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West Baltimore In Ashes: A Night Of Violence And Looting In Photos

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Monday evening marked a rather dark chapter in Baltimore history as demonstrators and police clashed in the streets following the funeral of Freddie Gray who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while being taken into custody by police. According to CNN, a flier began circulating among high school students calling for a "Purge" (a reference to a film in which crime in America is virtually eradicated by allowing for the suspension of law and order one day per year) to begin at 3 p.m. Police also reported an allegedly "credible" threat from the city's street gangs who had reportedly vowed to ban together in an effort to attack law enforcement. The situation escalated quickly after that culminating in fires, rioting, looting, and, ultimately, the arrival of the National Guard. You can see the stunning images and a timeline of events here. Below, are more images from the chaos and a look at the aftermath...

 

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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:51 | 6037409 timeless21
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We want our rights to loot to be respected...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:52 | 6037415 Haus-Targaryen
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Can you imagine how MAF they are going to be when all the cops are back in their squad cars next week? 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:54 | 6037428 TeamDepends
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Someone needs to explain to them revolution is not burning your neighborhood down.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:00 | 6037452 VinceFostersGhost
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It's OK, they're professionals. They don't even live there.

 

Al Sharpton will be around shortly to mop it all up.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:03 | 6037473 NoDebt
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Ashez, bitchez!

And, by the way, I think Vince's comment is dead-on.  Sharpton in 3... 2... 1...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:06 | 6037494 onewayticket2
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Shakedown of T Rowe Price in 3,2,1....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:16 | 6037560 Beam Me Up Scotty
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"We want our rights to loot to be respected..."

Just respect our rights, thats all I ask for.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:18 | 6037576 Dostojevskij
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The Wire, anyone???

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:27 | 6037621 Keyser
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Won't be long until the riots spread to other cities... My guess is that after 3 or more cities are smoldering, martial law will be rolled out... 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:31 | 6037647 Ms. Erable
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Looks like the cops protected and served the shit out of those businesses and their owners.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:33 | 6037664 Slave
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Good thing Maryland has all that gun control. Just imagine how bad it could have been!!1

/sarc

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:55 | 6037800 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Until these pieces of shit cop scum murderers are arrested, prosecuted and thrown in jail then riot away people, Destroy, wreck, ruin, use violence because this is unfortunateky the language of TPTB. This is all they understans. This is the only thing that will work. Violence defines the world. 2000 years of religion had a crack at steering the human race away from this but it's failed miserably. We are no further advanced than the times of the French revolution and IT IS time to roll out the guilotines and we should start with congress and then work our way up.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:05 | 6037866 Bumpo
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I hope the homeys are happy with their urban renewel project. Now live in it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:31 | 6038009 The Juggernaut
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There are remarkable similarities of USA foreign policy finally hitting home shores.

A police force that is blind to the tyranny of the government and comes down on the people and some innocent die. Very similar to how USA installed dictators send their police to shake down their people and how USA drones kill innocent people. The blowback is an irate minority. Sure the Balti's people are looting... but how much of that is Agent Provocateur’s who are purposely sent to discredit their cause?  The last thing the USA Gov't needs is another MLK.

Gangs are now uniting against this police force.  Are these gangs going to be media-marginalized just like how legit anti-USA drone groups, Anti-USA dictator instillation groups start in natural resource rich countries?  National reserve is protecting Balti’s capital like how Army, Marines, USA Mercenaries protect Embassies in different countries.

Remarkable similarities of a government that only knows force. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:34 | 6038072 Stuck on Zero
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Obama is sure to explain that the riots were caused by lack of enough trade treaties, not enough QE, and by the tea party members of Congress. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:44 | 6038138 MiguelitoRaton
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Time for the nuclear option...cut off all welfare, food stamps, government handouts to Baltimore for 1 year.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:25 | 6038437 25or6to4
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MiguelitoRaton

The nuclear option sounds great but these negros are like a swarm of locust. They will just move on to the next unharvested field and eat it bare. Look out surrounding areas on the east coast.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:28 | 6038438 25or6to4
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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 19:32 | 6040746 Al Tinfoil
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Sounds like you are treating the symptoms rather than the disease. 

It is tempting to blame the poor, uneducated, poorly socialized, unskilled, unemployed, etc. for their plight, and there are many arguments made that seek to demonstrate that their problems are the result of their own failures or the failures of (or lack of) their parents.  At the same time, looking beyond the symptoms for the causes of America's dysfunctions points to failed social experiments (bussing of students out of their neighborhoods for example), government expansion into stifling bureaucracies, regulatory capture, financialization replacing productive enterprise, and the flight of corporations to low-wage, low-regulation countries as prime causes of problems at home.

GATT, NAFTA, WTO, and other international trade agreements made it easy to move jobs overseas while maintaining access to sell products in the US.  The TPP and TTIP trade agreements are the next step in giving autonomy to multinational corporations and making countries and their laws subject to the trade agreements and their arbitration tribunals.  National sovereignty and the benefits of nationhood for citizens are sacrificed to corporate freedom and profits.  We people are treated as mere consumers and cheap labor providers.  Our rights and standard of living are mere collateral damage.  

International trade agreements are key for the New World Order in which individuals and individual nations lose power to higher powers - corporations and those who control them.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:35 | 6038085 Bay of Pigs
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+1 Awesome comment.

We are all being played by the goons in DC.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:51 | 6038192 disabledvet
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Tinderbox waiting to explode.

Literally days after Bonfire of the Vanities day for all of DC.

Neither New York nor DC is doing anything but laughing.

We'll see how many more Cities get hit.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:18 | 6038384 SumTing Wong
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I live out in the middle of Cornfield City, Midwest, USA. I keep seeing these damned military vehicles everywhere, every day. I take the major state road into my office, and every fucking day they are there. It is a new phenomenon, only in the past month to six weeks.

A friend of mine is a military guy. And most of the guys around here that wear a uniform are decent, salt of the earth types. This friend is about to be sent overseas for a month or two. I'm at least a little nervous. I'm also all stocked up at home, both food and water plus defensive capabilities. 

Shit's getting real. I'm not liking the prospects depite having my SHTF plan in place. I've got one more area of my acreage I need to fence, and I'm working on it tonight and each evening I can. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:45 | 6038523 Stuck on Zero
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That razor wire fencing is hard to put up, huh?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:30 | 6038773 Freebird
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Look OT, but has anyone picked up any new frosted cupcake recipes recently?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:50 | 6038179 my_nym
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What's your excuse when Africans do the same thing in South Africa to the Afrikaners and other Africans? 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037880 Miles Ahead
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There you go BOTA.  Keep it real. 

Some fool below said "there are much better ways to take up your greivances (sic)".  Grievances... oh my.  Yeah, they should hold a town hall meeting with... the police.  For killing young black men by rolling them around in a van while hog-tied. 

Others refer to the death of a human being as "the Freddie Gray incident". 

Grievances and Incidents.  That's White America for ya (well, some unfortunately... too many).  In any case, advice about proper ways to handle further Incidents and Grievances is duly noted by the boys in the hood. 

Good luck and God bless.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:19 | 6038394 El Vaquero
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This was angry mob violence.  I dispise angry mob violence. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:17 | 6037796 Leopold B. Scotch
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Yeah.  There's no reason why you need a gun to protect yourself when the serve and protect crowd is always putting (their) safety first.

 

Yeah, they have a hard job, no doubt.   I can't knock them for backing off in all seriousness.  The idiots in this conversation are the progressive anti-gun crowd who always fall back to "leave it to the professionals" when it comes to guns.  Yeah, the ones that usually show up well after shootings occur and draw yellow chalk lines around victims, or the ones that, during school shootings, take an hour to get their tactical act together to finally go into the buildings to stop the violence.  Or the ones that watch you business, your entire life's work, go up in flames thanks to looting thugs.

Again, I don't blame them -- they want to kiss their kids in bed that night, too.  I do blame the anti gunners for their  naivity.  Which in this case of disarming the population gets people killed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:00 | 6038266 XitSam
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"To protect and serve"  

The police have no responsibility, except in very specific, limited circumstances, to protect anything.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:24 | 6038433 El Vaquero
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Only if they created the situation that caused you to be unable to look after your own safety are they responsible for your safety.  Other than that, if they want to finish their lunch when they KNOW that your life is in danger, there is no legal recourse for you or your family if something happens.  IMO, that is one helluva argument against gun control.  If you wind up in a situation where being armed would have kept you from harm or death, you or your family should be allowed to sue the government if it implemented gun control and prevented you from saving yourself.  It'll never happen that way though.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:00 | 6037829 Mute Button
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Isn't that the true summary. The Ferguson verdict is released in full night fall at 9:00PM. Protect and serve takes back seat to looting...  The elites can't hide the pattern. They can only hide from the pattern detectors.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:01 | 6037831 Mute Button
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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:45 | 6038526 mt paul
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gave you up vote because

some times it's best to say nothing and be thought a fool

than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 20:18 | 6040892 fedupwhiteguy
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Like, totally awesome comment dude!!

 ha ha

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:03 | 6037850 RaceToTheBottom
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Many of those rioters have nice sun tans.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:35 | 6038793 mt paul
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many of those rioters

 

seem to like doritos

and toilet paper

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:38 | 6038102 Nobody For President
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Ahh, brings back memories of Watts (I was there with CA ANG back in the day...)

They need to move this shit uptown, but never do. Gonna burn somethun', burn banks, not the local pharmacy.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:43 | 6037650 813kml
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Spring is here, Chicago should be top of the list of riot tinderboxes.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:25 | 6038001 Joe Sichs Pach
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"There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

- Nigel Tufnel

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:11 | 6037899 ImGumbydmmt
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Just in time for Jade Helm to NOT be "just a training exercise"

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:42 | 6038128 Chupacabra-322
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Perhaps this was Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. CEO Obamas Civilian Police Force in action.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:31 | 6037653 juangrande
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Calling Bunk and McNutty!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:33 | 6037657 FEDbuster
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Note the lack of store owners with firearms protecting their stores like they did in LA and Ferguson.  When gun rights are taken away, you lose the ability to protect your businesses, homes, families and youself.  

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:02 | 6041205 readmylips
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you are aware that his twin by another mama, was at the podium during the funeral, right?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:36 | 6037677 JRobby
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Summer of discontent on the way soon.

A few more of these will give them exactly what they want: Marshall Law

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:54 | 6037793 MonetaryApostate
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Marshall Law or enough guardsmen / feds walking around & it might actually blow up in their faces, the bundy ranch really did almost unite America...

I think they are trying to "Contain" the uprisings so that it doesn't spread, but something tells me the word on the street is largely different from what is going on in the media...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:10 | 6037897 Ferrari
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I respectfully disagree. I see this as engineered conflict. The Swine In Charge seem to be always a few steps ahead of the herd. Examine the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, Edward Bernays, Paul Mazur, Leo Straus, 911 (from almost any angle). We're ants in an antfarm, and the big kid who owns it is a satanic sociopath. Appologies for the pesimism. We can discuss baseball if you like.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:15 | 6037923 swmnguy
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Add to your list of pernicious deviltries the Designated Hitter rule.  Ever since that was installed America has gone downhill.  Coincidence?  I think not.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:15 | 6037927 MonetaryApostate
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Like I said before, oppression & corruption are going to cause rioting, and the profiteering (QE) & bank extortion @ the top will probably be the straw that broke the camel's (Workers) back, but I'll just let you wait for the markets & banks to show you who's truly responsible for it all.....  (This government & nation are broke & it ain't no joke, they are morally bankrupt too.)

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:25 | 6038005 chunga
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Concerning crime, patterns are often noted on the color of one's skin. In fairness, there are also criminal patterns based on the color of one's collar.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:41 | 6038831 mt paul
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afro american spring...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:03 | 6041213 readmylips
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this would have boiled up larger than a single city, decades ago... but you are forgetting how UNambitious the protesters are.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:26 | 6038011 CarpetShag
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Martial, fer phuks sake

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:41 | 6038119 Nobody For President
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Is that like the Marital Plan?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:56 | 6038235 IndyPat
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If you're married to a hyena, maybe...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:17 | 6037569 auntiesocial
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I don't one to hear ONE FUCKING WORD NOR COMPLAINT when all of these businesses and retailers refuse to re-open in your area. You want Escape From New York or Planet of the Apes? then suffer the consequences of your actions. 

There are much better ways to take up your greivances than to shit in your backyard. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:56 | 6037638 MonetaryApostate
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What difference does it make?  The Elite, Bankers, & Gov. own them all anyway & you know it's true.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:35 | 6038416 XitSam
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Part of the plan. Create the "food (& other types of) deserts" then government run stores fill in.  And a government run store is highly efficient, just ask the communists.  Wanna shop at the Five Dolla sto?

Or they'll pass a law that if a company does business in the city, they must locate their branches according to government approval. Ensures that more comanies pull out, reinforcing the government store idea.

Update: Directive 10-289

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 15:10 | 6039520 jerry_theking_lawler
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Insurance will pay to rebuild and restock. You and I will pay for the insurance.....pretty simple concept.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:32 | 6037656 City_Of_Champyinz
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Since most of the rioters have an IQ of 70 they will not understand your simple point...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:06 | 6037871 giovanni_f
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And that's why the American Revolution ain't gonna happen.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:44 | 6038841 mt paul
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quick 

 

dump a few kilos of high grade Afghani heroin

on the streets of baltimore...

euthanize the problem...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:28 | 6038459 XitSam
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Not that I'm arguing with you, but have you seen on-the-block blacks attack (physically, shunning, verbally) someone of any race that exhibits even normal intelligence?  They don't want anyone to exceed the lowest common denominator.  No one is allowed to excel.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:40 | 6037700 BennyBoy
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Why did they close schools early?

To let out high schoolers to "Riot".

And no school today. What could go wrong?

 

Our master riot planners are brilliant!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:18 | 6037943 Snoopy the Economist
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I don't think they want to be responsible for getting kids to/from school safely. Obviously, they can't do anything right.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:39 | 6038109 Chupacabra-322
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@ BennyBoy,

It gives a new meaning to the term "Riot Control."

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:18 | 6038382 dicksburnt
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Someone needs to explain to them revolution is not burning your neighborhood down.

a REVOLUTION has meaning, merit and emotion   This was just an ol' fashioned "CHIMPOUT"

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:56 | 6037437 g'kar
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These people aren't rioting, they are just reflecting on the conscience of the king.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:59 | 6037453 max2205
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Just a preview of the free shit army in action.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:18 | 6037575 sodbuster
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Yep- generations of people on entitlements- not even a remote thought of an education or job.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:29 | 6037635 Big Corked Boots
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Education?

Urban public schools are pens where the inhabitants are fed and the keepers are fattened. God help any kid who shows up looking for an education.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:37 | 6037649 MonetaryApostate
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Don't worry, Obama is gonna give everyone a free 2 year college degree, that way we can be educated poor people without jobs, and they can sustain their overly bloat college staff that YOU pay for with your debt chains, of course they will be later subsidized with tax dollars... (FUCKING FAIL)

 

I personally am really tired of "Steal from the poor & middle class" to sustain the "higher educated class & government leeches" BS they pull on everyone time & time again, they are funding gigantic wars & militaries with all those taxes they extract from the US Workers...  All those cracking jokes at these protesters don't have the balls to tell the real truth nor to do something about it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:51 | 6037779 gatorengineer
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There isnt a chimp alive that cant get a free 2 year college education right now.....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:01 | 6037841 MonetaryApostate
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What's that gonna get them a $12-$16 a hour / part time / temporary / contractor job?

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 16:24 | 6044057 mkkby
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I personally am really tired of "Steal from the poor & middle class"

You anger is because you are a sheep that just woke opened his mangina eyes for the first time.  This has been going on since time began.  The strong prey on the weak.  Grow a pair and do something about it.  The whining is really tiring.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:12 | 6037909 LawsofPhysics
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Really?  Last time I looked, you had to be a minority to get a free college tuition.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 14:52 | 6039429 g'kar
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Zing

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 14:05 | 6039205 Redhotfill
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So is that why they call it  "Chimping Out?"

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:25 | 6038002 crisrose
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Urban public schools are pens because the students are animals. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:22 | 6037596 Whoa Dammit
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A once great nation, with  people now so poor that toilet paper is a treasure to be looted.

Thanks Federal Reserve that printed away our wealth.

Thanks global corporations that exported jobs.

Thanks .gov who allowed rampant immigration to keep wages low, and that incentivizes growth of impoverished broken families to feed the private prison complex.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:49 | 6037703 JRobby
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+1000

Thanks Federal Reserve and the banking cartel's reckless lending and gambling that printed away our wealth.

The down voters do not understand the large picture. Never will, EVER!


Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:10 | 6037845 Leopold B. Scotch
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"A once great nation, with  people now so poor that toilet paper is a treasure to be looted."

 

Well, A man's gots ta shit.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 16:32 | 6044093 mkkby
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A once great nation, with  people now so poor that toilet paper is a treasure to be looted.

Stop lying.  Don't try to make your stupid pollitical points out of nothing.  The free shit army has a better living than most honest workers.

All you are seeing is animals rummaging around in the trash.  You can see this behavior near garbage cans and dumps all around the world.  It's just the instinct to steal anything available.

No TVs around... take a roll of TP or bag of chips.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:41 | 6037706 JRobby
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Dup, blame Comcast

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:44 | 6038522 stewie
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Thanks .gov who allowed rampant immigration to keep wages low, and that incentivizes growth of impoverished broken families to feed the private prison complex

 

True and how sick!

 

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:54 | 6037422 Muddy1
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damage, yes.

"in ashes" no, just a sensational exaggeration by ZH media hounds.  I saw worse during the anti-war demonstrations of the 1960's.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:23 | 6037597 Billy the Poet
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Not to mention the war itself.

 

http://www.vietnamfriendship.org/wordpress/

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:30 | 6037643 kadoka
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It is like the '60s.  Do you think the US would have pulled out of Viet Nam if not for the protests and riots?   Do you think anyone would care about the militarized police being judge and jury with just dialog?  I don't support burning down your neighborhood but how do you think things are going to change?  In the voting booth????????

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:36 | 6037674 Billy the Poet
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So will it be Jeb or Hillary?

Maybe someone ought to burn down the voting booths.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:39 | 6037692 MonetaryApostate
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I love the way you think...  +100 :D

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:07 | 6038326 SumTing Wong
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I'm still waiting on the ghost of Thomas Jefferson. I'd vote for him in a minute.

Failing that, please convince Ron Paul to run.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:53 | 6037791 chrsn
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What difference does it make?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:57 | 6037811 overmedicatedun...
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teens mostly gangs and the under educated..want to see the looters who know how to do it : with connections and owning the law, well here you go:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/14755448878/

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:04 | 6037860 MonetaryApostate
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Justice is a Demand, Tyranny Cannot Stand, and The Bankers need to be hung!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:10 | 6038340 Withdrawn Sanction
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Be careful what you ask for...

by suggesting "bankers need to be hung" you're asking that they be potential porno stars; admittedly, not entirely different from what they're doing now, but hardly a terrible fate either. 

The word you're grasping for, I think, is "hanged." 

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:54 | 6038216 ImGumbydmmt
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You have a point.

Consider the writings and speeches of any politician in the last 20 years vs. the writings of the founding fathers. Consider the whole LOT of both ends of history. Even when the founders disagree they do so with intelligence, debate, at times wit and sarcasm, but with eloquence and clarity of thought.

There are a few standout moments for modern American speakers, Ron Paul’s comments at both the 2008 & 2012 televised debates of RNC candidates, JFK's "secret societies" and “Ask Not “ speeches. MLK speeches,  Eisenhower’s farewell address “Military Industrial complex” and his comments on the JFK assassination. and a couple choice speeches by Regan.

ohh and Rand Paul and Trey Gowdy have a few good sound bites each.

However  Just about all of them from LBJ to today it have only gotten worse at an increasing pace on lower intellectual capacity, lower moral standard combined with higher levels of arrogance and bravado. ( politicians and the general public)

Hillary “Hitlary” Clinton's "What does it matter?" Benghazi outburst and many others "We came we saw he died" testify to her true nature.

This mayor of Baltimore's speech on letting them destroy.... (was that intentional wording or a mis-speak for let them protest?)

Compare modern politicians speech and writing to just about anything written by Ben Franklin, G. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine... and on and on.

Our country  has always had "salt of the earth folks" shown in Mark Twain and John Steinbeck novels, not educated, not always good people either.

But what we see from the top and bottom socio strata’s in the past 20-30 years, especially the last 10 years, is without a doubt a decline into a new dark ages.

The top cannot even communicate on the same level as our founders, and the proletariat could not understand it if they did.

Ron Paul’s books are a case in point.

He dumbs it down for all of us. If you read End the Fed or Revolution, you can’t help see its at 8th grade reading level, and yet you are out raged how much we have been deceived.

But to the masses, they don’t know, don’t understand and don’t care until the police start killing folks outright as is happening across the country. To the proles its all Doritos, super bowls, final four, dances with the stars, UFC cage fights,  and Kim K's butt. But they are waking up and coming to all the wrong conclusions and responses.

There is no Ghandi, Martin Luther King, or Mandela Nelson to bring order from Chaos this time.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are not fit for the task, as their role has been to incite discord and profit from it personally.

No leader will emerge to pave the way to clarity and reformation.

This time it’s 1984 at our doorstep, because the next leg down is THAT level of .gov control..

This time it’s Hunger Games and most of us live out in the districts.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 13:15 | 6038985 Loose Caboose
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ImGumbydmmt - I regret that I have but one up vote to give.  This is why I believe we have no hope of turning this around.  There are no leaders of integrity and intelligence who can get their ideas across to sufficient numbers to affect change.  The populace is like Idiocracy.  Maybe they don't deserve a statesman like Ron Paul.  Maybe they deserve a Hillary.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 03:37 | 6041724 ImGumbydmmt
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I also believe we are beyond hope of turning this around for the same reasons you state.

Recently it occurred to me that short of a massive "spiritual awakening" the US is doomed.

Most obvious at the top of the authority chain and bottom of society the evilness of man is becoming unhinged.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other - John Adams

Short a massive awakening to turn men's hearts back to the teachings of Jesus Christ; there can be no correction to the declining trajectory of our nation on many levels.

Yes there is a problem with politicians, yes to End the Fed, end the Welfare and Warfare state,  Yes end police violence against the alleged accused. Yes looting and burning you own neighborhood is not an effective response to injustice. Yes the sheeple who do nothing are guilty as well.

But all these are an internal heart issue, greed, corruption, senseless violence, apathy, fear. Short a change of heart within all persons at all levels of society we are doomed.

Unfortunately some may down vote this, or it will remain an obscure comment unnoticed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:58 | 6037427 BLOTTO
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'They' are trying to incite a race war over on this side of the pond.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:31 | 6037651 Meat Hammer
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All of the people in the above photos shared one common trait.  I just can't put my finger on it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:37 | 6037681 Billy the Poet
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They make nice silhouettes for police target practice?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:47 | 6038542 stewie
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That "trait" would be different if the Police brutality was targetting whites.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:44 | 6037735 JRobby
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Agree, it gives them an excuse for more homeland security measures / boot on the face / para-military police state.

BTW, your checking and savings accounts have been bailed in

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:55 | 6037431 waterwitch
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We Detroited some folk.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:00 | 6037461 Fukushima Fricassee
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We Obamaed some folks

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:43 | 6037619 VinceFostersGhost
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William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire

 

Includes the dedication to Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, on page 5.

 

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31776_LGF_Exclusive-_Bill_Ayers_Prairie_Fire_in_PDF_Form

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:52 | 6037782 dexter_morgan
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Yes, amazing how certain things are buried, and others harped on 24x7. Ayer's dad had dough and connections (ran ComEd maybe?) so little Billy got away with anythinghe damn well chose to do.

And we need to thank him for getting Obameo in to politics also.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:40 | 6037702 MonetaryApostate
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& We're about to Hitlary some folks...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:55 | 6037433 koncaswatch
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4Th Amemd right to be suspended: Jade Helm now justified by "need."

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:17 | 6037571 Sanity Bear
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4th amendment "rights" LOL

that one flew the coop decades ago bro

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:45 | 6037722 MonetaryApostate
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I'm pretty sure all of the rights are gone now, the guns were only a "Sell them & steal them back" game the gov. has played over and over again, and gold/silver may soon be next on the "Confiscation list" once again...  Then there is the TSA shakedown / open air prison evidence right in your face...  I wonder just how much evidence America needs before it says, "You know what? SCREW ALL OF THIS!!" and then proceed to burn it all down...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:02 | 6037469 SethDealer
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if they want respect why dont they do something respectable, like get a job, maybe graduate high school, or provide for their family!!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:34 | 6037668 p00k1e
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Hey, you passing out jobs?  I'll take one job.  $30.00 an hour please.

 

Anyone else? 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:49 | 6037745 Memedada
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= why don’t they shot up and keep in line. It would not earn them my ‘respect’ and I’m pretty sure TPTB don’t respect ‘the working man’ (pity at best. But I think loath is more realistic).

To ‘get a job’ in a fascist society is the same as being compliant with your own enslavement. ‘Wages’ and ‘working’ is so last year – it was important in capitalism 1.0. In capitalism 2.0 it’s all about who controls the money (fiat) creation. ‘The means of production’ (the capital) is secondary to the finances – corporations don’t earn their profits from being innovative, productive or providing anything of meaningful value to society, but on participating in the global Ponzi Scheme (buying their own shares, leveraging “investments”, emptying corporations of fiat (selling of all assets and making ‘one time “profits’’ = bonuses for the CEO’s and their closets minions) etc.).

The ‘revolution’ will NOT BE AN ODERLY TRANSITION from one form of society to another. It will be messy. And to blame the victims of the current society is symptomatic – “why are they not better educated, why don’t they all behave like Gandhi etc. etc.”. Well, they are brought up in a society that cherish violence, greed and ignorance = they are children of USA = they’re dumped down, marginalized and humiliated = they don’t behave ‘civilized’ (big fucking surprise).

I personally don’t understand why there’s not MORE LOOTING. The business model of today IS LOOTING. Why should the poor people in the lowest strata of society not chose the same business model?

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:05 | 6037867 bullchit
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"The business model of today IS LOOTING. Why should the poor people in the lowest strata of society not chose the same business model?"

Comment of the decade.


Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:49 | 6037752 MonetaryApostate
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Maybe they don't see things the way you do, maybe they cannot ignore the blatant descriminations & prejudices they suffered for years, or maybe they just don't give a damn because well, they don't see the point in working at Mc D's, as a janitor, or whatever crummy job a High School Education will probably land you....  

(Because if you don't have a masters degree, well just GTFO right?)

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:27 | 6041626 Kobe Beef
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Maybe you're just full of excuses.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:07 | 6037500 rubiconsolutions
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Watts up!

 

To soon?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:26 | 6037617 RaymondKHessel
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Another ordinary day in Detroit. Nothing new here.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:50 | 6037770 MonetaryApostate
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What happens when Detroit & Baltimore become many other cities?  

Smells like a really closed minded & lazy comment to me...

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 16:43 | 6044155 mkkby
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You mean when other cities become majority black?  Because I've never seen asian or white people looting. 

Time and time again, the lesson is the same.  One race fills the prisons.  One race has 3x the murder rate of any other.  But sheeple like you never learn.  You get your information and politics fed to you by the TV.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:52 | 6037411 Quinvarius
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Now build a wall around that shithole and send in Snake Pliskin to clean up.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:27 | 6037627 CrimsonAvenger
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Snake Pliskin? I thought he was dead.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:46 | 6037741 VinceFostersGhost
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Snake Pliskin is alive?

 

No wonder I haven't met him yet.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:52 | 6037412 onewayticket2
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dont fix it.

 

leave it just as is.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:05 | 6037490 g'kar
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Your comment reminded of this scene in Saving Private Ryan "Don't shoot, let'em burn"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQucipCzW8

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:13 | 6037537 Handful of Dust
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<< don't fix it >

 

yeah, just relocate them public housing projects in the suburbs next to the $1 million homes.

 

I say fix it and keep 'm there. Maybe cage it off.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:50 | 6037682 agent default
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Fix it but since there is increased fire hazard in the area use asbestos drywall and arsenic impregnated timber. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:14 | 6037547 y3maxx
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WTF!!!!!

PRO USA NAZIS CRUCIFYING AND BURNING A HUMAN BEING?

IF TRUE......USSA HAS LOST ALL ITS CREDIBILITY EVERYWHERE...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:33 | 6037666 Billy the Poet
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Makes one feel as if shrugging is not enough. Fuck Nuland.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:54 | 6037423 Brazen Heist
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Seems like minorities are the ones doing most of the protesting in America. They are the ones standing up to the abusive police, the ones chanting for revolution and change.

Where is the rest of the population? Jerking off, eating and taking selfies.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 08:59 | 6037458 Seek_Truth
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Senseless property destruction and looting (especially for low cost items like doritos and paper towels) hardly qualifies as effecting meaninful change.

If they were taking aim at the responsible parties, or anuthing close to it- you'd have a point.

But as it is- this is pointless.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:19 | 6037504 NoDebt
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I'll add that I don't remember seeing any protest signs so I'm not sure how thise could be called a protest.  No, that was definitely a straight up riot.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:35 | 6037671 Slave
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No, that was definitely straight up TNB.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:28 | 6038013 lakecity55
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It was a Chimpout! A silverback soiree!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:31 | 6038058 Honey Badger
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In a time of universal oppression, rioting is a revolutionary act.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:09 | 6037520 Usurious
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how many JPMorgan branches were destroyed/looted?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:16 | 6037566 813kml
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A population mirrors its government, senseless property destruction and looting exactly describes US foreign policy.  And this is the same response that the US gets from every group it tries to control with force. 

There is a rage that can't be suppressed by empty promises from the talking head reps of police departments or platitudes and crocodile tears from Jesse Jackson.  Absent meaningful change, what else do you expect?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:31 | 6037652 Seer
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Before I decide to completely disappear from this site (sick and tired of the fucking Party Pussies and hypocrites- site is being overrun by them) I'd like to say that I've always enjoyed your comments, you're one of the few around here that has some sense of the Big Picture.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:38 | 6037691 Usurious
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813kml made a fantastic statement.........

To understand how our American Empire operates, both internationally and domestically, one must study the British Empire.......the similarities are striking........

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:34 | 6038329 V in PA
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The British Empire never died. America is just the military arm of the British Empire. America lost the war of 1812 (by-the-way a song about that war is our National Anthem).

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:42 | 6037716 813kml
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Thanks, and right back at you Seer.  

Please stick around, this site has already suffered enough brain drain.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:17 | 6037568 Brazen Heist
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"Peaceful" protesting doesn't do shit. Look at Ferguson, it started as a peaceful protest then the pigs pounced and it got out of control. Police brutality is well known, I have no sympathy for such pigs. Its about time some people started fighting back.

Violent protesting gets things done. It gets government attention. Unfortunately they only take you seriously when you fight for your rights. Yeah a few doritos got stolen, desperation right there. Something is fucked up to make people break like this. Most people don't just loot and riot for fun.

When a sense of injustice hangs over a society, or parts of a society, and is allowed to fester, it eats the fabric from the inside out.

Inequality and discrimination are real to many people.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:26 | 6037609 LawsofPhysics
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"Inequality and discrimination are real to many people."   -- Yes, it's why I had to explain to my oldest child why he was not excepted into an ivy league school when an african american friend with worse scores who also took easier classes will.

Guess what asshole, you don't "fix" racism with racist policies.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:34 | 6037670 Seer
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Oh, I see, you're able to finance for an ivy league school?  Wanting your offspring to learn how to serve the elites?

Whine, whine, whine...

I tell you what, give me a 150 years head start to control and own everything and then I call it all even.

And I thought you had some smarts.

Mob psychology, alive and well here on Zero.  Fucking hypocrites...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:48 | 6037755 LawsofPhysics
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You are an idiot.  I have been calling for an audit and an end to the Fed for 30+ years.

Get out of the fucking basement kid, then and only then you might begin to understand.  Nothing  worth having comes without sacrifice, period.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 16:53 | 6044200 mkkby
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Nothing  worth having comes without sacrifice, period.

Really shit head?  Do you have any more bullshit statements to waste everyone's time?  Because I was walking thru the woods yesterday and found abundant game, fruit, nuts and firewood.  What did I sacrifice for that?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:36 | 6037675 Brazen Heist
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Such policies if taken far enough become reverse discrimination. Feminism - reverse sexism. Political correctness - reverse censorship.

I'm specifically referring to police brutality. People WILL fight back.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:49 | 6037756 Seek_Truth
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As I said above- I don't see a single person "fighting back."

I see a bunch of senseless, misplaced looting and destruction.

Not one, single case of fighting back.

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