The Airborne arrives in Detroit, 1967.
Rodney King, Obama and the Looting of America
Riots are the exclusive domain of those who view themselves as outside the law. Whether they are outside the law because they are above or below the law is a matter of perspective. The rioters may see themselves as the oppressed and below the law, while their victims tend to think of them as above the law, with the power to rob and kill, without paying any significant price for it. All that is true whether we are talking about Russian peasants killing Jews, Indonesians killing ethnic Chinese or African-Americans killing whites.
Read much more here:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/03/rodney-king-obama-and-the-looting-of-america/Mike V is attempting to get back in the saddle with this post.
Interesting analysis, as far as it goes. My own analysis would point out that predatory, collectivist governments almost always benefit from such chaos, which in any case is a function of class and culture, not race. I once met a National Guard veteran of the Detroit riot in 1967 at a show of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, probably about 1977 or so. The conversation somehow got around to the riot and the efficacy of M-1 Garand fire on arsonists. The veteran had shot a rioter about to set fire to a building and was completely unapologetic. "What was I supposed to do? Kiss him?" he asked rhetorically. The Guardsman was black. The riots were used later that year as an excuse for the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. It ain't about race, it's about power, folks -- mostly government power. Keep that in mind.
Get it all here:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/05/rodney-king-obama-and-looting-of.htmlIf there are riots this year after George Zimmerman walks free because it looks like the Special Prosecutor overcharged him at 2nd degree murder, just because she decided to follow the orders of her political masters, than the common sense of every other LEO, DA, and prosecutor out there, are you going to be ready for what might ensue including a government crackdown and probably MORE GUN CONTROL? [img]http://www.arrse.co.uk/at
