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| 2015-05-01 |
| [AmericanDigest] Today's predictable "Baltimore! Oh Baltimore!"editorial in the Wall St. Journal (The Blue-City Model) comes to an obvious conclusion with the old policy bromides the Journal's editors always slather on: Of late the progressives have been making a comeback, led by Bill de Blasio in New York and the challenge to sometime reform Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. This week’s nightmare in Baltimore shows where this leads. It’s time for a new urban renewal, this time built on the ideas of private economic development, personal responsibility, “broken windows” policing, and education choice. All of which would lead sensible people -- those not autonodding in brain-pithed agreement, to respond, "Oh blah, blah, blah..... blah-blah." When it comes to the left-behinds in urban black ghettos from coast to coast calling for "new" urban renewal at this point is indeed so much blah-blah; pure blather. If you've had urban reNEWal already "new renewal" is just a case of trying to find a way to chrome a turd. You might be able to spray something on but it will never survive buffing. Billions upon billions of dollars and decades of effort have gone down the drain of the left-behinds to no effect other than enriching the scamsters of "urban renewal." Baltimore is good solid case study in the proposition that nothing other than firm and unwavering policing over decades will help a deserted population captive to its nature as much as its nurture. The first job of government (free or fascist) is, after all, the maintenance of public order. Without public order nothing good can thrive and without public order, as we see in the burned out and trashed businesses of Baltimore, nothing good can survive. Once the flames have become ashes and the new cars driving in to haul loot away have faded away there is one lesson that Baltimore's taught other urban ghettos watching the fun on their flatscreen TVs: The police are frightened of those they are asked to police and the politicians who rule the police are even more terrified of the ghetto population. What other ghettos from Brooklyn to LA learn from Baltimore is that if they appear as flash riot mobs in enough numbers they will be able to loot as they please. Baltimore's rulers have assured the left-behinds that the cops won't come in shooting. And they won't. Until they do. Or until the National Guard does. Or until someone else entirely does. The head instigator of our current race riots, Barack Obama, has defined the red-hot Baltimore riots “a slow-rolling crisis.... This is not new, and we shouldn’t pretend that it’s new.” He might as well have added that under his leadership the race rioting will get worse since his minions cannot let "a slow-rolling crisis" go to waste. It will get worse and spread because what Obama and his cohort teach is essentially 'looting will be tolerated within zones that will be protected by the police we control.' As human beings have learned for centuries this sort of approach does not stop looting, it encourages it. What stops looting is the shooting of looters. On sight. In the street. Dead. "Pour encourage les autres." It may be that, over time, the Wall Street Journal's tired prescription of "private economic development, personal responsibility, “broken windows” policing, and education choice," might help a small percentage of the festering "left-behind" populations in our urban black ghettos. But that, even were it magically instituted today, would take generations to bear even marginal fruit. What's facing the nation in the Spring of 2015 is a whole smorgasbord of urban riot hot spots that have all been given permission from their leader Obama and his subordinates in state and local governments to riot and loot as soon as some pretext happens in their hood. It's a method of making sure that an update of "The Long Hot Summer of 1967" -- a record year for race riots with 159 riots -- is part of Obama's enduring legacy. What we are seeing here is what happens when a racist like Obama strolls the country sloshing gasoline on ghettos for years and then warns the police to not, even if they are about to be "killed in the line of duty," to not ever make the smallest little spark. It won't work. Sooner or later either the police, the urban rioters, or even more shadowy forces are going to start putting bullets into crowds of rioters. When that happens the rioters that have been harbored inside our cities and taught only dependency and violence will try to leave their urban spaces. And when that happens it would wise for such ambitious rioters to remember two things: 1. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of veterans currently own rifles strikingly similar to those they carried in the armed forces, lacking only the full-automatic selector switch. Their brothers, sisters, parents, friends, and neighbors who did not serve in the military are often just as familiar with the weapons, if not the tactics. and 2. There are a far greater number of scoped bolt-action hunting rifles in private hands in the United States. Keep this number in mind: based on deer stamps sold, approximately twenty million Americans venture into the woods every fall armed with such rifles, fully intending to shoot and kill a two-hundred-pound mammal. Millions of these scoped bolt-action deer rifles are quite capable of hitting a man-sized target at ranges out to and even beyond a thousand yards, or nearly three-fifths of a mile. In that context, the 500-yard effective range of the average semi-auto AR-pattern rifle is not at all remarkable. Bracken: When The Music Stops As is always the case, lack of firm policing and appeasement and the creation of "a safe space for those that want to destroy," just leads to wider and more virulent violence. At this moment the "new" attorney general of the United States is at her first press conference blathering on about "Developing a conversation with the Baltimore police department...." Like the Wall Street Journal bromides her predictable blah-blah bromides will also fall on ears deafened by decades of rap and crack with literally nothing left to lose. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #9 Indeed, Raj. Buddy Cianci. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-05-01 18:17 |
| #8 Joe Doorley. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-01 16:41 |
| #7 And that mayor later went to jail for corruption. Would that mayor be Buddy Cianci, Glenmore? |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-05-01 14:02 |
| #6 It will get worse and spread because what Obama and his cohort teach is essentially 'looting will be tolerated within zones that will be protected by the police we control.' Hence the calls for a "national police force" under the appropriately named AG Lynch. And if Obama is then forced to declare a "temporary national emergency" and "temporary" suspension of elections, well that nationalized police force will sure come in handy. As much as anything, that's what this has been about. As ed in texas pointed out, watch how much worse things get this summer, and get ready for all sorts of chin-pulling about the need for "credible law enforcement mechanisms" under the control of the Federal Government. And as we all know, l'etat c'est Obama. |
| Posted by: charger 2015-05-01 12:15 |
| #5 The first job of government (free or fascist) is, after all, the maintenance of public order. And as soon as the people who have the means (ie the productive) discern that it is no longer the priority, they vote with their feet. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-01 09:57 |
| #4 (Of course that was before the days of cell phone flash mobs.) (And that mayor later went to jail for corruption.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-05-01 07:50 |
| #3 It's early days yet. Old cops will tell you that as outside temperature and humidity approach body temperature, the odds for violence increase exponentially. July and August should be interesting, in the Chinese sense. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-05-01 07:50 |
| #2 I was in Providence, RI during the Blizzard of '78 (3+ feet of snow.) The mayor declared martial law because the roads were totally impassible, to police or any other vehicles. Some kid looted a store - stole a can of soup, IIRC - and an authority shot him dead right there. There was a great uproar in the media about the horrible abuse of power. The mayor was interviewed on tv that night and said (paraphrase) 'I'm sorry the boy was killed, but we will not tolerate civil disorder, and if more looting occurs, we will shoot.' No more looting occurred. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-05-01 07:49 |
| #1 Vanderleun is a wonderfully good writer. Bracken ain't bad at all. Just keep accumulating ammo. If you hand load, keep loading. Keep them all zeroed properly and handy. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2015-05-01 00:41 |