Posted on 08/15/2011 5:54:35 PM PDT by Nachum
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Rachel Marsden 110 Comments Of Course America's Psychos Are Ripe for London-Style Riots by Rachel Marsden 08/14/2011
The riots that ravaged urban England take root in phenomena that aren't exclusive to that country, but are increasingly on the rise everywhere. Could the same thing happen in America? Of course it could. And here's why.
The acute social breakdown sparked by a single police killing of a perp who happened to be waving around a gun wasn't unlike the rioting that took place in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this year when the Vancouver Canucks hockey team lost the Stanley Cup championship. Most people who have a life shouldn't really care about either. Bad guys waving guns around in public are taking quite the gamble, and sometimes deservedly lose, just as hockey teams aren't guaranteed to win. Neither represents a larger cause or societal problem. Those are facts of life that rational, thinking people should be capable of relativizing.
Social unrest is sometimes more understandable, specifically in Arab dictatorships this spring in which a small spark catalyzed regime change. But there's quite a difference between rioting in a G8 democracy and overturning oppression. There is no moral equivalency between the two situations. As the identities of the London rioters are slowly trickling into the public domain, we're learning that among them were university students and trust fund kids. As for the poor and disenfranchised among them—one 18-year-old had just been evicted from his state-funded $366,000 apartment. And we're supposed to believe this to be the definition of hard-up—or at least hard-up enough to start smashing and stealing things?
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It’s been a long time since my high school chemistry class, so check me on this... the symbol for rubber is Pb, right?
Its all fun and games till the government stops taking care of you.
I’m so glad I’m not an urban dependent.
July 67
Absolutely. You want to shoot the soft stuff, the SJHP form of rubber.
So what causes relatively well-off youth to act like hooligans without any legitimate impetus?
They can get away with it. When they can't, they won't.
Yassah.
If that starts here in Dallas, won’t last long. Some bunch of maggot infested, dope smoking weasels start torching bars and BBQ joints here, it will be OK. I’ll be looking forward to the YouBoob vids of the results of that.
That’s right ... it’s easy to remember because when you push a rubber eraser across the desk, it makes a “pbpbpbpbpbpb” sound.
America’a citizens and property owners won’t show up the next day with brooms ala the Brits. We’ll come to the main event armed to the teeth.
Just wait untill the poll numbers are down for Obama’s re-election chances....And he Orders his people to “Get in their Faces”........
Just wait untill the poll numbers are down for Obama’s re-election chances....And he Orders his people to “Get in their Faces”........
I’ve speculated that various “flash mobs” are trial runs for election day Nov 2012.....
The US isn’t centralized enough for that to happen,only 2 big cities where rioting affects the country at the national level....Los Angeles and New York.
Noticeably nothing goes on these days because of the kind of “presence” by the police and others with an interest in keeping a calm facade.
Take out the amount of money spend on cops,civil servants and those who get benefits from the government.................well then it explodes.For a lib to want a stable society,he has to benefit,he will even accept one with views that verge on the totalitarian because the bottom line he is paid to.If that goes away,they will go back to screeching about “the man” doing them.
Obama campaign will encourage this. Carefully scan their language for the next year and a half. It will gradually get worse.
I’ve speculated that various “flash mobs” are trial runs for election day Nov 2012.....
You’re not the only one, for sure.
You mean Rb.
So the Tea Party folks are going on a rampage?
Nope, Rb is “rebar”, not rubber. Still applicable, though. :-)
I’ve been stocked, locked, and loaded for years. Every concentrated Democrat parasite nest (”city”) in the nation can burn to the ground for all I care.
(shrug)
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