Sixteen and dead.

[piece-itpete]

Can I get a little angry? Where's the rioters and protestors, the vast indignance from the locals?

Pete

[donquixote99]

Again, what's needed is establishment figures saying 'the girl getting killed was just fine, shut up about it already.' In the absence of that, who are you going to protest against?

Now and then you can get people out for a 'down with gangs and criminals' march, but mostly folks don't see that there's anyone really against them on that.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Thugs being thugs is one thing.

Cops being thugs is another.

Izzatso? I'm thinking, when we gonna get the thousands of people out in the streets demonstrating against the Chicago PD for not arresting the innocent young teenage neighborhood boys for blowing this poor kid away, eh TJ? When we gonna get the burning and looting? When we gonna get the ministers on TV chastising mom and dad for raising monsters who victimize their own people to the point where they make the cops look like John the Baptist washing the disciple's feet.

There's only one reason why we have 100 pages of 18 and dead. With not a word about allegedly innocent neighborhood people taking advantage of their dead 18 year old brother to loot a liquor store because they're "upset". 100 pages has nothing to do with justice or reason or the realities of the real world. Nothing to do with gangbanging scumbags that police have to deal with day after day and when they do, when they get one of the bad guys, what we get is some minister standing next to some absentee tearful mother on the TeeVee crying about what a good boy her gangbanging asshole child was and how the police murdered her baby.

What a steaming pile of horseshit.

But then again 12 whole responses in the time we got 40 over in the other thread. Maybe I'm being unfair to you people.

[donquixote99]

Maybe.

[piece-itpete]

Let me just get this straight.

A cop shoots a guy. Says he was assaulted. Guy is shown to be something of a thug. No real evidence of any wrongdoing on the cops end.

Mass riots. City burning. Gnashing of teeth.

A thug shoots a girl. Honor student. 16 years old. Maybe stands a chance of getting the hell out of there.

No worries, nothing to see, move along.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? [edit - no]

Pete

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Izzatso? I'm thinking, when we gonna get the thousands of people out in the streets demonstrating against the Chicago PD for not arresting the innocent young teenage neighborhood boys for blowing this poor kid away, eh TJ? When we gonna get the burning and looting? When we gonna get the ministers on TV chastising mom and dad for raising monsters who victimize their own people to the point where they make the cops look like John the Baptist washing the disciple's feet.

There's only one reason why we have 100 pages of 18 and dead. With not a word about allegedly innocent neighborhood people taking advantage of their dead 18 year old brother to loot a liquor store because they're "upset". 100 pages has nothing to do with justice or reason or the realities of the real world. Nothing to do with gangbanging scumbags that police have to deal with day after day and when they do, when they get one of the bad guys, what we get is some minister standing next to some absentee tearful mother on the TeeVee crying about what a good boy her gangbanging asshole child was and how the police murdered her baby.

What a steaming pile of horseshit.

But then again 12 whole responses in the time we got 40 over in the other thread. Maybe I'm being unfair to you people.

I know what your agenda was in starting this thread and I'm not going to play your game.

I'll tell you what you do. Why don’t you find a nice big sandpile, get yourself a hammer, and pound all that sand right up your ass?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Let me just get this straight.

A cop shoots a guy. Says he was assaulted. Guy is shown to be something of a thug. No real evidence of any wrongdoing on the cops end.

Mass riots. City burning. Gnashing of teeth.

A thug shoots a girl. Honor student. 16 years old. Maybe stands a chance of getting the hell out of there.

No worries, nothing to see, move along.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? [edit - no]

Pete

I am sick of offering perfectly rational responses that are utterly ignored.

I think I'm being trolled, and I now think Tom's advice is perfect.

[piece-itpete]

I'm getting worked up here

Have you ever lived in one of these neighborhoods DQ? One crook getting shot isn't the problem. Far, far from it.

And Tom, if it doesn't involve a white cop shooting a black guy it doesn't matter?

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Btw I'm not trolling DQ, and I doubt Ike is either. It does get me angry.

The real reason it doesn't get any play is, it doesn't push any real buttons, and it doesn't suit any of the main player's agendas.

So, they'll be some flowers and stuffed animals on a spot on the sidewalk, and it'll happen again next week.

Pete

[donquixote99]

We completely agree that one crook getting shot isn't the problem.

Ever see the old 'Eliza' program--little BASIC thingie that would converse with you all day long? My response above really reminds me of the sort of thing Eliza would put out.

So if I send you an Eliza program, will you run it?