BY MICHAEL SNYDER/ECONOMIC
The fact that law enforcement officials across the nation are expecting widespread violence following the election should chill every American to the core. As I keep repeating over and over, violence is not going to solve anything, but much of the population is not listening to voices such as mine anymore.
As you will see below, authorities have decided to "plan for the worst" because everyone can see what is potentially coming. But if we can't hold a presidential election without violence at this point, how much longer can our system possibly last? No matter who ends up winning, I think that the election of 2020 will tell us a lot about how far America has already fallen.
Thankfully, officials in most major cities do not have their heads stuck in the sand and have been preparing for massive riots following the election. In New York, the NYPD is literally "training every day" to deal with the riots and protests that they are anticipating...
The NYPD is training every day and deploying hundreds of extra cops as it braces for Election Day and its aftermath, amid fears riots and protests could break out after the results are announced.
In Los Angeles, officers are being told that "they may need to reschedule" their vacations so that they will be available for whatever may happen...
LAPD sent an internal memo to its officers last week that said they may need to reschedule any vacations around election day as the agency prepares for possible protests or other unrest, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In so many instances, law enforcement agencies are pointing to the riots that erupted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd as the type of scenario that they want to be prepared for this time around.
Even down in Texas, authorities in multiple cities are admitting that "they are planning for potential unrest around the Nov. 3 election"...
Agencies in at least four major cities -- Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Fort Worth -- confirmed they are planning for potential unrest around the Nov. 3 election. Officials in other Texas cities declined to say whether they're doing the same.
The intent of such preparations, said Tara Long, an Austin Police Department spokesperson, "is to ensure the safety of the community while protecting the rights of people to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights."
Of course in some cities the violent protests never seem to end.
During the debate, Biden held up his black mask, looked straight into the camera and said “We’re about to go into a dark winter.”
Lest anyone dismiss Biden’s comment as the nonsensical ramblings of a washed-up politician, he repeated it.
We are in for “a dark winter,” he reinterated.
A slip of the tongue? Or a foreboding prediction?
The federal government carried out Operation Dark Winter in June 2001, a simulation exercise focused on how to respond to a covert biological attack using a super-strain of smallpox from an unknown source. It involved draconian lockdowns, rioting in the streets, and military intervention to quell the chaos. You can read about it in an article that appeared earlier this year in the elitist magazine Foreign Policy titled America’s Pandemic War Games Don’t End Well. The magazine admits the current coronavirus pandemic “bears an eerie resemblance to the simulation.”
The Foreign Policy article on Operation Dark Winter ends by planting an ominous seed in readers’ minds.
“The issue is, after all, deeply political—as Dark Winter showed. And it is not just lives that are at stake. So, too, is the ability of the American form of government to respond deftly to a nationwide medical crisis. ‘In the earliest days of this crisis, it was clear that the response was insufficiently proactive at the federal level,’ argued Andrew Lakoff, professor of sociology at USC. ‘Over the last century, we have developed a system for governing crisis situations that has saved us from falling into dictatorship in times of emergency. We have shown that a democracy can respond as well as a dictatorship to emergencies. But I wonder if our system will hold up in the face of the current crisis. I certainly hope so.’”
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