So Baltimore Riots

[SG1]

Do you think things will get worse when the cops are proven innocent?

Anyone else things will get worse as summer drags on?

"Summer is coming"

[buffalobo]

We presume they are innocent until a jury renders a verdict after consideration of evidence presented during a trial.

It doubtful said trial will happen any time soon.

That said, the "situation" will get worse as the summer passes.

[roberth]

Things are going to get worse no matter what verdict is delivered.

The Baltimore city government failed to protect its own police officers, the private property of citizens, they failed to uphold the rule of law, I'm sure there are other things they failed at. Almost the same thing happened in Ferguson. Appeasement didn't work for Neville Chamberlain on the continental scale, I cannot understand why anyone would think appeasement will work on a smaller scale in the city.

Some people have said that Denver/Aurora would handle it differently but I have my doubts. When a person who operates outside the law in a normal situation is given even more latitude in an abnormal situation then we get Baltimore. There is no reason to think that Denver/Aurora are any different.

Keep in mind that your rights, your loved ones, and your property have no value to the government especially when the government is presented with an opportunity to display a little favoritism towards one of the protected classes. The police aren't at fault, the people at fault are the 'crats who give the orders from their ivory towers. If you're angry direct your anger towards the faceless 'crats because they're the ones responsible for these situations.

Prepare accordingly.

[BPTactical]

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Robert has a certain degree of wisedom.


Stay frosty for the Long, Hot Summer

[Hound]

The idea that cops can do no wrong is what caused this whole thing. This started and will end with Cops and their actions (or inaction). The thought that 'crats' should protect them when SOMEBODY is at fault for a man in protective custody dying is repulsive and unAmerican. The police force failed (repeatedly) and is being held accountable. They will get their day in court as they should. Cops should be held to a higher standard, not lower. The British wanted to have everybody obey the laws that were stacked against us. They wanted us to accept their authority as thugs and bully's because they had laws. Well, the power has and always will sit with the people not THUGs who use their granted/delagated power against those same people. Cops as bully's has never been acceptable and killing a man over a stop deemed unlawful is bullying.

BTW: Cops are the Government. Are cops supposed to be a "protected class"?

your property have no value to the government especially when the government is presented with an opportunity to display a little favoritism towards one of the protected classes.

To be clear:I am not saying lawlessness is OK. What I am saying is that cops are not above the law. They can't use the law as a shield. When they think they are..... the people have every right to do whatever they can to make that understood regardless of what is on paper. If you don't understand that..... We know what side you are on from history and the Constitution.

Things are going to get worse no matter what verdict is delivered.

The Baltimore city government failed to protect its own police officers, the private property of citizens, they failed to uphold the rule of law, I'm sure there are other things they failed at. Almost the same thing happened in Ferguson. Appeasement didn't work for Neville Chamberlain on the continental scale, I cannot understand why anyone would think appeasement will work on a smaller scale in the city.

Some people have said that Denver/Aurora would handle it differently but I have my doubts. When a person who operates outside the law in a normal situation is given even more latitude in an abnormal situation then we get Baltimore. There is no reason to think that Denver/Aurora are any different.

Keep in mind that your rights, your loved ones, and your property have no value to the government especially when the government is presented with an opportunity to display a little favoritism towards one of the protected classes. The police aren't at fault, the people at fault are the 'crats who give the orders from their ivory towers. If you're angry direct your anger towards the faceless 'crats because they're the ones responsible for these situations.

Prepare accordingly.

[cstone]

Civil discourse is appreciated. Lack of civility will not be tolerated. Proceed accordingly.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Personally, I think these incidents are being fed the same way the bogus Occupy movement was and for the same reason: to create an artificial sense of outrage over the next year and inflame a base of voters in preparation for the 2016 elections. Look for a summer, fall, and winter of building outrage that enables the Left to pile on and drive "conversations" during the spring primary season. I further expect something to happen in late fall that would prompt increased scrutiny of "right-wing" groups by the DOJ and IRS.

[roberth]

Personally, I think these incidents are being fed the same way the bogus Occupy movement was and for the same reason: to create an artificial sense of outrage over the next year and inflame a base of voters in preparation for the 2016 elections. Look for a summer, fall, and winter of building outrage that enables the Left to pile on and drive "conversations" during the spring primary season. I further expect something to happen in late fall that would prompt increased scrutiny of "right-wing" groups by the DOJ and IRS.

Absolutely. Never let a crisis go to waste, if there isn't a crisis then create one.

The roots of these riots go farther back in history than the incidents that they surround. The roots are in the progressive (D) (communist) left's assumption that people are stupid and need assistance from the government. The left has fostered this idea since the 1960s in their "war on poverty" which like all other leftist programs is an abject failure. Thanks to the communists we have a colossal government infrastructure that does nothing except promote the "victim" mentality which in turns grows this infrastructure because they can never steal enough money from the rest of us to fund their victims.

http://www.heritage.org/research/rep...after-50-years

What people need is an opportunity to succeed or fail on their own merit, and if they fail they need the emotional and perhaps very temporary financial support to get back up and try again. Some people will fail their entire lives, that is life though, nothing we can do about it except to encourage them to try again, hand out not handout.

[brutal]

Personally, I think these incidents are being fed the same way the bogus Occupy movement was and for the same reason: to create an artificial sense of outrage over the next year and inflame a base of voters in preparation for the 2016 elections. Look for a summer, fall, and winter of building outrage that enables the Left to pile on and drive "conversations" during the spring primary season. I further expect something to happen in late fall that would prompt increased scrutiny of "right-wing" groups by the DOJ and IRS.

It's sad that people fail to realize that in most of these troubled areas, the Liberals control everything and yet we still have these issues they will capitalize on and get a win/win all around.

[sniper7]

I imagine the rioting will quiet down a good bit in the near future, but once the trial gets close they will be back at it demanding justice and more than likely either way the case(s) go, there will be riots, just a lot larger level if no convictions happen.