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CaseyJones
06-27-2013, 01:35 PM
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21580143-wave-anger-sweeping-cities-world-politicians-beware-march-protest


A FAMILIAR face appeared in many of the protests taking place in scores of cities on three continents this week: a Guy Fawkes mask with a roguish smile and a pencil-thin moustache. The mask belongs to “V”, a character in a graphic novel from the 1980s who became the symbol for a group of computer hackers called Anonymous. His contempt for government resonates with people all over the world.

The protests have many different origins. In Brazil people rose up against bus fares, in Turkey against a building project. Indonesians have rejected higher fuel prices, Bulgarians the government’s cronyism. In the euro zone they march against austerity, and the Arab spring has become a perma-protest against pretty much everything. Each angry demonstration is angry in its own way.

Yet just as in 1848, 1968 and 1989, when people also found a collective voice, the demonstrators have much in common. Over the past few weeks, in one country after another, protesters have risen up with bewildering speed. They have been more active in democracies than dictatorships. They tend to be ordinary, middle-class people, not lobbies with lists of demands. Their mix of revelry and rage condemns the corruption, inefficiency and arrogance of the folk in charge.

mczerone
06-27-2013, 01:39 PM
Their mix of revelry and rage condemns the corruption, inefficiency and arrogance of the folk in charge.

One solution solves all these problems: stop letting other people be "in charge" of your life.

Elias Graves
06-27-2013, 02:08 PM
Everywhere but America...

mczerone
06-27-2013, 02:24 PM
Everywhere but America...

2 reasons: (1) the critical mass of people here still believe that they are free, that they have the best State possible, and that if they really have a problem they can fix it "within the system" through voting, petitioning, going to city hall meetings, etc.

(2) Hunger hasn't set in. The welfare system is still finding digits to put into the little debit cards, the middle class hasn't ran out of unemployment "insurance" benefits yet, the young and unemployed have many cheap, fantastical diversions, and McD's still has dollar burgers.

These two factors can change quickly, and it might not be this summer, but the next "Tea Party" or "OWS" might be something that has a little more rebellion and urgency behind it and be able to get the "average" American off their ass and demonstrate.

We need to be in position to herd those demonstrations, to keep things peaceful, and to keep the message clean.

KEEF
06-27-2013, 02:33 PM
Just a thought, but I wonder how many of these are staged and one of these times the NWO will declare a global Marshal Law

Carlybee
06-27-2013, 02:39 PM
Anonymous helps organize a lot of them...hence the Fawkes masks.

heavenlyboy34
06-27-2013, 02:57 PM
But in the long run, the autocrats may pay a higher price. Using force to drive people off the streets can weaken governments fatally, as Sultan Erdogan may yet find (see article (http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21580196-even-protests-calm-down-questions-linger-about-turkeys-political-future-still-out)); and as the Arab governments discovered two years ago, dictatorships lack the institutions through which to channel protesters’ anger. As they watch democracies struggle in 2013, the leaders in Beijing, Moscow and Riyadh should be feeling uncomfortable.
reason #134 why monarchy>democracy/republicanism

tod evans
06-27-2013, 03:03 PM
A wave of anger is sweeping the cities of the world. Politicians beware


Good!

Maybe the city-dwellers and politicians will mutually destruct.

thoughtomator
06-27-2013, 03:10 PM
Everywhere but America...

Occupy Chopped Liver

jbauer
06-27-2013, 03:14 PM
Just a thought, but I wonder how many of these are staged and one of these times the NWO will declare a global Marshal Law

Let 'em. They can't defend the entire world no matter how many drones and computer databases they have.