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Urban Beach Week Destroys South Beach … Again
Townhall.com ^ | June 4, 2011 | Doug Giles

Posted on 06/04/2011 6:18:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

Well, I’m going to be called a racist for this one, but here it goes: What the heck is up with the hip hop crowd trashing South Beach year after year on Memorial Day? Is this how your crew celebrates the hard-won freedoms our nation’s heroes gave their lives for—by annually ransacking South Florida and shooting at cops?

It’s gotten so bad down on South Beach while the Urban Beach Weekers are in town that South Floridians, of all races, remind each other not to go south past Surfside until the “Urban Beach Week” is over because it is one god-awful hell zone.

I know if I owned property and/or lived on SoBe I would be raising utter Cain with my city officials for allowing this kind of madness in my neighborhood on a yearly basis. I have several friends who live between 5th and 64th & Collins, and they get the hell out of Dodge each year when this invasive group blows into town. More than a few of my friends put up their hurricane shutters before leaving their homes in anticipation of the carnage this week historically brings.

That, my friends, is a problem when you have to leave your digs, board up your property and hide your vehicles because a particular crowd is coming to town that necessitates such precautions. What’s up with that? That’s BS no matter how you slice it.

And if you think I’m alone in loathing that which this pillaging element regularly unleashes on our beautiful city, you’re nuts. Gay activist Herb Sosa especially despises it. The vast majority of people who give a damn about Dade County and our gorgeous beaches hate Urban Beach Week. Yep, I said it. They hate it … especially those who live in the condos and mansions along South Beach.

Why do they detest UBW? Well, it’s because of things like the insane 24-hour noise, the tons of trash on the streets and beaches, the increase in security that is reminiscent of Fallujah in 2004, and the radical spike in crime and arrests (including the ubiquitous vandalism of cars and homes).

This past weekend the Urban Beach people hit their nadir: They turned South Beach, America’s Riviera, into a war zone. Collins Avenue on Memorial Day was indeed memorable but in a tawdry, satanic sense as the Urban Beach Weekers made our Cosmopolitan playground look more like Cairo, complete with attempted cop killing. Yes, during this year’s festivities the Urban Beach Weekers trashed the historic Art Deco streets, screamed, yelled and blasted music 24/7, and then, of course, there’s the attempted murder of our local police. Yep, one of the “tourists” tried to run over several cops with his vehicle and then shot at them, at which point a gunfight ensued between one of these winners and Miami’s cops that made anything John Yoo has produced look lame.

Call me a racist, a gringo, honkey, cracker, or whatever. But at the end of the day if Edgar and Johnny Winter, the von Trapps or the lost white tribe from Whiteyville (that listens to Pat Boone and only Pat Boone) came to my city year after year and screwed it up, as much as I love my Caucasian brethren, I would do everything in my power to bounce them away from my house. As in, for good.


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To: OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings

I got the Hell out of South Florida, and got here to Texas as soon as I could......and BTW....Go Mavs!


21 posted on 06/04/2011 7:50:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

The truth hurts, but it will set us free.


22 posted on 06/04/2011 7:52:12 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: dfwgator

I got out of So. Fla. in 98 and moved to Asheville, NC. Way too liberal (hippies and homos). Now live in Greer, SC. Had breakfast with my daughter at Chick-fil-A this morning and they were playing Christian music. My kind of town. But still...go Heat!


23 posted on 06/04/2011 7:54:42 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin
Do you want them to spend their welfare checks in South Beach or not?
24 posted on 06/04/2011 7:59:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: big truck

The goal of the PC movement was to break down America. You can see it working perfectly in this example.


25 posted on 06/04/2011 8:09:09 AM PDT by culpeper (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,)
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To: immadashell
Urban Beach Weekers are doing the same thing to South Beach that obummer is doing to the rest of the country.

There was a thread here a few days ago defending the UBW's and calling the police jack-booted thugs.

26 posted on 06/04/2011 8:13:00 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Gritty

there’s going to be a massive blow back to this one day, and it’s not going to be pretty.


27 posted on 06/04/2011 8:17:32 AM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: SeeSac
Why do they detest UBW? Well, it’s because of things like the insane 24-hour noise, the tons of trash on the streets and beaches, the increase in security that is reminiscent of Fallujah in 2004, and the radical spike in crime and arrests (including the ubiquitous vandalism of cars and homes).

This past weekend the Urban Beach people hit their nadir: They turned South Beach, America’s Riviera, into a war zone. Collins Avenue on Memorial Day was indeed memorable but in a tawdry, satanic sense as the Urban Beach Weekers made our Cosmopolitan playground look more like Cairo, complete with attempted cop killing. Yes, during this year’s festivities the Urban Beach Weekers trashed the historic Art Deco streets, screamed, yelled and blasted music 24/7, and then, of course, there’s the attempted murder of our local police. Yep, one of the “tourists” tried to run over several cops with his vehicle and then shot at them, at which point a gunfight ensued between one of these winners and Miami’s cops that made anything John Yoo has produced look lame.

There was a thread here a few days ago defending the UBW's and calling the police jack-booted thugs.

Let's hear it for the jack-booted thugs.

28 posted on 06/04/2011 8:19:43 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: Kaslin

pull out your shotguns and clean the streets. Call it blast a thug weekend.


29 posted on 06/04/2011 8:21:13 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Kaslin
Yeah, this creep apologizes for being racist. Not once is the word black included in the article. The only mention of white is this crapola:
"..the von Trapps or the lost white tribe from Whiteyville (that listens to Pat Boone and only Pat Boone) came to my city year after year and screwed it up, as much as I love my Caucasian brethren, I would do everything in my power to bounce them away from my house"

30 posted on 06/04/2011 8:21:17 AM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Gritty

I usually take the Red Line subway in L.A. as it is cheaper and faster to get to DT LA..

I have observed time and time again and you would think the mexicans would be the public thugs on L.A. trains but it’s the “urbanites” who are acting like a bunch of uncivilized morons. They are the ones who talk loud and semi-threaten passengers.

Even one time, a black guy just removed his shirt, talked ebonics loudly over everyone. When a few passengers left when I got off my station, the mexican guy beside me said “these MF N****** always do this..”, “ a bunch of MF ap**”

When I tell these stories to my friends in Canada, they think I’m racist...


31 posted on 06/04/2011 8:26:17 AM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: Jeff Vader
there’s going to be a massive blow back to this one day, and it’s not going to be pretty.

"Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets."

32 posted on 06/04/2011 8:29:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

This scum needs chased off with gunfire,they trashed the place with strewn garbage, pissing in garage vents,there was a time when you could walk any street in Miami,but the animals were freed and now!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 06/04/2011 8:32:13 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Charles Martel
The crowd that gathers in New Orleans each year for the Bayou Classic (Grambling vs. Southern University) is only marginally better behaved

I live six miles from Grambling State University, and I would like to speak in defense of the faculty and students of that institution. I'm just an old white geezer, but I never hear of any kind of "urban" behavior around this area. Every day, in stores and other public places, I see white and black people talking and laughing together with good will. I suspect that the crowds that cause trouble around the football classic are like those that used to trash downtown Dallas during Texas-OU weekend: Most of them never set foot on either campus.

34 posted on 06/04/2011 8:42:44 AM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: 19th LA Inf

Same crap happens at the Texas Relays in Austin.


35 posted on 06/04/2011 8:45:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Charles Martel

Hmmm.......Grambling and Southern are historically black universities.

We’re not supposed to say certain things, but, I sense a pattern here. Certain types of people are expressing themselves in a manner which scares others. But, in this case, those who are frightened are the bad people because they are racist, bigoted, etc. Certain types are allowed to do whatever the heck they want, because of the legacy of slavery, liberal guilt, etc??????

I would love to know when it was decided that certain types of people became exempt from any standards of civilized behavior.


36 posted on 06/04/2011 9:04:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Charles Martel

Hmmm.......Grambling and Southern are historically black universities.

We’re not supposed to say certain things, but, I sense a pattern here. Certain types of people are expressing themselves in a manner which scares others. But, in this case, those who are frightened are the bad people because they are racist, bigoted, etc. Certain types are allowed to do whatever the heck they want, because of the legacy of slavery, liberal guilt, etc??????

I would love to know when it was decided that certain types of people became exempt from any standards of civilized behavior.


37 posted on 06/04/2011 9:05:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: mapmaker77
Having lived through both Freaknik and Urban Beach Week, I can tell you that it is not the out of town visitors that are the issue. It is the local thuggery. The out of towners come into Miami with a little pocket cash to spend at the clubs, etc. but the locals are broke as a joke and are left out of the equation with nothing to do but loiter, trying to sell dope or mug the weakest of the crowd. If the police took a zero tolerance approach and locked up anybody guilty of anything beyond jaywalking, the whole weekend would be better off for it. You know it's bad when the “black” leaders start calling out and condemning the “ghetto” crowd for acting like animals and convicts.
38 posted on 06/04/2011 9:05:12 AM PDT by festusbanjo (We need more leaders running the country and fewer politicians ruining the country.)
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To: Kaslin

bad link!

Good link:
http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2011/06/04/urban_beach_week_destroys_south_beach_%e2%80%a6_again


39 posted on 06/04/2011 9:06:30 AM PDT by BB62
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To: baddog 219
"Y.U.T.’s..... Young urban thugs..." OR...

Young Urban Trash, OR...

Y.U.P's...Young Urban Punks!

40 posted on 06/04/2011 9:07:22 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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