Looters in Ferguson, Missouri defied President Obama and the parents of Michael Brown. The President and the parents had called for peaceful protests. This appeal to non-violence did not work.
In the summer of 1965, I lived in Southern California. The region saw the images from the KTLA TV traffic helicopter, day after day, night after night, of the arson and the looting. This was new to us. How could looting of businesses owned by residents do the cause of justice any good? It couldn’t. These were looters and arsonists, not justice-seekers.
The video of the looting of a Ferguson liquor store is typical. The owner had been victimized by Brown, who stole cigarillos. This was caught on an in-store camera. Now more thieves came out in force. Twice victimized, what was he to do?
If the owner had stood in front of his store with a shotgun, and had shot a few looters, he might have been prosecuted by the grand jury that did not vote to send the policeman to trial.
How do property owners deal with mob violence? If defenders face prosecution for defending their property, and the police and national guard fire tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, which do not slow down the looters, then both personal safety and private property are left without meaningful support.
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7 comments:
That's how Ferguson should have looked last night.
They never learn from history, those riot areas will be burned out slums for the next fifty years.
CONSEQUENCES!!!! This is what people have NOT LEARNED or just simply do not care. The difference between a man serving time in jail and a man on the street is consequences. ONE WORD...plain and simple. LEARN IT... TEACH IT TO YOUR CHILDREN.
Rioting stops as soon as you start killing the looters. It happens very fast, but no one has any guts or Ba!!$ anymore. Also, in case folks think your insurance will pay for the damage, read your policy. Riots, civil unrest, and war are examples of exclusions for paying.
I'm not saying shoot them dead...but they have to learn something from this or it will just keep repeating itself over and over.1675
Either spend the bullet money to just mow everybody down, which puts police and firefighter in danger, or just plain let them burn down their own city and take the police and firefighters out to serve a different city
That would leave Ferguson to finish itself off. We could go back later with bulldozers and a permit for a new landfill.
No need to rebuild for those who killed themselves off.
No need to rebuild for the surviving rioters, either.
They sit in their own squalor.
What have they done?
Who wants to live in Ferguson?
What business wants to be in Ferguson?
Who wants to raise their children in Ferguson?
They are burning their on community down.
What do think this will do for race relations?
Pres Obama,Al Sharpton, the black causus, Eric Holder Please address these items!
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