Posted on 09/28/2013 2:02:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
This morning a truck broke the security barrier in a Caracas highway exchange and got stuck in the middle of the highway. The truck carried packs of frozen meat. It was 6 AM. Within minutes there were already people trying to loot the truck instead than trying to save the driver, who ended up dead later. The cops came and stopped for a while the actions. But since the Caracas main highway was paralyzed, motorbikes came from all around and started trying to rob all the unhappy drivers stuck in traffic.
At 9 AM about 300 bikers arrived and tried to overpower the police security people who had to call for reinforcement. Of course, the idea was to loot the truck...
The disaster blocked the whole city all the way until downtown
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I heard on CNN tonight that because of the gang violence in Chicago, they were going to “institute panel discussions” to find ways remedy the violence.
Since “panel discussions” seem to be the solution in Chicago I’m sure they could fill the void caused by Chavez’s death.
Too bad the truckers strike is happening the same weekend I have a wedding to go to. I would have preferred to stay off the road as much as possible.
Any bets that some of the cops took their shirts off and joined in?
The looting isn’t so frightening (aside from the driver) until they turn on the stranded vehicles.
The cops protected the truck and the biker gang began robbing those stuck in the traffic jam.
crazy
bump!!
Wow, just lucky it wasn’t toilet paper.
Thanks Kartographer.
I’ve got 7.62 solutions to that problem. With a few neighbors of like mind, properly organized, we could make it tough enough that scum like that would look elsewhere.
bfl, that looks worthwhile.
The most corrosive lie that socialism teaches is that a person can live at the expense of others without consequences to himself and to those from whom the resources are coerced.
We got a hint of this when people who were steeped in dependency waited in vain for government buses to carry them out of New Orleans in the face of a monster hurricane, and those who survived had to face many days living in an dark and very smelly shell of a domed stadium in sheer chaos.
That was one of the odder differences between Nazism and Communism.
Nazis felt no particular need to lie about what they were doing. They were going to crush their enemies, and made no bones about it.
Most of those murdered in the Great Purge were forced to sign a confession, despite the fact that they knew, and their killers knew, that the confessions were false, and that with rare exceptions nobody would ever see the confessions.
For some obscure reason the Commies nevertheless had a compulsion to pretend they were acting justly. The sickest part is that they forced people in a sense to become participants in their own destruction.
“Nazis felt no particular need to lie about what they were doing. They were going to crush their enemies, and made no bones about it.”
However, it appears that the Nazis kept a lot of thorough records.
Honestly, I think most of those differences can really be explained away by the strange national psyche of the Germans.
Ping for later
True. But they felt no need to force their victims to confess that the Nazis’ actions were just and right. They didn’t care. For some odd reason, commies do.
I submit to you, it's happened already, is happening now, and will only escalate soon.
Someone mentioned the litany of the 60's Riots and the hurricanes of recent years. I also point to a recent FReeper report of a power outage in Memphis, where the pillaging began within minutes. I also mention the reports of the so-called "Asphalt Pirates", who are essentially 21st-Century highwaymen.
We are no more than a single brown-out away from mayhem.
That is true unless the brown-out was of short duration. Certainly if we lose power for days, there will be deaths in hospitals and death on the streets.
I was in a county, not mine, yesterday, and a fellow who has a large house is going to put in a “tornado” shelter in a place in front of his house. He said this is concrete and the company digs the hole, puts it in, large enough for 10 people, and covers it up with the dirt taken out and the end result is a hill of dirt over the thing and the cost is $4,000 for the company to do this.
Then he will landscape that hill with plants so it looks as though nothing is there except this planted hill. It will be air conditioned and he will put his pictures, etc., all the things he wouldn't want to lose, in there after it is built. There will be water and food in there.
I couldn't believe the cost was just $4,000. I had to believe him as he is an architect of many years of experience, so he would know if that price is right.
His history was interesting - he worked in Panama as an architect, when the Panama canal needed work. That was before we gave away the canal. In WWII, he was a bomber pilot stationed in England for two years and bombed Germany and stayed alive to tell about it.
Crikey, he’s an old goat, ain’t he?
I see I need to start a little research stream on something like that...
At this rate it wont take 20 years
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