Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody -- Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures & Job Losses by Rick Turse

An analysis of national, regional, and local news reports from 2008-2009 indicates a largely silent, nationwide epidemic of drastic measures and extreme acts for which the economy seems to have been a catalyst. News of such deeds linked to economic woes -- from armed robberies to pay the rent to financially-motivated suicides to familicides (murder/suicides in which both parents and their children die) in the face of financial ruin -- has filtered out of cities and towns in most U.S. states. Since only a fraction of these acts ever receive media coverage, what is being reported -- most of it in local newspapers -- is startling. And while it's impossible to know the myriad factors, including deeply personal ones, that contribute to people resorting to drastic measures, violent or otherwise, many press reports suggest that the global economic crisis has played no small part in a wide range of extreme acts.
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  1. #1    Earlier this year, for example, "Binghamton Shooter" Jiverly Wong garnered front-page headlines nationwide and set off a cable news frenzy when, "bitter over job loss," he massacred 13 people at an immigration center in upstate New York. Similarly, coverage was brisk after Pittsburgh resident Richard Poplawski, "upset about recently losing a job," shot four local police officers, killing three of them. Many others have directed violence inward, sometimes shooting themselves as sheriff's deputies stood at the door with eviction papers, other times engaging in armed standoffs designed to end in a suicide-by-cop killing.
    written by Sparrows since 80 days 19 hours 54 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    This is nothing but abuse by govt. Here is another clip from the article:

    People do need to be aware of the stresses -- and the dire costs associated with them, but the chances of that happening are slim. The massacre at Fort Hood is bound to produce volumes of analyses resulting from multiple government inquiries into the killings. But neither the FBI nor Congress nor any other government agency will ever convene an investigation into the slow motion bloodbath resulting from the global economic crisis. For this reason, there will never be anything approaching a full tally of all the victims who were killed or died or were wounded or psychologically devastated as a result of evictions, fo...

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    written by Sparrows since 80 days 19 hours 52 minutesSparrows
  3. #3    Where are the comforting messages from this prez that Roosevelt used to give to the suffering and the poor during the Depression? Obama has nothing comforting to say, other than to tell these people what they already know. Where is the empathy? And yet the pundits want to compare this time with that. FUGGEDABOUTIT!! This will never happen with this man. That is not what he is here to do. Bring back the sanity. Just the new appt of his communications director should prove my point, the former Bush press secretary.
    written by Sparrows since 80 days 19 hours 47 minutesSparrows
  4. #4    This only reinforces the fact that this Great Recession was created and the incident of 9/11 could have been prevented. The year 2000 was the benchmark year for many unusual incidents.. unusual in the sense they are different than the previous years.
    The BUsh regime took over in 2000 with an agenda of unprecedented proportions.
    The evolution of our society to the present was in my common sensible thinking a creation of many acts according to the PLAN created in the 80's.
    written by makesenseofit since 79 days 19 hours 12 minutesmakesenseofit
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