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Anarchy in Baltimore

Posted on | April 28, 2015 | 128 Comments

What happened Monday night in Baltimore, the Economist reported, “is perhaps best described not as a riot but as anarchy”:

Though there are police lines, there are few protesters or people fighting the police or hurling stones. Indeed, where the police are lined up, the people standing around are mostly taking photos on their phones. Drive a few blocks in any direction, though, and suddenly it feels lawless. Groups of young men, boys really, wearing bandanas and hoodies, stand on street corners next to derelict buildings, staring at anyone passing, and occasionally throwing projectiles at cars. Young women hurry home carrying bags of stolen loot: food, clothes, and bottles of beer and liquor. On the occasional street here and there cars burn freely. Shops, of which there are not many in this abandoned corner of the inner city, are ravaged, their windows smashed, their shelves picked over. Cars hurtle through red lights at high speed, music blaring, boys leaning out of the windows. And everywhere the intense smell of smoke and the buzz of helicopters overhead.

The Baltimore Sun reports:

As night fell, looters took to Mondawmin Mall and a Save-A-Lot and Rite Aid in Bolton Hill, loading up cars with stolen goods. About 10 fire crews battled a three-alarm fire at a large senior center under construction at Chester and Gay streets, as police officers stood guard with long guns. . . .
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declared a curfew across the city starting Tuesday and for the next week, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for adults and 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for children aged 14 and younger. She drew a distinction between peaceful protesters and “thugs” she said engaged in rioting Monday intend on “destroying our city.”
“It’s idiotic to think that by destroying your city, you’re going to make life better for anybody,” Rawlings-Blake said.

(“Idiotic”? Ma’am, these are Democrat voters you’re talking about.)

At Rawlings-Blake’s request, Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency and activating the Maryland National Guard. . . .
The governor is sending 500 state troopers to Baltimore and requesting as many as 5,000 officers from neighboring states, he said in a press conference.
“I have not made this decision lightly,” Hogan said. “The National Guard represents a last resort.”

Of course, if the National Guard can’t restore order, President Obama could deploy the 82nd Airborne Division, or maybe order some Predator drone strikes against the rioters, but we probably don’t want think about that “last resort.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates offers intellectual excuses for the rioters:

Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city’s publicly appointed guardians of order. And yet the mayor of that city and the commissioner of that city’s police still have no idea what happened. . . .
The citizens who live in West Baltimore, where the rioting began, intuitively understand this. I grew up across the street from Mondawmin Mall, where today’s riots began. My mother was raised in the same housing project, Gilmor Homes, where Freddie Gray was killed. Everyone I knew who lived in that world regarded the police not with admiration and respect but with fear and caution. People write these feelings off as wholly irrational at their own peril, or their own leisure. The case against the Baltimore police, and the society that superintends them, is easily made . . .

Right. Liberals must blame “society,” despite the fact that the “publicly appointed guardians of order” answer to a “society” (i.e., the citizens of Baltimore) who in 2012 gave 87% of their votes to Barack Obama. Yet it is predictable that, to people whose politics is a simple devotion to (a) electing Democrats and (b) supporting liberal policies, the evidence of failure leaves them angry, confused and hunting for scapegoats. Democrats cannot be blamed, nor can the party’s most loyal constituents be held responsible, and the possibility that liberalism is itself the problem — well, no, thoughts like that never cross the mind of someone like Ta-Nehisi Coates. His worldview is completely fact-proof and immune to the influence of logical deduction.

This is the political gospel of modern liberalism: People who vote 87% Democrat are never to be blamed for anything they do wrong. And really, the liberal asks, isn’t “wrong” kind of a judgmental word when applied to the peace-loving citizens of Baltimore?





 

Category: Crime, Liberals, Maryland, Racism

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128 Responses to “Anarchy in Baltimore”

  1. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:33 pm

    I suspect the rank and file of the Mafia looked at the police with fear and caution, though they at least had the brains to pay them off. That old Mafia probably wished they had the cover the media gives to this cult of criminality. The fact Coates has made a living off his “wholly irrational” fears seems to have escaped everybody. He has dedicated his professional career to racial incitement and now he says “Oh, look! Tension!”

    It also seems to escape this crew of neutral sociologists that other demographies aren’t suffering this demographic spike of deaths at the hands of police. That is not to excuse extra-judical killings, but merely to point out the collateral damage of war and the incitement and endemic criminality that causes that war.

    I’m not surprised you finally latched onto the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated Saladin Ahmed. He is the Ta-Nehisi Coates of SFF; he and the entire core community really. Their racial incitement is non-stop and 365 days a year. Apparently SFF literature is a racist supremacy that also has it in for women and homosexuals.

    The word “hysterical” does not begin to describe these liars, though “failure” easily explains the worst of them, the one’s behind all the incitement.

    I’m not listening – period. I wasn’t born yesterday. I used to run the streets and for a long time. I know exactly what it is these people do and what they are selling. I certainly know more about the streets than some unemployed shut-in like Ahmed who annually begs for money on the internet from the very white people he lights up the other 51 weeks of the year.

  2. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:52 pm

    And yet that is one of the exact incidents these preening liars keep showing on Twitter as proof on something or other. I say something or other because the only fact in evidence is these people don’t like whites.

  3. robertstacymccain
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:54 pm

    Coates is not always bad. As liberal pundits go, he’s far from the worst. But this blame-shifting, this attempt to excuse mob violence by saying, “Hey, bad things happened to Freddie Gray,” is simply irresponsible. It’s like some Klansman circa 1900 inciting mob violence against the black community because of an “outrage” (real or imagined) against a white woman. And it’s difficult to say that the lawlessness that Coates seems willing to excuse is less harmful to the black community than the lawlessness perpetrated by the Klan. In other words, those who are “pro-black” are often as harmful to the legitimate interests of blacks as any “anti-black” person might be. The question, really, is not who is more sympathetic to black people, but what policies actually advance the legitimate interests of black people.

  4. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:54 pm

    Why wouldn’t a veritable Mafia wish such a thing? Of course eventually they’ll loot all the remaining stores and have no free lunch and go back to complaining about “da ghetto” whites made.

  5. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:55 pm

    Don’t forget its allies, the “radical chic.” Without the flak catchers this whole thing doesn’t get very far.

  6. Daniel Freeman
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm

    Hmmm… You may be right, given that I’m not getting paid for this. Freedom from wage slavery, yay!

  7. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm

    No it doesn’t. It disproportionately targets people stupid enough to deal drugs on the street to strangers. Whites don’t generally do that. Calling being smart racism is about par for the course with a moron.

  8. K-Bob
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:00 pm

    Yep. And the media will keep that obvious racism from being questioned.

  9. K-Bob
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:06 pm

    By the way, I assume you’ve all seen Hillary’s new, prepared H. Evidently she’s applied some sort of rainbow preparation to her H and now it looks a lot like a picture of rainbow colored columns, where the column on the left is “giving it” to the (probably) same-sex column on the right.

    Maybe someone could do an MSNBC version where the column on the right is leaning forward.

  10. Delaney Coffer
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:36 pm

    I have a dream. It involves seeing looters getting their teeth beaten out with a tire iron.

  11. Adobe_Walls
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:37 pm

    Their desire isn’t for a war that minorities must ultimately loose. The goal is for more government and for a massive infusion of cash. This is what they got after the 68 riots. The rights to control how and where this cash is spent equals power and will produce the same dismal results. The purpose of the relatively limited violence is to induce fear and most importantly guilt into the larger population. I don’t think it will work this time. As a nation we don’t have the cash, and are generally less willing to again waste what we do have. The reservoir of guilt has long been emptied and will never be filled again.

  12. Delaney Coffer
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:39 pm

    White people are the minority in Baltimore, you retarded bigot.

  13. Adobe_Walls
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:47 pm

    And then there’s this.

  14. concern00
    April 28th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm

    It is truly sad that a once great Christian nation has come to this. We are used to seeing this in third world back waters run by corrupt governments. Hope and change.

  15. Squid Hunt
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:16 pm

    That’s a fact. Any real news agency would be able to point that out just by tracking the arrestees. The activists deliberately get arrested to put their names in the paper.

  16. Quartermaster
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:22 pm

    Translation: Truth = racial stereotyping = homophobia.
    You libtards keep accusing conservatives of hatred, but all you do is project. The left is filled with hate for everything that is decent. And H8erz gonna H8.

  17. trangbang68
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:30 pm

    Everything she said is empirically provable. The War on Poverty destroyed the black family. Illegitimacy is 75% in the Afro-American society. The poverty pimps have stoked racial hatred to keep their own bank account flush.
    You’re an annoying liberal dope who probably lives in a gentrified neighborhood.

  18. The original Mr. X
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:39 pm

    “Yes, that’s right, I’m racist against stupid people.” — Larry Correia

  19. The original Mr. X
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm

    Community leaders insist that the solution is more investment, pointing out that many communities don’t have a single grocery store.
    Well, they certainly don’t any more.

  20. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:53 pm

    All racial and sexual radical ideologies liberalism embraces are suicide cults. They neither work biologically nor civilizationally. The proof of the fraud is blacks aren’t flocking to Africa nor lesbians to some imaginary non-binary non-West. This is a con game up and down the line. Where are the savvy Americans from our old screwball comedies? Were they imaginary? I don’t think so. My uncle would’ve handed these silly creatures a straightjacket and get out of Dodge sign. I laugh at the radical intersectional feminist notions of a “safer-space.” What they really mean is “danger-space,” or “failure-space.” Civilizationally it would be a “slave-space” or “comfort-women space.”

    I think it’s that failure to see themselves as humans and instead as a separate race of the “marginalized” which fuels their low self-esteem. The fact they can’t succeed with the demographic identities they have done more than anyone else to perpetuate must sting like a bitch. Meanwhile, normal people move on. Please don’t tell me a cult awash in hi-tech gadgets has no means to go explore the world. They don’t want to. They’re low-rent myopic whiny children of pop culture without an ounce of character or intellectual honesty. They’re more interested in watching Dr. Who than visiting Tikal.

  21. Daniel Freeman
    April 28th, 2015 @ 5:53 pm

    Good Lord. That is appallingly plausible.

    I like it better than the alternative, which is that they’re trying to provoke a martial law situation on purpose, but still. It will not work this time — there is no piñata full of goodies — and if they’re really stupid enough to expect one (which I can believe), then they will keep on pushing to the breaking point.

  22. Adobe_Walls
    April 28th, 2015 @ 6:34 pm

    A martial law situation isn’t inconsistent with my hypothesis, indeed given the dry well of guilt, the need to rely on fear will increase.

  23. Wombat_socho
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:41 pm

    Bye, stalker.

  24. Wombat_socho
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:42 pm

    STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS. ESPECIALLY THE STUPID ONES.

  25. Wombat_socho
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:43 pm

    The real Mafiosi were smarter than these idiots. They understood that if the host dies or sickens, the parasites don’t do well either.

  26. Wombat_socho
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:46 pm

    Booker T. Washington had the “pro-black” activists pegged a long time ago. Too bad he got shoved aside by all the white progressives and their “talented tenth” front men.

  27. gothamette
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:47 pm

    This is disgusting. I have no sympathy for these creeps. I wish the cops could shoot to kill.

    When the riots broke out in LA after the King verdict, I had a residual sympathy for the reasons for the rioting. In the ensuing years I realize that the sympathy was misplaced and that King was a thug, but I’m just saying how I felt at the time.

    Now, I don’t give a shit. Shoot ’em. But we won’t. Wrecked small businesses are just a cost of business in the US of A. But when you interfere with a big business, like baseball, well, that’s a different thing entirely.

  28. Fail Burton
    April 28th, 2015 @ 7:49 pm

    Safer-space, Safer-space!!

  29. theoldsargesays
    April 28th, 2015 @ 8:03 pm

    State violence?
    If it turns out that a few bad cops are responsible for Mr. Gray’s death then you would call it “state violence”?
    You sure you want to go with that?
    Okay then…

    Man did you guys see the entire black community in Baltimore looting and destroying their own city?
    These people huh?

    My statement sounds a bit over the top doesn’t it?
    What about yours?

  30. theoldsargesays
    April 28th, 2015 @ 8:20 pm

    The war on drugs disproportionately targets African Americans how?
    If a neighborhood, any neighborhood, has drug dealers blatantly sell drugs on street corners…
    If those dealers are engaged in shootouts and drive-by assassination attempts on rival dealers…
    If residents can’t sit in their own living rooms for fear of stray bullets coming through their windows…
    If a kid can’t get off a school bus and make it home without another kid with a gun jacking him for his sneakers or leather coat…

    Don’t you think a law enforcement presence in that neighborhood ought to higher than in a safer neighborhood?
    Is it the neighborhood crime being targeted or is it the resident of the neighborhood?

  31. JadedByPolitics
    April 28th, 2015 @ 8:24 pm

    North Avenue as viewed for 6hrs last night showed that nothing changed there for over 40yrs. My mother used to take me over there on a bus to a thrift store & it was sketchy in 1974 from the 68 riots. They have done absolutely nothing to better their situation they have taken no political power and have just voted for whomever they were told to, while their area of Baltimore languished. I have absolutely no sympathy for them at all. I saved myself by leaving Bmore and my children as well.

  32. theoldsargesays
    April 28th, 2015 @ 8:25 pm

    Now THAT’S freaking funny!
    Well played sir, well played.

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  34. Mike G.
    April 28th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm

    The Ban Hammer flourishes. All hail the Ban Hammer which scareth away the moronic idiotic brainless trolls!

  35. Mike G.
    April 28th, 2015 @ 9:36 pm

    And on another note, people in Baltimore decided that they wouldn’t obey curfew. Throwing smoke bombs at police as well as bottles and rocks, ect. Police are remaing circumspect and not engaging stupid people.

    Stupid shit should happen to people who do stupid shit!

    And now they have started another fire.

    Way to go Baltimorites.

  36. Mike G.
    April 28th, 2015 @ 9:41 pm

    Fire started fire outside library. Must burn books and people who read them. Shades of Fahrenheit 451.

  37. Daniel Freeman
    April 28th, 2015 @ 10:57 pm

    I’m sure that the police are not “afraid” per se; they’re just so constrained by policy that it has come to the point where they can do more to protect a citizen than to protect themselves.

    I haven’t seen the photo, so I can’t say for sure without seeing the body language, but I would imagine that the citizens were “protecting” the police by giving them a justification for action.

  38. Steve Skubinna
    April 29th, 2015 @ 12:41 am

    Well, why not? If George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were personally responsible for Abu Ghraib, then why not lay Gray’s death at the feet of the mayor? Hell, why not Holder and Obama?

    I wonder why that logic doesn’t apply in this case? Could it be that the media has finally matured, or is it something else? Hmmm…

  39. Steve Skubinna
    April 29th, 2015 @ 12:42 am

    So simple, even a caveman could do it!

  40. Fail Burton
    April 29th, 2015 @ 1:03 am

    For people so concerned with interactions with the police they seem dedicated to lives of crime that guarantee that very thing. I think I’m missing something somewhere in this tragic drama. If I had a morbid fear of the police I’d not commit crimes but dedicate my life to never committing crimes.

  41. Steve Skubinna
    April 29th, 2015 @ 1:07 am

    Check out Heather MacDonald’s piece in City Journal:

    http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_2_liberal-elites.html

  42. Steve Skubinna
    April 29th, 2015 @ 1:12 am

    Again, Heather Mac Donald makes the same points, buttressed with reference to Daniel Moynihan’s evergreen report.

    http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0428hm.html

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  44. Steve Skubinna
    April 29th, 2015 @ 3:43 am

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  45. slp
    April 29th, 2015 @ 5:24 am

    Season one of the HBO program “The Wire” explains the drug culture of Baltimore.

  46. Rob Crawford
    April 29th, 2015 @ 6:26 am

    Why does anyone pay attention to Tennessee Tuxedo? He’s a Klansman in blackface.

  47. Rob Crawford
    April 29th, 2015 @ 6:30 am

    Coates *IS* a Klansman. His goals are the same, he only targets a different race.

  48. Neo
    April 29th, 2015 @ 6:41 am

    Festival !!!
    Party on Landru !

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  50. gothamette
    April 29th, 2015 @ 7:55 am

    I didn’t say the police were “afraid,” I said the rioters should be “afraid” and the photo gave the impression that the police were afraid. Big difference, which apparently escaped you in your haste to contribute nothing.
    You should refrain from commenting about a photo you haven’t seen, and