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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Why protest anheuser busch? What did they do?

I've heard it explained that protests are not directed necessarily always at the parties responsible, but toward other places at the same time to get a sense of "everyone protesting everywhere". It also causes more harm economically which puts more pressure on the people being protested against to try to better contain it. I'd think it would also increase the amount of "the sky is falling" in the press. Finally, I'm sure there's some (arguably clever) amount of putting logistic pressure on the police to try to monitor and contain that many discrete hot spots.

My old apartment was about four blocks away from the brewery. I could not have timed the move better. I have friends that work at Boeing though. I hope that the military industrial complex has as good of security as I stereotype them as having.

It might get ugly...

“Personally, I think we DONT need to be on West Florissant. I wanna advocate that we go on South Florissant because the people on South Florissant don’t look like me. The people on West Florissant look like me and they’re with it. So… I really don’t have anything to protest on West Florissant. So if I’m in the area I’m going to Ferguson Police Department.”

If loot'n spread into the neighborhoods... um...

Hey Whembly, where exactly did you get that list and that link sourced from? I looked on the Facebook page but didn't actually see it there.

Not disputing it, but I have a friend who's potentially impacted by it and he's very interested about the source post for his own benefit.

 daedalus wrote:
Hey Whembly, where exactly did you get that list and that link sourced from? I looked on the Facebook page but didn't actually see it there.

Not disputing it, but I have a friend who's potentially impacted by it and he's very interested about the source post for his own benefit.

From my twittah feed... lemme see if I can find it.


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 whembly wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Hey Whembly, where exactly did you get that list and that link sourced from? I looked on the Facebook page but didn't actually see it there.

Not disputing it, but I have a friend who's potentially impacted by it and he's very interested about the source post for his own benefit.

From my twittah feed... lemme see if I can find it.

It was deleted.

But the google site is still active:https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zUZF2TD57qeo.kkuz--qwlUS8

I wonder if I can backtrace it to see who created it... (hmmmm)

Just goes to show, misinformation is going to be rampant.

EDIT: that Facebook site is denying it too:
https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForMikeBrownFerguson?hc_location=timeline

Interesting. I guess that doesn't really give us a concrete confirmation. We'll take it with a grain of salt, and thanks for the effort.

 daedalus wrote:
Interesting. I guess that doesn't really give us a concrete confirmation. We'll take it with a grain of salt, and thanks for the effort.

Yeah, it's all over the various blogosphere, but there doesn't appear to be a *source* for it other than that google page.

I'm going to try to "source" that google page...

EDIT: I actually sent google a notice that this map site can be incindiary.

 d-usa wrote:

And of course there are these fine citizens:

Looks like that 4chan guy went to work and hijacked some KKK twitter feeds, then turned around and posted membership info. If those are true then there are some cops who appear to be Klan members who might have some explaining to do.

I'm always suspect of vigilante actions like that since innocent people can easily get caught up in this mess. But man, feth the Klan...

OKay... I gotta find this.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pants-up-don-t-loot-ferguson-billboard

 whembly wrote:
It might get ugly...

“Personally, I think we DONT need to be on West Florissant. I wanna advocate that we go on South Florissant because the people on South Florissant don’t look like me. The people on West Florissant look like me and they’re with it. So… I really don’t have anything to protest on West Florissant. So if I’m in the area I’m going to Ferguson Police Department.”

If loot'n spread into the neighborhoods... um...

Remember kids, if they don't look like you, they must not agree with you

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Remember kids, if they don't look like you, they must not agree with you

Guess it may be time to start wearing your armor?

I dont get the joke.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I dont get the joke.

He's implying we need to suit up and prepare for battle.

I thought it was a "White Knight" joke

I am 100% in favor of donning chain mail and wielding battle axes to put down violent protestors.

Maybe we can get a few volunteers to eat some magic mushrooms and do it naked.

Yep. I see relocating to Thailand moving my business here.

 whembly wrote:
It might get ugly...

“Personally, I think we DONT need to be on West Florissant. I wanna advocate that we go on South Florissant because the people on South Florissant don’t look like me. The people on West Florissant look like me and they’re with it. So… I really don’t have anything to protest on West Florissant. So if I’m in the area I’m going to Ferguson Police Department.”

If loot'n spread into the neighborhoods... um...

Well you have two options:
1. Wear a batman mask and cape. You'll know what to do.
2. Go with the flow. Identify some nearby things you need at local stores but were just too pricey. Again you'll know what to do. Free stuff!


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 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Remember kids, if they don't look like you, they must not agree with you

Guess it may be time to start wearing your armor?

Spoiler:

Yea I think if the neighborhood greets any rioters in that, there will be no riot.

I predict that there will be more pro and con fuel added for gun threads in these forums if riots do materialize.

Well we haven't had a gun thread in a while.

I think activating guard is a good idea. That will help tamp down actual rioting.

Protests/marches good
Riots bad.

 Frazzled wrote:
Well we haven't had a gun thread in a while.

I think activating guard is a good idea. That will help tamp down actual rioting.

Protests/marches good
Riots bad.

It may be a bit better in the fact that the guard are not the police. There certainly has been a lot of resentment against the police.

Guard tend to be less nice though in a riot situation, which may be whats needed in that sense.

Again - peaceful protests and marches that do not impede critical services (or Anheuser Busch what are you thinking!!!!) good.


Rioting-bad.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Well we haven't had a gun thread in a while.

I think activating guard is a good idea. That will help tamp down actual rioting.

Protests/marches good
Riots bad.

It may be a bit better in the fact that the guard are not the police. There certainly has been a lot of resentment against the police.

I'd bet all those store owners don't resent them a bit.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I thought it was a "White Knight" joke

Nope, it was more a "if I look like a Viking, they're probably quite likely to leave me the feth alone"

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Well we haven't had a gun thread in a while.

I think activating guard is a good idea. That will help tamp down actual rioting.

Protests/marches good
Riots bad.

It may be a bit better in the fact that the guard are not the police. There certainly has been a lot of resentment against the police.

I'd bet all those store owners don't resent them a bit.

Well it should be obvious that I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the protesters and rioters.

I hope this doesn't end up as bad as I'm envisioning it. I'm not holding out a ton of hope, but having seen the incredibly bad riots in Cincinnati in 2001 first hand, I don't wish that upon another city at all.

 cincydooley wrote:
I hope this doesn't end up as bad as I'm envisioning it. I'm not holding out a ton of hope, but having seen the incredibly bad riots in Cincinnati in 2001 first hand, I don't wish that upon another city at all.

Big difference between the crowds the gak stirrers can mobilize in April vs late November.

This is true.

 Frazzled wrote:
Guard tend to be less nice though in a riot situation, which may be whats needed in that sense.

Again - peaceful protests and marches that do not impede critical services (or Anheuser Busch what are you thinking!!!!) good.


Rioting-bad.

I hope they shut down busch. The people will be forced to drink real beer.

 CptJake wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
I hope this doesn't end up as bad as I'm envisioning it. I'm not holding out a ton of hope, but having seen the incredibly bad riots in Cincinnati in 2001 first hand, I don't wish that upon another city at all.

Big difference between the crowds the gak stirrers can mobilize in April vs late November.

Oh absolutely.

But, and this is from a purely anecdotal standpoint, the outright anger surrounding Ferguson seems a TON higher than in 2001 here. And they've had a lot longer to stew and simmer that rage. The Cincy Riots were really more akin to the first Ferguson riots, in that they happened very closely to the actual event.

The future impact to the community at large is another concern. It took nearly 10 years for anyone to even try and to something with OTR and the other areas of Cincinnati that were the sites of the riots. OTR, to use a super nerdy analogy, was effectively Peach Trees from Dredd.

In regard to Ferguson, I'm all on board with the "Line up the fire trucks and hose them down" approach.

I say we all sabotage them from the inside, pretend to be on their side. Then set ff pepper gas bombs in the middle of the crowds.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I say we all sabotage them from the inside, pretend to be on their side. Then set ff pepper gas bombs in the middle of the crowds.

Sounds like a good way to get yourself stabbed and or beaten.

Having said that, if you buy standard smoke grenades, and peel off the little circle of tape on the bottom, you can pour in tabasco sauce (then re-tape the hole) and get a decent pepper gas type effect when you let the handle fly.

Or so I've heard.