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.

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Re:Philly Flash Mob != Flash Mob

[couchslug]

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

Re:it's about class, not race

[circletimessquare]

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)