You want Big Government, you get a side dish of Big Police. No substitutions.

@1:

Bullshit. "Big Government" =/= "local militarized Law Enforcement" OR "Racist Assholes With Badges & Guns".

I told you-all we should've copyrighted boiling-over tensions after (cutesy battle-in-seattle rhymes aren't sufficient IP protection) on top of it they stole our non-aligned violence loving wandering masked young males (or NAVLWMYMs)

After this happened in NYC, I read the police were given orders to only respond when called by people in the neighborhood. No pro-active raids or shakedowns.

It seems like it's been quiet there since then, but I haven't really checked into it.

@4 "I heard about this thing that's unrelated, and didn't check into it."

story of your life

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…

Budapest, Hungary – Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, 20–22 October 1944
http://www.worldwar2stories-sheffield.co…

hands up don't shoot

He laughed at accidental sirens that broke the evening gloom

The police had warned of repercussions, they followed none too soon

A trickle of strangers were all that were left alive

D. Bowie

@2 I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

I'm not saying they're equal, I'm saying if you have Big Government, you have to accept Big Police. You can scream "NO" like a toddler all day long, but that's the way it is. See also: Ferguson, MO & Baltimore, MD

@10: https://i.warosu.org/data/ck/img/0053/28…
What's your reasoning/evidence to support your nutty claim that you can't have government with substantial and far-reaching authority without also having a police force not subject to rigorous oversight? You're just one of those idiots who can't differentiate between "limited government" and "small government".

It's cute how the "Credible Threat (TM)" is a link to a police press release asserting with no evidence whatsoever that they received... a "Credible Threat (TM)". Here's a Credible Threat for you: I'm going to shit rainbow sherbet.

It should be noted that these were not simply boiling over tensions, this was a full scale riot. People are dead, several police officers are hospitalized, some in comas from being attacked with rocks and bricks. Stores were looted, buildings were burned. Thousands of national guard troops were brought in, businesses, schools, and government are closed today.

@12: Joke if you must, but the threat was very credible. My city was burning last night, people are dead. Enjoy your sherbert, asshole.

Baltimore has been run by Democrats for 48 years. Today:
Three of the past 4 mayors are African American, for the past 28 years.
The city council president, police chief and district attorney are black.
Nine of the 14 city council members are African American
The city is 65% African American.

Baltimore is hardly a city of a white system oppressing African Americans, denying the "community" representation.

Like other bastions of liberal urban fetishism (Detroit), Baltimore has succumbed to its own wishes for endless "tolerance" (don't judge, but toe the party line); and resistance to individual accountability.

78% of black Baltimore children are born to single mothers;
Baltimore blows $16,578 per kid on elementary education (+30% more than Seattle), and yet 31.5% of kids never graduate.
In 34% of Baltimore city families, there is no adult in the household working.

Baltimore's problem isn't racist policing and public funding. Baltimore's problems are personal policing, and a political climate that perpetuates this notion that elevation of the African American community will come from something other than mutual individualism.

African Americans have only found economic enslavement and social stratification in the politics of the Democrats. Over a generation since the "war on poverty" and things are worse. Why would you expect them to now improve, with the same people (Hillary) and the same ideas (big government) that have failed (or are in the process of failing) in every pocket of the world where they have been trotted-out.

@14: You don't know dick about Baltimore, and if you knew the first thing about the city and its history, you would laugh at your scribblings.

But hey, don't let me or your own ignorance stop you from scoring fake political points over some cooling bodies.

For lots of first-hand reporting from Baltimore yesterday, see @pmocek/protest-20150427-balto.

@13- There was a riot. That had nothing to do with the "credible threat" of gangs organizing to "get" the cops.

Thanks @14 its always helpful when white supremacists weigh in on shit they know nothing about.

The 1% like the status quo and they will use their thuggish police forces to maintain it.

@18

I'm only reporting the cruel facts.

It's been 50 years since the Moynihan Report – penned by a liberal Democrat – and nothing has changed about the precedents that will lead the African American community to its demise. Thankfully, African Americans who aren't conditioned to race as a determinant are able to escape the programmatic approach of the Democrats to breed a resentful, always-needy, ever-larger, socially disintegrated, racially-charged and perpetual voting class – that assures a steady stream of taxes and government jobs.

Programs are the new plantation.

@20: You're only reporting a selection from the facts that you find politically expedient. Given your history of saying a bunch of blatantly racist shit, don't expect the benefit of the doubt here.
"the relative (and not absolute) poverty of African Americans has more to do with poor choices than with systemic societal failures. Self-inflicted wounds. And no community that has access to to opportunity that far exceeds any developing nation has absolutely no justification for a murder rate that is far, far higher – because of their 'plight.'
Stop making excuses for murderers."
^That is the actual shit you say about black people.

Yes. That's the shit I say.

And ya' know what? I'm fuckin-aye right.

Tell me how people in the lawless areas of Rio and Barranquilla and Nogales, without nearly the access to sanitation, education, technology, food security and property rights -- can realize such a dramatically lower rate of violence to each other than Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, St Louis.

It's about choices. And you and your type have had a half-century of near-endless cash to fight your 'war on poverty,' which has been a disasterous boondoggle, at very best.

Baltimore spends $18,000 per kid, per year, on elementary education. (About 40% more than Seattle, and FAR more than other OECD countries.)
Only 16% of 8th graders read at grade level.
Graduation rates are barely above 60%

All that wasted money, and all this wasted time – because you're too naive to realize....