This is the post I had hoped not to publish. I wrote this doom & gloom post at the same time I wrote this far more sanguine post regarding the “Occupants”, around this point:
These are not anti-globalization hooligans upset about where their coffee is harvested. These are our fellow Americans ruined by our Marxist indoctrination system of culture and education, embittered by pre-ordained foreclosures of too-good-to-be-true loans that the banks made at the point of the government’s guns, and whipped into a teeming mass by the Provocateur-in-Chief.
Now is the time to talk our fellow Americans down from the ledge.
We have failed to do this, or the Marxist organizers have simply beat us. Make no mistake, we are losing the Cold War. Right here. Right now. So here is the less hopeful post I wrote, un-edited.
America has a crisis coming, but President Obama does not. He sees opportunity. He has a Marxist straight flush: massive unemployment, crushing debt, an economy in free-fall, anti-capitalists in the streets, a bait “jobs” bill dying in Congress, and nothing to lose. A community organizer, he has spent years whipping up communist notions of class envy and the inevitability of capitalist collapse, and is now in a position to benefit. He has, according to James Hoffa jr., “an army” in the streets being joined and swelled by various unions, in a long-planned astroturf campaign of uncivil disobedience.
These “protesters” are not unorganized, and are not without goals and methods. While the individuals may be dumb as posts, the movement is well-planned and will attempt to bring about a series of events, with a critical step being the movement of local governments to declare various states of emergency. This is the leverage they need to bring governments into special session, to force corporate behavior, and to gain control of the population of varied localities. After all, if they can force the cities to establish controls such as curfews or travel restrictions, they are winning and we are losing. And the real horror is that FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security are, as the kooks have maintained for years, perfectly tuned to accomplish this.
This is not an organic uprising or an outpouring of concerned citizens, no matter how many well-intended but disillusioned unemployed Americans may be in the mix. This is the opening gambit in a long-planned, fully developed expansion of politics beyond the civil realm, into violence in the streets of the United States which is now nearly unavoidable. The reason it is nearly unavoidable is that the President has done nothing to avoid it, and if he tries to play “good cop” now, the movement will break away from him and simply continue. In as little as one week, it will likely be too late–it may be too late now. This is the effect of the misery of Geithner and Bernanke’s ideologically sabotaged attempts to fix an unnaturally prolonged economic depression. This is the result of years of constant agitation by the combined Marxist exhortations of an anti-American President and a revolutionary professoriat.
This President seeks to compel behavior that he has been otherwise unable to bring about, through the use of violence or the threat of violence. His army now threatens employers as well as state and local governments with clear dangers, both physical and economic. The marxist union crowds command a spectrum of tactics, from denying the use of public areas to members of the public, through physical destruction and defacement of public and private property, economic damages to companies and governments through strike-like denials of productive and useful activity, overt intimidation and harassment, up to organized physical violence. The ongoing drama will tie up large amounts not only of real estate, but of police resources. Unions have no trouble organizing sympathetic violence elsewhere; expect criminals and gangs to take advantage of the police concentration in known areas with a surge in crime and violence in suburban areas with reduced police coverage.
To be clear, I do not believe we are looking at civil war, and I do not fear that FEMA is going to herd masses of citizens into camps or anything of the sort. I do however fear that the economic trouble is only just beginning, and that a lot of people are going to get hurt soon. States would do well to begin Guard call-ups now, to put resources on standby. A credible threat of organized violence is menacing our cities, and a credible response had better be offered.
