Reply #119: Southerners and standing for it

[localroger]

Hello, I live among these people too. Take my coworker (redacted) who keeps a gun loaded with "cop killer" bullets beside his bed. He's aware of the new trend of police home invasion and this is his answer -- "If they come for me I'll at least take a couple of them with me."

Note what this guy is not doing. He's not out demonstrating against the militarization of the police. He's doing a very Southern thing, which is minding his business. Yes, a lot of these guys will see right through whatever flimsy excuse is made to justify the transition. And they will still go to work the next day, pay their bills, and hope it all works out in the end. They may make arrangements, but they will be personal arrangements. And when they're confronted, one at a time, by the power of the State they will be destroyed, and the neighbors will take note and just be more careful.

A consistent state of lawlessness works to the advantage of a totalitarian state, because if you are forced into the underground economy to survive, then you can be "gotten" at any time. The thing is they don't really care about "getting" you as long as you do your job and shut up. People in Nazi Germany and the old USSR quickly took note of this and for the most part acted accordingly.

The number of Southerners, just like the number of Idahoans, who will actually bother to form training camps and create an insurgency is relatively small. There will be enough of them to create a lot of trouble, but once the actual military, rather than just the Guard and militarized police, are turned on them it will be over. Unless you think a bunch of rednecks running around in the woods actually have a shot in hell against fighter jets, laser-guided bombs, FLIR, and U2 and satellite surveillance.