Posted on 03/26/2011 3:14:34 PM PDT by Scottmkiv
The nation of England has been rocked by protests earlier today. The attendance at the 3/26 "March for the Alternative" protest wildly exceeded expectations, and estimates range from 400,000-500,000 attendees.
While the march was short on exactly what the problem was, and what the solution was, they were united behind one central tenet. No more cuts! We want handouts!
They offered no mathematical explanation about how the fiscally troubled nation is supposed to deliver on that demand.
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- Karl Marx
The problem with having the right to bear arms is that EVERYONE has that right, including the people who want to see the country taken apart.
Right...even the Union claimed no more than 250,000 for the march, and the police quite candidly admitted it was well organised and trouble free. The problems were caused by a few dozen anarchists and anti-globalists, who - granted - are total scum who should be locked up and the keys thrown away.
I guess you’re not understanding what I meant.
Not the police. The protestors!
The difference between the UK and the US is we have the ability to fight back against the Communists and the Islamist movement because we are armed!
If a movement like theirs ever happens over here, they aren’t going to be satisfied with just protesting.
It will turn into a full blown riot because of the greater size of the population here. And they wont’ just stop at trashing DC. They will begin to trash everything.
The guns are to protect YOU from them. Not the police from them.
I know exactly what you are saying. My point is that yes, you may very well have guns to fight them, but by the same token, because of your constitution THEY have guns too! If anything like this kicked off in the US, it would turn into a full blown riot, but not because of the greater size of the population (I don't understand how that changes anything) but because the stakes are so much higher for everyone.
Conservative organisations have got more posters than these groups have members. They are elitist, lazy, professional troublemaking layabouts who are on the sweet, sweet ride of taking on "the man". They oppose everything. They hate with all the intensity of close-minded eight year olds. They have no new ideas, they have no practical solutions, they claim to speak for "the working class" but most of them wouldnt know what a workbench was if it hit them in the face. Personally, I'm glad this all kicked off in London - it shows them up for exactly what they are - a bunch of selfish, self-centred troublemakers with no give, no sense of compromise, who are taking out their anger on anyone who has the temerity not to agree with them.
And incidentally, half the people in that picture are journalists taking pictures of what is going on.
We have guns, but we also have a population that overwhelmingly views entitlement spending as moral. I can’t imagine even a tiny fraction of the country shooting people that wanted to collect social security checks.
I think we will spend ourselves into oblivion, and I don’t think the guns will alter the equation.
Now, after said spending into oblivion, the guns may change things.
I don’t think there is any imminent threat. I’m not worried these rioters are going to start dragging government officials out of their offices and hanging them from lamp posts.
The threat is longer term. What happens when the checks stop flowing? Or if they keep flowing, but inflation makes them just worthless pieces of paper?
The first thing the writer needs to understand is the difference between England and Great Britain.
This wasn’t about any cheques so to speak unless you mean in terms of pay cheques.....this was mainly public sector workers....and the cuts have been going on for a while now with thousands of jobs being lost.
But you are right, there are longer term considerations here, but I think we’re doing the right thing and hopefully we’ll be in a better position long term for it.
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‘Rational Public Radio’—ha ha!
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