Can we all agree that looting as a form of protest is absolutely insane?

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Mobs take on a life of their own, and don't behave rationally, whether it's po folks in the hood, or fratstars pillaging after a Big 10 football game.

Whites need to start exercising their right to riot. After the OJ verdict, we should have looted and burned every Macy's in the U.S.

Let me do what all the pro-war people on this board do when kids die in a war:

Hey, it's protesting. Sometimes there's collateral damage. What are you gonna do?

Are you joking? Of course they just want free shite. Some people use the confusion and hysteria of such events to steal shite from others.

Well, sure, it's obvious to most. My point, is to be taken seriously, bring about "social justice", or whatever their goal is, someone that these people respect, needs to come forward and denounce this type of action. Maybe they already have, I don't know.

If they want to be taken seriously, at the very least, vent your anger & frustration towards the people responsible for you being pissed off. If AT&T pisses me off, I'm not gonna call DIRECTV and bitch.

Looting isn't protesting. Looting takes place because people see opportunity to get away with theft at times when police are spread thin. Protests, widespread power outage, hurricane, sports celebrations.

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It isn't a form of protest, no matter how much they claim it is.

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So I've been reading about this fiasco over the last couple of days and watching various reports on tv. I do hope that everyone here realizes (and I know this is too much to hope for) that the actual looters and destructive assholes are a small minority of the black citizens and a minority of the protesters. The looters are common thugs and criminals . . . not ordinary black citizens.

I think most would agree with that. Problem is, they're getting the coverage and causing the destruction. The majority, which we agree the looters are the minority, need to call these assholes out. Like I said earlier, maybe they have been called out. These assholes do to the black community, what the KKK use to do to whites(maybe still do). All blacks aren't looting assholes, and all whites aren't racists. Unfortunately, their actions is more profitable for the media to report.

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Admittedly I am a bit extreme when it comes to property defense.

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I remember a local auto salvage business in my hometown here in NH, way back in the early 1960's, with a sign at the entrance to the driveway through the gate, that said " If you're found here at night, you'll be found here in the morning."

Whenever I left the house with my friends, my mother would say "Just stay away from the junkyard. The last thing we need is a damn bill from the undertaker."

Good ol' Mom.