Re: Firefighters ambushed, killed, responding to fire.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Switchblade</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We have reached a state where the government is really starting to piss people off. The essential thought that makes the historic move from status quo to revolutionary thought is in it's intermediate stages. The 'gentry' is getting mad because they are not being listened to. When the gentry gets mad, the common man follows. When the common man gets mad, revolutionary thought enters it's final stages. Our nation has taken this historically proven path pre War for Independence, pre Civil War, and prior to the many small skirmishes between the people and the local governments who were corrupt and had to be stopped by armed people.
This same thought was in it's higher levels before the Viet Nam war but revolution was kept to a minimum because people were busy fighting in Viet Nam. After Viet Nam, the country settled down. The process took longer and was coming to a slight hill before the Desert Storm War. That small skirmish caused the thought to die down, only to rear it's head around 1998 or so a few years before the GWOT.
So far, each time this thought has crested toward rising higher, there has been a war that brought together the gentry and the common man and relaxed the rise toward Revolutionary Thought. As we finalize the GWOT hot war, we find ourselves fully involved in the emergent stages of Revolutionary Thought. This process is growing and the process will not stop until something happens to stop it. What will stop it? War toward the outside that galvanizes the people, or Civil War within that will split the people, this time on values, taxes, and overburdening government wasting money on those who do not want to work for it(many other issues that are common to both gentry and common man that revolve around basic values of right and wrong). This, I am afraid, is the historic path this country follows every ten to twenty years since it's inception. As a Democratic Republic, it has lived to it's final comparison days to the model of the Roman Senate. Like the Roman Senate, the perceived view is that corruption overrides common sense and the fall is imminent. Only large changes for the good can fix it, or as many have said in our early years as a nation, the roots of the trees of Liberty must be freshened with the blood of the good and that of the tyrannical. </div></div> I hear what you are saying, but Firefighters??? All they do is help people!!!