Riots vs Lobbyists and the Legal System
ByThey might also be called demonstrations or peaceful demonstrations.
Government is very inefficient if you are not rich. The rich hire lobbyists who can effectively affect or gut legislation. The legislative process starts out by the initiation of good bills that soon get gutted and compromised by special interests.
Democracy is one of the most inefficient business organizations ever created. Can you imagine running a business by allowing each department to send a voting paid representative to a Monday morning meeting where the company’s strategy was going to be created?
Democracies and dictatorships are finding everything comes to a boil when constituents are frustrated that their right to vote or not vote is not creating parity.
Big business has the time to anticipate future legislation or regulations to get their ducks (lobbyists) in order to make the appropriate campaign contributions.
When the economy run by special interests has created mass suffering, people don’t have the luxury of lobbyists, lawyers, or legislative influence to make things right. As soon as food prices start to escalate or governments need to cut back to stay afloat, the desperate masses don’t have time for legislation.
There is a demonstration in Madison, Wisconsin over a proposed 7% cut back on healthcare and pension payments by the Governor Scott Jackson. Legislators whose homes were targeted had to leave town
“Kim Hoffman, a middle school music teacher, said she and her husband, also a teacher, would lose $1,200 a month under the plan — too deep a cut to manage.” NYTimes
“Few Americans have heard of Mr. Sharp. But for decades, his practical writings on nonviolent revolution — most notably “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages — have inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now Tunisia and Egypt.” NYTimes
The Muslim Brotherhood published his book on their site. He gives the key points on bringing down dictatorships through peaceful revolution. He credited Egyptian demonstrators on their lack of fear. “When demonstrators are not afraid of the dictators, the dictators are in trouble,” he says.
The movie “Network” had the memorable line, “I’m fed up and I’m not going to take it anymore.” People are unhappy in developed countries that their government didn’t protect them against their own profligate spending. It is pretty clear that since the 90’s the banking system has been corrupting the regulatory system.
Now the institutions who have felt secure behind the legal system are facing new threats. The frustrated masses are short cutting all legal avenues and taking their views to the streets. This process is a pretty good short cut on elections as well.
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