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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Oh I recall well enough.  Gates told them to pull out.  It was chaos. 
The Koreans may have escaped physical harm, but they sure piled up the 
property damage.

And you are right, no matter where you live, you should not rely on the 
police to protect you, just like you should not rely on a firetruck to 
be riding by when your house catches fire..  First and foremost, people 
need to start using good judgment.  Secondly, they must become less 
reliant on the cops.

Speaking of personal accountability and good judgment, I saw a woman on 
the news tonight complaining, no _whining_, about the financial crisis 
and being foreclosed on.  You see, she claims she was the victim of 
mortgage fraud.  I suppose she was, but get this...her 'contract' showed 
zero monthly payments, and she was told that she would have no payments 
due.  She even said that she recalled the old saying 'if it sounds too 
good to be true...' and yet, she bought the house and it now being 
foreclosed on.  I see stories like this and I shake my head and say What 
WAS she thinking???  Now how does a grown woman think she can close on a 
house and buy it, with no monthly payments to the mortgage.  I'm sorry, 
but I have no sympathy for her.
People today, they want others to think for them, they want teachers to 
babysit their kids, they want a job that doesn't dirty their hands, and 
a picture perfect family that they never spend time with.  It is a 
screwed up world.
Now, I know I am getting old, because I am about ready to die to escape.

Bev


bob ford wrote:
> What you described may be police protocol, but it isn't necessarily
> what happens.  If you have fogotten the pure barbarianism displayed
> in the L.A. riots, you can watch it , at the library, on youtube.
>
> You will find some scenes that weren't shown on television.  There
> was 'lots' of "imminent danger".  The police were afraid or were told
> by politicians not to help.  The only people, in the area that seemed
> to escape harm were the well armed Koreans.
>
> I will never plan the safety of my loved ones with the idea that the
> police will protect them.. And, I generally think the police 'are'
> good guys, doing they best they can .....bobford