Block Party in Baltimore

I have watched with horror the carnage taking place in Baltimore. It brings back memories of the riots in the 60s in the area I lived at the time. My Dad drove into the city to get his Mom out and bring her out to our house in the suburbs where she would be safer. Scary stuff for a little kid. I was worried about my Dad and my Grandma.

I watched the breakdown of society in Baltimore. Do black businesses matter? Does black owned homes and property matter? Do human lives matter? Firefighters were fired on like they were in Ferguson, fire hose was cut. At night, when families are presumably asleep in their beds, row homes were set on fire. The police seemed powerless to stop the carnage.

Let’s compare and contrast shall we with the Rodney King riots in 1992?  Now I picked this particular video to illustrate two things. First, there was part of town that was untouched by the riots, and I think why will be very apparent. Two because the news readers are so darn stupid. I mean talk about missing the big picture. If you listen to what they are fixated on it’s mind numbing. A town is burning, one section of town is being left alone, it’s obvious why, and rather than discuss that and perhaps learn something they choose to chase the ideology. Well, they don’t call it the lamestream media for nothing I suppose.

But the government is usually there to protect life and property, right?

 

One of these things is not like the other. Is it?

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10 thoughts on “Block Party in Baltimore”

    1. Agreed, Miguel’s post at GunFreeZone.net was eye-opening, to say the least.

      And the comments to the CBSlocal article are eye-opening, as well. So many people welcome the politicians and policies that make these riots not only a possibility, but a near-certainty….

      Combine that with a business insurance scheme that doesn’t cover “civil unrest” without a VERY expensive additional rider, and you get a system rigged to force out honest (private) business owners and the jobs, opportunities, and services they provide. By accident or design, it’s a system that guarantees a downward spiral into a welfare (read: police) state.

  1. Good Lord, the two at the anchor desk in the second video are pieces of work!
    – “Have you asked them if their firearms are registered?”
    – “Do they have handguns, too?”
    – “That looks to be an Uzi!”
    – “This has to be a disturbing sight to the LAPD….”

    Why not stop beating around the bush? Just come out and ask it: “Isn’t there anything the LAPD can do to stop these people from protecting themselves and their property?” You know that’s what they’re thinking!

    That and the reporter’s “I had a real language problem here, and I think it may have been on purpose,” and “I don’t know whether all these guns are legal,” statements. Again, if you have an accusation, just come out and say it! Enough with the innuendo!

  2. I usually have a strong urge to throw things and scream when I read news stories that, almost invariably, include the information that the victim had a “permit,” the gun was “legal,” or especially if the gun possession WASN’T somehow “legal.”

    One assumes then that the media folks believe that the proper response of a victim without the “license” should be not to resist, and allow themselves to be killed or injured by the attacker. How dare they use “illegal” guns to defend themselves?

  3. A close friend of mine for the past forty years had “rooftop duty” in Koreatown during the 1992 LA Riots. The goblins learned very quickly that this was a neighborhood not to be trifled with. Still, a new batch of idiots tried each night for about a week, IIRC.

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn was much the same during the Crown Heights Riots a year earlier. Hasidic men, shotguns in hand, and cars blocking off their neighborhoods, “eyeballing” anyone that tried to come near.

    1. Re crown heights

      That’s the first I have heard that anecdote. Are you referring to armed and organized Shomrim, or?…

      (Searching online I only find 1 reference to the latter).

      A source would be appreciated.

      1. Sorry, I have no media source for the armed Satmar men. Then again, they have a vested interest in suppressing such favorable references to armed “civilians”, as they serve the elites.

        I do not know if they were Shomrim in the formal sense, but they certainly were in the informal sense. According to friends and relatives who were there at the time, the Police turned a blind eye; seeing it as one less area they needed to be worried about in the face of containing the mess in Crown Heights.

        Many Lubavitch Hasidim, who have a history of differences with the Satmar, nonetheless absorbed the lesson. They just don’t talk about it.

        It is said that NYC (especially Brooklyn) has more illegal firearms per square mile than anywhere on earth. 🙂

  4. During the Crown Heights Riots my wife was working for a market research firm. A co-worker came running to her in a panic. The co-worker had robo-dialed a number and found herself connected with a terrified and distraught woman speaking a foreign language.

    My wife took the headset and discovered that a) the woman was speaking Yiddish, b) from her apartment window vantage-point the woman had a clear view of one of the bridges, c) a violent mob had forced a school bus to a stop on the bridge, d) the bus was filled with yeshivah (Jewish religious school) students.

    My wife was, from a call center across the country, able to contact the police and relay the details in real time. The coordinated efforts likely averted imminent murder and mayhem.

    Baruch HaShem.

  5. Baruch HaShem indeed! What a fabulous story for Pesach Shanee (שני), though I’m not sure about the spelling in English. The day of second chances and the children on that bus certainly got one. So a perfect story! No coincidence in my mind that the co-worker ran to your wife. He knew who could help those children, even from across the country. Isn’t he amazing?

    Ok, I admit it, I really like the part about the Hasidic men with shotguns guarding their neighborhood. Good on them!

  6. That last video about Kristallnacht had an extraordinary statement about the gentile onlookers: “Their silence, and their ignoring of what was taking place, was the same as direct participation.”

    I’m sorry, that is too much for me. To imagine a positive obligation of others to protect them, is drawing exactly the wrong conclusion from Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. It is madness to depend on others for protection. IT DOESN’T WORK. Why, really would some people speak up or try to stop it? Why would anyone expect these people to act against their own self-interest?

    If people want something done, they had better do it themselves. Someone comes to burn your Synagogue? Kill him. Or leave. Those are the only two reasonable choices.

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