Breakdown in law and order... as the social contract crumbles
As the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" keeps growing, the dispossessed will become increasingly alienated,disaffected and discontented. (see "class warfare")
Those who do not feel they receive a fair share of the benefits of the economy will take their bitterness and their anger to the streets to be expressed in rioting, looting, and other violent and lawless behavior.
Economically marginalized people will rise up and demand their equal rights!
Economically marginalized people will rise up and demand their equal rights!
As life becomes more difficult people are driven to lawlessness and predation as a desperate last resort in order to survive. The disadvantaged simply resort to taking what they want without respect for the l;aw.
When the unemployed /dispossesed lose their sense of belonging they abandon their loyalty to the state and it's laws who they perceive as responsible for their deprived condition. They will take out their anger against the authorities and even against the infrastructure. (remember,we do not destroy what we cherish).
Is anger and civil disobediance a valid response to perceived injustice?
Quelling violence (and the breakdown of the social order)by whatever means necessary
How does the state restore confidence in the legitimacy of its authority ?
How to achieve compliance with the rule of law and restore social order?
Are we going to deal with the underlying causes of the breakdown in social order (lawlessness,criminality),by reducing the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" through a more equitable redistribution of wealth, (by creating a truely "egalitarian society")... or are we just going to use the police and the army to suppress the rioters, and build more prisons (criminalizing the marginal members of society) to contain them?
If we do not assist these people (the "lost generation") to become full participants and contributing members of society by providing them with educational and employment oportunities, this social problem will surely escalate!
Where are our profits!?
ReplyDeleteAre we not entitled to benefit in equal share from the economy and the earth's resources?
Who has benefited from the incurred debt ,and who will be made to pay!
Let those who enriched themselves
be made to pay!
inequality is injustice!
ReplyDeletesee "The Eclipse of Equality"
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=21395
Those deprived of economic benefits are the new slave class
Inequality and social injustice are not resolved by economic growth.
DeleteSlavery is wrong!
ReplyDeleteThe social cost of inequality is instability and an increase in criminal behaviour (a loss of social order and cohesion),
ReplyDeleteas the disposessed realize that the rules of the game
lack fairness.
The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of 2009, theincarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of national population (0.743%).[2]
ReplyDeleteIn comparison, Russia had the second highest, at 577 per 100,000, Canada was 123rd in the world as 117 per 100,000, and China had 120 per 100,000.[2]
While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, nearly one-quarter (25%) of the entire world's inmates have been incarcerated in the United States in recent years.[3]
Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60 billion in budget expenditures.
--from Wikipedia
The trouble is the perceived grievances of the disffected/agrieved have no legitemacy!
ReplyDeleteThis is how the dispossessed are further marginalized and dehumanized--by refusing to accept and respect their feelings and perceptions as having validity(i.e.having value).
ReplyDeleteIn a materialistic culture where the worth/status of a person is judged by their wealth, the "have nots" are regarded as "politically acceptable" targets of discrimination and invalidation.
Finally they have no option but to lash out in violence against their perceived oppressors.
see "how to stop the violence in the world"
Stop making excuses and blaming others and society for the bad in your life.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like where you at,(if you are unhappy with the conditions of your life)...do something to change it--to break out of the pattern of behaviour tbat got you here.
Take some personal responsibility for your life!
Homeless orphan boy finds valuable gift within:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ46Ot4_lLo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is his first audition for 2011 Korea's got talent. He came second in the final, and here is the original story of his life told by his music teacher:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EUxoPe_RbJ8(in Korean, with English subtitles). CNN, ABC etc covered bits of it in 2011.
Now he is singing professionally and is doing quite well.
No peace without justice.
ReplyDeleteFor every such heroic instance of someone pulling themself out of the gutter by their bootstraps...there are many more who are unable to lift themselves out of their destitute circumstances.
They have lived so long on the fringes of society(and been subjected to so much rejection and abuse) ...so severely damaged by deprivation, poverty, and the lack of love that they have lost all hope of being healed/redeemed or of being rescued to a better life.
Then there are those who resort to violence and crime. They lash out in self-defence like cornered animals.
Their method is violence; their motivation is seeking restitution for injustice. To them their grievances are justified. ..and their violent actions are a desperate attempt to achieve justice.
you have to be an independent senator to
ReplyDelete"say it like it is!"
Berni Sanders is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1wGlGbTVI
The truth is powerful!
If we do not work to lighten the load (to lift them up) of those who are hurting,...their hurt will be visited upon us!
ReplyDeleteThe oppressed cannot be isolated/segregated; they are amongst us!
We are all connected.
The pain that they feel is also ours!
Sometimes we shut out and are incapable of feeling the pain of others and responding to alleviate it... until their pain is directly inflicted upon us!
"Je suis humanité"
Conflict/war is how we break through those barriers wch prevent us from feeling each other's pain.
DeleteWar is the intentional inflicting of pain and harm upon another
Taking seriously the edict to "love thy enemy"
Deleteis essential to our survival!
There are those who violate the law out of economic deprivation or because they are hungry (the poor).
ReplyDeleteThen there are those who have no scruples and will do anything and everything to make money. They are not constrained by laws or conscience (the greedsters).
Wch of these two is the worst criminal?!
.
Watch Frontline : "To Catch a Trader"
Insider trading os endemic on Wall Street were the pusuit of money trumps all moral or legal considerations!
White color crime:
Delete"J.p.morgan chase" pays fine of 9 billion
for massive fraud against ordinary Americans
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/07/1343119/-Breaking-9-Billion-Dollar-Witness-Comes-Out-re-JP-Morgan-Chase-DOJ-WH
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/19/jp-morgan-record-fine-settlement-mortgages
Maybe "too big to fail", but not above the law!
DeleteThe settlement leaves open the possibility of potential criminal charges.
The "rich criminals" acquire wealth by lying,cheating,stealing,and exploiting others.
DeleteTheir actions cause far greater suffering than an overt act of violence
#1 issue in the world threatening disintegration of society is economic inequality:
Delete1% own as much wealth as the 99% combined
85 individuals own as much wealth as 3.5 billion of yhe poorest people on the planet
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinsights/2014/03/25/the-67-people-as-wealthy-as-the-worlds-poorest-3-5-billion/
US President calls for tax hike on the rich to redress the growing inequality
Hear all sides and you will be enlightened.
ReplyDeleteHear one side, and you will be in the dark.
---Wei Zheng