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fbc

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7. They were a terror to their neighbors.
Wed May 18, 2016, 09:27 PM
May 2016

If you want to be in a wacky separatist cult, here are a few guidelines to avoid intervention:

1) Don't live in a row home with a loudspeaker on your roof broadcasting obscenities throughout the neighborhood
2) Feed your children.

Terrorist attack? This was an operation completely bungled by the incompetence of city officials, including Democratic establishment darling Ed Rendell, but MOVE had to go.

Granted, if MOVE were white people, radical right wing patriots would be calling them martyrs like they do with Koresh's followers. But we're supposed to be better than than radical right wing lunatics. Move were bad people. They could have chosen to be left alone, but instead they chose to inflict themselves upon the people of the community. They chose to allow their children to suffer from malnutrition.

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Expect to see this stuff again if the right wing fascists take over all branches of government. Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #1
I grew up in NJ, not far from Philly. redwitch May 2016 #2
I was born in Philadelphia, PA; "the city of brotherly love" is their motto Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #6
I remember it. Move, like the Black Panthers were considered too radical. nt jalan48 May 2016 #3
Remember it well. A National Shame. kairos12 May 2016 #4
Disgusting! chwaliszewski May 2016 #5
They were a terror to their neighbors. fbc May 2016 #7
Yup, they were a fucked up bunch. redwitch May 2016 #10
it didn't help that move decided to put gasoline on the roof..... and build a sniper's nest up there msanthrope May 2016 #18
What did MOVE do that was fucked up? tia uponit7771 May 2016 #16
They didn't believe in using bathrooms. So they taught their kids to shit in other people's msanthrope May 2016 #17
So they were a little eccentric Shankapotomus May 2016 #23
Tulsa race riots 1920. Manifestor_of_Light May 2016 #8
I live 35 miles east of there madokie May 2016 #13
thank you for posting that i knew nothing about the tulsa riots dembotoz May 2016 #30
thank you for the reminder. niyad May 2016 #9
It is good that you reminded us of this deadly overreaction by the PTB. FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #11
Now that you brought it up madokie May 2016 #12
I remember the incident... Thespian2 May 2016 #14
I can see my old apartment building in this photo. Barack_America May 2016 #15
Yes....Osage Avenue, who asked Philly government to remove MOVE, got the short end msanthrope May 2016 #19
Another stain on America. Scuba May 2016 #20
It was an utter shitshow. auntpurl May 2016 #21
Thank you - TBF May 2016 #22
thank you heaven05 May 2016 #24
Wow. I missed this--literally--because mnhtnbb May 2016 #25
Kicked and recommended! nt Enthusiast May 2016 #26
Yes and thank you Temple University for housing all these familiesAnd giving them free medical care classykaren May 2016 #27
Thank you Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for admitting that these were among the healthiest classykaren May 2016 #28
Isn't Philadelphia hosting the Democratic National Convention this summer? merrily May 2016 #29
Indeed it is. KamaAina May 2016 #31
My thought was for the safety of the demonstrators. merrily May 2016 #33
The USG should not... ReRe May 2016 #32
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