[Dilbert San Diego]

Small correction.

The Rodney King riots were in 1992, not 1991.

[manc]

yea we learned that people can’t defend themselves anymore, along with cops are not allowed to do their job to a segment of the population .

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We learned that Trayvons are the highest form of life.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Yes. Liberals learned that they work to keep the liberal agenda of transfer payments, racial spoils and PC laws moving forward.

[dirtboy]

Stuff it, Barr. Blame lies almost entirely on the looters, the racial grievance mongers, the governor and the feds. In other words, the people with a vested interest in getting this all wrong.

[PizzaTheHut]

This is worse than the Rodney King riots because this looting and rioting is pre-emptive. It has started almost from day 1 of the incident before any decisions/outcomes have been determined.

The Rodney King riots broke out after everything went through the legal process and outcomes were determined.

[skeeter]

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

[Olog-hai]

“We” . . . no, Mr. LP Presidential Candidate, it is most definitely “they”.

[oh8eleven]

Have We learned Nothing in the 23 Years Since the Rodney King Riots?
23 years? What about the riots in the 1960s - FIFTY years ago!
Black behavior hasn't changed in half a century and having lived through all the black "protests" - I could puke!

[Responsibility2nd]

This article is crap. Bob Barr is blaming everyone but the parties responsible....

The black people themselves who are rioting and looting.

[jmacusa]

The irony of asking this as Ferguson burns is staggering. And it should be ‘Have we learned anything’’.

[CharlesOConnell]

youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ozno7HMGE

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman studied the act of killing in war, comparable to formerly taboo sexological studies. Results: In wars prior to Viet Nam, in all recorded history, only 15% of front line soldiers used lethal force, 85% shot over the enemy's head, just postured and blustered to scare the enemy into retreating. Between Koran and Viet Nam, soldiers were desensitized away from the deep taboo on killing, resulting in 95% lethal force rates in that war. Returning soliders were reviled rather than brought back into their communities in traditional rituals. Finally, our urban young people have been desensitized away from the taboo against killing by Grand Theft Auto—induced sociopathy.

A survey of African-American young men shows that only 22% regard racism as a significant limitation on their life's success prospects.

(Don't believe it? How many African-Americans are present in mainstream commercial advertising? Is racism hurting the bottom line?)

But LBJ's Great Society robbed their people of their initiative and tore their fathers, teachers of manhood, away from their families.

 

youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0

Between Rodney King's Can't We All Just Get Along? and Nicole Brown Simpson's The Bitch Got Hers, the worst injury possible against a people has been perpetrated—its leadership have convinced them to give up their fundamental sense of right and wrong.

[kearnyirish2]

Whites have learned to keep any real property away from blacks.

[Lakeshark]

What a ridiculous buffoon Bob Barr has become. I’m not for the militarization of the police, but blaming the riots on the police is beyond stupidity.

[bert]

stupid question.

What has been learned is that riots pay. The dividend from race rioting is political gain.

The current fiasco is all about earning the dividends

[TheThirdRuffian]

The only lesson needed is to get out in front of the story first before the race baiters can whip up MSM support.

12 witnesses, plus the cop say the 300 lb thug charged the cop.

The thug just robbed a store, so he likely believed he was getting arrested for that.

The cop had a broken eye socket, consistent with the attack, and totally inconsistent with “running away” story

The cop shot four times, with 6 entries -— all in front, which is consistent with the thug attacking the cop.

The cop has a good record

The thug has a felony record

The one witness that supports the thug is the thug’s fellow criminal who just robbed a store. He also has a record.

In short, there is nothing here.

[353FMG]

People seem to have forgotten the LA riots in 1965.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

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

It’s still OK to shoot whites.

[detective]

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