No, that is not just a (reimagined) Cylon platitude. This
has happened before, and it will happen again.
The Bonus Army:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_armyAn "Occupy Washington DC" assembly, 1932. WWI veterans who had been promised benefits for their service in WWI and who demanded payment thereof. And had been out of work because of the Great Depression. They set up a
Hooverville, an emcampment of the unemployed, what we would presently call bums camped out on Skid Row.
Result: 28 July 1932 the police moved against the squatters. The violence that ensued resulted in President Hoover ordering the Army to evict the Bonus Army, led by General Douglas MacArthur using six battle tanks commanded by Major George S. Patton.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.