Posted on 08/11/2015 8:00:16 AM PDT by HeadOn
I love the Cardinals. My problem is that our vacation is next week, August 17 through 21, and Ferguson has erupted again.
We are ready to drop some serious coin on good baseball tickets and a nice downtown hotel, but I'm not sure I want to do that, considering what happened (again) this weekend.
All you St. Louis FReepers - what's it like near the stadium lately?
Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):
"[Maxine] Waters has been criticized for her comments regarding the Los Angeles riots of 1992. In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5] She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are.' She responded to the mass looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: 'There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. They are not crooks. Everybody in the street was not a thug or a hood.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992
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"The RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party] upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a 'rebellion' in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the 'riots'. Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches. William 'Mobile' Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA
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"I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion."--Maxine Waters
Yes...they always seem to have those perfectly lettered, professionally produced, and ubiquitous SIGNS.
All with the same message and all in the same font.
It does arouse suspicion!
Last year during the riots didn’t they cancel a game ? And then when they finally played it was in an empty stadium because they barred the fans from attending ? Maybe that was a different riot .
LOL!
Last year during the riots didnt they cancel a game ?
You’re thinking Baltimore.
Thanks , I knew it happened some where .
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