[kj] OT - Tunis, Egypt, Iran, Lybia.. Wisconsin??

[folk devil]

> I might have a lot more to say about this.


Please elaborate on "people are not physically afraid to protest "..
 
 

> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:12 -0600

> From: mkolmar at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT - Tunis, Egypt, Iran, Lybia.. Wisconsin??

> 

> Don't underestimate the chess-piece / ratfucker aspect. However, in

> the U.S., people are not physically afraid to protest -- certainly in

> the last 40 years, among white people, and especially the middle-aged.

> 

> I have an uncut 2-story house, holding territory in one of the

> gentrified islands of inner-city Milwaukee. Wisconsin governor refused

> some $800m for rail between Milwaukee and Madison (to tie with

> existing Milwaukee-Chicago line, and promise of Minneapolis link). I

> feel this has to do with a cultural and political split in America, in

> which a faction of rural Americans and oligarchs do not want "city

> people" to be physically or economically connected, able to hang out

> in small towns, or politically coherent and potent.

> 

> I might have a lot more to say about this.

> 

> --Mark

> 

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Ana Madani <madanistan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions

> >

> >

> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >>

> >> To any n' all righteous ruffians, rebels, judicious journalists, and

> >> anyone else on here who has seen/been a part in any kind of protests, riots,

> >> or coups d'etat (and not following a Killing Joke tour cancellation) and

> >> who've been following all the recent uprisings in the muslim world, a couple

> >> of questions,

> >>

> >>  - the rash of journalists being beaten, imprisoned, assaulted, and raped

> >> during these uprisings.. aren't most(if not all) of the perpetrators native

> >> government agents provocateurs? An organized assault on the press to sear a

> >> precedent for future's sake re:coverage of muslim turmoil?

> >> I just sense a certain je ne sais quoi in the patterns of behaviors

> >> (albeit limited to media news coverage) that tells me it isn't "grassroots"

> >> or spontaneous;

> >> and,

> >>  - are the current public-workers' unions protests in Wisconsin inspired

> >> by all the recent world uprisings, inpired past the point of quintessential

> >> american workers' submissive apathy?

> >>

> >> I wanna say yes to both but thought I'd ask.

> >>

> >> Hajime!

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