Delightful Might Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I am six blocks from where shops have been smashed, we are on lockdown. My street is eerily quiet. All the video feed is rolling in at #baltimore. I am new to anarchy. What is a view as to how this happened? This place is a powder keg. Help me understand what is happening to my city!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzd19 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Irrationality and a culture of violence did this to Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Might Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 We just climbed on the roof to watch a really big fire just North of Johns Hopkins. There are so many helipcopters. Thanks, jzd, yes I agree. I feel really sad. I have to sleep with one ear open tonight in case the store downstairs gets looted and set on fire. This is all crazy. -D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AynRand Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 An irrational belief that statist run police enforcers are the best way to "keep the peace" did this to Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percentient Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 It's a weird kind of symbiosis. Protesters: look how oppressed we are! Change the environment and we'll get better. Cops: look how much violence there is! We're important and underfunded. http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/04/25/baltimore-mayor-gave-those-who-wished-to-destroy-space-to-do-that/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirgall Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 And, of course, everyone is now focused on the mom who recognized her own son rioting and "whooped" him... when it was probably her whooping when he was younger that made him likely to act out. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. D. Stembal Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Just like Ferguson, we will probably find out afterwards that looters and rioters were bused into the city to raze it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Might Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Yes! Yes! You see regular, gigantic punishment of children, openly, on the streets, at the post office, here. Vicious, terrifying. Definitely of the sort that changes gray matter!!!!!! On my street at night there are people that walk up and down beating on things, screaming at each other, fighting with each other, usually. This isn't even during the protests. There is a horrible problem here with hardcore, toxic cruel violence in the families. Thanks, Shirgall. I think it is a weird symbiosis that feeds on itself, Percentient, in that we have American-Irish mafia with strong ties to the police (the white belonging to white-only clubs) that have their own agenda, and the two forces have this incendiary effect. Exactly the sort of problem that arises out of statist forces. J.D. - I have already seen many (they're easy to recognize) "professional" protesters, definitely out-of-staters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaaa11 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I think there are a few important things people aren't paying enough attention to: - The media's victimizing and at times falsely representing important issues or not discussing important issues - The underlying issue that we hold the government and the police to different moral standards than we ourselves - The fact that laws don't police themselves - every law, regulation, tax code, etc. that people call for means more police (Stef talks about thisin The Truth About Eric Garner) The more people feel victimized, and the more people get caught up in the symptoms of underlying problems, the angrier people get. The angrier people get, the more riots there are, the more riots there are, the more people think we need more police. I wrote more about this on Quora: http://qr.ae/0Iull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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