Posted on 07/12/2004 4:20:16 PM PDT by abigail2
My sheikdom for a hatpin!
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thanks for the ping abigail2...good article. I think it's easy for people to take for granted how very difficult a job it is to be a cop and to be involved in a high speed chase where any number of people could be killed.
bump !
If it's been 13 years since the Rodney King riots, all those stolen TVs and stereos must be wearing out.
Time for a new shopping spree, I mean riot.
Pete Wilson was governor back in the Rodney King era, and IMHO his failure to better control the riot doomed his presidential aspirations if nothing else did. But how could Governor Wilson have addressed the problem? As Reagan put it, there are simple answers - just not easy ones.
When faced with the threat or actuality of a riot,What governor dares to do that? Ronald Reagan certainly would have. Because it is the right thing to do.
the governor is obligated to read the riot act to journalism.
Journalists get along and go along with each other in a cabal whose foundational premise is, "Public Relations uber alles." The rest of the entertainment media go along with that; it is only in talk radio and the Internet where the writ of that cabal does not run unchallenged.
If the governor tells journalism that they bear responsibility for inciting/enabling (by telling potential rioters where the police are/are not) a riot, and if the governor threatens to support the insurance companies in a civil suit against TV and radio stations for the damage due to a riot on grounds that they helped to incite it, and if the governor put them on notice that the FCC would be hearing from him about whether their broadcasting was in the public interest, Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton could babble all they wanted - but only to an in-person audience.
Without the "air support" of broadcast journalism - faced instead with a broadcasting which directly and unambiguously supported law and order - the Rodney King riot would not have been allowed to develop nearly to the extent that it did.
Why did broadcast journalism incite the riot?
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Any California homeowner who does not have multiple firearms, and a forklift-pallet's worth of ammo for them, is a fool.
Wait until the radical Mexicans take over. The situation may right itself, at the expense of America.
Good point fabian. How hard it is to be a cop and never know what you're going to encounter!
LOL!
Mayor Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson! LOL! Or is it Reverend Mayor...
Oops, sorry!
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During the riots?
The media would find some way to blame Bush!
Seems rather than hollering about how the LAPD handle people they are arresting that maybe the complainers would have questions about why the arestee was doing the things to get arrested.
Maybe it'll just go away bump for later.
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What, condos? LOL
My wife just back from a biz trip in Honolulu. Some guy from her OC office just got transfered there. Even though Hawaii has a rep for being expensive, it's a lot cheaper than LA/OC. The guy sold his ok house in Mission Viejo and bought a really beauty outside Waikiki.
While she was there, she had a morning off to check out some sights with a small tour group. When asked where she was from, all she got was uhs and ohs from the other curious midwesterners. She said the kids couldn't believe she was really from the "OC" (LOL).
Anyway, the LA/OC coastal areas, along with Manhattan/CT, have the wealthiest people in the world. When you live here, you sort of get inured to that fact. You need to visit other places that are typically thought of as 'nice' to realize they're chump change when compared to home.
I live in Mission Viejo. Bought my house (not a condo) in 1987 for $145,000. It's now worth about $550,000!
Right-on!!
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