As a police officer in a very violent Midwest community, I can tell you for my part that the scenario with the EBT cards being denied and the holders going ballistic is very real.
The recipients of these forced reparations have no compunctions against assaulting the mailman if he is running late and the section eight don’t care about no fedrul gubmint holidays.
Like I said many times before, you don’t want to be anywhere near a city when this goes down. The police at first might be tasked with trying to maintain order, but then they will be repurposed to protecting critical infrastructure. Stores will be pillaged for every scrap of food, and just like fitness clubs and movie theaters, they are precious few grocery stores in the ghetto.
The food will run out, and then it will be a house to house search for the same. It will spread out to the outlying counties and then that is where the real resistance will be met.
Armed citizens need to understand that most rifle combat happens under two hundred yards, and in urban areas, much less than that. Urban areas are also historically where the most casualties take place. It would behoove those who are interested in telling history versus becoming history to make sure they avoid conflicts of any sort in the cities.
“The police at first might be tasked with trying to maintain order, but then they will be repurposed to protecting critical infrastructure”
This is exactly what happened. The police withdrew to guard City Hall, police stations, etc..
I was trapped in South LA during the Rodney King riots and saw “the thin veneer of civilization” stripped away.
The fire department refused to answer calls unless they had police escorts. So the fires raged.
Intersections became kill zones where cars and trucks were ambushed and drivers beaten and killed. Local TV helicopters recorded much of this chaos live and it was never broadcast again.
Business owners who were armed guarded their property. The mobs just moved on to unprotected places.
There was an eye-opener incident not too long ago where there was a problem with the EBTs not being “recharged” and after 3 days, there were some VERY angry Atlanta urban females.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2764156/posts?page=95
http://www.dailypaul.com/173786/when-foodstamps-end-in-atlanta-ga-chaos-in-the-street-fox-5?page=1