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Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement
Not that it's the first city to enforce a youth curfew, and not that kids on a crime-spree is the only variety of moral panic offered as a rationale, but Philadelphia is cracking down through increased enforcement of a youth curfew law after children and teenagers attacked two people in the Center City district — attacks which, according to police, were coordinated via text messaging.
I was a teenager in Philly and there was a curfew. These curfews make sense, I really don't think you are from there if you don't understand why. Currently, these "flash mobs" are sporadic riots involving violence. Imagine living there. Does some kid being out at 12 at night seem more important than not getting mugged and assaulted out of the blue in what you would think is a nice area because there are literally people around everywhere?
The curfew is not enforced racially, for the record. Under 18, you go in. My friend was telling me about how a while back (7 years maybe) he was out at 4am in Philly when he was like 15 and the police cited him and called his parents and he got in a lot of trouble. He's white. These curfews are because a lot of kids do cause problems that late. Right now, yes, there is the disenfranchised black youth, but let's not act like we can't be against violence in the streets if it means we have to acknowledge instances of violence that generally center around a specific population. All it means is we should probably figure out what is making Philadelphia's black youth so mad (there are a lot of obvious things that come to mind) and at the same time don't let them act out in the interim as we try and fix it because no matter what the reasoning, innocent people shouldn't be hospitalized and stores and delis shouldn't be destroyed. No one has the right to do these things to people.
There is a reason that doesn't happen much in States where it is a reasonable presumption that many potential targets are armed.
The LA riots happened in LA because there was no serious armed opposition except for a very few armed citizens. The reason they didn't spread to the South (excepting a few minor incidents) is that citizens are ready and eager to waste anyone threatening their safety.
"when you realize that kids as young as 10 were raised in a way where they feel assaulting and robbing people at random is an acceptable Saturday night activity."
I wasn't raised to think that gunning them down is an inappropriate response. A child soldier in Africa can kill you as dead as an adult militiaman/woman.
None of this is new. This guy fought back and survived:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
if i recall correctly, african americans were brought here as slaves, and have been excluded from fair economic participation, on a horrible scale, just up to 50 years ago, not to mention lingering prejudice, like yours. and i think you want to deny that history leaves lasting effects
you want to see race as the cause, when history, economics and class are clearly the cause. if you were intelligent, you would see this
it is always the dumbest losers who are racists. so, in one regard, i kind of agree with racist eugenics principles: improve the gene pool, but not by killing people based on skin color or religion, but instead kill people based on their support for racist policies. because there is no better way to identify a low iq person than to hear someone say something racist
in other words: if you kill all the racists, in any society in the world, the iq of society jumps massively
so what do you think about that modest proposal to improve the gene pool, scumbag?
(snicker)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Oh Lord save us from liberals please! it isn't them its "the system' while ignoring there are plenty of black folks that go to school, go to college, get good jobs, open their own businesses, but hey, they are just Uncle Toms right? They ain't "keepin it real" are they? BULLSHIT.
Hey APK, wanna know how to solve that problem? Its called a MOM...Mean Old Mutt. Go down to the pound, find your ass a big old junkyard dog, and be sure to feed his ass a burger every time he tears a new ass into a trespasser. works damned good, had the same problem when after 30 years of my mother's place, which she built from scratch and has paid for 30+ years on, had some "thug life baby yeah!" move in the apts down the road.
Mom is scared of guns but I saw a big old stray half wolf scrounging in the ditch and said "hell there is your solution! Here buddy, want a burger?". It didn't take that big old wolf dog but about a week to figure out this was home, another week to figure out who belonged and who didn't.
Sure enough somebody comes to steal gas from my mom's car and she hears a scream and comes running out to see a black teen hauling ass and the dog come up with a big old bloody hunk of jeans. I told her "Did you give him a burger and say good boy?" she said "Hell I gave him a full breakfast with eggs and bacon! That's a good doggie!". It didn't take long for word to get out and Old Jack took care of that place for nearly a decade. Lucky for us we got a pup from him before one day in old age he just wondered off and never came back. mom hunted for days but I told her "It was time, he went out in the woods and laid down. you'll never find him, he's gone". But now Lady, with her big blue eye and brown eye (damned pretty) does her father's job and no "thug life!"ers come round there no more.
So get your ass down to the pound APK and get yourself a mean old mutt. you'll be saving a damned fine animal, and protecting your property at the same time. Couldn't be cheaper, just some shots and let 'em have some scraps and they'll fight to the death to protect what's yours. Ain't nothing more territorial than a mutt. Trust Da feet APK, I know of which I speak.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Dude, you're arguing with the most trollingest troll ever. This guy is a dyed in the wool moron who will respond to your ever post with an incoherent mixture of words and meaningless punctuation. Sorry man but YHBT.
I know it, and I'm pretty much stopping now, but you know... there's just certain things that I don't feel you should let slide. I'm not trying to convince this guy of anything. I'm trying to let him make a fool of himself. Whether he's a troll or not, his bullshit stays on /. forever. I'd rather his legacy be looking like a clown than helping make /. the kind of place where racists can come to get their rocks off. There are plenty of sites for that.
(And troll-dude, FWIW, I've posted a couple GNAA trolls myself in my time -- funny ones, too -- but this kind of racist horseshit crosses a line. It's not funny, it's just dumb.)
Breakfast served all day!