Riots and burning and looting solve nothing...

[kelliekat44]

Except for the Boston Tea Party. Or the Bastille. Or Stonewall. Or the Berlin Wall. Etc.

[JaneyVee]

1. This country was founded on looting of land,

Built by stolen labor, and powered by stolen resources.

[Cleita]

2. Actually, I don't think the people who will be blamed for those

actions are the ones doing them. I think there is a criminal element in there that takes advantage of the situation and allows others to take th blame.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. +10,000. nt

[noiretextatique]

4. it's totally DIFFERENT

when white people do it

[Bluenorthwest]

5. The patrons of the Stonewall Inn were a fairly equal mix of latin, black and white.

Just by way of fact. Many people do not know this. It was a rainbow uprising.

[noiretextatique]

8. thanks for the correction

my bad, didn't see Stonewall in that list, too busy crafting my snarky response.

[chrisa]

6. Burning stores down in your own community and stealing TVs is like the Boston Tea Party?

Might want to rethink this concept, especially since most of the rioters were opportunistic looters who probably couldn't care less about the protest that was going on.

[X_Digger]

9. We do have a cadre of folks performing some rather strenuous stretches n/t

[noiretextatique]

10. check out Mr Scorpio's link

and you might want to rethink your concept.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5877105

[Rex]

7. There may be no immediate solution and it hurts the locals

most of the time it is foreign agitators if it is a well know area of unrest. Basically if a person just wants to talk about the riots and not the cause, then they view it as nothing more then a spectacle imo. Always have to get to the root of the problem. All your examples are good ones. Also doesn't help when you are facing two groups of agitators, the cops and political subverts. And of course a hostile media HOPING that full scale rioting breaks out.