On Saturday night, the city of Baltimore resembled a warzone as protests over the death of Freddie Gray turned wildly violent. One eyewitness reported watching the streets around him and his friend “turn into madness” as they left a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. Car windows were smashed, stores were robbed, chairs were thrown and large numbers of random bystanders were attacked. One prominent Democrat claims that those committing the violence were “mainly from out of town“, but how would he know that? Today, there are approximately 2.7 million people living in the Baltimore metropolitan area. It is an area that has been known for poverty, crime and drugs for many years, and as racial tensions continue to increase in this country it is a powder keg that could erupt at literally any time. We got a preview of what can happen on Saturday night. If this is how people will act while economic conditions are still relatively stable in this country, what in the world is going to happen when things really start falling apart?
On Saturday, April 11th, I delivered a presentation down in Dallas, Texas in which I warned about the rioting and civil unrest that are soon coming to this nation. On slide number 145 of the presentation, I specifically named the city of Baltimore as one of the cities where this would happen. But I had no idea that the rioting in Baltimore would begin so quickly. And the violence that we saw on Saturday night was at a level that was quite shocking. The following is how the Daily Mail described some of the chaos that ensued…
Local news captured live footage of a man throwing a flaming trash can at the police line.
A group of roughly 100 protesters broke out a window of a department store with a chair they got at a restaurant across the street at The Gallery, a downtown shopping mall.
The same group broke the windows of restaurants including a Subway sandwich shop near Camden Yards, tossing chairs and tables through the glass.
Protesters also engaged with a group of Orioles fans at Slider’s Bar and Grille and began fighting with patrons.
This kind of thing is not supposed to happen in America.
But it is happening. Ferguson set the precedent, and now this is going to spread all over the country.
You can see some excellent photographs of the chaos that happened in Baltimore right here, and in the video posted below several young thugs smash out the front window of a police cruiser as dozens of onlookers cheer them on…
Things were so bad outside of the stadium where the Baltimore Orioles play that some of the Orioles actually thought about spending the night inside the clubhouse.
One of the things that is being ignored by many in the mainstream media is that fact that one of the key organizers of the Baltimore protests is a former national chairman of the New Black Panther Party named Malik Shabazz. These days, he is the president of an organization known as “Black Lawyers for Justice”, but he is definitely still up to his old tricks. The following is an excerpt from an article about the Baltimore riots in the New York Times…
There, Malik Shabazz, president of Black Lawyers for Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based group that called for the demonstration and advertised it on social media, told the crowd that he would release them in an hour, adding: “Shut it down if you want to! Shut it down!”
Mr. Shabazz said in a later interview that his rhetoric was intended only to encourage civil disobedience — not violence — but added that he was “not surprised” by the scattered angry outbursts because people here “haven’t received justice.”
If you are marching for “justice”, you don’t throw objects at random bystanders, loot stores or attack vehicles that are just driving through the area. But all of those things happened on Saturday night. The following is how an eyewitness described one of the most harrowing attacks…
The crowd of protesters then stopped a blue station wagon carrying a white family as they tried to drive past Pickles, Bullpen and Sliders along a narrow one-way stretch between the bars and the main road. As a horde of them smashed their open and closed fists on the hood of the car—while impeding them by standing in front of them—the driver backed up on the one way pass in a desperate attempt to get out of dodge. Then, stopped on the other side with nowhere to go, protesters ripped open the passenger door of the car and began reaching around inside the vehicle. As hundreds of people looked on, including several police officers who didn’t engage the violent protesters, the white woman in the front seat—middle-aged and a little heavyset with dark hair—was visibly terrified. The group of black men who ripped open the car door suddenly realized they were separated from the larger group of protesters and abandoned their quest to seemingly either carjack the station wagon or rob the people inside in front of hundreds, driving out of the one-way street back onto the main road and presumably out of dodge.
Of course all of this did not just erupt out of a vacuum. Racial tensions on all sides have been stirred up by the mainstream media, by our politicians, and by other prominent national leaders for years. At this point, even pastors are inflaming the tensions…
Activist Jamal Bryant, pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church, told his congregation Sunday that “somebody is going to have to pay” for Gray’s death, the Associated Press reported.
If “you’re black in America, your life is always under threat,” Bryant said.
Why can’t we all just learn to love one another, forgive one another, and peacefully come up with some solutions that are going to work for all of us?
Sadly, all of this hate and anger is just another sign of the social decay that is eating away at the foundations of our society like a cancer.
And if people are willing to act like this when our economy is still relatively stable and things are still relatively good in this nation, what are they going to do when they don’t have any money in their pockets and they don’t know where their next meal is going to come from?
What we witnessed in Baltimore on Saturday night is just the beginning.
Much worse is coming, and eventually we are going to see tremendous civil unrest and rioting all over this nation.
You are supposed to pay attention to the relatively small number of incidents where police over-react, and ignore the ongoing and ever increasing incidents of black rioting and black on white crime. Therefore, you should ignore this article and what happened in Baltimore. Seriously, this situation has been encouraged by BHO and Eric Holder, and I’m sure they are pleased with how things are going.
I think in this fourth turning, it is going to be the liberal states that get hit the hardest. There is a massive drought in the west, encouraged by liberal policies to make California an agricultural state which is growing water intensive crops such as almonds, grapes, and olives. In the Northwest liberal states there are racial tensions arising from gentrification and diversity. While the South was forced to integrate in the 1960s, the North had a much different story of white flight into the suburbs and urban decay. What is going to trigger an uprising and chaos in the Liberal states is there is no longer Democratic leadership or party solutions to these growing problems. In fact, being as Hillary is the most boring candidate and the only one on the bench so far, we should see liberal states weakening at a fast pace because there will be no hope.
In the South we are seeing a completely different situation. There are no racial tensions and manufacturing has moved to the South since the financial crisis. Considering our right-to-work laws and no unions to pay bloated pensions, it is a great place for Northern businesses to relocate. The region is water rich, as it has been historically, and will attract massive agriculture reinvestment. Seeing as the South is pro-libertarian and constitutional friendly we are seeing a rise in the Republican party with numerous candidates from different areas of life, it is not like the lawyer party of the North.
This is simply a sign of changing social mood.
When social mood is high and rising, stocks sail higher, society is mostly peaceful, crime is relatively lower, fashions are colorful, women’s clothing shows off a lot of skin, Disneyesque films are popular, horror films are less common, etc.
When social mood is falling and low, stocks are crashing, society is filled with conflict and strife, crime rises, fashions become dour and monochromatic, women’s clothing shows little skin, Disney cartoons stop being produced, horror films dominate, etc.
What the current times represent are a transitional period. “Leading Edge” conditions show strife and violence, but it remains isolated.
If I’m correct in my expectations (finally), the financial markets are nearing a final apogee. In real terms, they are not making new highs, which is why the last 15 years FEEL like a bear market, and so we look around and see mixed signals (long dresses along with tiny bikinis, happy films alongside horror films, rioting in a few places but not–yet–everywhere.)
If we watch stocks roll over and crash in coming months, expect spontaneous violence to rise dramatically. I do not think this is some sort of nefarious plan, I see it as a natural cycle that has built to an historic, manic, lunatic crescendo on the upside and will thus collapse and burn in an equally historic, manic, lunatic crash in coming years.
For those who avoid being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time, life will go on. Our ancestors survived Bubonic Plague, centuries of incessant warfare and periodic famine. We can, too, if we play our cards right.
That will not be easy, however, because the dealer is a real jerk.
@Stephanie,
Summertime……and the livin’ is eaaasy.
@Stephanie,
It will be the states most run by statists these past decades that will land the hardest. Illinois is the Poster Child, where public employee pensions are 1) grossly underfunded even before the asset markets collapse and 2) enshrined in the state constitution as “unassailable.”
This means that before they throw in the towel, politicians and judges will leave nothing but scorched earth in their zeal to make 1+1-2 = 50.
Eventually, real property taxes will in all likelihood render most real estate valueless. People will leave Illinois as refugees pictured fleeing the Irish Potato Famine.
@D.C. Sunset
I’ve been wondering myself if we will soon be seeing waves of (for lack of a better term) refugees ala the Okies moving towards different regions. I see things playing out differently for the South solely because we are resource rich and right now that advantage is undervalued. We also did not see the same rise of inflation as the Liberal states of the last 60 years. Most in the South live on modest means as compared to the North. Our downside is the same as the rest of the country as far as this corporate centralized planning tied to the stock market. But when that crashes I don’t think it will be as devastating for the South. Worst case scenario we will still have access to water and we have the perfect climate and land for growing crops. We are also more likely to have guns and to be able to defend ourselves from government aggression. The worst issue for people in liberal states is they backed gun control laws and will be vulnerable as they were during the Boston shutdown.
@Stephanie,
Another advantage for the South is the climate. While living south of I-80 without air conditioning looks awful to me, people lived with the heat (and much worse heat) for a very long time. Living without heat in a Chicago winter is something only for the hardiest souls. I’m not one of them.
Thus, as I see it, there are more embedded, unavoidable costs to living in the North, and when people’s ability to handle those costs crumbles, they’ll be driven south by the winters. Carpetbaggers, ahoy!
Also, if self-sufficiency or partial self-sufficiency for food becomes necessary, the growing season is simply too short in the north. Double that if the folks predicting a slide toward a new Ice Age are correct (I’m agnostic on that subject.)
I can’t speak to the actual effect of gun control laws.
I read of how people accidentally drive into the middle of a riot and get dragged from their cars and such. I wonder, “What the heck? Don’t they lock their car doors? How many cars get swarmed before one of the occupants empties his Glock 17 into the mass of swarming insects?”
It hasn’t happened yet, I guess, and that is a head-scratcher.
News reports like this are undoubtedly causing lots of folks to arm-up. If so, that trend will collide with this “unrest” crap and it will REALLY make the news.
DC. I think you may have it backwards. Where would you rather be in the event of civil unrest – Birmingham or Montpelier? New Orleans or Duluth? Cold weather is not a problem for the resourceful. It’s like the ant and the grasshopper.
@Stephanie: good luck. The South has some things going for it as you point out. But it also has many issues as well. First, racial issues. I’ve spent time in the south and I understand that racial issues there today are different than in the north or midwest, and in many situations black and white people get along just fine, at least in public situations with high social controls. I’ve also been in the non-urban, non-wealthy areas where this doesn’t hold, and it’s a sort of voluntary segregation with a seriously violent edge where the segregation fails. When things break down this could get nasty.
Second, the south is fairly compact, painfully close to DC, and riddled with military bases. If it rebels and DC doesn’t like it, it will be under the boot just as quickly and painfully as Boston. The geography of most of the south makes it relatively easy to control by a military force. Compare western Montana / northern Idaho favored by survivalists since the 70’s, an area that would be far more difficult to control.
Third, all that social order is brought about largely by a culture of obedience, respect to authority, and submission to not just laws but unwritten social norms. If you fit within that culture it keeps life easier and more predictable, but it also makes rebellion less likely, and far easier to co-opt by anyone who can portray themselves as whatever the rebels want. Obama didn’t get elected by telling people he was Bush 3, the mocha neocon, even though he is. A Rick Perry type would get lots of support from those people with guns, while selling them down the river.
I’d rather be n Hawaii. Rioters will throw pineapple & sand.
Econman: all well and good until the supply ships stop coming in. Then you need to consider whether someone else’s dinner is you. That’s the probably with any island smaller or more densely populated than, say, New Zealand’s south island.
If I, a native New Yorker, were to return to live in the US, my choice hands down would be the South, likely western Virginia, western NC, eastern Tenn. I spent six months or so living in Madison County, NC, some twenty years ago. I look and sound like an aged preppie, but not one person of the many I met treated me with anything but courtesy and cordiality while they were trying to figure out just what to make of me.
The advantages listed by SS are spot on.
The white-black thing, viewed from afar in space and time, looks to be much worse than I’d imagined. I’m finally convinced there’s a very real chance there could be a precipitating event that will provide the motive for an imposition of martial law someplace, then a slow creep toward more and more places when violence increases.
“Congratulations, Monte, you have earned this nicely blocked tinfoil hat! Consider keeping it on while you sleep.”
@Stephanie: I lived in the deep South for about 15 years and have spent the rest of my life in rural New England. I have plenty of water and a virtually endless supply of firewood on my property. I wouldn’t want to be in a city in any part of the country. I know all about New Orleans, and it has major racial problems, as does Atlanta. Winter in rural New England will be a good natural deterrent to roving bands of locust. In fact, the locust will probably move to warmer climates to do their pillaging. Also, don’t assume that gangs from the cities don’t know how to use guns. In any event, most of us will have to survive in whatever location we happen to live in. You might as well think positively and assume that your location is a good one. Anyone who doesn’t think that way should move.
@DC Sunset- There are plenty of ways to stay cool in the South in the summer. The worst summer I endured was a few years ago in Arkansas. I had a veteran friend who said the humidity reminded him of Afghanistan and I think the heat index was 110 degrees for most of the summer. I spent a lot of time indoors and worked the grave yard shift to avoid the high temperature. That summer I also tinted my apartment windows, saved me a bunch of money.
@Persnickety- When it comes to racial tensions I haven’t experienced much racism. Sure there are racial disagreements, but rarely outright organized racism. Where I live nearly half the population is black. There isn’t a big wealth divide either.
I’ll skip the South and head straight for St. Croix.
Just kidding. I’m probably going nowhere. I know “here,” and everywhere else I’d be the outsider. The only rub is that the “barbarians are already inside the gates.”
Oh, what an adventure we have coming.
@Paven- I think people living in areas prepared with water and heat will fair better. But I single out liberal states specifically for its population dense cities. Historically in times of war resources ran out quickly in cities. The regions that will always fair the best is where there is little difficulty being self-reliant.
“I and the public know what all school children learn, those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.:
SS: why wait for summer. Driving home from work yesterday the temp was between 97 and99F. In south Fl. A record. I simply can’t imagine what the goblins have in store for us this summer. Latest from Baltimore, the “mayor”, a hyphenated negress, told the Popos to give the looters some space. WTF is that all about?
@Stephanie: I hope your confidence in your black neighbors is justified. The first black on white racism that I experienced was in Southern cities.
@Pavan- I trust my black neighbors more than I trust my government.
Shit hitting fan in Baltimore
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-27/baltimore-protests-escalate-officers-injured-%E2%80%94-live-feed
Baltimore… “Charm City”
My ass.
The urban hominids are throwing fist sized rocks right now.
I’d rather fight the weather than people. The weather, even up north, at least plays fair and by the rules.
Baltimore and Maryland are going to get what they deserve. I don’t give a shit. They voted for it fuck’em.
@Overthecliff: “Baltimore and Maryland are going to get what they deserve.”
I agree, but the US voted for Obama and probably Hillary will be next. So we as a nation are also getting what we deserve. Those of us who don’t vote for this are collateral damage.
Folks in the south are so used to saying racist stuff, They don’t even realize they are doing it. You can have the south and all the ignorance. At the same time i would have favored freedom over the tyranny of the north,way Back then.
What everyone needs to understand,Its not as black and white thing.It’s a cop(system) versus everyone thing. You’re just seeing an area that has a majority population of blacks.
It gets old having people think there’s some kind of secret handshake among white people.
I may be rare, but i don’t even think about your skin color. Your clothes(gang banger clothes) and what kind of person you may be,Is what i am thinking of. I find dick heads and idiots in people of all color and parts of the country. Same goes for meeting nice people also.
We’re all going to be in the same boat soon.
yahsure you say it’s not a skin thing so where are the whites rioting at?
Where are the roving gangs of white kids knocking out citizens like the blacks when polar bear hunting?
The 30 blocks of squaler Admin writes about is that a white neighborhood?
Are whites running around killing each other like the blacks in Chicago and other large cities?
No my friend you are wrong it is a skin thing. Crime has a color and it’s Black!
Peaceful protest. Can’t we all just get along?
They’re gonna need to raise taxes on whitey to pay for all those burned up police cars and stores.
It is a skin thing
In certain areas do they have a looting registry, in case you’re not home when big screen mania days occur?
Update: MARYLAND GOV DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY, ACTIVATES NATL GUARD
One of the photos linked at Drudge (Daily Mail, I think) shows a looter whose loot was one can of Pringles, a gallon of grape drink (not juice) and a six pack of toilet paper. Can’t you at least rip off some T-bones to make it worth your while?
Keep in mind these protesters / thugs are not humans, they are animals. They think like an animal they act like an animal, in kind they should be treated like an animal, just like a pack of rabid dogs.
This is one reason why No one I know would ever give up their right to bear arms.Australians gave up their right,and had home invasions escalate now their gov runs rough shod over them all Forced vaccinations except the governors daughters are exempt .
My wife has to go down to Johns Hopkins tomorrow morning to help a friend with chemo treatment.
I’m trying to convince her not to go into the city period.
iska – it takes a lot of paper to wipe those fat asses.
Sensetti, thuggish street crime has a color and it’s on display here. Scheming financial crime has a color too, which is pasty white (sometimes with fake tan). Different groups have criminals who perpetrate different crimes depending on what they’re good at.
I think this situation plays well into the hands of those who want less freedom and more government control. It may be setting up the final confrontation between the coastal statists and the landlocked quasi-libertarians, who will reject those new controls since their areas don’t want them and won’t benefit from them.
When I visit DC, which I do as little as possible, I feel like I’m in some other country than my home, some dystopian nightmare out of Orwell.
Anonymous is full of shit. No forced vaccinations. But very tight gun laws. But you can still own rifles, shotguns, handguns. Very little violent crime in Australia relative to the US. The home invasion bullshit is just that, too.
Snick, I fail to see the connection between these feral animals and the financial elite that run this country. The bankers have furnished us with a slow deterioration of our standard of living, but hey I’m still doing ok. This other group will cut your throat given the chance. A banker did not knock my girlfriend to the ground, a nigger did.
Let me use some simple logic to make my point. Would you rather have your wife’s car break down in the middle of the night in the Hamptons or East St Louis.
Who picked today as ‘National Guard Day’ for Baltimore, because you won the pool.
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/downtown-businesses-organizations-close-early-monday/32595778
I don’t know much about what’s going on but here is a very telling sentence from Business Insider:
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“Freddie Gray died a week after his spine was somehow partially severed in police custody.”
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Holy Shit. His spine was partially severed? How the fuck does that happen??
Evil. Pure evil this way comes.
@Sensetti:
“The bankers have furnished us with a slow deterioration of our standard of living, but hey I’m still doing ok.”
If that’s your view of things I’m at a loss as to why you read TBP. The list of actual crimes committed by banksters in the last decade is endless and has robbed people around the world, including you and me, of enormous amounts of wealth – far more than any mugging could do. Have you heard of Corzine? Mozillo? I’m sure Jim or maybe Karl D. can give you a kindergarten-level introduction to bankster crimes if you need it.
“Would you rather have your wife’s car break down in the middle of the night in the Hamptons or East St Louis.”
Neither one, since I won’t get any help in the Hamptons except by waiting for AAA. I may not get mugged but I could get run over by some richy-rich who doesn’t care because money has always protected them from consequences. Your question is pointless. I’ll return it to you:
1) Would you rather be in a fistfight with Mike Tyson or Mike Bloomberg?
2) Would you rather defend a lawsuit filed against you by Mike Tyson or Mike Bloomberg?
I believe Stephanie Shepard to be correct that the northern liberal states will be a battleground. The rust belt will be leveled to clear the decay, it is how that is done. I also concur that manufacturing is returning to the southern US. To be sure, there may even be a new White House located in the area of the Ozarks. Carpetbaggers from the south will give the yanks a taste of their own medicine.
Stanley says:
I don’t know much about what’s going on but here is a very telling sentence from Business Insider:
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“Freddie Gray died a week after his spine was somehow partially severed in police custody.”
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Holy Shit. His spine was partially severed? How the fuck does that happen??
Evil. Pure evil this way comes.
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Here is what happened. When Gray was on the ground, a Copfuk put his knee on his Gray’s neck and applied enough pressure to displace three vertebrea, hence partially severing his spinal cord. The independent autopsy will show this as fact. Book it, Danno.
Nothing can excuse the violence and destruction of property tonight, but the Baltimore police department is a disgrace and all they have done so far is to try to cover up the crimes of some of its’ employees. The police union has also emitted nothing but bullshit.
Sensitti:
Anthony Mozillo STOLE millions upon millions of dollars from Murikans like me and you. He stole millions of dollars in interest payments from honest retirees. In a real world with a real economy he would have ended up at best in prison and at worst homeless and destitute. Instead he lives in a palatial palace in Malibu. He is everything that is wrong with Murika today.
Good time to activate FEMA camps for the rioters. I suspect some may be from DC out on a shopping trip, making multiple runs from store to car so they are not just taking a bag of Doritos. Momma said, bring me a flatscreen, DaeShaun, the biggest one you can carry.
Snick says: If that’s your view of things I’m at a loss as to why you read TBP.
1. I read the Burning platform for pure entertainment period.
2. I like Admin and his lovely wife and would like to see their hard work payoff for them. TBP is a lot of work. I try to contribute with some cash and the rambling’s of a crazy Redneck.
3. I made more money last year than any year in my life, save the year I sold my business. I never paid myself the amount of money I made last year. I’m doing ok no complaints.
4. I will make money even when the bottom falls out, I have a few things in place I know will pay off. It’s feasible I maybe better off after the crash than I am now, but only time will tell. You know the best laid plans of mice and men.
5. So Snick you tell me why you read TBP?
6. I’m in Great shape, good health, have a Beautiful girlfriend and realize it could all vaporize in a single day as it did for my friend AWD. So Snick Sensetti don’t worry bout the bankers at all. Those mother fuckers don’t hold my future. Now that nigger that knocked my woman to the ground this week that’s a concern for me.
7. And last but certainly not least. I love the men and women that post here. Take Olé Z for instance me and that cat have very little in common but if a few days go by and I don’t see a post of his I wonder if he’s ok and hope he’s doing well. We are a family, a really, really fucked up family but a family none the less.
8 Now get off my ass!