The financial damage sustained so far from the ongoing riots is already at record levels. While most commercial insurance will cover it, that kind of loss will result in big increases in premiums, and thereby the cost of doing business- which will cause an increase in the price of the products and services those businesses sell. Bottom line- YOU, the consumer- will pay the bill for the arsonists, the stolen goods and the building damage. You may think they are trashing someone else- but they are also trashing all of us, stealing from us, reducing our disposable income. We have watched this horror unfold in front of police lines- but we have not seen police act to stop it. I don't blame them, as they are under orders from the incompetent jackasses that run these cities. However, something all of us should know is that Police have no legal obligation to protect your property. They can watch the arsonist burn your life's work, and not interfere- without violating the laws. You have been watching them do just that. What about your life? Aren't they supposed to protect us? NO. SAME THING- Legally, the police have no obligation to protect you life either. They can watch you being murdered and choose to do nothing to save you at the time. That's not assumption, it's supreme court ruling that makes it clear. However, if the police take your murderer into custody, then they are legally obligated to protect that person..... doesn't that make you feel better? Given these facts- who can you depend on to protect you and your family from this kind of insane violence? There is someone- and it's YOU. The same liberals who are protesting the death of Floyd George, and many of them are on the street in these crowds, are frequently the ones saying you don't need to own a gun, should not be allowed to have an AR15, should not be allowed to own a high capacity magazine, because that is the job of the police..... They lie. That trash burning our cities does not want to encounter people who can and will defend themselves.
If the BS rioting doesn't wake people up on the need to be able to protect themselves and their businesses than nothing will. To them I say good luck going forward.
Pure BUNK, the supreme court did so, so that the police are not sued into bankruptsy. The guy that had a bomb on him, and told to rob bank,,,,,, his relatives could sue the police, as he blew up. WE the tazpayer in actuality pay for all police screwups. That is why they were not OFFICIALLY burdened with saving our lives.
All of this is one reason that of all the Dem Party lead big cities, the city of Houston is not on fire. Because even though our Dem Party mayor marched with the 'protestors' to demonstrate his ideological solidarity, damn near every citizen -- Brown and White -- has got a weapon of some sort inside his or her home and damn little tolerance for bull-feces. As for the 'peaceful' protestors they were given access to downtown and ordered to do their marching along a pre-approved route LINED with police officers not in the mood to put up with any tossed bricks or Molotov cocktails. There was some violence the very first night but not any thereafter. Oh, and yesterday the City of Houston informed its citizens that mysterious pallets of bricks somehow appeared along the march route . . . and were confiscated. Ta-dah!
The one thing that we have been reminded by the coronavirus and Floyd murder crises is that trump is incompetent and unfit to be potus. It's amazing how many conservatives, religious leaders and military people are already calling him out for his deplorable actions and demagoguery. https://theweek.com/articles/917545/trump-incapable-wielding-power
Looks more like too many of our people are unfit to be "citizens". They are eager to blame, loathe to participate or take responsibility, want everything, but think somebody else should pay for it. See no reason not to steal and throw tantrums of outrage, because- well, the aren't happy. No matter what Trump does, he will be the target of the hate of these misfits. IF he sends in military- he will be labeled a dictator. If he doesn't, he will be called incompetent and unfit. You can't have a winning team when you load it with losers and whiners, and that is much of the material we have to work with today. If anyone ever doubted how many of us have no moral fiber, no self respect or integrity- watch these nightly street demonstrators who are demanding "Justice". What a crock of BS- they are terrorists- not adults, not even deserving of the label citizen- but the left will still blame what they do on Trump and pretend the looting and burning is his fault. Their behavior is what is truly deplorable, as in the kind of media that fan the fires of hate- which you read and repeat. Trump is showing great restraint, but it won't last much longer. There is no reasoning with trash- hard consequences are the only thing that will bring them under control, and the sooner the better.
And if he sends the military in, how we he be any different than every tin horn dictator and authoritarian leader around the world that our government for years has vehemently opposed???? Everything destroyed by those looting and destroying will be directly at the expense of taxpayers from police cars to ATM machines to store windows and merchandise. Those that participate in any way in destroying the cities and towns they reside in are clearly idiots that have absolutely no regard for either themselves or their neighbors. Already the leader of Hong Kong is calling out Dirty Donalds hypocrisy for his rhetoric in pursuing the domestic rioters here at home, while chastising China for possibly doing the same thing in Hong Kong.
When the rioters and arsonists and lawless criminals come for my family and my hard-earned property, I would be more than happy to have United States soldiers standing beside me. I assume that most law-abiding, taxpaying citizens want their families and life's work protected from the criminals. And that has nothing to do with tin horn dictators. It has to do with protecting the lives and property of the taxpayer who contributes to the betterment of society, and stopping those who do nothing but take, take, take, and try to destroy everything.
People obsessed with hate can never grasp the reality, never see things in balance. It's like cancer, eating them from the inside.
spiritgide You got it exactly right certain white cops are consumed with hate towards the black race, like a cancer eating them from inside!!! I believe we have many fascist posters on this site just like Sen. Tom Cotton who are exactly like these rogue cops.
@spiritgide That's an ultimate win for the left wing : So there is a cop who murdered a man in a democrat managed city. Not only they managed to take no responsibility for that. Considering that the USA never fully recovered of the 2008 crisis, considering that there were already a serious crisis in 2020 because of the covid 19, the damage caused by such riots will never be repaired. It will create more poverty and unequality, poverty and unequality the left wing will use to create more resentment that would lead to more violence that would lead to even more poverty in a vicious loop. The looters are creating even more poverty for themselves aswell.
We've seen it all before, the big box stores, the government buildings, statues and memorials, the fashion boutiques of Rodeo Drive will all be restored but inner city businesses will be shuttered forever. Housing will follow but much slower because people in those communities most effected cannot afford to move and neighborhoods will crumble. The Dem politicians will point to the ruins and blame the white man.
You are exactly right. These people are labeling themselves, making their cities and neighborhoods into dead zones. Surviving businesses that can will move out, damaged ones will not rebuild, new businesses will not go there... jobs will disappear, property will deteriorate. The entire city will suffer as well, tainted with ugliness by these people who destroy and steal anyone's property while calling it a demand for "justice'. To the extent they had tourism before, attracted conventions and all the money those things bring to a city- that too will shrivel up and disappear. These are the real killers of justice; the killers of freedom. The Floyd George death was an isolated incident resulting from an over-zealous cop's carelessness- but the looting and burning is defining the character of the entire city and those who live there. It really has nothing to do with the death of George, but with the opportunity to use his death as an excuse for allowing their real character to run wild. Honorable people would never have done this, it is a clear statement of the character void present in every one of those on the streets. Zero. Nobody respects this, nobody wants to have anything to do with those people, or the place they live.
