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A line-by-line analysis of Helen Shiller's blog response to the Uptown riot controversy suggests the document doesn't exactly (ahem) fit the crime.
Analyzing Helen Shiller's Response to the Uptown Riot Controversy
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I also recommend taking a look at an almost simultaneous line-by-line analysis recently posted by the Rogers Park Bench. Independently, we both came to the same conclusion: Shiller's own words make her sound pretty checked out.
http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2009/08/hot-helen-shiller-wallows-in...
i really wish folks would stop calling this a riot. 20 guys fighting in the street does not make a riot. i'm not saying it's nothing to worry about, but it is nowhere near the scale of a mass violent upheaval.
the riot rhetoric is being intentionally used to fan some not-so-hidden flames of tension based in race and class in the neighborhood, and I hope we can take the conversation to another level.
Definition of a riot (I leave it to others to argue out):
http://www.answers.com/riot
3 people disturbing the peace is the legal definition of a riot? well damn, i guess i've been a part of a few then.
Use of the term riotous might infer as few as one person acting in such a fashion.
After wathcing armed security officers holding dozens of boistrous Chicago Bulls fans at bay from behind the razor-ribboned fence of a Wells Fargo Alarm Services central station near Division & Orleans back in the 1980's, my defintion of a "riot" leaves recent 46th Ward disturbances woefully lacking.
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