So we are gonna ignore the riot thats happening in Baltimore

Man, I'm a college educated 32 year old father of 3.

Just because we grow up doesn't mean we have to become lifeless sheep who think we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Those men who looted that tea into the Boston Harbor a couple centuries ago weren't naive 18 year olds. They were grown men who cared about values and things like police unlawfully killing rioters and protesters.

Good thing people like you and treeman weren't the norm back then, otherwise the Houston Rockets would probably be a god forsaken soccer team.

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

I think those men valued "not wanting to pay additional taxes" far far far far far more than the issues you pointed out.

 

LOL oh wow, 32 with kids and you still feel like looting and vandalizing over a possible negligent homicide in Maryland? Yikes.

The flaw....well one of them as there are many, in your comparison of the idiots rioting in Baltimore and the Boston Tea Party is that there isn't really a legitimate beef in the Baltimore case. The situation in the pre-revolutionary war colonies was a LOT worse than literally anywhere in the US today. The people in Baltimore were rioting because they felt like stealing things and breaking things. They aren't really concerned about a cause, if they pretend to, it's only an excuse for them.

Anyway, when it's all said and done with, someone is probably looking at a 3 year prison sentence and that'll be the end of it till some other part of the country finds an excuse to loot and vandalize. You honestly should stop romanticizing them.

 

Do you realize that in some of the high-profile cases lately, including the Freddie Gray case causing the Balitmore unrest, there do not appear to be any legitimate reasons for the arrest?

Freddie Gray, by all accounts, was arrested because he was running and it looked suspicious to a bunch of overreaching, power abusing police officers. Running when you see a police officer is not a crime.

He didn't commit a crime by all accounts, yet was arrested seemingly unlawfully and in such a brutal fashion that he severed his spine.

People are arrested unlawfully in America and minorities bear this burden disproportionately so.

This doesn't even delve into the empirical evidence that incarceration in America occurs at rates exponentially higher than in other civilized societies and is extremely expensive for taxpayers and is a very inefficient usage of taxpayer money because rates of violent crime in America are still much higher than in other Countries. The system is broken and in desperate need of reform.

The system works for no one but District Attorneys wanting to make a name for themselves, the private prison industry and police officers, many of whom only really have jobs so that the private prison industry can keep the machine going. Society is a huge loser because of the cost it absorbs to subsidize these special interest groups.

I've always been baffled by why conservatives abhor big government, but seem to love it when it comes to the police and military. Such hypocrisy and such costly hypocrisy.

 

The BTP was a deliberate and calculated event not an impulsive reaction. They didn't loot the tea for their own gain. They tossed it overboard so it couldn't be sold to the colonists and taxed. Oh and they didn't destroy Paul Revere's silversmithery either!

 

This is why people can't have nice things. Criminals like yourself simply can't make it on their own so they resort to pillaging everyone elses property.

While I find both political parties one big joke, we have it pretty good compared to the rest of the world. People like you think we should upset this apple cart because it isn't your personal utopia.

"Get a brain, Moran"

 

HamJam it would be interesting to see how sympathetic you would be to these ANIMALS if they destroyed your property, your neighborhood, or put your three kids in harms way.

Based upon your IDIOTIC comment earlier that "we should all be looting" I'm sure you would encourage your kids to get out there and loot with all these other ANIMALS!!!!

I can only imagine all the other BS you're teaching your kids

 

none of them like the way the country is headed. they don't care about big or small govt. they just don't like these last few govts telling them what to do. gay rights, taxes, epa and atf and osha, spanish spoken everywhere, welfare state for blacks, moslem lovers, oppression of whites etc. they like rules and societies which benefit them and that makes sense.

if i got a nice house and cars and im white then ill support the cops because they keep me safe from the mobs. police and military are usually used by the establishment to prop itself up so it's not unique to america just read about french and cuban revolution.

the blacks in baltimore and all over america rightly or wrongly don't think they are part of our society so they don't respect the laws. unjust socities make unjust laws and have unjust enforcers of those laws. they must be oppossed whatever it takes, is what these blacks and many people throughout history think. that, and some blacks here just wanted an excuse to loot because they are criminals. not all looters and rioters have revolutionary ideals.

 

do you know what the bastille was? do you know what happened in february 1917? do you remember miguel hidalgo? that shet wasn't calculated, sometimes you have a pressure cooker and it goes off after too much builds up. to obey or rebel is american tradition. some of the posters here would've been on the side of the british as loyalists of the king.

 

What is the incentive for the rioters to stop. They don't really have anything and they don't have an incentive to stop since they don't feel an ownership of the community.

What is the police going to do? Start a war? Its a war they can't win.

 

I love how you don't bate an eye on the first page by a known racisit in rudan. You're a clown and a racist too.

 

quoted cause you're a sick ****

 

maybe they will stop once there's nothing more to loot

I mean one of these days people have to go back to feeding themselves, and go back to whatever jobs they had

 

a civil society cannot allow violence (to persons/property) and theft to go unpunished

 

with the mayor giving them "space to destroy" and reports that store owners were yelling at cops to do something (meaning there was a stand down order)... and reports that Shabazz and NBPP are a part of bussing in rioters (like Ferguson)... it's going just as planned.

 

What if a another country sent troops in to the U.S. to protect ethnic minorities from their home country? Say somewhere in west Africa like Nigeria.

 

There is a bit of irony that conservatives would have been angered by the people protesting in the above picture...

While everyone agrees that violence and destruction of property is not the solution, unfortunately it is a far too simplistic view that to say "if you can't tell the difference you are part of the problem" because the "problem" is that some people are acting out as a result of helplessness and hopelessness based on their belief that the system (in this case, the system of law enforcement and system of justice) does not appear to work for them.

So while we can agree violence and destruction is not the correct response to their sense of helplessness and hopelessness, until we recognize and address the root causes, we are never going to prevent these things from happening.

And that said, I don't believe most arguing the politics in this story really want a solution, but rather hope to use this an another opportunity to express their political views...

 

32 years old father of 3... Let us know when you grow up.

Comparing these rioters to the sons of Liberty...lol. Samuel Adams would be proud.

 

mom catches her son rioting.

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