robertpaulsen (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:04 PM
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Are you ready for guerilla warfare? Look who's got their guard up.
This report from two days ago:
Ariz. police say they are prepared as War College warns military must prep for unrest; IMF warns of economic riots
A new report by the U.S. Army War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against businesses.....blahblahblah, the usual conspiracy stuff.....
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:18 PM
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2. You mean the kinds of riots we had like in the Great Depression?
The ones most history teachers ignore?
The ones where even the JCOS took personal command off (the best known and actually covered?)
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:59 PM
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15. MacArthur and Patton- color me surprised
No one seems to get it, though. It's like they think there's an invisible wall protecting them from the Military.
shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:54 PM
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12. You know that I do SLAD
We've always been on the same paranoid page together. I like the company.
glitch (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:34 PM
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4. Ramping up the rhetoric for the next $350 billion Take. Congress better pay up or...
They'll pay them off, and with no oversight written in either.
I guess they know these particular protection racketeers make good on their threats.
brandnewlaptop (853 posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:42 PM
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7. it would be better if they just asked corporations to consider their employees for a change (rather than their investors). Stop the job cuts at profitable companies, and stop replacing employees with non benefited, contract labor.
otherwise, what are we supposed to do, starve?
subliminable (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:51 PM
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10. It should be noted that "civil unrest, such as protests against businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks"
is equated with
"Widespread civil violence"
greyhound1966 (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:53 PM
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11. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Our tree is nearly dead.
We have an opportunity to change course. We have reached what is likely our last chance to avoid what history shows as an inevitable outcome of the course we have followed for a generation or more.
Will our "leaders" accommodate this cry for change, or will they simply try some cosmetic tweaking and platitudes?
charlie (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:54 PM
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13. The IMF knows riots
They've caused enough of them, the skeevy bastards.
chrisa (55 posts) Fri Dec-19-08 04:03 PM
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16. Translated:
Shoot the uppity, brown poor people so that we can live another day to eat caviar.
These people really are pathetic. They also seem to know that the American people would rather die than be put in detention centers.
They're shitting their pants because they will have millions of angry people in cities with nowhere to go.
chrisa (55 posts) Fri Dec-19-08 04:03 PM
They're shitting their pants because they will have millions of angry people in cities with nowhere to go.
robertpaulsen
Kind of ironic that the same gun-nut, McVeigh-inspired, U.N.-phobic militias that hardly let out a peep these past eight years that Cheney and the rest of the BFEE ran wild handing out no-bid contracts to their friends in Iraq; who probably would be the first to start "criminal guerilla groups" against President B. Hussein Obama in the name of "freedom"; :whatever: would probably be the first American detainees to arrive at KBR's $385 million detention centers for "unlawful enemy combatants."
greyhound1966 (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-19-08 03:53 PMCare to take a guess on who's blood will be watering that tree, DUmmie? It may be both of ours, actually. The difference is that I'll be laying in a pile of brass, you'll be laying in a pile of your own feces.
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11. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Our tree is nearly dead.
We have an opportunity to change course. We have reached what is likely our last chance to avoid what history shows as an inevitable outcome of the course we have followed for a generation or more.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4684231
Oh my.
Hmmmm. I thought it was MacArthur and Eisenhower.
I dunno about Patton being involved.
Army Chief of Staff and Major General Douglas MacArthur watched a brigade of steel-helmeted soldiers precisely align themselves in a straight four-column phalanx, bayonets affixed to rifles. He nodded his head in satisfaction. Discipline was wonderful. Up ahead, Major George Patton kicked his heels against his mount, and the big horse reared forward to signal a line of cavalry. The riders drew their sabers, and the animals stepped out in unison, hoofs smacking loudly on the street. Five Renault tanks lurched behind. Seven-ton relics from World War I and presumably just for show, the old machines nonetheless left little doubt as to the seriousness of the moment. On cue, at about 4:30 p.m. on July 28, 1932, the infantry began a slow, steady march forward. Completing the surreal atmosphere, a machine gun unit unlimbered, and its crew busily set up.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4684231
Oh my.
Hmmmm. I thought it was MacArthur and Eisenhower.
I dunno about Patton being involved.
The paranoid shadowy primitive's referring to a really stupid comment made by the dreamy primitive, the "SeemsLikeADream" primitive, not worth copying-and-pasting, because it's really stupid.
The grey-haired primitive as usual is being really stupid:
What the greyhound primitive doesn't understand is that the Democrats, liberals, and primitives are the "establishment." Decent and civilized people are the "rebels."
Oh my.