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Guest Post: Sausage The Riot Dog Coming To America?
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt Market
Sausage The Riot Dog Coming To America?
Who would have thought it possible? Greece, a tiny country on the Mediterranean which is, in the grand scheme of things, economically insignificant, has become the centerpiece of the global financial media and the “make or break” sovereign debt battle for the entire European Union. Let’s face it; Greece dominates the psychology of the markets. Even after a “partial” default this year, equities still hang upon every new EU meeting, every new IMF press release, every meaningless conference between Merkel and Sarkozy, causes violent swings in the Dow, not to mention every other stock index across the world. Greece collapsed months ago. The discussion is over. Yet, global investors still wait anxiously for a sign that all is well in the land of the Parthenon and the Gyro.
The reality of the situation in Greece is clear for anyone who is willing to look at the facts as they stand. Greek debt is a dead end investment. The percentage lost on bond payouts grows by the quarter due to partial bankruptcy. Unemployment hovers around 16% (officially). Despite trends which are often associated with a deflationary collapse, the Greek cost of living remains quite high, meaning prices are not falling comparatively with wages and employment as they should. Austerity is in full force, pensions are being cut or confiscated outright, and riots are a monthly if not weekly occurrence. Corruption in the Greek government and influence by international banks such as Goldman Sachs led to extreme exposure of the country’s assets to the derivatives crisis as well as a massively expanded debt to GDP ratio, yet, Papoulias and many other Greek officials have decided to place full responsibility for the crisis directly in the laps of the Greek people, claiming that it is they who must sacrifice, and they who are to blame if the system crumbles beneath their feet. Violence, even beyond the furious protests prevalent today, is inevitable in the face of such hypocrisy.
In the meantime, the mainstream media has, as it always does, turned towards disturbing attempts at quirk and fluff to pass the time between catastrophes. One of these stories is that of “Sausage The Riot Dog”, a stray mutt caught in the middle of street actions and civil unrest in the center of Athens. Sausage has apparently chosen sides in the battle, snarling at armored riot cops and braving the front lines in the face of stomping boots and tear gas. We find the canine endearing because he seems to call the situation just as it is, unlike many bureaucrats and talking heads out there. If a mere stray animal understands the line between the people and the tyranny of misused state power, then what excuse does the Greek establishment have?
Unfortunately, in the U.S., a very similar process of corruption and default is taking place, and the question of whether or not large scale civil actions are imminent in the face of economic disparity has essentially been answered. While ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and ‘Occupy The Fed’ remain peaceful despite police abuses, the American collapse progresses, and our own Austerity measures will soon be instituted while taxes skyrocket and inflation creeps in. Public anger is growing. When our own government begins pointing the finger of blame at us for the financial seizures of the system and starts cracking down on dissent even further in order to maintain a posture of authority, reactionary riots will be just as common here as they are in Greece. The more people lose, the more they take to the streets. It’s an undeniable law of nature.
Sausage The Riot Dog (the quaint media image of him at least) may have to paddle across the Atlantic to combat the impositions of failed government, but in the meantime, perhaps we can apply a few lessons from his playbook, and focus our energies into something that truly matters…
1) When Freedom Is At Stake, Everyone Has To Choose A Side…
National crises have a way of forcing those on the fence to pick a direction whether they want to or not. There is entirely too much indecision and apathy amongst Americans today, and this is going to change. We will choose, or we will be compelled to choose.
However, in the fog of propaganda and misinformation, the concept of “sides” becomes blurred. Political, religious, and economic ideologies clash and people begin to forget who the REAL enemy is. The point of any civil action should be to unearth the root of the problems that face everyone, not quibble over peripheral conflicts amongst each other while the crooks and conmen sit back and laugh. Ultimately, there are only two sides in a fight for liberty, the oppressors, and the oppressed. Post success solutions may vary. Many will be ill conceived and incorrect. A few will be fundamentally solid.
Like the disagreements that sometimes occur between participants of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy The Fed, debate and reconciliation may have to wait until the greater threat (the Federal Reserve and Corporate Banking interests) is dealt with. All activists should take it upon themselves to become aware of the facts, not assumptions, surrounding the protests.
People have a tendency to complicate issues that are actually very simple. Sausage The Riot Dog aims his senses at the immediate and primary enemy. Perhaps we should as well.
2) Jackboot Tactics Are For The Dogs
Police violence solves nothing, not even for the establishment. When social liberties and economic security are plainly on the line, the citizenry will choose to escalate rather than back down from a show of force. Until recently, most activist movements have been in pursuit of public exposure to their ideas, and nothing more. Generally, such protests keep a passive attitude in the face of law enforcement aggression. This mentality is fading quickly. The stakes are much higher than ideological promotion now, and overt state violence will bring with it a civil storm this country has not seen in decades.
This pendulum, though, swings the opposite direction as well.
Unfocused and belligerent protests can lead to misdirected attacks and blind acts of idiocy so volatile they destroy the foundation of a movement. The high ground is held by those with an even hand. Unwarranted destruction, mindless collectivist herding, military coups, and brutality in the name of abstract Utopian nonsense are a path to defeat, not victory. Bite the bandits, not yourself.
3) Smart Dogs Know A Crook When They Smell One
When faced with a grassroots activist movement of any kind, establishment proponents always choose cooption as their first weapon. From the days of Cointelpro to now, when a mainstream party run by elitists suddenly takes up your cause for no apparent reason, its time to be concerned. Tea Party activists who were present at the movement’s inception (inspired by Ron Paul, not Fox News) know exactly how this works, especially after watching a hoard of admitted Neo-Cons (fake conservatives) suddenly join and profess a “love for the Constitution” after years of attempting to dismantle it. Today, we see Obama’s White House, funded, run, and populated by Wall Street banking interests, come out of nowhere to declare backing for the Occupy Wall Street uprising, while bloated and shameless self promoters like Michael Moore ooze out of the woodwork to become frontmen for a cause they have nothing to with. If your nose is not keen enough to sniff out a fraud, then you shouldn’t be out on the street in the first place. All you are is a danger to yourself, and an obstacle to the progress of legitimate protesters.
4) Never Underestimate The Underdog
Great coalitions and organizations for freedom always start small. They are always marginalized as “fringe” or “extremist”. They are generally ignored by the media and shunned by the mainstream. Society’s first reaction is invariably to cast them down the memory hole, and hope they go away. These out of touch masses only begin to pay attention when you DON’T go away. When you are stubborn, and impertinent, and defiant despite all the odds. When a protest group refuses to fade, people begin to take note. Your bite must be worse than your bark.
As such movements gain attention, they then face image attacks, misrepresentations, false flag police actions and engineered violence meant to defame, and eventually, a phalanx of armored riot cops trained to ignore their oaths to the Constitution and squash First Amendment expression. And still, activists must endure.
Being the underdog means having the will to face down any conflict regardless of the supposed odds. It means being fearless. It means taking risks and believing in the potential for something much more than we are often conditioned to accept. There is no going back. We can only move forward.
5) Tear Off The Leash
Most people live in an atmosphere of psychological containment. We tend to restrict ourselves far more than any government ever could, and in this way, we feed the corruption that later plagues us. Our leash is self imposed, and our reach as citizens is cut short by our inability to function without a master’s oversight. To go stray, or go wild, is an uncertain future filled with frightening possibilities. Freedom, for those used to servitude, is terrifying.
The question one must ask is; what causes the most pain in the end?
Complacency in the name of superficial comfort has certainly caused nothing but disaster so far, and this is just the beginning. Every aspect of the collapse in Greece is likely to strike here in the U.S. with exponentially greater weight and force. The protests we see in the streets of New York and at the Federal Reserve Banks across the country are but a shadow of what is to come, and this unrest is going to touch our lives no matter how we might detach and distract. At bottom, we can either contribute to the cause of truth and help to shape these movements into something positive, or we can wait idle until they break loose completely and arrive at our doorstep in a form we may not expect or intend.
Sausage The Riot Dog is a modern day Aesop fable, cartooned and lampooned by the MSM to fill dead air time and draw smirks from the masses in the face of something utterly horrific; an entire nation in rapid and wretched decline. We chuckle, tell our friends, and move on. But this is not the end. The world of that animal character is very real, even if he is a product of our musings. It is a world that parallels us, and begs us to examine tomorrow with far more discernment than we are accustomed to. How many “riot dogs” will we have to mascot our own crumbling infrastructure and economy? How many of us will set aside the idea or symbol of the thing, and step in to make it real? Will we treat Sausage and his sad Greek kingdom as entertainment and financial news fodder, or as a parable for a day not long away. Is the nobility we imagine in a dog in Athens a trait we might adopt within ourselves here at home? The time we have left to answer this question may be shorter than many realize…
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Hell I hope so, love that dog - he needs to raise his leg on The Bernank's grill
Enterprisecorruption dot com mentioned the riot dog a looong time ago.
Greece has shaken the core beliefs of the global monetarist economy ie the perpetual motion machine of money printing and interest rate tweaking by central bankers
Greece is toast.
Sausage Bitchez!!!
The world is coming to an end!
As corny as it is..not until 2012/2013. No relation to the Mayan calendar thingy other than freakish coincidence.
I think Ray Dalio is spot on..
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/head-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-sees-eco...
Do Greeks eat sausage?
(there are many angles here...have fun)
Spartan Country Sausage...yasou !
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_We252-O13Hg/SR7WGzgBwpI/AAAAAAAAGd8/nzrSSiTN10...
I'm guessing they've seen a couple up close..
they do... its called somethng that sounds like 'locanita', found on the 'mezenes' plate (like a poo poo platter).
Sausage the sheepdog
Yes, but can we be sure Sausage and the Athens Stray Program wasn't co-opted by Soros?
I read somewhere, I think in a comment here on zh...
I mean, Sausage is out there protesting and he has no clue about money creation or the Fed. Is he protesting unfairness? Or does he just want better kennel conditions and more freebies?
Really people, if Sausage wants more free food, he should be barking at political leaders. Dogs don't even use banks. He's not even in the right place.
Until then, I'm sitting right here on my couch
What happened to Kannelos?
Phhh. I'll match your sausage slacker, stoner dog against Burger and Fries any day:
=> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0tiT7KlACM
Keepin' it real bro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvO2A7sHwQ
..,wow, zero hedge.-2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5feTNDNPIE&feature=related
Greece's economy is about the same size as that of Maryland.
Without blinking.......Obama, Germany, France could write a chaeck and put it to bed.
It's about politics and corruption
It's actually about all the other countries in the same boat but hiding below deck..
Bow wow, Bitchez
Probably one of the better pieces I've read to convince people to look beyond their personal ideologies and focus on the true criminals. Unfortunatly that is going to be a hard sell. I was at a men's breakfast this weekend. All of them who support the tea party. Anyway everyone of them had the same view of the occupy wall street crowd. A bunch of socialist rich college kids who need to go out and find a job. I'm not saying that I have the same view. I'm still trying to ascertain what their true motives are. I do see that the unions and socialists are trying to hijack the movement.
What's lacking is courage. If even one of those men at the breakfast club suddenly said to the group "'Gentlemen, I've had enough of this shit.'" And went and grabbed his Samurai, 4-1/2 body cane sword off the wall, and then walked up to the second story of Wall Street, where they were all so casually and insouciantly sipping champagne, and started lopping off some fucking heads and began tossing them, Apocalytpo style, down the steps of Wall Street....I think our troubles would soon be over.
..with one exception: there has to be an endless lineup of others with swords and guns who will replace the fallen ones.
And while I can see an occasional martyr, I don't see the level that we need, evident in the jihad of muslim communities with an endless supply of suicide bombers.
Without a committment to "killing the King" , sacrificing our own lives if necessary, nothing will ever change.
Token assassination will not work.
In other words, the Tea Party "men" have their preconceptions about the Occupy Wall Street people and that's all they need to know.
What this tells me is that the Tea Party dupes think they will work within a corrupt system to create their desired change without having to get any on them or really having to sacrifice much. The Tea Party message is the same old, same old message: cut my taxes and ensure that all laws and policies passed are aimed at enriching ME.
The reason the Tea Partiers cannot understand the OWS folks is that the OWS folks see the system as corrupt and that the system itself needs to change. This concept alone goes beyond the average TPer's comprehension.
Your ignorance is clearly shown in your post. The tea party know's the system is corrupt. They just know that the government is not the solution. They are part of the problem. It's not about enriching themselves. For cripes sakes we are taxed into oblivion just to fund layer upon layer of beauracracies. If you truly believe what you just posted then I feel sorry for you, as you are the one who is duped into believing that government should provide everything for you.
Nope, I'm not duped into thinking the government should give me everything. And, I posted that to get a rise from the TPers.
I just know I've seen a lot of talk on here about revolution and possible rioting here in the US. Sure the TP folks have bitched and moaned about taxes, corruption, Obama's birth certificate, etc... However, we will see who makes the real sacrifices to effect change. I'll bet my money that it will be the OWS folks making the actual sacrifices and doing the truly hard and scary work instead of the TP folks.
Sure the OWS folks are younger and don't have as much to lose, but I really hope the TPers understand that both groups are fighting the same war instead of throwing out the usual flippant "get a job" type of crap that plays into the Divide and Conquer strategy of the oligarchs.
I haven't been involved with the TP folks in any way, so all I can make are assumptions based on what I've seen. However, I have known the TP conservative types of folks my whole life and I know how they act and respond to things, which is often very predictable and that is what I base my prediction on. I would be quite pleased to be proven wrong. We will see.
Meet Goldman Spuds
Uhh what is that big dog doing to that little dog? And why is the little dog smiling like that?
Spuds McKinsey [ & Co. ].
Curb your dog.
Even a dog knows the difference between being accidentally stepped on and being kicked.
That dog shows more fight than 50% of the US Citizens today.
Granted, it used to be 70%, but people are starting to wake up now.
Plus, when people lose everything...they lose IT. We are all just awaiting that "Crispus Attacks" moment when the Great Riots begin.
RIOT DOGS
Too bad the pigs here would probably try to shoot the dog; the american biped pig loves shooting dogs and brutalizing sheep.
sheep, wives, children, puppies...
I always wanted to command a pack of attack dogs. Just think how much fun you could have at political gatherings, family reunions, shareholder meetings - even football games - by merely have a pack of 6 or 8 vicious dogs that would attack a specified target on command. What a trip that would be.
trip to prison michael vick style i imagine
How does a movement like OWS start without an identifiable cause? --- Probably, some alphabet soup government agency started it among naieve young people by using paid activists, then, they set about searching for a cause to motivate them. But, it doesn't appear that they have found one yet.
The next step may be like what happened at Kent State, where the Black Panthers, armed with military rifles, came in behind the students and drove them into the National Guard. The freightened soldiers shot some of the students. That, then became the cause for protests and riots nation-wide. --- However, the Kent State riot wasn't exactly the same as what is happening in OWS, as they had a cause to begin with, whereas, OWS doesn't. They appear to have just a vague general dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Identifiable Cause: End Corruption
Ways to these means? Opinions vary.
DoJ Special Ops chased the Panthers (whose guns wern't loaded) towards the students, then a fly went by.............................. ;)
"However, the Kent State riot wasn't exactly the same as what is happening in OWS, as they had a cause to begin with, whereas, OWS doesn't"
Not from what I've seen. The primary message seems to be encapsulated in the often chanted:
"banks got bailed out, we got sold out"
And the hacker group Anonymous, who initially planned it, seemed to faily well clarify the issue with their recent:
"Bankers are the problem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1vpEcebYBg
Another "Useful Idiot" article from ZH who sits idly on the sidelines for 120 handles that have made the year for most traders!
Z
ironic post of the day
Excellent...thank you. Especially like this part:
'...we can either contribute to the cause of truth and help to shape these movements into something positive, or we can wait idle until they break loose completely and arrive at our doorstep in a form we may not expect or intend...'
Which supports ZH motto, 'On a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero'.
I'd rather be on the side of the 99%ers, better odds than 1%.
We Will Not Be Silent!
Dogs are, indeed, man's best friend. They are highly evolved to be synchronous members of our various packs and are in tune even with our most subtle facial expressions. Be sure to watch this, coming to PBS' Nova on Wednesday, 12 Oct:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-decoded.html
Have you discerned whether dogs view US as a type of dog, or whether they view THEM as a type of human?
This has been studied: Dogs view themselves as family members. Furthermore, the bond is facilitated by the same hormone as bonds mothers to their infants.
and the police shooting that dog could light the fuse that "storms the Bastille" and topples the worthless govt. there.
Yes, but there is nothing like a nice cat.
Not all the emotional baggage, and I think they are smarter.
Two awesome videos featuring the RiotDog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HPb46aK7hM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFd0hztEUWk
Read the history of the French revolution and the financial crisis that led up to it. See if it sounds familiar.
Absolutely right! It follows it step-by-step.
Nesta Webster was the first one to point out that every Communist Revolution up to her time was a repeat of the French Revolution of 1789. She said that in her book, "Secret Societies and Subversive Movements." She didn't make that point in her book "The French Revolution," but that is an invaluable source if you want to know what actually happened, instead of all the propoganda that passes for history, today.
"Nesta H. Webster was an historical writer who wrote a number of good books on the French Revolution and how things operated before, during, and after its occurrence. After World War I Webster became intrigued with the "bigger picture" in world history, including the revolt of Marxism, so wrote a book called World Revolution, examining how and why people continue to revolt. As the search went deeper, clear meanings behind our various revolutions began to surface for Webster-and they involved an "agenda" by secret societies.
Many dismiss this idea because they have never done the research. They believe that anyone who accepts "conspiracy theories" are crackpots or suffering from paranoid delusions. Yet, those who believe there are no conspiracies may be the ones who are deluded - along with most of the world's population. It is something to consider. It is also a scary thought, which becomes a bit scarier when reading Nesta's books. They lay out, in historical perspective, how these secret societies and subversive movements have operated and controlled things from behind the scenes...
It is true that not all secret societies are out to rule the world or manipulate politics or world currency. But there are some major ones, according to Webster, that are. They may have been started to promote high values and to seek knowledge, but became perverted by power hungry individuals who saw ways to exploit the world for their own benefit, due to their high-standing positions within these organizations. These things happen. Webster, a respected writer and world historian, provides proof in her book Secret Societies and Subversive Movements . Despite this fact, the Anti-Defamation League has declared this book to be "extremist propaganda." Do you agree...?"
I wrote a history book myself and I have a very high for her work.
But I'm just a biostatistician who got caught up in politics and wanted to know why things were happening.
However, H G Wells and Winston Churchill, both of whom wrote history books, felt the same way about her works.
The ADL either didn't read her books or didn't understand them.
I had a similar problem with the Jewish literary critics: They kept criticising my books for things I didn't say. They said, "But, that was what you meant to say." --- I finally sat down with one of them and went through one of my manuscripts to see what it was they were objecting to. My conclusion was that they were using derash to interpret my writing. Derash is the illogical or semi-logical interpretation based on subconscious responses. That is a traditional Jewish method for interpreting religious writings. It may be appropriate in that context but not when it is applied to factual prose such as history books.
Ninety-three Bitchez !
Be careful out there Sausage.
It's a violent brutal place.
Even when your just trying to wip it up.
I love the violent swings, if only I could get in the rhythm of them.
One word..... Unions!
The socialist don't want to accept they are the problem.
His name is pronounced Snausage.
Uh oh!
http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/armstrongeconomics-get-the-jews-100811.pdf
Lets see how long this dog lasts in a riot in Korea or China...
Now who's licking their chops?
A loyal dog can be a great partner when the going gets rough. America need a signature dog for the Second American Revolution, though all pups who stand tall with their packs are welcome.
Calling all canines to serve their packs for life, liberty, and the pursuit of snausages!
7 days until Black Monday II
I thought better of zero hedge than an MSM repost !?!?