The Flash Mob Came for Them - They Were Killing People Because They Were Rich

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
Indeed, I guess it started around January 2012 as the US finally slipped into a double dip recession. The government tried to put forth better than realistic unemployment figures, and economic data. Of course, the stock markets on Wall Street, the economic analysts, and even our foreign trading partners told a completely different story. Their shipments to the US have fallen off drastically, and it was obvious that with consumer, small business, and CEO confidence in a tailspin something was amiss in the economic data.
Of course, the Obama Administration did not make things any better by insisting that the rich folks in America should be paying more in taxes causing the class warfare to get out of hand. If my recollection is correct, I believe it was in August of 2011 that the CBO or Congressional Budget Office put out a prediction that unemployment would be at 8.1% through 2014. It's too bad they didn't know the reality, but maybe it's good they didn't add the 10% to that figure to make it more accurate at the time. Of course, hindsight is 2020 and we don't live in a perfect world, and predicting the future is just as hard for the CBO, as it is for the World Future Society members, whose predictions are most always wrong.
Oh well, when it comes to economics, no one really ever gets it right anyway. The flash mob riots really started kicking in around February of 2012, all the Christmas labor had been laid off, and unemployment had hit 15%, it came out of nowhere, of course 15% was much better than it was later at nearly 19%. First it was the United States Post Office laying off 220,000 people, then it was every major company in America, 500 here, 1000 there, and occasionally 5000 or even 10,000 jobs were lost, it seemed to be the headline in the newspaper every single day for the rest of the year, no one knew who would be next, or even if they themselves would lose their job.
The Obama Administration called for more stimulus and unemployment money to be given to the states, but things were pretty bad off, and the government's tax base had also driven off a cliff. Apparently, all of the socialist programs, the stimulus, and all the rules and regulations which were piled onto small businesses and corporations were the death-nail of the economy throwing us into a double dip. As the class warfare continued, and as more riots, and flash mobs were witnessed across America, the wealthy folks started hiding their money, and finding ways to protect themselves.
The police were often overrun by the mobs, and they were still learning how to deal with the social networks which often allowed the instigation of these events, but also gave the authorities at least a little heads-up warming. Then there were the vigilante groups, neighborhood watch groups which started arming themselves, monitoring social networks, and meeting flash mobs head-on with thousands of people. At first, the good guy flash mobs came with their iPads, iPhones, androids, and digital cameras. They took pictures of everyone who was looting, and the police would around them up the next day.
That worked great for a while, unfortunately all the jails filled up, and that was a huge cost in and of itself. The Federal Reserve said it would keep printing money, to pay for food stamps, inmate services, and to protect the American people. FEMA started taking the criminals to camps. The Obama Administration had one crisis after another, and put forth executive orders to forgo the debt ceiling law, or the new balanced budget amendment. Martial law was declared more than once in 2012, and that was before all hell broke loose in mid to late 2013.
James W. Smith and his wife lived in a gated community, in a very well-off neighborhood, but they certainly didn't feel safe after watching on TV and seeing that several gated communities in some rather high rent districts in and around the suburbs of the Los Angeles had been attacked with thousands of people hopping over fences, overpowering security guards, and invading homes. In some cases wealthy individuals were shot by the unruly mobs of people. Mr. Smith and his wife had considered moving to Maui, as many of the billionaires had done, but they were really only multi-millionaires so they still had to watch their money carefully. The billionaires had reasoned that they could better protect themselves on an island, as it was more defensible against the radical mobs. Perhaps they should've gone too in hindsight.
A few months later, James and his wife heard gunfire in their gated community, and several single shots, they realize that people were being killed, probably some of their close friends. James helped his wife into the attic where he'd laid some steel plates and old Kevlar vests to lay on. He got out his weapon, and secured himself in the best defensible position he could. He was prepared, and he'd been a former Marine when he was younger. He wasn't afraid of being rushed by 100 people, hell in Vietnam they defended base camp delta against the Vietcong and there were 1000s of them. He'd been to the target range several times that month just in case.
He looked at some of the gangs of people running up the fairway a few hundred yards on the gated community golf course. He thought to himself how unfortunate that he might have to shoot some of those folks, as some of them didn't look much older than teenagers. He also thought to himself at least some of them are wearing baggy pants, and they won't be able to run very fast, giving him the advantage.
That's what he wanted, always take the advantage. He was in full-combat mode, Sempre Fi. He didn't really want to shoot anybody, especially any fellow Americans, but he decided he would defend his property, and protect his wife. After all, if they were going to come after an older couple like that, well, how American were they really?
He heard some broken windows, and apparently, some of the people of the mob had brought forth Molotov cocktails, and there was already one house ablaze. Others were busy looting, trying to carry off large screen flat-panel TVs and the like, made him sick to his stomach to see it, as it reminded him of the Hurricane Katrina footage of the looting at Wal-Mart in New Orleans. He heard a familiar sound he hadn't heard in years, it sounded like two National Guard he we helicopters, or was it three, yes, it sounded like three, flying overhead. He thought good, reinforcements, but then he worried that if they were going to take out the mob with 50 caliber machine gun, they were going to do a lot of damage to the golf course, and his neighbor's homes in the process. "War is hell,' he thought, "oh God, not again, he deja vu a flash-back," he hated war.
Nevertheless, he was locked and loaded, and ready to go. He also had a sniper rifle, and he was getting it up and mounting it on a sandbag on top of his small retaining wall he'd built for his home garden, as his wife only wanted to eat organic vegetables. He waited there and took aim as he watched one of the hoodlums raise a weapon towards one of his neighbors. As he was ready to take the shot, all of a sudden he saw a stream of bullets across the ground coming from one of the helicopters. "Good shooting he thought, it saved him from having to waste a bullet, these damn rounds cost $1.28 for this rifle," he thought to himself. The price had gone up lately, the gun shop owner told him he was sorry; "it's supply and demand these days."
He worked all his life to live in a gated community, and he wasn't about to give up his property, or his life for a group of criminals and thieves acting like barbarians in a mass mob of humanity. Luckily, he wasn't alone, there were folks across the nation that felt the same way. Eventually after the riots, protests, marches, and mobs of people learned their lessons, things got back to normal. He thought to himself later; "don't these people study their history, socialism doesn't work!"
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
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