Are we on the verge of a civil war? (healthcare, education, government)
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Nope no civil war here .I wouldn't mind it a country that fights backs to regain a english only society,no more spanish signs,labels,college courses etc .If you move speak english,or go home .Is that gonna happen tommorrow,nope maybe never.
From remarks made by Oaklands mayor Jean Quam about 18 cities being in on a conference call, herself being in Washington D.C. at the time begs for the question to be asked; who organized that critical conference call? Was it Quan or one of the other mayors, or was it someone in the federal government?
Some 72 FUSION CENTERS located around the US and funded by the US at a cost of half a billion dollars, are a post 9-11creation of the new Homeland Security Department. Bringing the FBI together with local law enforcement departments, they both collect and share domestic intelligence, and can serve as command centers to direct local law enforcement in helping implement national law enforcement goals. There are also many Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which directly link the FBI with urban police departments.
Some Oakland residents have reported seeing federal vehicles and possibly also National Guard equipment during the police actions against occupation demonstrators, too, though National Guardsmen can only be legally activated by a governor, and California Gov. Jerry Brown, a former mayor of Oakland, has not publicly issued any such order.
Rick Ellis, a journalist with the Minneapolis office of the news outlet Examiner.com, is reporting that an unidentified US Justice Department official has confirmed what Boghosian, Siegel and Veheyden-Hilliard say they suspect is the case: that each of the recent brutal police evictions and attacks on occupation groups “was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.”
A bunch of spoiled, shirtless brats camping out in cities does not make an insurrection. Why?
1. the majority of Americans are employed and have too much at stake
2. the unemployed are well fed
3. the brats have no organization or weapons
4. the brats have support for their camping, but few would support them as leaders or support them in an insurrection
Any "civil war' would start from the desks and homes of the well to do, educated componants of our society. What revolution has ever started with shirtless twits? They are pawns.
Tough ******* on all of the big city lib mayors that didn't arrest them all on Day One for sleeping on the street. Ten to one, they'll be knocking on everyone's door for a federal handout because they lacked the balz to act on Day One.
Absolutely no way we're anywhere near a civil war. It was WAY worse in the 1960s, with certain extremists attacking the military and police, and we didn't get near a shooting war.
Nope no civil war here .I wouldn't mind it a country that fights backs to regain a english only society,no more spanish signs,labels,college courses etc .If you move speak english,or go home .Is that gonna happen tommorrow,nope maybe never.
Might it also be more than a coincidence that this succession of police raids started after President Obama left the US for an extended tour of the Pacific Rim?
A bunch of spoiled, shirtless brats camping out in cities does not make an insurrection. Why?
1. the majority of Americans are employed and have too much at stake
2. the unemployed are well fed
3. the brats have no organization or weapons
4. the brats have support for their camping, but few would support them as leaders or support them in an insurrection
Any "civil war' would start from the desks and homes of the well to do, educated componants of our society. What revolution has ever started with shirtless twits? They are pawns.
While I wouldn't call the protesters "brats", you are absolutely correct on points #1 and #2. I suspect the total number of OWS protesters throughout the nation might fill a small football stadium. We'll see if this protest coalesces into a political movement, similar to a Tea Party on the left.
Blocking off news helo airspace and arresting journalists at Zucotti was straight out of the Hosni Mubarak playbook re: Tahrir Square. We haven't gotten to Syria level violence and likely won't. That would instantly undo all the anti-OWS propaganda that's been running 24/7.
agreed
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