I’ve seen the liberal lying MSM pondering how WE could allow the riots, looting, burning and lawlessness to happen, as if it is our collective fault. Obama stands before his teleprompter and pontificates about the need for us to end the poverty that supposedly led to Purge Night in Charm City. That term cracks me up. The city has so much charm, its football team once snuck out of town overnight and headed to Indianapolis. It has so much charm its baseball team was forced to play a game with no fans in the stands.
I think most people can agree that Freddie Gray, a petty drug dealer, was killed in police custody for the crime of looking suspicious. The policemen who killed him deserve to go to jail for murder. As usual, the powers that be circled the wagons and intended to exonerate the hero first responders. The people of Baltimore had a right to be pissed. They had a right to protest. They didn’t have a right to burn businesses and cars. They didn’t have the right to riot, loot, and injure others.
It is the police department created and controlled for decades by Democratic progressive politicians that has committed the atrocities against the people who have been electing these progressives year after year. Baltimore has a corrupt, reckless, out of control police department enabled by a crooked and incompetent Baltimore politicians. The rap sheet for Baltimore’s finest is long:
- Police commissioner Ed Norris was sent to prison on corruption charges (2004)
- Two detectives were sentenced to 454 years in prison for dealing drugs (2005)
- An officer was dismissed after being videotaped verbally abusing a 14-year-old and then failing to file a report on his use of force against the same teenager (2011)
- An officer was been fired for sexually abusing a minor (2014)
- The city paid a quarter-million-dollar settlement to a man police illegally arrested for the non-crime of recording them at work with his mobile phone.
The cries of racism and white oppression ring hollow. It’s a tired storyline. Facts are always inconvenient to race baiters with an agenda to extract more money from whites with a guilty conscience and the inability or unwillingness to speak the truth. Let’s examine some facts about good old Charm City, USA.
- The fine citizens of this metropolis have not elected a Republican as mayor since 1963, before the War on Poverty began. That mayor’s 4 year term is the only interruption in Democrat rule since 1947. They have had Democrat control for 64 of the last 68 years, and sole control for the last 48 years straight.
- Their mayor is black. Their previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, was black. She was convicted of embezzlement in 2010 and couldn’t finish her term. They had a white mayor (current Democratic Presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley) for eight years. The mayor before him was black.
- Their City Council consists of 15 members. All fifteen are Democrats. The Council President is black. Democrats have had control of legislation in Baltimore for the last 50 years. Every program, policy, initiative, or school curriculum that exists in Baltimore was enacted by liberal Democrats.
- The Police Commissioner is black. Approximately 50% of the police force is black.
- The School Superintendent is black, along with the School Board. The district has an annual budget of $1.32 billion to teach 84,000 kids. The Baltimore school system ranks second among the nation’s 100 largest school districts in how much it spent per pupil at $15,700 per student. Only NYC spends more. Only two thirds of students graduate high school, despite this high level of spending.
- The average SAT scores of Baltimore City public school students are: 379 in Reading; 376 in Math; 381 in Writing. These are the scores of the best of the best in Baltimore schools who actually think they should get into college. The average scores in the country, which still suck, are around 500. Students with these scores have about a 15% chance of graduating college. This is the ROI you get after spending $188,000 per student over their 12 year academic career.
- The population of Baltimore is 623,000 and 63% are black. Median household income is $41,000, with 24% living below the poverty line. The home ownership rate is 48%. The percentage of college graduates is 27%.
- The population was 950,000 in 1950, so it has fallen by 35% in the last 65 years. The population was 24% black in 1950. Decades of liberal Democrat policies drove most of the white population out of the city.
- Baltimore’s violent crime rate is 370% higher than the U.S. rate. They have over 200 murders, 300 rapes, 3,600 robberies, 4,600 assaults, 7,800 burglaries, and 22,000 thefts per year. These are all 2 to 4 times the U.S. averages per 100,000 people.
- Over 35% of all Baltimore residents get food stamps. Over 85% of the kids get free breakfasts and lunches at school. More than 60% of Baltimore residents are receiving some form of government assistance.
- Baltimore’s welfare paradise is paid for by outrageously high taxes. It’s income tax rate of 3.2% is on top of the state rate of 4.75%. It’s property tax rate is more than double the other counties in Maryland. The sales tax rate is 6%. Corporations pay an income tax rate of 8.25%.
- The percentage of out of wedlock births to black women in Baltimore exceeds 72%. Baltimore and Detroit are the two cities with populations over 600,000 with the highest percentage of single parent households – 59% to 61%.
- The reported unemployment rate for Baltimore is 8.2%, one of the highest in the country. In reality, 42% of the working age population is not working. Young black men between the ages of 20 and 24 have a reported unemployment rate of 37%. But in reality, it is north of 60%. The number of employees in 1990 totaled 475,000. Today they total 365,000, down 23%.
It doesn’t take a village to raze, burn, and loot a village. It just takes 50 years of liberal economic and social policies. Of course the liberal media, liberal politicians, and liberal voters don’t think anyone should be blamed for the disaster that Baltimore and every other Democrat controlled urban shithole (Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cleveland) have become over the last 50 years. Community organizer Adam Jackson, living up to the standards of Organizer in Chief Obama, declared that in Baltimore “the Democrats and the Republicans have both failed.” At least progressive community organizers have a sense of humor. How can Republicans have failed if the mayors and City Council have been 100% Democrat since the mid 1960s? I wonder how many Republicans were among the youths burning, looting, and destroying the city this week.
No Republican, and definitely no conservative, is responsible for the poverty, crime, educational failure, and disintegration of this lesson in Democratic rule. Baltimore’s police department is the product of the progressive wing of the Democratic party, enabled by black identity politics. This is entirely a left-wing Democratic creation. They get all the credit for what Baltimore has become. The mayor of Baltimore is an incompetent bumbling fool. These corrupt, arrogant left wing boobs are incapable of running a school system, police department, or economy.
They know how to play race politics to get elected. They know how to increase taxes on the few remaining producers in order to redistribute it to their black voters. They know how to destroy businesses and jobs. They know how to create a welfare mindset among black people, enslaving them in poverty, dependency, and ignorance. Blacks have suffered the most from Democratic black rule. These riots will result in less businesses, less jobs and less taxes for the city. Blacks will be hurt the most, but they will continue to vote for Democrats. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Believing liberal welfare policies will fix the problems created by liberal welfare policies is insane. Liberalism is a disease of the brain and has infected a vast swath of America, especially in urban enclaves across the land.
Baltimore and every other Democrat controlled urban enclave in America are destined for decline, destruction, and civic decay. Baltimore cannot be fixed by spending more money on welfare programs. The country has spent $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs since LBJ declared his war on poverty. They haven’t moved the dial on poverty one iota. They have created generations of dependent black people, trapped in urban ghettos like Baltimore. If you can’t educate children for $15,700 per year, then you won’t educate them any better for $18,000 per year. Liberals will never admit their policies, programs, and corrupt practices created this national disaster.
Liberal welfare policies have encouraged and rewarded out of wedlock births. The 72% black out of wedlock birth rate is the single biggest cause of Baltimore’s long-term decline. Children without fathers are destined to be uneducated, unemployed, and underachieving. Children raised by married working parents who provide good role models are not on the streets. They are studying. They are not looting, killing, robbing or having kids when they are teenagers. There are no guarantees in life, but being stupid, lazy and ignorant guarantees a life of poverty. Liberal welfare policies pay these people to have more kids out of wedlock in order to maximize their welfare payments. There have now been three generations of black people entrapped by these demented welfare programs.
There is no will among the recipients or distributors of race based welfare payments to change their policies or programs. Therefore, every time a white cop kills a black person or a white store owner kills a black thief in Baltimore or any urban ghetto, the potential for riots, looting, and burning of businesses will rear its ugly head. The only guarantee is the liberals running the urban ghetto will not accept blame for what they have wrought. Farewell to the America of personal responsibility, work ethic, marriage, family, and valuing education.
The esteemed mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (of course a liberal black woman must hyphenate her name) summed up the disease of liberalism after her peeps had destroyed their neighborhoods the night before:
“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
You reap what you sow America.
The sad truth, as noted by several people, is that the Baltimore situation is a result of pandering to blacks by a corrupt, Socialist, treasonous clique of Democrats. There are, of course, exceptions, but a huge percentage of American blacks simply do not have an IQ high enough to function in a modern society. DNA research on the human genome is proving conclusively the IQ/race connection. Even worse, it is showing the behavior and personality traits are also in part genetic; it is no mystery that the once white hot interest in the Human Genome Project is evaporating. The facts are tuning out to validate David Duke and friends and they are wrecking the entire liberal world-view, i.e., human beings are equal and can be molded. Pure B.S. This is the truth: Our country is saddled with a gigantic number of people who, for want of a better way to describe them, are useless, dangerous and prone to behavior that can’t be tolerated in a civilized country. Further, their violent tendencies, low IQ and animal-like behavior is unrelated to their strong will to power (as in a chimp colony) and seething hatred and resentment of whites. We are on the verge of a major break-down in our society. Arm yourself.
If enough people buy into the anti-police propaganda, we’ll soon have the populous demanding a nationalized police force. No doubt, this new force will excel at what they do just as the IRS and DHS excel. Maybe they can even join the DEA and start partying with the drug cartels and local gang members. It’s fascinating to see how the populous is so easily led into asking for more centralized control at the expense of their freedom. Please, Mr Obama and please Miss Hillary, take away our freedom and continue to grow Big Government. Just promise us a few crumbs and we’ll be happy, bah, bah, bahhhh.
Who’s fault is Baltimore? This is easy. It’s the fault of the American public ever since the days of President Johnson’s Great Society programs.
Lousy educations, lack of economic opportunity plus increasing poverty plus most of the public’s automatic acceptance of whatever government says or does over many many decades has lead to government corruption, exploitation, and abuse.
Citizen apathy, complacency, ignorance, and meek subservience to government is the cause of every major problem we face today – and citizens have NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES.
Although you make some (emph. on some) valid points, the premise of your article is flawed. Most would agree that the entire US is on a severe downward slope. Have “the blacks,” as some of your idiotic commenters are saying, run America historically? Hell no. Btw, Atl is far from being a shithole, you stupid MF.
Dumbfuck Huey thinks Atlanta is a wonderful liberal paradise where 38 school principles were arrested for faking the scores of the dumbass kids of Atlanta slums. Atlanta is absolutely a shithole. Read it and weep you liberal Obama loving idiot.
Huey, uh, hate top burst your bubble, but I’ve been to Atlanta and driven down the vaunted Peachtree St. after 6 pm on a weeknight and on a weekend night. I have never felt so threatened and unsafe in just driving down a main street than in Atlanta. There was not a cop around for miles and we were the only whites probably for miles around as well. I have felt totally safe and unthreatened in other ghetto cities including NYC, Philly, Cleveland, etc. I suggest you leave your naive homerism at home and stop living in a fantasy land.
This is sad, THE LIBERAL policies of the Progressives, the Decreased labor costs by the NEOCONS, The UNFREE Trade Treaties, have all eliminated JOBS and Businesses in this Country… THIS IS WHAT we deserve, for turning our backs on JESUS CHRIST. THE USA has decided that a woman’s right to choose is paramount, when it should be abstinence until you are married. If culture has changed, and woman choose to be harlots, and men choose to be whoremongers, we are reaping what we sow. CHILDREN need to be raised in a GODLY, 2 PARENT home of 1 Husband, 1 Wife and yes, of the opposite sex. THAT HOME should be led by GOD. We can do nothing without the LORD, and this proves it, hopefully to those that HAVE elected these progressives for years, just because they lie, cheat, steal, and promise everything and deliver nothing but despair. I was raised in a 2 parent home, My kids were raised in a 2 parent home. We try to live Godly lives, but all fall short of the glory of GOD., Because we are human, and failed creatures… TO ALL IN THE USA, It is long past time to repent and SEEK GOD and if we do that, GOD can heal this NATION.. IF we don’t, we will surely fall.
Huey – America IS on a severe downward slope, you’re right, but having children without any concern for even a trace of a father being around in their children’s lives is a recipe for disaster. It increases the downward slope exponentially. When parents don’t even care that their children go to school, never mind do well there, the downward slide continues. In essence, the blacks are showing an total disrespect for themselves when they do this. These mothers can’t even look after themselves (without total dependence on the government), so how do you suppose they’re going to look after their children? They’re not. God help us!
What America’s slide is showing quite clearly is that blacks are sitting naked in a situation they have greatly helped to create.
dc.sunsets –
I can’t say I’m familiar with Charles Murray’s writing – Without having read anything of his I can claim no opinion of it.
As to your follow-up post, I do believe that the question of charity as a driver of dependency is valid but not to the extent I believe you do. The concept of individual liberty is important but must be tempered by a measure of social responsibility. Social cohesion is necessary in the modern world for prosperity, enter the social contract. This is where i believe our views diverge – I do not see the assistance provided from the ‘haves’ to the ‘have-nots’ to be charity, but to be a necessary consequence of living in a society. The method of the transfer, the volume can be evaluated, but this needs to be done locally. Providing a blanket safety net society fails to address local issues, leads to system level inefficiencies. State to state differences, even county to county (social, economic, geographic) can be huge, so there can be no ‘universal welfare’ system that will not have significant losses.
“Is there an exception to the economic axiom that supply will expand for anything being bought”
– Call me a purist if you like, I see an axiom as an irrefutable truth that forms the basis for an argument. I do not see how this axiom applies in a scarcity based economy (feel free to correct if i’m wrong). When 100% of supply meets 100% of demand we reach a point where supply can no longer expand, it can only be diluted. This is what we have seen happen with the welfare state. Too many people are drawing on too few resources. As a result the effectiveness of the system is diluted. The only options that then remain are to actively reduce the transfer, or increase the uptake – both are unpalatable to different groups for different reasons. The partisan nature of my earlier comment fits in here. By splitting the argument into one of two it restricts the capacity for meaningful change when the options available represent a spectrum of positions. However, the manipulators (we are drowning in stupid people with “brilliant ideas” – nice) seize on the division created by the simplification of the argument to drive a specific position – not necessarily in the interests of the whole of society.
I really would appreciate it if you could suggest one (or more) of Charles Murray’s works – I’ve found ‘Losing Ground’, and ‘In Pursuit’ so far at my library.
-Administrator-
“It is actually unfixable at this point.”
Me glad you like short post. Sorry for long reply to other. You seem be defeatist, no point talk to person has given up.
WTF did Big Stupid blather about for 300 words?
Jesus. I didn’t know canadians were so long winded and full of themselves. How come you don’t use Eh after your brilliant pontifications?
You seem to be the professorial type who meanders about without saying anything of substance.
Please enlighten us with your solutions oh great one from the north. Give us your detailed actions we need to take to solve our little problem down here in America. I can’t wait.
All a big cycle, people.
Inner-city dysfunction is just the leading edge of the wave that has already crested.
People who have known hardship and pulled themselves up tend to be rather independent of mind. Their kids, born into a safer, easier place tend to think property grows on trees. They’re full of naivete and optimism, and they argue in favor of all sorts of (what look like, to the ignorant) good ideas.
Look who is running things now. People who were born into ease. They have no idea from where prosperity arises. They are pure Cargo Cultists, if you dress people in expensive shoes and enable them to drive expensive cars they’ll jump right in and join the Prosperity Conga Line.
Doesn’t work that way. Life is about incentives, and those voting for politicians have been supporting ever more perverted incentives for 100 years. Small wonder that it became necessary 40 years ago to starting putting the appearance of prosperity on the National Credit Card, with the open intent to keep revolving the balance FOREVER.
Black/White, Dem/Repub, Left/Right, Lib/Cons, it’s all just window-dressing.
It’s all the truth of the signal. You can’t stop the signal, Mal.
I hate to take a side in a conflict between blacks and cops because I’ve had my problems with both. In a way they deserve each other and a happy person limits their contact with both.
But other than not securing him properly in the van, I can’t see where the cops are responsible for this outcome. Gray’s neck wasn’t broken before entering the van, at least that’s what the prosecutor seemed to say this morning. So his leg dragging on the way to the van wasn’t due to paralysis.
And if he wasn’t paralyzed before he hit his head on the wall of the van, why was he flopping about which appears to be the cause of his death? Deliberate self injury is the most likely cause.
These white cops are going to get f#cked, and I’m at the point of saying they’ve got it coming. Not because they are all racist and sadistic authoritarians, but because they are not wanted in the black communities in the first place. The blacks have revoked their consent to be governed by the white man’s laws and these white cops shouldn’t expect to be appreciated. .
The king of england once stated, “the problem with scotland, is that it is full of scots”. Maybe the problem with all these liberal paradises is that they are full of negroes.
I have discovered today that sitting out a shit-fest is sweetness unto the soul.
That being said
— reading a BigStupid post is like reading a textbook. Admin is right … he’s the worst offender here in a long time of Diarrhea Mouth … soooo many words, so little content.
— I’m guessing Huey Newton is a Neegrow. Be patient wif him … only so much you can do with a 75 IQ
— STL, a single celled amoeba, at best, has a solution to every problem no matter how complex …. Trust God ……… #fuckmedead #whydid’tIthinkofthat
BigStupid, Murray & Herrnstein wrote The Bell Curve. Your library surely has it (if it wasn’t part of a book-burning riot.) Here’s is position (he’s a complete fool who, for all his education and research still fails to grasp the dynamics of what his proposals would produce): http://www.aei.org/publication/bell-curve-20-years-later-qa-charles-murray/
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There is no such thing as “100% supply” or “100% demand.” I’m not even sure how to respond to that, given that a world of scarcity doesn’t mean there are finite amounts of this or that, it means that every supply of something comes at the cost of another (opportunity cost.)
If I wave $20 at something, X will be supplied. If I wave $20 million at it, more will be supplied, even if it has to be ripped out of a competing use. If you pay unwed mothers of children on a per-child basis, when will you reach “100% of supply?” Do you imagine that supply is static? That in nine months “production” won’t be expanded?
Your comment somehow implies to me that you’re operating from a static worldview. That there are fixed amounts of this or that, and that prices rise and fall in relation to supply and demand. This is the artificial world of Econ 101, with graphs that imply equilibrium. Equilibrium is an illusion, a convenient artifact we use to discuss something complicated.
If you give a beggar by the side of the road a $5-er, are you helping him? If he’s “making” $30,000 tax-free? What of the guy working at McDonalds who sees a BEGGAR more than doubling his take-home pay? Might as well quit the job and join the ranks of the dependent, right?
Incentives matter. This is an axiom. Supply will rise for that which can be provided at a profit. This is an AXIOM. There are no exceptions. At the margin, charity always causes people to do less. Just because you wouldn’t “take” a low level of charity means nothing. You’re not at the margin.
Look at what Bonner just published about how gaming the system yields about $75,000 in “benefits” to a clever couple with two kids. http://bonnerandpartners.com/americas-expensive-nobility/
What if this is RIGHT?!
I take you to a bit of history before I must return to my to-do list:
When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed half the housing stock of the city, what did local, state and federal governments do?
NOTHING. Not one damn thing.
What happened? Civic-minded people left their jobs and set up corner aid agencies. Their first priority was to find people a place to stay, and immediately FIND THEM JOBS.
The 2nd priority was to coordinate with other agencies to insure no one was gaming the system to profit from it.
In no time at all, things went back to normal and those civic minded people WENT BACK TO THEIR JOBS. No permanent bureaucracy was established to always see to it that someone needed their services.
Charity is a trap. Very few charities are run well enough to insure they don’t simply enable people to wallow in dysfunction. Charity run by any government is toxic, it cannot be otherwise. This, too, is axiomatic because all the incentives for everyone involved are aligned to toxicity and dependence.
The world is full of people with good intentions. Sadly, we’d all be better off if they all stuck to working in the marketplace to earn a profit, instead of addicting their fellow men to the crack cocaine of dependence.
There will always be poor people. Best if their numbers are kept as small as possible.
But charity, and worse, welfare systems, are like seeing some weeds in the yard and instituting a plan that, in effect, makes conditions better for weed production AND you WEAKEN the grasses by taking the grasses’ resources for your project, turning the weakest grasses into weeds.
Pretty soon you’re overrun with weeds, and you throw up your hands and say, but I was trying to reduce the weeds!
No, you weren’t. You never were. You just THOUGHT your actions would do so, because you IGNORED the dynamic response to your static system.
People who believe in government anti-poverty programs are indescribably blind to the facts, and clearly lack the “if this, then that” consequentialist thinking that defines a grasp of complex, dynamic phenomena.
Admin – “Please enlighten us with your solutions oh great one from the north. Give us your detailed actions we need to take to solve our little problem down here in America. I can’t wait.”
Canada is every bit as fu*ked up as the U.S. When I use the word “America,” I’m including Canada too. Liberal, progressive idiot fu*ks!
Big Stupid lives in Edmonton, land of white socialist hockey fans. Big Stupid is going to tell us how to solve our welfare/race problems because his experience with the 3.8% population of black people in his white paradise has made him an expert. He read about it at his library.
I very well could be wrong but I’m not buying the guy wasn’t paralyzed as he was being dragged to the van. His presentation was very consistent with someone who had lost function of his lower extremities.
I don’t care if someone likes to say stupid shit, but get to the point. It’s like he’s getting paid by the word.
“Big Stupid lives in Edmonton”
—-Admn
There’s the problem with Big Stupid. Edmonton gets colder than a well digger’s ass and stays that way for most of its long winters. Ergo, BS’s brain is still thawing.
It’s Official: Police Were Ordered To Stand Down And Let The Baltimore Riots Rage Out Of Control
By Michael Snyder, on April 30th, 2015
We now have official confirmation that the rioting in Baltimore on Monday was purposely allowed to spiral out of control. Up until now, there had been some unconfirmed reports that police in Baltimore had been ordered to “stand down” during the riots, but nobody had been willing to come forward and go on the record. Now that has all changed. Michael Lewis is the Sheriff of Wicomico County, Maryland and what he has to say is absolutely jaw dropping. When he saw what was happening in Baltimore, he gathered up some of his fellow officers and drove down to the city to help. But when he got there, he says that all of the police were being ordered not to take any action and to let the rioters destroy property. Lewis made this astounding claim during a discussion on a Baltimore radio station…
A Maryland sheriff who traveled to Baltimore to help law enforcement stop Monday’s riots told 105.7 The Fan that he was stunned when officers alerted him of the orders to stand down.
Lewis says that he never heard the mayor give any particular orders, but he is very clear about the fact that the police were being instructed to “stand down” and to “let them destroy property“….
“I was sick to my stomach like everybody else. … This was urban warfare, no question about it. They were coming in absolutely beaten down. The [city officers] got out of their vehicles, thanked us profusely for being there, apologized to us for having to be there. They said we could have handled this, we were very capable of handling this, but we were told to stand down, repeatedly told to stand down,” he said. “I had never heard that order come from anyone — we went right out to our posts as soon as we got there, so I never heard the mayor say that. But repeatedly these guys, and there were many high-ranking officials from the Baltimore City Police Department … and these guys told me they were essentially neutered from the start. They were spayed from the start. They were told to stand down, you will not take any action, let them destroy property. I couldn’t believe it, I’m a 31-year veteran of law enforcement. … I had never heard anything like this before in my life and these guys obviously aren’t gonna speak out and the more I thought about this, … I had to say a few things. I apologize if I’ve upset people, but I believe in saying it like it is.”
The claims made by Lewis seem to be confirmed by “a senior law enforcement source” quoted by Fox News. And this “senior law enforcement source” says that the order to stand down came directly from the mayor…
Fox News is reporting — citing a senior law enforcement source who spoke with correspondent Leland Vittert — that Democratic Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ordered police to allow rioters to loot stores Monday night, saying, “Let them loot, it’s only property.”
“This is coming from a very senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the orders that were given by the mayor and by her police commanders, down to the very core of the police riot units,” Vittert said on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” Wednesday afternoon. “What I am quoting now from him is, quoting the mayor, ‘Let them loot, it’s only property.’”
If this is true, this is not just a minor scandal. If what these law enforcement officers are saying is accurate, this is a scandal of monumental proportions.
And could it be possible that the scandal goes even higher? Did Rawlings-Blake speak to anyone before making this decision? Could the Obama administration be involved somehow?
In a previous article entitled “12 Unanswered Questions About The Baltimore Riots That They Don’t Want Us To Ask“, I noted that Rawlings-Blake has very close ties to the Obama administration. Could it be possible that Rawlings-Blake was told to order the police to stand down by someone in the White House?
What we do know at this point is that after public schools were let out on Monday afternoon, high school kids were forced to get off of buses and herded into the Mondawmin mall area where the “purge” that had been hyped on social media was supposed to take place.
We also know that police dressed in full riot gear were waiting for them.
But then once the rioting started, the police pulled back and let it rage wildly out of control.
This all seems very orchestrated to me.
And were they specifically ordered to not even defend their own police vehicles? On Monday afternoon, there were lots of police vehicles conveniently parked along the streets right in the middle of the riot zones. But the police officers that those vehicles belonged to were nowhere to be seen. So why didn’t the police protect their own vehicles? This all seems very strange.
Dramatic images of police vehicles being smashed and burning wildly have now been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the planet, and those images send a very powerful message.
Of course the biggest victims in all of this are the impoverished African-American communities where the worst of the rioting took place. The police were ordered to stand down while these African-American neighborhoods were vandalized, looted and set on fire. Many businesses that were destroyed will choose to never rebuild, and many others that did survive will flee as soon as they can. In the end, those neighborhoods will be much worse off than they were before.
So did mayor Rawlings-Blake (or someone above her) purposely betray those communities?
The American people deserve some answers, because this is a very big deal.
First we saw this happen in Ferguson, and now it has happened in Baltimore.
When riots and looting break out where you live, will the police be ordered to “stand down” as well?
Chaos has come to America, and it is only going to get worse. I hope that you are getting prepared for what comes next.
Let me toss another thought on the board. At this point if you are a Cop and you, approach, confront, and or attempt to arrest anyone in the hood you have zero common sense. Forget it, I’d patrol the perimeter and admire the exhibition from a distance, like a spectator at the zoo watching the tigers consume their daily ration of raw chicken, mildly interesting, but not worth an up close and personal contact.
Canuks are know for their lack of intelligence…..he named himself “Big Stupid”.
Need we say more???
the fault lies with the politicians and the police who work for THEM…rioters need to address these people and NOT innocent bystanders and shoppers….IF they desire to ‘riot’….do it where it is deserved…..imho
So Baltimore’s politicians decided their re-election prospects were higher giving the destroyers time and space to destroy, rather than protecting the property and businesses that are the last line of function in their down-scale metropolis.
If I didn’t know better, I’d figure it was all a massive conspiracy to drive property values to dust so some politically-connected developer could wade in with cash and buy up half the city, evict the riffraff and put up a state-taxpayer-subsidized stadium, convention complex or some other crap.
Big Stupid
I invite you to go read my recent post about Latinos, “Why I Feel Completely Safe.” It is very much related to what is being discussed here. And I welcome any comments you may have, either there or in this thread.
SSS- That was a shameful thread jack to plug your post……ballzy.
Mike snyder, no it isn’t a very big deal. A black mayor letting black people destroy black neighborhoods in a black city. Local control, baby, let them figure it out. I’m not troubled in the least. Just a TV show to me.
Bea Lever – “Canuks are know for their lack of intelligence.” Did you mean “Canucks are known for their lack of intelligence”? We’re not all dumb. We’re pretty much the same as you are.
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That was a joke son. SNL and other shows have poked fun at our neighbors to the north as being less than the sharpest knives in the drawer. Big Stupid named himself, not us. That was the point, so solly if I struck a nerve. Canucks are people too.
Prediction: at trial (assuming there really will be a trial) today’s statements by the mayor & prosecutor will be replayed by the defense to assert that the prosecution was purely political. That prosecutor saying, “I heard you. No justice, no peace” and “it’s our time” will be used to argue that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge, there was only a political need to charge. I’m still waiting for more specific physical evidence, but my guess is that, barring a lot more evidence than we’ve hear so far, all of the cops will get off. The mayor and prosecutor are rank amateurs. This is going to be a textbook case of how not to get a conviction, including by overcharging the defendants. 2nd degree murder in MD requires, as I understand it, intent to cause death, although not premeditation. I don’t see any way in hell they can prove intent to cause death. The prosecutor doesn’t even know how Gray’s mortal wound was inflicted or by which officer(s). They’re all going to be acquitted.
Racism is judging every individual and the group the same, i.e., every black is the same. While contributors may dance around the subject the fact remains. This site abounds in racial hatred. Most of the contributors also adhere to the false dichotomy of liberal vs. conservative. The people behind the curtain thinks it is quite a hoot. All of this crap is simple distraction. Wake the fuck up.
Iska – agreed, no intent.
Anon- You fucking maroon, the only person here that buys into liberal vs conservative is Sensetti. He (Sensetti) makes you look like dweeb on the end of a pinhead….pinhead.
Fuck off.
Anon, There’s lots of racial hatred in the US. Many – if not most – blacks hate whites, for example. You’re just not used to people speaking the truth about it.
Iska, it’s looking like they laid him headfirst face down and went 70 and then stood on the brakes. Broke his neck. That’s why the driver has the big charges. The rest are in a race to flip, whether they know it or not.
Coming to your town…soon ?
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Meh! Neva let that get in my way before!
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Anon I personally have many black friends and they are hard working decent people. You should hear how they talk about these rioters. If you were to record a conversation with them and play it to a stranger you might think a Klans man recorded it. Individuals are individual by definition, however, one can draw generalizations from different groups of people, Insurance companies do it all the time. Just as iam capable to draw generalizations regarding Republicans vs Dimocrats, and yes I prefer a Republican master and so do all my Smart friends. Most that post here are conservative minded individuals, it bleeds through from time to time. So I encourage you to vote a Republican it will do your heart good like a medicine.
ANON I love this guy and have black friends just like him. Another point, if I make a video and use his exact words you would call me a racist, that’s where I go a different direction. There is no racism if you’re speaking the factual truth, you see, racism can only exist among lies and distortion.
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I can’t get the copy link to work.
Go to Utube
Put in Promoting common sense one person at a time.
He’s in a blue shirt title of video is Race Wars in Baltimore. If anyone else could post this I would be thankful.
The states attorney chick seems pretty sharp, and pretty fearless. She acts like she has the facts her side. If her narrative is true those cops are toast.,
It’s the Muqdisho-ization of Baltimore baby!
What happens when junkies, drunks, pan handlers, robbers and ‘knock out game’ players
are no longer arrested? What sane person would actually do police work if the ugly and very messy job of arresting uncooperative, violent and mentally unstable repeat criminals gets you prosecuted when things go badly?
Life will go on as people make the little decisions they make everyday such as…
Hey honey, Do you want to go downtown to that fancy restaurant for our anniversary?
Should I encourage my daughter to take that job down town and deal with the 2 two block walk to the office from the parking garage, twice a day?
Should I have my medical procedure done at the downtown hospital or the other hospital outside the beltway?
Should I locate our company warehouse or facility in the city?
Do you think that chain will build more drug stores in economically challenged neighborhoods?
I was thinking about buying baseball season tickets but now….
Should I visit the casino downtown or one of the other locations?
We could go downtown but parking stinks, it is dirty, smells like pee and now it’s even more dangerous and that’s just the parking garage!
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Starfckr, I hadn’t heard about them slamming on the brakes at 70 mph. If they have Ethel evidence, then prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
If they have THE evidence. Damn iPad.
@Anonymous: “It’s the Muqdisho-ization of Baltimore baby!”
Well said. The blacks being interviewed on the streets want cop blood, and they don’t care if those cops are guilty or not. The black women who run the city are happy to sacrifice some cops to satisfy their black voters. What’s the difference between this and blacks killing white people in South Africa as their black leaders look the other way. The white cops better find new jobs, and other whites will have to stay away from these cities. I’d love to hear what the CVS executives are saying about rebuilding their burned out Baltimore location. Everyone is free to do as they want, but I won’t be going to Baltimore again. In fact, I wouldn’t feel safe even stopping to change planes at the airport. What if a storm moves in and your flight is cancelled. Would you want to spend the night at a hotel there?
Giving the looters and rioters what they wanted (cop blood) is the same as negotiating with terrorists. It guarantees more riots and looting.
Iska – I was about to run a search to find out what Ethel evidence was. It was a new term to me. Too funny.
“Decades of liberal Democrat policies drove most of the white population out of the city.”
Oh come on. That’s not what drove them out. It didn’t help, but it’s not the “feature’ of Baltimore that will stomp you into a puddle, then rape and eat your corpse.
” It just takes 50 years of liberal economic and social policies.”
I hate you for making me appear to defend democrats, but Boulder and Pittsburgh are liberal, but they are not Mogadishu, Haiti, Detroit, or Baltimore. Liberalism could be a manageable disease without the MultiKult. Like herpes as opposed to ebola.
“No Republican, and definitely no conservative, is responsible for the poverty, crime, educational failure, and disintegration of this lesson in Democratic rule.”
I’m not sure. If we’re going to be limited to a two-party system, and one is in an open war on whitey, then the other ought to be advocating for true Freedom of Association (and the corresponding freedom to NOT associate), reinstatement of Restrictive Covenants for residential neighborhoods, and end to government sanctioned discrimination against the founding stock of the nation, an end to the robbery of people in the counties to provide state funding, and the robbery of people in every other state to provide federal funding, etc., etc..
” Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Believing liberal welfare policies will fix the problems created by liberal welfare policies is insane.”
It’s not insane and it’s not about “believing” anything. It’s tribal. You’re over-complicating it.
But you’re still the best of the web. Thanks!
You asked what the problem was? Negroes & Democraps in that order!
IMO the prosecutor has already fucked up the case by charging the van driver with murder (the only one of those cops who never touched him). If Gray were not seriously injured then why did they lay him on the floor rather than seat him on the bench? There is very little room on the floor. The only way he could damage his neck is if the driver slammed on the brakes hard enough to make him slide up the floor and collide with the bulkhead. All the defense needs is to put the other prisoner on the stand and say that nothing like that occurred and there will be no murder conviction.
It is possible that his neck injury that occurred during the initial arrest was made worse in the van but its just as likely that was from the cops dragging him out of the van and then putting him back into it, rather than any trauma that happened while it was being driven around. However given that we only have video evidence of his injuries after they occurred, a murder conviction is not likely anyway since it could have been done by any of the arresting copfuks.