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2015-05-01 -Land of the Free

Vanderleun: Joys in the Hood: Ramping Up for

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Posted by badanov 2015-05-01 00:12|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 00:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 07:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 07:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 07:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 09:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 12:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-05-01 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe Doorley.

Posted by Pappy 2015-05-01 16:41|| 2015-05-01 16:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Indeed, Raj. Buddy Cianci.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-05-01 18:17|| 2015-05-01 18:17|| Front Page Top

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