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Have We learned Nothing in the 23 Years Since the Rodney King Riots?
Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2014 | Bob Barr

Posted on 08/20/2014 7:13:27 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Well, we’ve learned that the DemocRATS preach that violence, looting, stealing and burning down buildings and cars is an acceptable form of protest in a liberal DemocRAT Amerika.


21 posted on 08/20/2014 7:26:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
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To: Kaslin

We have learned that police officers cannot shoot blacks, not even in self defense.

It’s still OK to shoot whites.


22 posted on 08/20/2014 7:26:49 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Kaslin

Just another politician trying to blame everyone but the people responsible.


23 posted on 08/20/2014 7:28:04 AM PDT by detective
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To: 353FMG

There have been so many riots. Yes, Watts in 1965. Detroit had terrible riots in 1967, from which parts of that city still have not recovered. Then dozens of cities experienced riots in 1968 after Martin Luther King was shot.

In all these cases, the liberals excuse the violence due to some perceived injustice, due to outrage which we are supposed to understand.


24 posted on 08/20/2014 7:28:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing will ever change until the mores of the inner city change. How that will happen is beyond me. The criminal weirdness has been going on for over 50 years now.

My concern is that ordinary Americans - law abiding, middle-class Americans - are getting swatted each and every day - from forgetting to pay a parking ticket to having a dog off the leash. And I’m concerned about cops constantly shooting poodles - not shooting arrogant thieves high on PCP.


25 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:02 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: skeeter

“What I thought then hasn’t changed - &%$@ the mainstream news media.”

Precisely.

If you recall, the MSM showed a tightly edited clip of King getting beat with nightsticks, and then looped it endlessly on every available network.

Of course, what led up to that action was intentionally left out, a combative King refusing to cooperate and fighting the police. The cops finally let him have it. The image of King being beaten was seared into everyone’s memory, not so much Reginald Denny getting pulled from his truck and having his head smashed in as “revenge”.

The media likes to pick sides right off the bat, and stokes the embers until there are flames, to get the dramatic result they desire. Then they stand back and say “oh, what an unfortunate situation...”

Hypocrites all, with blood dripping from their fangs.


26 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:45 AM PDT by Tigerized (Keep Calm, Carry On, but Never Give Up.)
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To: Kaslin
Tough Teddio Brisenio
Preserved poor Roddy’s brain-i-o
His cervical save
Was just such a rave
That they trashed ol’ ElAy
Insteadio.

TheodoreBriseno

27 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:49 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

We learned that you just can’t beat any sense into Rodney King!


28 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:56 AM PDT by King Hawk
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29 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:15 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

Yes ive learned something

The white race in this country has to be the weakest of any descended from the Steppes

That has ever existed from whence my ancestors moved west and eventually crossed the big lake to claim their destiny from the Washington Redskins

Its like mental illness on a mass scale


30 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: Lakeshark

Say what you will about the militarization of our local LEO’s, but one thing is clear here.

The Feguson PD (along with St. Louis County) and their tanks, tear gas and military gear has better control over the riots than the State Troopers AND the National Guard.

Once the State and NG stepped in - things got worse. I can’t think of one thing, nor have I read of any one thing the Ferguson PD did wrong.


31 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Kaslin

Only that many politicians, the media as well as many others, have a desire to keep the race issue a constant issue. It gives such, prestige, power and money. Sad, but true.


32 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:48 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Kaslin

This stuff happens because the powers that be WANT IT TO HAPPEN! Make no mistake about that.


33 posted on 08/20/2014 7:32:58 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Yeah , we learned to carry and conceal
When seconds count , the police are only 8 - 10 minutes away
We learned that .38 cal won't protect you the same way a .45 cal. will do.
34 posted on 08/20/2014 7:33:48 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (FUBO; Obungler = The didler CIC)
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To: oh8eleven

the whole point of the civil rights was to treat people the same.
We still have not come far.

Affirmative action, give a job based on color , give a promotion based on color and if you don’t then you are racist.
Defend yourself and you are racist.
They get cheaper payments and interest on mortgages, loans etc.
Pull them over for a crime then you are racist.
Build boys and girls club , swimming pools, give out more free lunches, breakfast, dinners to the areas, build more parks etc.

I’m sick and tired of this crap.

We should be all the same , treated the same but if one speaks out then you are racist for pointing out all of this, and it doesn’t help when white guilt fools defend this or even give them excuses like cops are military, racial profiling, or they are down trodden.

How th ehell can they be down trodden when they get much more based on color.

So much for MLK saying judge on character not color

Yes if you left wing loons are reading this then wake the hell up as you are not helping the community, but I guess you don’t really want to as votes would be taken away form your party


35 posted on 08/20/2014 7:34:29 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: CharlesOConnell; Travis McGee; Pelham

Nice posting....havent seen u before I can recall

But be careful

Some here will work for your zot....trust me on this.

They just cant resist the impulse to call someone racist

I got plenty of bolt burns myself.


36 posted on 08/20/2014 7:35:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: F15Eagle

That is the kind of guy you want to hire for $8 hr to cut/haul firewood.

10 face-cords a day easy.


37 posted on 08/20/2014 7:41:14 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Kaslin

The Ferguson show is NOT Rodney King. The video of a police man beating an unarmed man who was already on the floor was appalling.

The Ferguson Show is simply a response to Obama’s troubled popularity among blacks. We live in world where nothing is what it seems, the media is controlled, and we are NOT free. At least that much is clear. I don’t trust Townhall anymore, numerous conservatives accounts are banned on their site, and there is something wrong with that.

The media doesn’t dare report that last month there were reports of how the black community, which was already very disappointed with Obama, was furious about Obama’s recent bizarre concern about the Central American “children”, by helping them leave their families to come to the US. It was disturbing for most people, but Obama admin certainly can’t have appearance of black community straying from the farm.

3/2014-Poll: Just 11% of blacks say life under Obama is better for young African-Americans

http://washingtonexaminer.com/poll-just-11-of-blacks-say-life-under-obama-is-better-for-young-african-americans/article/2545050

7/2014-Although the MSM didn’t dare report the following, the Obama Administration knows even the black community sees beyond the rhetoric.

http://buzzpo.com/watch-angry-black-protesters-confront-pro-illegal-immigrant-supporters-border-station/

Sharpton and Jackson are the usual charlatans, who bring their circus to town and start an entertaining horror show, presented by the enabling media. Nothing whips the peasants back into shape like chaos and fear. It is the same abusive dynamic of a pimp “protecting” his ladies by using and abusing them. It works.

The problem isn’t Obama. The enemy is the entity hiding behind the curtains that funded this fraud. We have to thank Obama for making the truth painfully obvious to all of us. This didn’t start with ObamaThe media is controlled, and we are NOT free.


38 posted on 08/20/2014 7:41:38 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: Don Corleone
This stuff happens because the powers that be WANT IT TO HAPPEN! Make no mistake about that.

Ditto. You just cut through the over analyzed bunk like Alexander through the Gordian Knot.

Let me add that the powers that be are also actively ENCOURAGING & ASSISTING the violence.

39 posted on 08/20/2014 7:44:12 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Bob Barr is blaming everyone but the parties responsible . . . the black people themselves who are rioting and looting.
and the white people who front for them as they preen before the cameras oozing moral authority and condemnation of everyone else. Their membership in the conspiracy against the public which is wire-service journalism empowers them to dominate the public discourse - and they use that position to promote the conceit that they are "not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican." (Luke 18:11)

40 posted on 08/20/2014 8:08:49 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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