[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by 600th Photo Sq

I have yet to see you being the least bit concerned about the safety of the police.

Not so much as a Peep.

The strategic placing of large containers of Bricks, Rocks, Plastic Bottles filled with Cement, and the latest Ice Cream Containers filled with Cement Disguised as " Ice Cream ".

Many have been seriously injured and have died.

So Madam what say you?

I say that you haven't even bothered to look.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...71-post66.html

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...6-post161.html

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...40-post24.html

Originally Posted by CNM

"And by the way, I fully condemn every single one of these violent acts...toward law enforcement officers."

And if you go back further than the last link, you'll see where I've said the same thing... over and over...

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by 600th Photo Sq

I have yet to see you being the least bit concerned about the safety of the police.

Not so much as a Peep.

The strategic placing of large containers of Bricks, Rocks, Plastic Bottles filled with Cement, and the latest Ice Cream Containers filled with Cement Disguised as " Ice Cream ".

Many have been seriously injured and have died.

So Madam what say you?

well said

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by John_W

These type events make living in TV so much nicer and probably helps many to decide to move here. I know I couldn't wait to leave the Baltimore area, I still like the sports teams and maybe visit, although it's been since 2013 since my last visit.

I lived in a probably one of the best suburbs in Baltimore, it was Bel Air, and in 2016 two cops were ambushed and killed inside a Panera's next to Wegmans a 1/2 mile from my old house.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...11b_story.html

I usually try to avoid seeing or reading about these events, there's really nothing we can do about it. I even hate when I see someone start a thread like "Forget About Getting Fired", what good did that do, other than rile up a few people who live 1500 miles away. I wish those threads were never allowed. It's always the same posters, they stay quiet until something bad happens in the country and they quick to jump on the topic and post their views like they're know-it-alls. I wish that thread was closed right now,

John, my wife is from Bel Air. It sure has changed after we got married. She lived right across from the fire house on Churchville Rd. Her old house is long gone, and is now a bank.

[John_W]

Originally Posted by BobnBev

John, my wife is from Bel Air. It sure has changed after we got married. She lived right across from the fire house on Churchville Rd. Her old house is long gone, and is now a bank.

Churchville, Forrest Hill and Fallston have all really changed. We lived in Abingdon in Constant Friendship for the last 13 years until we moved here in 2011. If you're west bound on 24 leaving I-95, we're the houses immediately next to the 24 on the right. In fact, there is no longer a red light at the intersection of 24 and 924, if you're going straight to Bel Air there is an overpass now. If you turn right onto 924, at the first light where they built a WaWa around 2003, they built a Wegmans Grocery Store, just like in Hunt Valley. In fact the manager bought our house, they opened the store the month after we moved. When we left, they said 100,000 people lived within 5 miles of Harford Mall.

The Wegmans was about 300 yards from my house.



They built a Super Walmart on Rt 1 in Fallston

[Bay Kid]

Still protesting/destroying/robbing going on in Richmond Va last night. This is a everyday/night thing. Decided the Christopher Columbus statue bothered someone so they destroyed it last night. Then they moved on to do some late night shopping/stealing.

Do these people ever work?

[ColdNoMore]

Columbus (sail here)

Why Columbus Day Courts Controversy
Christopher Columbus undoubtedly changed the world. But was it for the better?

Over 500 year after he "discovered" the New World—kicking off centuries of exploration and colonization of the Americas—Christopher Columbus is still honored with a federal holiday on the second Monday of every October. As historians have continued to dig into the life of Christopher Columbus, controversy has arisen over continuing to honor the Italian explorer as a hero.

On his first day in the New World, he ordered six of the natives to be seized, writing in his journal that he believed they would be good servants. Throughout his years in the New World, Columbus enacted policies of forced labor in which natives were put to work for the sake of profits. Later, Columbus sent thousands of peaceful Taino “Indians” from the island of Hispaniola to Spain to be sold. Many died en route.

Columbus ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed; in an attempt to deter further rebellion, Columbus ordered their dismembered bodies to be paraded through the streets.

Beginning in 1991, dozens of cities and a few states have adopted Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday that celebrates the history and contributions of Native Americans—rather than Columbus.

[ffresh]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

Another protest/destroy day in Richmond VA. Groundhog day VA. It is Monday, maybe they will go to work?

All joking aside, they are at work … and BEING PAID!

Fred

[ffresh]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

The Bible says not to worship idols. I wish they would move the 100+ year old statues. Then the protesters can just destroy other things they are told not to like. Let them burn the city, again.

Now Richmond VA would like to defund police funds and take that money to hire people to go the poor neighborhoods to teach them how to act. Good luck with that.

They've already been taught how to act … therein lies the problem

Fred

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

Still protesting/destroying/robbing going on in Richmond Va last night. This is a everyday/night thing. Decided the Christopher Columbus statue bothered someone so they destroyed it last night. Then they moved on to do some late night shopping/stealing.

Do these people ever work?

Wonder if they even knew who Columbus was?

[billethkid]

At some point some will realize the past/people/events cannot be measured by today's standards.

Totally ridiculous concept to try remove or change a nation's history. It is what it was as measured by that date in time.

[Lindsyburnsy]

That information was all over the news channels. There were groups on FaceBook making the arrangements of where to go. There are opportunists everywhere.

[600th Photo Sq]

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[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Destruction of property is loathsome. I hope they are caught, convicted, and do jail time in addition to community service. Destruction of historic monuments, NO MATTER HOW OFFENSIVE THEY MAY BE - is even more loathsome. Like it or not, this IS our history. As said by Santayana: "Those who cannot remember our past are doomed to repeat it."

We cannot and should not try to eliminate the symbols of our past. The past doesn't define our present but it is what led us to it, and learning from it is how we can improve upon it.

The statues belong in a museum - whether indoor or an outdoor park somewhere away from where the descendants of history's victims have to see it every day.

That said...

Christopher Columbus was a non-issue, and shouldn't ever have been mentioned in United States history. He had nothing to do with it, he never set foot on (what is now known as) American soil.

[600th Photo Sq]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

No one is trying to change history, nor should anyone be pushing...to destroy these things.

Just take the statues, monuments and memorials of these traitorous losers and put them all together someplace...where the public doesn't have to constantly look at them.

Then teach our children that they tried to destroy the UNITED States of America...which is also of huge importance to our history.

It's not a coincidence, and was the primary impetus, that the majority of these were put up decades after the end of the Civil War as an attempt at intimidation...toward African-American's who were simply asking/pushing for true equality.


The real reason for Confederate statues (click here)

Contempt for law enforcement is unacceptable. Sometimes whatever profession people lose their way , and are held accountable that's life.

But for anyone to paint a broad brush on a particular group ( Police ) is nothing more than bias, and ignorance.

Black and White Officers have lost their lives defending law abiding citizens and many yes many have had life threatening injuries.

I have no further comments to make on this subject. It is a complete waste of time commenting on what is the truth.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

Columbus (sail here)

I am eighty years old and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Old Chris gave us a rather nice background feeling living there.... I doubt anyone found this "controversy" that you speak of. I think that is just a way to make excuses for making trouble. I am not buying it.