the future unfolds darkly...

JOURNAL: Targeting Banksters?
Viral violence incoming. As this NYTimes article points out, the public is actively targeting AIG execs. Death threats have resulted in armed guards posted at the company's offices and at executive mansions.

The ugly collapse (it won't be coming back anytime soon, despite the expensive charade to the contrary) of financial capitalism will make banks, hedge funds, and other financial institutions targets of violence in the near term. At the individual level, the motivation to "postal" violence is likely to grow since these institutions are actively creating a vicious financial undertow that is sinking formerly "middle class" families (through usurious credit card rates, foreclosures, a Dickensonian bankruptcy process due to recent "reforms", etc.). The motivation for small group violence will be based to the idea that financial companies will be depicted as the "betrayers" behind the rapid diminishment of "America." Actual, rather than threatened, violence will likely become commonplace as the depth and scale of the crisis becomes apparent in 2010.
H/T globalguerillas.typepad.com