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Originally Posted by pan6467
If you read everything else I've written .... you should see that I truly have no intent to push the Obama thing more.
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It was in your first sentence of the thread. And it wouldn't have been the first time that your opinions of Obama have spilled out.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
I am easily sidetracked, which makes it easy for others to blur out what I truly was trying to say. Again, if you read my whole posts you will understand what I am saying.... hopefully. I apologize Will.
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I appreciate that very much.
In response to your second point in your first thread, these failures probably won't cause a collapse, just a serious recession. If I recall correctly (from my studies, not personal experience), there were protests during the Great Depression. Loup City comes to mind. Still, having a military unit instead of police is likely to incite people instead of subdue them. During the WTO protests, I remember the more violent protesters fought back against the militarized police. I can't imagine them doing that if it were a uniformed police presence without gas and such. It's like shouting in an argument; it entrenches the opposition, making a reasonable solution substantially less likely.
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I do believe the portion of the video I put up needed to be seen though. I think it somewhat reminds us that Bush, Clinton and the 2 candidates along with all presidents since maybe JFK's assassination have done things to take us down the road to some form of dictatorship.
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You need to understand that the video you posted had nothing to do with the report on Democracy Now. It was edited together by someone on youtube after the segment aired. It's not necessarily context to the video any more than anime is context to a led zeppelin song (I'll explain that reference if it's too obscure). That was the complaint with the video.