Solidarity Means Attack!

4 Comments on "Solidarity Means Attack!"

bobinget on Mon, 12th May 2014 2:44 pm 



My young Communist parents dragged me to my first May Day parade in NYC at age three. The slogan of the day : “Up with culture, down with fascism”
(it was 1938)

The parental units loved to tell friends how I shouted
“Up with cold cream down with fats in him”
Even then, I loved irony.

An unrepentant Marxist, I never heard my mother use the “F” word till the day she died at 95.

Boat on Mon, 12th May 2014 4:32 pm 



I have always felt sorry for those who work for the police and by extension us. Who would want a job that has to deal with idiots that aren’t responsible enough to change the system from within. Or criminals that are so narcissistic they want a free ride at the expense of the rest.
To protest is good and your right. To destroy property is inherently evil and how could you respect any human that would be so dumb.

rockman on Tue, 13th May 2014 7:36 am 



Boat – So true. And worse: violence tends to be responded to with more violence. A life time ago there was a small but very vocal protest on the Texas A&M campus when I was in grad school. TAMU, though extremely conservative (more generals of the US Army graduated from TAMU then West Point), also honors freedom of speech to the same extreme. So the protestors were left alone while the students wandered by and the police stood in the shade watched. And then the protestors started tearing out the bushes around the student union. The student union that is dedicated to all the Aggies that have died while in uniform. That would not stand. The protestors got the crap beat out of them. Even the women but they were beaten by other women. And much more viciously I might add. The reaction to the bush destruction was way out of proportion IMHO. But you have to put it into the context of the emotions involved. The Aggies despised the protestors from the start but couldn’t justify a negative reaction thanks to our constitution. But that minor infraction allowed them to dismiss the constitution. Not a very proud day for the Aggies IMHO but you would never be able to convince one of them about that.

Davy, Hermann, MO on Tue, 13th May 2014 7:53 am 



Rock said – couldn’t justify a negative reaction thanks to our constitution. But that minor infraction allowed them to dismiss the constitution.

Rock, this attitude will be a template for our society’s reaction to the coming decent. It is all great when prosperity is growing. People have a way of turning their head to those things that “infract” on their beliefs, morals, and positions. In a time of decent when the pie is shrinking, wealth inequality increasing, and societal fabric fraying we will see this disregard for the constitution multiply. This disregard will be justified by so many reasons as to render the constitution nothing more than a historical document. We are very close to an institutionalized disregard for the constitution today with TPTB through corruption, manipulation, and legalized disregard for laws. We will soon see the lower classes rise up in random violence and protest over the overwhelming wrongs we are witnessing today. The 1%’ers and TPTP unholy alliance will be challenged when the shear mass of outrage becomes substantive and uncontrollable. All of us must be vigilant that we are not caught in the crossfire of a very dangerous trend. A trend with no laws written or unwritten. I just seen a clip on Boko Haram. This group is a personification of entropic decay of the social fabric as well as Nigeria itself as a failed state. This is a failed group within a failed state. In a few short years we will see the same in Egypt, PaK, and maybe Ukraine. Then it is a slippery slope to our home in the developed world. We are close my friends close!