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Could world social unrest come to America's streets?
BBC News ^ | September 19, 2011 | Daniel Nasaw

Posted on 09/19/2011 8:18:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The beginnings? Historian Rick Perlstein says union protests in Wisconsin show the birth of a movement

It was a long, hot spring and summer on the streets of Greece, England and Madrid, as protesters and rioters vented their fury at high unemployment, painful austerity measures and following a fatal police shooting in London.

The US, meanwhile, has been virtually free of rioting and even of widespread peaceful political protest.

This is despite some of the highest unemployment in decades, growing income inequality, dissatisfaction with the nation's direction, frustration with its dysfunctional government and the threat of drastic cuts to social programmes.

On Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the spectre of social unrest amid high unemployment among young Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; doomberg; hoodlums; libwishfulthinking; michaelbloomberg; rioters; wishfulthinking
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1 posted on 09/19/2011 8:18:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

lucky, us.

maybe george soros will pay for it.


2 posted on 09/19/2011 8:20:35 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

... only if we allow more third world illiterate ideas to immigrate. Its just like poverty, crime and their ideals and how they lead life at home... we can import all those ideas..... But then again, we generate our own crop of idiots.


3 posted on 09/19/2011 8:22:23 PM PDT by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

it already has, hasn’t it? Wisconsin? Philly? The Longshoremen out in California?


4 posted on 09/19/2011 8:22:59 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: MinorityRepublican

From the looks of “US Day Of Rage”????? LMAO!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 09/19/2011 8:23:18 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Attaaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!!! XD)
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To: ken21

It’s coming. We have a whole underclass which has been raised to feel they are victims and are owed something;

and who have been taught nothing about the values which underlay western society and culture.


6 posted on 09/19/2011 8:24:12 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: himno hero
... only if we allow more third world illiterate ideas to immigrate. Its just like poverty, crime and their ideals and how they lead life at home... we can import all those ideas..... But then again, we generate our own crop of idiots.

And then, too, is the fact that anybody would riot if their government took too much liberty with its power.

7 posted on 09/19/2011 8:24:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There aren’t major “european” type riots in the United State because would-be rioters know they can get shot! The police, National Guard and citizens will only tolerate just so much of marxist/union bulls#&t before the hammers start dropping.


8 posted on 09/19/2011 8:24:18 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: MinorityRepublican
The usual rioters can't riot because it wouldn't look good for their man Obama.
9 posted on 09/19/2011 8:25:13 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s a drama queen idiot. Flash mobbers aren’t rioting because they don’t have jobs. Most of ‘em look like they wouldn’t take a job if it was handed to them on a silver platter... Bloomy’s got to get real.


10 posted on 09/19/2011 8:27:07 PM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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On Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the spectre of threatened social unrest

Fix it.

11 posted on 09/19/2011 8:27:13 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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Rep Cleaver: If Obama wasn’t president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/182209-cbc-chairman-if-obama-wasnt-in-office-we-would-be-marching-on-white-house


12 posted on 09/19/2011 8:27:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: CondorFlight

These people will riot, be shot by citizens defending themselves in the sane states, and then not be a problem again.

Failing to see the problem.


13 posted on 09/19/2011 8:27:48 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I'm stuck in a dilemma: Time or long past time to get a CCW permit?

For some crazy reason, paranoia some might say, I've never really trusted the government and figure they'll come for those on that list first.

On the other hand, they probably already know who has what, permit or no permit, so better to have it than not to.

Anyone else have this quandary about getting the permit to carry concealed?

14 posted on 09/19/2011 8:27:53 PM PDT by GBA
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To: MinorityRepublican

Look for Holder’s people to get really pissy when they learn Obama ain’t gonna get reelected.


15 posted on 09/19/2011 8:30:37 PM PDT by umgud
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To: MinorityRepublican

If the DemocRATs, the union knuckledraggers and the ACORN morons have anything to say about, it will be here soon with a vengence. The cancer of communism needs chaos to establish itself.


16 posted on 09/19/2011 8:32:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Mexico! Your poverty isn't America's problem.)
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To: GBA

I have a ccw and have 3 guns listed on it. All my other guns were lost in a boating accident.


17 posted on 09/19/2011 8:32:58 PM PDT by umgud
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You have to list your guns on your concealed handgun license in California?


18 posted on 09/19/2011 8:39:58 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: GOPJ

The only thing ‘real’ is the fabricated reality of it all. If you doubt it, google ELF ... htese shills go where they’re sent. And now they have cell phones to martial themselves to their cannon fodder places, when barry bastard’s ‘community organizers’ plabe the call. stupid people, stupid sheep.


19 posted on 09/19/2011 8:43:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: CaptainK
Exactly
If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’
20 posted on 09/19/2011 8:47:00 PM PDT by 1066AD
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