Crowds swarm at Tri-Cities Plaza in East Point on Wednesday morning as people try to apply for Section 8 housing.
Gezzz!
Posted on 08/11/2010 9:46:46 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd.
Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities shopping center, hoping to apply for a voucher from the East Point Housing Authority that will give them a discount on their rent.
People began lining up at the shopping center two days ago, and by Wednesday morning the crowd had grown to over 1,000 people. East Point police, some wearing riot helmets, were patrolling the area. Firefighters and EMTs were attending to people who were overheating in the sun. College Park police and firefighters were also assisting in crowd control.
Felecia McGhee told the AJC she arrived around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. She said the major problem began when people started breaking into the line and officials started moving the areas where they were handing out applications. She said she saw at least two small children trampled when the crowd rushed the building where the applications were to be handed out.
"It's a real mess out here," she said.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Mike Petchenik said fights were breaking out and police had to stop people who were storming the door.
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Give me summo’ o dat Obama Money! Froms his stash!
Silly me, I’m at WORK!
Some people go to work at that hour and others line up for free stuff... Welcome to ObamaLand.
I just can’t say what I’m thinking right now.
Do we need to see pictures?
Probably not.
It would look the same as those lined up for the $3000 last time.
Talk about a “door buster”.
Looking at the photos all these people seem to have something in common. Color me surprised. Of course the MSM would never dare mention this, just as they do with other crime and disorder stories.
While some would merely label the crowd "rowdy", I see in this story something more epic and malevolent: the utter implosion of my culture and the complete tearing of our social fabric, in that there are large demographic groups in our country who have absolutly no values or beliefs in common with me and the mainstream.
Waiting quietly in line for your turn? That's for suckers.
Civility and proper behavior are dying in America as we speak, and we are allowing it to happen right before our eyes, because we are afraid of being called racist.
"Someday a real rain will come..."
Did they give out government cheese to calm the crowd?
Least they didn’t call it a “mob.” That word is reserved for when Conservative voters turn out in force, as they did in Florida to try to protect the integrity of the 2000 election.
Get a job, parasites.
Gimmee mah pie, foo!
Correction: "Crowd waiting for PLANTATION housing vouchers gets rowdy
More Amish violence.....
Q: What’s the difference between ‘gets rowdy’ and ‘turns violent’?
A: It’s the difference between crowds waiting for ‘entitlements’ and Tea Parties.
Humor noir?
It will not be a war between the rich and the poor, as some say.
It will be between those who work vs. those who take from others. I will be only too happy to participate in cleaning house.
“People began lining up at the shopping center two days ago, and by Wednesday morning the crowd had grown to over 1,000 people”
Taking a look at the photo, I’d guess 3,000 might be a more accurate number. That parking lot is packed!
Marlin Perkins....pick up the courtesy phone
I hope they weren’t late for work.
Oh look, I made a funny.
What area of the park do you need him?
Won’t be much of a war the Blue leaders will hole up in cities they will get their power cut off, they will then send out Blackwater type assasination squads to put an end to the “futile resistance by the ‘racists’” those paid killers will then be euthanized by ex-military men disenfranchised by the Blue city-state tyrants, and then a somewhat new bring back the old political order will re-emerge.
Don’t under estimate the opposition if a HOT civil war breaks out in the USA.
Many gang bangers(Latino and Black) are well armed and have been engaging the law enforcement authorities in low level urban warfare for a couple of decades. Many are battle tested and if a hot war breaks out, many(not all) military may side with different factions and not necessarily the conservative side.
A civil war will be very bloody in this nation.
I see lotsa Moocher’s in line for another gubmint hand-out!
Looking at the pictures, and I don’t want to appear to be unkind, but it doesn’t look like any of the people pictured have missed any meals in a very long time.
Crowds swarm at Tri-Cities Plaza in East Point on Wednesday morning as people try to apply for Section 8 housing.
Gezzz!
Rush talked about this today. Said that somewhere it was reported that at least two children were trampled on.
We had a, ah, “similar” crowd riot over surplus four-year-old laptops in Richmond several years ago. One of the school systems was giving away several hundred old Apples, 3-4 years old, for free “as-is.” They had to move the giveaway to the Virginia State Fairgrounds, and when the gates were opened at around 7 am, there was a mad rush of over a thousand people, trampling children and elderly just to get a bunch of clapped-out old laptops that had already been abused by high-schoolers for three or four years.
The irony is, within a couple months, the majority of the laptops had turned up at various Apple dealers in metro Richmond, where the new owners were appalled at the cost of fixing the various problems they had due to age and heavy use, and almost none paid. They rioted over some fancy paperweights.
But they was FREE, man! FREE!
}:-)4
“I just can’t say what I’m thinking right now.”
Don’t need to. You’re not alone.
Riot police?
wow....
“I just can’t say what I’m thinking right now.”
same here....
Notice these folks were there at 6:30 am.
I bet most of them had never been anywhere,
especially in line for a job application
at 6:30 am.
“It will not be a war between the rich and the poor, as some say.
It will be between those who work vs. those who take from others.”
Then your fight is with the government. It is direct governmental policies which are responsible for the current situation.
In order to buy votes, both parties have kowtowed to the poverty pimps who demand just enough to keep people down on the farm/plantation and in need of constant pimping.
Both parties have responded to demands of a lot of working people to make competition much more difficult through tariffs, onerous licensing, “living wages”, zoning laws and other protectionist legislation. In generations past, immigrants and other poor worked out of their homes, providing services as they could and improving as their circumstances improved. Try doing that now. Even a kid selling lemonade gets dinged.
In order to increase entertainment and tourist income and taxes, politicians of both parties in state and federal levels have promoted athletic contests, concerts and other entertainment which grows ever more outrageous in downgrading traditional values of respectability, virtue and fidelity and promoting the immorality and selfishness of today. The artists and athletes of today are encouraged to be as controversial as possible to increase that revenue to the governments.
In order to placate the powerful special interests, governments of both parties have dumbed down education and enriched and secured teachers. They have diluted education resources by mandating politically-correct notions be taught equal to math, science and art.
In order to secure their own re-election they have buckled to demands of in-house unions and isolated those making decisions over the lives of others from the consequences of those decisions. As these sinecured bureaucrats make decisions like whether to declare a moratorium on oil drilling, to close natural resources to development across millions of acres, to mandate intrusive information-gathering, they are protected with their guaranteed raises and benefits, their private medical care, legal immunity and other special privileges.
In order to keep the populace happy and malleable, it is government policy that pushes porn and prohibits preaching.
Government, not the people here in this mob, are our real enemy. These folks are not blameless. They are like alcoholics, addicted to nanny-statism but it is the government, on both sides of the aisle, who is the enabler. That’s where our fight lies.
That guy in the middle,
is that the “looter guy”?
Now the area is going down hill fast - crime there and in the surrounding community is skyrocketing. The place they raided was used by drug dealers, that was a Section 8 house being occupied by another 3rd party. The police not only found drugs, weapons, scales, cash, and stolen property, they found food stamp ATM cards (not sure if they were the drug dealers own cards, or they were selling them to other people).
The reason they moved Section 8 housing into that condo community was because a "Housing Project" several miles away is being shut down.
“Obama’s gonna pay my mortgage and buy my gas!”
It’s taken him awhile, but he’s starting to make good on the first bit of hype.
"A civil war will be very bloody in this nation."I understand that, and I do not actually "yearn" for any kind of strife or violence in my once-great country, but our society and culture is in a downward death spiral; No one argues that point. More and more as events unfold, it appears that we have been painted into a corner and we have no other options available to us.
Regarding the ballot box, it is increasingly apparent that our elections are a farce, and are to be won by whoever is able to create the most dead voters.
Regarding the dregs of society, it is increasingly apparent that their sense of entitlement has grown to the point where they are a literal threat to my life and the lives of my loved ones: Some people are fully willing to kill you for your big screen TV, because, well, they feel entitled.
I see no way to pull America out of its' cultural morass. There are literally millions of people in our country who have never had a "corrective reading" except from the criminal justice system. White folks dare not speak out against unjust and immoral acts that they see in public for fear of physical violence (ghetto mamas in the handicapped parking spot is my latest experience), or at the least for fear of being called a racist.
There are millions of ghetto-Americans who have never read a book and will never do so. They get their norms and values from "the street", which is a polite way of saying "law of the jungle". They seethe with hatred of me and those with my skin color simply because that's what they have been fed.
No, my FRiends, there is no way out for us; there is no way for us to legally transmit our norms and values to the younger generation so as to assure the continuance of our culture and Nation.
And I think that's sad.
“Civility and proper behavior are dying in America as we speak, and we are allowing it to happen right before our eyes, because we are afraid of being called racist.”
Hey, I Buried My Guns, better start digging them up! There is no good end to what is happening in our country. I fear there is a war coming and there will be blood in the streets starting in the big cities. Detroit, Chicago, Philly, Pittsburg, LA, Oakland, D.C. etc.
Every large city with a high black population will experience riots and the usual looting and fires.
I’m not being racist, just being realistic.
You have a great deal of company, rest assured.
Pittsburg = Pittsburgh
It would be kinda funny if a bunch of guys showed up in black ICE uniforms.
Don’t sweat it, this is FR. Any liberals leaping on you screeching political correctness will get stomped on quite quickly. You can feel safe to speak your mind here, and take pride in your heritage.
If a Civil War breaks out in this country I am taking out the liberals who started all this crap with their stupid guilt complexes.
Looks like they eating okay.
That picture speaks volumes.
thanks
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