tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post7690362488455846408..comments2024-02-05T04:09:55.009-08:00Comments on Maya's corner: Bulgarian police: Our safety first!Maya Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-24911093298008652172007-08-21T16:02:00.000-07:002007-08-21T16:02:00.000-07:00Programmer Craig, thank you for this comment! Alth...Programmer Craig, thank you for this comment! Although most commentators here make comparison with the 2005 Paris riots, I was thinking more of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and your comment at http://lonehighlander.blogspot.com/2006/09/ignorance-freudian-slip-or-calculated.html.<BR/>It is said that the Krasna Polyana rioters had reasons to riot. They claim to be systematically harassed and attacked by skinheads. Without being very pro-Gypsy, I believe them (and not the police who deny the skinheads' existence). But, while a citizen may have reasons to violate the law, the state has no reason to tolerate this.<BR/>Without a state, the ordinary people could manage (with varying success) trade, communications, health care and education. In fact, the education system in Bulgaria is already dysfunctional and must be supplemented by some home-schooling, a fact partly explaining why the Gypsies cannot integrate. But ordinary people aren't able to manage law and order on their own. This is the state's basic function and therefore the state is never allowed to abdicate of it.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-80959600429281638662007-08-19T00:25:00.000-07:002007-08-19T00:25:00.000-07:00Our LAPD and Sheriff's Department did the exact sa...Our LAPD and Sheriff's Department did the exact same thing during the LA riots.<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots<BR/><BR/>The police did absolutely NOTHING for the first two days. When the riots first started they were isolated and small, but when the police didn't react they spread across most of greater Los Angeles. <BR/><BR/><I>The riots, beginning in the evening after the verdict, peaked in intensity over the next two days, but would ultimately continue for several days. Continuous television coverage, especially by helicopter news crews, riveted the country and shocked viewers around the world. People watched as parts of the city went up in flames, stores were openly looted, innocent bystanders were beaten, and rioters shot at police. A curfew and deployment of California National Guard troops began to control the situation; eventually federal troops from the 7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord and United States Marines from the 1st Marine Division in Camp Pendleton would be sent to the city to quell disorder.</I><BR/><BR/>And that's not even accurate. After two days the National Guard was deployed, but they were largely ineffective (and ignored). It wasn't until Federal troops arrived in large numbers and with armored vehicles that the riots stopped. And thank God they did. I spent most of my 6 years in the Marines in the 1st Marine Division. I well recall what our training was for dealing with violent mobs, and that training did not include arresting people.<BR/><BR/>I've never quite forgiven LAPD for letting that situation get so out of hand.programmer craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566950406349754166noreply@blogger.com