“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” Winston Churchill
The Democrats have created a mob in the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests and mobs are notoriously fractious. Mobs have historically been known to bite the hand that feeds.
The mob in Egypt, the media-supported ‘Arab Spring’ toppled a longstanding government. Whether that government needed to be displaced or not is moot.
The mob in Libya has also managed to topple a government but at a terribly high cost and not without involving other countries in what essentially should have been an internal matter.
The world has not overtly intervened in a similar situation in Syria.
The USSR quashed an uprising in Hungary in 1956 while the world looked on.
The Chinese did the same thing in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In 1932, the ‘Bonus Army’, 43,000 strong, gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the governments refusal to pay the bonus that had been promised. President Hoover ordered the army to remove them. General McArthur led the infantry and cavalry that drove them from their encampment and burned their shelters and belongings.
In recent months, mobs in Greece, Spain, England and Portugal have gathered for what was supposed to be peaceful protests but the resulting anarchy brought death and destruction and no positive change for anyone involved.
It is my hope that the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests will fizzle with the onset of winter weather but mobs by their very nature are unpredictable. “They who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”
“There are basically two types of people. Those who accomplish things and those who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” Mark Twain
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