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Originally Posted by Bill8
You have greater faith in the courage of the american people than I. I suppose I should be humbled.
We shall see.
Such mass riots are fairly easily channeled and suppressed tho, by a police and military with corpocrat backing and modern crowd control and information control technology.
The way that crowd protests have been managed and made meaningless this past decade, as example the protests against these "wars of choice" and free trade, does not bode well for protest and crowd resistance in america.
Tho, one can make the argument that the people have access to their own technology.
What I expect to happen is this - protests will start, then the corpocrats will trigger off and fund counterprotests by the tea party or whomever they chose as their brownshirts, setting groups against each other like dogs in a pit.
Then the mercenaries move in with advanced crowd control technology "to restore order", backed by the police and military.
It's a tested formula.
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They are not any easier to channel today than they were during the Vietnam and Civil Rights era. Tens of millions took to the streets and set on fire virtually every major city and University. There were major battles between those that were protesting and those that were against the protesters and between the Police/National Guard and the protesters. There was large numbers of people injured/killed and arrested. It was a time of virtual anarchy in the country that went on for years and did not stop until the Government pulled all troops out of Vietnam in '73 and Civil Rights were granted.
Any and every protest since that era has been minute in comparison and have been easily controllable.