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rumblings of the underclass
Apr. 27th, 2012 07:11 amI was over at a NOLA blog, reason.com, reading about a 20 year old unarmed kid, Wendell Allen, who got shot dead when police raided his parent's house. They found, btw, only 5 oz of marijuana. The quote of the day is: "We have not been able to yet completely understand what exactly occurred,” from Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas.
There's a lot of discussion about the corruption of the NOLA police department and justice system; about gangs and even some discussion of pot and class.
Then at the end of the comments, there's this:
"Citizens must start forcing the consequences of police actions back on the individual police officers who commit them. This means that cops who behave this way are a legitimate target for being themselves killed - by anyone - a friend, relative, or just any regular citizen with an interest in justice. Start killing these cops who kill citizens, and the behavior will stop. It's really that simple folks. You want the cops to stop killing us? Then start killing them. There are way more of us than there are of these murderers, and the sooner we decimate their ranks, the faster they will comply."
What gets me is that this is not some crazy "we gotta start killing these fucking motherfuckers." No. This is a very well worded, reasonable espousal of anarchy.
I think that we'll be seeing more of this kind of thought as society becomes more stressed. 2030 is coming, and we won't be ready. By 2030, we'll be seeing some very crazy weather from climate change; big storms, terrible heat waves, terrible droughts, rising seas, crop damage, and huge property damage from blizzards, ice storms, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes.
By 2030, food prices are expected to double and the cost of energy and gasoline are expected to double, too. Wages for the working class are expected to be stagnant. Cities and towns won't have much for resources and things are gonna start to fall apart.
It's already falling apart in NOLA -- I guess it has been since Katrina. Some would say since before that, even. Jim Crow and corruption and Louisiana politics. I don't even. By 2030, I wonder what of New Orleans will even still be there.
I grew up thinking that we'd have a wonderful future -- spaceships, moon colonies, the Jetsons, all of that. I'm raising my kids to think about hunkering down and surviving.
Sam is heading off to the UP next month, and he's signed up for NMU's program for electrical lineman certification in the fall. Carl is graduating from Bay de Noc's Waste Water Treatment program in three weeks -- he's lined up to get a job in Marquette at the water treatment plant there. Jake is doing better in Minneapolis; we're trying to figure out how to get him back into school to finish his degree. It's all coming together.
There's a lot of discussion about the corruption of the NOLA police department and justice system; about gangs and even some discussion of pot and class.
Then at the end of the comments, there's this:
"Citizens must start forcing the consequences of police actions back on the individual police officers who commit them. This means that cops who behave this way are a legitimate target for being themselves killed - by anyone - a friend, relative, or just any regular citizen with an interest in justice. Start killing these cops who kill citizens, and the behavior will stop. It's really that simple folks. You want the cops to stop killing us? Then start killing them. There are way more of us than there are of these murderers, and the sooner we decimate their ranks, the faster they will comply."
What gets me is that this is not some crazy "we gotta start killing these fucking motherfuckers." No. This is a very well worded, reasonable espousal of anarchy.
I think that we'll be seeing more of this kind of thought as society becomes more stressed. 2030 is coming, and we won't be ready. By 2030, we'll be seeing some very crazy weather from climate change; big storms, terrible heat waves, terrible droughts, rising seas, crop damage, and huge property damage from blizzards, ice storms, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes.
By 2030, food prices are expected to double and the cost of energy and gasoline are expected to double, too. Wages for the working class are expected to be stagnant. Cities and towns won't have much for resources and things are gonna start to fall apart.
It's already falling apart in NOLA -- I guess it has been since Katrina. Some would say since before that, even. Jim Crow and corruption and Louisiana politics. I don't even. By 2030, I wonder what of New Orleans will even still be there.
I grew up thinking that we'd have a wonderful future -- spaceships, moon colonies, the Jetsons, all of that. I'm raising my kids to think about hunkering down and surviving.
Sam is heading off to the UP next month, and he's signed up for NMU's program for electrical lineman certification in the fall. Carl is graduating from Bay de Noc's Waste Water Treatment program in three weeks -- he's lined up to get a job in Marquette at the water treatment plant there. Jake is doing better in Minneapolis; we're trying to figure out how to get him back into school to finish his degree. It's all coming together.
