U.S. mayors wary as London burns

Poverty and economic distress are usual suspects whenever the backside of a donkey is needed for pining on some blame- blame for bad human behaviors like youth wilding or riots, instead of the people doing the actual looting and shooting and dishing out of all those beatdowns to people who get them for no other reason than... they were there.

Poverty is an extreme pressure and even a criminal motivation. Yet, for some reason, the streets of Bombay and Calcutta aren't choked with burning cars and debris, the houses and shops are not being torched by roaming mobs of the youth. Not so far as I know they're not anyway. But even some of the poorest places in American cities know a standard of living that people in other parts of the World could only dream of.

I live in a large American city. The neighborhood was, perhaps 50 years ago, one of the wealthiest places in the city, but has decayed for decades and is now among the poorer places to live. Yet there is still a standard of living there that could be envied in other parts of the World.

There's a sign outside a house or shop(I can't remember which) on broad street on the edge of the North Philadelphia section of the city(which is among the poorest). The sign reads: this is my neighborhood, I am responsible for what happens here.

If the Mayors of American cities are afraid that riots could soon errupt in their cities, they should fear it because of the people living in them. Not because of economic pressure, social injustice, or the opression of "THE MAN".

The horseleach has two daughters, crying 'give, give'.

The prophetic wisdom of the Lord Jesus is timeless, and doesn't come with any political opportunism that exploits the self-destructive tendencies of humanity in order to manipulate public opinion.

He said simply,

if they do these things in a green tree, what will they do in a dry?

Not to get super conspiracy theorist here, but, most of this rioting is not simply the result of economic tensions. Those things are simply the incubator of these riots. Truth be told, a lot of the riots spreading across Europe and the Middle East these days are ultimately the product of opportunists groups, such as anarchist, communist, and Islamic organizations. These groups feed on those who are burdened by these troubles, and are looking nothing more than "useful idiots" to pursue their agendas. And rest assured, these groups have their people in our nation as well. And what has happened over there will very likely happen here. May God have grace upon us all.

"a lot of the riots spreading across Europe and the Middle East these days are ultimately the product of opportunists groups, such as anarchist, communist, and Islamic organizations. These groups feed on those who are burdened by these troubles"

Months ago we were hearing alot about a book called Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinski. I saw it in a book store at that time and decided to buy a copy to see what it was about. Whether socialist agents and political ideologues have or are putting Alinski's tactics to use in America, here's something that echo's what Jimmy said above:

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.

More stupid than obnoxious and probably intentionally so, I've seen the phrase 'start riots' stenciled in a neighborhood that is conspicoulsy anarchist and libertine in its other graffiti.

And maybe no less than four or five blocks from the poor neighborhood with the sign that I mentioned in the previous post is a storefront with its own sign overhead that designates it as a "Socialist Workers Party, Campaign Office. Millitant Labor Forum"

I've seen it when it was open. Lot's of books and a man inside that looked as though he may have been talking about them. I suppose they weren't books on cooking or making pottery.

"Leaders of American cities, facing fiscal crunches and the threat of diminishing federal support, were looking nervously across the Atlantic this week at the riots that shook one of the world’s premier metropolises."

Hi Frank, my own part was in response to the news item that Greg posted.

I appologise if what I wrote implied anything otherwise or was not clear about that. It was not intentional.

Not sure what, if anything, the last couple of posts have to do with David Wilkerson and what he saw in the Spirit so many years ago.........brother Frank

Everything of course. These things are tantamount to seeing the Babylonians starting their march towards Jerusalem, being ready to burn the city with fire.

In light of KingJimmy and ChrisJD's posts, I thought it was interesting that yesterday (Sunday) on the front page of my town's paper was a huge article about white supremacist groups in Montana. Apparently we have 13 of them. Us and Alabama have the highest number of groups in the country. Then the article right underneath it was about the riots in London. It was a little spooky having just read this thread and then seeing the paper and both of those things (riots and opportunist groups) were on the front page.

American mayors should be worried..........brother Frank

I watched some of the footage of the riots in England. Frightening.

And North American cities are certainly going to see this same spirit of lawlessness unleashed.

...Surely no Christian church is carrying on "business as usual" these days... are they?