by
Scott
Lazarowitz

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There have
been several different predictions and scenarios involving how inflation
and austerity measures in the U.S. could bring about food shortages
and other shortages, food riots, looting, violent protests, flash
mobs, and martial law.

All these things
can be prevented, of course, if more people could wake up to the
fact that government central planning in money and economic matters
is inherently flawed and doomed to failure, societal self-destruction
and collapse.

Some people
see the recent German
court decision to approve German bailouts of irresponsible European
governments as a new dictatorship
for Germany and a boon for investors. And there are others who
see this new scheme as the
beginning of runaway hyperinflation in Europe that will spread
to the U.S.

Following this
decision by the high German court, the U.S. Federal Reserve has
announced a new
round of quantitative easing (QE3). Some people believe that
QE3 will cause more economic
instability, and further
destruction of the dollar.

Eventually
the austerity measures we have been seeing in Europe will reach
the U.S.

Austerity
measures will hit public employee benefits and pensions, and welfare
and Medicare recipients (but not the bloated salaries, benefits
and pensions of Congressmen and their beloved bureaucrats).

But it seems
that the U.S. government has been pushing hard to get as many people
dependent on government as possible. Food stamps spending has more
than doubled since Barack Obama became President, although the
number of Americans on food stamps almost
doubled from 2001 to 2009 during the presidency of George W.
Bush as well.

And the Obama
Administration has gone so far as to push U.S. food stamps onto
Mexicans!
(And Mexicans can’t even vote for Obama this November – theoretically,
that is.)

Also distressing
is how private corporations profit from the government’s exploiting
the population’s vulnerabilities that the government’s own interventions
cause. One example is JP Morgan Chase’s shamefully profiting
from the food stamps program.

Incidentally,
employees of JP Morgan Chase donated
over $800,000 to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and,
so far over $155,000 to Obama’s 2012
effort. (There certainly has been no quid pro quo here,
as former President George Bush the Elder might say.)

Now, regarding
eventual shortages, austerity and civil unrest in America that would
involve the unavailability of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)
payments, in large part affecting food stamp recipients, one
scenario I’ve seen details how rioting and turmoil could unfold,
mainly beginning in the cities, but eventually flowing out into
the suburbs. It is not a pretty picture.

One would think
that the government bureaucrats who control these social programs
could see ahead what would happen when withholding such benefits,
especially with millions of people dependent on them for their daily
sustenance. So, in the case of possible future EBT cards not functioning
followed by rioting and violence, one has to wonder whether such
an action by the government could be purposeful.

In the aforementioned
scenario, the writer emphasizes urban minorities as the ones mainly
perpetrating the flash mob rioting and violence. But, in 2010 34%
of food stamp recipients were white, 22% black and 29% Hispanic,
according
to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

However, the
flash
mobs committing acts of violence in the cities in recent years
do not seem to be associated with government austerity measures,
food stamps, hunger, etc. In some instances, such violence has been
racially motivated, black against white, as witnessed in this
account, for example. Unfortunately, the mention of such a modern
social phenomenon in the U.S. is politically incorrect, as many
newscasters and newspapers reporting on those events censor the
race of the perpetrators and that of victims, as author Thomas Sowell
has noted.
Race demagogues such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Shrapnel
have gained much fame and popularity from such “race-hustling.”

So are the
Chicago-Washington community organizers and agitators trying to
promote race riots? Obama and his “social justice” cohorts
do not seem to have any comments on the violence committed by inner-city
punks. The Holder Justice Department has refused
to prosecute black against white voter intimidation cases. And
Obama wants public schools to stop
disciplining misbehaving black students. Hmmm.

And why have
U.S. military recruiters allowed so many white
supremacists to join the military?

It appears
that the efforts of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the 1964 Civil
Rights Act, and now the election of Barack Obama as President do
not seem to have healed the friction among the races in America.

So there seem
to be extremists on both sides, and the rest of us are caught in
the middle.

But when there
will be government austerity and EBT card non-functionality, the
flash mob violence
we have seen recently will probably be much worse, regardless of
race or ethnicity.

But, racial
conflicts aside, why have the Bush and Obama Administrations increased
spending on food stamps so much? Social programs such as food stamps
rob people of their incentive to provide for themselves, and they
become serfs to bureaucrats.

It is as though
these imbecilic bureaucrats are encouraging the masses to
get dependent on these bureaucrats, and for devious purposes.

No, they wouldn’t
do that. Not that there hasn’t been enough
information about Obama and his immoral, unconstitutional acts
as President to indicate any sort of deviousness, no.

With the moral
hazard of government bureaucrats’ luring people into this kind of
dependence and serfdom, QE3 will cause further economic instability,
part of the inherent moral hazard of having a central
bank and lack of freedom and competition
in money and banking.
Such Fed policies continually rob the people through inflation,
particularly the lower and middle classes.

Added to those
moral hazards of these professional bureaucrats are Congress’s raising
the debt ceiling, Washington’s lack of prosecuting criminally irresponsible
banksters, the 2008 extortion-like bankster bailout, and foreclosure
fraudsters.

And Obama’s
pushing through Congress the bill allowing for indefinite detention
of Americans without charge or evidence, and his signing it into
law, followed by his appealing
the judge’s striking it down – there probably isn’t any deviousness
behind that, and probably won’t be any targeting of political dissenters
during future civil conflicts in America, no. (There certainly hasn’t
been any of that, not in America,
no.)

All these acts
of government criminality could be leading America into a total
breakdown of society.

So these people
in Washington are either extremely clueless and don’t know what
they’re doing, or they are doing these things intentionally, in
which case they are just plain evil.

So, could the
ruling elites be purposefully trying to cause so much massive dependence
on government and such massive weakening of the financial and monetary
systems, followed by a false-flag type economic collapse and sudden
withholding of government benefits and unavailability of our own
money in the bank, to intentionally bring about rioting and violence?

And, if Romney
is elected in November, would he be any different from Obama?

And so, if
these scenarios play out, and there is indeed massive civil unrest
in America, we already know that various federal agencies and local
and state police as well are preparing for it. The police state
that J.
Edgar Hoover, Oliver
North, and Dick Cheney put in place is being fully embraced
by Obama, the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, FBI and
CIA, as well as many local police neanderthals all across America
– it is as though they are drooling for some action, and for a chance
for them to show the rest of the world just how tough they are.

Can you imagine
people with the kind of extremely questionable character
and level of dishonesty and untrustworthiness as Obama and Romney
presiding over a situation of military martial law?

In addition
to all this, the Obama Administration has allowed foreign troops
onto U.S. soil. NATO
troops were in training in Tampa just prior to the Republican
Convention. They now have Russian
soldiers training in the U.S., and some insiders
believe that these foreign troops are joining with the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security toward some sort of illicit action
against Americans under the pretense of “peacekeeping”
during a time of civil unrest in America.

In my opinion,
having foreign troops coming into the U.S. for any reason
is dangerous, and Sheriff Richard Mack agrees
with me.

And now, because
of inner-city gun-related crime rates, and recent isolated shootings
and mass killings, the emotionalistic calls
for gun control have been on the increase. This despite violent
criminals who disobey laws against assault, rape and murder probably
are not
inclined to obey gun laws as well.

And, as John
Lott has noted,
would-be assaulters, rapists and murderers are less likely to commit
their crimes when they know their prospective victims are armed.

But because
of the emotionalism surrounding certain tragedies, even
Republicans such as SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia, radio host
Michael Savage and TV host Bill O’Reilly have shown irrationality
on the matter. How will Americans, in their cars stuck in busy intersections
when flash mobs rampage and attack them, be able to defend themselves
if they have been disarmed by the government? When looters and burglars
break into their homes and businesses, how will disarmed homeowners
and businesspeople protect themselves?

And you can
say what you want about anti-UN “conspiracy theories”
and so forth. But, mirroring a zany 1961 U.S. State
Department call for complete civilian disarmament, the
2012 UN Arms Trade Treaty would
require signing member nations to enact much stricter national
gun ownership restrictions. That was up for a vote in July but has
been postponed
until probably later this year. Some analysts have interpreted Article
15 of the Treaty to allow for foreign
troops in the U.S. to confiscate guns from Americans in their
homes. Even having U.S. troops going around door to door
to search for and confiscate firearms is itself illegal and unconstitutional,
but foreign troops?

It should not
be difficult to believe that not just local police but our own U.S.
troops would go door to door to seize Americans’ means of self-defense,
when we know that they have much experience in doing
just that in Iraq, a country in which U.S. troops had no business
or reason to be, violating private Iraqi civilians’ own right to
bear arms and defend themselves.

As the people’s
right to defend themselves against looters, rioters, rapists and
killers, as well as against government tyranny, is being criminally
whittled away by the
degenerates in charge, those same degenerates are arming
themselves up and preparing
for something that could be interpreted as outright treason.

I have already
expressed
concern about martial law and explained that U.S. military and
other federal armed goons and local police, who have all sworn to
obey and defend the Constitution of the United States, are obligated
to disobey unlawful orders by commanding officers including the
U.S. President.

Unlawful orders
include those in which a soldier or an officer is ordered to violate
a presumably innocent civilian’s rights to free speech, protest,
dissent and criticize the government, right to bear arms and defend
oneself against criminal assailants including government criminals,
right to due process, and “right to be secure” in one’s
person, home and effects. If the officer or soldier does not suspect
a civilian of some actual crime, then that agent of government is
obligated by law to leave the civilian alone, no matter who ordered
otherwise. (The Oath Keepers have made a list
of orders they will not obey.)

Further treasonous
is the rulers’ inviting foreign troops in to aid in the rulers’
abuses.

And, given
the criminality of monetary easing to enrich bankers while creating
inflation that robs the poor, one might very well describe those
actions as treasonous as well.

If only Americans
had listened to the American Revolutionaries’ warnings about paper
money and tyranny, wealth redistributionism,
and their warnings against foreign
entanglements.

September
20, 2012

Scott
Lazarowitz [send him
mail] is a commentator and cartoonist, visit his
blog.

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