What these people are doing is, according to this man, "foolish".
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/Have we really turned into Prozac Nation? Is American Idol really that powerful? Have we become so immune to being ripped off over the last 30 years that when a bank re-orders our transactions to turn a $30 overdraft charge into $300 worth of fees on $50 worth of checks we're willing to simply bend over the table, place a stick between our teeth and take it, then ask "please Sir, may I have another?"
Or will we witness America turn to something more destructive - events that I'm hearing about more and more - civil unrest?
This has not yet turned to rioting, but in Chicago neighborhoods there are now crimes happening in areas - such as Lincoln Park - that were unheard of just a year or two ago (and when I lived there) - men being mugged, from behind, by gangs, being robbed and severely beaten (hattip Janet Tavakoli for bringing this to my attention.)
There are a few people who are taking notice. Like this gentlemen:
No, that's not someone about to commit an act of lawless violence. It is a man exercising his lawful Second Amendment right in a state that recognizes same - the right to keep and bear arms. He demonstrated, lawfully, while President Obama gave a speech in Phoenix.
As expected "the mainstream media" considered this gentlemen "a threat." Perhaps he is, but not in the way they'd like you to believe. Certainly, he's a threat to anyone who might commit an act of random (or not-so-random) violence in that crowd! Certainly, he's a guardian of freedom and the right to peaceable assembly and speech. Would you try to mug him walking down a street in Lakeview? Oh hell no. But you'll never see that gentleman in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago because Chicago, unlike Phoenix, refuses to recognize your right to defend not only yourself but others as well, and as a consequence only the criminals are armed.
Certainly this gentleman is a threat - to a government that would run roughshod over people and ignore The Constitution and the lawful limits to its power, to a corporatist culture that has become imbued with fraud, deceit and lies, and to the heathens in Washington DC, all of them, who have knowingly and willfully cooperated with the lawless behavior of those who not only got us into this mess but refuse to this very day to put a stop to it.
Folks, wake the hell up.
