"This was a manufactured protest from out of towners"

Thank you for recognizing the possibility that it wasn't locals fueling this.

I would add to the quote: "and the inevitable responses from the liberal media (and the former "community organizing" Obama) that was the goal".

Posted by $ mdk2608 0 minutes ago


Just watching this mayor on television tells me she is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Black President, 2 black attorney generals, a black chief of police should remind us that the liberal agenda is failing us. Simply going black is not the answer. It should also remind us that it is not about the color of our skin but the content of our character and our individual philosophy about life politically and morally. The liberal leftist agenda is destroying America from within.

hey wonk. have any links to back up your points? we're are not getting a good journalistic take on this. Most of us are not from the area. we need context

Jan, I can only speak for my own experience, which overwhelmingly indicates that the afluent, urban liberals are much more generous with other people's money than with their own. Not so?

I happen to live here, and I can tell you that only a handful of feeble-minded locals were incited by outside "community organizing" entities. The local gangs were actually trying to stop the violence and destruction of property. Very few here think this is a white vs. black issue at root because we all know that the issue is profiling, surveillance, and the tyranny of government (primarily black government here). Give the original, local, peaceful, protestors some credit- they really do recognize that liberal policies have failed them and relegated them to the status of herd of animals kept under control with terrible educations and welfare checks, while real opportunities to rise out of poverty are shipped out of their neighborhoods.

Shame on any of us who believe the liberal media. The media, which, by the way, is intentionally spinning this out of context to portray the locals as idiots who want to destroy their own city because they are uncivilized anarchists or because they are the ignorant pawns of liberal policies. I’m sure that Obama is happy about the spin. It’s up to the rest of us to see through the spin and recognize that it is just one more cog in the engine driving us toward a welfare/police state.

The existence of many well-educated and intelligent liberals is what I am substantiating.

I am not of the opinion that their 'wisdom' is lacking, but perhaps that their 'reality' is missing. These are all people who have been raised in an affluent urban environment.

They really mean that the poor should be supported and that the EPA is right about everything - and they are willing to give their own efforts and money to endorse this. (But they are also willing to vote to take my money for those purposes too.) These people really mean it.

Jan

Hello Jan,
But, they do not see the contradictions? It sounds as if they are well educated, but not wise.. they lack critical thinking skills? A hard drive on a computer contains a wealth of information, but with a faulty CPU only nonsense can come of it...
Regards,
O.A.

Then, pray tell me, how could they justify one person stealing from another, either for his own benefit, or for the benefit of others?

Thank you for the giggle.

Jan

strugatsky -

I only wish it were so! It would make it a lot easier for my world view. Alas, I am surrounded by graduates of highly reputed technical colleges (Cal Tech, Harvey Mudd) who can quote Shakespeare, recite Gilbert and Sullivan, are incredibly knowledgeable about history (ancient and modern), have well developed skills in logic and rhetoric, have productive jobs...and are earnestly committed to the liberal philosophy.

Jan
(And, yes, they have read Atlas Shrugged.)

I listened carefully to her entire speech, and this is what I took away from it: when you try to make room for an emotionally distraught community to gather in peaceful assembly and express their feelings and opinions, you also open the door for thugs to abuse the security restraints to destroy and loot. I didn't hear anything like an invitation to riot, loot, or destroy, as has been depicted in the media. Maybe she could have spoken a little more at length, or promised accountability for anyone caught doing the destructive actions, but most of the time these press speeches are somewhat extemporaneous (maybe the Prez should have loaned her his teleprompter). Judge not, I always have to remind myself.

The governor of Maryland has also taken flak for not immediately sending in the National Guard, but there is a hierarchy of authority, and he wanted to give the mayor a chance to get things under control. Once it was clear to the mayor that things weren't going to calm down easily, she called the governor for the Guard, and he immediately responded.

Liberal governance has pretty much destroyed the moral social structures in Maryland, and we're seeing the result. Both the mayor and the governor are new in their positions, so let's see how they handle the planning for trying to correct the mess.

heard today that she went to Oberlin. . lib education.
she "learned" poliSci = best oxymoron except for
sanitary sewer. -- j

It's called hate, woodlema. Hate and stupidity.
The same thing happened to Detroit, starting in the 60s.
First the riots. Then white flight. Then the first of an endless succession of corrupt Democrat mayors, bleeding the city dry. In the 70s, Mayor Young told "whitey to get out", and we did, taking our money with us. That's what started the death spiral, and what really pissed off the blacks. They wanted us out, but not our money.
So, now whenever anything goes wrong in the D, it's whitey's fault, because we took our money out of the city.

Where else in society do we see the entitlement and oppression mentality preached (very literally) the most? Black communities. Rabble-rousers like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others make their living based on racial animus and fear-mongering. Do you see anything remotely like it in any other sector of society? No.

There is no such thing as an African American. Or a Chinese American. Or a Caucasian. We're all just Americans. End of Story. As soon as people stop referring to themselves by their skin color, ethnic heritage (or lack of it), etc. the better off this nation will be.

Jan, I would respectfully disagree with the claim that well-educated and brilliant intellectuals are liberal (or some are liberal). Analyze their education and intellectual ability. Are they simply well read in certain areas? Perhaps, but that is not a complete, rounded education. How good are their reasoning and logical skills? Have they been repeating the same dogmas that go unquestioned in their world – global warming, terrorism comes from poverty, minorities are oppressed, etc.? Quite a few academia types would never even allow themselves to question those, and other, postulates of their world. Meanwhile, they live off the government graft and would often be totally incapable of being self-sufficient and truly earning their living. Ability to quote Marx and knowing art history does not make one an intellectual if they are incapable of independent thought, logic and reason. In my personal experience, everyone that I’ve ever known from the Liberal/Progressive/socialist side has been either an adolescent (mentally) who believes that things will just happen because one’s wish is good, or they are parasites that suck on the socialist tit because it’s good for them, and damn all others.

Hahahahahaha

OK, time for an asylum story...
A inspection comes to an asylum and sees that the inmates are running around, grinning, laughing, very happy. One of the inspectors grabs an inmate a queries him on the reasons for such gaiety. Excitedly, he says - "the management has been really good to us - they've built us a pool; we swim in it, we dive in it, it's great! And they tell us that if we behave ourselves, they'll even put water in it!"

Well let's wait and see what kind of fesses dribbles from his mouth.

I am willing to bet he will not talk about Freddie Grey's extensive criminal record, or that Freddie, crashed his bicycle, and cops often see people just go limp to make dragging them to the car harder...so his "inability" to move was about normal for what cops see every day.

No reason at all to think he was really hurt, especially since in his criminal past he was guilty of lying to police.

That would be a YES!!!

And to add to the mix, just read where Turd
Al Sharpless is planning a visit to Baltimore. How much more sickening can this situation
get?

Isn't it ironic how mostly black cities like Baltimore, having a black mayor, black police chief, and mostly black officers seem to have the most frustration against their white minority and against the law? Does this make any sense?

I live in an white area, white mayor, white police and mostly white officers. We don't seem to have racial issues with our black minority, we are all are just part of the community.

The issues I see have nothing whatsoever to do with race. I can understand the frustration of the people. If they would start electing people that can bring together a community rather than tearing it apart maybe things will improve. There is no excuse for looting and the more they get away with the more they will do.

I saw another video where she said she did not say that, she said they were taking her words out of context. Is it possible she just made a gross blunder? I think her heart is actually in the right place, her fault is that she's a politician and occasionally makes stupid statements.

Watching the video at the link, Mr. Jason Downs had the best message, more leaders need to follow his lead, precise, to the point, and short. The minister also had a good message but came across too much as a just another speech, and way too long for any of the thugs to understand. The solution to stop these riots and property destruction will have to come from the black leaders. Where are they? It's unfortunate there are not enough of them willing to take a stand and to make a difference. The only one's that are willing are the agitators, the Sharpton's and his followers.

They are trying to control this problem using our current administrations methods that are proven every day that they just don't work. Criminals need to be held accountable for their crimes, and that's the only thing that will resolve the crime. If there were no crime, there would be limited use for the police. It's almost funny how we pay them to do a job, them we tell them not to do it. Has anyone felt that these riots seems to have increase somewhat since we hired this president, or is it just that the media reports more of it?

I think that is the proper course of action. And the insurance company claims should include the phrase, "Due to deliberate action on the part of the mayor..."

Jan

I think there is a major error in considering liberal == uneducated. Most of the well-educated and brilliant intellectuals I know are very liberal. So I think that it would be equally possible that the mayor be well educated and still have made the decisions she did. (I do not know her educational background one way or another.)

Jan

"...did our very best to de-escalate;" How'd that work out for you Madam Mayor? Talk about a lack of judgment! It's pretty obvious that she can't tell the difference between the exercise of free speech and the willful allowance of rioting.