Occupy Wall St Thread
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Stupid, stupid tactics.
It wouldn't take much to really piss off a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people enough for them to turn up armed and angry, then there aint no policing that, military involvement or otherwise. That's societal breakdown there on a scale that'll make the LA riots look like a scrap at a kids party. That's what everyone forgets about the US - there's fucking millions of people here and they have 100s of millions of guns. They're pretty easy to control with conventional media, and it goes a long way to overly project the illusion of state power with incessant 24/7 cop shows on tv for the whole of a person's life. It gives the impression that there are thousands, millions of smart, decent, dedicated cops on every corner, but there aren't. I used to watch the Occupy debacle and get pissed off because I thought the Police were becoming the dangerous ones; they're not - what they're doing is. By eroding public good-will like this, at a time of increasing uncertainty, poverty, confusion and anger is putting us all at risk of legions of angry gun-toting idiots who may initially coalesce round a series of wildy unjust and stupid incidents like the one above, or an horrific and unwarrented shooting in the face, or a young college girl getting her head run over in a riot, creamy pink brains splattered down the road, or whatever it is, but a few days of entrenchment and a couple of related killings on either side and it's fucking game-over in every little town from the Grand Banks to Olympia harbor - there aren't enough Police to keep everyone safe if every 10th gun-owner has suddenly had enough and takes to the streets. Somebody somewhere is doing a shit, shit job of deciding what to instruct front-line cops to do. Every minor incident is a world-wide event in this soap opera.
I like liking cops, they come to my door at 4 in the morning if I hear someone breaking into next door. They'll put their lives on the line to protect my family and my stuff, and they couldn't be paid a fair wage to do those sort of things that I wouldn't be able to, but they're being abused by being made to behave like this, and that abuse is putting us all in danger. We'll see.- Considering this is likely what they're trying to do, the tactics aren't so stupid.Horp