George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America

[Cali_Democrat]

Billionaire investor George Soros has a new prediction for America. While it might be as dire as it gets for the financial wiz, this bet concerns more than just the value of the buck. According to Soros, there's about to be an all-out class war.

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Soros goes on to say that as the crisis in the Eurozone only worsens, the American financial system will continue to be hit hard. On the way to a full-blown collapse, he cautions, Americans should expect society to alter accordingly. Riots will hit the streets, says Soros, and as a result, “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”

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The recent adoption of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 and the proposed Enemy Expatriation Act, if approved, have already very well paved the way for such a society. Under the NDAA, the US government is allowed to indefinitely detain and torture American citizens suspected of terror crimes without ever bringing them to trial. Should lawmakers Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Charles Dent (R-PA) get their Enemy Expatriation Act through Congress, the US will also be able to simply revoke citizenship without trial, essentially removing constitutional rights from anyone deemed a threat.

Others have cautioned that, as inequality becomes more rampant in America, the country’s citizens are becoming increasingly agitated with those on the other side of the extreme. In a recent survey released by the Pew Research Center, 66 percent of the adults studied believe that either “very strong” or “strong” conflicts exist between America’s elite and the impoverished, a statistic that has skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2009 and 20011, the proportion of those that sense conflicts exist as such between the class groups grew by 19 percentage points. While less than half of Americans fearing a fight brewing at the dawn of the Obama administration, today two-out-of-three Americans feel that there is a strong conflict between both extremes of society.

http://rt.com/usa/news/george-soros-class-war-619/

[Zalatix]

1. Riots! Hah! America is too scared to riot.

People are dying of starvation, disease and exposure out there, and they still won't resist the cops. Cowardly couch potatoes boo at Occupy Wall Street for taking a stand. Civil disobedience is being reinterpreted as terrorism with cops spying on people and laws calling for indefinite detention of dissidents based on trumped-up "terrorism" charges.

And the people are eating it up. Nobody questions the police gangs anymore, even when they're clearly breaking the law and using totalitarian tactics.

Riots will end in a Hunger Games-type scenario.

People say there'll be riots in the spring but I am not looking forward to that anymore. The police gangs will simply put them down and the masses will crawl back to their impoverished world and take their lumps and convince themselves to like it.

I WISH we were more like the Middle East.

[Politicalboi]

2. America's too lazy

We get an election stolen from us and what did we do? NOTHING! Besides, they might miss American Idol depending on what day the riots start.

[T S Justly]

3. Class war, police riots, and a police state aren't already here? Well, that's a relief, lol. (nt)