[Flavious_Maximus]

If you carefully watch the events yesterday, you will notice that the cops were allowing the rioters to burn cars, tires, furniture etc, on the streets in their own neighborhoods. There were not going to allow the riots to spread to tourist areas, i.e. the Inner Harbor, Camden Yards or National Aquarium.

It was a deliberate decision to let the thugs burn their own neighborhood, but not beyond it. This would allow the black thugs to relieve some of the steam that was boiling over. The idea is that no real harm has been done, except to themselves.

Now the day after, Obama can step in and offer huge incentives to rebuild the city with funds paid for by the white honky suckers. A form of reparations from the suburban tax payers to the down trodden black youth.

[ClearCase_guy]

Send in bulldozers and create a large city park. Do not rebuild anything.

[Gaffer]

I once tried to raise rabbits because my little girl really begged me. I built the standard raised cage with roof and side small section wire sides and bottom (holes just big enough to allow the droppings to fall through. I thought it would be nice to put a small shallow box with a half perch lid where the mother rabbit could eat from the feed box through the fence near it and rest near any babies she had which I assumed would be in the box part below.

WRONG! First thing she did was crap and pee all over the inside of the box - only there.

I see similarities here.

[Old Sarge]

It was a deliberate decision to let the thugs burn their own neighborhood, but not beyond it. This would allow the black thugs to relieve some of the steam that was boiling over. The idea is that no real harm has been done, except to themselves.

Now the day after, Obama can step in and offer huge incentives to rebuild the city with funds paid for by the white honky suckers. A form of reparations from the suburban tax payers to the down trodden black youth.

[Mouton]

Looking back at the Newark Riots of the late 60s, that is exactly what they did, the authorities encircled the areas where the rioting was taking place, let the riot burn itself out there while containing it to the mostly central ward of the city but engaging anyone outside of it. The result was many thousands arrested and 44 killed as the city and state police and national guard seemed to be blasting away with impunity. One can now see virtually across the entire center area of the city as it has been razed and turned into a virtual parking lot. Unfortunately in the aftermath, the blight has moved mostly west and engulfed neighboring towns and cities. The only way to fix this would be with megaton rehabilitation.