Observing the Riots

Just ten things that come to mind:

1.  There just is a lot of similarity to the 1968 riots in West Germany.  The slogans, the chatter, the student-involvement, the anti-capitalism talk, and the stance against the government.

Antifa and the Red Army Faction?  Same basic story.

2.  I think all of the top 100 Chancellors of universities in the US....have to be having meetings with their security team and talking over the approaching fall semester, and the return of the students.

If active riots occur on campus territory?  They'd probably go and shut down the college entirely until the next semester.  Refunds?  Go explain to the campus staff, and professors....that the semester is shot, and that salaries are going to be diminished in some fashion.

Some kids, I suspect....who were on some 4-year schedule....will be kicking themselves and the system....they just bought into a 5th year....to achieve a 4-year degree.

3.  The more that students talk at these riots and explain their logic or reason....the more that viewers get the idea the kid never got much past the 8th grade.

If you are a 3rd college kid and people start to question your education attained...that's a sure hint that the degree business you are pursuing....isn't worth $80,000.

4.  What is an autonomous zone?

I had to sit there for a while and look over the Seattle riot....to understand what they said, and what it really meant.

Basically, you've chased out some cops (maybe less than a dozen) and declared an area without law.  So if another group of 200-odd people showed up with shotguns and such....they could annihilate you and it'd be perfectly legit.  Then some other group could arrive to annihilate them.  And after that another group, some others could come and counter-annihilate the anti-annihilaters.

5.  It's probably the best time in thirty years to re-read '1984'.

6.  In the end, it seems....fascism is just modern-day anti-Communist socialism.

I've been waiting for some CNN 'expert' to suggest this, but it's been a long wait.

7.  For any Army guy who was around Somalia during the brief US period there, and observing the War-Lords with their 'gangs' at work....this whole thing has become the same script and same scene.

8.  The defunding the police chatter?  In the past two days....that really softened up and seems to be going modification of the police in some ways....less military equipment, no choke-holds, etc.

9.  Interest in NFL football in the fall?  Forget about it.  Figure a one-third to 50-percent loss in TV income and seat sales.  The league at this point?  Doomed.

10.  If you live in Seattle or Minneapolis....why would you bother staying?

So a final note and question....to climax all of this and bring peace....all we have to do is vote Biden in November?  That doesn't seem to make much sense, in a logical world.