This Shoots the Shit out of ‘Sugar and Spice….’

Numerous reports out of Washington D.C. report over 200 people were arrested over the weekend, protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump charges-of-police-using-rubber-bullets-fly-after-special-snowflake-riots.

According to Wikipedia, the lazy man’s Internet research tool, Henry David Thoreau coined the phrase “Civil Disobedience.” Wiki’s interpretation of what he meant is: “in this case is “relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state”, and so civil disobedience means “disobedience to the state”. Later dictionary definitions expended civil disobedience to include: “observing accepted social forms; polite” which would make civil disobedience something like polite, orderly disobedience. At present, civil disobedience seems to give license to any behavior no matter how criminal or tasteless, simply because the actor claims it. Once claimed no liability criminal, civil, or social can attach.

People seem to forget Thoreau was arrested for his civil disobedience, was tried, convicted and fined. When he refused to pay the fine he was jailed. His only disappointment is that a misguided supporter paid his fine the next day and Thoreau was released. Unlike his modern day counters, he accepted responsibility for his actions. Wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

In the riots beginning in the sixties law enforcement took a zero tolerance stance on criminal behavior during mass demonstrations. The left took advantage of this stance by seeding an otherwise law abiding crowd with trouble makers who proceeded to assault officers. The officers responded by closing the perimeter and attempting arrests. People who had no interest in assaulting police had no place to go and in an attempt to escape ended up assaulting police, in 1967 New York, New Haven, Detroit, Philadelphia, and LA, democratic strong holds all, burned.

A year later, just show that they weren’t paying attention, Mayor Daley’s Chicago Police rioted during the democratic national convention. This caused a rethinking of police tactics. From 1968 on police stood on the sidelines, kept the rioting to designated areas, directed traffic at prime looting sites, to avoid bottlenecks and played catch up whenever they could catch one of their neighborhood assholes alone. Rioting is not an efficient way to go about urban renewal. The rioters tried but they left unburned more than they burned.

What this policy did accomplish was to establish a new type of overseer. Gone from the minority community were terms like “Massar” or “Patron”.  This new breed of overseer were called “social workers”, “community organizers” and “liberals”. Their weapons were no longer the bullwhip, dogs, and terror. They had new more effective weapons, welfare checks, housing vouchers, food stamps and WIC payments. None of which was enough to allow the recipient succeed or prosper, but could ward off starvation long enough to become an overseer in their own right.

These malcontents are now coming off of eight years of Presidential mismanagement and outright criminality and nothing has changed. The new guy has been in office less than twenty-four hours, it’s his fault. So they decided to have a march.

Here are some of the things they brought to the march:

Protest signs, look closely at the shaft of the sign then the hand, how long is your ring finger?

To be fair many protesters had signs fixed to cardboard tubes or 1″ by 1/4″ lathe. But it isn’t hard to find the squared 1″ 1/4 by 1″ 1/4 board.  The square edges can cause cuts when the board is used as a blunt object.

Rock also known as a BFR

A Big Fuckin Rock (BFR) would seem to be part of the landscape that can be picked up just about anywhere. I challenge you to observe, pick-up and throw a BFR within ten seconds in an urban setting. A BFR isn’t as casually found as you might think. It can be used on store windows, car windows, thrown at people or dropped from heights. Only major league pitchers can throw a BFR any distance with any hope of hitting a target. Everybody else just gets to pick a direction.

Molotov cocktail (some assembly required) NO getting around it this is a bomb.

Molotov cocktails are used against police to break their lines and against stores and buildings when the rioters determine there is nothing left to steal. Police cars and trash bins are alternate targets.

The police bring their own specialized toys to the party such as:

Pepper Ball Rounds

An unknown number of protesters have already made a substantial investment in paintball equipment and will spend a portion of a weekend chasing and shooting each other in the name of games playing and recreation. There are thirteen such facilities in the Washington D.C. metro area.

Riot Baton, rounded edges 1 1/4 dimension

Standard issue police riot baton, usually used in conjunction with a shield with mandatory training.

40 mm foam rubber round

This is fired by a specialized grenade launcher. Each round contains three sabots of foam rubber that may contain a chemical irritant. It is typically deployed on order of command level and not individual initiative. When deployed it is fired at the street in front of the protester and are designed to hit at ankle to knee level.

Rubber bullets, can have a chemical irritant and dye added

These are pistol rounds designed to be used against specific individuals to either encourage them to stop doing something socially unacceptable or to mark the individual for arrest as the crowd disperses. A headshot can seriously maim or kill a suspect, so training calls for aiming at the lower extremities.

All of the items I have ascribed to the protesters are, in and of themselves considered to be deadly weapons. Using them against police, spectators or to whom it may concern constitutes a violent felony.

The riot control items I have attributed to the police are called, “Less than lethal”. When training protocols, policy and procedure are followed the likelihood of death or serious bodily injury is lessened considerably.

What the left and MSM wants you to forget is that mankind has been killing one another with rocks and sticks a hell of a lot longer than they have with firearms.

Nobody liked the Palestinians when they were hijacking and blowing up airplanes and buildings. Stick them on the street and with rocks, slingshots and knives and suddenly the Palestinians are nice guys. Bullshit they are same murderous crew they have alway been.

The underdog in the war on terrorism are those societies that refuse to abandon their humanity and reliance on the rule of law.