This is why it makes sense to have an armed citizenry as a check and balance to political power. The monster is hiring foreign mercenaries to repress unarmed civilians.

Muammar Gaddafi has been in power since 1969, he's seen kings, presidents and prime ministers come and go. A small (in population) country with a lot of wealth. "While Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa, two-thirds of the 6.5million population live on less than $2 a day." No doubt his family has become very wealthy over the years and apparently he wants his son to succeed.

It was reported a number of years ago that he never sleeps more than one night at any location, he's always afraid of assassination. And his bodyguards are reported to be all women.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/2 ... ith_France

It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

I just wonder how long its gonna take for all the working class folks marching around yelling for no taxes and no limits or regulations on corporations, be it directly or by their support of the republican party (because Obamas a Muslim who's gonna take your guns), to realize that if you don't have a job (or a job that pays a living wage) taxes don't mean a damn thing and that their guns are useful for nothing but pawning for some money to feed their families.

Unfortunately I think things need to get a lot worse in this country before they start to get better.

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

Yup, that was quite an era. This period is a good test for Obama just in time for his re-election campaign ahead. With chaos in the Middle East we're already feeling the increase in gasoline prices and it will likely get worse even if Qaddafi is overthrown.

The Qaddafi's are a delightful family. "WikiLeaks Cables Detail Qaddafi Family’s Exploits" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world ... ables.html

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

Note that *I* wasn't alive during that period. :p

plus....that was definitely a much more turbulent time for the US but was it also for the rest of the world?

mark wrote:

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

Note that *I* wasn't alive during that period. :p

plus....that was definitely a much more turbulent time for the US but was it also for the rest of the world?

There were only 3 networks then. If it was going on across the world, we may or may not have known depending on what they wanted us to know.

I bet Qaddafi wishes he had gotten around to promoting himself to general now, the pension has to be better.

eelj wrote:I bet Qaddafi wishes he had gotten around to promoting himself to general now, the pension has to be better.

Yeah, but Weasel Dick Walker would have it 86-ed.

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

So how far does everyone think this revolution will go? Global?

I just wonder how long its gonna take for all the working class folks marching around yelling for no taxes and no limits or regulations on corporations, be it directly or by their support of the republican party (because Obamas a Muslim who's gonna take your guns), to realize that if you don't have a job (or a job that pays a living wage) taxes don't mean a damn thing and that their guns are useful for nothing but pawning for some money to feed their families.

Unfortunately I think things need to get a lot worse in this country before they start to get better.

According to my theory of trojan fascism, there won't get to be a point where tensions boil over until it's too late, and te aristocracy has already been established, kind of like the frog who's placed in a pot and slowly brought to a boil. guns are useful in this situation for throwing off your opressors, but only if you are still allowed to have them, and don't have some government agency coming into your house to steal them. AND even THEN if you get a large group of people to realize they've become serfs at the same time and can organize them.

Excellent coverage from Al Jazeera English...
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

mark wrote:

goosekiller wrote:

mark wrote:It continues to get uglier and uglier. Between the spreading uprisings in the mid-east, the disaster in WI, I can't think of a more bizarre time of upheaval that I have lived through.

Oh, i can. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Anti-War Protests during Viet Nam, Civil Rights Marches, my first marriage...

Sooner or later those being cheated will flip the Monopoly game board over. It's just gettin' started...

Note that *I* wasn't alive during that period. :p

plus....that was definitely a much more turbulent time for the US but was it also for the rest of the world?

I was not born for another 5 years but looking at 1968 there was "Bloody Monday" in France, where student protesters and unionists clashed with police. Czechoslovakia's president resigned amid protests and the Soviets invade. Student protests in Mexico threaten the Olympics. 23 African countries boycott the Olympics because of South African Apartheid. Angolan "Colonial War" for independence from Portugal. Protugal's democratic government abolished under "Estado Novo".

So, yeah it seems like 68 and the surrounding years were pretty turbulent globally as well.

Caliman73 wrote: I was not born for another 5 years but looking at 1968 there was "Bloody Monday" in France, where student protesters and unionists clashed with police. Czechoslovakia's president resigned amid protests and the Soviets invade. Student protests in Mexico threaten the Olympics. 23 African countries boycott the Olympics because of South African Apartheid. Angolan "Colonial War" for independence from Portugal. Protugal's democratic government abolished under "Estado Novo".

So, yeah it seems like 68 and the surrounding years were pretty turbulent globally as well.

Question answered. Thanks.

And a little over a century before it, there was a revolutionary period in Europe, 1848. And then the reactionaries slowly took over again sometimes becoming more repressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848

Edit: To remove jumbled quotes.

I am afraid you have misquoted me, Mr. Desert.

goosekiller wrote:I am afraid you have misquoted me, Mr. Desert.

Apologies, my computer is high.

Dick Cheney wrote:

goosekiller wrote:I am afraid you have misquoted me, Mr. Desert.

Apologies, my computer is high.

No prob.