bucs90
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- Feb 25, 2010
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Ok, so lets put aside the shooting that started this; The Feds will get to the bottom of that.
People started to riot, and loot, and throw rocks and Maltov Cocktails, and even shooting guns, 1 idiot even rushing a cop with a pistol pointed at him. Scary situation.
How would YOU have stopped this? Not the protests. That's legal. But protesters don't throw burning bottles of gas, or rocks, or pull guns, or burn down gas stations, or smash windows to steal car rims from stores.
How do YOU order it to be stopped? Just ask "pretty please" and hope that works? Do you resort to the billy clubs and beat 'em down? Go in 300 style with shields? Just go in balled fists and throw down UFC style?
Seriously. How do you propose the riot/looting be stopped? Or just say fuck it and let it go down however the crowd wants it to?
I would have machine gunned the lot of them and had air strikes on their homes.
The tactic they have been using in Los Angeles lately is to split the groups of rioters and just them destroy in small areas. Burn themselves out. This doesn't work well for people caught in riot zones. Unwitting people getting stuck in a pop up riot zone can expect no help. During the last peace march, I forget who it was for, some poor guy sitting at a bus stop was beaten unmercifully as the police watched. People were dragged from their cars and beaten. The police stand down. They do nothing. You are really on your own.
What happens in these riots is that when the businesses are burned and looted they don't come back. Then the black people who live there complain that they have no stores in their area and have to travel for miles before they can get so much as milk and bread.
That's right.
And if the cops had instead responded en mass, with lots of heavily armed men and armored cars, and filled the streets with gas to get the rioters to leave.........
Well, we see the reaction we get.
Some people want a dozen Andy Griffith's out there saying "Now by-Golly folks, we gotta knock this silliness off now, ya hear?"