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No Justice, No Peace
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The TV coverage of this is becoming completely idiotic, as usual. A lot of the pundits are blaming the situation on what time the kids where let of school. Thatâs what this is all about,bad timing by school officials
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Black lives matter, especially if getting involved in the protest allows them to steal a really big TV. Reminds me of the Vietnam war protests when I was in college. âStop the warâ. But actually what was going on was that stores were being trashed and people were stealing cameras. Pretty soon, we are gonna see another reminder of those great '68 riot days - Republicans saying âDo you want this kind of crap?â and running on law ânâ order.
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Itâs funny how no one ever says that when itâs white people happy/upset that their team/bar won/lost a game/closed early for daylight savings time.
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This riot is getting really ugly in Baltimore with a pharmacy on fire, lots of looting and violence toward the police (rocks, bricks whatever is handy). As it gets dark this could really get serious.
And black live DO matter.
I think looting must be symbolic of something. The guy in the picture is stealing a package of toilet paper!
This country was founded on slavery. How long did it last, 350 years or thereabouts? How many untold millions of dollars in gold ended up in Fort Knox because of it? How many millions of Africans died in slave ships? How many untold tortured and worked to death before our country was ripped apart by it? And is still being ripped apart? Americaâs greatest shame is that we canât bring ourselves to admit what we owe them. We canât sympathize with how totally fucked up and fucked over they are, and how American institutions and traditions keep them that way.
You know, maybe itâs just me, I could be wrong, but I think African-Americans are pretty pissed off. Youâre worried about big screen TVâs?
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And the police across the country just donât learn. Assholes with guns and fists. Sure are tough, arenât they?
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Yes, no one really protested the war. Really the war protests were just a scam for hippies to steal cameras. And these folks clashing with the police couldnât possibly really be upset about how others of their race are beaten and summarily executed by âlaw enforcementâ officers. Nope. This has gotta be a ploy so some of their friends and neighbors can stock up on toilet paper.
Stunning analysis.
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Only 3/10 trolling score, just too dumb. We used to have much better around here.
By the way if everyone stole their toilet paper it would bankrupt the Koch brothers. They own Georgia-Pacific! It would be hard to boycott toilet paper I guess.
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The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a state of emergency has been declared and the National Guard called out
Itâs tempting to think that, eventually, surely some big urban center police service is going try some radical new approach towards community policing that doesnât make these sorts of scenes inevitable.
But itâs short-sighted to put this down to an optics problem with authoritarian policing.
Anyone able to remember the 1960s - mass marches against the war in Viet Nam largely ignored on the msm, protests around the Civil Rights push and the officialized apartheid reactions in a number of states, the rioting at the DNC in Chicago and many other urban centers, the lootings and police shootings - who also considers the fact that weâre in way, way deeper shit now on things like economic inequality, prohibitively excessive still rising costs of advanced education, faux education grifts, fake work, lack of opportunity, the abandonment of public infrastructure spending, cutting off the poor and disadvantaged, catastrophic water shortages, the coming Salton Sea disaster, drilling-produced earthquakes, and overall massively reduced mere frickinâ HOPE, itâs difficult to even imagine how.
This is the same country that marginalized and dismissed the Occupy Movement. Itâs way more likely that more and more will take up sides. Authoritarian anti-community policing isnât the cause of all that, itâs just one of the more dramatic, immediately vulnerable symptoms.
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Thatâs easy for you to say, itâs not your store that is looted.
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Great. Here come all those fancy leftovers from the war.
Watching live coverage out of Baltimore. The chief of Police just asked for 5,000 law enforcement officers from the Mid-Atlantic region
http://www.abc2news.com/live?_ga=1.102882816.1693882896.1430182222
The Baltimore police are at fault for not immediately investigating the circumstances of this manâs death and holding the ones involved accountable.
Itâs on them.
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Gee look everyone, a troll showed up. Ainât he cute?
There are too many people who take advantage. That doesnât mean that all, or even most, of thos protesting arenât there in sincerity.
As for the Vietnam protests, a lot of that was police red squads. My father-in-law was one of the worst of Mayor Dailyâs Red Squad goons. Dave Cushing, google him with Red Squad. Books were written about him. The bastard is still proud of instigating riots, planting evidence and acts designed to destroy reputations. Completely unrepentant, he remains just one of many thugs who set out to discredit the anti-war movement.
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News flash. None, not a single one, of these rioters were slaves. Did you know that?
These thieves have no excuse for their looting. None. And excusing their lawlessness is bullshit.
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Interesting story. We have our in-laws and relatives, and there they are. In 1968, I was living in the Chicago suburbs. My dad (WWII veteran) picked me up from school or something. I casually mentioned that I was thinking of going downtown to see what was up. My dad said, âOK, but just donât bother coming home if you do that.â So, I didnât go.