Rodney King strikes again...

[Guest Cancer Marney]

And yet, in posts later than 6 months ago, I had backed up

Tyler, it's not so much you I was singling out as the know-it-all attitude that was common at that time and (at least in others) persisted well into the war itself. If you saw the error of your ways earlier, well and good. The fact remains that you were a doofus then, even if you changed later, and I used you as an example of the more prolonged doofusness of others simply because your posts in the thread I linked to immediately followed mine.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Irrelevant post #3:

 

I was scrolling down page 1 while Episode 2 was playing in the background. Right when the Imperial March from the end of the movie started playing, I saw Marney's sig and realized she was back. It kicked ass.

 

You may now return to your discussion.

[Firestarter 0]

Great to know that as the days pass, Rodney King continues to prove more and more that he probably deserved that beating.

Absolutely agreed, in light of this CNN story:

 

Rodney King arrested yet again

 

I hope all the idiot rioters are shuffling their feet and feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves for making such a fuss over this worthless piece of trash.

[Guest MikeSC]

Great to know that as the days pass, Rodney King continues to prove more and more that he probably deserved that beating.

Absolutely agreed, in light of this CNN story:

 

Rodney King arrested yet again

 

I hope all the idiot rioters are shuffling their feet and feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves for making such a fuss over this worthless piece of trash.

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

 

Personally, I say next time, the city should just let them destroy their homes and refuse to pay one red to fix it. If you want to pitch a fit, you should suffer the consequences for so doing.

-=Mike

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

Unless you're collecting the insurance money, people generally don't destroy what they own.

 

Oh, and the NY Times called the Cincy riots a few years back "civil disobedience" or some b.s. name.

 

Rodney busted for domestic abuse -- priceless...

[Guest MikeSC]

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

Unless you're collecting the insurance money, people generally don't destroy what they own.

 

Oh, and the NY Times called the Cincy riots a few years back "civil disobedience" or some b.s. name.

 

Rodney busted for domestic abuse -- priceless...

Well, I've been in THAT boat. :-)

 

Anywhoo, do you think his wife/girlfriend/hooker for the night ever said "Can't we all just get along?" when he beat the snot out of her?

-=Mike

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

No, but I bet she wished she had a video camera.

 

Of course if she did have the whole thing on tape it would be poetic justice if Rodney's female friend attacked him first while in a drug-enhanced rage, but the media just showed endless clips of him pounding on her afterward...

[Guest MikeSC]

No, but I bet she wished she had a video camera.

 

Of course if she did have the whole thing on tape it would be poetic justice if Rodney's female friend attacked him first while in a drug-enhanced rage, but the media just showed endless clips of him pounding on her afterward...

That would be friggin' gold, my friend.

 

Gold.

-=Mike

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Great, I just noticed a poster by the name of Howard Dean is reading this thread. And Tyler is nowhere to be found...

[MrRant 0]

Tyler's other identity?

[Ripper 0]

Great to know that as the days pass, Rodney King continues to prove more and more that he probably deserved that beating.

Absolutely agreed, in light of this CNN story:

 

Rodney King arrested yet again

 

I hope all the idiot rioters are shuffling their feet and feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves for making such a fuss over this worthless piece of trash.

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

 

Personally, I say next time, the city should just let them destroy their homes and refuse to pay one red to fix it. If you want to pitch a fit, you should suffer the consequences for so doing.

-=Mike

Yeah, because every single person in those neighborhoods were the ones burning it down. Not a single man woman or child was out there helping the fire fighters put the fires out, helping to fight off rioters from destroying their homes and businesses, and none of them had fled the city to protect their children. EVERYONE was out rioting. Hell most of them were. Sure.

[Guest MikeSC]

Great to know that as the days pass, Rodney King continues to prove more and more that he probably deserved that beating.

Absolutely agreed, in light of this CNN story:

 

Rodney King arrested yet again

 

I hope all the idiot rioters are shuffling their feet and feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves for making such a fuss over this worthless piece of trash.

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

 

Personally, I say next time, the city should just let them destroy their homes and refuse to pay one red to fix it. If you want to pitch a fit, you should suffer the consequences for so doing.

-=Mike

Yeah, because every single person in those neighborhoods were the ones burning it down. Not a single man woman or child was out there helping the fire fighters put the fires out, helping to fight off rioters from destroying their homes and businesses, and none of them had fled the city to protect their children. EVERYONE was out rioting. Hell most of them were. Sure.

And why the heck should I be expected to give one red cent because a bunch of thugs burned down their own neighborhoods?

-=Mike

[Ripper 0]

Great to know that as the days pass, Rodney King continues to prove more and more that he probably deserved that beating.

Absolutely agreed, in light of this CNN story:

 

Rodney King arrested yet again

 

I hope all the idiot rioters are shuffling their feet and feeling thoroughly ashamed of themselves for making such a fuss over this worthless piece of trash.

Heck, I've NEVER understood the logic of destroying YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD because you're mad.

 

Almost as absurd as anybody calling it a "rebellion" and not a riot.

 

Personally, I say next time, the city should just let them destroy their homes and refuse to pay one red to fix it. If you want to pitch a fit, you should suffer the consequences for so doing.

-=Mike

Yeah, because every single person in those neighborhoods were the ones burning it down. Not a single man woman or child was out there helping the fire fighters put the fires out, helping to fight off rioters from destroying their homes and businesses, and none of them had fled the city to protect their children. EVERYONE was out rioting. Hell most of them were. Sure.

And why the heck should I be expected to give one red cent because a bunch of thugs burned down their own neighborhoods?

-=Mike

There were people not buring homes there Mike. There were people trying to protect their homes. If they had gone to predominantly white areas and burned those places down, would you not want for the city to pay for it? If some asshole in my apartment complex burns down his aparment and it takes everyone elses with it, I guess it is my fault somehow and the rest of the tenants don't deserve help.

 

I like how people can bitch and moan about how the news sensationalized the beating(which is true) but act like thier coverage of the riots was 100% fair and balanced. The sensationalized that as well. Those people in their neightborhoods were doing nearly everything possible to stop rapid crowds of morons from burning down thier homes. No body walked out of thier house, and turned around and set it on fire. It was hoodlums setting other peoples homes on fire, looting the businesses. Those business owners weren't looting their own stores. You are saying that the victims should have been left out in the cold because why? Because they didn't go rambo and fight off groups of people setting fire to their homes. How dare they not live thier lives like a action movie?

 

And my tax dollars go to help pay for the 20 + riots per year caused by predominantly white crowds and have nothing to do with me, am I bitching about it? The victims should not be held responsible for what the criminals did.

[Guest MikeSC]

There were people not buring homes there Mike.  There were people trying to protect their homes.  If they had gone to predominantly white areas and burned those places down, would you not want for the city to pay for it?  If some asshole in my apartment complex burns down his aparment and it takes everyone elses with it, I guess it is my fault somehow and the rest of the tenants don't deserve help. 

 

It's a shame --- but the ones burning down the neighborhood LIVED in the neighborhood and it's not like the rioters were a small minority in the area. I watched those riots and there was NO shortage of looters, assaulters, and arsonists. This isn't quite a small group of psychos razing a city (as happened in Tulsa in the 1920's) --- this was residents and a large percentage of them destroying their city. Some get hurt, and it's a real shame.

 

I like how people can bitch and moan about how the news sensationalized the beating(which is true) but act like thier coverage of the riots was 100% fair and balanced.  The sensationalized that as well.  Those people in their neightborhoods were doing nearly everything possible to stop rapid crowds of morons from burning down thier homes.  No body walked out of thier house, and turned around and set it on fire.  It was hoodlums setting other peoples homes on fire, looting the businesses.  Those business owners weren't looting their own stores.  You are saying that the victims should have been left out in the cold because why?  Because they didn't go rambo and fight off groups of people setting fire to their homes.  How dare they not live thier lives like a action movie?

 

It's a real shame --- but again, why should I be expected to pay for people who burn down their neighborhood to rebuild it? I have enough of a problem with paying to rebuild neighborhoods after earthquakes (or floods along the Mississippi River) --- I sure as hell don't want to pay for people who burn down their own neighborhoods.

 

And my tax dollars go to help pay for the 20 + riots per year caused by predominantly white crowds and have nothing to do with me, am I bitching about it?  The victims should not be held responsible for what the criminals did.

 

I don't like paying for any riot damage. We should not.

-=Mike

[Ripper 0]

If you were the victim would you say that no one should help you? If you say no, then I guess argument over because in your opinon no one should be helped.

 

And there were not MILLIONS of people in those neighbor hoods burning shit. There has to be a point where common sense takes over mike. No one walked out of thier home....with all of thier belongings inside, and turned around and set it on fire. There were rioters setting other peoples homes on fire. Common sense tells you that.

 

How much of the news coverage talked of the hundreds upon hundreds of people from those neighborhoods not only helping put out their fires, but going to other neighborhoods with the firedepartment to help them there? How many tell of the numerous accounts of business owners that talk of how many from the community physically fought off looters from their local establishments? How many lost their lives defending their neighborhoods? It was a minorty of people doing the rioting despite what the news cast would tell you. It is very easy to go to where the rioting was worse, shoot shots from a camera and say look at all these people. For everyone person rioting there were 10 trying to keep themselves safe, and once again, COMMON SENSE should tell you that.

 

There weren't enough people out there to fill a baseball stadium but all of a sudden they were a majority? All of sudden that equals a large percentage? What is your opinion of a large percentage?

 

You are smarter than that Mike. Unless you suggest we should start believing everything that the news leads us to believe, you can't possibly believe that. Lets ignore the hundreds of accounts from the police, firefighters, and others during those 3 days. Lets ignore the neighborhoods that were practically untouched after the residents fought. Lets ignore the lives lost fighting for it. Lets just sit down and believe the sensationalized news cast that were out for ratings. Because god knows they wouldn't go to the WORSE AREA POSSIBLE to get more ratings. They wouldn't show worse case scenario at all.

[Youth N Asia 0]

This piece of shit has a life-time get out of jail free card cause some dumb cops went too far. I'd have given him a beating for pulling that shit with me though if I was a cop...but since they went too far this piece of trash can do this till he kills someone

[Guest MikeSC]

If you were the victim would you say that no one should help you? If you say no, then I guess argument over because in your opinon no one should be helped.

 

And there were not MILLIONS of people in those neighbor hoods burning shit. There has to be a point where common sense takes over mike. No one walked out of thier home....with all of thier belongings inside, and turned around and set it on fire. There were rioters setting other peoples homes on fire. Common sense tells you that.

 

How much of the news coverage talked of the hundreds upon hundreds of people from those neighborhoods not only helping put out their fires, but going to other neighborhoods with the firedepartment to help them there? How many tell of the numerous accounts of business owners that talk of how many from the community physically fought off looters from their local establishments? How many lost their lives defending their neighborhoods? It was a minorty of people doing the rioting despite what the news cast would tell you. It is very easy to go to where the rioting was worse, shoot shots from a camera and say look at all these people. For everyone person rioting there were 10 trying to keep themselves safe, and once again, COMMON SENSE should tell you that.

 

There weren't enough people out there to fill a baseball stadium but all of a sudden they were a majority? All of sudden that equals a large percentage? What is your opinion of a large percentage?

 

You are smarter than that Mike. Unless you suggest we should start believing everything that the news leads us to believe, you can't possibly believe that. Lets ignore the hundreds of accounts from the police, firefighters, and others during those 3 days. Lets ignore the neighborhoods that were practically untouched after the residents fought. Lets ignore the lives lost fighting for it. Lets just sit down and believe the sensationalized news cast that were out for ratings. Because god knows they wouldn't go to the WORSE AREA POSSIBLE to get more ratings. They wouldn't show worse case scenario at all.

It's a pity that innocents were hurt. It is a REAL pity.

 

Why should the gov't be expected to swoop in and rebuild it when the citizens themselves did the damage? People were not bussed into southcentral L.A to tear that shithole down. The damage was done by locals. Now, those who did it should be HARSHLY punished (of course, ironically, that'd probably lead to MORE riots) and should be forced to pay reparations.

 

But I live in S. Carolina. Why should I be expected to give one damned cent to LA because their own citizens burned down the city?

 

This isn't like 9/11, where a fluke event caused massive damage. This wasn't some unusual phenomenon that man had no control over. This was man-made and caused solely by the locals.

 

I feel the same way about the gov't paying for rebuilding after an earthquake in CA, floods around the Mississippi, or hurricanes hitting the East Coast (you are taking that known risk moving there). Yeah, it's a tragedy --- all of the damage --- but it's not the federal government's job to fix it for you.

 

Did people burn down their own homes? Nope. However, did outsiders come in and do it? Nope. Local citizens did all of the damage. I doubt any of the locals would've aided law enforcement in bringing the assorted perps to justice.

 

Again, why should I be expected to spend my money for LA to rebuild itself? These innocents had no problem looting (which was rampant) and causing property damage to others. The people of that area should pay for their own rebuilding --- and when they wonder why they can't find a good job locally, they should remember the riot and they'd know why.

 

A lot of innocents were hurt. I don't doubt that for a moment. But, the rioters were all from that community. If my neighbor burns down my house, I don't expect the gov't to fix it --- I expect the neighbor to fix it.

 

And, yes, I recognize that many in that area can't afford to fix the damage caused. That is, unfortunately, a tragedy. It really is. And I feel for them. I really do. It still is not my obligation to fix the damage.

 

If they are unable to do so, well, it is ultimately my problem in the end. Life isn't always fair and things can't always work out well.

-=Mike