Riots!

[Jack]

Made ya look.

But in all seriousness, June Teenth is right around the corner, wonder how many riots there will be this year.

Oh wait, that's racist.

[MEZZANINE]

Only thing riots achieve is over-excited reporters and increased insurance premiums

Usually happens when criminal scum take advantage of genuine protests

Amusing part is how they dont happen in the rain, if we have lots of rain there will be no riots lol



Teenth ???

Thats not a date, it's a small weight of weed

( For those outside the UK, we havent decimalised weed yet, teenth = short version of sixteenth as-in a 1/16 of an ounce )

[Jack]

Juneteenth isn't a date, it's a celebration. It's supposed to be celebrating the day the last black slaves are freed. It's basically the black Independence Day. But every year, there's riots and many years atleast one person is killed by the rioters.

[MEZZANINE]

Juneteenth isn't a date, it's a celebration. It's supposed to be celebrating the day the last black slaves are freed. It's basically the black Independence Day. But every year, there's riots and many years atleast one person is killed by the rioters.

Ahh right, I though June was a gal who sold weed in your neighbourhood



Just had to do a wiki search and found the following

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth ... nstitution

Threat of legal consequences

Victims of human trafficking and other conditions of forced labor are commonly coerced by threat of legal actions to their detriment. Victims of forced labor and trafficking are protected by Title 18 of the U.S. Code.[18]

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241 – Conspiracy Against Rights:[19]

Conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person's rights or privileges secured by the Constitution or the laws of the United States

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242 – Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law:[20]

It is a crime for any person acting under color of law (federal, state or local officials who enforce statutes, ordinances, regulations, or customs) to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived the rights, privileges, or immunities of any person secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S. This includes willfully subjecting or causing to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.

Proposal and ratification

The Thirteenth Amendment was proposed by the Thirty-eighth United States Congress, on January 31, 1865. The amendment was adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia ratified it. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward, proclaimed the amendment to have been ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the then 36 states. The ratification dates are:[21]

Illinois (February 1, 1865)
Rhode Island (February 2, 1865)
Michigan (February 3, 1865)
Maryland (February 3, 1865)
New York (February 3, 1865)
Pennsylvania (February 3, 1865)
West Virginia (February 3, 1865)
Missouri (February 6, 1865)
Maine (February 7, 1865)
Kansas (February 7, 1865)
Massachusetts (February 7, 1865)
Virginia (February 9, 1865) - first former Confederate State to ratify the amendment, two months before Lee's surrender (in Virginia)
Ohio (February 10, 1865)
Indiana (February 13, 1865)
Nevada (February 16, 1865)
Louisiana (February 17, 1865)
Minnesota (February 23, 1865)
Wisconsin (February 24, 1865)
Vermont (March 8, 1865)
Tennessee (April 7, 1865)
Arkansas (April 14, 1865)
Connecticut (May 4, 1865)
New Hampshire (July 1, 1865)
South Carolina (November 13, 1865)
Alabama (December 2, 1865)
North Carolina (December 4, 1865)
Georgia (December 6, 1865)

Ratification was completed on December 6, 1865. The amendment was subsequently ratified by the following states:

Oregon (December 8, 1865)
California (December 19, 1865)
Florida (December 28, 1865, reaffirmed on June 9, 1869)
Iowa (January 15, 1866)
New Jersey (January 23, 1866, after having rejected it on March 16, 1865)
Texas (February 18, 1870)
Delaware (February 12, 1901, after having rejected it on February 8, 1865)
Kentucky (March 18, 1976, after having rejected it on February 24, 1865)
Mississippi (March 16, 1995, after having rejected it on December 5, 1865)

WOW we all knew Mississippi was a bit backwards, but 1995 !!!! they took a while to catch up lol

God bless Wiki for the wong facts again



Great bit from the UK law

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was repealed in its entirety under the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998.

[spoiler]Dont worry it goes on the say it did not make slavery legal again, there are other laws that still cover it[/spoiler]

[[KMA]Avenger]

[spoiler]Dont worry it goes on the say it did not make slavery legal again,

So says you...i beg to differ what with today's average wage and thanks to the minimum wage EU legislation crap, and when you take into consideration the outright theft of our moneys purchasing power (otherwise known as inflation), i'm earning less now than what i was earning at 19! to say nothing of how much more everything costs.

So you say slavery ended ages ago...i say BOLLOCKS it has!

[MEZZANINE]

[spoiler]Dont worry it goes on the say it did not make slavery legal again,

So says you...i beg to differ what with today's average wage and thanks to the minimum wage EU legislation crap, and when you take into consideration the outright theft of our moneys purchasing power (otherwise known as inflation), i'm earning less now than what i was earning at 19! to say nothing of how much more everything costs.

So you say slavery ended ages ago...i say BOLLOCKS it has!

All true, it was the end of the age of the whipped slave, and the beginning of the age of the wage slave, a far more insidious form of control, and a natural progression when the population became too vast in numbers to control by force.

Now go borrow money to buy the things the adverts say will make you happy, work your life away just to pay the interest, and for gods sake close your eyes, there is much truth in the saying 'ignorance if bliss'



BTW my wages are also worth less now than they were 10-15 years ago, but thats not what annoys me, what really gets me is I see the Rich at one extreme, inherited money and money paying for best educations keeping an elite class, I see the benefit bums at the other extreme, not working yet being essentially paid to breed, given houses I cant afford, and Im stuck in the middle, the worker class worse off than either of the extremes, I will never be rich, yet the foolish pride Im indoctrinated with wont let me become a bum, what a perfect trap they built to catch me lol

Viva la revolution................ or we could just keep working, keep shopping, keep playing games and getting drunk lol

[Jack]

Aside from the fact of inflation driving down the value of wages, wages themselves have decreased too. For example, if you started working at say HEB as a cashier back in the late 90s, early 2000, you could expect an hourly income of around $10. Now it's just barely over minimum wage($7.25).

Prices have skyrocketed over inflation, money is devalued and wages have lowered. In the last decade or so alone, the price of food has quadrupled. For instance, a pound of ground beef used to be around a dollar back in early 2000. These days, the cheapest ground beef is $3-$4 per pound. The only reason I know this, is because for the first 20 years or so of my life, ground beef has been the primary source of nutrition for me. So I'm pretty screwed by these price hikes.

[[KMA]Avenger]

I agree with both of you, an if it carries on much longer (which it will, and will get worse and worse) there will obviously be food riots and more of them in the west, let alone so called 3rd world countries.

[MEZZANINE]

I agree with both of you, an if it carries on much longer (which it will, and will get worse and worse) there will obviously be food riots and more of them in the west, let alone so called 3rd world countries.

Food riots are many years away in the 'developed' nations, more likely the next riots will be over fuel, petrol first, then maybe gas & electric prices

[[KMA]Avenger]

Don't be so sure mate. due to all the stupid greenies taking the food farming land and converting to biofuel cultivation has resulted in the doubling of global food prices. either way, the next round of major civil unrest will no doubt be economic related. it might even come down to the students. ultimately, global civil unrest will happen, just a matter of time...regardless of the cause.