Re: What Will Revolution Look Like?

Preindicators to revolution and anti-revolution in US:

World's highest disparity between poor and rich population.

World's highest military expenditures.

World's highest justice expenditures.

World's largest percentage of population in prison.

World's largets percentage of population in law enforcement.

World's largest percentage of work force as private guards.

World's largest number of guns in private hands.

World's largest number of guns in law enforcement hands.

World's greatest number of lawyers.

World's greatest number of laws.

World's greatest number of lawbreakers.

World's highest violent crime rate.

World's highest "postals."

World's highest homicide rate against family members.

World's highest homicide rate against authority members.

World's greatest percentage of unwed mothers (and absent fathers).

World's greatest percentage of men who do not pay child support.

World's highest divorce rate.

World's highest multiple marriage rate.

World's largest number of institutionalized children.

World's largest number of psychiatric patients.

World's largest number of legal drugs consumers.

World's largest number of illegal drugs consumers.

World's largest number of protestors.

World's largest number of anti-protestors.

World's largest percentage of unresponsive population.

World's largest percentage of blind faith population.

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At 05:27 AM 10/31/97 -0500, John Young wrote:
>Preindicators to revolution and anti-revolution in US:
>
>World's highest disparity between poor and rich population.

You mean "in OECD countries other than Turkey" rather than in the "world", 
right?

>World's largest percentage of population in prison.

You mean "in OECD countries other than Turkey" rather than in the "world", 
right?

>World's largets percentage of population in law enforcement.

North Korea?

>World's greatest number of laws.

More laws lots of places (per capita, of course).

>World's highest violent crime rate.

You mean "in OECD countries other than Turkey" rather than in the "world", 
right?

>World's highest homicide rate against family members.

You mean "in OECD countries other than Turkey" rather than in the "world", 
right?

>World's highest homicide rate against authority members.

You mean "in OECD countries other than Turkey" rather than in the "world", 
right?

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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, John Young wrote:

> Preindicators to revolution and anti-revolution in US:
> 
> World's highest disparity between poor and rich population.
> 
> World's highest military expenditures.
> 
> World's highest justice expenditures.
> 
> World's largest percentage of population in prison.
> 
> World's largets percentage of population in law enforcement.
> 

This reminded me of a wonderful quote from Mr. Jefferson:

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our
rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between
economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts
as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries
and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and
our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come
to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of
these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the
sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now
do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling
the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring
ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."

--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. 

(-: was he describing England or the US?  ;-)

jim