Someone kind of help my out here I am at a loss for words. I understand why people would be pissed because the police killed a teen but the two police officers involved have been charged by the government, one with murder. So, why would this produce four days of rioting and looting across Greece and Crete? I understand this shooting happened in a seedy area that is occupied by low life drug users and liberal anarchists who want no police presence. So now the anarchists across Greece and Crete have united and are using this Greek tragedy as an excuse to riot and loot. Excuse me, but what in the world do you anarchists expect to accomplish by burning and looting the property of innocent people? You are burning the same businesses that you will need to function as a society. What kind of whacked out minds destroy their own nest?

While I am on the subject, anarchists are pretty common in Europe in general. What is it that these rebels want? By definition it means they want no government. How then would you liberal anarchists get your welfare and drug money? The anarchists want a nation where everyone does what is right in their own eyes. Who then would protect the innocent and the weak from all the predators like you anarchists? Even the way your going about how you can achieve anarchy is not logical. You really think that attacking government is going to bring you more freedom? If you did not already have a large degree of freedom you would be in no position to attack government. Try rioting and looting in North Korea and see what happens.

So do you really think that these riots will bring you the freedom from government that you want? It will really bring a demand for law and order from the Greek people on your necks. So in the end with your lawlessness you are destroying the freedom that you want. The Greeks or the European people are not going to sit around and watch anarchists burn down their homeland unless they are suicidal and if most of you in Europe are now suicidal the rest of you better learn to bow to Mecca when the music plays. So anarchy in Europe will only bring repression from your government or from Islam. So tell me again why you all are you rioting in Greece? You say you have nothing else to do with all your pent up hated for everyone and everything? You all richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club award.

FOXNews.com – Greeks Brace for More Mayhem Ahead of Teen’s Funeral – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Three successive nights of widespread burning and looting have left stores and buildings gutted across Athens, and serious damage in Greece’s other main cities. The widely televised scenes of destruction are likely to further undermine a conservative government already rocked by financial scandals and clinging to a razor-thin majority of just one seat in the 300-member Parliament.

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said there would be no leniency for the rioters.

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“No one has the right to use this tragic incident as an alibi for actions of raw violence, for actions against innocent people, their property and society as a whole, and against democracy,” he said after an emergency meeting with the country’s president, Karolos Papoulias.

Within hours of the boy’s death, riots erupted in cities across Greece, from Thessaloniki in the north to cities in Crete and the holiday island of Corfu. By early Tuesday, hundreds of stores, cars, banks and buildings in about a dozen cities had been torched, smashed or looted.

The worst violence occurred late Monday when gangs of masked and hooded youths screaming “Cops! Pigs! Murderers!” set up burning barricades across city streets and fought pitched street battles with riot police firing volleys of tear gas.

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Every major police force in the U.S. is now being militarized. Part of the reason is the drug gangs and the terrorist threat but that also gave police forces the excuse and the money they needed to create their own army. In third world nations warlords have that type of power. Here it is drug gangs and police gangs and the attitude of both is it is us against them. When the “them” becomes the citizens you already have a local police state. That is now true in some areas of the U.S. but not in most rural areas. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that if the trend continues a police state is in our future.

With one word from the federal government based on some perceived threat all these heavily armed local police forces will become nationalized and there arises the official big police state. Right now all the big police forces are in training for their future police state role that everyone but the sheeple knows is inevitable.

Much can be determined about your own police force by how they treat the citizens. If they treat you as if you are guilty until proven innocent, If you get thrown on the ground instead of questioned. if they just break down your doors when they could have knocked (with some exceptions), if a gun is pointed at you and you are unarmed, if they have road check points looking for anything they can find, if they pull you over for a minor infraction and then ask to search your vehicle, If they want to search your vehicle and the only option you are given to refuse is a vehicle impoundment, if they travel in packs like a gang, if they look like storm troopers when on routine patrol, etc. Then there is a good chance that you are already living in a police state.

American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State

Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15’s, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.

Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: “We live on being prepared for ‘what if’.”

Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults

SWAT teams were designed to deal with very violent individuals who represent a clear and present threat to the public. However, they are now being used to execute warrants on non-violent offenders and even those who have no prior criminal history at all. Turning our neighborhood cops into shock troops will do nothing but erode public confidence in the police and endanger the lives of innocent Americans.

Recently, Boston´s new police commissioner William Fitchet announced that the department´s Street Crimes Unit will begin wearing military-style black uniforms, to instill a sense of “fear.” At last week´s city council meeting, police Sgt. John Delaney told council members that the black uniforms would send the message that officers were serious.

Did someone declare martial law?

If Mexico does not win this battle on drug trafficking we will end up with a hostile nation on our south border. Then we will be forced to send our military to defend our south border. The first thing we need to do is to start posting that anyone crossing into the U.S. illegally from Mexico is subject to deadly force and give our border patrol the weapons, technology and the backing to carry out that policy.

I don’t care what some are saying about the danger this would bring to the innocent illegals that are only coming across to make a living. They are only coming across now because they know they can. Besides, they are already in great danger by those who smuggle them like cattle along with their drugs – hundreds die each year. Common people in Mexico will soon get the message that you do not cross into the U.S illegally if we truly enforce our borders.

How do Liberal “compassionate” supporters of illegal entry rationalize that this policy is causing thousands of deaths and lawlessness in Mexico? Not to mention that drug running across our south border helps to kill many thousands of Americans and ruin the lives of millions through drug addiction. Is that compassion? Sometimes you need tough laws to protect people from the greedy predators of the world.

They say if we tighten up enforcement of our borders some poor workers might get killed but they totally ignore the fact that many thousands are being killed and that whole nations are being subverted by drug cartels.

Sometimes you have to fight to protect a civil society. Do sane people want drug cartels running Mexico? I assure you it will not have a good outcome. Now is the time to put pressure on our own government to join forces with President Calderon to ruthlessly crush the drug cartels. We also need to crush drug gangs in our own nation that have virtually taken over our inner cities. Now please don’t talk to me about the gang’s civil rights when the civil rights of millions of city dwellers have already been taken away by the gangs.

New Mexican ‘revolución’ crosses border, infects U.S.

In the 18 months since President Felipe Calderon took office vowing to defeat the cartels, the Mexican army, increasingly equipped with modern American-made arms, vehicles and communication, has been deployed across the country in a running battle against the cartels. The death toll is rising. The cartels have executed more than 4,000 people: judges, police chiefs and officers, mayors, military commanders and rival gang members, in a continuing battle over control of territory, particularly in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango. Portions of the Mexican army have been compromised, and many Mexican soldiers are now cartel enforcers.

The danger now is that revenue from smuggling is so great that cartels can not only bribe officials to get their way, but they can permanently buy off (or kill off) key army, government, political and media figures, rendering Mexico a state dominated by the cartels. Things can get much worse in Mexico than they are today. And that means, things can get much worse for America, too. President Calderon deserves U.S. support as he fights the smuggling cartels for control of Mexico

I do not agree with everything Frosty writes but I do see the hypocrisy in our marijuana laws. The same people who are busting people for marijuana are just as likely to be using it themselves in their own recreation time.

The costs to the nation of trying to enforce something that is not enforceable is huge. After over forty years of the DEA’s war on marijuana still over half the population of this nation uses it on one or more occasions and a significant population uses it regularly.

Millions have been imprisoned for doing nothing more than using a herb that is not anymore dangerous then many other herbs and substances that are perfectly legal. Certain people go to prison because they got caught while many high government officials and the rich and famous admit to the use of marijuana and are winked at.

It is police actions like this that fosters paranoia toward government enforcement agencies. The lucrative money in marijuana establishes illegal networks and gang wars over turf that get many people killed. These same networks then bring in harder drugs.

Marijuana laws are illogical. States cannot even agree on its enforcement. In one state it is a slap on the wrist to be in position of Marijuana and in another state it is a felony with a prison term that will ruin a persons life forever. It makes no sense.

Frosty Wooldridge — Marijuana Prohibition and Public Safety

“Many experts agree that the first drug to become legal and regulated will be marijuana. As DEA law judge Francis Young concluded after an exhaustive study of cannabis: “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.”

The ‘Concerned Local Citizens’ Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon – HUMAN EVENTS: “Called “basically a thumb in the eye of the Maliki government that won’t get its [act] together” by one American officer, the Concerned Local Citizens program puts ground-level security in the hands of the individual tribes and groups who need it most. Under the program’s coalition-crafted guidelines, members of individual tribes are allowed to arm themselves and to conduct their own security operations and patrols, provided that, among other requirements, they submit to the authority of Coalition and Iraqi Security forces.
The main premise behind the Concerned Local Citizens program is simply the belief that Iraqis as a whole oppose the militias and terrorist groups that have plagued Iraq for the last several years — and that citizen empowerment, backed by the coalition, will lead to a rejection of the forces that terrorize the civilian population in a given area.”

We need to implement that same concept in our own inner cities.

WorldNetDaily: Bill guts border fence requirement: “‘Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our land border with Mexico,’ the California congressman added.
‘If enacted,’ Hunter concluded, ‘this legislation would represent a significant step backwards in the effort to secure our borders.’”

“I find it odd that such an important amendment which releases DHS from specific requirements of an existing law would be passed by a simple voice vote in the Senate and then buried in the massive omnibus bill,” Elliott said.
“The American people reasonably expect that a double-layer fence will be built, but Congress has always had other plans,” he argued. “This amendment should be stripped from the bill.”
Hunter agreed.

The American Spectator: “Human Rights Watch last week made headlines denouncing the United States for jailing more people per capita than any other country. The U.S. incarceration rate is 751 per 100,000 residents, the highest such rate in the world. Justice Department figures show that at the end of 2006, more than 2.25 million persons were incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails, an all-time high.” So why are there so many felons in the U.S.?

Drug use. I addressed this issue in an article I wrote about our criminal justice system

LA Weekly – News – L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading – Peter Landesman – The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles: “L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever… and coming to a neighborhood near you”

Lawless gangs are more a threat to America than terrorists. So why does America put up with this lawlessness? If America cannot figure out how to stop inner city and drug gangs it will not have to worry about external threats, because we will soon be Iraq.

WorldNetDaily: Blacks buy into ‘values’ agenda: “A major survey of black American attitudes just released by the Pew Research Center gives reasons for both sobriety and encouragement. “

This article has a good set of statistics that you don’t hear every day. From what I see blacks may finally be figuring out that they are now their own worst enemy. Now they need to do more about it starting with gangs, drugs and other crime. There are many great black people in this country but unfortunately the black community in the inner cities have left the ungodly criminals run the streets. They need to take back their streets and see to it that their kids are brought up to function in main stream society and not to be part of a criminal amoral negative counter culture. Positive role models like Cosby, Foreman, Star Parker and many others should get the highest praise from people of all skin tones

WorldNetDaily: Battle-scarred ’sub’ in L.A. barrios speaks out: “To make ends meet during hard economic times, I became a ’substitute teacher’ for the Los Angeles Unified School District, or LAUSD – or to put it more kindly, a ‘guest teacher.’ As a guest LAUSD teacher I thought I would be an asset, but the system has never appreciated nor taken advantage of my educational or professional hard-earned accomplishments. There’s no teaching going on at LAUSD – only confinement of the sort one may find in a penal colony, complete with walkie-talkie-carrying wardens and bullhorns. And I have ‘confined’ at many different schools within central Los Angeles in the last six months. Many students scream ‘suuuuuuuub‘ when they see someone like me – a ‘guest teacher’ – in their classroom and trample anyone and/or anything as they push and shove their way inside. “

The inmates have taken over the asylum. Society is nuts to let this happen in our schools and it is nuts to tolerate gangs in our cities. Don’t you think this permissive social experiment has gone far enough and that it is time to return to the sanity of discipline?