He was a good boy though.


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I thought it was police brutality that they were "destroying Baltimore over."

Last time i checked, police brutality was still a criminal offence even if the guy they're beating up is the Son of Sam.

 

Think of all the people who are suffering because of all the property in Baltimore that has been destroyed. Think of all the stores that have been looted. Many of the stores were small, family owned stores that had little or no insurance. Many of the people who owned those stores will never recover from this. Why did those people deserve to suffer because of the death of one more black ghetto thug?

 

Come back to me when you have something to say that's relevant to my comments.

 

Have a closer look mostly weed charges and minor offenses even the only real crimes on there are 2nd degree assault and 4th degree burglary which are misdemeanors.

 

Because, that's the way it works. It's all part of the natural order.

We make a deal with Power. We let Power tell us how fast we can drive, how tall our grass can grow, and a multitude of other rules and regulations that don't mean a fucking thing, except without them we would have chaos. In return for knuckling under and obeying the rules, Power promises to maintain order. It's a pretty good deal for us. We get to have nice things like cars and houses and clean water, without having to turn our house into a fortress to protect our stuff from our neighbors.

There are always a few people who want to steal our stuff. They steal our car, break into our house, they might even dump oil in our water. Power keeps these people under control. They maintain order. They made a deal. Order is the opposite of chaos. As long as Power keeps their side of the bargain, all is fine.

Power has limited resources. It depends upon the cooperation of most people, to keep the unruly people under control. When most people start to get the feeling that Power is not keeping up the bargain, bad things happen. Power can't do it all. When enough people decide to go out in the street and confront Power, to demand the bargain be kept, it doesn't matter how orderly they are. It doesn't matter how peaceful they are. Power doesn't have the resources to keep order when too many people decide to be a little disorderly.

Power can't be everywhere at the same time, so the few people who never respected Power in the first place, do what they've been wanting to do. There is no plan, there is no goal. They just want to steal and break stuff, and Power has its hands full at the moment.

The only thing Power values more than keeping Power, is keeping order. Without order, Power is useless. Without order, Power has nothing to offer and it's very likely some other Power will come along and make a new bargain. It happens all the time. We call it revolution.

In the case of Baltimore, Power lost sight of the critical element in the great bargain. If you want a person to cooperate, they must have something at stake, if they don't cooperate. You can't threaten a person who has nothing to lose. The death of a man in police custody is an extreme thing. For every extreme thing, there are thousands of moderate things. What's moderate compared to a fatal spinal injury? Maybe a concussion. Maybe a cracked rib. If the Baltimore Police can fatally injure a man who is handcuffed, how many did they moderately injure?

Every person who was mistreated by the Baltimore police has parents and brothers and sisters. The guy with the concussion may have a criminal record, and maybe deserves to have permanent brain damage, but who thinks his mother, the licensed practical nurse, is going to forget what happened. Will his father, the Postal Carrier, think his son got what he deserved from the police?
That's not the way it works.

If Power wants to keep the bargain, they can't do it by hurting people. The bargain is, "cooperate and we will keep you safe." There is nothing in the bargain about "refuse to cooperate and we will kill you." No one signed up for that deal. If anyone in Baltimore wants to restore order, they need to go back and figure out when it was that people decided they had nothing to lose.

 

The relevance of my comment was over your head.

 

We can shoot him, or we can sentence him to hard labor until he is too old to commit crimes.

 

That's not a threat to someone who has nothing to lose.

 

It will keep him off the streets.

 

What difference does that make? Would shooting more people have prevented Baltimore's current problems?

 

Probably. When blacks were afraid of white authorities they seldom rioted. During the 1960's there were no riots of any significance in the original eleven Confederate states. The riots ended abruptly with the inauguration of Richard Nixon.

After the end of Reconstruction in 1876, when blacks were denied rights granted to them in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments by the passing of Jim Crow legislation, blacks were quiescent. They only riot when they think they can get away with it.

 

Again, what difference does that make? How does someone "get away" with a riot? It's not like you can hide it from the public. It's not the riot, it's the threat of the riot.

 

Addiction is brutal there has to be a better way to treat those with addictions.

 

It all starts in the home, parents are no longer parents, they want to be their children's friend.

 

A sleeping giant has been awoken and this is just the beginning

 

We don't know if that is what happened.

 

That's the order alright but there is nothing natural about it

 

Who gives a fuck what his arrest record looks like the fucking retard cops got the kid killed by driving like assholes

 

Enroll in a community college and take some history lessons because you have no clue what your talking about