So in your opinion, immigrants are now referred to as "settlers"?

It is YUPPIES who settle in someone else's neighborhoods and scream for the cops everytime someone drinks a beer on their front porch.

Settlers in history are distinguished from immigrants by their reliance on military force and quick access to an invader's army to overwhelm and dominate indigenous inhabitants.

Latino Immigrants cannot call upon the Salvadoran, Mexican, Colombian, or other such armies to evict rivals and conquer territory for settlement! For from it, today's Latino immigrants are the descendants of thsoe who survived a ruthless invasion by Europeann settlers armed with biological as well as conventional weapons.

Yuppies, by comparison, can and do rely on urban police forces to drive away African-American, Latino, and other competotors for land and homes.

You have a strange way of describing moving.
So have you lived at the same address your entire life?
Or have you ever "settled in someone else's neighborhood?"

From 3000 miles away, I grieve for what they are doing to my hometown. How many criminals of poverty do we need/ One million, two million, three million…..?
To Mr Anonymous, please read John Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hit man" to understand that most immigrants do not WANT to come here - after what we have done to their countries, they have no choice.
Some call this 'forced migration'.

First off, I am not a Mr.

You'd better not mention that "3000 miles way" too loudly. Someone is bound to come along and accuse you of being a settler.

Why do you believe people living in poverty are criminals? That is simply a reprehensible statement.
If that is the kind of idea you got from Perkins' book then I certainly will not be reading any part of it.

I'm sick and tired of the police terrorizing communities of color all over the city! Young people of DC: fuck the police and revolt; let us make the city ungovernable!

well, i like being briefed... but i gotta b honest- put a pop-filter on that mike or eq phenome terminology. it would b more clear if music got cut down prior 2 speaking. i hope yall wont b mad i said this- i do listen a lot + appreciate IMC... but my ear got blasted.

Amen! If you would turn down the music, or just turn it off, you could talk instead of yelling.

According to the Washington Post, police chief Lanier has described her visit to ISRAEL as the greatest inspiration for her police work. Now we see where the idea for checkpoints came from!

look i'm not defending the check points but it's because people of color are dying being gunned down that the cops are putting up check points not because some yuppie's neighbor is drinking a beer! do i think check points are the answer no but do not diminish what is happeing to people of color in DC.

Thank you.
I tried to make the same point earlier but had my posts deleted.
The police are only here to help and protect innocent people.
Unfortunately the actions of a few criminals make things harder for everyone.

To protect and serve? The Police? Fuck that!! The police is the largest criminal, terrorist and mafia organization there is!! Those fuckers don't care about you and I, they are here to protect the "status quo." The militaristic and police state we have now is the Israelization of our society with people of color being the occupied entity and the state's green light to commit all kind of crimes against us while protecting white people interests at the expense of our existence!

I hope the checkpoints can keep paranoid people like you away from my neighborhood.

What's it gonna take to stop this "Gaza in DC" shit? Qassam workshops held by the "New BLA" in Trinidad?

It became a joke when they saw police stop an ice cream truck.

"It's an ice cream truck," Barnes said.

"I mean, ice cream."

Police Chief Lanier said her checkpoints were inspired by a trip to Israel.

Over the weekend, the ACLU reported that perhaps 90% of all motorists were turned away. The Washington Post reported that visiters without phone numbers of those they were visiting were turned away. This means those who cannot afford to pay telephone bills are prohibited from receiving visitors!

Do the cops really think that drug dealers and users are going to show up at the checkpoints to be turned away? This being unlikely, most of those turned away no doubt had "legitimate" reasons to enter but were stopped anyway.

The Washington Post reported that the checkpoints were ineffective as first configured as people used back street instead. As a result, only seat belt checkpoints(also a civil rights violation) were used Sunday until the pigs could get the manpower to block off all thsoe side strets-just like the Israelis do in Occupied Palestine.

This is while Cathy Lanier wants to arm DC police with automatic rifles-just like in Occupied Palestine.

This segment was broadcast on the anniversary of DC Police shooting DeOnte Rawlings in the back-just like the occupation soldiers do everey day in Occupied Palestine.

What's it going to take to stop this shit-Qassam rockets being fired from Trinidad just like the way they are fired from Occupied Gaza?

The notion that the checkpoints are in any way "helping" people of color is ludicrous. We could first consider the fact that nothing is done about any of the additional problems that create these very situations in the first place, including the drug war that is packing our jails and prisons with nonviolent drug users who are disproportionately people of color, and which creates the illegal marketplace where armed gangs are the only once in charge of "regulating" the drugs and who buys them. Add to this the other overwhelming evidence of our justice system and law enforcement targeting people of color, and then consider the manner in which poor people of color are driven from their neighborhoods to make way for things like baseball stadiums (which got funding relatively quickly, while our city government can never seem to find enough funds for public schools and housing, for example).

The bottom line is that these communities are ignored, neglected, and targeted by our government every step of the way. Then the government sets up road blocks and checkpoints, turning the neighborhoods into militarized zones, and that these checkpoints serve the additional function of increasing arrests for minor offenses while also having a very strong psychological effect. Citizens of these areas, especially young people in those neighborhoods, getting used to seeing themselves and their families surround by cops, their neighborhoods treated like open-air prisons, their friends and relatives treated like suspects for trying to visit, and their rights against unreasonable searches and seizures treated as unimportant).

You cannot ignore entire groups of people, turn your back on their economic plight, target them for arrest and searches etc disproportionate to their numbers in society as a whole, and then pretend that sending armed police to surround their neighborhoods and search everyone coming to their towns is somehow an example of "concern".

Those who really care about these neighborhoods and people of color in general don't sit around ignoring all of the problems and concerns, and only raise their voices to defend militarizing those neighborhoods in a policy that overtly violates people's civil liberties. It's disingenuous and patently ridiculous.

Clearly you didn't live or go anywhere near the stadium because people were driven away and you can even talk to them. Do you think the stadium land just magically appeared with nobody on it?

You should actually do research before you press the submit button, I know it requires you to learn something and take time away from making inane comments but it helps.

"Yes, we should consider that criminals are causing problems, and it's past time to take action."

Well it's time to take action in ways that don't involve surrounding people of color's neighborhoods and turning it into an armed camp – I know this is your preferred method of dealing with poor or non-white folks, but some of us don't share your militant racist viewpoints, get it?

"No one was 'driven away' for the stadium. You just made this one up."

Oh, please, child. Try to stay informed or go find someplace else to play. Entire neighborhoods were forced to move for that stadium, and if you bothered to follow current events besides what you read on Stormfront, you'd know this.

"Does the government ignore the communities?
Or does the government target them?
Sorry, you don't get to have it both ways."

Uh, sorry brainiac, but yes I can – they ignore the PROBLEMS of these people, they ignore their NEEDS, and then target them to fill prisons, push them out of neighborhoods, etc. I know this is a bit more of a complex thought than some of you little trolls are capable of, but like I said before, try to keep up or go play somewhere else.

"Another oxymoron."

Uh, do you even know what that word means? No, you don't, obviously. Little tip, kid – look up big words before you try to use them.

"And if the police weren't sent, you would just say the neighborhoods were being ignored even more."

No, brainiac, the point is that their NEEDS and legitimate CONCERNS are ignored, they are treated as unimportant to society and to what actions the government will take, and the only types of responses they GET are harassment and policing. If these concepts are too big for your brain to handle, get out of here and run back to your little Freeper and Stormfront playmates.

"Looks like you'll find someone to blame no matter what happens."

Well, when something "happens" that's bad, caused by PEOPLE taking bad actions that lead to problems, then gee-wiz golly jeepers wow, yeah I'll find out who is to blame and say it. Do they grow you little trolls in pods or something? You all make the same silly little remarks all the time, then get spanked and run around whining about it. It's rather pathetic.

"BTW what's with all the comments on 'militarization?'
In case you weren't aware, police officers in the U.S. are not part of the military."

…BWAHAHAHAHA!! Oh my GOD, kid just go home, really. This is just sad now. If you actually have to ASK that, and make that remark, you REALLY don't have any business trying to have a conversation around here. Seriously, that's just terribly embarrassing. Please, run along and play somewhere else now. Bye now.

Once again, kid, make sure you know what you're talking about before you post something, or you'll just keep embarrassing yourself.

There were 23 property owners forced out under court order, including a trash transfer station, an asphalt plant, and a car repair shop to just name a few. But even if they HAD all been gay bars, only bigots like you seem to take sick right-wing ignorant pleasure in kicking such places out, child. But besides the property owners literally shoved out by the stadium, there are many ways in which people are being "driven out" due to the stadium -- including the development projects around the stadium, or being forced out by skyrocketing property taxes, for example.

All of this is just a more polite way of saying, "You're wrong again, brainiac. Stop posting here, go somewhere where the IQ levels can tolerate uninformed banal commentary by little bigoted right-wingnuts."

I used to live in Trinidad on Meigs Place and Montello NE. I moved last May, but it is seriously a rough neighborhood. For anyone who is opposed to the police checkpoints, I challenge you to live over there for two weeks (14 full days) and then come back here and post. If putting cops on corners to stop prostitution, robberies and drug dealings is considered "occupation" then I'm all for it!

I lived in North East DC for two years. I also lived by the notorious Magnolia projects in New Orleans for many years. In other words, no need to "challenge" me.

But really, this is a silly little exercise -- one doesn't have to have personally experienced police-state actions to oppose them. But those who have endured such things generally DO oppose it. The notion that it's worth turning poor people's neighborhoods into giant police cordons, and that you can justify overt violations of civil rights and Constitutional protections in the name of law enforcement is ridiculous.

Consider that there's little rush to blockade and create police encampments in suburbs and richer neighborhoods, despite the fact that crimes occur there, too -- drug use, drunk driving, prostitution, white collar crime, etc. When you DO see a larger police presence in those areas, there's a big difference -- the police in poor neighborhoods are watching the people who LIVE there and visit there; the police in middle-class and rich neighborhoods are not policing the residents or their visitors, they are looking for people "invading" from the poor neighborhoods, by and large.

Police treat everyone living in or visiting poor communities as suspects and potential criminals; police treat everyone living in or visiting more affluent communities as potential victims of crimes. Meanwhile, again there is the overriding point that the only "attention" those poor communities get is from guys with guns and handcuffs, otherwise they are neglected and ignored and treated like unwanted, unimportant members of society. Law enforcement tends to be the only government agencies interested in them, and NOT for the benefit of the communities.

Further, as already noted, most of the crimes actually being "policed" are non-violent, personal-behavior activities. Talk all you want about murder and violence, but the majority of the crimes are in fact drug related non-violent types (possession, distribution by low-level street dealers), or crimes related directly to addiction (theft to support an addiction, prostitution to support an addiction or in exchange for drugs).

You don't see those thing happening to support buying beer and cigarettes. Our drug laws directly create most of the social "problems" associated with drug use -- problems you don't see in relation to alcohol and cigarettes, unless you go back to the years of alcohol prohibition. The comparison is striking, and anyone remotely familiar with the facts and stats and who is remotely honest about it can see the truth.

So for all the talk of the violence in those areas making it "worth" tolerating occupation by armed police forces who are violating civil liberties, the fact is that these checkpoints and the large police presence in fact is overwhelmingly targeting and "catching" low-level non-violent crimes mostly related directly or indirectly to the drug market.

And the residents know this. You can go to any poor community in any state across this nation, and talk to them about it, and the people living there have a very clear, informed viewpoint on the real reasons for the police presence and the real ramifications for their neighborhood and society as a whole.

But of course, most of you right-wingers and those who would say you are "all for" "occupation" don't care how the residents really feel, or about the true reasons or real outcomes. You see cops all over the place, and it inherently appeals to you, beyond any supposed justifications. You aren't out there calling for more schools, better roads, jobs, more education, less racially and financially skewed law enforcement, etc -- uniformed, armed patrols are the only time you raise your voice in supposed "support" for "helping" these communities.

It's transparent, and we know what you really are and really think. So why lie? You know we aren't buying it, and we know that you know we know. Just say, "We support armed patrols of poor people and non-whites, and other than that we don't care what happens to them." Say it, because it's what you really think and really mean and we know it. Stop wasting your time and energy making ridiculous, uninformed, obviously false claims and arguments pretending to have motives we know you don't really have. You just end up looking as foolish as you really are.

I say, take the cops out and let it go to survival of the fittest...then see who wants the cops back in...I bet it will be the residents

Drew,
Your comment begs the question....Why did you leave these great neighborhoods?? Another question also looms, why were you in these neighborhoods to begin with....Gentrification??? If not, did you do nothing to better these communities??

"Why did you leave these great neighborhoods??"

Because they sold the building I lived in, brainiac. So I moved into a home with a paralyzed man to help take care of him in the mornings and evenings, then worked my regular day job as well, brainiac. And while I did live in those neighborhoods, the biggest problem was constant police profiling of the residents, and the increasing selling off of buildings leading to people being displaced. Brainiac.

"Another question also looms, why were you in these neighborhoods to begin with....Gentrification??? If not, did you do nothing to better these communities??"

I lived there because I was POOR, brainiac. And I was involved in community activism there and in other similar neighborhoods, brainiac. And you should look up the definition of gentrification, brainiac. And you should try to stay on topic of the discussion, and whether the facts and points presented are legitimate and true, rather than the usual banal little right-wing ignoring of the points in favor of empty, ignorant remarks about the speaker instead of the accuracy of their remarks.

Note, though, that we are able to debunk you and your little friends' remarks on their merits while also enjoying the added bonus of getting to remark about the nature of you little trolls. That's the benefit of being not only correct, but morally superior to right-wing lying racists who don't know what they are talking about. Run along and play, now, kiddies.

Drew,
It seems I have struck a nerve in a mentally challenged individual. I love the way you call me brainiac in a demeaning manner so as to try to refute my points....unfortunately, name calling and raising ones voice don't do well to win arguments...unless your followers are all as stupid as you....which in this case might be true.

You said you lived there because you were poor...and "they" sold the building. Who are they...the owner? Did they sell it for a profit to the highest and most qualified bidder? isn't that the American way, become a productive member of society, sell what you own if you wish and make a better life for yourself and your family if you want?? Should the owner of the building ONLY sold it to poor black people who couldn't afford it, then the big bad bank would have come in and evicted them...and they would have been the BIG BAD corporation that hates black people?? Wouldn't that be racist to only sell to one race in a given area??

You were involved in "community activism," why because you didn't think that the poor minorities could take care of themselves...you had to ride in on your white horse and help them?? Please, give me a break!

Oh, and also, you're such a great savior of humanity...you moved in with a parapalegic and took care of them....AWE, you're such a saint....and everyone here must know these things...why else would they love you so? Better point that out as much as possible...so nobody forgets what a great person you are!

"Morally Superior?", ever hear of the bible?? "give a man a fish...etc..."

You don't need to be on your high horse, try staying unemotional and try not to talk down to others with whom you disagree and attempt paltry insults ("Sport" "Child" "Brainiac" "Kiddies" etc...) as it makes you look even more foolish and shows how ignorant and uneducated you really are.

I'm sure that if this stays on the board...which I doubt since you'll probably remove it for some reason like I used "mean spirited" arguments...(of course left wingers never do that, sport)...you'll respond to me about how many degrees you have attained and how educated you are and how superior you are in everyway, but please spare me that as I'm sure everybody on here already knows how great a person you think you are already!

Signed,

Your worst nightmare, a black man with a logical brain!!

"I say, take the cops out and let it go to survival of the fittest...then see who wants the cops back in...I bet it will be the residents"

How inane. Pay attention to your own argument, brainiac -- you think the initial problem was that there wasn't enough police presence in the neighborhoods, and then the cops come in and set up roadblocks and checkpoints and harass residents.

Notice anything? These checkpoints weren't there at first, and the complaints from residents started once the checkpoints ARRIVED. Nice job, brainiac.

And of course, we could always note that there is the still-unaddressed point that there are other responses available besides sending in armed forces to violate civil liberties, solutions that would in fact actually address the main problems in these neighborhoods -- problems which are not law enforcement issues, but rather economic and education related, not to mention the overall impact caused by treating people as inferior and unimportant and unwanted. But once again, you continue the grand ridiculous tradition of acting like the one and only option is "send in a bunch of guys with guns to harass the residents". Same old crap, exactly what is to be expected from people who don't really care at all about these neighborhoods, who never open their mouths about the problems the residents face, and only spout off uninformed babbling because of your knee-jerk tendency to defend any and all police actions.

You kids need to get lost, go play with your Freeper friends and wash your little pointy white hoods and get the message that your opinions aren't worth anything here, aren't wanted here, and will only continue to get you embarrassed here. Run along, scoot.

An article not directly related to the checkpoints in DC, but related to the overall methods and the type of abusive response people can often expect when they question and object to such tactics:

dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/143514/index.php

Seems this action was well received by some of the residents, not so well received by others. I'm trying to understand how things can get so bad in a single neighborhood that the cops shut it down. Is the criminal element so strong there that the police just lost all control, or were the cops not patrolling the area at all before the checkpoints?

If they were patrolling and things still got out of hand, then what they are doing is the next step in getting things under control. If they weren't, then it's a little too late to do anything about it at all.

If the criminal element responsible for the violence in the area is coming from another area, i.e. gangs from a rival neighborhood, then shutting the area down is logical and should have a positive impact.

Well, again, there is more than one way to respond to high crime -- especially when the majority of the crime involved is criminalized personal behavior in the context of low employment, underfunded education, and a general sense among the residents that they are considered unimportant and powerless except when it's time to fill some more prison beds.

And the overriding point is that the situation does not call for, and should not be allowed to lead to, the violation of civil liberties like this. Any points about crime rates etc don't justify violating people's rights, which is precisely what's happening. And this isn't the sort of response you see to crime in middle-class and richer neighborhoods, not targeting people who LIVE there or visit people living there.

We can discuss the question of how much and what types of crimes were going on, and why it got to that point (neglect is the answer, and not "neglect from cops who weren't arresting enough and violating enough rights", but overall neglect coupled with bad criminal justice polices in a broader sense). But in the end, none of that has anything to do with whether or not it's acceptable to resort to violations of people's civil rights.

Any remarks about high crime, "you don't live there", etc need to include the final comment "and therefore it's okay to ignore people's Constitutional rights and civil liberties, and resort to short-term tactics that don't even actually significantly impact the supposedly targeted crimes, while continuing to do nothing about the real problems." Because that's the "therefore" that's being left out whenever someone makes a comment defending these tactics.

Drew Poe writes "criminalized personal behavior in the context of low employment, underfunded education, and a general sense among the residents that they are considered unimportant and powerless except when it's time to fill some more prison beds".

That has to be one of the stupidest statements ever uttered. I guess by criminalized personal behavior you mean murder, robbery, selling drugs, rape etc. You are a fucking progressive fool with absolutely no sense of personal responsibility. I bet your ass don't live there and wouldn't because you are afraid you would become a victim of some of that "criminalized personal behavior".

First let me deal with the last little brain-dead troll who vomited out some nonsense, then I'll get to the little kid who I forgot to respond to earlier.

"That has to be one of the stupidest statements ever uttered. I guess by criminalized personal behavior you mean murder, robbery, selling drugs, rape etc. You are a fucking progressive fool with absolutely no sense of personal responsibility. I bet your ass don't live there and wouldn't because you are afraid you would become a victim of some of that 'criminalized personal behavior'."

No, brainiac #2, by criminalized personal behavior I mean ALL THOSE THINGS I EXPLICITLY LISTED. Oh, what, did someone open their big mouth without making sure they knew what they were talking about first? Good heavens! Could a little babbling troll have done THAT? Sadly, it seems you have, boy. And "no sense of personal responsibility"? Um, aren't YOU the one suggesting we need a little nanny-state to run around and make sure everyone engages only in personal behavior at home that you think isn't naughty-naughty? The issue of criminalized personal behavior is (as you'd know if you were at all informed, spent any time thinking, and bothered to read what I said before you waddled in babbling) things like drug use, for example. If you can't even bother to know what you're talking about before you open your mouth, do the world and favor and sew your lips shut, boy.

As for "bet you don't live there blah blah blah", we already addressed all of that, so either read what's been said or shut up and go play somewhere else, we can't spend all of our time babysitting you kids who are too dumb to keep up. For a bunch of pathetic mamma's boy white kids who want cops running checkpoints everywhere because you're too scared to walk down the street in broad daylight, you punks sure like to spout off about where other people live and what they are "afraid of". Tell you what, boy – you make sure you only open your mouth about what happens in your own house or at the most on your own street, and shut up about anything else anywhere, if that's your own personally little golden rule regarding who can say what about any situation.

See, problem is that you don't know me, so you boys keep making "bets" about things you're totally ignorant of (and yeah, I know that's a pretty astoundingly broad category for you, actually). And you keep getting your asses handed to you. Translation: you're lousy gamblers, so find a new way to entertain yourselves instead of all this fantasizing about me, okay boy?

Now, as for YOU, mouthy little troll who doesn't know when he's already been thumped...

"It seems I have struck a nerve in a mentally challenged individual. I love the way you call me brainiac in a demeaning manner so as to try to refute my points....unfortunately, name calling and raising ones voice don't do well to win arguments."

No, little boy, I refute your points with the facts and with logic. I call you "brainiac" because you deserve to be mocked and belittled. You don't deserve to be spoken to with respect, because you aren't equal to the rest of the folks around here – not you, and not your pathetic little troll buddies either. So nope, name calling doesn't make points – my POINTS made my points, and the name calling is just icing on the cake because you're a sad, sad little person. And it obviously bothers you, which I enjoy. You and your ilk aren't wanted or welcome, and I am determined to make you feel exactly as sad, pathetic, and unwelcome as you are.

"Who are they...the owner? Did they sell it for a profit to the highest and most qualified bidder? isn't that the American way, become a productive member of society, sell what you own if you wish and make a better life for yourself and your family if you want?? Should the owner of the building ONLY sold it to poor black people who couldn't afford it, then the big bad bank would have come in and evicted them...and they would have been the BIG BAD corporation that hates black people?? Wouldn't that be racist to only sell to one race in a given area??"

Do you even realize how inane your comments are, kid? Whoa, little one, calm yourself down. Deep breaths, deeeeeep breaths. Got yourself under control yet, child? Good. Now then, start thinking before you open your mouth or type next time. Babbling on and on with repeated punctuation all the time, about topics nobody even brought up, makes you look really silly. Are "they" the owners? Uh, yeah, who do you THINK sold the building, brainiac? Would you like a cookie for figuring that one out, Sherlock?

"You were involved in 'community activism,' why because you didn't think that the poor minorities could take care of themselves...you had to ride in on your white horse and help them?? Please, give me a break!"

Give you a break? What, should I ride in on a white horse for you to save you from concepts you can't wrap your tiny little brain around, like this one: I did community activism there because... get out your little pen and write this down, brainiac... I LIVED THERE. I typed those words real slow and big so you'd understand them, did you get that? I LIVED THERE, so when I did stuff I DID IT THERE. Do you need a minute to repeat that to yourself or have your mommy come in and read it to you slower?

Little boy, let me ask you something: have you ever, ever got up off your sad, lonely little blob of a butt and done ANYTHING, ever? I know ONE thing you've bothered to "get involved in" – you waddle into these forums and embarrass yourself by defending poor little rich banks (although there was no mention beyond the word "they" about some building owners, but it must've set off that conspiracy detector in your little brain), who apparently need you riding in on your white horse to help them. Or all the poor defenseless white people who are the oppressed victims of racism according to your fairy tale narrative, right? Brainiac McTroll rides in on his trusty white steed to defend the honor and good name of landlords and bankers oppressed by the evil black people across our land!

"Oh, and also, you're such a great savior of humanity...you moved in with a parapalegic and took care of them....AWE, you're such a saint....and everyone here must know these things...why else would they love you so? Better point that out as much as possible...so nobody forgets what a great person you are!"

Whoa, back up, sparky boy. Um, didn't YOU ask me why I left? Didn't you? Oh, that's right, babbling lunatic boy asked ME why I left that neighborhood, didn't you little boy? Yep, you sure did! And did I say I was a great savior of humanity? Hmm, little boy? Did I, kiddie? Hmm? Point it out as much as possible, you say? Um, how about "Point it out when moronic little pea-headed trolls try to puff up their chests and ask my why I moved out of a poor neighborhood I'd been doing community activism in", how about pointing it out THEN instead, child?

Here's a tip, boy – don't ask a question unless you want the answer, and when you get the answer, shut up if you can't handle the answer. You try to bash folks for living in a neighborhood, try to bash them for moving out of it, and then when you get made to look like the complete utter fool that you are, you try to criticize folks for ANSWERING your questions – in other words, keep your mouth shut if you don't like looking foolish, because the little bit you've tried to say around here makes it pretty obvious that's what's gonna happen every time you open that mouth of yours, boy.

" 'Morally Superior?', ever hear of the bible?? 'give a man a fish...etc...' "

Did you, perhaps, drop a little acid before you started typing this post, or something? Is that it? Because, kid, you make less and less sense as that tripe you wrote goes on. Besides, whatever you intended by trying to reference the Bible and teaching people to fish being the best way to help, you DO recall having criticized people trying to help other people right before all of that, right? Your silly little white-horse remark, and then you mocked the idea of helping paralyzed people right after that, remember you worthless little troll you? Yeah, so cram your Bible and your fish story, little boy.

"You don't need to be on your high horse, try staying unemotional and try not to talk down to others with whom you disagree and attempt paltry insults ("Sport" "Child" "Brainiac" "Kiddies" etc...) as it makes you look even more foolish and shows how ignorant and uneducated you really are."

Child, listen here little brainiac kiddie sport, do you even read your own inane posts, little brainiac kiddie-boy sport child? Kid, you spent most of your last post mocking black people, poor people, paralyzed people, and anyone who tries to help them. So spare me the blah blah name calling and insults waaaaaaa cry cry thumb-sucking crap, little boy. You get called names because I want it to be perfectly clear to you how much utter contempt and lack of respect I have for you and your ilk, and because I know how you little guys have steam coming out your ears when someone mocks you because you KNOW how ridiculous you look from having already had all of your comments refuted, and the mocking and name calling just adds to your humiliation. You know all of your right-wing troll friends are reading this, seeing your comments torn down and then seeing you called "little boy" and laughed at, and you can't stand it. And I like knowing how much it bothers you, how upset you get, and I know that eventually you all run away like the little cowards that you are. Eventually you get tired of feeling humiliated, just like all internet bullies who play like their the big strong kid on the playground because it's anonymous and they feel tough and talk tough, but like all bullies you're really nothing but a coward who shrivels up and runs away when you run into someone who bullies the bullies.

"I'm sure that if this stays on the board...which I doubt since you'll probably remove it for some reason like I used 'mean spirited' arguments...(of course left wingers never do that, sport)...you'll respond to me about how many degrees you have attained and how educated you are and how superior you are in everyway, but please spare me that as I'm sure everybody on here already knows how great a person you think you are already!"

Hmm, first off brainiac, I can't "remove" your post seeing as how I don't run this site or edit it or anything else like that. And I don't care if you use "mean spirited" arguments to me all day long – the point is that they are BANAL, uninformed arguments. I don't need to list my education level, but just so YOU know yeah, I'm smarter than you with or without my education, you've already done a bang-up job of proving that all by your little lonesome, don't worry.

For somebody who showed up here, and started questioning everyone ELSE and then whining and crying like a little baby about the answers, which is ALL you've done in your posts, you sure can suddenly turn around and pretend that you don't wanna know anything (apparently, you've been making that particular wish for a looooooong time, and it's mostly been granted).

"Signed, Your worst nightmare, a black man with a logical brain!!"

No, little boy, someone must not've taught you very well before they sent you out into the world to troll and make a fool of yourself – we KNOW you trolls always, ALWAYS sign off pretending to be black or Latino or whatever is the topic of the thread, and we know you are nothing but a total, big fat lying right-wing troll, period. You're just another uninformed, trolling neo-nazi little white boy who thought it'd be clever to suddenly pretend – ah ha! – to be a black guy, but kiddie that stupid gambit has been going on for YEARS around here, it's old and you aren't fooling anyone. Get a new game, child, and then go play it somewhere ELSE. Oh, and I like the inherent deeply racist idea that you apparently didn't realize is in your sign-off there – "a black man with a logical brain", huh? So, little white boy, you think black men go around insinuating that most black men don't have "logical brains", huh? What you basically said is "Be scared, I'm a smart black person!" Yeah, so that's pretty extremely racist, kid, and that's just one more reason I know you're actually just another laughably inept white boy.

Listen up, all you sad lonely little right-wing troll boys -- you aren't smart enough to post around here, you're a bunch of pathetic worthless little cowards who rely on online anonymity to feel tough because your real lives are pathetic and you spend your days afraid of the truth: that you are indeed worthless to this world, that you indeed contribute nothing, and that this world will indeed be a better place once people like you aren't around anymore. So you feel helpless and weak, because you ARE, and the only way you can feel tough is to pretend online that you're some kind of little bully. But bullies like you are always nothing but cowards in the end. And I have nothing but the utmost contempt, loathing, and disrespect for you. You are all ignorant, you are all morally bankrupt, and you are all wrong. You always will be, and that's why you don't deserve respect from anyone. Maybe other people won't tell you what you are and what they think of you, but I will, every time you give me the opportunity.

DREW DREW DREW, Calm down take a chill pill and get back on your meds...now have you calmed yourself? Good. I'll try to use small words so you can understand me.

I find it humorous that you try to twist what I said into something you can then try to bash me with...unfortunately (for you) my post is still on here and if you can read...you will notice I never made fun of any parapalegic. I asked why you moved out of the area and YOU responded by saying you had to take care of a parapalegic. (I'm also sure that he/she is paying you and probably giving you a place to stay and a computer to view your kiddie porn on all day) but that's another story.

As for my race...apparently you are the arbitor of all things and the great white hope for all humanity...but you are WRONG again. Just because I say I'm black does not mean I am a white racist...as logical as that sounds in your pea sized brain. I just don't like guilt-ridden white liberal boys/girls (whatever you are...if you even know) trying to be the savior of us "poor black people"

As for KNOWING you can have a post deleted...sorry KID, you've already punk'd yourself on that....you already told me that you used to wok for this site....(after another round with me a while ago in which I was mysteriously banned for being too "mean" or in my opinion "honest" about you.) I'm sure even if you don't currently edit here or whatever...you still have people that think your a god, willing to do your bidding. After all, that's the only way you can win an argument...by deleting it! Always cry about censorship in the mainstream...then censor anyone with whom you disagree.

And finally, don't let your emotions control your little brain...makes all of that book learnin go to waste and show your real ignorance...so KID....PLEASE!

Those little kids...of course, because kids cannot be smarter and more mature than adults so we should always treat them as inferior and not ever give them a chance to shine. Fuck your stupid ageism, what next, racism or maybe sexism? You could just run through all of the -isms to make sure you don't not offend everyone!

"As for KNOWING you can have a post deleted...sorry KID, you've already punk'd yourself on that....you already told me that you used to wok for this site....(after another round with me a while ago in which I was mysteriously banned for being too "mean" or in my opinion "honest" about you.) I'm sure even if you don't currently edit here or whatever...you still have people that think your a god, willing to do your bidding."

Oh, really brainiac? I know how much you and your little playmates love to sit around stimulating yourselves over DC IMC editors and fantasizing about it, but I'm sorry to have to disrupt your fantasy world by informing you that no, boy, I haven't been involved with the site for some time now, and am not in contact with the editors. I know how much this likely spoils your dramatic dreamworld, sporto, but you'll have to learn to live with it.

"Calm down take a chill pill and get back on your meds...now have you calmed yourself? Good. I'll try to use small words so you can understand me."

Oh, yay. You can't even come up with your own material, are you just gonna life everything from other people's posts and regurgitate it? Amateur. You get real boring real fast, little kid.

"you will notice I never made fun of any parapalegic. I asked why you moved out of the area and YOU responded by saying you had to take care of a parapalegic."

Oh, don't try to back peddle now, sparky! You mocked the idea of helping paralyzed people, you babbled on about it and tried to make jokes about it, kid. Don't get all wishy washy now, coward. But notice your own words there, brat? "I asked why... and YOU responded"... get it yet, brainiac? Yeah, YOU asked WHY I moved, so I TOLD you what came up that was indeed important enough for me to move. If you're going to play around here, don't keep throwing little tantrums every time you embarrass yourself. If you're scared of the answer, don't ask the question, sport.

"As for my race...apparently you are the arbitor of all things and the great white hope for all humanity...but you are WRONG again. Just because I say I'm black does not mean I am a white racist...as logical as that sounds in your pea sized brain. I just don't like guilt-ridden white liberal boys/girls (whatever you are...if you even know) trying to be the savior of us 'poor black people' "

Blah, blah, blah... yeah, yeah, liar. No, brainiac, I'm not wrong. You're a silly cowardly little white boy sitting at his computer at his mom and dad's house, or at your little high school, or at your lame-ass job getting more and more bitter than your life sucks and nobody cares what you think and you can't get a date. Bitter little white boy, mouthing off online because it's the only way you can get attention or talk "tough". But your just sad and ridiculous, nothing more. And funny, you are dang funny too – it's easy to push your buttons, and your responses give me a laugh occasionally. I especially love how your latest one just ripped off all the stuff I said to you that got you huffing and puffing the most. I can tell it bothered you, that's why you repeated it back. Again, amateurish though – get your own material, kid, or you'll just start boring me and then you can flail your arms all you want but you won't get any more attention. And that's why you throw your little fits, we all know – you love the attention. Sad, sad, sad.

NOW, as for YOU, you little potty-mouthed brat...

"Those little kids...of course, because kids cannot be smarter and more mature than adults so we should always treat them as inferior and not ever give them a chance to shine. Fuck your stupid ageism, what next, racism or maybe sexism? You could just run through all of the -isms to make sure you don't not offend everyone!"

Get lost, brat. Oh heavens to mercy, I'm not giving you a chance to shine! Did I give you a big frowny-face? Poor widdle guy! But hey, turn that frown upside-down, the sun'll come out tomorrow! Put on a happy face, kid, you're a-okay! Are you smiling yet, big guy? C'mon, I know ya can! Let's see those pearly whites! That's the spirit!

Now get lost, brainiac. So you're point is... "Waaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaaa!" That's about it, isn't it? Yeah, thought so. Get lost.

Are KIDS inferior? Well, no, not really. But YOU are, and so is your little punk friend. So yep, I'll keep talking down to you and disrespecting you, and the more you huff and puff and talk with a widdle potty mouth like that, the more I can tell it's getting under your skin, so yep, the more I’m gonna mock you, brainiac.

Oooo, look at you! Defending against agism before it sweeps our nation! You big superhero, you! Oh, wait, you're one of the pricks who otherwise just talks crap about people who try to defend other people, and who defends fascists and bigots around here. But suddenly SWOOSH! Here ya come with your big superhero cape to waggle your finger about agism. BWAHAHAHAHA! Go on, shoo. Get lost, scoot! Otherwise, you'll just keep getting mocked and keep getting your poor widdle feelings hurt, poor widdle guy!

You little right-wing bigot trolls will eventually figure out that as long as you post something, I'll just occasionally look at this site and notice you spewed some more of your inane crap, and I'll come make fun of you again. It's like poking you with a stick, really, and you react every time. And it's great, because I just totally have no respect for you whatsoever, so I get to just be as obnoxious and disrespectful to you as I can, because you just SOOOOO totally deserve it. And you just KEEP coming back around. Meanwhile, you hang around here begging for attention but you don't have time to go hang out somewhere else. I get the fun of provoking you and mocking you, while other folks are spared having to put up with you yelping little mutts in their forums and threads. And hey, you get the attention you so desperately crave and fantasize about, right? Right.

Drew Poe you are an asshole! I am personally attacking you because you attack everyone else if Indymedia wants to get rid of it then please do so BUT make sure you get rid of Drew Poe's shit too. I know this is a personal attack and it is simple and easy, I didn't bother writing something long and boring to talk down to people because I am the imperial Drew Poe, I am just simply calling him an asshole!

Better watch out, mamma's gonna come take away your computer if you keep up that potty mouth, kid.

But please, do keep whining and trashing around. I love pushing the button and watching you little wingnuts kick and scream like this. Hahaha! Dance, kid, dance! Haha!

Now run along to your playmates over at the Stormfront and Freeper sites and cry about what a meanie-moe I am. "Waaaa, waaaaa!" Yeah, go complain about how the lefties are soooo mean to you on their sites, go run to the little closed-posting white supremacist sites, kiddies, so you can rant and hurl your silly insults and talk about the insults over here on the open-posting leftwing sites, you stuck-up little brats who can't stand not getting your way. Scoot, shoo, get lost.

"i see that the great indy g-d drew poe has not changed his tune. i liked to believe that he would have ceased with the name calling, which was his forte when he was a volunteer editor."

Hahaha, someone starting every post to me with "indy g-d" needs to seriously rethink any comments about other people "name calling". But yeah, when a bunch of trolls show up and immediately start hurling stupid crap and insults, you better believe I'll demonstrate that I learned long ago the best way to deal with a bully is to bully them back 10 times worse. As usual, you're just another troll calling names immediately, who then points fingers later.

"while i cannot speak for all cops involved, i can say that a grerat number of mpd members do not want to conduct these roadblocks & checkpoints. we understand the real criminal element will avoid the checkpoints, & that those who would actually benefit from them & some who just happen to unluckily drive into them get stopped & possibly arrested."

Precisely. I hate to be seen agreeing with you, but the fact is that the people actually running these checkpoints are not excited about it, by and large. They know inherently that the residents resent it, that they won't get much accomplished, and it's 80-90 frigging degrees outside. When you announce a big police roadblock, people who have a strong reason to avoid getting caught figure out pretty fast to avoid the big roadblock. Which is the entire point -- the roadblocks serve as a big public display to look like it's addressing this or that problem, when in fact it does nothing but create new problems and violates the rights of the residents.

But someone up the chain of command decides it's a quick, easy response and has the added bonus of militarizing these neighborhoods, so it happens anyway. If cops would refuse to participate, and speak publicly saying these things are counter-productive and only make the residents distrust the police more etc, maybe this sort of crap would be less likely to be suggested in the first place.

^Ah, the same little ol' whine from you as usual. You come around, toss around ridiculous insults at this or that person, lie about this or that fact, and defend this or that violent thug-like tactic by the government, then cry like a baby that other folks are being big meanies to you and your fellow right-wingnuts.

And apparently you can't read any better now than you used to, since you appear to be blissfully ignorant of the fact that there are a bunch of absurd, ignorant, name-calling and bullying comments posted in this thread and others from your white-supremacist, violence-endorsing troll friends. You spend half your time trolling here doing nothing but pasting whiny complaints about how unfair it all is, blah blah, and of course the funny part is that you GET to post your childish tantrums, and only get them removed when you just can't control yourself and go to far in your hatespeech, which you trolls always eventually do. So stop crying to your mamma all the time, for godssake. Either deal with it like a big boy, or get lost and find some far-rightist forum where your views are treated like their worth something. Either way, it's sickening to see you continue crying all the time like this.

Oh, and no, I don't think you work for Starbucks -- you have to be smart enough to run a cash register to work there. And while I can't stand Starbucks, my dislike for them doesn't extend to their day to day workers. Oh, and I've actually seen a Starbucks employee with the guts to argue with their bosses over issues like fairness, or refuse to mistreat a customer who is homeless.

So don't worry, I know the difference, buddy.

And no, I don't think I'll be sending in any suggestions to your chief. For one thing, I think most of them would be anatomically impossible anyway. But besides, what could I possibly have to offer, in light of your brilliant explanation that you have to bash heads and trample civil liberties and ignore human rights, since you'd get suspended or lose your pension otherwise? Yeah, that's precisely the attitude that leads to a bunch of guys with badges and guns abusing their powers and not caring about abusing civilians, and I don't have any suggestions for you that you'd care for, I promise you.

I like the idea of checkpoints and roadblocks to weed out the negative elements of the community. If that means I get stopped in the process, then I'll deal with it when it happens. Washington DC is already occupied by murderous gangs and crews from all over the country and world. Their reign needs to stop and the police are the ones to end it.

With the changing of the law here pertaining to gun ownership, nothing will change except that now there will be more guns in DC to cause mayhem. The tempers of people in the community are already at a boiling point due to the conditions present. I know that one day the news will report that a shootout occurred on the city streets over a tree encroaching into someone else's yard. Besides, we all know that the only reason the gun ban was overturned is due to the fact that DC is becoming a desirable place for Whites to live now.