Posted on 09/19/2011 8:18:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The beginnings? Historian Rick Perlstein says union protests in Wisconsin show the birth of a movement
It was a long, hot spring and summer on the streets of Greece, England and Madrid, as protesters and rioters vented their fury at high unemployment, painful austerity measures and following a fatal police shooting in London.
The US, meanwhile, has been virtually free of rioting and even of widespread peaceful political protest.
This is despite some of the highest unemployment in decades, growing income inequality, dissatisfaction with the nation's direction, frustration with its dysfunctional government and the threat of drastic cuts to social programmes.
On Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the spectre of social unrest amid high unemployment among young Americans.
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Liberals in general are too lazy to get jobs, what makes anyone think they’ll get of their lazy butts and cause chaos?
Agreed it is to late in the year for the street theatre crowds getting organized for riots besides it takes time to rub salt into wounds . The community organizers will spoon feed/nurse resentments thru the winter & early spring then when Barry looks like he is going down the community organizers will encourage the mobs to take it to the streets to fight the racist Tea Parties who are dissing the “One”.
Also who wants to go out & do the poo flinging monkey dance on top of a cop car when its 15 degrees outside cloudy with a chance of freezing rain? Even the black block Anarchist are that stupid.
Mine, too.
Guns and boats. They just don’t mix.
My bad. After re-reading your reply, I see that I misunderstood your comment.
Have you never met an immigrant to the USA from Cuba, the former USSR, or a Holocaust survivor?
Have you never lived in any foreign country?
The standard human scenario of corrupt political despotism is unfolding right before our very eyes in the USA, and some will still stubbornly refuse to “believe” it is happening, yet again.
Have a nice day!
We’re good. I still can’t believe Californians would allow a law like that.
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