The Sheeple Are Getting Angry
While I despise violence and don’t condone the following behavior, I’m going to have to quote comedian Chris Rock from one of his routines:
But I understand.
Scott Thill wrote on AlterNet this past Monday:
Anger and discontent are reaching a boil as a lethal combination of economic corruption and political collusion are deleveraged across the United States.
From recent rampages in Orlando, Fla., to mortgage-related torture in Los Angeles, certain members of the citizenry seem to have had their fill of being manipulated for the financial gain of others, and they’re firing back with force.
And the situation threatens to burn hotter as the winter holidays — always a peak period fof domestic violence, due mostly to financial stress — approach to spark its frazzled strands. The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism’s central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they’re going postal over it.
“They left me to rot,” Jason Rodriguez said when asked why he went on a shooting rampage at the Orlando engineering firm Reynolds, Smith and Hills that had fired him two years ago.
That compressed vitriol is also found in the Los Angeles case, where Daniel Weston and Gustavo Canez allegedly imprisoned and tortured loan-modification agents Lamond Dean and Luis Garcia while three others — Mario Soloman Gonzales, Marissa Parker and Mary Ann Parmelee, a realtor – sat and watched.
According to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, “Weston and Parmelee live in a house that is in foreclosure,” and they “allegedly sought loan-modification assistance from the victims but believed that nothing was being done and wanted their money back.”
When they didn’t get it, they evidently extracted their payback in violent revenge.
“That’s not right,” explained Kathleen Day, spokeswoman for the nonprofit Center for Responsible Lending. “But clearly people are really mad about what’s happened to them. This is the kind of thing that happens when lenders don’t lend responsibly. You can’t abuse your customers forever.”
Then again, one shouldn’t abuse their customers in the first place.
Bad business, you know?
And as we’ve just seen— it could come back to haunt you. Big time.
Sources:
“As Foreclosure Nightmares Increase, Will More Homeowners Pay Off Their Bankers in Violence?”
Scott Thill
AlterNet, November 9, 2009
November 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am
“Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they’re going postal over it.”
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You really nailed it with this quote.
And if corporatism continues on its merry course to the detriment of the individual and to society, it will be 1917 all over again.
Think that it can’t happen?
Better think again!
-Mammoth
November 14th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Thanks for the comment Mammoth.
“You really nailed it with this quote.”
Yeah, I thought Thill did a good job describing what’s been happening with this statement.
“And if corporatism continues on its merry course to the detriment of the individual and to society, it will be 1917 all over again.”
A while back I read something that said in Russia, Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations was pretty popular reading these days, while in the United States it was Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
Probably just trying to be funny, but like you were getting at, stranger things have happened.