Posted on 12/13/2012 2:27:40 AM PST by Anila
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They “did not want any trouble,” they said on the video. To the black mob that confronted them, threatened them, beat them and robbed them, it was no trouble at all.
So they grabbed their iPhones, but not before the girls fought back to retrieve them. Unsuccessfully.
All the while one of the members of the crew was rolling video.
Members of this mob call themselves the 44th Street Crew in Southeast Washington. For those not familiar with the different sections of Washington, that is not the lobbyist/media/functionary dinner-party part of town.
Reporters at the Fox affiliate in Washington seemed surprised at the mob violence. But to people who ride the Metro, it was just another day.
Metro police have seen so much of it they are ready with instructions for riders who encounter it: Resistance is futile:
“There’s nothing worth fighting over and getting assaulted for,” said Deputy Chief Ron Pavlik of the two women defending themselves. “There are lot better ways to fight back.” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/black-mobs-take-over-washington-metro/#bHaCd2hKzoLxXx8V.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
"Ferals" are not exclusively creatures of the major cities. Those who have moved out; have put distance, terrain, and water between themselves and large clusters of ferals should not let their guard down. Even in rural areas there are towns and cities, many of which have small feral populations. Additionally, not everybody who lives out in the sticks is to be trusted.
Additionally, those who have moved out still need to be alert, aware of the signs of the times ... particularly when venturing back into feral country. One does not want to be stuck on the wrong side of distance, terrain, and water when it all hits the fan.
Americans have long guns to go with our long memories.
I remember a few years ago when we lived in No VA there was a big snow storm which took awhile to plow out of...
DC govt was totally inept in their snow removal so Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) paid to get his neighborhood plowed...
So many aspects of this event to consider: rich vs. poor, privileged vs. outaluck, govt vs. govt...
And the hypocrisy of the libtards continues to amaze.
Since "shall not be infringed" is still in the Constitution, and licensing is an infringement, a small edit.
When I first started FReeping with the DC chapter during Clinton, I would often drive to DC from NJ. At first, not knowing the area, I often would make a wrong turn and get lost. there is no such thing as doubling back to get back on track in DC! The physical set up of the streets had a purpose at one time, I understand, but it is daunting when you don’t understand it. So often I’d realize I was NOT where I should be, and it was scary trying to get back on track! (no GPS then)
RACISM ALERT! RACISM ALERT!
WHITE courtesy phone = RACIST!
WHITE courtesy phone = RACIST!
WHITE courtesy phone = RACIST!
“What were they (two white girls) doing there?”
Let’s clear that one up fast. The attack happened at the Fort Totten station, which is in far northeast just shy of the DC/Maryland line. Fort Totten is one stop outbound on the Red line from Brookland/Catholic University and three stops short of College Park/University of Maryland, also on the Red line. It is also a transfer station with an intersection with the Green and Yellow lines.
My guess is that the transfer station is one of the keys to understanding the situation. The gang probably planned to rob someone on the Red line, hop off at Fort Totten and jump on a southbound Green line train before police could react. The Green line would take them back across town to far Southeast. Or possibly the girls who were robbed were coming up from downtown on the Green line and planned to transfer to Red. Slightly different tactical situation but the key thing is the ability of the robbers to switch lines without surfacing (which would mean dashing past any Metro or DC police patrolling the station and immediate environs, which is a good bet late at night).
People not familiar with the Metro system should be aware that it was the gang members, not the girls who were robbed, who were far off their turf. I’ve not seen much followup, but iirc, the victims were Maryland students, presumably on their way back to campus. If you look at the video, the car is not crowded but there are several other passengers, mostly white, sitting quietly. There is also one black girl, one of the good guys and possibly another student, who is arguing with the gang.
A lot of Metro robberies are snatch, grab, and run, where the perps grab something and try to dive out the door just as it closes, thus cutting off pursuit. In this case, the girl who was robbed pursued to the platform, and there was a fight. This is what generated the news.
A good rule on Metro is to keep your phone in your pocket and laptops/tablets stowed in a bag. Especially if you are sitting by the door. And keep on eye on likely suspects. Basic situational awareness.
The southern end of the Green Line serves some tough areas. That’s why a disproportionate number of ugly incidents occur along it. I’m also not big on public transit of any kind in any city at 11:00 p.m. Not that I haven’t been caught late myself a few times, but the risks do go up.
All drugs, at the moment, are illegal. So yes, criminals gravitate towards illegal drugs, because those are the only kind available, at least at the moment. :)
Unfortunately, due to keeping all drugs illegal, there is no reason for the pushers to ensure a safe supply. All they care about is keeping their customers as users.
However, if drugs of low dosage and addictiveness, enough to give you a buzz, were available, but regulated like alcohol, I think it’s reasonable to guess that 60% of those currently using drugs would be satisfied with that.
Then Congress should be sued to act.
In areas like Anacostia there is no enforcement of drug laws. Drugs are dealt openly on the streets. Drugs are de facto legal in such places and are subject to observable market forces. What is quickly obvious is that people will buy the most effective drug that they can get for their money. There is little or no market for mild drugs with low addicitveness potential in Anacostia. Such a drug is already available in the form of Marijuana, but users go straight for the “good stuff” - crack, smack and speed. Legal mild drugs will not change the market.
Amen Brother.
The rest of society hasn’t really started fighting back, that I can see.
Yes, Anacostia is a work in progress. So was Capitol Hill when I moved here in 1979. I think Anacostia will turn the corner; it’s too close in not to, given that Fairfax and Montgomery are perpetually gridlocked and steadily getting worse.
I’m a little more Anacostia friendly than most because it’s so close to Capitol Hill. Aside from football/softball/soccer in Anacostia Park, my daughters learned to skate at Fort DuPont and I discovered the Frederick Douglass House years ago. We have friends in Hillcrest, on Alabama and Branch Avenues, in Fairfax Village, and in Historic Anacostia right by the F. Douglass House (a bit dicey). Plus one family (white) in the flats just off Pennsylvania Avenue, and they say they’ve never had a problem. I always encourage people to loop around Westover drive, in the obtuse angle of the Pennsylvania/Branch Avenue intersection, and soak in the view. In NW, you would pay $3 million for the view alone, and the houses are very nice as well. Microhabitat is everything.
The battle is far from won, but DC demographics are changing and the LBJ/Great Society hellhole projects are aging out. Anacostia will get there. I’m not on top of the DHS move to St. E’s — do you know if that’s on track? I always figured that a big federal agency with serious campus security requirements and a LEO heavy workforce was an ideal fit for Anacostia, and the site is unbeatable. 50 years from now, when people have forgotten that Anacostia used to be a problem, people will be wondering how DHS got the best office complex of all the agencies.
Many of those crack addicts became so because the lesser drugs, they thought they were buying, were laced with more addictive substances, because there is no incentive for pushers to ensure a safe supply, but the high prices most drugs currently cost gives pushers the incentive to get people addicted, because no rational person would buy a drug that would cause intense addictions.
No rational person would buy alcohol?
I don’t think rational calculation has much to do with the decision to use mood altering drugs.
I wonder what would happen if someone DID organize a counter-mob, set up this gang, and took matters into their own hand. Imagine 20 guys with radios; they get on 3 or 4 to a car on a 6-car train, and just ride through these parts.
Eventually, the mob comes onto a train. The problem is that metro trains don’t have inter-car access. But that’s OK. They just GO ALONG with the mob, except they have informed the others when the mob arrived, so now they are all ready.
When the train reaches the next station, and the mob gets off, so do all 20 of the counter-mob. They surround the mob and wait for the police; since the mob will be holding stolen property, they should be able to arrest them.
Of course, the mob will probably fight back. If our counter-mob has good martial-arts training, the 20 should be able to subdue the 14. It could be messy, there might be weapons involved. People will get hurt.
But until these small mobs sense that they could face repercussions, they will just get bolder.
We know this for a fact — we see it on TV every time a mob gets big enough to think they are “too big to get arrested” — then they start turning over cars, trashing stores, stealing things, beating people up.
The threat of reprisal is all that is keeping too many of our fellow humans from becoming thugs. We need to keep that threat real.
A couple of years I flew out to Ohio to meet my family who had driven earlier. IT was cheaper to fly out of BWI, so I would get a rid to the Vienna metro (orange line), and then take the Orange line to metro center, and then the green line to Greenbelt, where I caught a bus to BWI.
I never felt particularly threatened, but it was during the day. On the other hand, I tend not to feel threatened, except walking around Richmond at night near my daughter’s college campus, which is like a war zone.
Somebody joked once that their self-defense mechanism for the metro was to bring a bag of Mcdonald’s fries with them, and if they felt threatened, they would take it out and start eating. Sure to bring the cops.
Well, in Central Indiana they'll have to wait until the field corn and/or the soybeans ripen.
Otherwise they gonna STARVE!
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