by I_Like_Plants » Tue 26 Jul 2005, 06:35:07
I don't wish to be a Republican, it's just the lesser, slightly, of two evils.
If we'd become isolationist etc it would have been a rough ride, but we'd be in better shape for Peak Oil wouldn't we? And if we'd not spent for the war, we'd have had that $$ to use to rebuild our rail system etc.
And as for Newport Beach, I've certainly been hassled for "walking while white" and friends hassled for "driving while white" so why not? Fair's fair. I remembe during the 80s the beach there by the pier was rapidly becoming "the" place to be for um, well, blacks from LA and Long Beach. On the weekends the place was overrun, and unlike other visitors it was not just more of a crowd, it was an effort to make as much noise, verbal and loud radios, as possible. Walking while white in your own neighborhood was asking to be hassled and worse. I was women, girls really, being followed and harangued, and the language was not nice.
Well!
What happened one night was, one of the black visitors had done some sort or robbery or something, and the Newport cops were chasing him, and he ran out onto the sand on the beach. So these cops are running along over the beach sand, over/around people lying on blankets., and a visitor, apparently well-behaved, who happened to be black, sat up because all he knew were some people were running and might step on his radio. Remember how for a while they made those long, skinny, boomboxes? He picked this thing up and the cops thought it was a gun and shot him. In the stomach, unfortunately the guy lived and sued them.
The visitors stopped coming from LA and Long Beach. The area was peaceful, pleasent, and fun again. Girls born there and raised there could walk along on a peaceful Sunday without fear of rape.
Fair's fair. The guy who was shot was innocent, it was a mistake, just like I've been pursued etc by other tribes who wanted just any handy white to kill. Fair's fair. The end of the whole thing was, an invasion was stopped.
I never went to, or go to, Long Beach, and I love the NPBD.