Posted on 07/27/2011 2:37:50 AM PDT by Kartographer
LMAO!.. Americans better get used to increased frequency and severity of this type of savagery. We have an entire generation of X-Boxed, dumbed-down, illiterate, tatooed savages who are angry, and are intelligent enough to realize that their generation has been screwed.
The TV reporters made the story more about Facebook, or ‘social media’ than about the violent, mob behavior of gangs of young thugs.
The question....
Was he beat upon because he was a thespian or because he was queer?
gang vs. innocent individual BUMP!
mob vs. innocent individual BUMP!
collective vs. innocent individual BUMP!
socialist vs. innocent individual BUMP!
government vs. innocent individual BUMP!
criminal vs. innocent individual BUMP!
Be prepared. Do not throw yourself in front of the juggernaut.
(watch for pre-meditated “flash mobs” targetting specific individuals)
To assemble a large riot squad, you need 24 hours advance notice. These things start and are over in a few minutes, before the first squad car shows up.
The only way to deal with hit-and-run tactics is with distributed defense, right down to the individual level. "An armed society is a polite society", as they say.
If the police try to fight this as a set piece battle with riot squads, water cannons and the like, they kids will run circles around them all day long.
But I worry that the police will be ruthless and efficient in finding a way to deal with distributed defense.
“Flash Mobs” are nothing more that Buckwheat’s “Youth Corp”
They need to be stopped with more force than they demonstrate and shooting some of them might be a good start.
Poor misguided youth! (My ass)
They don’t want to work. They are also quite skilled at living on a shoestring and tactically relocating by stealthy means other peoples property.
The flashmobs have yet to meet the right(wrong) person. When they do, then things are going to get hot, quick, fast and in a hurry.
If you have never been to Greensboro, NC don’t bother. Overwhelming population of Amish.
I wonder, does the incidence of flash mobs have any correspondence to the incidence of states that GIVE AWAY FREE CELL PHONES to the ‘underprivileged’????
Good one. : )
Wal... a flash mob is not really well represented by a sole ringleader. You need the whole mob, or at least a goodly part of it, in a cast of thousands. Are these mobbings even sparked by single ringleaders or has that been distributed too?
Welfare recipients are now eligible for free cell phones, which makes it easier to coordinate flash mobs if the cell phone has the ability to send text messages to a group.
Yet another government program that should sunset.
Most of this crap happens in “gun free zones” doesn’t it?
I’m so glad I left that hellhole.
EHP
Modern US welfare is actually pretty well trimmed down. Republicans actually did something significant during the Clinton era. Kids are the key to most benefits, with childless adults getting a modicum of food stamps (for food they will be cooking in their cardboard boxes, I guess). Since these phones are so cheap nowadays, especially yesterday’s used models, I have little philosophical problem with passing them out to job seekers being aided in that task by the government. But they should be minimal in function — make and receive calls within the metro area, and texting with a single recipient.
I almost wish some of these punks would try something like this while I was around. They’d get a lesson from a grown-up!
There's a reason for that, and the reason is that enforcing the law against timid members of the middle class is safe, while dealing with violent members of the underclass is dangerous -- both physically dangerous, and dangerous to your career and pension, and the careers of your bosses.
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