Political science professor at the University of Texas at El Paso Charles Boehmer points out that "The military was not called out during the Great Depression...."
So why is the military planning on how to crush civil protest in regards to the current economic crisis (see this, this, this, this, this and this)?
Is it because the theft - via "bailouts" and other hanky-panky by Treasury, the Fed and others - of hard-earned taxpayer wealth is so obvious that the military expects Americans to revolt?
The other potential explanation is that the military has been told that this financial crisis could be much, much worse than the Great Depression.
So which is it? The obviousness of the theft or the severity of the crisis?
My guess . . . both.
Poster Comment:
There is lots of theft going on.
1) There is the debt money dractional reserve banking system and the fictional national debt of 10.7 trillion dollar.
2) There is the theft of billions of dollars each week from unaudited federal government contracts. See This for refernce: http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/
3) And then there is the 8.5 trillion dollar Bailout from us to them.
What do Volcker, Greenspna, Bernanke, Rubin, Paulson,Geithner, Summers, Rumsfeld and Zakheim have in common? They are all Jewish. Rumsfeld and Zakheim could not find 2.3 trillion dollars that went missing from the DOD. The rest were at. Tge Federal Reserve is the official depository of the US government. All of the billions that go missing each week went through the FED before it went missing.