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Has Anyone Been Keeping Track of Home States...

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This sources isn't all that geat since it doesn't mention the State of residence of several of the notable perps.
It was the best of several I found.
Perhaps the authors didn't know that we'd be eager
to know their state of residence in order to fuel
geographical prejudice.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Is he the same guy who pretented beingg robbed at gun point in Sao Paulo?

Just checked not him...

He had a very rough patch after his retirrement becoming loosing his job, bitter divorce, becoming homeless, etc.
Don't know.
Didn't look into him further.
 

pearl

Well-Known Member
I imagine every state continues to sift through all available photos of the Capitol riots. Here in Massachusetts people identified have lost their jobs, and the authorities are promising arrests.
Getty photographer John Moore snapped a photo of two flags flying at the scene, well past sunset with the Capitol Building in the background. One flag was the Bedford flag and the other was a Trump flag.

Bedford's flag is a colonial militia flag and is considered the oldest, complete flag known to exist in the United States. According to the town website, the Bedford flag was made for a cavalry troop of the Massachusetts Bay militia during the French and Indian War. Nathaniel Page, a Bedford minuteman, carried the flag to North Bridge in Concord on April 19, 1775, at the start of the American Revolution, according to the website.
The Bedford flag wasn't the only historic replica spotted at the riots, Betsy Ross' flag was photographed in the midst of the crowd as well as the Gadsen flag and several Confederate flags.

I'm sure many if not all states will be fine combing through these photos from all angles for some time to come.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
It is really disturbing to see police on the list of those arrested. Germany has been struggling to identify and remove right wing extremists from their police forces. We may have the same problem.

I'm not particularly surprised, considering the decades-long political fanaticism which has stoked the war on drugs. Even many Democrats (including Clinton and Obama Administrations) have been staunch supporters of the war on drugs.

Then they wonder why the police are the way they are.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Insurrectionists came from around the country, and the law enforcement agencies are hunting them down in every state now. Nevertheless you might be right about the possibility of regional and state concentrations.

I think your question is actually instinctively astute. Long term, the South has been steadily increasing in political power since the end of World War II. This reflects demographic changes brought on by immigration into the region that began around that time and have only accelerated.

For example: Northerners with business degrees or advanced business degrees moving to Texas from about 1970 onward, drawn by the need of corporations for highly skilled professionals. Used to be just outside Dallas an apartment complex housing 20,000 people, almost all of them young, single, educated, and of Northern origins. It was nicknamed "Yankee Village".

Add to that people coming up from Mexico and Central America, etc. Currently about a quarter of the voters in the US reside in former Confederate states. But they don't always vote Republican. Georgia most likely went blue because of Black turn out supplemented by Northern immigrants. Texas is expected to soon flip blue due to Hispanic voters in combination with Northern and Californian immigrants. I wouldn't count on the Hispanics as a Democratic voting block, though -- so I'm skeptical about the rumors that's going to happen tomorrow.

Some of the scientists studying the political rise of the South have been tracking the effects that traditional Southern culture is having on national politics. It's interesting stuff.
Instinctively astute, or prejudiced
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I'm not particularly surprised, considering the decades-long political fanaticism which has stoked the war on drugs. Even many Democrats (including Clinton and Obama Administrations) have been staunch supporters of the war on drugs.

Then they wonder why the police are the way they are.

Hmm, why call it political fansticism?
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Maybe a element of that but doesn't seem central.
Wonder what is.

Money. As you most likely already know. A guy in the CID
explained the details of it to me years ago.

(The CID is the Army's equivalent of the F.B.I and the C.I.A.
rolled into one agency, by the way.)

The way it works is the law enforcement agency gets to keep
any valuables, including money, cars, and houses, that it seizes
in the course of its drug investigations -- so long as it can tie the
valuables to drugs in one way or another.

The standards are loose enough that it's pretty easy to do. Well,
over time the more or less inevitable has happened and agencies
have become reliant on seizures to maintain themselves
'in the lifestyle they are accustomed to', so to speak.

He was proud of the fact the CID was at the time about
the only Federal agency that absolutely refused to indulge
in the practice, but just about every law enforcement agency
or department in the country, great or small, has benefited
from drug money to at least some extent, and so many of
them rely on it.

Might have something to do with how even legalizing
weed is still loudly and predictably opposed by the cops
in nearly every community where it's being debated.

By the way, I was helping my CID friend paint his house one
afternoon when he got a phone call.

Interpol.

He'd been named their 'Cop of the Year', as they called it.
 
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