We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that retailers are innocent in any of this. It certainly seems as though many of them purposely create wild situations on Black Friday where customers will rush like crazy people into their stores and nearly riot as they fight over discounted merchandise. The more Black Friday madness there is, the more of an "event" it becomes, and the higher the profits of the retailers go. This year there was more Black Friday hype than ever and there was also more Black Friday violence than ever. It is being projected that this year a record-setting 152 million Americans will go shopping between Thanksgiving and Sunday night. That may be good news for the big corporate retailers, but the shocking lack of character being displayed by American consumers all over the country this weekend is very bad news for the future of this nation.
Most Americans would agree that there is a tremendous amount of selfishness and greed on Wall Street, but as the videos posted below demonstrate, there is also a tremendous amount of selfishness and greed on "Main Street" as well.
This year, Black Friday violence included robberies, gunfire and shootings, but the most shocking incidents actually happened inside the big retail stores.
For example, as merchandise was being unveiled on Black Friday night at a Wal-Mart in the Los Angeles area, one woman actualy pulled out pepper spray and sprayed it at other customers that were gathered around her.
Did she do this because she felt threatened?
No, according to the Los Angeles Times, authorities say that the woman was just seeking a "competitive" edge.
It is being reported that at least 20 people were affected by the pepper spray.
The pepper spray incident just added to the wild and frenzied atmosphere inside that Wal-Mart last night.
The following is how the Los Angeles Times described the scene....
Employees attempted to hold back the scrum of shoppers and pick up merchandise even as customers trampled the video games and DVDs strewn on the floor.
"It was absolutely crazy," he said.
Another customer said screams erupted after about 100 people waiting in line to snag Xbox gaming consoles and Wii video games got into a shoving match.
Alejandra Seminario, 24, said she was waiting in line to grab some toys at the store around 9:55 p.m. when people the next aisle over started shouting and ripping at the plastic wrap encasing gaming consoles, which was supposed to be opened at 10 p.m.
"People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray," the Sylmar resident said.
Pepper spray was used at a Wal-Mart on the other side of the country as well. Over in Kinston, North Carolina an off-duty police officer used pepper spray as an unruly shopper was being subdued. Approximately 20 people (including some children) were affected by the pepper spray.
Most Americans are not really concerned over the fact that this country is rapidly heading into the toilet, but they sure will get worked up into a frenzy over some good deals. Just check out the following video that was filmed in California. In the video, a huge crowd can be seen storming the entrance of Urban Outfitters in the Thousand Oaks Mall on Black Friday night....
There are lots of other crazy videos of Black Friday madness on YouTube today as well. Just check out some of the following examples....
*In Fresno, California law enforcement authorities were barely able to keep a stampede at the entrance of one store from turning into a riot.
*In this next video, you can see people going absolutely crazy over memory cards at about the 1:20 mark.
*On Black Friday night, American consumers will riot over just about anything. For example, there was a huge panic over Tupperware at one Wall-Mart last night.
*Of course electronics is probably the hottest category in most stores on Black Friday night. In some areas, the fighting over video games became incredibly intense.
*Some of the worst Black Friday rioting goes on inside Wal-Marts. Just check out this shocking video of what happens inside a Wal-Mart on Black Friday night.
*Also, what happened last night at a Wal-mart Supercenter in Greenville, North Carolina, was nothing short of idiotic.
If this is how the American people will act just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in foreign countries, how are they going to act when the economy collapses?
If Americans will literally fight each other over saving 20 bucks, what is going to happen someday when millions of them don't know where their next meal is going to come from?
Thankfully the economy is still in good enough shape that most Americans can participate in these orgies of consumerism. But the reality is that the global financial system is in a massive amount of trouble, and it looks like we could be on the verge of another global financial collapse.
Do the American people have enough character to be able to deal with a full-blown economic depression?
In a recent article entitled "22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization That We All Take For Granted Is Starting To Disappear", I commented on the declining character of the American people....
Instead of teaching our children to love and care for one another, we have taught them to be incredibly self-involved. Today, way too many Americans deeply love themselves, deeply love money and are deeply addicted to entertainment. Each new generation seems to be even more prideful, even more arrogant and even more violent. As a nation, we are losing our empathy for others, our compassion for the needy and our respect for the elderly. Our family units are breaking down and thousands of our communities are being transformed into hellholes.
Over the past several decades, the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world has enabled us to enjoy unprecedented prosperity. But it has been a "false prosperity", and it is frightening to think about what America is going to look like when the good times finally end.
The other thing that is really disturbing about Black Friday is the fact that the vast majority of the products that Americans are fighting over are made overseas.
As I pointed out recently, 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year.
Since 2001, the U.S. has lost a total of more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities.
This country is bleeding jobs, bleeding businesses and bleeding wealth at a pace that is nearly impossible to fully grasp.
We are becoming poorer as a nation every single day, and yet Americans are seemingly more enamored with consumerism than ever before.
Most Americans could not care less about where something was made. The only thing that matters to them is how cheap it is.
It doesn't matter to them that a record-setting 2.6 million Americans slipped into poverty last year or that there are 10 percent fewer middle class jobs in America today than there were a decade ago.
We have become a nation that is so self-centered that it is hard to find the words to describe it.
Rather than caring about what is good for America, most of us only care about what is good for ourselves.
The madness that we see every Black Friday is just one more sign that our society is coming apart at the seams.
America has become a nation that is absolutely saturated with greed. Unfortunately, all of that greed is going to make the hard economic times that are coming much, much more painful.
My husband and I actively avoid Black Friday, and have done so for years. We try to get any Christmas shopping done ahead of time, and we give a lot of homemade gifts, particularly baked goods (although it’s becoming difficult as we have to balance the various health needs of different family members who may be eating at the same table).
One of the things that differentiates this depression from the Great Depression of the 1930′s is the loss of a sense of community. I remember my grandmother’s stories of how people in their farming community all pulled together and looked out for each other — if someone had a surplus of tomatoes in their garden, they shared, and likewise someone who had more squash or green beans or whatever than their family could possibly eat. Today it seems that neighborhoods are just collections of strangers living in proximity and everybody’s pulling apart.
But I have hope that maybe if enough people can behave in visibly positive ways, their good example can function like a seed crystal in a solution, inspiring others to live up to a good example instead of down to the awful one being set by our cynical, arrogant elites.
May our hearts be filled with an ocean of compassion. Let it overflow from us and wash clean the hearts of others, that the world become a better place.
Leigh Kimmel,
“Hope” is for the weak-minded. People whose minds are centered on logic do not “hope” for anything good from a collection of crazed animals fighting for two dollar waffle makers.
Black Friday is aptly named for the hi jinks reported every year since its inception. It takes a strange mind to stay up all night, or go out early in the AM to buy another piece of gaming or electronic crap. But then it takes even stranger minds to go to the “movies” these days and see the nonsense there, or on TV or ordered from Netflix for home viewing.
American Society now celebrates the worst in everything. Why shouldn’t it? It has been made the mode, the fashion. Soddom and Gomorrah! they would be great labels on the non clothing even children wear now!
Some complain that the attack on religion has brought us to our knees. That is not true. It is the acceptance of every crime imaginable that has done so. This came about when the Crime Lords moved in fifty years ago and took charge of the marketplace. They had the cash, could extend the credit and just took us over – Wall Street and Washington and every institution in our society. What was done behind closed doors now was done openly, celebrated as the new way. Mobsters became our Godfathers. With them in charge, who needs God?
If I were a religious person, I might believe that God punishes but I am not and so we will plummet as Man becomes more and more the Beast, as the celebrants enjoy more and more Bachanalia, the tribute to every sin there ever was!
Gary2 you really want to blame the rich for the self-indolgent black Friday shoppers? Really?
yep!–read the spirit level book and see the damage the wealth and income inequality has on countries.
This is not my opinion but established fact.
It doesn’t seem to be the rich that are acting like animals.what is happening in Europe today will be happening in America next. Americas society has broken down.instead of love and compassion for our fellow man, greed and desire for material things seems to be the norm.I can see it getting so bad that eventually it may come to martial law being declared and troops being used.
tell that to the victims of wall street fraud that crashed the world economy.
Anyone still think that this asylum state is worth saving? I don’t. Let it die…………..
You never increase wealth by dividing it…
It’s not really that bad. Out of 150 million people shopping what if there were 150 incidents? It’s still not that significant.
Americans love China crap, and can kill for it.
Notice the crowds were mostly young people? Whatever it is, it’s in the vaccines…..
You might want to think twice about going to the mall anyway! Covert ops at local mall (may already be spying on you, it’s not like they warn people):
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/11/virginia-mall-using-mobile-system-track-customers
Gary2
your a fkin idiot… the rich are 1%….you really think the 1% have enough money to share equally to 99% of the population? why don’t you stop looking for a hand out and Work for the things you want. Strive to earn more then what you do. you are not ENTITLED TO ANYTHING! you want more money work harder save more. btw use some common sense here….. if every one had the same amount of money more ppl would be killing more ppl for these deals.. because every one would be poor. Sickening how you cry about some one else having more money then you… well, next it’s gonna be some one is more pretty then some one else so smash there face in so there as ugly as you …. shame on you. you people need to go read a children’s book that teaches you some self worth… it’s called the little red hen.
P.S. I’m poor But wake up every day and try to make an “honest” living i do not wish for some rich guy to be forced to give me money.
then you are a few fries short of a happy meal in addition to being poor.
Drude, you are just wrong. The way I see it, I have no DESIRE to TAKE from the 1% – oh no. What I want to do is have the same rules applied to me – that’s all.
I want to kill with immunity, plunder the environment, wage war for profit, run prisons for profit and abuse my workers and I want the taxpayer to pay for it all. That is what I want.
I want the politicians in my back pocket and I want them to allow me to write the laws just like the 1% get to. I want my defense contract and my private security forces and I want my own Lear Jet so I can fly around and tell everyone to stop asking for handouts and to go become the working poor.
Now go back to being poor.
This is a test of your common sense and intelligence. If you were at home in bed at midnight and stayed away from Walmart the next day then you passed.
Americans buys things they didn’t make with money they don’t have. And look at the scene the children make on Christmas morning as they tear open presents while making animal noises. No appreciation whatsoever and already turned into little consumer monsters.
Gary, taxing the rich won`t solve the problems facing America…..not even one little bit. Socialism never works.
tell them that in the Scandinavian countries. Plus mr fox news no one said pure socialism, simply more socialism than wee have now.
The stupid right wingers think capitalism or Communism. What fools.
NMCN3,
Dead wrong as most on the far right are apt to be. Congress and the White House would disagree with you and say that socialism does work and it works quite well. That is why the legislative branch and the executive branch of government have made banker bailouts (socialism for the wealthy elites) the rule and not the exception……………
good comment!
That was weird.
You maketh me to throw up.
How about.
Greed Maketh them to lie down and be trampled!
or
Thou preparest me a $2 Toaster and I maketh a stampede.
or
My taser and my pepper spray comforteth me.
at a minimum you could have at least quoted a Bible verse about Christmas or the rich passing through the eye of a needle.
Ever see what happens to many lottery winners? Easy come, easy go. The people that earn money tend to treat it with more respect.
Gary, the rich already pay 80% of the taxes collected.
You need to start paying YOUR share.
you are 100% wrong. If you are so uninformed as to say what you did, nothing I can say will help you.
Do you also think the earth is flat?
To Quote from above:
“Do the American people have enough character to be able to deal with a full-blown economic depression?”
The answer is an absolute 100% NO!!!
In my opinion, there are only at most 10% of Americans that will have the proper character. Sadly, as an Orthodox Jew, I would say there are also at most 10% from Orthodox Jews that will have the proper character. Even among our group, we have been corrupted, infected, brain-washed with these cheap things. We no longer have any empathy for the poor, elderly, disabled, lost souls, etc.
Even though I don’t have much money, the most I can give is my time and attentive ears. Just speaking with someone and listening to what they have o say what is troubling them, means a lot in this world. I do this with sincerity and don’t care who looks down upon me for associating with the “bums, crazies, trash,” of the city.
In the end, what is really more important–amassing useless belonging or people? When the food riots come, G-d Save Us!
What are people buying that they cannot purchase any other time of the year?
A TV? Doesn’t everyone already have one? I’ve got one too.
And video games? This must be teenagers buying them.
I was in WalMart on Friday afternoon to do some grocery shopping and there were less people than normal in there shopping. Most, I noticed were buying groceries too.
Pathetic, America. Really pathetic. All this for china-mart crap. Im not falling for black friday. Trust me they will have the deals up to mid-winter shopping holiday on Dec 25th. Then you will feel like a fool when you see the items you paid a $100 for go for $20 the day after. Its all a scam. Jesus wasnt even born that day so lets see Xmas for what it really is… an excuse to spend money you dont have on cheap junk so you can bail out businesses at the end of the year. It a bunch of BS and I hate the holiday. Ive had so many rotten christmases that I literally get sick each year when it comes around. Last year I couldnt even buy presents and a few years ago when the economy started tanking, my job cut our bonuses. Each year the guilt trips get worse and they always have a scam like black friday to the Salvation Army always saying that an unknown donor dropped a kugerrand into the bucket. Its crap. Celebrate your good friends and family and be grateful to God your not sleeping outside. Thats my Christmas wish for you all.
JD,
I gave up Christmas shopping more than 20 years ago. I told everyone I knew that I would not be buying them anything for Christmas and that I would appreciate it if they would do the same towards me.
It made things so much easier for myself and my friends and family. I was invited to a lot more parties as people knew that I didn’t expect nor would I bring a gift. I became “one less thing to worry about.”
Have the courage to say NO MORE.
in the past I remember shopping on the day after thanksgiving was about buying Xmas presents, and now it seems to have been replaced by this monstrous pseudo-Xmas self-absorbed buying frenzy that makes sensible people sick at their stomach and the violence makes it seem like a coliseum event from the gladiator days of rome…
The rich have nothing to do with it. These morons running amok in stores decided to go for the okeydoke and prioritize their ridiculous iCrap over everything else, and they had no gun to their heads while they did it. Then no doubt they took their items right out to the Occupy protest so they could update their Twitter and Facebroke accounts while whining about not having jobs and how the 1% is sticking it to them so they can’t make ends meet. Forget it. Doesn’t work anymore.
These people can go away. I ain’t payin’ for this *********************
I’m not surprised that it’s come to this. And spending time talking about it on the Internet won’t do much either. I don’t have any faith in humanity from the way things stand, what with vesting our time in buying things that won’t matter to us in the grave.
Whether we as a species are products of a limitless Intelligent Designer or nature (or both), we’re still important contributors to this planet, not just consumers. Corporatism as a new religion to those who don’t believe in an afterlife is the comfort they need to ignore the fabric of society crumbling around the world.
The video game ‘Red Dead Redemption’ depicted how the Wild West society depended on self-sufficiency, a survivalist attitude, and small communities that relied on a simple lifestyle. The Industrial revolution and subsequent corporatism made life way too easy.
Oh well, I hope most of you are ready to face the horrors of what’s to come. Most of the idiots in those videos don’t seem to be.
In getting Christmas presents for your loved ones this year try to get them gifts that will actually be helpful in difficult times; canning equipment, gardening tools, basic hunting/defence weapons, books/videos on self sufficiency, non-perishable food stocks, chainsaw, a sewing machine and etc. These sort of gifts could literally save someone’s life.
I know- let’s tax the rich and use the money to buy the cheap plastic crap for all of these poor shoppers! That’ll spread the wealth around and stop the violence! Duh! Simple solutions from simple minds, like I always say.
Most of these shoppers used credit cards that were recently received. Credit cards given to people with no credit & maybe no job, so retailers are happy with big sales jump but what happens when people can’t pay these credit card fees?
Why must we have this cheap China Crap?
I hope they all default. Screw walmart. I would call that some good non violent wealth redistribution.
If individuals can be cited for starting riots, these stores should be treated the same. After all, like the article said, the more frantic the customers become, (through advertising/marketing), the more they stand to profit. Sue the stores for damages/riots!
Gary; you seem oblivious to the fact that it is only the wealthy being taxed and the poor are the ones given welfare. Arguably what you want is already happening and has been for about 50 years (since the great society). One would think that the lesson here is that a socialist solution is the problem not the cure.
I suggest we reverse this mistake; First allow no more then minimum wage for an adult on welfare. That is the maximum they can receive in a given month would be no more then could be earned in a minimum wages job. The maximum would include all forms of welfare/medicaid. Second, that every adult on welfare (now earning the minimum wage) actually work 40 hours a week doing something useful for the cities and states they live in. And last, that EVERYONE pay taxes. A minimum 10% income tax on gross income. Perhaps when the lazy welfare bums begin paying for things they will be less insistent that we spend more.
and how do you pull your self up by your boot strap if you do not have boots?
Michael how can so many on the right be so wrong. The fact free crap they post…its no wonder we are on a downward spin in the country.
You want to talk about animals? At a South Carolina Target store a 61 yr old man died of a heart attack and shopper just walked around him to get to the video games that were on sale. Vultures and sheep americans are consumed by greed and no love for their fellow man. Sickening.
Wow I had not heard about the incident yet.
Sorry for the delay in getting to the comments. I took a little extra time off this weekend.
Michael
“Forgive them. They know not what they are doing.”
- Biblical wise man to the despots drunk in Jerusalem.
“Be brave. Now go forth and frighten this herd of buffalo so that they will ran mad towards the cliffs!”
- Plains Indian chief orders the start of buffalo run to harvest enough meat for the winter.
“Consumers, consumers!! Black Friday has arrived. You must do you duty. Now go into the stores and spend all you have. Spend all you don’t have. Then spend all your love ones don’t have. Thus achieve maximum savings. Thus you will save the economy. You must save the economy by destroying yourself!!”
- Retailer CEOs calculating their balance sheets
We have 4 December birthday’s in our family plus Christmas! We’ll take the “keep it simple” holiday challenge.
yes yes mike, great contribution there, so productive, so poignant and so absolutely pointless
While the brain-numbed sheeple were crushing each other at China Mart on Bleak Friday, I quietly sat back at my computer and ordered an American made bicycle from New York (Worksman
Cycles.com), a bed and nightstand made in North
Carolina (Room doctor.com), an executive office
chair made in Iowa (HON.com), men’s underwear made in downtown Los Angeles (American Apparel.com), and a jacket and belt made in Michigan (Allusaclothing.com).
To me, THE most important thing is where something is made. I feel so much better knowing I gave people the precious gift of a job in their own country. Feed a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If we truly care about are fellow Ammericans, then let’s show it by buying his goods and services. Dollars speak louder than words.
Sorry about the misspellings of are for our and
Ammericans for Americans. I was typing in the dark on a train.
Taxing the wealthy is not the answer. I am not wealthy, by the the way. I believe the answer lies with removing the corruption from our government. The rest will take care of itself.
There is no plan to really tax the rich, Gary. The real plan is to destroy the middle class who do not live off government aid and believe one can achieve by working hard to bring about one’s goals. The plan is to get the middle class of the United States to get used to living like those in a third world country,thereby providing equality in the world. That’s why jobs have been shipped overseas, massive immigration legal and illegal is being implemented, small businesses are punished, etc.
Higher taxes on investments that speculate and drive commodities higher and a lower tax on capital that is used to create productive enterprises is in order. Coupled with tariffs that prohibit polluting practices and low wages will drive industry back to the USA. Environmental regulations protect the people and preserve natural resources. Something future generations will thank us for.
The decline of America is well underway.
Prepare now…..while you still can.
It is as simple as that.
Rourke
yeah, let’s bring American civilization to the rest of the world.
Any Gary2 bashers should ask: How did the rich get rich?
And please refrain from slogans, like “hard work” or “being smart”.
Anybody knows a rich nurse?
Anybody knows a rich scientist or engineer?
How much can hard work bring you? How many generations are necessary to make people inherit billions?
Well, I checked some of the videos.
Nothing shocking there. Just a lot of people and a shaking camera. Try it yourself: do not follow the camera movement, fix your eyes on one person and follow that person.
It’s packed there. And, of course people buy what is cheap. Maybe even in the hope they can sell it for more later.
But then, my mom has still originally wrapped tea towels from a sale 20 years ago. Since then she didn’t buy a single tea towel, and neither did her children.
You need more guns.
If all the shoppers had had guns, they could have defended themselves far better from the pepper spray.
Why would you say such a dumb comment??? You must be a child that is not being monitered by your parents. Guns are not toys and to say this even in jest really shows your immaturity.
I actually tried Black Friday one time many many years ago. Haven’t done one since, and promised never to. The worst in people comes out as they grab up the bargains and fight over sale items. How is that “in the spirit of the holidays”? It’s a prime example of what’s wrong in this country. And Michael, you are 100% dead-on right….if people are willing to become violent to save $20, what will they do when they have no food. I’m even more fearful for the future. If a mob of 200 people are looking to storm my house in search of food….I mean, what do you do about that? Shoot until they run away, you run out of bullets or they overtake you? Sheesh, dark times.
I worked on Thursday from 3pm to 3am and the topper there was fighting over $1.28 towels. Towels you can buy at a discount store for a buck or 2. I also work in layaway and most people pay with a credit card not cash. So every things is up today because of a good black Friday. I keep telling people that t.v.s and such are so cheap that these people can watch t.v. as they starve to death since food is rising in cost faster then anything. God help us!
Michael check this out..
“Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial”
NDAA detention provision would turn America into a “battlefield”
The Senate is set to vote on a bill today that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
Here is the link: http://www.infowars.com/senate-moves-to-allow-military-to-intern-americans-without-trial/
That is very, very disturbing.
Michael
I am baffled beyong belief that this is a bi-partisan bill to deny all Americans their Constitutional rights…That in the name of “security” these self-righteous Elites would even consider this….
That bill is not the only attempt to strip away our liberties and freedoms….
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-signs-that-the-united-states-of-america-is-being-turned-into-a-giant-prison
Michael
Yeah Michael,
Please write about this:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/9956-senate-bill-to-ok-indefinite-detention-of-us-citizens-without-charge-trial
(Senate Bill 1867)
I went to the source for some info and my (albeit brief) reading of those sections indicates that it only applies “covered persons” which are defined as someone who is:
” (A) to be a member of, or part of, al-Qaeda or an associated force that acts in coordination with or pursuant to the direction of al-Qaeda; and
(B) to have participated in the course of planning or carrying out an attack or attempted attack against the United States or its coalition partners.”
… hardly innocent citizens.
What defines an attack against the U.S.? Could they say the Occupy Wall Street groups are attempting to attack the U.S.? This is the start of Americans losing more liberties.
I went right to the article you posted very very disturbing is an understatement. Of course they tell you to write your congressman & tell them to add the amendment. Hows that worked for us so far?
Yeah. I saw the same article on another blog. It is Scary.
But in order to do this, they would have to throw the Fourth Amendment into the trash bin. (No searches or seizures of private property, without a warrant or court approval).
Seriously?!? I mean… gosh…. wow.
What do you expect? Most people don’t even know how to discipline a 2 year old. how could young people turn out well, undisciplined, spoiled by parents with two children that they have done everything for? They don’t know how to work ,behave, or live!
The pepper spray story can be found here as well: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-thursday-shopping-20111125,0,757801.story
The interesting part is repeated below:
“More than 200,000 people signed a petition in the days leading up to Thanksgiving asking Target to stay closed until Friday morning to allow workers to spend more time with their families. Target responded that it was offering earlier hours at the request of its customers.
Many shoppers were more than willing to spend Turkey Day separated from loved ones. At Best Buy electronic stores throughout Southern California, people waited for hours — and some for days — in lines that stretched down streets and around blocks before the midnight opening.”
Black Friday is hence destroying Thanksgiving as a holiday together with friends and family. That is the real story behind the news.
“Approximately 20 people (including some children) were affected by the pepper spray”
Whne I was a cop, I carried the stream, to limit affecting myself and others, it is liquid and directly into the face…..sounds like he used the fog, which goes everywhere……
LOL at all the people criticizing Gary2!
When Gary2 says to “tax the rich”, “the rich” don’t mean you, despite your brainwashing.
It cracks me up how you defend them as if you were them already, even though you will NEVER be them.
You got that right, how can people be so easily duped. There is the haves, have nots, and never wills. Most if not all that critize me are the never wills.
I would be LOL also if it was so pathetic that so many of the never wills keep defending the rich.
I was just watching some videos on youtube about Senate bill 1867 and the other videos below were on Senate bill 510–food safety.
So…that means any American that grows veggies in their back yard SHOULD be arrested ASAP!? If anybody, even a policeman or black suit comes into my garden without my permission, I will *****************. I have the Constitutional right to do so! (oh wait, not anymore if Senate bill 1867 passes). Wake up people, there is no more Constitution. It went on life support when the Patriot Act passed. And if S-1867 passes, it will be END GAME for every American!
A.S.:
I just wrote an article about these issues….
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-signs-that-the-united-states-of-america-is-being-turned-into-a-giant-prison
Please share it with as many people as you can.
Michael
That is beyond scary.
A Senate bill that would prevent me from growing food in my back yard? What the hell!
It’s MY LAND! I have the deed to the house that proves it’s my land.
They’re MY SEEDS. It’s MY FERTILIZER! (Bought it myself at Home Depot!) Got my own shovels too. None of it funded by the government. I bought it myself.
How dare anyone tell me I can’t do anything on my own property, as long as it’s legal?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
AS LONG AS IT’S LEGAL.
Hmmm.
Danger…. the vice grips are slowly closing…
It wouldn’t be the Christmas season without Black Friday…watching mobs battle over 52 inch plasma HDTV’s, so they can watch the coming year’s social and financial catastrophe in better detail and color than ever before, all in 1080p!!. Hell, let them watch it in 3-D if they want! It’s just like being there yourself!!
Argh. I was bidding to be a stowaway on that new Mars mission that launched on Saturday, but didn’t quite make it on board. Hee!
(actually, I WOULD love to have a 3-D television. Imagine the Super Bowl on 3-D HDTV! Oh WOWWW!!!!
Okay Mondo, snap out of it. Click sandals 3 times and say “there’s no place like home…”)
Please, for those of you concerned re: S.1867, I highly recommend you go straight to the source and read some of this – or at the least look at the table of contents. Otherwise, you (and some of the folks you’re getting info from) are taking it out of context… sort of like asking your representative to pass or not pass something without reading it.
It IS the authority for the Department of Defense to continue operating, which is the first thing the Constitution tells us the Feds have the right to do. You really want us to have no Defense?
Complete bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.1867:
Seem like the sheeple are being trained for the day when you’ll have to “COMPETITVE SHOP” for food in the gracery store. IT’s everyman for themselves… and boy I can’t wait to see the first grocery store FIGHT video… GIVE ME THEM EGGS, YOU!!!
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America has to be the #1 country in greed. People want more and more. Never happy. Kids are spoiled brats who think they should have and do everying they want and if they don’t get it,they assault their parents. People have to change for the better. No government can cause people to change their mindset per se. Another thing is that the law is one extreme or another. Raiding your home for not paying a bill or letting a criminal out of jail when he belongs there.