Get of my lawn!
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talkpoliticsThis deserves attention...
In my mind this protest sets a dangerous precedent. In essence the SEIU has declared banker's homes, and families to be fair game. Do they not see how this could go wrong?
What would have happened if a neighbor, or worse a member of the banker's family, had decided to confront the protesters a la Gran Torino
In my previous post I bemoaned the "militarization" of civil authority. Now I'm going to go the other way and ask, where was the damn calvary?
There is a line in Slaughterhouse 5 that I have used in my posts about Iraq that goes "Those who have seen the elephant rarely go looking for it."
"Seeing the elephant" is a euphimism for combat, the idea being that any veteran "worth his salt" will be anti-war.
That's all well and good for physical warfare but what about class warfare?
Do we really want to find out?
In my mind this protest sets a dangerous precedent. In essence the SEIU has declared banker's homes, and families to be fair game. Do they not see how this could go wrong?
What would have happened if a neighbor, or worse a member of the banker's family, had decided to confront the protesters a la Gran Torino
In my previous post I bemoaned the "militarization" of civil authority. Now I'm going to go the other way and ask, where was the damn calvary?
There is a line in Slaughterhouse 5 that I have used in my posts about Iraq that goes "Those who have seen the elephant rarely go looking for it."
"Seeing the elephant" is a euphimism for combat, the idea being that any veteran "worth his salt" will be anti-war.
That's all well and good for physical warfare but what about class warfare?
Do we really want to find out?
Re: Reaping the whirlwind works both ways.
Date: 26/5/10 16:28 (UTC)But there are still a lot of dumb people out there, and it would have only taken one to make this situation a whole lot worse.