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Old 08-10-2011, 10:37 PM
 
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Many of the looters are still in school or college. Some of the looters have good jobs.. a graphic designer was one such arrested.
Being poor is tough, as millions in America now know but to smash up your own community is just senseless criminality... no need for it.
Manchester has just spent a lot of money rebuiding after a huge bomb blast in the city centre a while back and now these thugs have destroyed it again.
They say they want respect... well respect must be earned first.
That is my point exactly though. They have not earned anything, nor do they have to in order to be taken care and provided with this free education etc. The government will rebuild their communities for them, the government will continue to provide them with these amenities.

There is no personal responsibility within their community, because it was provided by an outside entity with no human face, rather than themselves and their families. There is no sense of pride and no accountability to society. Perhaps if they had grown up having to work hard to build what they have, they would think twice before destroying what they have?
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:39 PM
 
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They say they want respect... well respect must be earned first.
So I take it that you have no respect for babies, toddlers, and small children,
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:40 PM
 
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What liberal policies are you referring to?
The liberal policies that provide them with unearned benefits. People will never take pride in things they have not earned themselves, communities they have not worked hard to build.
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:43 PM
 
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The liberal policies that provide them with unearned benefits. People will never take pride in things they have not earned themselves, communities they have not worked hard to build.
Explain thugs in countries that give out no benefits?

Ever been to the slums of Somalia, Asia and Latin America where benefits are scarce.
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:43 PM
 
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I have read the writings of Mussolini, Hitler and Jonah Goldberg.
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I am very familiar with Goldberg's book. Did YOU read it?
Can you read? I'm not going to repeat myself.

To save yourself from a lifetime of embarassment, I recommend you do not base your opinions on massive issues on a single book written by a political hack whom real scholars and historians universally ignore.

Authoritarinism is found at every extreme.

(Back to the riots.)
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Republic of Texas
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The liberal policies that provide them with unearned benefits. People will never take pride in things they have not earned themselves, communities they have not worked hard to build.
It's called communism, brother. Call these leftist perverts out for what they really are. Liberal is too nice a word. Be more inflammatory and call the commies commies. That will really get the sputtering impotent rage of these commies going.
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:46 PM
 
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Explain thugs in countries that give out no benefits?

Ever been to the slums of Somalia, Asia and Latin America where benefits are scarce.
I'm giving a theory on why these people (who do NOT live in the slums of Somalia yet are still thugs) do what they do. Argue with my theory or don't, I really don't care.
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:51 PM
 
Location: Republic of Texas
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Can you read? I'm not going to repeat myself.

To save yourself from a lifetime of embarassment, I recommend you do not base your opinions on massive issues on a single book written by a political hack whom real scholars and historians universally ignore.

Authoritarinism is found at every extreme.

(Back to the riots.)
I am not interested in what "real scholars and historians universally ignore". Talk about revisionist history. A bunch of dope smoking commies in the university telling me that Fascism belongs on the right with Milton Friedman, von Hayek, Adam Smith, John Locke, and Murray Rothbard.

Please cite one line from Goldberg's book that you personally can refute.

(Back to the commie riots.)
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:52 PM
 
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It's called communism, brother. Call these leftist perverts out for what they really are. Liberal is too nice a word. Be more inflammatory and call the commies commies. That will really get the sputter impotent rage of these commies going.
Lol. Well... in essence this reflects the core theory and also the core problem with communism. People can not take pride in something that they do not have a stake in. If there is no accountability, there are no self-imposed rules.
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Old 08-10-2011, 10:56 PM
 
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I'm giving a theory on why these people (who do NOT live in the slums of Somalia yet are still thugs) do what they do. Argue with my theory or don't, I really don't care.
So benefits effect people depending on what nation they live in???
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