Eyewitness: Root of fair violence needs examining

JS Online ^ | 8/5/11 | Andy Lane

[Kartographer]

Out of nowhere, a kid punched me in the side of the head through my open window. One blind swing, and he ran away.

At the same time, a youth attacked a car two in front of us. He broke the driver-side window, kicked the car and reached inside. The car pulled out to escape the attack. The car in front of me then pulled forward and hesitated. Worried that the mob might come around to the passenger side of my car and attack my wife, I pulled around the car in front of me, crossed over lanes and turned onto a freeway ramp to make sure we were out of there.

[phoneman08]

You do have a valid point.

My apologies to snakes is duly recorded.

[TXnMA]

Those people were equipped with one of the most powerful and deadliest weapons ever invented -- the modern automobile.

Attacker(s) in your left window?

1. First gear

2. Wheels to left lock

3. Accelerator to the floor

4. Wheels to center

5. Depart scene by most efficient path.

6. Second gear

Attacker(s) to the left of your vehicle: neutralized. Rubber smoke, noise and screams disperse mob. You exit the threat environment.

Being a victim? Not acceptable.

Lesson to future "flash mobs": priceless.

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"I was in fear for my life and that of my passengers".

[libstripper]

Thank you for giving the proper respect to snakes.

[tomkat]

nina,

I've spent some on/off time this afternoon reading thru a bunch of the posts on that link you provided.

Surprisingly, given the political climate in that area, my offhand estimate makes it ~ 10/1 ratio of outraged folks to apologists/whiners.

Also from what I gathered, the local MKE rag hosting the forum was doing some heavy censoring of comments, so if anything that 10/1 ratio is very conservative.

It seems that comments were cut off yesterday early evening, but in the 20ish hours between the riot and that cut off time, there were 41 pages with ~20 comments per page.

Regardless all the other local/national issues extant, could be that the poor disadvantaged yutes just went a long way to turning WI into an electoral asset. Prolly not Tea material yet, but I'm guessing that more than a few this weekend are examples of a liberal is actually a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet . . .

For those that might have missed your link the first time:

Your thoughts on mob incidents at State Fair

[jivin gene]

You have said it so succinctly. One problem - liberal/cajones - an abject oxymoron.

[jivin gene]

sport, you are spot-on. I lived in Tampa for ten years. Moved to Lutz. Same results. BTW, a lib I am not.

[TruthConquers]

"Here is where Mr. Lane shows that he will certainly be a future winner of a Darwin Award: "I'm white, and I know I can't relate to whatever it is that incited and enraged those kids. But our conversation on the way home was that we wished we could have taken the kid who hit me home with us and shown him care, concern and support."

Gads, he really believed that Coke commercial, "I'd like to teach the world to sing....."

Spaced out hippies thinking all you need is love......

[wardaddy]

I'm white, and I know I can't relate to whatever it is that incited and enraged those kids. But our conversation on the way home was that we wished we could have taken the kid who hit me home with us and shown him care, concern and support."

Sounds like about 1/3rd of this forum...frequently posters who live in homogeneous areas or insulated.

Very few Southerners or Detroit whites so naive...maybe some young hipsters still stupid.

[Eva]

Colleges and universities teach this kind of nonsense as diversity training. They actually teach social justice as the only morally correct path.

My nephew, who is in graduate school was explaining it to me as if I didn’t have a clue what social justice was. He said that he was one of the few people who ever spoke up in class and that one day, he told the class that social justice would be fine and good if it didn’t mean taking away rights from white people to give them to the minorities. There is nothing fair about the redistribution of rights.Two wrongs don’t make a right, not ever.

[wardaddy]

These thugs will continue until they meet a strong resistance. And resist, we must, or the problem will get worse

My ancestors down here in the Deep South knew what the eventuality was and they were called racist for resisting it.

Eveything they feared has come to pass...a slow ebb of a Haitian or Cape Verde style slave rebellion 200 years later with no slaves but yet a lot of angry blacks

And those in the bullseye this time are unprepared and don't even see it coming

I have no answers but I know the problem because I live with it...and when it comes time to take out the trash they will be plenty of white trash to go too....they are as big a problem in middle TN as any other

[APatientMan]

“I’m white, and I know I can’t relate to whatever it is that incited and enraged those kids.”

What a racist statement.

“But our conversation on the way home was that we wished we could have taken the kid who hit me home with us and shown him care, concern and support.”

I wonder if this fool will ever think things through enough to ask: Hey wait, why didn’t this kids parents show him care, concern and support?

[right way right]

From the comments on the link you gave.

“West Allis resident - Aug 05, 2011 8:38 AM»”

“When will the finger pointing stop… the young black population has already suffered enough with false accusations that are nothing but racist. The government owes everyone over 18 years of age a good paying job and then we will all live in harmony.”

This has to be a white person.
Black’s don’t want to work. Not in that town.

[sport]

Howdy neighbor!

[chasio649]

Sounds like about 1/3rd of this forum

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About 1/2 the country....i gave up on yankees long ago...they either figure it out themselves or they don’t.