A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob

[Joanne98]

by John Maxwell

While much of the developing world, and even consumers in the rich nations, fear growing food shortages and price hikes, Jamaicans seem "remarkably serene about the rapidly approaching food crisis." Forms of food rationing have already gone into effect at some U.S. chains, while in Lima, Peru, "relief food supplies are delivered to householders by night in order to avoid the threat of hungry mobs capturing the scarce supplies." Food speculators reap huge profits from manipulating the market, yet governments do "little to control or banish this parasitical and antisocial practice."

A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob

by John Maxwell

This article originally appeared in the Jamaica Observer.

"The world financial system has pauperized middle and working class Americans in the great housing scam and having created many surplus trillions, now seeks some other prey to devour."



Very occasionally I'm asked why, when there is so much to write about in Jamaica that I sometimes write about things outside. My answer is always the same: Jamaica is a part of a larger world and much of what happens here happens because of what happens outside.

As I write, for instance, Jamaica is remarkably serene about the rapidly approaching food crisis. The reason is simple. Most of us, including our media, don't expect to be affected by famine and hunger and will, they think, be able to assume their characteristic pose as spectators, unengaged, viewing ‘dispassionately' the suffering and privations of others, less fortunate.

At the moment we are much more occupied with the question of writing a Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms for Yuppies. Shall we or shall we not change the Constitution to enable those with more money than sense to hold dual citizenship and allowing Americans and other foreigners to write laws for Jamaicans as they were able to do when Roger Mais was jailed for speaking his mind 64 years ago.

Meanwhile, in the United States of America, the biggest wholesalers like Costco and Sam's Club have begun to impose limits on the quantities of rice that anyone may buy at any one time. While Sam's Club say they're not yet rationing oil or flour, Costco is. Sam's Club is a subsidiary of Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporation. In Lima, Peru, relief food supplies are delivered to householders by night in order to avoid the threat of hungry mobs capturing the scarce supplies.

Here, we are cool, untroubled by global warming, sea level rise or the threat of famine.

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[nradisic]

1. Those are Bob Marley's words..

From one of his songs "A hungry man is an angry, them belly full, but they hungry..."

[Doctor_J]

2. I tend to disagree

One of the ways that the US fascists have managed to keep us out of violent rebellion is to keep unemployment high, and then direct the blame toward "immigrants", "welfare cheats", etc. As long as the people are hungry and afraid they will grasp at straws and believe any lie that's put forth.

[yurbud]

3. and by convincing people that if they are unemployed, they are losers. But when their numbers

swell too much, and there aren't enough people in a family who still have jobs, then things will get interesting.