We deserve? Heh. I’m an unwilling passenger on this crapwagon. We’ve been circling the bowl since before I was old enough to be aware of the problems coming, and certainly before I was old enough to do anything. I’m no spring chicken either.
I don’t know if there is much to do except hunker down and make it through as best as you can. Things certainly don’t look like they will be fixed in the remainder of my lifetime.
Did you folks not live through the 1960’s in this country, when a riot was a real riot, with burning buildings and people getting shot and the National Guard patrolling Detroit with a shoot on sight curfew in place?
Did you not live through the Rodney King riots, when organized gangs used the excuse of a nationally broadcast court case to go on a criminal rampage?
Did you not live through the gym class where the one kid with the slight mental challenge got goaded into a fight with the fat white kid by the cruel older boys?
Which of these is more like the violent foolishness going on now: the riots in the 60’s, the gang riots in the 90’s or the gym class fight between the retard and the fat kid?
I don’t expect it will take the National Guard to quell these riots, just a few citizens with guns, or perhaps a paddy wagon in the right place to round up a few dozen of the miscreants involved.
The barbarians are inside the gates, having realized that those guarding the gates have been disarmed. Not physically, but culturally. Violence is excused. Political violence is encouraged.
The citizenry are disarmed both physically and culturally. At least in the US, that is changing for the better.
It’s kinda like what they tried to start recently with the shooting of an escaped killer in SF Bayview district – and the aftermath of the Oscar Grant verdict in Oakland. Hundreds of pseudo-anarchist nitwits from as far away as San Diego and Washington State converged with their black masks and bandannas, trying to astir-up the crowd and start a big riot.
And now, the big news is that the guy who got shot by police could not possibly have shot at the police because the bullet found in the officer’s radio was a “police issue round.” And heavens knows, it’s illegal for civilians to have guns, so he could not *possibly* have acquired police-issue rounds. That would be illegal. And everyone knows that when something is illegal, it’s impossible for someone to do it.
August 8th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Soft target?
British bobby: Halt, or I shall be forced to say “halt” in a stronger tone of voice sir!
August 8th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
We’re getting the society we deserve, and we are getting it good and hard.
August 8th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
We deserve? Heh. I’m an unwilling passenger on this crapwagon. We’ve been circling the bowl since before I was old enough to be aware of the problems coming, and certainly before I was old enough to do anything. I’m no spring chicken either.
I don’t know if there is much to do except hunker down and make it through as best as you can. Things certainly don’t look like they will be fixed in the remainder of my lifetime.
August 8th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Did you folks not live through the 1960’s in this country, when a riot was a real riot, with burning buildings and people getting shot and the National Guard patrolling Detroit with a shoot on sight curfew in place?
Did you not live through the Rodney King riots, when organized gangs used the excuse of a nationally broadcast court case to go on a criminal rampage?
Did you not live through the gym class where the one kid with the slight mental challenge got goaded into a fight with the fat white kid by the cruel older boys?
Which of these is more like the violent foolishness going on now: the riots in the 60’s, the gang riots in the 90’s or the gym class fight between the retard and the fat kid?
I don’t expect it will take the National Guard to quell these riots, just a few citizens with guns, or perhaps a paddy wagon in the right place to round up a few dozen of the miscreants involved.
August 8th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Time to buy more ammunition. Never can tell when you’re going to want a cartridge or two. Never can tell when you’re going to *need* a few hundred.
August 8th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
The barbarians are inside the gates, having realized that those guarding the gates have been disarmed. Not physically, but culturally. Violence is excused. Political violence is encouraged.
The citizenry are disarmed both physically and culturally. At least in the US, that is changing for the better.
August 8th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
It’s kinda like what they tried to start recently with the shooting of an escaped killer in SF Bayview district – and the aftermath of the Oscar Grant verdict in Oakland. Hundreds of pseudo-anarchist nitwits from as far away as San Diego and Washington State converged with their black masks and bandannas, trying to astir-up the crowd and start a big riot.
August 8th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Those who are used to getting something for nothing are getting pissed. Wholly predictable situation created by liberal, left-wing policies.
August 8th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
They’re not only used to getting free stuff, they’ve been told they deserve it and evil, rich people are trying to take it away.
What’s going on? The rule of law has been degraded. It’s arbitrarily and capriciously enforced so more and more people are ignoring it.
August 8th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
The British Intelligentsia don’t believe in property rights, well other people’s property rights, theirs, they believe in quite well. As such, the riots were not stopped at the start, now they’ve let it spread widely.
On the upside, the law abiding populace is disarmed so all they can do is run while the police watch and the PM vacations.
August 8th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Look at all political heads that have to return from their vacations in other countries. And they wonder why the people are rioting?
August 9th, 2011 at 3:40 am
And now, the big news is that the guy who got shot by police could not possibly have shot at the police because the bullet found in the officer’s radio was a “police issue round.” And heavens knows, it’s illegal for civilians to have guns, so he could not *possibly* have acquired police-issue rounds. That would be illegal. And everyone knows that when something is illegal, it’s impossible for someone to do it.
August 9th, 2011 at 6:36 am
Markie Marxist sez: “We’re destroying capitalism and bringing down Western civilization. Pretty cool, huh?”