Society cannot tolerate random acts of violence

Michael Pravica, HendersonSaturday, June 25, 2011 | at 2: 02

Recently, which I am biking to work, I was the victim of a random act of violence that someone threw a bottle of watered-down drinks in me trying to knock me off my bike.

My quick reflexes and conditioning was apparently, far superior to the antagonist that nothing happened to me.

This pathetic and childish incident caused me to reflect on the problems with random anonymous violence which cost many Americans their lives. Gone are the days when "men were men," and faced each other on a. Today honor many lost souls with inner demons lack, dignity and decency, while hiding behind their cars, guns, gangs, freeway overpasses, etc., and protrude their anger on innocent, unsuspecting victims.

In my case, instead of realizing that by bicycle traffic, I reduce petrol consumption (which reduces costs for all), road congestion and pollution and threw angry and deranged person quite good, chilled and nearly full drink at me because either he was jealous that I can bike 20 miles in 100 plus degree heat or just because he could do it anonymously and get away with.

We cannot survive as a society with this type of behaviour and must identify, report and prosecute persons who unpunished crimes encourage antisocial more vicious crimes.

It is also time for many drivers to behave more civilly on the roads and for our law enforcement authorities in order to improve this crisis/epidemic here so more people are seeking alternative forms of transportation.

Public enemy No. 1 for America is on Wall Street

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Public enemy No. 1 for America is on Wall Street Dale Quale, Las Vegas

Saturday, June 25, 2011 | 2:01 a.m.

With Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the sea with SpongeBob SquarePants, I nominate Goldman Sachs as the next existential threat to America. They are hiding out in EasyMoneystan on the island of Manhattan. Since their “perfect crime” of 2008, which they got away with, they continue to innovate. Speculative commodity bubbles in corn and oil, resulting in higher food and gas prices, repackaging of toxic Greek bonds that threaten all of Europe with a euro-destroying debt crisis, and the sale of our state and city parking meters, toll roads and other public infrastructure for 75 or 100 years to foreign sovereign funds are just the most visible and recent examples of their amoral pursuit of profit.

Let’s send SEAL Team 6 to Wall Street!

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Only trusted comments are displayed on this page. See all Comments ? By uddeboda June 25, 2011 3:23 a.m. Flag

Actually you had 2 Nr ONES as public enemies.

Osama and Wall Street

Both have cost more than $1 trillion each, and still the war continues in Agrostan, and the Wall street bankers continue to do very very well on the backs of the US taxpayers, with huge salaries, huge huge bonuses, they really must be laughing all the way to the banks....................just when will you people ever ever learn

By Future June 25, 2011 3:46 a.m. Flag

Obama uses Wall Street

A month ago Obama and the DNC invited Wall Street Mogules to the WH for a campaign Fund raiser.

This week Obama went to Wall Street for another load of money.

75% of all wall street money goes to Democrats

By dipstick (dennis williams) June 25, 2011 3:58 a.m. Flag

if wall street collapsed tomorrow. i wouldnt shed one tear over its demise. another power point of how capitalism is someones delusion like communism was karl marxs wet dream. its all about greed and how those OUTSIDE the system, get fleeced and raped in the name of gross national product .( GNP)

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