The real problems have been there for decades getting ZERO attention.
Baltimore goes BOOM
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oldngray
nowhere special
And in a city dominated by Democrats in office.
Whatever. You want to blame, blame all you want. It changes nothing.
wkmac
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rod
Retired 22 years
This whole event will set their tourist industry (and that is BIG) back to the stone ages. Its sad that a small percent of the population of Baltimore can ruin so many lives. What's really amazing is that they do it to their own neighborhoods. They are complete idiots. 99.9 % of them don't give a hoot about the guy who was killed---they just want to destroy and steal stuff "because they can".
wkmac
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Rod,
This is not aimed at you specifically but you made a valid point worth considering.
Take these 2 parties, the very small minority that steals and destroys with the clearly larger majority who to us seems to just take it, live with it and accept as the way things are. How can they let such monsters run amuck and destroy their local mainstreet?
Now for a moment let's reframe the 2 parties into something we as working middle class and often mostly white people can relate too and see just how we react.
The small minority group of thieves and destroyers is Wall Street and it's global capitalism which stands in dark contrast to the concepts of mainstreet capitalism most of us would think in and want to operate economically in. It's side men and/or enablers to a huge degree IMO are Washington DC, The State Houses and quite often even the local powers that be who grant them an air of authority and legitimacy. The vast majority of us however just sit quietly by as these thieves and destroyers along with their partners run amuck up and down our mainstreets burning and pillaging as they go. We falsely accept that this is the way things are and even worse we accept these people as so-called "experts" and they are the only ones with the expertise for such things. In time however, mainstreet is left a hollowed out empty shell of itself not unlike the burned out neighborhoods some will become from the previous examples like Baltimore.
Now in both examples, the majority for the most part sit completely on the sidelines and just let it happen. Even to the point of some giving full allegiance (often a kind of blind allegiance) to the very forces that do this. In some cases they even believe such allegiance will in time quell the crisis but it only gets worse. More often than not the crisis was created in order for more burning and pillaging to occur as a proper response and we sit by and just let it happen.
Why do we judge those who sit on the sidelines in Baltimore and appear to do nothing as their streets are burned and pillaged (microcosm) while at the same time we all but do the same thing ourselves as our own mainstreets burn (macrocosm)? The middle class and mainstreet is dying, we are trapped in the false narrative that one political side as opposed to the other did it thus the other will save us and yet over the years both sides have in fact played their equal parts.
When I look at a Ferguson, a Baltimore, a Detroit even, I only see the rest of us and it's just a matter of time. And like a man told he's terminal, we just sit of death's door doing nothing but making it all that much easier for those who want to crush us.
The vultures are circling above and yet we are so trapped in our own fears we can even get up and walk away to something else.
jmo
Atomic_Smurf
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Best commentary I've seen...
This individual must make $250k, have a loving wife and 2 kids, be halfway to paying off a $450k mortgage, drive a Volvo (with a Beemer for special occasions), love the Joe Flacco and insist that all that is wrong with America is a deviation from traditional family values.
it should be expected. when u treat people like
they lose itGreed. It's greed over human life. And it's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings. That's a common thread. We, in that biblical term, we forgot our neighbor. And because we forgot our neighbor in Pine Ridge, because we forgot our neighbor in Camden, in Southern West Virginia, in the produce fields, these forces have now turned on us. They went first, and we're next. And that's--
BILL MOYERS: What do you mean we're next?
CHRIS HEDGES: Well, the--
BILL MOYERS: We being—
CHRIS HEDGES: Two-thirds of this country. We are rapidly replicating that totalitarian vision of George Orwell in “1984.” We have an inner sanctum, inner party of 2 percent or 3 percent, an outer party of corporate managers, of 12 percent, and the rest of us are proles. I mean--
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPa...C-05/1984_Social_Classes_300px_Wikipedia.jpeg
BILL MOYERS: What do you mean we're next?
CHRIS HEDGES: Well, the--
BILL MOYERS: We being—
CHRIS HEDGES: Two-thirds of this country. We are rapidly replicating that totalitarian vision of George Orwell in “1984.” We have an inner sanctum, inner party of 2 percent or 3 percent, an outer party of corporate managers, of 12 percent, and the rest of us are proles. I mean--
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPa...C-05/1984_Social_Classes_300px_Wikipedia.jpeg
if u are getting ur "news" from fox, u are sadly misled. u can add CNN msnbc, and cbs "news" to that list.
regarding "liberal policies" in all likelihood the politicians spoke the rhetoric of liberal populism, but in reality there was likely no reform. there are only policies to benefit the corporations.
Democracy now does stellar news.
Sportello
Banned
That 'report' is nothing but ill informed speculation. The source is not reliable. You probably know that, but it didn't stop you from posting it. Ten seconds on Google, or Yahoo for those yahoos out there, would show that.
You people are the most gulible people on the planet when it comes to rumors.
Right wing rags, such as breitbard and forth estate started this rumor about "previous neck injuries" "previous neck surgeries" and the like, and you people fall for it.
But isnt that what they want?
Vilify the victim, make him less credible. Make him out to be just another scumbag black guy looking to make a buck and in doing so, justifying his death.
What does snopes say as well as the many professionals DEBUNKING the right wing claims?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/freddiegraysuit.asp
As for his LENGTHY criminal record, he was in fact arrested several times previously, however, only once did he actually get charged with a crime, and that was for a minor drug possession charge.
The rest of the arrests and charges were later dropped because of "lack of evidence".
Again, trying to vilify the victim and discredit him.
These are the tactics of the racist right wing of this country.
Its ok to kill blacks because they deserve it, if they can find any molecule of dirt on them.
You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading that rumor.
TOS.
Atomic_Smurf
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I bet the jobs will come flooding in now. What business wouldn't want to open its doors in these community's? Especially with an available work force with so much potential.
Atomic_Smurf
Well-Known Member
but but but....
rod
Retired 22 years
I tip my hat to Mr. Butler and those like him who are trying to take back their neighborhoods. Mr. Butler appears to be one BIG M/friend. (Just look at the pipes on that man). I would have loved to seenhimbeatingthecrap out of some of those worthless skumbags who were burning and looting the last couple of nights.
Sportello
Banned
Did you hear that Harry Reid actually got cold-cocked by his brother, that's how he injured his eye?
