Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 17, 2015

It will get a point across alright, just not the point you want.

What Mr. Pastis, along with many other commentators, fail to realize in this false analogy is the absolute rage that builds when people are subjected to a wide spectrum of disrespect and outright state sanctioned terrorism year after year after year after year. Of course it boils over into anger and senseless violence.

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots

As above, you need an acceptable reason to riot.

Odd how the liberals say vandalism is free speech UNTIL it’s their property that is destroyed. THEN they want the police. Hypocrisy thy name is liberalism.

But the point is, when those people that subjected to state sanctioned terrorism, as you put it, those people, in their rage, go out and destroy their own property, their own livelihoods, and what they do does not actually change or accomplish anything, but the destruction of themselves.

Um no, most liberals are aware that free speech and the First Amendment has nothing to do with destruction of property. The former should be protected, and the latter is clearly a crime, as it should be.

Today’s background music: “Revolution” by The Beatles.

Vandals probably vandalize because they don’t have the money to buy politicians to get the government to destroy what they don’t like..

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

I do not support rioters or looters. I do support freedom of expression through peaceful protests. I would like to point out that all too frequently people are confusing looters with protestors.Baltimore provided some very good examples of Baltimorean protestors pushing back against rioters and looters, but honesty and decency don’t usual draw the clicks and listeners and viewers.Because local citizens pushed back against looters in Baltimore and in other communities, but those scenes do not seem to make it to the media of television and radio.I have seen coverage of protests and, yes some riots, but the rioters were mostly different from the protestors, and in more comprehensive coverage, what has been called protests and riots are, for the most part, with a few exceptions, quite small. It was the framing of the focus that made it look worse. It is just the nature of the media beast, that media narrow the focus to a small section of the area.From Martin Luther King speeches: 

Happiness is an inside job. Mr Pastis thank-you for making all of us think of those issues which are around all of us. May we all work towards making all lives better.

“What do we want?”“AMBIGUITY!”“When do we want it?”“WHENEVER!”

I don’t like Jackson Browne’s politics usually, for very good reasons, but every now and then… “…On the radio talk shows and TV You hear one thing again and again How the USA stands for freedom And we come to the aid of a friend But who are the ones that we call our friends? These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can’t take anymore And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone …”

Warning: Disturbing Images! Of Violence.from Lives in the Balance  by Jackson Browne

or, Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World by Neil Young.

For some reason I’m reminded of a scene in the old TV show Taxi when Alex (Judd Hirsch) met Latka’s (Andy Kaufman) rather good-looking mother and was told that Latka’s father died during the revolution in the “old country.” “Oh, his father was a freedom fighter killed by soldiers,” commented Alex. “No.” corrected Latka’s mother. “He was soldier killed by freedom fighters.”

And if breaking windows doesn’t work, we will set our hair on fire. That’ll teach ’em a thing or two!

Stay home and be glad the you have pennys to count.

We could throw some tea into Boston Harbor.

Those who need to see this, won’t. I love it!

You’re waaaaaayyyyyyy too PINK to be doing that Pig.

Actually, bookstores like Sammy’s are usually pretty safe from looters.

songwriterz you are so right. Only intelligent people read books. The others gather to loot and steal under the guise of a serious protest.

I’ll show them, I’ll burn my house down!

broke a few windows in my day too Pig….

Rat, of course, would vandalize for the sheer raw hell of it. Larry would vandalize his own house, not recognizing it as such. The lemmings would take special care not to land on anything that didn’t belong to them, so as not to take anything with them…….

Hey Stephan, your Berkeley background is coming out. Remember People’s Park; ever wonder why Cody’s never lost its windows, even though it was about 100 yards away?

It’s like the two stupid guys who went to the drive-in theater and hated the show so much they ripped up the seats.

i’m too sad from today’s discussion to give a comment.peace will come. let it begin with me—-tom paxton

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. – Thomas Sowell

Good quote, jbmlaw – do you include the rioters in these cases?

Funny how there is a huge of amount of press time dedicated to when a few people of color riot over police violence and almost none when white people riot over a sports game.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/white-people-rioting-for-no-reason.html

Well… Sammy wasn’t specific.How was dumb Pig to know?xxx

Just to follow up on my previous comment, one of the founding events of the United States was the deliberate destruction of property, that is, the Boston Tea Party. When I was a kid, we were taught that this was a noble act of patriotism (even before the US existed, even before the War was declared). The Boston Tea party wasn’t a riot, it was planned in advance. By a bunch of terrorists, oh, I mean patriots.

Following the UK elections couple of weeks ago, there was a demonstration/riot by the socialist supporters of the defeated party (232 seats versus the winners’ 331 absolute majority – ambiguous victory apparently in lefty-math?) which among other things included defacing (with foul language) a war memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Second World War.

For the usual rent-a-quote lefty apologists, the argument can be summed up as the standard whine of the six year old brat – “Now look what you made me do”.

I don’t think that vandalism is free speech, but we have a government that says cash is free speech. That vandalizes the concept of democracy.

I just read a thought-provoking article that touched on this:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/our-demand-is-simple-stop-killing-us.html?_r=0

Which again, has nothing to do with free speech or the First Amendment, so your point is…?

Pig is caught up in the mob mentality. Maybe Sammy the Shop Owner should express his rage against The Man by bashing Pig….

Usually, Pig is portrayed as a happy little kid. Dumb as the wart on a toad, yes, but happy. This is really a pretty big departure from his character.

There is a lesson in here somewhere… If I could only see it.

yep pig – i think you got it understood as well as the majority of commenters have. looks like you got the same results as the real life situations this parody depicts.