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recent college grads getting ready to rumble?
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... ...u.s. sen. james inhofe, r-okla., and u.s. rep. brad sherman, d-calif., both said u.s. treasury secretary henry paulson brought up a worst-case scenario as he pushed for the wall street bailout in september. paulson, former goldman sachs ceo, said that might even require a declaration of martial law, the two noted.- bizjournals ...

Check out this PUFF PIECE on the BAILOUT from the HARTFORD COURANT - "Overseers Having Trouble Tracking Money" - "Panel also finds it difficult....
BlondeSense — ... What are they afraid of? More people buying guns if they knew what was really going on? Maybe. Still doesn't make sense to me. Take Arizona for example -- they're in the mid-range and they get this piece written in the Phoenix Business Journal: Ariz. police say they are prepared as War College warns military must prep for unrest; IMF warns of economic riots. What about Wyoming? 60% ownership. Maybe they don't read in Wyoming? Never mind. I know it has to do with population. Still not getting it... From GeorgeWashington'sBlog: ...

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, A New Era of People Power in the Streets?
TomDispatch — ... In December, reports surfaced that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushed his Wall Street bailout package by suggesting that, without it, civil unrest in the United States might grow so dangerous that martial law would have to be declared. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned of the same risk of riots, wherever the global economy was hurting. What really worried them wasn't, I suspect, the possibility of a lot of people thronging the streets with demands for social and political change, but that some of those demands might ...

Sitting On A Razor-Thin Edge
Suburban Guerrilla — ... . Both Sen. Inhofe, R-Okla., and Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif claim that Paulson brought up the possibility of a declaration of martial law. ...