Cajun's thoughts on the election

[mekender]

http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=4568

This whole “riot” thing if Barack Hussein Obama should happen to lose: He doesn’t have to lose. Not winning big is plenty enough. Or, as I said before, the “victory parties” will get out of hand. But a lot of high-visibility people have already predicted riots, and that’s pretty much taken as an understanding. I’m figuring that the police departments of many large cities have their contingency plans in place to just pull back out of the usual neighborhoods and let the hubbub take its course.

After all, why risk the lives of officers? it is obvious that the preponderance of perpetrators won’t be punished. We still have clear video tapes of looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and nobody’s being prosecuted. And the police know this.

The point, though, is that the idea of the poor, oppressed people rioting has received tacit approval in the media and among many political circles. It’s obvious to me, though, that riots are only allowed if you’re of certain groups. Nobody has said anything about expecting or condoning riots from republicans.

We’re pretty much expected to just show up for work Wednesday morning and get the nation moving, put the groceries in the stores, the clothes on the racks and the cars on the road. Lights are supposed to come on, and the water is supposed to flow, and we’re expected to be good sheep, and yield up our wool and our lives at our master’s whim.?

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[Joe ex PNG]

There are many reasons we and other consevatives will not riot:

1) It's our stuff. The houses, stores, cars, et al typically burned during a riot belong to us, not the government. Thus, we'd have to pay to replace them.

2) We therefore respect other people's property. Since we own poperty, we understand how other property owners feel, and how they too cannot just sit back and trust the government to replace their things.

3) We don't have the welfare state 'prison' mentality. I heard an interview with rapper Ice-T compairing the LA riots with a prision riot- in both the inmates are unhappy with conditions and destroy essentials to get a better set of conditions for themselves. We, on the other hand, feel it is our own responsibilty to improve our own lives.

4) Conservitives respect rule of law.

5) Finally, we don't riot because if it came to the final extreme, 'When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...'

[Termite]

If riots happen, it will only be in certain areas of certain cities. And the thought of the squalid remains of the NOLA lower 9th Ward burning in a riot is.......amusing.

[FelixEstrella]

If riots happen, it will only be in certain areas of certain cities. And the thought of the squalid remains of the NOLA lower 9th Ward burning in a riot is.......amusing.

but it will still be Bush-Hitler's fault.

[randy]

Nice take on the whole riot thing from Doc Russia:

Seriously. Can you imagine one of those Abercrombie and Fitch wearing psuedo-anarchists trying to set up barricades. They will wave around their dad's revolver, which they really don't know how to use, and some Iraq war vet is going to pop up behind him, and mow his ass down because the punk thought that a bandana on his face made him bulletproof.

Read the whole thing. Well worth the time (H/T to KdT)

[308Mike]

One of the reasons they riot is because they think if their section 8 housing gets burned down, they might get new rebuilt section 8 housing to live in - WITH flowing water, less insects, no holes in the walls, new furnace and air conditioning, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if some slumlords TELL their residents to riot and burn the place down 'cause it'll be covered by insurance and they'll get rebuilt digs.

That said, I recall when the idiots in South East LA set fire to the post office, and then when it came time for their assistance checks to arrive, they complained because the post office wasn't open!! WHERE'S MY CHECK?!?!?!?