Hannah Bell
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Mon Jul-20-09 06:53 AM
Response to Reply #26 |
| 29. an inside eye is right. if they're getting lots of press, it's because someone wants them to. |
| -The logistics of a right-wing uprising simply don't make sense... |
LLStarks |
Jul-20-09 01:39 AM |
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A 100,000 person strong rebellion would be devastating. |
armyowalgreens |
Jul-20-09 01:42 AM |
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most are middle aged and geriatric. Revolutions need young people for cannon fodder. nt |
imdjh |
Jul-20-09 01:45 AM |
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Most of the right-wing militant types that I have seen have families with teens... |
armyowalgreens |
Jul-20-09 01:48 AM |
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But, for the most part, those people aren't in the cities. |
Ikonoklast |
Jul-20-09 10:15 AM |
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But civil order does not |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 02:19 AM |
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You can't predict the response to insurrection based on a sniper incident. |
imdjh |
Jul-20-09 11:21 AM |
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Some called the Rodney King riots a rebellion (which it clearly wasn't) |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 02:08 AM |
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It was rebelllion, it simply had no objective other than chaos and destruction. |
armyowalgreens |
Jul-20-09 02:51 AM |
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And looting. I was there when it happened. I would not call it a rebellion in a political sense |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 09:03 AM |
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Yeah, except Pox Nous would claim about a couple dozen drunken rioters... |
warren pease |
Jul-20-09 02:12 AM |
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Simply put, the coasts are essential and even in Red states coastal areas are purple or blue. |
imdjh |
Jul-20-09 01:43 AM |
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What about a slow motion uprising, old fogey style, over a longer time period? nt |
flamingdem |
Jul-20-09 01:45 AM |
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Do you truly believe that a modern civil war will be |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 01:45 AM |
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I never said it would be established armies. The Tamil Tigers did amazing using their tactics though |
LLStarks |
Jul-20-09 01:48 AM |
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There you go and that is the point |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 01:51 AM |
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it always cracks me up |
conscious evolution |
Jul-20-09 10:53 AM |
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Well you know it is very romanitc you know |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 11:13 AM |
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Neither does people taking the notion seriously. |
BlooInBloo |
Jul-20-09 01:46 AM |
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Something like a group of violent anti abortion protesters.. |
Ozymanithrax |
Jul-20-09 01:52 AM |
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That concerns me as well. We don't want something like the Algerian Civil War. |
NutmegYankee |
Jul-20-09 08:08 AM |
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It wouldn't be done that way |
notesdev |
Jul-20-09 01:55 AM |
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Look what one crazy shooter did...imagine a group of them with decent training and |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 02:16 AM |
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It's Pretty Obvious You've Given This WAY Too Much Thought.... (n/t) |
Paladin |
Jul-20-09 10:50 AM |
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Not really. Anyone with a tactical background understands this |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 08:24 PM |
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I agree. Something along the lines of the Mano Blanca would be their "style". |
Bosso 63 |
Jul-20-09 06:57 AM |
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Armed struggle won't work if you have any freedom of speech/assembly. |
billyoc |
Jul-20-09 02:06 AM |
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That is why the Ameirican Revolution had the support |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 11:16 AM |
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Well, first of all, I didn't say you needed a majority, |
billyoc |
Jul-20-09 11:39 AM |
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It ws also a civil war, don't kid yourself |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 11:42 AM |
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It most certainly was not a civil war. It takes more than some people siding with the English. |
billyoc |
Jul-20-09 12:35 PM |
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I know the AMERICAN MYTH, but 1\3 is not a few people |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jul-20-09 02:08 PM |
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The American Revolution as a war could not be neatly packaged as a war of just national liberation. |
Selatius |
Jul-21-09 04:13 AM |
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They (radical wingnuts) would lose eventually.... |
Kievan Rus |
Jul-20-09 02:18 AM |
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We already have 100K people waging urban warfare every day in the US |
XemaSab |
Jul-20-09 02:21 AM |
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That is beacuse the gangs have no political agenda and are just organzied thugs |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-20-09 02:36 AM |
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These morons don't have a political agenda, either |
Frank Cannon |
Jul-20-09 06:49 AM |
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Wow, when did THIS get on the table? |
napoleon_in_rags |
Jul-20-09 02:35 AM |
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They are NUTZ but organized! |
ClayZ |
Jul-20-09 03:10 AM |
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Have you seen WALL E? Think of the humans in that movie. |
Norrin Radd |
Jul-20-09 03:37 AM |
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While I don't think thesep people are world class athletes, lets not underestimate them. |
armyowalgreens |
Jul-20-09 03:41 AM |
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I was jesting with the word "uprising." Also, they aren't intellectual |
Norrin Radd |
Jul-21-09 03:35 AM |
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2000 was a coup |
leftofthedial |
Jul-20-09 04:25 AM |
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November 22, 1963 was a coup |
Larry Ogg |
Jul-20-09 08:47 AM |
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Like the Klan |
safeinOhio |
Jul-20-09 04:27 AM |
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an inside eye is right. if they're getting lots of press, it's because someone wants them to. |
Hannah Bell |
Jul-20-09 06:53 AM |
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Like Rush Limbaugh and Vietnam ... |
zbdent |
Jul-20-09 06:33 AM |
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But they could really mess up the country with guerrilla violence. |
Odin2005 |
Jul-20-09 08:46 AM |
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Let's be honest. |
Marr |
Jul-20-09 09:45 AM |
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Precisely. Besides, Big Brother is FAR more concerned w/Leftist/progressive "perception management" |
Echo In Light |
Jul-20-09 11:02 AM |
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We've been at a state of war with the |
chrisa |
Jul-20-09 11:09 AM |
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They're too chicken shit to try anything |
santamargarita |
Jul-21-09 04:40 AM |
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