www.usdayofrage.org not a good thing

Originally Posted by DDoug

www.usdayofrage.org not a good thing

I am not particularly enamored of the word "rage". However, I am in favor of non-violent demonstrations of the frustration of the nation with its government. I think it is about time Washington and Wall Street knew how the nation feels right now.

Perhaps Day of Citizens' Total Disgust would be a better title.

Originally Posted by DDoug

www.usdayofrage.org not a good thing

This is the leftist socialist anarchist factions at work again. They gleefully have had London in flames, and they're flushed with "success" and are going on a road show.

Whenever you want to see true violence, it always comes from the left. This is going to cost the taxpayers many millions of dollars to combat if it gets the traction the organizers hope.

These anarchists, coupled with our entitlement class of citizens who love a good riot and group protest to satisfy and enable their desire to take what they want from the producers in this country, will bring the changing America into focus, for those who go along to get along.

OK, you liberals, this may finally the "Change" of which we were foretold. Enjoy.

Originally Posted by BaylorBear

I am not particularly enamored of the word "rage". However, I am in favor of non-violent demonstrations of the frustration of the nation with its government. I think it is about time Washington and Wall Street knew how the nation feels right now.

Perhaps Day of Citizens' Total Disgust would be a better title.

I agree. But something tells me from looking at the website and also the Oct. 11 one that they want more of a London rioting/burning approach (like hauling out big-screen televisions saying, "we're getting our taxes back" as I saw on the news the other night).

Who is this group DDoug? The only information I can find ties them to the Service Employees International Union and former ACORN head Wade Rathke.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

This is the leftist socialist anarchist factions at work again. They gleefully have had London in flames, and they're flushed with "success" and are going on a road show.

Whenever you want to see true violence, it always comes from the left. This is going to cost the taxpayers many millions of dollars to combat if it gets the traction the organizers hope.

These anarchists, coupled with our entitlement class of citizens who love a good riot and group protest to satisfy and enable their desire to take what they want from the producers in this country, will bring the changing America into focus, for those who go along to get along.

OK, you liberals, this may finally the "Change" of which we were foretold. Enjoy.

Forgive me Rich!! I am sometimes very blonde! I had no idea! Never heard of any of the organizations that support them!! Mea culpa, mea culpa!! I really hate being a dumb blonde sometimes!! Please, can I still be a friend???

The only one that I have heard of is The Hacker Group Anonymous that has been in the news lately. They alledgedly hacked into several Law Enforcement sites for the arrests of some of their members. They could actually do more harm to the country that the protestors occupying Wall Street if they crashed the computers on Wall Street.

The SEIU and ACORN as a pair to draw to. Nothing good will come of this.

I had the 'privilege' of being in the UK when London went up in flames. I was very worried for my stepson's girlfriend who lives in the borough of Enfield - the one the scumbags went to after the riot in Tottenham because there were more upscale shops in Enfield, two boroughs north.

Note that it was a PEACEFUL demonstration in Tottenham (in response to the police shooting and killing an alleged gang member - who shot at the cops and, well, guns are 100% illegal in the UK so....). The scumbags saw this and apparently used Facebook and Twitter to organize a flash mob there and thus, the riots started.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Traci (who may end up being my stepdaughter-in-law) to make sure she and her kids were ok.

During the course of our travels around Scotland there were a LOT of Brits, Scots and Londoners on holiday who spoke to us envying the way that Americans are allowed to defend themselves.

The riots appear to be a turning point in the opinions of UK citizens. They have had ENOUGH of bending over and 'taking' it while the MPs "mollycoddle" people who don't DO anything like, oh, say, umm, "work". The crap about "getting my taxes back"? Those thugs don't PAY taxes (except for VAT - and that doesn't begin to cover all the benefits they get in public housing and other welfare payments). I noticed one thing we could emulate here. With less than a week passing since the riots started, they had already arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and SENTENCED some of the offenders! UK PM Cameron said the courts were going to stay open 24/7 to deal with all this.

Originally Posted by djplong

I had the 'privilege' of being in the UK when London went up in flames. I was very worried for my stepson's girlfriend who lives in the borough of Enfield - the one the scumbags went to after the riot in Tottenham because there were more upscale shops in Enfield, two boroughs north.

Note that it was a PEACEFUL demonstration in Tottenham (in response to the police shooting and killing an alleged gang member - who shot at the cops and, well, guns are 100% illegal in the UK so....). The scumbags saw this and apparently used Facebook and Twitter to organize a flash mob there and thus, the riots started.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Traci (who may end up being my stepdaughter-in-law) to make sure she and her kids were ok.

During the course of our travels around Scotland there were a LOT of Brits, Scots and Londoners on holiday who spoke to us envying the way that Americans are allowed to defend themselves.

The riots appear to be a turning point in the opinions of UK citizens. They have had ENOUGH of bending over and 'taking' it while the MPs "mollycoddle" people who don't DO anything like, oh, say, umm, "work". The crap about "getting my taxes back"? Those thugs don't PAY taxes (except for VAT - and that doesn't begin to cover all the benefits they get in public housing and other welfare payments). I noticed one thing we could emulate here. With less than a week passing since the riots started, they had already arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and SENTENCED some of the offenders! UK PM Cameron said the courts were going to stay open 24/7 to deal with all this.

I'm glad you and your family are okay. I can't imagine being caught up in the rioting. It is a real pitiful shame.

Originally Posted by djplong

I had the 'privilege' of being in the UK when London went up in flames. I was very worried for my stepson's girlfriend who lives in the borough of Enfield .........
Note that it was a PEACEFUL demonstration in Tottenham (in response to the police shooting and killing an alleged gang member - who shot at the cops and, well, guns are 100% illegal in the UK so....). The scumbags saw this and apparently used Facebook and Twitter to organize a flash mob there and thus, the riots started..........

During the course of our travels around Scotland there were a LOT of Brits, Scots and Londoners on holiday who spoke to us envying the way that Americans are allowed to defend themselves.

The riots appear to be a turning point in the opinions of UK citizens. They have had ENOUGH of bending over and 'taking' it while the MPs "mollycoddle" people who don't DO anything like, oh, say, umm, "work". The crap about "getting my taxes back"? Those thugs don't PAY taxes (except for VAT - and that doesn't begin to cover all the benefits they get in public housing and other welfare payments). I noticed one thing we could emulate here. With less than a week passing since the riots started, they had already arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and SENTENCED some of the offenders! UK PM Cameron said the courts were going to stay open 24/7 to deal with all this.

I appreciate your first-hand account and observations.

However, do you really think that the "coalition" of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and all the race baiters would validate and embrace anything remotely "conservative" mentioned about the British above, like supporting citizens bearing arms to defend themselves, and swift justice in courts kept running 24/7????? NO WAY!!!!

The fact that U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder did absolutely nothing about the billie club thumping, white-hate yelling black panther intimidating voters at the polling place in Phila. in Nov. 2008 tells us all we need to know about what kind of "justice" this administration and democrats want.

The "justice" they want is spelled R-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N-S taken out of us whities. Period.

I don't think I could agree on the time of day with Waters, Jackson-Lee, Jackson and their ilk. If they told me the sky was blue, I'd look up.

One interesting discussion I got into, when I mentioned that I was from New Hampshire where we have the "Castle Doctrine", was about things that aren't normally weapons in the UK.

You can have a cricket bat. No problem there. If a burglar with a knife breaks into your house - you can NOT run to another room to retrieve it and use it as a weapon. THAT is illegal! The same holds true if you ran to the kitchen to et a knife or even a rolling pin or frying pan.

But wait - here comes the LOONEY part... *If* the item is ALREADY in the room you're in (sometimes they specify "within arm's reach") you CAN use the "casual object" as a weapon. But if you have to go a few feet to GET it - you CAN'T!

Now - changing subjects. Reparations? Poppycock! *BUT* - tell you what. I *might* agree to "reparations" ONCE. In exchange, *ALL* forms of Affirmative Action, quotas, points systems, preferential treatments, set-asides, etc - ALL OF THEM - are wiped off the books with an ammendment making them UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Just my opinion...

RichieLion - you are both right and wrong in your posting. You are right about mob violence and the looting that goes along with rioting. However, you are wrong about "true violence always coming from the left". Take a look back in history to the mob violence of the up and coming Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s.

Anyhow, some good has come from some mass protests. Communism was taken down in Eastern Europe; the US got out of Vietnam; civil rights were brought about in America.

Of course, I do not go along with mob violence, though. I am sure the NYPD will see that any protests are handled properly.

Originally Posted by buggyone

RichieLion - you are both right and wrong in your posting. You are right about mob violence and the looting that goes along with rioting. However, you are wrong about "true violence always coming from the left". Take a look back in history to the mob violence of the up and coming Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s.

Anyhow, some good has come from some mass protests. Communism was taken down in Eastern Europe; the US got out of Vietnam; civil rights were brought about in America.

Of course, I do not go along with mob violence, though. I am sure the NYPD will see that any protests are handled properly.

I always thought that Hitler was a left-wing socialist.

Sure we got out of VietNam and thousands of our South Vietnam friends were butchered.Nothing to be proud of in my opinion.

Civil rights? Evolution of society would have naturally brought rights to everyone. We wasted trillions on The Great Society. That's progress?

Unfortunately, Nazism was right-winged national socialism...right or left, right or wrong-I think we all know how tragically it turned out. As for the riots that started things off, these riots were staged! Started by agents of the Nazi party who went into an area to pretend to be natives who wanted Hitler to come and help retore peace. Reminds me more of the tactics of our liberal Potentate at numerous town hall meetings...planned soft questions and answers for everyone!

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

Unfortunately, Nazism was right-winged national socialism...right or left, right or wrong-I think we all know how tragically it turned out. As for the riots that started things off, these riots were staged! Started by agents of the Nazi party who went into an area to pretend to be natives who wanted Hitler to come and help retore peace. Reminds me more of the tactics of our liberal Potentate at numerous town hall meetings...planned soft questions and answers for everyone!

Katz, May I recommend Shirer's Monumental 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'. Shirer was a radio journalist in Berlin during the period of Hitler's rise to power. This book will clear up the all-too-common misconception that the Nazi's were in any way right wing. They fought desperately with the Communists to see who could claim the left wing. Since you're not watching TV, you might as well read a good book.