Posted on 04/27/2012 2:38:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Barf alert!
Imagine what nationwide riots would do to news ratings. They want this to happen.
People watching cities burning all around the nation, why, the MSM would have a truly rapt audience.
That is, until the perpetually aggrieved population reaches the news station....
Gene Lyons is a liberal political columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
I agree, as far as his comments about “untrained” people having weapons and that rot. But the rest of the column is remarkably fair-and-balanced for a liberal bed-wetter like Lyons.
I almost await rioting and chaos. We need to settle their hash sooner or later. If they think that Mr. Obama and General Holder being in charge gives them carte blache for just about anything they want to do or any crime they wish to commit, we need to nip that in the bud before it gets really out of hand. The law-abiding citizens of this country are still in the majority and we’re VERY well-armed. Ever notice that they only burn down their own neighborhoods? Why don’t they head to the suburbs, exurbs or the country? Hmmmm....
I am with you 100 percent. Its just a festering boil that has to be lanced, if not it will only get worse, its an issue that has to be settled decisively and with finality.
To me, the riots and chaos are a foregone conclusion. What comes after, who knows?
They may claim those are their neighborhoods, but the taxpayers in 1992 California had to fork over a billion dollars to pay for the party. None of which the rioters contributed one red cent to.
They burn it down, the lawabiding taxpayer should put them on notice. You will live amongst the ashes of what you have wrought.
I also believed, as Ive written, that untrained individuals like Zimmerman have no business packing heat, nor confronting strangers they deem suspicious. Trouble didnt come to George Zimmerman; he went looking for it. At minimum, he acted like a damn fool.The only "damn fool" in this story is the writer, who's trying to partially make up for his past participation in the Official Lynch Mob by expressing some Faux Objectivity.
FUGL
IIRC, they complained that merchants wouldn’t move back in and rebuild their stores. Guess they don’t see the irony.
The difference is that the German, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, French, Austrian and etc. civilians didn’t have millions of guns and billions of rounds of ammunition. That’s not the case this time:
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Gene Lyons was about the most biased pro-Clinton op-ed columnist out there. To this day, he can be counted on to reliably regurgitate Dem talking points.
So why this column? It's a guess on my part, but I think the DNC is realizing that Obama and the left, once again, jumped into this matter without having the full facts at hand and now the DNC is trying to extracate themselves from it before it causes serious electoral harm to them. Lyons basically threw Sharpton under the bus with this column. And that is a clear message to Al - you're on your own now, as far as support from leading Dems.
Lyons is NEVER fair unless someone wants him to be, for reasons that have nothing to do with fairness.
How was HE to know that someone named George Zimmerman was an Hispanic?
The first name said white and the second, Jew—the two groups he hates the most.
He has them fired up now and they ain't gonna let go until they get some release.
Those white devil slave masters in powdered wigs sure had America's future pegged when they came up with the 2nd Amendment, didn't they?They weren't looking into the future. They were looking into the question "how to secure and maintain freedom".
They were at least somewhat prophetic of the current times and would be surprised it took this long for another King George to emerge.
I remember when he use to “do” Bill Clinton, figuratively speaking. Didn’t know he was still hacking it.
They turned out to be prophetic but not because they could imagine future events but because they understood human nature and the rights of man.
It’s not a crystal ball; it’s wisdom.
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