Posted on 08/18/2014 2:51:35 PM PDT by mojito
...There seems no reason to treat Ferguson as if it were an actual neighborhood rather than what it's become, namely, just another place where civilization goes to die. The current residents have amply demonstrated their "sense of hope and sense of purpose." There's compelling evidence outsiders won't impose another. As with any natural sinkhole, wishing it were some other way is futile.
Ferguson's fate seems decided. Businesses which escaped the looting and arson will also be abandoned, never to return. The remaining law-abiding, productive citizens will flee with them. The tax base will collapse. Schools will teach it's all someone else's fault. Guess who. City government will fall into the hands of activists—i.e., looters with big mouths, their sessions featured on YouTube for their comedy value. Mere corruption will be a fond memory. DC will point to the lack of jobs and green grocers as proof of oppression. When the streetlights go out because the copper wiring has disappeared, Ferguson will have finally been looted out of existence. About then the adjacent town will have its Michael Brown moment, and so it is these rampages resemble victory celebrations.
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“When the streetlights go out because the copper wiring has disappeared, Ferguson will have finally been looted out of existence.”
Now that was funny. Probably because it has the ring of truth to it.
Can you imagine this place with NO police and no more convenience stores to loot?
It could be a little piece of Mogadishu, right smack dab in the middle of what used to be the United States of America.
One shoe store was spared, though. The one that sells work shoes.
FTFY.
My husband had a business in the city of St. Louis, (Old North St. Louis) and vandals actually stole the flag pole and the mail box for metal (which I still don’t quite understand how they managed to scrap that or if they just wanted the mail, I never used the mail box), also any metal on the buildings they could remove, gutters, metal around windows, etc.
But I think the worst part was people defecating on the sidewalks by the doors and wiping it on the car handles, etc. Bunch of animals. Glad he got out of that city.
Also since I am from St. Louis although moved to St. Charles County about 25 years ago, I was a child on Chambers Road and lived about a couple of miles from West Florissant 50 years ago. It blows my mind when I think of my old neighborhood now.
The news gives the impression that all of St. Louis is ablaze. This is about a 6 block area of Ferguson where all of this is taking place. The news is really blowing a lot of this out of proportion.
Not quite true.
The Barnes and Noble Bookstore was not looted.
The shoe store was looted, and they took everything (mostly tennis shoes) EXCEPT for the work boots.
In the early 1990s Timberland work boots were street fashion essentials.
No work was done in them - they were kept clean meticulously.
But no Northeast MC was without his Timberlands and his Carharrt coat.
“The Barnes and Noble Bookstore was not looted.”
So the next time there are riots, the book store is the safety zone of refuge. It’s like kryptonite to rioters.
The Barnes and Noble Bookstore was not looted.
The shoe store was looted, and they took everything (mostly tennis shoes) EXCEPT for the work boots.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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