Prepare for unrest

Well, a few years ago, my old car's tranny upchucked all over the street, and I rode the bus to work for a while. I live in a big city. A lot of you folks wouldn't believe the amount of hatred that's out there. On more than one occasion, I heard people stating that they hoped that a riot/a degree of civic unrest would occur, so that they could "get what's mine." This is a recurring theme - for instance, they persuade themselves that the car that someone is driving is actually rightfully their's, and become quite irate if the driver resists the carjacking...

St. Louis is a checkerboard of "good" and "bad" neighborhoods. I live maybe 15 blocks or so (the other side of Forest Park) from some "bad" neighborhoods. During the summer, it isn't uncommon to hear gunfire, including full auto. If things start looking freaky, I'm outta here. That's been the general game plan for a few years now...
 
I personlly believe that the desire to "get some of mine" has much of it's foundation in the frustration that we feel against a system that tramples us time and time again.

How many people feel that they are being backed into a corner? Many get unjustly stomped on and try gaining justice through a system that is more and more a protection for those who do the stomping. When they hit the wall and are once again "stripped searched" when they discover that they are "guilty until proven innocent" there is a perception that the only way left to them is to lash out in frustration. Usually it is only the violent way that is left to them.

WE created this system by our apathy and ignorance. Only WE can change it.

The government is going to do what it wants to do until the masses say, "Enough!"

There is an article written several years ago that explains this better, I believe, than I do.

You can find it here:
http://www.thefiringline.com:8080/forums/showthread.php?threadid=30412

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John/az
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Bogie,

Looks you are living in a Mad Max movie. I've been there, and life is better, if less well-paid, in the snowy mountains.

Come check out Idaho.
 
Idaho Mike,
You sound like you work for the Idaho Department of tourism & travel! Idaho does sound great to many of us Texans around June, July & August.
As for civil unrest, let it come. I as well as my neighbors are well prepared for it. These (riot prone) people are just looking for a reason to pick up a DVD player to replace the old tech VHS players they picked up in LA during the last round of rioting. I say, let's import a bunch of those rooftop Koreans!
 
Here is why UNREST would be short lived.

Corporate America would not allow it. Like Y2K - this is full of sound and fury... but will signify mostly nuthin.

If there is unrest... You wont be able to make phone calls. AT&T does not like that. The people who work for AT&T would be hurt.
Shipments from San Jose for Cisco Systems Routers have to travel via UPS or FED EX... Hard to deliver accross baricades.
McDonalds serves burgers in just about every town in every corner. Those fries dont make themselves... they are shipped.
Internet Commerce
Water Rights
Power
All things we pay for... things that make the world go round. All controled by Companies that benifit from people being NORMAL and PREDICTABLE. You got to work, get coffe on the way... Work and go home getting fast food on the way and at home you watch TV and make phone calls.
Corporations control us (or at least dictate what our options are) much more than Governments do.
 
Civil unrest could come about as it is the Dem's best chance of seizing more power over all the "subjects." By formenting unrest, they can gain added police and "law enforcement" powers, more gun control, more control over speech and movement, etc.
 
Seems to me that the people who really take seriously such things as this election are the last sort to become riotous.

The folks most likely to cause notable amounts of trouble probably don't care much about election brouhahas. I doubt they really see elections as having much effect on them, directly.

And a lot of the folks who are huffing and puffing, right now, will soon be busy worrying about Christmas trees, bowl games and the Super Bowl. They'll get over the nine-days-wonder aspects, grumble some, and go back to swattin' the kids and wondering about a pay raise...

More importantly to most, will they be able to afford the gasoline for next summer's vacation?

I do not doubt, however, that somewhere out there are disciples of bin Laden, or there is another Timothy McVeigh...Certainly, the media is in high hopes, as the current excitement wears off.

Art
 
Hi everyone. I have to agree with the cooler heads will prevail group. I live right next to Detroit and I must say that I don't see mass riots happening. At least not here. If it does of course we are ready, but that isn't the point.

I heard a really great question on the radio yesterday. All those protesters in Florida? How can they spend all day protesting? Don't they have jobs?

The media is having a feeding frenzy because it gives them job security. Besides, even if the fecal matter does hit the rotary airfoil, our side is armed and most of their side isn't. Remember the shopkeepers in L.A. they stopped the rioters because THEY had firearms. :)
 
At most I expect the usual suspects to burn down and loot a portion of their own neighborhoods, and possibly a couple of the tinfoil lined hat crowd to blow something small, and probably themselves, up.
Large numbers of americans may indeed be highly aggravated but they are also fat and comfortable and, unfortunately, that today is what counts.
If this debacle could prove the spark to ignite a genuine nationwide tax revolt it would be a blessing from God, but I do not expect it to happen.

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"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."
Mark Twain
 
This isn't the movies

I'm sorry but I just don't think life is going to that exciting. A split congress guarantees gridlock and that ought to make most pretty happy.
 
Gridlock caused by a congress almost evenly split along party lines??
Bad...Very bad.
Not enough to overturn an executive order.
Translates to King Algore
 
As has been pointed out in other replys on this post, most of the rioters in the event of civil unrest end up trashing and shooting up their own neighborhoods, as well as each other. Unfortunatly, some may kill each other. Probable result-fewer Gore voters. May be time for some Darwinian selection to take place.

I've been fortunate enough (and made a very determined decision) not to live near a major urban area. I don't envy those that do. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Bri
 
A grid-locked Congress is not a bad thing. There is, in some circles, a commonly held belief that the four greatest words in the Constitution are the first five words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...". Unfortunately, the Framers thought it necessary to add several more words after those.
 
Mozart--
A split congress guarantees gridlock

Amen! As Lamar Alexander used to say, "Cut their pay in half & send them home 6 months out of the year to live under the laws they write for the rest of us..."
 
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