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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 - 09:12 | 6037543 Jonesy
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Obama's sons were busy last night.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:16 | 6037561 large_wooden_badger
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If you like your neighborhood you can burn it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:44 | 6038137 shovelhead
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You heard the Mayor...

They needed the room to destroy stuff so they let them. Sort of a Negro version of aroma-therapy or sumthin.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:16 | 6037562 Hagen
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The problem in the USA it is not racism, they are the blacks.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:32 | 6038064 Miles Ahead
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lol... Hagen, what's the problem in Ukraine?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:16 | 6037563 Hagen
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The problem in the USA it is not racism, they are the blacks.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:17 | 6037572 Jonesy
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Seems like brothas being brothas is happening more frequently these days.  Despite the burning of cities, we need to learn to love them for who they are.

JewSA! JewSA! 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:19 | 6037577 large_wooden_badger
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All this destruction! Plenty of spending opportunities to fix it! Now the dress-maker can pay the glass-maker, who can pay the shoe-maker, to pay the brick-maker. EVERYBODY WINS!!!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:57 | 6037809 Polymarkos
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If I were a glazier, I'd keep a few urchins with slingshots on staff to drum up business when things are slow.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037888 shovelhead
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I see that none of the money will go to the local Wigs N' Weaves because apparently the market became saturated last night.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:19 | 6037580 Grimaldus
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Well lookie here....

Obama's progressive plantation slaves are protesting Obama's progressive big government brown shirts.

Can't make this shit up man.

The progressive stupid, it burns.

When are free black men and women going to realize that the big government progressives they vote for only want to put them back on the plantation as slaves?  That only with a true constitutional conservative limited government will they be free?

Grimaldus

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:20 | 6037582 IcarusOnFire
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Random thoughts:

I've been all over this grand land.  Baltimore folks have always been the nastiest and meanest in the nation.  Bar none.  Never heard of the words please and thank you up there. This doesn't surprise at all.

Thank goodness SOMEONE has the balls to step up to plate acknowledging the lack of the rule of law for our police forces.  We all might be better off for this if someone takes these greviences seriously.

Icarus

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:44 | 6037732 Seek_Truth
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I've met rude people in every city, town and state.

I've met courteous people in every city, town and state.

You must not get around much.

Either that, or you're projecting.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:39 | 6038106 Miles Ahead
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lol... projecting.  Good one.  Someone junked you for even being a diplomat. Hilarious.  You can't please everyone!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:20 | 6037584 dexter_morgan
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The ZWO cabal jizzes themselves viewing the success of their divide and conquer strategy. Hey, this was great, lets move this to more cities. Maybe now the sheeple are ready for federal control over the local police forces.............its for their own good..........bwahaahaahaaa

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:25 | 6037606 Jonesy
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Damn right!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:21 | 6037591 Fix It Again Timmy
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Some of the TV anchors were talking about the mall and how it was built to revitalize the area...Actually you revitalize an area by providing solid educational and job opportunities, not a damn mall...TV anchors are the last people that should be on the air....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:52 | 6038200 shovelhead
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No jobs in a mall?

That's a first.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:24 | 6037602 F.A. Hayek
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Burn down your own neighborhood. Makes pretty good sense.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:32 | 6037644 RaymondKHessel
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Yup. Why burn down someone elses neighborhood when you can burn down yours?

Why should they get all the new stuff?

CVS 2.0 Bieeeeoooootttttcccchhhheeeeeezzzzzz

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:24 | 6037603 Moribundus
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For roots google: ALEC prison-industrial complex. Then learn more about ALEC itself. See article: 12 Major Corporations Benefiting from the Prison Industrial Complex

http://elementarygenocide.com/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-...

 

 

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:26 | 6037613 PGR88
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The Federal Reserve's free-shit army sometimes gets out of control

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:27 | 6037623 large_wooden_badger
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If you ever go to the Inner Harbor area in Baltimore, there is a ring of foot and bicycle patrols there specifically to keep the rest of the city away from the tourists. Thank God. But I understand that not everyone can get a job at Domino Sugar.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:27 | 6037624 Miss Expectations
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Here ya go...someone set it all to music "Good Morning Baltimore"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmU7WLpCN2w&feature=youtu.be

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:02 | 6037846 IndyPat
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Baby Mama Baboon w/ stroller @ 1:46.

Nice.

Looting a wig shop was also a classic touch.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:27 | 6037626 Smegley Wanxalot
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And a year from now they'll all be bitching how no businesses want to be there to provide them jobs

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:30 | 6037645 large_wooden_badger
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Where are the Mexican drug cartels when you need them? They can sell these people crystal meth and handguns. Problem solved.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:40 | 6037708 Jonesy
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Insurance for wig shops in black neighborhoods must be astronomical.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:42 | 6037723 Infinite QE
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Hint to Larry Silverstein. Plenty of asbestos-ridden buildings in ghetto hoods. Double the insurance value and you'll make your next billion.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:42 | 6037727 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Look like nearly a civil war, even Kiev during the fake Maidan revolution was cleaner.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:45 | 6037739 Zymurguy
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There just testing the indirect mind control they have over the FSA... send in a few agents, have them lead the charge to break their way into the stores, steal at will and all the real FSA think to themselves, "hey, I'm not getting all the free shit that guy's getting, let's go crazy!"  Then the agent burns the place and the robots just follow suit.

I think Ferguson was a small test, this is a little bigger one, next up is probably N. Little Rock AR or maybe even something like a Chicago or Atlanta.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:49 | 6037765 Polymarkos
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Flamethrowers. They want fires, they get fires. 30 seconds of direct interpersonal application of a flamethrower, and the mobs will suddenly have the urge take up knitting and watch reruns of Mr Rogers Neighborhood.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:50 | 6037768 GIABO
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If I had a son.....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:50 | 6037771 Seasmoke
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Is the Orioles game still on for tonight ??

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:54 | 6037794 p00k1e
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LOL

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:55 | 6037788 Government need...
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We see this again and again.  Dont live in an urban area with a high population of blacks or browns, and dont live in an area where it isn't legal to arm yourself to the teeth.  RELYING ON THE STATE FOR 'PROTECTION' is the same as 'RELYING ON THE BLACK MAN TO REMAIN RATIONAL AND LAWFUL'.  Of course the thugpigs should be brought to justice and 'encouraged' to follow the law.  Unfortunately, thugs roaming the streets randomly destroying property isnt solving anything.  The blacks involved are merely becoming pawns for the State's interest.  When enough of this happens, the State will call for yet more tyranny.  And then the real war will begin . . when the whites come out shooting.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:58 | 6037818 freedogger
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Is a single mom running down the street with a big grin and a pack of toilet paper under her arm really looting?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:00 | 6037836 Polymarkos
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A chafed bunghole is racist.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 09:59 | 6037828 Polymarkos
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Let's all take a moment to consider what we are NOT LOOKING AT, now that we are focused on the Baltimore chimps armed with matches and rocks.

 

Hitlery Klinton? Ukraine? The racist bitch Lynch becoming AG?

 

We are being diverted from something.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 14:18 | 6039243 Abaco
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The cops that bounced Freddie Gray to death.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:01 | 6037842 Dr. Engali
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So I'm sitting here in the office and talking with a colleague and I mention the craziness in Baltimore, and the response to me was "why? What's going on in Baltimore?"  

 

This is what we are dealing with folks. People who don't even bother to pay attention. We are screwed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037885 IndyPat
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So you are aware of it.

So fucking what.
What amazing bit of inspiration sprang from your awareness? Exactly how far ahead are you in the game now?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:15 | 6037925 Dr. Engali
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You're right. We should all just go about our lives and  ignore what's going on in the world. I'll just go out and buy me an iWatch and stick my head up my ass like the rest of you retarded, brain washed consumers. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:27 | 6038022 IndyPat
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That's not what I was saying.

I'm here, right? I see this bullshit going down just like you do.
I just ponder sometimes what good is it to know? You're buddy that's bee bopping through life clueless...this never comes up on his radar. Hell, try to wake and shake him. I'm sure you've tried that before. It always backfires or leaves you feeling more isolated.

What would life be like if all I worried about was my fantasy sports team or if it was going to rain for the weekend BBQ?

I've felt like this since at least 2002. I don't see much progress or momentum building for any big wake up call, really. Even extended family keep on trucking as if everything is fine.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:19 | 6037956 Two Feet Studs Up
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Oh, we have a fuck here probably from Westfield, Carmel or Fishers in a nice suburb in Indy...you haven't a fucking clue you twat.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:28 | 6038030 IndyPat
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North Delaware street...you fucking cunt.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:02 | 6037847 Agent P
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Not the wig shop!  

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037881 Dr. Engali
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Yeah I know right? Where am I going to get my weave now?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:07 | 6037859 Chuck Knoblauch
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The presence of these US Special Forces “provocateurs” were noticed and commented on too by the former highly decorated New York City Police Detective Bo Dietl, who when being interviewed by the Fox News Service about the unrest in Baltimore stated about them:

BO DIETL: I was watching the video from Saturday night's riot in Baltimore. It was the usual suspects, the ones who come into New York here. The agitators were there. And I saw -- it's just funny to see -- these white guys, six-foot tall white guys with bandanas over their faces. They're trying to hide their faces, what are they doing there?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/04/27/foxs_bo_dietl_on_balti...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:43 | 6038135 U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
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CK, not saying that there isn't provocation going on here, but I am familiar with the BlackBloc folks and there are indeed many six-foot white guys with bandanas on their face in that group - also black hoodies.  

There certainly are APs in the crowds.  However, to me the biggest provocation in this all is likely done by more complex and larger scale means - that is, information warfare (such as "Purge" texts and propaganda) and political incitement (encouraging various groups interested in revolution to arrive and assemble).  

Anyone with experiencce in intelligence knows that they operate by enrolling others into operations rather than engaging in them directly.  

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:06 | 6037873 Teknopagan
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The blacks are being used as a wedge

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037884 Chuck Knoblauch
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Jade Helm 15 is a nationwide exercise.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08 | 6037887 p00k1e
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By who? 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:15 | 6037914 Chuck Knoblauch
Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:57 | 6038248 shovelhead
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Those that drive around with 12" bass tubes will be immune.

"Yo, give dat shit some beats..."

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:23 | 6038427 Duc888
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OK, shovelhead....that was funny.  I'm still laughing 5 minutes after reading that picturing Raytheon techs miffed because their sonic weapon can not defeat Dubstep.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:19 | 6037907 22winmag
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More overtime and more steroids for the gang in blue.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:14 | 6037917 WillyGroper
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So this is what we have to look forward to.

AARP now has a subliminal commercial sponsored by the AD council on caretaking. If you crank the volume up, you can hear a TV ad in the background saying the prez has declared martial law.

Clever these evil demons & their seed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:18 | 6037942 IndyPat
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Got a link for that? That's interesting.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:51 | 6038193 IndyPat
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Holy shit! Almost hard to call subliminal. Jeez! Granny and Gramps are gonna drop mud when they see that.

Thanks.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:02 | 6038290 hoist the bs flag
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YbiGaagz4

crank it @ 7 seconds...use headphones

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:21 | 6037964 Chuck Knoblauch
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It should be evident that Obozo's controllers want martial law.

They are provoking "test subjects" into anarchy.

The Chinese want the guns confiscated immediately.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:16 | 6037934 Chuck Knoblauch
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As to the exact mechanics of this horrific NSA “test” on Baltimore school children yesterday, this report continues, once the “target area” was encircled by LRAD-police shield sonic weapons, a mass NSA initiated text was sent to all of these school students via social media about a purge” to take place at 3 p.m. when their school day ended, starting at Mondawmin Mall and ending downtown. Such memes have been known to circulate regularly among city school students, based on the film “The Purge,” about what would happen if all laws were suspended.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:18 | 6037941 VooDoo6Actual
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All part of the Kabuki scripted theatre.

Amazing to me that of all the stuff to loot they loot the TOILET papaer. That stuff NAPKINS are free at any Burger stand / Restaurant & you can take it for free w/o looting. Stoopid it burns....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:23 | 6037982 BeaverCream
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Dude those are like sandpaper and they will clog up your toilet.  These are discriminating rioters that have taste for god's sake!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:19 | 6037947 large_wooden_badger
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Let the Detroiting begin! The last white flight is now boarding.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:27 | 6038007 BeaverCream
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Then in 50 years when there is nothing left to burn down, they'll blame white flight for the reason that the city is a pile of shit stacked up miles high.  Oh and don't think that WF ends with the city limits.  They're coming.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:33 | 6038067 U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
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Baltimore already had white flight and it was already the blame for the pile of shit.  The damage here was (where not done to black neighborhoods) done to the hipster repopulation.  Of course, those people will "check their privilege" when contemplating their burned down homes and (their parents') businesses and blame themselves for slavery or bus segregation.  

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:37 | 6038099 large_wooden_badger
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Hipsters can't see beyond themselves and deserve everything they get. They hipster diaspora will probably just move to Raliegh anyway, to be with some friend of a friend, for a few weeks or so.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:49 | 6038172 IndyPat
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Been there, done that. Raleigh Durham can't be saved. They were doomed from the Yankee incursion. Hipsters wandering in will seem like small time in comparison. Can't swing a dead cat in Durham without hitting 40 crew cut diesel dykes.

Talk about destroying something beautiful. JHC, it will never be the same.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:26 | 6038015 rejected
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It seems the valid reason for protest (Freddy) was mucked up royally.

Instead of taking it up with government and law enforcement the protesters saw it as a chance to loot shops in their own neighborhoods. I am sure the police had many provocateurs assisting in that endeavor  in order to change the focus,,, but it's still no excuse for the uncivilized actions. The police done wrong for Freddy, no doubt about that but two wrongs don't make a right. Now the message is riots and destruction rather than abuse by police.Even on ZH the topic is now about out of control blacks rather then out of control police. The PTB know how to control the argument as shown again and again. Even among the 'awake' here at ZH.

One would think, at some point, people would figure this out but apparently not.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:34 | 6038049 large_wooden_badger
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You make a good point sir. Guilty. But it's hard not to comment on the stupidity of the self-immolation off the black community in the wake of these events, or how easily they fall prey to those that would provoke them to do so. These looters are stealing Arizona Ice Tea and Doritos. What happened to the good old days when the looters had brains enough to at least steal televisions? Really makes me wonder.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:34 | 6038076 IndyPat
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It just takes the piss out of me to see it work flawlessly....over and over.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:34 | 6038077 BeaverCream
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Oh I fully understand the dialectic of course.  There's a deeper understanding here than that though, it's as deep as our genes.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:29 | 6038035 large_wooden_badger
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We ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait until the Asian community uprisings begin!!!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:44 | 6038082 IndyPat
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Big Trouble in Little China.

I'll take that over this shit show.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:59 | 6038265 Chuck Knoblauch
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ELF weapons only work on the weak minded.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:44 | 6038143 godiva chocolate
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Then need to move South to Washington and Storm the White House, then install the Mayor of Baltimore as President. Russia needs to immediately recognise her as the Legitimate President of the US and all the States must comply with this they will be considered Terrorist States and the US Army will be sent to destroy the Rebel States.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:53 | 6038210 IndyPat
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Can't storm the White House yet. The moat isn't complete and they are still measuring for the drapes in the new Denver White House.
I think that's all slated for next spring.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:03 | 6038227 Chuck Knoblauch
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I hope Baltimore cops are aware of the JH15 drill.

There are Nazis in your department.

So, what really happened in that van?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:51 | 6038559 22winmag
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That's a "fundamentally sound" assessment Chuck.

 

Sacrifice a few troops here and there to rile up the rest of them. The ones getting sacrificed often know too much.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 11:53 | 6038575 Keynesians say ...
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Unfortunately amongst the looting job applications went untouched

Hacky I know lol

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 13:16 | 6038992 pupdog1
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Here are the exact words of Baltimore's fucking hoodie rat mayor, straight from her press conference video:

 

"... We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. We worked very hard to keep that balance."

 

This bitch is now furiously trying to claim she dindu any such thing, and has her PR flack fronting furious spin. But she can't outrun a video.

She engineered that cop stand-down, while her pal Tyrone was bashing in a white family's car windows with the cops standing idly by. And apparently the national guard had a hell of a time trying to get a hold of her.

This thing was by design. Every injured cop and every harmed business needs to sue this bitch out of existence.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 14:24 | 6039276 Rikky
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Perfect opportunity to enact 'Escape From NY'. Put a wall around it and let em have at each other. Let no one out.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 16:31 | 6040006 fleur wriggley
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the rioters wont learn because the cops wont learn.

before the week is finished somewhere in the US another unarmed afican americian wil be killed by the police.

then another city will burn.

its worst since rodney King got bashed by the cops in LA......... 25years ago?

tyler, thankyou for the photo's

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:40 | 6041316 HonestlyExpress...
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Man ZH gets a lot of comments! Does anyone think other people read them?

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