Comments on: Brutality can terminate riots promptly

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:36:01 +0000

I was in Paris in 1967 when the Jews whipped the Arabs in the Six-Day War. I was staying in a student hotel adjacent to the University of Paris. Jewish "students" began a demonstration, assembling and chanting. At this late date I don't recall the chant but remember Israel was a part. I heard the noise and left my room and attempted to leave through the main door. The manager came up to me and prevented me from going out to see what was happening, telling me I was likely to be harmed. I went up to the second floor and watched French gendarmes utterly destroy the Jewish chanters by beating them with truncheons and their weighted capes. The next day I saw nothing of the incident in the papers.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:55:07 +0000

USA police cultivate a culture of apparent defiance. Riots look good on TV and make it easier to lobby for bigger budgets.

USA police follow similar strategies. Rather than shoot their citizens everywhere, they serve no-knock warrants with overwhelming SWAT force, one house at a time.

But when Occupy Wall Street appeared scary for rich people, you can see that the USA police immediately received a large private bribe and then took serious measures to keep the riots far away from the actual vulnerable rich people.

Riots are show business, and the moral of the story is “the police need bigger budgets.”

It should be obvious what Smedley Butler would say.

He would say, “The war of police against rioters is a racket.”