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Originally Posted by Viscere
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Question from an outside to both DEM/GOP partisans :
how high do you estimate the risk of severe civil unrest regardless of the results ?
Because from quiet, boring and cold switzerland, the risk seems SKY HIGH
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Zero. But we will disagree on 'severe' I think. For example I characterize the totality of the riots and the disturbances this year as 'mild'.
In 1863 the Army fired howitzers directly into crowds to quell the draft riots. 120 dead.
In 1932 George S. Patton, followed by
five tanks and about 300 helmeted infantrymen, brandishing loaded rifles with fixed bayonets charged 40,000 rioting veterans in DC.
In 1968
this happened.
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Reinforcements numbering 2,500 riot-trained soldiers - a brigade of the 82d Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, N.C. _ were airlifted to nearby Andrews Air Force Base
Troops ringed the Capitol and set up a light machinegun post on the Capitol's west steps, overlooking the Mall.
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If Federal troops are not shooting people then the disturbances are not severe. But that's just relative to our prior history.