traffic, and slamming fists into pavement with no pain response. Neither acid nor alcohol, typically only one thing can do that and it sure isn't the MO of exhaustion just the opposite in fact...

So many lies, so much obfuscation. This kind of raises my opinion of the lout, pardon my french, if only b/c he's a lot braver than I am. But otherwise I think he's just despicable b/c he's cheerleading for American Military intervention in sub-saharan africa. I mean, he's not volunteering to join some rebel outfit and carry a rifle but wants Obama to send in the specops teams to eradicate Kony (titular head of Lord's Resistance Army).

The public doesn't want to admit (and the media won't allow them to admit) that they've been taken in by someone who they would otherwise consider a druggie, an irresponsible gen-xr who is out for his own. These middle class boomers making posts even go so far as to suggest that someone slipped him an acid mickey, as if! They would never allow that as an affirmative defense/benefit of the doubt for anyone else but since he has risen so fast to viral prominence in the public spotlight suddenly he is afforded the most philistine exemptions. So what's the tox screen say? We may have to wait until someone like TMZ or smoking-gun media get a hold of it through leaks or FOI.

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So... more soon.

Peace,