Riots in Baltimore

I'm back to my normal schedule, guys! Though I don't have my Friday spotlight, I'll be catching up all weekend. There will be pix and potpourri.

So another black man seems to have been killed by the police. This sparked protests, and then violence in Baltimore. Unlike Ferguson, it's a city run by a black mayor, with a mostly black police department. It really lays bare how the black concerns aren't anti-white, they're more class based.

Free Republic has been in full racism mode for a long time now. But here they prefer a more partisan take, blaming Democratic policies for the issue (because being partisan means never bothering to prove causation). This feeds into my theory that racism is a former tool of their partisanship gone rampant.

The other interesting thing about their reaction is the coexistence of calling for a police state and crying that this is part of Obama's plan to form a police state. Of course, most actual police states rely on stoking fear of some opposing tyrannical power to maintain legitimacy, so this checks out.

Dacula's partisanship allows him to laugh at the misery of others:

HA HA!

You get what you asked for Mayor!

Your protest zones are now disaster areas.

Maybe she did it on purpose?

vette6387 waves his horrifying lack of empathy like a tribal flag:

Baltimore is just a bigger Ferguson. Maybe Starbucks will build in Baltimore too. For me sympathy is just a word between $hit and Syphilis in the dictionary.

Like many Freepers, Old Sarge's fictional Obama is super happy.

President Barack Obama has spoken with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake about the ongoing rioting situation in Baltimore. President will "provide assistance as needed."

Real statement went more like "You go, sistah!"

dfwgator knows the real sides everyone is on:

News crew attacked...CNN crew?

Friendly fire.

Bodleian_Girl's real time reporting is too real to bother with perspective:

Listening to the scanner. It’s bad.Like almost Katrina bad.

kingu advocates a Tienanmen-style crackdown, though he's not so sanguine when authoritarian violence happens near him.

I think it is easy to determine where violent action is taking place, fly the helicopter a few feet over the buildings and notify people deadly force will be used in this area, and then start shooting. If you want to be squishy, you could start live fire with rubber bullets.

Then again, I've been where police started shooting pepper balls and rubber bullets without any warning; I was standing three feet away from the cameraman who took a shot to his camera lens covering the DNC freakshow in Los Angeles in 2000.

Oatka wants the anti-hippie tactics of yesteryear, followed by gunfire.

Back in the '60s, when the Italian Communists used to riot in the streets on a weekly basis, the police loaded their water cannon with dye, sprayed the rioters and then afterward, arrested anyone so marked.

In the current situation, use a brilliant yellow and do the same. The side benefit is that the rioters would make excellent targets illuminated in this manner.

I don't know why I find greene66's constant performative nihilism is so tiresome. Probably because Freepers never fail to give him the attention he seeks.

It’s just liberal, Obama-voting animals, in a liberal Obama-voting city, in a liberal Obama-voting state. I don’t give a damn about any of it. That’s Obama’s America. Obama’s fag-marriage America. Not mine. And Obama’s America can just go burn to the ground as far as I care.

Dqban22 knows the only way to fix violence in the black community - Obama's department in the white!

The democratic Mayor of Baltimore who incited the rioters thugs to destroy the city should be put in jail and impeached

Dozens of Blacks are murdered by Blacks every month just in Chicago. Obama should create a department in the white and hire several dozens of new personal to be sent as Obama’s personal representatives to the funerals of murdered Blacks regardless of the race of the perpetrator. Is for Obama the life of a Black only worthy if the murderer is white, but is worthless is the murderer is Black?

According to FBHI statistics, 84% of white homicide victims were murdered by Blacks. How many times Obama sent his White House personal representatives to the funerals of Whites murdered by Black felons?

Fellow Freepers commend clee1's clever "Obama likes bad thing" comment:

"President will "provide assistance as needed."

To whom, the rioters or the police?

Post of the Day!

Biggirl knows her some race relations:

Mr. Obama has set race relations back “50 years”.

Candor7 finds the conspiracy to be obvious:

earlier Stephanie dearest said that the protestors should be left free to destroy. Obviously this is the leftest role of the cadres of leftist Baltimore/Washington radicals who promote and incite riot pursunat to community organizers, likely from the Obama campaign.. Now if the black folk begin to “lose “ in their fight for equal “right” ( really they are just thugs)then Obama will send in the feds if Stephanie asks for them.

Let the revolution proceed! Burn down Baltimore...federalize all State and local police departments!( This is what its all about.)Fascism being born as we speak.

A poser - did dragnet2 misspell guerrilla on purpose?

Hope the NG know this town, because this is coordinated urban gorilla rioting...Takes cops a hour to get set up in a hot zone, then gorilla rioters suddenly show up many blocks away.