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WheelsOfConfusion
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http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342207432/who-are-the-protesters-getting-arrested-in-ferguson
| Quote: | Since the protests erupted, people in Ferguson have insisted that the troublemakers are not from this community. Capt. Ron Johnson, the highway patrolman in charge of security here, said as much earlier this week.
"I am not going to let the criminals that have come out here from across this country and don't live in this community define this neighborhood and define what we're going to do to make it right," Johnson says.
In fact, of the 51 people who were arrested Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, only one person was from Ferguson. The rest were from surrounding towns and faraway cities such as Des Moines, Iowa, Chicago and New York. |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Replanting them? Like tulips? Can you dig them up and then store them in a garage and then later put them back in and new skeletons sprout up? |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| We could organize a whole group of people to replant the bones and create thickets of cadavers! A Corpse Copse Corps.! |
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Darqcyde
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| WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | We could organize a whole group of people to replant the bones and create thickets of cadavers! A Corpse Copse Corps.! |
That sounds like it's from Kingdom of Loathing
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Sam
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WheelsOfConfusion
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holy crap.
| Quote: | | LONDON — A report released on Tuesday on accusations of widespread sexual abuse in the northern England city of Rotherham found that about 1,400 minors — some as young as 11 years old — were beaten, raped and trafficked from 1997 to 2013 as the police and local authorities ignored a series of red flags. |
one would have thought it was impossible for something of this extent to happen in a place like england in this day and age.
apparently, one would be wrong.
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Darqcyde
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I blame the bureaucrats. No one wants 'problems' under their jurisdiction, it makes them look like less effective managers and supervisors, if not out right incompetent at their job. These kinds of systems tend to wind up encouraging people to 'sweep things under the rug'.
In this case, what they were sweeping under the rug turned out to be the equivalent of black mold, carpenter ants, and termites.
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps it's time for The Wayne Foundation to go international. |
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| Darqcyde wrote: | I blame the bureaucrats. No one wants 'problems' under their jurisdiction, it makes them look like less effective managers and supervisors, if not out right incompetent at their job. These kinds of systems tend to wind up encouraging people to 'sweep things under the rug'.
In this case, what they were sweeping under the rug turned out to be the equivalent of black mold, carpenter ants, and termites. |
Sadly, in addition to some people believing that previous reports (I've read "two" and "three," so I'm not sure on the exact number) with the same conclusion were simple exaggerations, members of the Council also feared being labelled as racist because those reports found many of the perpetrators were Asian men. So, they just ignored the child abuse. One quote is literally that "gang rape is part of growing up in Rotherham." Then there's the line that investigators viewed the victims "with contempt." I just... yeah, I don't know.
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Desire
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I really have no words for this.
Except to say I would not blame the bureaucrats alone. I do not blame the victims, but everyone else who was involved, passively or actively, who knew what was going on and did not report it.
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