[Mr. Mojo]

If you're not a news junkie, you probably didn't notice that Rodney King was arrested again.

Even if you are a news junky, a R. King arrest can be overlooked due to the sheer regularity of the event.

[Mr. Mojo]

Apparently, in addition to going to jail again, Rodney King is now broke.

Perhaps he's now trying to make money (again) in the only way he knows how -- get high on PCP, break every traffic law imaginable, and hope for the best.

[Mr. Mojo]

Of course, the same liberals have already forgotten the 58 people who are dead because of Rodney King and the criminals he and his supporters inspired.

Oh, they haven't forgotten. But they shamelessly blame it all on the "white bread Simi Valley types."

[goldstategop]

David Horowitz is right - the key term is personal responsibility. Its anathema to the liberal culture. It feels much more comfortable if we're all content to be pliant victims. That's why they will never learn anything from Rodney King's failure to make something of himself and turn his life around. And that's why they dismiss the victims of their foolish and misguided attempt to make King the victim of an event he precipitated - by failing to follow the orders of the police officers who arrested him. We're stuck with the liberal culture that made him so central to its cult of victimhood and perpetual grievance and we'll be stuck with it for a good long time to come. C'est la meme, c'est la chose.

[ambrose]

Bump!

[ambrose]

"Rodney Glenn King, Liberal Icon"

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

If you're not a news junkie, you probably didn't notice that Rodney King was arrested again. He was speeding at 100 miles an hour, high on PCP, when he ran a red light in Rialto, Calif., on Aug. 27.

It is just a matter of luck that King hasn't killed someone yet. This was his fifth arrest since a kangaroo court awarded him $3.8 million some years ago

Well, Good God...why on earth should he alter his behavioral patterns one single iota at this point, really?

We've already taught him that committing crimes and/or resisting lawful arrest can -- if only you make a mopey enough face afterwards, and slap the race card down onto the table skillfully enough -- lead to staggering personal wealth the likes of which most of us here will never live to see.

You keep rewarding a dog with red meat, after biting... and, sooner or later: it'll come to see everyone else around it as just so many hamburgers on the hoof.

[lelio]

So what did Rodney spend his money on? Okay he's a PCP fiend but you can't spent THAT much money on it.

[TheSpottedOwl]

He's been busted at least 10 times since the riots. Did the suckers give him a lifetime get out of jail free card besides the bucks? How in the hell do you go through 3.8 million?

[SSN558]

There is another side to this and focusing on Rodney King the loser distracts from what caused LA to explode. The loser Rodney King and video of his beating was just the random catylst. Critical mass for the LA riots had been building for at least 30 years.

The corruption of LAPD and government failure to rein in the department is well documented. The rampart division was involved in drug dealing, murder for hire, planting drugs on innocent suspects, excessive force without provocation, and numerous other crimes. A a result of the FBI investigation the state had to release hundereds from prison.

I rode through there in the early 1970's and a group of bikers I ran into told me I should carry a small amount of marijuana on me when in LA county, so the police would not plant something worse on me. I laughed at them and thought they were joking, being a newbie to CA.

It was no joke. People that have not lived in CA can never understand that attitude that the police are not the good guys. Yes, CA has rampant crime and the highest prison population in the world but when you live there you learn to fear the police as much as the criminals. If it weren't for badges and uniforms it would be hard to tell the difference.

[tlb]

I guess I'll be the only one to say a few kind words for Rodney in this thread. Truth is after I learned some about him I felt sorry for the guy.

Rodney is an addict. I doubt he will ever be more until the day he wipes himself ( and hopefully no innocent bystanders ) out in a final car crash. We all know examples of his type. On drugs or booze but regardless of their skin color, the same kind. Just in his case he was so big he could shrug off taser stun guns.

Rodney didn't incite the riot. He was used as an excuse by political and criminal ( and sometimes both ) opportunists. His " Can't we all just get along? " line has become so widerly parodied maybe we forget it likely kept the situation from getting worse then it did.

Whatever his weaknesses, failings, and faults, he personally tried so settle the rioters down at the time it counted. That wins him points from me at least.

[Drango]

mean-spirited and lacking compassion BUMP

[csvset]

I did hear of Rodney's latest conviction, a brief soundbite in a newscast.

I recall reading many years ago that Rodney was "working on becoming a producer for rappers" or some such crap.

What ever become of the "Rebuild L.A" committee headed by Peter Ueberroth?

[veronica]

David Horowitz is THE BEST. He really tells it like it is!

[DoctorMichael]

Can't we all just get along? Bump.

[William Terrell]

Yes, but then, Mr. Horowitz refuses to believe that McCarthy was right.

[Nea Wood]

The stories that stick out in my mind about that awful time:

Some kids from a Simi Valley school went on a field trip to Los Angeles. Their bus said "Simi Valley" on the side. The bus was pelted with rocks, etc., thrown by angry blacks convinced that everyone in Simi Valley was "racist." Never mind the fact that the bus contained innocent schoolchildren.

A newspaper article about a bunch of white people watching the riots on a TV in a bar. "Look, they're burning down their own community," the white people were saying. The writer wrote about how awful it was of these insensitive white people to refer to the rioters as "they."

News reports showing rioters and looters with news anchors' voices over saying, "Look what we have done. Look what we have driven these poor people to do. We should be ashamed!"

The fact that many of the rioters had no idea who Rodney King even was. One rioter was interviewed and asked what he thought of Rodney King. He replied, "I don't follow sports."

Of course my very favorite story is the one Charlton Heston used to tell, about his liberal Hollywood friends, (who had pushed for five-day waiting periods before buying a gun.) These libs called Heston on the phone and begged him to loan them some guns so they could protect their property from rioters. "Why don't you buy your own guns?" Heston asked them innocently. Well...er...there was the little matter of the five-day waiting period!!

Yes. Those were "interesting" times.

[yoe]

Liberals Won't Admit Rodney King is a Loser"

Maxine Waters and all the rest of the Democratic Socialists of America; the Black Caucus and Mrs. Clinton's Third Way, are demonstrating one more time how they will go out on a limb to protect a known crook as they did the impeached president WJC. Rodney King is the poster boy for their failures.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I am amazed that he is still alive. I assumed that he would convert however much of the $3.8 Mil that his lawyers didn't get into PCP and overdose within a month.

[Uncle Meat]

Rodney King is Eminem's idol.He wants to be just like him when he grows up.