Yet another this bothers me post

[nadinbrzezinski]

Understanding where things come from.. this case riots, could be the American Revolution.... the implication I have been given by a few folks is that I am obviously for them fun and games.

I once had a political science instructor who actually did a lot of work on the riots of the 1960s... and compared them to the riots in other places. It was an interesting question.. where does a riot come from and are the same all over the place? His findings were that the origin of each riot is essentially depending on social stress and desperation. He got a grant for that. Like me, I guess since he understood where they came from, he was for them.

If this is the logic, I guess I am all for revolution or civil war (revolutions are always civil wars)... which could not never be farther from the truth.

This is yes another form of trying to suppress thought and discussion. I ain't gonna go into the logic based term... don't matter. But this really bothered me, and decided to make this an OP. Since it seems to be a trend.

For the record, I had EMS command of a fairly large riot that lasted six hours. That is as close as I ever want to get to one... it didn't last three days, just six hours... that's long enough and close enough for me.

I alos got to debrief kids from the wars in Central America. Civil wars are not civil, nor is ethnic cleansing by the way.

I must say, it was an interesting way to try to discuss something.

If you post something that you seem to understand,

you must support it,

therefore you are in favor of it...

yep, it has a name, and I will leave it at that.

[midnight]

1. It's hard to watch so many suffer so so few can have it all....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yeah I know and that is where social disruptions come from

when you hit a certain point, of social stress you will have an explosion. Most of the time they are controlled... (see wisconsin) but at times you get a riot.

[WCGreen]

3. i was in a small two hour riot complete with tear gas and mounted police

police swinging billy clubs.

It was part against the Vietnam War and part because the concert in favor of peace was abruptly called off by the authorities, Ironic, you bet...

thankfully I was nimble of foot and coming off an acid trip so I was, for what ever reason, saved from having my head bashed in.

There were at least 25 people taken away in ambulances that had a hard time getting to the injured as dozens more treated on site for all sorts of injuries.

BTW, I was in ninth grade at the time. It was 1970. It wasn't fun.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I had to pull back my ambulances

rocks were flying. One crew decided not to listen and had their windshield shattered, and were lucky to come out with their lives.

I am glad you came out.

Funny... I was going home five minutes before all hell broke loose...

[Electric Monk]

4. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

[cali]

6. why do you invariably make everything about you?

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