>>>10,000 fit young people deciding that physical strength matters more than pieces of paper and that possession is 9/10 of their version of law would need a full scale National Guard deployment to contain. And since few people in the Guard are part of the 1%, eventually sympathies change and the Army no longer is a protective force for vested interest. What then?
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
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>Nixon tested that hypothesis at Kent State and the guardsmen he sent there did, in fact, fire on the student protesters.
>There were protests and demonstrations for a brief while after that but for all intents and purposes the protests of the 1960's ended at Kent State.
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>I agree that there's a lot of anger. Before the Tea Party was hijacked by the repubs, they had a legitimate case against the way the banks and other corporations were bailed out with taxpayer funds while the unemployment rate for middle class people skyrocketed.
>The Occupy movement has more in common with Ron Paul (not Rand Paul) and the Tea Party than most people realize. If they ever get together they might be able to do something.
>Tim Geithner, one of the principal engineers of TARP, just took a cushy job with Warburg-Pincus, a private equity firm that benefited from TARP. Note that no repub pols have seen fit to say anything about that.
>They're doing the same thing.
>That anger hasn't gone away.

I think you meant the Repubs were hijacked by the Tea Party. Fortunately they have been reduced to noise in the storm.