Ponce
30th October 2011, 09:28 AM
I keep talking about the need for a spark in order to ignate the new revolution in the US and today this came out.
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Scott Olson, the spark that lights a fire in the USA?
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The Arab Spring is credited to have started in Tunisia when a bankrupted businessman set himself alight in protest of the system which has bankrupted him.
Has America just witnessed a similar seminal moment with the critical injury of 2 tour Iraqi vet Scott Olson? According to accounts, Olson had joined the Occupy Cleveland Protest and was in the front when the Police came to clear the protest site. In the affray, Olson was struck on the head at short range by a tear gas cannister and suffered a fractured skull. Other protesters that went to his aid appear to have shot at with baton rounds or similar.
The incident has reverberated throughout the Veteran Community with Veteran Associations officially joining the Occupy movement in droves.
Previously the Occupy movement could have been dismissed as a harmless collection of middle class pacifists and anarchists. If large numbers of veterans start to join, this could change rapidly.
Historically, major change has often followed the return of large numbers of disgruntled soldiers from unsuccessful wars abroad to find significant economic hardship combined with the widespread perception of rampant corruption along the elite and disenchantment with the prevailing system.
In America all the pre-requisites are lining up and look to be falling into place. Could an organised army of hundreds of thousands of Vets really push the US over the brink?
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/geo-strategic-defense/scott-olson-spark-lights-fire-usa-11545/
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Scott Olson, the spark that lights a fire in the USA?
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The Arab Spring is credited to have started in Tunisia when a bankrupted businessman set himself alight in protest of the system which has bankrupted him.
Has America just witnessed a similar seminal moment with the critical injury of 2 tour Iraqi vet Scott Olson? According to accounts, Olson had joined the Occupy Cleveland Protest and was in the front when the Police came to clear the protest site. In the affray, Olson was struck on the head at short range by a tear gas cannister and suffered a fractured skull. Other protesters that went to his aid appear to have shot at with baton rounds or similar.
The incident has reverberated throughout the Veteran Community with Veteran Associations officially joining the Occupy movement in droves.
Previously the Occupy movement could have been dismissed as a harmless collection of middle class pacifists and anarchists. If large numbers of veterans start to join, this could change rapidly.
Historically, major change has often followed the return of large numbers of disgruntled soldiers from unsuccessful wars abroad to find significant economic hardship combined with the widespread perception of rampant corruption along the elite and disenchantment with the prevailing system.
In America all the pre-requisites are lining up and look to be falling into place. Could an organised army of hundreds of thousands of Vets really push the US over the brink?
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/geo-strategic-defense/scott-olson-spark-lights-fire-usa-11545/