Comments on: State-Sanctioned Riots

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:30:05 +0000

I haven't yet reached the part in my Rome history podcast, but it's been repeatedly teased that the professional army killed the Republic, so this is sounding familiar already.

By: Jersey Girl Angie

Jersey Girl Angie — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:15:41 +0000

The threat of a few nights as a guest of NYC at Rikers Island usually is enough to dissuade most effete pseudo-libs from playing at being protesters.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:32:22 +0000

Meanwhile in New York City:

Sources said Mayor de Blasio ordered the NYPD to give a free ride to the mobs that blocked the Lincoln Tunnel, Brooklyn Bridge and other major thoroughfares Tuesday night. “It’s coming from City Hall,” a source said. “We’re being told if it’s only traffic violations, don’t do anything.” The police aren’t going to arrest us and they are not going to shoot us,” an organizer who calls himself “Magiq” boasted to a group of two dozen rabble-rousers at a Union Square planning session Wednesday night. How times have changed. Under [Ray] Kelly and [Mike] Bloomberg, this would never happen,” said another source.

By: James James

James James — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:31:56 +0000

“Using force to stop a riot only creates more animosity and further disturbance becomes the norm.”

More animosity yes, but this doesn’t necessarily lead to more riots. The modern crackpot logic is that putting down riots encourages more of them; the opposite is true.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:32:55 +0000

Bert: I hear your point about containment, but Louis XIV did need to quarter his troops somewhere, too. The result of riot ‘containment’ is not substantially different from Cevennes Dragonnades.

By: Bert E.

Bert E. — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:41:12 +0000

The paradigm for riot control since the 1960′s has been not to stop riots but to contain them and not suppress. Stop the riot from spreading but contain to an area. Using force to stop a riot only creates more animosity and further disturbance becomes the norm. Give the rioters three days normally to “express” themselves and most of what can be destroyed is destroyed and then everyone goes home to rest.