Earlaiman, yesterday, gazed into his crystal globe and opined…
It is a matter of time he said….
Eventually, in one of the larger Cities, the mayor will announce that the demonstration has become a riot and the police will show up in riot gear and mean. Then, tough will happen and if the people persist then they will be arrested in even larger numbers. Heads will be cracked!
If that does not send them home, then the State Militia will be called in larger numbers and mechanized will happen. Eventually, if none of these escalation ploys do the job, bayonets will be fixed, the troops will move forward in line abreast clearing the streets and people will be injured.
Ultimately, shots will be fired. You will never know who fired the first shots but it will be obvious who fires the last shots and who gets killed.
Someone will have to die. At the same time City, State and possibly Federal forces will be escalating the pressure in all of the other large cities, until the “riots” have been quelled and the Government will announce that a major “revolution” has just been put down
Anyone who can order a few thousand people killed to take down a few buildings will not hesitate to kill a dozen or so, even a few hundred if necessary.
And, remember, the more people who they have had to kill, the more serious was the threat of “revolution.” There will be quotas.
“Lieutenant, your unit was supposed to kill three hundred and thirty six. You are fifteen short. Now, go out there and get me fifteen more, dammit!”
“Sorry, Colonel, but there aren’t that many left… sir, they’ve all gone home!”
“Well then, go kick in some goddam doors and drag some of them back out into the street and get the job done, dammit… I gotta have fifteen more before I can send this engagement report up to the Governor.”
Martial Law will be declared for the Nation, the Constitution and elections will be suspended, the Congress sent home “for the duration,” and a Military Tribunal will be appointed to replace the Cabinet, to manage Government affairs and to “advise and support” the President.”
Many of the State Militia will not fire into the crowd, or will fire wildly into the air or off target… but it will take only a small handful of casualties to do the job and a few hired professional snipers can easily ensure that casualties will actually happen.
General Douglass MacArthur earned and ensured his place in Military History when, as Chief of Staff of the US Army, he led an Infantry and Cavalry attack, supported by tanks and machine guns against an unarmed “WWI Veteran’s Bonus Army of protesters camped on the Mall in Washington, DC in 1932.Americans have guts when it comes time to parade and protest, but they do not have the guts to stand unarmed and bleeding before a line of armed men, all of whom they believe will shoot to kill when ordered. They will go home.
There will be talk, or threats, of prosecuting some, perhaps notables or celebrities, on charges of plotting or attempting violent overthrow of the Constitution or the government, which are pretty grave offenses.
They will probably not follow through on that, because they will not actually want the entire anti-riot exercise they employed investigated in court under sworn testimony… too many cops and soldiers will testify if asked or “forced” to by law.
But, it will be threatening enough to ensure peace for a few more years, while positions are consolidated, and better barriers are erected for crowd management and control, and the people are further impoverished and starved into compliance and docile acceptance.
All of which overlooks and ignores the fact that, without exception, people who have been impoverished and starved to the point where they have lost all hope and now have nothing to lose, eventually lose all fear and respect for the bayonet and the armed line of riflemen…. and the real revolution begins!
That’s when it really gets messy!
And, it is exactly what the cabal wants!
Courtesy Salem-news.com
Aha, today, we told AFL-CIO Calls on Members to Defend Occupy Wall Street Against Mayor Bloomberg’s Planned Attack. Read Full Article. If he attacks the movement with police, against the counsel of the Unions, he will never see public office in New York again. This might indicate the power of the influence the Cabal holds over him and other politicians.
It may hurt his fat ego to lose his political stature, but it does not hurt the men who tell him to do the necessary thing and commit political hari kari for the “cause,” whatever it is. They have hundreds of men they can run for mayor and ensure a win, without him.
If he complies and does as he is ordered he will be politically dead, but he will have a lifetime retirement plan ensured which will make his days comfortable down in Miami Beach with the rest of the boys.
If he refuses, he will be literally dead, and his widow penniless.
So, the cabal gets two for one. They sacrifice Bloomberg, but not only get the Movement bloodied and sent home, they take some of the stiff out of the Unions as well… becasue it too will not emerge unscathed. Some of it’s men are going to bleed before this is over, and that is not good for the union, either.
Earlaiman is an observer of life, and a frequent commentator on its foibles, failings, failures, and fools which we mortals be. He believes in the Joy of Life, all it offers, and has lived it fully for eighty two years! In his latter years he despairs to see so many young and beautiful people living by default, still in the prime of youth and good health who seem to have little else to do except to wait for death to come and lug their sack of guts offstage. He finds it difficult to sit still or to wait to find out what the morrow will bring to his plate of living joy….
He finds it impossible to sit idly by and watch without comment while so many of the young and beautiful of our world die before they have lived, and do not seem to care, question or ask why?
