Internet rages as a Baltimore Whole Foods market made effort to feed US Soldiers in the city. - Polidicks

[url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/04/29/whole-food-free-food-national-guard-baltimore/26584275/]Source[/url] [quote]Whole Foods faced backlash on social media after one of the Baltimore stores posted photos of National Guard members holding free food from the grocery chain. People on Twitter and Facebook lashed out against Whole Foods and called the move tone deaf to the children in Baltimore public schools who were going without free lunch while schools were closed Tuesday over safety concerns. According to the Baltimore City Public School District's website, 84% of its students receive free or reduced-price lunches. One woman tweeted, "As Baltimore's poorest kids are left hungry due to school closure (no school lunch), @WholeFoods feed the oppressor." Others pointed to a Five Guys restaurant that was also passing out free burgers to National Guard members.[/quote] [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDsR4S8UIAAtCYr.jpg:large[/img]

All I see in the picture is a floating bag. Where are the soldiers?

That's pretty awesome of 'em.

Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.

[quote] "As Baltimore's poorest kids are left hungry due to school closure (no school lunch), [b]@WholeFoods feed the oppressor.[/b]"[/quote] Are these people for real?

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] Well the police obviously can't handle it which is evidenced by the fact there are soldiers keeping the peace.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. [B]Can't the police handle that themselves?[/B] America is weird.[/QUOTE] Have you seen footage of the riots? Crazy shit is going on down there man

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] Is this your first time hearing about the Baltimore riot? Also I don't understand how people can be outraged over this. Yeah some kids miss out on a free lunch, but it's not like companies know the address of every poor kid.

[quote]As Baltimore's poorest kids are left hungry due to school closure (no school lunch), @WholeFoods feeds the oppressor [/quote] I really think they are blaming the wrong people here.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] It's the National Guard. The U.S. military can't operate on U.S. soil for civilian law enforcement because the army is ran by the federal government. The state's national guard, however, is operated by the state, and therefore is allowed to operate within it's state to be used as law enforcement to keep the peace, or as a defense for the state against the federal government. It was a way to make sure the government couldn't use the army against the states. Posse Comitatus Act

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] National Guard is called in when shit's fucked up, and the police can't keep order. Evidently enough, that's the situation Baltimore is in. If you haven't seen what's been happening in the riots, then there's many reasons why the NG is in Baltimore right now.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] It's the national guard. They usually deal with any sort of crisis. Heck, we had them here when we didn't have water for 3 days.

[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;47629218]It's the National Guard. The U.S. military can't operate on U.S. soil for civilian law enforcement because the army is ran by the federal government. The state's national guard, however, is operated by the state, and therefore is allowed to operate within it's state to be used as law enforcement to keep the peace, or as a defense for the state against the federal government. It was a way to make sure the government couldn't use the army against the states.[/QUOTE] Not disputing that. They are still soldiers.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629234]Not disputing that. They are still soldiers.[/QUOTE] okay, so what

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves? America is weird.[/QUOTE] Not when the city's major gangs team up to attack the police. The situation in Baltimore is almost as bad if not worse than Ferguson.

[QUOTE=Levelog;47629223]It's the national guard. They usually deal with any sort of crisis. Heck, we had them here when we didn't have water for 3 days.[/QUOTE] When we had our floods last week we didn't have soldiers come in, we had volunteers from our state emergency service.

[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;47629240]okay, so what[/QUOTE] So what, what?

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629249]When we had our floods last week we didn't have soldiers come in, we had volunteers from our state emergency service.[/QUOTE] Probably because your police/whatever were able to manage the situation without issue...? I'll reiterate, National Guard is called in by the state in the event of a State of Emergency, and when a municipals police is unable to maintain order in their municipal. They call a martial law, and call in the National Guard to aide in the situation to restore order. They're geared up like soldiers for protection. But they're still "police" in a sense.

[QUOTE=Xubs;47629255]is this going to be yet another "well this would never happen in MYYYYYYYYYY country" "in MYYYYYYYYYY country we wouldn't have soldiers policing these problems because these problems would never happen to begin with!" We don't need any Rumble Reds in here. It's getting tiring.[/QUOTE] Well he can't "never in my country" because Australian military is sometimes deployed in major floods to help recover + deter looters

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629249]When we had our floods last week we didn't have soldiers come in, we had volunteers from our state emergency service.[/QUOTE] Water isn't hordes of rioters though is it.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629249]When we had our floods last week we didn't have soldiers come in, we had volunteers from our state emergency service.[/QUOTE] a. there's civil unrest b. national guard also has medical personnel

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629234]Not disputing that. They are still soldiers.[/QUOTE] The police don't have the manpower to contain everything and be everywhere at once. With this large of a crowd, they are outnumbered and can't effectively contain everything. It's more for the additional manpower.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;47629261]Water isn't hordes of rioters though is it.[/QUOTE] Re-read what I had quoted.

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;47629260]Well he can't "never in my country" because Australian military is sometimes deployed in major floods to help recover + deter looters[/QUOTE] Our military can't do that, but our national guard does every time.

[quote]People on Twitter and Facebook lashed out against Whole Foods and called the move tone deaf to the children in Baltimore public schools who were going without free lunch while [b]schools were closed Tuesday over safety concerns.[/b][/quote] Last I checked it's not the Guard who are causing those safety concerns, it was the exact same people getting outraged over this.

[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;47629267]The police don't have the manpower to contain everything and be everywhere at once. With this large of a crowd, they are outnumbered and can't effectively contain everything. It's more for the additional manpower.[/QUOTE] Thank you. This is the kind of reply I was hoping I'd get not 'ur dumb lol'. Edit: Why is this post dumb?

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629189]Why does Baltimore need soldiers to keep the peace. Can't the police handle that themselves?[/QUOTE] No, because the retards that are rioting think a violent protest will get anything done. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629270]Re-read what I had quoted.[/QUOTE] Going to take a crack and say that the person you quoted may have had looters, or some situation, that the police were unable to come out and assist. Where I live, we've had National Guard called for Hurricane Katrina cause the police literally were unable to do shit, no cars, and no roads. In a flooding, police cars and roads are taken away. National Guard have choppers, and medical personnel, and other equipment to look for people. They're not the army, they're a step down, but look like the army because they're geared for any form of situation. You never know what might happen.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;47629249]When we had our floods last week we didn't have soldiers come in, we had volunteers from our state emergency service.[/QUOTE] The National Guard is pretty much our state emergency service whom also can defend our country against foreign threats.

Sometimes I think Facepunch is the only sane area of the internet left. Using the term "sane" loosely, since we are all lunatics in our own right.