The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution When Empire Hits Home, Part 3 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18529

As nations of the world are thrown into a debt crisis, the likes of which have never been seen before, harsh fiscal ‘austerity’ measures will be undertaken in a flawed attempt to service the debts. The result will be the elimination of the middle class. When the middle class is absorbed into the labour class – the lower class – and lose their social, political, and economic foundations, they will riot, rebel, and revolt.

In late December of 2008, “A U.S. Army War College report warn[ed] an economic crisis in the United States could lead to massive civil unrest and the need to call on the military to restore order.” The report stated:Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities ... to defend basic domestic order and human security.