Martial law continues in some US cities, as a result of extensive riots and deaths.
With continuing high unemployment and home forclosures, the frustration of the people has taken to the streets. People have forgotten about the term “double dip recession“ and are now very frustrated with the prospects of the deepening depression, with no end in sight. Blame has been laid on the government, Wall Street, and the banks, but it is merchants with stores who are taking the brunt of the vandalism.
There are now widespread comparisons to the Great Depression of the 1930′s, and analyists are unable tofigure out why this time there is so much violence.
The explanation is really quite simple.
1. This time, there is the feeling that everyone “deserves“ a high standard of living, and that it should still be possible, in spite of the reality of world markets, and the shifting of economic power to other parts of the
world.
2. There are a lot more guns per capita now than there were in the 1930′s.
3. There is also a lot more drug addiction, and with less money for drugs, more people are in various states of withdrawal, thinking wild and crazy thoughts, and behaving irrationally.
4. With access to instant communications, demonstrations and rallys can be organized almost instantly, quickly mobilizing the many unemployed and frustrated people. While many go with the intent to protest
peacefully, because of the huge sizes of the crowds, they are harder to control by the authorities, resulting in harsher and harsher control efforts. More and more people are trampled trying to get away, but finding it impossible with throngs blocking escape routes. Radicals can spread misinformation and rumours instantly, with text messages and Twitter.
5. There are more war vetrans on the streets, suffering from different war trauma related mental illnesses. These people have knowledge and experience using guns, and a lowered regard for human life. They also have lowered regard for their own lives, leading them to do wild acts where they don’t care if they are killed.
Martial law declared in the US. The US military called in to quell riots in some US cities. Street violence in the US in 2013 and becoming frequent headline news in 2014.
MY UPDATE, WRITTEN OCTOBER 14, 2011
Looking at what I wrote last winter, my comments regarding the use of social media to start revolutions was apparent in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, and it is happening NOW in the US. The “Occupy Wall Street“ movement. There will be other protests, which don’t have names, or maybe they will have names. Some will become violent.
Let me explain. Most of the folks involved will not be violent people. But they will very soon be joined by people who will become violent. With unemployment getting worse, more and more marginialized workers will join the protest ranks. Some of these will be drug addicts, who at one time
earned their drug money by working. Now, they have to either turn to crime to get money for their drugs, or go through withdrawal. People going through withdrawal do not behave rationally. Many of them will have guns. They may be on the sidelines of the protests, but they will soon get the most attention when some of them start shooting. There will be buildings burned and looting, worse than what happened in Britain recently.
With just one or two killed in a protest, they will not be really big news. Afterall, people are used to shootings where a lot more than one or two are killed.
The authorities will have no choice but to impose martial law in cities where this happens. My gut is telling me the first city to do this will be Detroit, but it could be elsewhere. At that time, news writers will comment upon the chances of it spreading to more cities. And it will be credible to believe at that time, that it could spread to dozens of cities.
After some very harsh actions by the authorities, martial law will be lifted in some cities. Emergency increases in welfare and food handouts will be rushed into place.
When Obama was nominted it seemed that he would get elected for sure. At that time I told a friend “they will hate him in due course.“ The reason is as simple to me now, as it was to me when he was nominated. The problems he inherited cannot be solved. They have to run their course, which will take a minimum of 20 years. What I am saying is that a GREAT WORLD DEPRESSION is on it’s way, and it cannot be stopped. (I plan to explain why in an article which I will write when I have time.)
Democracy around the world will suffer. Whole countries will impose martial law. It takes only a very small stretch of the imagination to see martial law and a military government in Greece within a few months. Others in line will include Italy and Spain followed by other emerging countries when food riots get out of hand.
As the two legislative houses in the US demonstrate more and more incompetence there will be a movement to “temporarily“ abolish them both. I predict there will be talk of this by mid to late 2015 or 2016, and it will start by the use of “emergency powers“ of the president and his advisory board to just start doing things without asking anyone.