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While there are any number of different types of revolution, in the end – here lies the irreducible truth, the nitty gritty…
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Extracted/redacted from a Karl Denninger article:
Government exists Only with… ?
If you answered “with the consent of the governed”, you’re correct.
[but] Such truth does not cotton to this:
CAIRO — Vice President Omar Suleiman warned Tuesday that “we can’t put up with” continued protests in Tahrir for long, saying the crisis must be ended as soon as possible; in a sharply worded sign of increasing regime impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations.
Let me point out something you probably don’t want to hear, but you should understand: The effectiveness of protest only extends as far as does the implied threat of violence.
I know people will want to argue otherwise. They’re wrong.
Witness Health Care, or TARP. In both cases the majority of the population opposed passage. In the case of TARP that opposition as recorded by Congressional Offices was one hundred to one.
Congress instead ignored the people, and [then] we re-elected the vast majority of those who did the exact opposite of what we told them to do.
That is, we consented.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why whatever we tell Washington is ignored.
We consent.
Now consider that in Egypt the people have said “leave office now“. The people have declared that the government no longer has their consent. That’s the end of the discussion.
The government, just as it did here in the United States with TARP, has told the people to go screw.
Now we find out if the people have the stomach to enforce their demands.
In the end, a demand without the willingness to enforce it is just hot air.
So consider this America.
Egypt’s government says it will neither leave or allow continued protest. This means that Egyptians either have to nut up or shut up.
“Shut up” means that the government can and will then “deal with” those who protested, likely by either locking them up or murdering them.
The time for Egypt’s citizens to choose in an irrevocable form is rapidly approaching. It appears that someone is going to commit violence in Egypt. Unfortunately the only choice at this point appears to be who commits the violence. It will either be the government upon the people, or the people upon the government.
America’s government also has to choose, and if we do not change course eventually Americans will have to choose in the same way Egyptians are faced with today.
~ Karl Denninger: the Market Ticker
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So, how about where YOU live?
What and how do you choose – or is chosen for you?
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