If Music Could Talk

matedog wrote:Annapolis policeman brother in law has been posting on facebook A LOT these days.

matedog wrote:He died 9 days ago and they still haven't released what happened. In these situations, you have to act a hell of a lot quicker than this. The reticence is just damning.

Wolter wrote:Last night a CNN photographer on Twitter seemed dumbfounded that I wasn't devastated about a fucking CVS burning.

Also, if anyone is wondering how tensions rose this high, maybe the solid week of peaceful protests being ignored?

Dr. Medulla wrote:

matedog wrote:Annapolis policeman brother in law has been posting on facebook A LOT these days.

I assume he's furious that the spark for all this was the callous actions of the cops that led to Gray's death, that those cops have all this blood and destruction on their hands, right?

*cough*

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Wolter wrote:Last night a CNN photographer on Twitter seemed dumbfounded that I wasn't devastated about a fucking CVS burning.

It's amazing that some people can't accept that there are Walgreen's loyalists who won't be shaken.

Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy, investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.

That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.

Rat Patrol wrote:http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/04/orioles ... otests-mlb

This is a pretty amazing statement released by the Orioles' Chief Operating Officer about the situation there. Never would've expected something like this from Peter Angelos' spawn...clearly dad was the "talent skips a generation" short straw.

Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy, investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.

That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.