Power vs Poverty?

We (North Americans) all watched with various emotional reactions of the protests-turned-into-revolutions in several Middle East countries over the past few months, in bids to overthrow tyrannical dictators, with way too much power…and certainly way too much money…

We saw as country after country, regime upon regime, being overtaken by the ‘average citizen’, and wrongs to some extent being made right. We also then commented, speculated and mused over many a coffee break and other social gathering, of how it was a good thing that so many long-term despots were finally out of power, and that a sense of relief as it were, came to not only the countries in question, but to the world in general.

Also though, most of us were almost self-congratulatory, that it is a good thing such events were not happening “over here”; well, save for the Toronto and Vancouver riots, but hey, that was over shady politics and hockey…right? Hmm…well, fast forward to the past month, and we have seen the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) crowds grow ever increasingly, and more vocal, to now literally countries all over the world, yes Canada included, to have similar ‘protests’.

One wonders, with the cry from ‘The people’ en masse, to no longer have a very few control a very great amount of power…and money. Sound familiar? Could then the same outburst of protest erupt into mass carnage, violence, and pent-up rage happen ‘over here’?

Well, again I would remind you dear readers, OF Toronto and Vancouver…they were but only training grounds for those, excuse the expression, ‘hell bent’ on simply being destructive, violent and anti-anything that is ‘establishment’. It did not take much in the other riots to unfold into what we saw, and sadly, I fear it may not take much either before something or someone, somewhere, will ignite the torches of outright rebellion into utter chaos…

I for one, am going to be very relieved if it does not happen…but, what if it does? I need not go into the countless Biblical Predictions of lawlessness in the proverbial ‘Last Days’…are we seeing the seeds of this already?

Just…Thoughts…