Tuesday, April 28, 2015

BALTIMORE, ANOTHER BASTION OF PROGRESSIVISM GOING UP IN SMOKE???


I think we can all agree that there are morons and then there are those who have been able to make being a moron into an art form!  And it’s Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake who I think we can safely say is one of those, and ranks right up there with another well-known moron, Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit fame.  You see it was in her first remarks made in addressing the chaos now underway on the streets of Baltimore that this poorest excuse for a responsible public official said that one thing she wanted to make sure took place was “that those who wished to destroy, had room to do that.”  Is this what you’d want to hear from your mayor?

Now after receiving more than just a little push back regarding the recklessness of her statement, she’s saying that her words were simply taken out of context.  Now you can watch the video at the top of this post and are free to decide for yourself if there is ANYTHING she said has since been presented in anything other than in the context in which she made it!  But that hasn’t’ stopped her from whining at a ‘news conference’ on Monday when she said, "I'll say the very blatant mischaracterization of my words was not helpful today."  This at the very same time that fires burned and hundreds of "thugs" (the mayor's word) looted and destroyed her city.

She then attempted to accuse the media of taking her words out of context, referring to it as being "unfortunate" that the media "decided to mischaracterize my words and tried to use it as a way to say that we were inciting violence."  What’s “unfortunate” is that she’s apparently the best the people of Baltimore could find in their search for a mayor.  She made her accusation after a reporter suggested that her own words on Saturday may have contributed to the problem.  And it was on Saturday night, after violence began to escalate in Baltimore, that the mayor said she was working with police to make sure they protected the protesters' right to free speech. 

What’s now causing the mayor to resort to doing a little damage control is the direct result of she herself having said, "It's a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they (protestors) were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”  She then went on to say, “We worked very hard to keep that balance and put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate, and that’s what you saw.”  On Monday night, she tried to explain away her idiotic remark, much like we have heard Barry, himself do, on any number of occasion, by simply placing blame on others. 

She said, "I was asked a question about the property damage that was done, and in answering that question, I made it very clear that we walk a -- we balance a very fine line between giving protesters -- peaceful protesters -- space to protest.”  She added, "What I said is, in doing so, people can hijack that and use that space for bad. I did not say that we were accepting of it; I did not say that we were passive to it. I was just explaining how property damage can happen during a peaceful protest.”  And added, "And it's very unfortunate that members of your industry decided to mischaracterize my words and tried to use it as a way to say that we were inciting violence. There's no such thing."

Later Monday night, she told the Communist News Network (CNN) she was "very measured" in her response to Monday's out-of-control violence, because, "We see what happened in jurisdictions that overreacted and brought in resources that escalated the violence on the street, and I didn't want that to happen in Baltimore.” She went on to say, "We wanted to make sure we had the appropriate response to what was going on on the ground. And when we saw that the breakout violence in the small groups --we realized that it was time to bring in additional resources, and I'm very grateful for the governor's cooperation."

CNN's Don Lemon, a black guy, noted that some people think the rioting was allowed to get out of control and that the looters were "given way too much leeway."  To which the esteemed mayor responded, "It is a very delicate balancing act to make sure you protect people's right to free speech their right to protest."  And then she actually had the gall to say, "The fact that people exploited the opportunity to protest, with violence and looting, doesn't mean that I don't have a duty to protect people's right to be heard.”  The people’s right to be heard?  Is she serious?  I guess I just don’t see her logic in making such a statement.

"What I said very clearly was, when you...facilitate space for people to be heard -- that space was exploited by those who meant to do harm to our city. That's what I was saying, very clearly. And when the protesters got out of hand, and started to destroy property, we did -- we used best practices -- the way the officers are trained to make sure that we are focusing on those that were doing the damage, and also working to not escalate.”  She added, "We have seen all over the country, and throughout our history, what happens when you use too much force to respond to an incident. It escalates and it can be a lot worse. I didn't want that for my city. We worked very hard to contain this, and to do it in a way that doesn't turn Baltimore into a military state."

Oddly enough, and something I’m sure is just some weird coincidence, it was also Ms. Rawlings-Blake, the very same mayor who gave rioters the necessary “space to destroy” property and who also reportedly told the police to stand down, who just so happens to have been a key player in the Justice Dept.’s plan to expand federal control over local law enforcement.  Rawlings-Blake was one of three mayors who provided broad input into Barry “Almighty’s” Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which advocates the federalization of police departments across the country by forcing them to adhere to stricter federal requirements when they receive funding.

Look, the sad truth here is that Democrats now control most, if not all, of America’s larger cities.  Hence the reason that we have seen most of our cities become nothing more than what can be described as cesspools of violence and corruption on what is nearly a massive scale.  And the residents of these cities really have no one to blame but themselves.  And it has been over the course of just the last 6 years that America as a whole has come to look more and more like the vast majority of its Democrat controlled cities.  If I was white and lived in nearly any big city in this country I would spend everything that I had to leave it as far behind as I could.

And what is it that our country and these cities now have in common, what’s that one common denominator?  Well, like many of these cities we now have a black Democrat who is currently in charge.  So might our cities be providing us a glimpse of what our country is destined to become?  What many of our cities have now become are nothing more than the equivalent of decades-long rat experiments that have gone horribly, horribly wrong and, as such, are deserving of little more than to have a very sizeable fence being placed completely around their perimeters to ensure safety for the rest of with the occasional food being dropped in on a weekly basis.  

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