We aren’t the only onesworried about rioting at home?the UK is too. The Ministry of Defense (the equivalent of our Pentagon) has made plans in case there is a “summer of discontent” coming up in the UK, caused by the recession.

In the March 1st edition of the Express, Geraint Jones quotes a dissident blogger as writing, “How to keep warm during the credit crunch? Burn a banker.” Ideas like this have the DOD worried. They?re worried that normally law-abiding citizens who have lost their jobs and their homes may take to the streets. And as the French learned during the ten years of their revolution, starting in 1789, in Western countries, it’s the middle class that ferments revolution.
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