Posted on 03/12/2019 3:46:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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In Baltimore, you can tell a lot about the politics of the person you’re talking with by the word he or she uses to describe the events of April 27, 2015. Some people, and most media outlets, call them the “riots”; some the “unrest.” Guy was among those who always referred to them as the “uprising,” a word that connoted something justifiable and positive: the first step, however tumultuous, toward a freer and fairer city. Policing in Baltimore, Guy and many other residents believed, was broken, with officers serving as an occupying army in enemy territory — harassing African-American residents without cause, breeding distrust and hostility.
In 2016, the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division concurred, releasing a report accusing the city’s Police Department of racial discrimination and excessive force. The city agreed to a “consent decree” with the federal government, a set of policing reforms that would be enforced by a federal judge. When an independent monitoring team was selected to oversee the decree, Guy was hired as its community liaison. This was where she wanted to be: at the forefront of the effort to make her city a better place.
But in the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place. In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous. Other elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge.
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They’re mostly not “the least” anyway, in the sense of being being weak, defenseless, or vulnerable. The worst scammers and parasites are predators, on their “own” and on society.
Shame on Free Traitors™.
Every crime-ridden, drug infested inner city shithole in the US was created when the greedy globalist right wing off shored industry. That was the original sin.
“Baltimore was a great and beautiful city. Unfortunately the last series of Mayors and City Council were nothing but corrupt incompetent slackers and imho racists.”
Gee, I thought that the PROGENITORS of Nancy cured all ills of Baltimore decades ago...You know, like the KLINTOONS cured Haiti’s problems long ago when Hill’s bro got mining concessions and their ‘buddy billionaire’ got the phone service franchise for the whole country..
JUST SAYING....
or, the industry fled the corruption
(which is what happened)
Baltimore!
What's next?
They only got that way when the globalists and the right wing off shored industry and left poverty in its place. High tariffs and re industrialization will cure 90% of the nations woes.
That's what's at stake.
That's not what happened, greed is what happened. And stone headed Conservatives blame the victim. At least Trump (and I) gets it.
Gary ?
Detroit!
Baltimore!
Chicago ?
Policing in Baltimore, Guy and many other residents believed, was broken, with officers serving as an occupying army in enemy territory — harassing African-American residents without cause, breeding distrust and hostility.
The hood did not want the police to interrupt their criminal activities, the rats and media set them up as the bad guys and the thugs as the victims.
The rat rot is essential to their control
I grew up in South Baltimore, Brooklyn. Back in the late 50’s and early to mid 60’s it was a poor yet civil neighborhood. Caght buses to attend O’s games on 33rd Street. In the 70’ spent time in Section 34 with Wild Bill Hagy. Violence and murder were not an issue. In the 80’s and 90’s went to many restaurants at the Inner Habor....good times. Not anymore. I won’t even spend an evening to catch a show or baseball/football game.
It sounds like you are calling for more Nationalism and less globalization. If so, I agree 100%.
The situation is Baltimore is not unexpected. As soon as the police realized that they now were the “criminals” and the thugs were the “good guys” there was no incentive for them to do their jobs. In fact, there was an incentive not to do their jobs, since that was the only way to avoid the fate that befell the officers involved with Freddy Gray. Even though those officers either were acquitted or had the charges dismissed, the message was clear - do your job at your peril. Once the police decided to stand down, the “good guys” were free to terrorize the city. So predictable and so tragic for the people who simply want to live unafraid.
Got some family in suburban Maryland. They call it Balti-Mordor.
Baltimore's heyday as a commercial center was relatively short compared to other neighboring cities. During colonial times it was overshadowed by Annapolis as a port city. This only changed in the 19th century as larger ships were built and Baltimore's deeper channel made it a more attractive port. The city always lagged behind Boston, New York and Philadelphia in almost every respect except agricultural exports.
It really only became an industrial hub during World War II. The flood of government money into the city brought political pressure for major companies in the steel and shipbuilding industries to unionize, and the city began to fade quickly after that. I believe it saw its peak population in the 1950 census.
The Freddie Gray riots in 2015 were the defining incident of modern Baltimore. What made this riot different than any other urban unrest over the last 50+ years is that you had tens of thousands of Baltimore Orioles fans detained in Camden Yards after a baseball game for their safety. The Orioles postponed one game due to the riots, then decided to play their next game in an empty stadium to avoid problems for their fans. In 21st century America, you might as well burn a city to the ground if one of its professional sports teams has to go through an embarrassing spectacle like that.
And that is why Bernie Sanders got kicked out of the commune. An embarrassment to and a parasite upon the honest hippies, who at least thought it was authentic to get their hands dirty at honest labor. Bernie has a higher consciousness that doesn't involve work, which is why he thinks he is qualified to run the country.
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
Trying to blame unions is a joke, like you.
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