Posted on 10/23/2008 8:24:23 AM PDT by shortstop
Riots on Election Day?
Apparently that’s what big city police chiefs are worried about.
According to the news, big cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day and the day or two which follow it.
It seems these various law-enforcement professionals believe there is a possibility of rioting and neighborhoods being set on fire. They think it is possible that some people will respond with violence and mayhem to the outcome of the election.
Oddly, the chances of social disruption are about the same, win or lose.
The fear is that if Barack Obama loses, there might be rioting among black supporters in urban neighborhoods. The fear is that these disappointed supporters might feel that they or their candidate were robbed.
The outcome: Rioting and neighborhoods set on fire.
But that’s only half of it.
The chiefs apparently also fear that, even if Barack Obama wins there will be rioting among black supporters in urban neighborhoods. The fear is that these jubilant supporters might react the way they do when their team wins the NBA championship or something.
The outcome: Rioting and neighborhoods on fire.
The upshot: If you’re a cop in a big city, expect to be on duty or on standby on the evening of Election Day. And keep your riot gear handy, just in case.
This all is, of course, freaking insane.
At least from the standpoint of us McCain supporters.
Over on our side of the political spectrum, we don’t believe in rioting and burning down neighborhoods. Pretty much, win or lose, we’ll just watch the results on TV and go to bed.
We have jobs to go to in the morning.
The last riot we engaged in was the Boston Tea Party, and we don’t burn neighborhoods down, we build them up.
So we can’t really relate to pillaging as a manifestation of disappointment or glee. No matter what, we McCain supporters are not going to loot the WalMart.
We kind of thought that our whole system of elections was intended to keep riots – and worse – from happening. We thought that the peaceful transfer of power was one of the things our country does right.
On our side of the political spectrum, we don’t see how rolling over a cop car expresses anything other than criminal, anti-social behavior.
And so we’d like to put the police chiefs at ease. On behalf of all John McCain supporters, I’d just like to pledge that win, lose or draw, we will be good citizens and obey the law.
We will not riot, we will not set anything on fire, we will not throw stones or beer cans at the cops.
Not that this isn’t an important election. Not that we don’t think a great deal is at stake. Not that we don’t want to win this with everything in our beings.
But we’re good Americans.
And we act like it.
Not those of us who aren’t voting for a socialist pig.
You get what you pay for.
I have several co-workers, usually fine people, who have bought into the Obamessiah, and they can't even articulate why it is, it's certainly not cerebral. Obama may not be the big A/C, but dang if he isn't showing us just how easy it'll be for the big A/C to do his work in this day and age.
Man,my family has given all the spare time, spare money, and person-to-person support we have for the cause, and McCain will win our state in a cakewalk, but we feel like it won't be nearly enough, and that's certainly frustrating. If we lose, I guess we'll just try to ride it out, and keep our powder dry.
I expect that fact to be known about a week before this election. At that point Hillary is put in to run. She will slide into victory untouched.
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I will LAUGH MY A## OFF if Bambi wins and blue cities go up in flames.
How many times has this site been hacked?
It’s not only campaigns but FReepathons.
I put trust into JR to keep all of us safe from spying eyes but there is only so much any CIS person can do.
FReepers are going to be targets too.
If they're permitted to steal their way to absolute power in 2008, we'll never have another free and fair election again. We will be a one-party socialist system, then a communist dictatorship. And many of us will be killed.
I hate having these thoughts, but I can't shake this horrible feeling the hell is at our doorstep. We have to fight for the election like we're fighting for our lives.
Some LEOs predict riots if BHO loses and riots if BHO wins.
I think they’re right.
The funny irony of riots is that they typically take place in Democrat parasite nests ("cities") where Democrats riot among themselves as an excuse to loot the local storefronts. With Democrats, it's always about "free stuff". And being out here in the idyllic countryside, I couldn't care less. Burn, baby, burn.
The riots are only an excuse to go rob your nearest burning Wal-Mart. I’ve seen it before. The Rodney King riots were a prime example. People were stealing so much crap that the tires were blowing out on their cars when they made a run for it. It was not about justice for anybody as the media
would have you believe but about plain and simple STEALING!
Something is bothering me is the Odinga-Obama connection. Could all this talk about riots setting us up for a shared presidency as in Kenya? If there are riots I hope the National guard is called out asap and they come down hard on the rioters. Oh what a time we live in.
Oddly enough, in my affluent part of a very Dem and urban county yesterday, the local police were drilling and there was a parking lot full of tactical vehicles behind the station this morning.
Looks like, once again, our area will have to provide the heavy lifting for the remainder who only want our tax revenue and provide no representation or services.
I’m thinking that the authorities are anticipating riots whether Obama wins or not. I mean celebratory riots like we have seen in some cities after a sports team wins a title, if Obama wins, people running through the streets, burning luxury cars and things like that.
“The USA, socially, is slowly becoming a third-world country.”
Not just socially..
If anyone can provide quick links to VIDEO of anything showing violence or intimidation, or news video reporting on such incidents, please private reply to me with the links.
The Kenya Strategy starts.
I lived through those riots in a city bordering the hot spots during the rioting. It was surreal. My roommate and I lived on the 3rd story of a condominium complex that looked down on our local strip mall. Two men from our neighborhood took to the roof of an auto parts store with rifles and one of our neighbors patrolled the alley behind our complex with his gun. Throughout the night their were a few bands of thugs that drove up to that strip mall and when we called the police they said they were currently too busy to answer the call but would try to get there when they could. It was only by a miracle that that strip mall wasn't robbed or torched (and believe me we were praying for God's protection over our neighborhood that night!).
In some cases, the most insane aspect of the rioting was that after the looters would torch a place, they would try to attack the firemen who were showing up to put out the fire, which took strong police presence to accompany the firetrucks when they were working to help under dangerous and horrific conditions.
I know this is a frightening thought, but in the event of widespread rioting, know that the police may be too busy to protect you.
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