Posted on 08/12/2014 11:50:33 AM PDT by chessplayer
Via Ferguson Scanner Updates: All arrested yesterday on Felony Looting charges had a criminal background and most were from outside the Ferguson area.
My father grew up in the East St Louis area during the 20s-30s and it was known as a criminal craphole then.
- Brady blues.
Each of them should get a nice thorough Roman scourging followed by a salt water washdown.
Reminds me of the behaviors of terrorist muslims who run to the call of destruction.
A couple of years ago I flew into STL to visit son/family in IL. I got confused crossing Ol’ Man River and ended up in ESTL. I called son to get directions, and he said “Head north NOW and get out of ESTL ASAP!” I beat feet and escaped by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin.
As Pfc. Gomer Pyle used to say:”Surprise,Surprise,Surprise”!!!!!!!!!!
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And it was nothing close to the disaster area it is today. I grew up outside of East St. Louis in the 60’s and ‘70s. My mother used to shop in downtown ESL. My father bought two cars in ESL (at Bundy Olds) in the evening after he got off from work. I worked downtown for two years during high school. I often used the old MacArthur Bridge to commute to college, which took me through a largely-abandoned area of ESL, but I never really felt unsafe, even though my route passed one of the hangouts of the gangster Buster Wortman. I believe he got shot up there once.
Recently I saw a photo of the building where I worked. The roof and about half the back side of the building are collapsed, as if a bomb had hit it.
The Great Society and the social pathologies of the inhabitants, along with once-substantial industries that abandoned the city, have done their job on good old ESL.
The looters were from outside the area and were all criminals.
The shooting of Michael Brown had nothing to do with it except for in the MSM reports. The stores looted and cars attacked had nothing to do with the killing. It was just an excuse for criminals to be criminals.
The little city of E. St. Louis, Il. gets way too much credit for being bad a$$ - population 26,708. Just slightly more than Ferguson, Mo. population 21,203.
I drove past there for the first time ever a few months ago. They have trashed vacant buildings that make 3rd world countries look prosperous...
9 of the 10 arrested and charged have St Louis City addresses which is right nearby — no surprise there.
Interesting. In another article, the FAA put the airspace over the town off limits to commercial traffic.
Adding two and two together, what if these criminals were bussed in, to stimulate a riot, so that the federals could have a field test of drone aircraft?
Importantly, military and police planners are somewhat obsessive about “real world” situations, for when they use new surveillance and mob control techniques.
If you think it sounds a little far-fetched:
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-builds-fake-city-in-virginia-to-practice-military-occupation/
East St Louis is the most African-American city and has the highest crime rate in the United States.
Portions of Escape From New York were filmed there in the 70s. They wouldn’t dare try that now.
East St. Louis in National Lampoon’s Vacation (Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwBoa-NbNL8
I read an article tonight about the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. East St. Louis had several of them, and #1 is downtown ESL, right where I used to work.
One of my kids went on an organized trip to NYC in the late 90s. They were driving through the Bronx and saw a car getting stripped and it was not even dark yet.
I just saw where ESL has gone from 82,000 to 26,000 and is 98 per cent black.
I’m sure Jesse, Al, Jeremiah and Danny G. Have been trying to help them improve their community.
I haven’t been in the city for thirty years or more. With that drop in opulation, large parts of it must be empty. A lot of the people who left went to neighboring towns, which are now starting to go the way of East St. Louis.
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