After all this came protests. The protesters held signs calling for the police to be put in check. Then came the riots where things were set on fire in the streets, then came the looting, stealing of tv's and other things because they could. For the most part, the police response was to back off. The police, vastly outnumbered, were given the task of either trying to contain where the looters and rioters went or shooting large numbers of young adults. Now we are seeing large numbers of injuries as rioters assault cops and shop owners who are trying to protect their businesses. The connection between a cigarette shop owner in Oakland and a killer cop in Minneapolis escapes me.
The media calls these people "mostly peaceful" protestors and justifies their looting and riots as long suppressed anger. We have been in lockdown for months, as small businesses burn we might ask which were headed for bankruptcy and were saved by this. What is the whole story of what is going on, I cannot tell you; but, I predicted this, I just didn't know what would cause riots and looting. One reason is good as another when this is the problem you want to happen. Lockdowns were simply not enough of an excuse and any other would do. This is a crisis and the people in charge love a good crisis to exploit for their own ends. So what will the solution be?
We are going to see more tracking of people, in fact people will be arrested because of the social media tracking the government is already doing, just not quite yet, the crisis has not been long enough. Zerohedge - "We are all suspects now": A look inside the NSA's new "Contact Chaining" tool. They will use this tool already in their possession to arrest the instigators and their accomplices and you will applaud them. In the near future they will use it to track all malcontents and miscreants and political dissidents. Welcome to the new world.
UPDATE: LOL, I didn't see this coming. Oh wait, I wrote about it last night. I guess I did see it coming.
BGR(no idea who these people are; but, they provided a link) - Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate.
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre (circle)
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart: the center cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood-dimmed is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
and full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand:
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi (the spirit world)
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man:
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving it's slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.
