Out of Control... Come on people!!!!
This crap in France is way out of control. 7 days of riots! Brings back memories...
Do you remember the LA. Riots back in the early 90's? I was living in Long Beach at the time. A friend and I got stuck in downtown LA. during the worst of it. I didn't know they were going to lock our base down. We had to drive from San Pedro, through LA. to another friend's house, in Northern LA. Every block we went trough had a building on fire, most without even a fire truck on the scene. We set at a red light and watched a few Mexicans break into a check cashing store, take what they wanted, and set the place ablaze. The most interesting moment was when we seen the guy walk down the street with a sectional couch on his head. How did he get that up there?
Civil unrest is bad. It's costs money and lives. It makes a lot of enemies. It makes regular people hate the police, and vise-versa. Most of the time, the original point or meaning behind the riot gets lost and just turns into people wanting to smash shit, steal shit and blow shit up. The case of the riots in LA., for example was started by the Rodney King beating. A black guy getting messed up by white cops. Yet, over 90% of the offenders in the riot were Mexican, not black! They seen an opportunity to create havoc and took advantage of it. Rodney King was asked to go live on local TV and give a speech of peace. "Can't we all just get along", he said. But, the fires, break-ins, beating and rioting was not because of him at all anymore. The point was lost.
And while I am rating on aimlessly about stupid stuff, what about what we had in New Orleans? Residents that were shooting at the very people who were there to help them. Looting stores, not for food, but for electronic equipment. People were getting raped inside the Convention Center. Others were killed. Why? People are dying from floods while other people are killing there own. I don't get it...
Ok, that's it. Blog on!
Do you remember the LA. Riots back in the early 90's? I was living in Long Beach at the time. A friend and I got stuck in downtown LA. during the worst of it. I didn't know they were going to lock our base down. We had to drive from San Pedro, through LA. to another friend's house, in Northern LA. Every block we went trough had a building on fire, most without even a fire truck on the scene. We set at a red light and watched a few Mexicans break into a check cashing store, take what they wanted, and set the place ablaze. The most interesting moment was when we seen the guy walk down the street with a sectional couch on his head. How did he get that up there?
Civil unrest is bad. It's costs money and lives. It makes a lot of enemies. It makes regular people hate the police, and vise-versa. Most of the time, the original point or meaning behind the riot gets lost and just turns into people wanting to smash shit, steal shit and blow shit up. The case of the riots in LA., for example was started by the Rodney King beating. A black guy getting messed up by white cops. Yet, over 90% of the offenders in the riot were Mexican, not black! They seen an opportunity to create havoc and took advantage of it. Rodney King was asked to go live on local TV and give a speech of peace. "Can't we all just get along", he said. But, the fires, break-ins, beating and rioting was not because of him at all anymore. The point was lost.
And while I am rating on aimlessly about stupid stuff, what about what we had in New Orleans? Residents that were shooting at the very people who were there to help them. Looting stores, not for food, but for electronic equipment. People were getting raped inside the Convention Center. Others were killed. Why? People are dying from floods while other people are killing there own. I don't get it...
Ok, that's it. Blog on!
posted by mattandriver at 5:43 PM
1 Comments:
Traditionally, it is a very French thing to do to publically protest. We just discussed this very issue in my "Paris" class last evening. My prof went to school there, and participated in many of the protests in the 60-70's. They've got the same thing going on that we do round here. They, similar to us, push the minorities to the outskirts. These kids who died that initiated this whole thing were purportedly being chased by the police. Of course, it was unwarrented. I can't imagine this will go on for much longer. The French don't really put up with their foreign residents complaining long. They discriminate against you and you are to shut up and deal with it. They made Muslim woman remove their head coverings there for a while. Vive la France!
Post a Comment
<< Home