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You Are Registered as a Participant in a Mass Disturbance

By Jason Simpkins | Friday, February 21st, 2014

Fires break out as looters pillage local stores. Makeshift bombs are thrown at riot police, who return fire at protesters. Soldiers are called in to quell the riot. They, too, exchange fire with civilians.

All told, about 50 people are killed and more than 1,000 injured. There are 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.

This isn't Kiev — it's Detroit in 1967.

Think about that when you watch the news tonight.

I know the former Soviet state of Ukraine may seem worlds away from the land we know and love, but it's really not.

What you're seeing there is the result of Democracy gone bad.

In 2004, elections were rigged by Russian operatives, thwarting the population's push for true independence. Those results were overturned peacefully.

The country wasn't so lucky this time around.

When Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of the deal that would have brought the country closer to the European Union and further from Russia, citizens took to the aptly named Independence Square to protest.

Police raided the event, arresting more than 30 people. But the crackdown backfired, bringing 100,000 more protesters and sporadic violence.

That violence has escalated since Yanukovych and his Russian puppet parliament have ignored demands for constitutional reforms that would limit the president's power. They've also refused to release political prisoners, like former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is chronically ill.

Now the bodies are piling up.

Amid the fires and explosions, a cameraman for the Associated Press said he saw government snipers shooting protesters.

Reports vary, but it's believed 100 people have been killed.

Think it can't happen here?

Think again...

Recipe for Disaster

It's been 50 years since fire hoses were turned on civil rights protesters. It's been more than a 100 since striking workers were shot by police while rallying for an eight-hour workday. And it's been about 200 years since the Boston massacre.

So, yes, it's easy to forget that the United States has seen its share of political clashes.

But tear gas, water cannons, sniper fire... we've seen it all.

And each fiery clash was sparked by the same flint rocks: economic inequality, racial/class tension, police brutality, political oppression, and, most of all, frustration.

Aren't all of those very much present in today's society?

President Obama made income inequality a focal point of his State of the Union address. And it's not hard to see why. The economic "recovery" we've seen has largely been a paper recovery that's benefited the very richest members of society, including bank chiefs.

Consider this:

• The top 1% earned one-fifth of the country's household income last year. That's the highest proportion on record, breaking the previous record set in 1928.
• Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, 95% of the income gains reported have gone to the top 1%. That compares with a 45% share for the top 1% percent in the economic expansion of the 1990s.
• And in 2012, the incomes of the top 1% rose nearly 20%, compared with a 1% increase for the remaining 99%.

Racial and class divides?

You better believe it.

This is obviously a sensitive issue. But as we saw with the Trayvon Martin case and again with Michael Dunn, race relations in this country could stand to be improved.

Not only that, but recent discussions about income disparity and the minimum wage are getting more extreme. This was best demonstrated by Tom Perkins, the wealthy venture capitalist who likened America's "war on the one percent" to the Holocaust in the Wall Street Journal.

And how about police brutality and oppression?

Earlier this week, police in California beat, choked, and tased a deaf man when his attempts to speak in sign language were interpreted as "threatening gestures."

His crime? Picking up belongings from a friend's home...

Last week, a 17-year-old boy, Christopher Roupe, was shot and killed by police who showed up at his door to deliver a probation violation warrant to his father.

And two weeks ago, a police officer handcuffed and detained a firefighter who refused to move his truck while treating car crash victims.

There's a new example every week. And that says nothing of the increasing use of drones in routine police operations (such as investigating cow theft) or the militarization of America's police force.

All of these trends are troubling, but political oppression is by far the most disturbing.

Two recent Supreme Court rulings have had a devastating effect on the electoral process.

First, the Citizens United ruling determined that money is speech, and thus campaign contributions are infinitely protected by the First Amendment. That raised the volume of corporate influence in politics to a deafening roar that's drowned out the voice of the American people.

Our democracy has essentially been hijacked. Voters are no longer choosing between two presidential candidates. They're choosing between Goldman Sachs and Monsanto.

The second major blow came last year when the Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That ruling basically declared racism over in America, saying states with a history of racial discrimination no longer need to be chaperoned by the federal government.

This is problematic because many state legislatures are actively seeking to disenfranchise voters by making it harder to vote.

The first way they're doing that is through unnecessary and redundant voter ID laws.

Proponents of the laws say they intend to eliminate in-person voter fraud. But the problem with that argument is that in-person voter fraud is virtually non-existent. Since 2000, there have only been 10 cases of in-person voter fraud — not nearly enough to influence an election one way or the other.

The real goal of these laws is to keep minorities and the poor from voting. Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Turzai admitted as much when he said the Keystone State's voter ID law would "allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."

He was wrong, and the law was repealed.

Still, many Republican legislatures continue to restrict voting by eliminating election precincts and reducing early voting.

But that's not to say this is a partisan issue.

President Obama has done more than his share to advance the U.S. police state and subvert the constitution.

Drones are now being used to kill Americans without a trial or due process. And he's made only a token effort to rein in the NSA's unlawful surveillance programs.

In fact, the nanny state is actually being expanded, with the Department of Homeland Security pushing for a national license plate tracking system.

Which brings us back to the Ukraine...

When Ukrainian protesters took the streets, they received a disturbing text message on their mobile phones.

It read: "Dear subscriber, You are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance."

Sure, we're guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble, but what's to stop the government from taking notes on who's there and exacting vengeance?

Ask the conservatives who've been harangued by the IRS if this administration or any other would be above that.

We may not get any texts when the revolution comes to America, but I can assure you, Big Brother will be watching.

He already is.

Jason Simpkins

@OCSimpkins on Twitter

Jason Simpkins is a seven-year veteran of the financial publishing industry, where he's served as a reporter, analyst, investment strategist and prognosticator. He's written more than 1,000 articles pertaining to personal finance and macroeconomics.