The shit going on in Baltimore is crazy, these people should be following the example shown during the bs between the BLM and Bundy but instead they act like 3rd world feral animals. But I did read the following article between dropping an obama and wiping my hillary and felt it was worth posting.
The Atlantic
The citizens who live in West Baltimore, where the rioting began, intuitively understand this. I grew up across the street from Mondawmin Mall where today’s riots began. My mother was raised in the same housing project, Gilmore Homes, where Freddie Gray was killed. Everyone I knew who lived in that world regarded the police, not with admiration and respect, but with fear and caution. People write these feelings off as wholly irrational at their own peril, or their own leisure. The case against the Baltimore police, and the society that superintends them, is easily made:
Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson…
And in almost every case, prosecutors or judges dismissed the charges against the victims — if charges were filed at all. In an incident that drew headlines recently, charges against a South Baltimore man were dropped after a video showed an officer repeatedly punching him — a beating that led the police commissioner to say he was “shocked.”
The money paid out by the city to cover for the brutal acts of its police department, would be enough to build “a state-of-the-art rec center or renovations at more than 30 playgrounds.” Instead the money was used to cover for the brutal acts of the city’s police department and ensure they remained well beyond any semblance of justice.
Now tonight, I turn on the news and I see politicians calling for young people in Baltimore to remain peaceful and “nonviolent.” These well-intended pleas strike me as the right answer to the wrong question. To understand the question it’s worth remembering what, specifically, happened to Freddie Gray. An officer made eye contact with Gray. Gray, for unknown reasons, ran. The officer and his colleagues then detained Gray. They found him in possession of a switch-blade. They arrested him while he yelled in pain. And then, within an hour, his spine was mostly severed. Within a week, he was dead. What specifically was the crime, here? What particular threat did Freddie Gray pose? Why is mere eye contact and then running worthy of detention at the hands of the state? Why is Freddie Gray dead?
The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions. Many of them are charged with enforcing the very policies that led to Gray’s death, and yet they can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death and so they appeal for calm. But there was no official appeal for calm when Gray was being arrested. There was no appeal for calm when Jerriel Lyles was assaulted (“The blow was so heavy. My eyes swelled up. Blood was dripping down my nose and out my eye.”) There was no claim for nonviolence on behalf of Venus Green (“Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”) There was no plea for peace on behalf of Starr Brown. (“They slammed me down on my face,” Brown added, her voice cracking. “The skin was gone on my face. …”)
When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time-out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. And none of this can mean that rioting or violence is “correct” or “wise” anymore than a forest fire can be “correct” or “wise.” Wisdom isn’t the point, tonight. Disrespect is. In this case disrespect for the hollow law and failed order that so regularly disrespects the rioters themselves.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/nonviolence-as-compliance/ar-BBiL0kQ
Thank you Harry
Poisoning, starving, drugging, and then beating us when our damaged minds, spirits and bodies do not comply fast enough.
And the Old Guard, the ones that thought all these chemicals, laws and rules and fines and regulations were great ideas, are STILL justifying and defending it.
Whatever. At least I have no doubts that eventually, if not already they just refuse to admit/accept it, this for-corrupted-profit mess we call our country will turn on them too.
It bit me a long time ago, which is probably why my mind is so open to seeing things differently from our Old Guard.
I used to have hope that reason and love would win.
Now I see the truth. This is just the beginning and myself and my family are going to be forced to pay for it all, whether we agree, or support, or not.
Maybe this is what Jesus means by those that keep the love and true meaning of God are the ones saved.
Saddest part is that most of those that will be left behind are the same ones that today feel so sure they are righteous and would be saved.
Thanks again harryp!
“Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations”.
And yet, the politicians stand in front of the TV cameras and look dumfounded as to why the riots broke out. Is no one minding the store?
My prediction is that local officials around the country will take some time off courting campaign donors with promised favors and devote some of their time to actually managing the city. The police MUST follow policies set by the elected politicians or they get fired. So clearly, in those 100 cases above, they were following the city’s policies.
“Now tonight, I turn on the news and I see politicians calling for young people in Baltimore to remain peaceful and “nonviolent.”” ———— from the article
Yup. And guess what else the talking dikheads on teevee are saying?
1 ——- DIALOGUE !!! Yup, we gotta be talkin’ to each other! That will cure everything. Hey, here’s some diaglogue; — “Yo! Niggas! Get a fuckin’ job!!” — How’s that for dialogue?
2 ——- MOVING FORWARD!!! “Now is not the time to fix blame. Now is the time to look ahead. How do we rebuild? How do we solve the root cause of violence? How do we invest in these communities to insure this won’t happen again?” blah blah fuckfuckity blah blah
Amerika’s steep decline continues, with no end in sight.
Stucky,
i think you actually meant fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.
They always want to talk, because it is their way of buying more time.
There are no jobs in The Baltimores of this country. There will be no jobs in the Baltimores of this country.
In order for there to be tradeable goods or services someone has to take a RISK. And there must be a REWARD for taking that RISK.
In order for those youths to get a job they will have to move from those areas. However, nobody wants Negros invading. None of the so called elit of the vaunted African Americans care to invest in these people either.
They have the majority. They elect these politicians. These politicians control those police departments.
So in fact they indirectly screw themselves.
Welcome to Mogadishu, MD
If people don’t do extreme things.Then everything just continues a usual.
Just look at the banks and wall street,They were bailed out and the people said almost nothing.And the way they do business really didn’t change and now we face another economic disaster.
Start with redefining drug use as a medical and social problem….and not a criminal problem. Then, re-direct the funding given to for-profit prisons owned by connected cronys and ensure confiscated funds are directed to training and business start-up loans. Ensure loans are administered by contracted accounting firms…whose services are paid as a percentage of successful start-ups and people getting off welfare. keep politicians and Govt. out of the loop.
Maybe a few fathers will stay out of jail and be able to help raise their kids.
There have been too many instances of police errors, mistakes, and misconduct that have not been properly addressed. From harassing honest citizens over minor disagreements, questionable shootings of honest citizens, to SWAT teams raiding “the wrong house”, smashing everything in sight, with no apologies to the occupants for their “mistakes”, there is something seriously amiss with law enforcement in this country.
Militarization, along with the “us vs. them” attitude, seeing the general public as the “enemy”, treating the public with suspicion, many of those that comprise the “thin blue line” do much to alienate themselves from their “bosses”, the law-abiding public.
Police have forgotten that a little “Andy Taylor” can go a long way in soothing fears that the public has of law enforcement…
“Blow back” has arrived with extremely unconscionable and tragic results…
No humans in their right mind want to see anyone lose their life at the hands of criminals of any sort, especially “law enforcement officers”–those who are charged with “keeping the peace”.
It seems that in today’s supercharged climate of “officer safety”, innocent civilian lives have been extinguished, with tragic results.
Part of the “problem” has to do with the elevation of “officer safety”, trumping “citizen safety”. It seems that honest citizens have been relegated to second-class “status”, being expendable whenever a “law enforcement” officer’s (perceived) “safety” is threatened.
The hypocrisy is so blatant, that even with incontrovertible video and audio evidence, police-friendly prosecutors, along with “rubber stamp” grand juries STILL absolve rogue cops of wrongdoing.
The public is not stupid, seeing through the double-standard that presently exists. This, in no certain terms, absolves anyone of responsibility for perpetrating unnecessary violence against “law enforcement” or the general public…
The sad part of this whole situation is that when the SHTF, the 99% of good cops will suffer, as those with “axes to grind” will see only the uniform and will be unable (or even unwilling) to differentiate between the “good” and the few “bad”…collateral damage at its worst.
Non-violent changes in the whole system are sorely needed……
There is much angst and consternation against prosecutors and grand juries who refuse to bring charges against police officers, even when incontrovertible evidence is presented. Even with incontrovertible audio and video evidence, prosecutors are loath to prosecute rogue law enforcement personnel.
Let’s examine the reasons why it is so difficult to prosecute thug cops:
Most prosecutors are former police officers or have extensive dealings with police departments and have ongoing relationships with police departments in their respective jurisdictions. They are friendly with the judges in their jurisdictions, as well. This, along with “absolute immunity” makes it easy for them to “cover up” police abuses and behavior. Prosecutors cannot be sued for malfeasance…it takes a judge (who prosecutors are friendly with) to bring charges on a rogue prosecutor (which almost never happens).
In addition, prosecutors guide the actions of grand juries. Prosecutors are not required to introduce any evidence to grand juries, (can and do) easily “whitewash” the actions of rogue cops. On the other hand, prosecutors can (and often do) go after honest citizens who seek justice outside official channels…prosecutors have ultimate power and are not afraid to use it…their immunity sees to that.
Another aspect to a grand jury’s inability to prosecute bad cops is the fear of retribution…cops drive around all day, have nothing but time, have access to various databases, and can easily get the names and addresses of grand jurors…this, in itself can be a powerful deterrent against grand jurors who “want to do the right thing” and prosecute bad cops. There are many cases of cops parking in front of grand jurors’ residences, following them around, and threaten to issue citations to them, in order to “convince” them to “make the right decision”…the “thin blue line” at its worst…
The whole system has to change.
Eliminate absolute and qualified immunity for all public officials. The fear of personal lawsuits would be a powerful deterrent against abuses of the public. Any judgements against public officials should come out of their pension funds.
Grand juries must be superior to the prosecutor; ALL evidence must be presented to grand jurors. Failure to do so must be considered a felony and subject prosecutors to prosecution themselves.
No police agency can be allowed to investigate itself. Internal affairs departments must be restricted to minor in-house investigations of behavior between cops. All investigations must be handled by outside agencies, preferably at the state level.
Civilian police review boards must be free of police influence. Members of civilian review boards must have NO ties to police departments. Relatives of police would be prohibited from serving…Recently, the “supreme court” threw police another “bone”. The court ruled that police are not responsible for their actions if they are “ignorant of the law”…now, let’s get this straight–honest citizens cannot use “ignorance of the law” as an excuse, but cops can??
Revolution is sorely needed…..
Here are “police” practices that deserve to be exposed:
#1. During a traffic stop, the police officer will touch the back of your car. The reason for this “touch” is that, quite often, the police officer will have a small quantity of narcotics (marijuana or cocaine) on him (in his hand) that he will rub on the car in order to help “justify a search”. When the dog is brought in, it will react to the drug on the vehicle and help “justify a search”. This tactic is mostly used against young people. Drugs can also be “planted” on a “suspect”.
The “touch” used to be a way for police officers to “prove” that they had an interaction with a citizen, but no more . . .
#2. Most (if not all) cops possess a “throwdown” weapon. This “helper” is obtained from a criminal who is then “let go” without his weapon and is always used to justify a questionable police situation and to “sanitize” a “crime scene to absolve police on the scene of criminal police behavior.
#3. If you are in the back of a police car, LIE DOWN on the seat. Police use the concept of “screening” to abuse their unwilling “passenger”. This involves, driving at high rates of speed, violent turns and other antics to get the passenger to “hit the screen” separating the front from the back with his face. Hence the act of “screening”.
#4. If you are being handcuffed, quite often the police officer will wrench you arm behind you, forcing you to “turn around”. The officer will then add a charge of “assault” to whatever other charges they concoct against you (just for being forced to turn around). They “pile on” charges, hoping you will plead guilty to at least one.
Remember–NEVER CONSENT TO SEARCH . . . You must be polite, but firm in your refusal. You can state that “you NEVER consent to searches” as well as using these “magic” words–“am I free to go?” The police officer MUST answer your question . . . If you are being detained and an illegal search takes place, you have legal recourse.
Remember–police are not your friends . . .
That being said, not all “law enforcement” is criminal, but the “thin blue line” that they so jealously guard (and “look the other way” when rogue cops abuse their authority) does much to taint ALL “law enforcement” with having ulterior motives.
anarchyst
You’re becoming a bit repetitive. I say again, repetitive. Repetitive, got it?
Mark is right – there are no jobs in Baltimore for blacks. Nor in any other big city (save for those affirmative action jobs govts provide to folks who otherwise have zero chance of getting a job). The only job these low-intelligence, no skill folks can possible do is to push a broom, pick up trash, maybe push a mower.
Paulo is wrong. Stupidly wrong. Start by making drugs legal, or decriminalize them? Pah-lease. Sure, that will keep a lot of them out of prison and cut off some of their funding, but to “start” by doing that?
Paolo also says provide training. Unbelievable – you simply cannot train folks with IQs averaging 85. Hell, even the military will not take them – they are not smart enough to even train to follow basic orders.
Start by taking away all their free shit. When they riot, shoot the rioters and looters, as has been the proper response since time immemorial.
Take the money from welfare saved, some of it anyway, and provide them a basic, very low level job picking up trash along the highways. Move them out of the big cities – there is ZERO for them there, as Mark astutely points out.
Work or starve needs to be the way – as it has always been. Any thought of training or educating them as an entire group has no chance of working.
Llpoh
It might be worse than that.
“Two of the world’s most highly regarded scientists in the field of human intelligence, Dr. Arthur Jensen and Dr. Philippe Rushton, now believe they previously OVER-ESTIMATED the average intelligence of American negroes, when they estimated the average American negro IQ to be 85. The reason for this over-estimation was that the tested samples of negroes did not include a sampling of the least intelligent American negroes. And the reason for this sampling omission appears to be, at least partially, the usual: political correctness. It was important to OVER-ESTIMATE the intelligence of American negroes, rather than to determine the truth. Jensen and Rushton now believe the average IQ of the American negro is probably 78, rather than 85”
Stuck – given that some African nations test out around 65, I have long thought it may be an over-estimate.
At 78, the odds of a black person reaching what is generally considered normal would be less than 10%.
There is no way you can provide “education” to that cohort. Target the top 20% and try to educate them. Proved the next 60% some basic education – basic reading/writing, add and subtract (maybe). But do not even think they can be “educated” as the term is generally understood. It is impossible, and it will not happen. No matter how much money is burnt in the attempt.
Politically incorrect position. But facts are facts. And the IQ bell curve is what it is.