Community | October 14, 2011 | 94 comments

Armed to the teeth, millions of able body long term unemployed are headed for Washington D.C.

source: http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

After news of the Jobs bill submitted by Republicans in the U.S. Senate was nothing but Tax cuts and deregulation today, hundreds of unemployed leaders of groups have decided nothing is being accomplished by protests now on going for four weeks. Several of the leaders were contacted by phone and many of them are on the same page. One in particular said we can use his name because he is not afraid to die rather then seeing his family living in a car anymore. Tom Wise (Wouldn't disclose his location) said enough is enough, I've been unemployed or under employed for three years now and the Rich just don't care about us anymore. Tom who has had plenty of time on his hands over this period of time to form a volunteer group of over 500 able bodied men and women itching for a real fight with the powers that be. Tom is just one of a network of American Patriotic leaders stretched over the entire country mobilizing this week for what they call the second American Revolution. In another encampment in a undisclosed National Forrest, Bob Sutter got word from a national movement officer that it appears we are on the move. Bob a former Special Forces Officer has remained in touch with countless Veterans also in dire straights and out of work with no future to look forward too. They shipped my job along with the factory overseas and he can smell how rotten the political scene has become. When the people are no longer represented in D.C. it is time to march! Chris Mellon an Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran agreed with Bob, it's now or never. The people who have remained patient with their non-violent protest all over the country are appreciated but Chris said he knows for a fact nothing is being accomplished except wasting time. For the safety of the people involved with this march, this reporter has agreed not to disclose any further details. I can tell you though, these folks are armed to the teeth and very focused on what needs to be done. Time is running out, these folks are serious!

Although this is a fictional story, I can see this happening for real!
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94 comments // Armed to the teeth, millions of able body long term unemployed are headed for Washington D.C.

  • Gravity_Man
  • kennymotown
  • Mark701
    • +1
      Mark701  

    • Unfortunately a bunch of armed veterans showing up in DC is all the excuse that would be needed to forcibly shut down the protests everywhere. Whereas I sympathize with these folks 100%, I see this as self defeating and a threat to the entire OWS movement. Their support is appreciated, not their weapons.

    • 1 year ago
  • GENERALNATTY
  • kennymotown
  • dinm76
    • +2
      dinm76  

    • "What we have here is a failure to communicate. I don't like it anymore then you do. But if thats the way they want it then thats the way they get it.
      Some men you just can't reach."
      I look forward to the day when people will be ashamed that they or anyone in their family was ever a republican.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • ghostofamerica
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
    • +9
      kennymotown  

    • Capitalism is in stage 4 cancer, we are observing the end of the game. The makers of the board game Monopoly designed it for a reason, educating people during the first great depression. What good is life if everyone is in it for their own gain. Thanks everyone for reading or commenting on the post, my intent was to shock people for a real discussion on what direction we should take our country. Sorry if I offended anyone, but with the demise of Capitalism playing out in front of us, we should all be aware there are real people destroyed by the monster called Capitalism.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ambill94
    • +3
      Ambill94  
    • kennymotown:

      Thanks.!! Good idea!!!! The scariest part for me is that such a scenario is not too big a reach. I think there is a cohort of people in this country who are seething...not the type to show up at an Occupy site somewhere and peacefully protest, the type that wouldn't take a whole lot of provocation to launch something similar to your post.

      One of the things that made it especially believable was the ex-military involvement. Since Vietnam we have treated our returning heroes like second class citizens; withholding services, denying the seriousness of many different illnesses both physical and psychological etc etc...I can understand clearly where there would be seething in that group.

      Spent time in the car today listening to CNN/MSNBC/NPR/BBC and struck by the common thread from the pundits and pols. There is no sense of urgency yet. All talked about nothing could change until after elections next year, and then only if there is a real willingness to compromise etc. etc. We don't have that much time...

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • Ambill94
    • +2
      Ambill94  
    • kennymotown:

      There were some things happening today that might offer a glimmer of hope...protests in Milan...London...Paris...and the global events of 10/15 including the march on Times Square (those tourists are going to flip freakin' out)...Geitner (and I don't blieve a thing he says at this point), speaking today talked about reforms of Wall Street...there are some things that are encouraging...

      I'm not naive enough to think that this is the beginning of real or meaningful action, but it is the beginning of the change in dialog...a week ago Hillary Clinton wasn't saying things like "we" have a responsibility to address the expectations of the American people etc. Historically great change never took place until the language changed...the language is starting to change let's hope it drives meaningful change sooner than later...

      Don't lose the faith,you are doing great work here...keep it up!!!! I don't know what the critical mass of this movement will be, but we will get there...

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • Wyley_Wombat
  • David_H
  • David_H
  • Ambill94
    • +1
      Ambill94  
    • David_H:

      Amen and amen to mostly everything you said...but you give too much credit to the pundits. Most of them are so wrapped up in their egos that they have no concept of the role they are playing in the big picture...their world does not extend beyond themselves...

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • kennymotown:

      What do you think should replace capitalism? I have asked this before but no one answers. This same question has been asked of the the protesters but they could not answer.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
    • +1
      kennymotown  
    • Paratus:

      My best guess would be Socialism, with a highly regulated Capitalistic side like in Denmark. I have said this before but few heard my answer! Socialized Democracy, when a Corporation has to prove it is worthy of a Corporate charter and the advantages of limited liability that come with that charter. That said Corporation would have to prove every year they are operating in the best interests of the people or citizens of this country. If not they get the Corporate death penalty, dissolved!

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
    • 0
      Paratus  
    • kennymotown:

      Well that is where we differ. I don't believe in any socialism. I prefer freedom. Who makes the rules? Who decides what is in the best interests of the country? This may change depending on who is in office. Sounds too subjective to me but this would be a democracy. This is why I also do not like a democracy. Having to prove to some government official that I am worthy of doing business is completely contrary to both free markets and freedom. Sounds more like tyranny to me.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • 2hellnwait
  • kennymotown
    • +1
      kennymotown  
    • 2hellnwait:

      It's about time I heard from you, republicon! Your from same school of corporate socialism, it's all good for corporate America too internalize the profits and socialize the losses.

    • 1 year ago
  • Kelly_Balthrop
    • +3
      Kelly_Balthrop  
    • kennymotown:

      I wasn't offended Kenny, you got me all worked up until I read the last line lol.

      That scenario may very well play out soon, but I for one hope we can have a bloodless revolution, more like a reformation. The financial institutions will crumble and fail, it's only a matter of time. How the world governments and the people react will determine what happens next.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • Paratus
    • -2
      Paratus  
    • kennymotown:

      I never thought the bailouts were a good idea, for the banks or anyone. The banks should have been forced to take the write downs as should have everyone else. Japan did the same thing, 10 bailouts over ten years totaling about one Trillion rather than take the write downs. 20 years later they are still not in very good shape.
      If you are referring to tax deductions and credits for oil companies, I have never done an energy company return or audited an energy company. I am not that familiar with their tax laws. That said, the tax laws need to be redone in the HOuse Ways and Means Commitee but bailouts are an administrative decision, if those idiots on the Hill pass it.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
    • -3
      Paratus  
    • 2hellnwait:

      I don't know where that came from either but many people here are incorrect about a great many things about my positions. I am amused sometimes but am tired of correcting when people tell me, incorrectly, where I stand. Thank you for the support but don't let it worry you. It doesn't worry me.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • 2hellnwait
    • -2
      2hellnwait  
    • kennymotown:

      So now I'm from the Corporate school of socialism. . . how on earth you have arrived at that conclusion is beyond me. . . but admittedly it was a good laugh.
      Keep on keeping on kennymo, maybe someday you'll come through that toxic partisan fog that clouds your mind. . . maybe.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • 2hellnwait
    • 0
      2hellnwait  
    • Paratus:

      Yeah I know. . . it really doesn't matter what actually is said, but what is read into what is said that has merit here. The s o p here. . . ask a simple question, get an incoherent or ad hominem response.

    • 1 year ago
  • 2hellnwait
    • 0
      2hellnwait  
    • kennymotown:

      That is your failing kennymo, it is not what you think is true. . . but what actually is true. Our personal opinions of each others thoughts are just that. . . opinions, and are far to often wrong!

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
    • +5
      SFirman  

    • You got me Kenny. I believed till the end. As I read I kept thinking this will be all over the news. It's good to laugh.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • David_H
  • SFirman
  • Leen61
    • +4
      Leen61  

    • Damn, kenny, you had me going until the end of the story. But it is not far fetched. What you described is coming.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • Leen61
    • +4
      Leen61  
    • kennymotown:

      The anger and resentment is growing by the day and it is ready to explode all over this country. The rich elites and the pols in their pockets should be worrying a lot more than they are.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • VoyagerFilms
    • +4
      VoyagerFilms  

    • The Rip-us-off-icans should seriously re-think their position - and I am sure such a fictional story will do a lot to remind them they are screwing with people's lives and that they are mere mortals.

      I would very seriously hate to see violence - especially now since violence really isn't necessary as continued and persistent pressure and non-violent protests will produce the desired outcome of both increasing the populations awareness and outing those scum who take the office of representing their constituents, but who do not.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • KB723
  • VoyagerFilms
  • kennymotown
  • KB723
  • KB723
  • kennymotown
  • KB723
  • David_H
  • kennymotown
  • David_H
  • kennymotown
    • +2
      kennymotown  
    • David_H:

      I tend to side with Thom Hartmanns view, it really is Capitalism nature to end badly for the 99% that played the game(Monopoly) and lost. Out of this mess I hope for a true social democracy!

    • 1 year ago
  • David_H
  • kennymotown
  • David_H
  • kennymotown
  • wynnmeg61
  • kennymotown
  • Vic_Romano
    • +7
      Vic_Romano  

    • How's this sound to you....

      ACLU Attorneys Lose Historic Habeas Corpus Petition

      After a lenghty dispute litigated all the way to the Supreme Court, a divided court ruled that Tom Wise and other members of a domestic terrorist group, currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, is not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus and is to be detained indefinitely as a domestic extremist. It is undecided as to whether he and his group of alleged terrorists will face a military commission or will ever be tried in a civilian court.

      The United States still remains under a domestic state of emergency declared two years ago by the President. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion, wrote: "The powers of the federal government to suppress domestic insurrections are clear, and the founders of this country envisioned a day of a massive slave uprising."

      Over the last two years, several thousand domestic extremists have been killed by police and other law enforcement agencies. Justice Antonin Scalia noted "that this is a horrible time in our history, and the founders would truly be ashamed of us. However, we live in an age where terrorism not only threatens us from outside our borders, but within our very towns and cities."

      Chief Justice Roberts, delivering the opinion of the court, held that the federal government had the power to indefinitely detain domestic extremists and that the National Security Agency had the exclusive power to determine and declare potential enemies of the state. It remains unclear as to the constitutionality of the NSA's new program of "Shoot first. Ask questions later." However, a case is working its way up through the circuit courts.

      In the shortest dissent ever penned, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by justices Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor simply stated: "This nation is fucked."

      ACLU spokesman Vic Romano stated: "This ruling is an outrage, yes. But we should have seen it coming."

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • AJILIVIZION
    • +6
      AJILIVIZION  
    • Image

    • This is an excerpt from a brilliant AlterNet article I found on Tumblr:

      “This is a goal the power elite cannot comprehend. They cannot envision a day when they will not be in charge of our lives. The elites believe, and seek to make us believe, that globalization and unfettered capitalism are natural law, some kind of permanent and eternal dynamic that can never be altered. What the elites fail to realize is that rebellion will not stop until the corporate state is extinguished. It will not stop until there is an end to the corporate abuse of the poor, the working class, the elderly, the sick, children, those being slaughtered in our imperial wars and tortured in our black sites.

      It will not stop until foreclosures and bank repossessions stop. It will not stop until students no longer have to go into debt to be educated, and families no longer have to plunge into bankruptcy to pay medical bills. It will not stop until the corporate destruction of the ecosystem stops, and our relationships with each other and the planet are radically reconfigured. And that is why the elites, and the rotted and degenerate system of corporate power they sustain, are in trouble. That is why they keep asking what the demands are. They don’t understand what is happening. They are deaf, dumb and blind."

      Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy Wall Street

      - Chris Hedges

      http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152684/why_corporate_elites_should_be_petri...

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • chew_chew
    • +9
      chew_chew  

    • I am happy this is only fictional.

      Although it may not be glaringly apparent, much good is being done by the Occupy movement. Violence is a tool of others, not Occupy. Violence would only set back the gains so wholeheartedly and bravely being championed by Occupy.

      The frustration put forth in this piece is understandable, but violence would put us on the same level as those/what we are protesting against.

      Violence is not part of the solution, it is part of the problem.

      Speaking only from my perspective, and only for myself.

    • 1 year ago
  • squarethecircle
  • kennymotown
  • Georgia_Jim
    • +4
      Georgia_Jim  

    • It is time to bust up these large companies that are to big to fail. It would create thousands of new jobs. Each time these big compainies merged in the past to get bigger it created job lost for millions of people. These to big to fail companies are so big now they can buy our political leaders and run our government to protect their own interest and ship our jobs overseas to get even bigger. . Bust them up to reverse the cycle!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • squarethecircle
  • PunxatawnyPhil
    • +6
      PunxatawnyPhil  

    • Violence is NEVER the best solution. From either side. Anyone who would bring a PitchFork to a debate is a fool and a large part of the problem.
      We are trying to have a debate here, in our Country, to find a consensus. In a 'debate', it is better to be wounded unfairly than to wound another and your word. For by Truth, the unfairly injured party wins.
      If violence is out of the picture, the Truth is the only thing left to see.

      I think we're better than that article, I do not think violence will be necessary. I think (hope) sane voices will be heard.

      Now let's keep goin'.... This is gonna be and interesting talk.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • hoosierdaddy
  • kennymotown
  • jeffreyak
    • +2
      jeffreyak  

    • Why is this even posted? It is a fictional story!
      "Although this is a fictional story, I can see this happening for real! "

    • 1 year ago
  • squarethecircle
  • jeffreyak
    • 0
      jeffreyak  
    • squarethecircle:

      I have been a member of current for a very long time. I am very familiar with Kennymotown. I do not understand the importance of a fictional story here. This is not a forum that supports fictional stories. We generally post real, interesting, and important news here. Are you new here?

    • 1 year ago
  • squarethecircle
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • jeffreyak
  • kennymotown
  • squarethecircle
    • +11
      squarethecircle  

    • Good read sir...I hope it doesn't come to this though. The non violence is apart of this takeover and it can't embrace the hate this scenario renders. Time to step outside that type of solution and just let it slip away...it would only bring us closer to hell.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • jeffreyak
  • kennymotown
  • MichaelJKirkland
  • kennymotown
  • MichaelJKirkland
  • kennymotown
  • MichaelJKirkland
    • +2
      MichaelJKirkland  
    • kennymotown:

      Well hell, I think it's a fine time to step up the protesters numbers. Arm them with dictionaries, pens, crayons, markers and signs. Have the masses read from the Bill of Rights, Chant nice Chants, Sing nice songs. Thank the Police for their tireless service to protect and serve the people. Maybe someone "Should buy the World A Coke and create some harmony!" I will buy the fist case of Classic Coke. Where should I send it to?

      MJK

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
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