Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
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It is not only the fact that it was done, but the fact that it was done willingly.
Scare the people enough and a city center with a population of upwards of 600k will abondon the streets and turn it over to a militarized presence in a heartbeat.
Of course it was willingly. Learning to stand in a line single-file in kindergarten is just the start of the lifelong exercise.
Yep. But probably no more than one at a time (and surgically) before Texas and the Ted Nugent brigade realize what's going on, blame it on Obama, and break out the ordnance. In fact, I suspect they're already onto that now that things have died down.
Also, too, probably vastly unsustainable over any length of time without the imposition of true Empire terror (which this was not). Limited gubmint and all that.
Remember who won the latest skirmish in Congress. And why.
Jim,
What would be Nugent's chances if the state wanted to militarize his ranch? How many liberals would be calling him a traitor as he was utterly destroyed?
Regardless, I think you underestimate the degree to which the people are willing to cooperate.
The fear of the other is powerful in its ability to marshall seemingly opposite factions of our body politic under the guise of "preventing terrorism".
@d.mantis: I beg to differ about my misunderestimations. If you seek out my crappy little corner of the 'Nets and run down the label "Swarm" (22 entries) or "Crowds and Power" you'll catch my full-bodied analysis of the phenomenon. Much of it a look at Elias Canetti's book on same.
Sorry, Jack, to self-promote in your space. I just thought the question from d.mantis deserved a fuller answer than I could put in a little Comment box.
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