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Originally Posted by theking
The "spring of rage" will look much like it did during the Vietnam and Civil Rights era. Millions of people taking to the streets...virtually every major city and University burning...virtual anarchy.
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You have greater faith in the courage of the american people than I. I suppose I should be humbled.
We shall see.
Such mass riots are fairly easily channeled and suppressed tho, by a police and military with corpocrat backing and modern crowd control and information control technology.
The way that crowd protests have been managed and made meaningless this past decade, as example the protests against these "wars of choice" and free trade, does not bode well for protest and crowd resistance in america.
Tho, one can make the argument that the people have access to their own technology.
What I expect to happen is this - protests will start, then the corpocrats will trigger off and fund counterprotests by the tea party or whomever they chose as their brownshirts, setting groups against each other like dogs in a pit.
Then the mercenaries move in with advanced crowd control technology "to restore order", backed by the police and military.
It's a tested formula.