So if Bush suspended elections and decided to try to stay in power

[hollowdweller]

and the people took to the streets I wonder if the military would stick with Bush? Or would they desert like they have in some of these other countries?

I'd like to think that the army guys still think for themselves but some of this stuff that has gone on in Iraq with all the sadistic type stuff I just wonder if they've got them all brainwashed.

[Walt Starr]

1. Bush isn't the guy with the power

and the man with the power will choose Bush's successor.

[lonestarnot]

2. Somebody access votes in Ohio overnight so ....

maybe I will be LOL:beer:

[Skip Intro]

6. What if Kerry is the successor?

That would mean the man with this power has equal control of both parties, and of who will fill a then puppet role of President. And I've wondered that before as well, if that's what you're saying. And its pretty obvious it isn't bush with the power.

But who is in control, who does have the power, and what are they trying to accomplish?

[Cobalt Violet]

3. I doubt people will take to the streets. Sadly as that sounds.

Lots of people have said they would it he stole this election. He stole it and lots of people are christmas shopping instead. I guess that's what they meant when they said they would take to the streets, to shop.

But if I just imagine that they did come out, I don't think the military would turn on the people if there were a lot of people. If it's not a lot they would.

[Benhurst]

4. This is not something for the American public to get upset about.

Murkins wisely save their ire for more important issues, such as the rigging of an American Idol contest. You've got to put first things first.

[gordianot]

5. These types of threads cause trouble with Freepers.

Here I go anyway.

I think Bush would do anything to stay in power.

The question is; Would the military forces allow this to happen if say Bush loses Ohio? I also think we are in a MSM blackout NOW over that possibility.

[signmike]

7. Would the military attack U.S. civilians?

Do the police? Do they fire hose crowds of negroes, beat and tear gas demonstrators? Jail them? Send some to Gitmo? Does the National Guard shoot students?
Naw, this is America. It can't happen here.

[vpigrad]

8. Or worse

> Do they fire hose crowds of negroes

Fire hose? How about maim and cripple! I still have a large scar on my forehead when I decided to try to go to work even though the thugs in blue were out in force. They almost killed me. My wife borrowed a neighbor's car, and wasn't allowed-out of the black neighborhood to take me to the hospital. Did the blacks and other victims fight the cops that day? No, they just took their beatings. The same thing will happen again if we charge Bushie and the thugs in blue. You can't fight back directly against the military and the police. You have to be smart about it.

[gordianot]

9. Good point.

The first man killed during the Revolutionary war was a freed slave Crispus Atticus. Today powers that be can slaughter crowds with impunity.

I would hope we have raised our children (who now wear those uniforms) well enough to avoid killing, maiming, and slaughtering our own people.

[m berst]

11. "our own people"

Unfortunately people are being told that many of "our own people" are liberal traitors who hate America and are on the terrorists' side.

[gordianot]

12. What makes me so mad is Bush disgraced his uniform.

He is the damn traitor who took an oath and deserted in the 1970's with his daddy's help. When he took his second oath as President he has disgraced that oath many times. Now he has the nerve to pick a Para Military Jacket and stand in front of real soldiers when he has continually disgraced his oath(s) and uniform his entire life.

If George wanted to go to Canada he should have went I would for one have understood, but he did not choose that route.

I took the oath 30 years ago and have never disgraced it. I may be what some call a liberal Democrat. If anyone wants my blood they can have it. I refuse to live in TERROR and I will not ever leave this country to the day I die. No cowardly deserter will ever do that to me.

[m berst]

14. it angers me as well...

...when I think of the guys I grew up with, and my family. Some didn't come back from the war, others came back all f-ed up for life. Some served their time in a Federal pen because they had the guts to put their ass on the line for their beliefs. Others left their home and family and started over in another country.

Only a relatively small number were able to cruise through the 60's without having a care in the world, unlike the many for whom that nightmare in Viet Nam turned their life upside down. Somehow all of the worst skaters and dodgers wound up in this administration where they are condemning another generation of young people to a living hell, and destroying thousands of innocent lives.

It is truly a moral outrage.

[Cobalt Violet]

13. Don't forget the orange nets.

And never leave home without a sharpend K-bar.

[goclark]

15. I think it was CNN that did a piece @ "Urban Warfare"

It was pretty scary.

The first thing I thought of when I saw our soldier's training in the segment was," Are they practicing to control US in the future?"

[Ravenseye]

10. Martial Law

Who cares what happens after that. Once martial law comes to this country, by our own armed forces, it doesn't matter the hows whos or whys. We'll never be the same.

[BiggJawn]

16. People are going to take to the streets?

Why? Is the Cable going to go "out"?

Never you mind the Army. it's the POLICE you better be sweating buckets over.

You PERP!

Fantasy...

and REALITY....

[hoi polloi]

17. Bush will never stay

He will never be able to stay in power, or take over the military, because there are too many people that can replace him. He is not wise enough, or powerful enough to do this. Someone else? Well, I don't know who might come up, but Bush doesn't have the bonhomie.

[Nordic]

18. now that they can steal elections, they don't care

they'll put some other puppet in power and nothing will change but the faces.

[KSAtheist]

19. Gee, I don't know.

It's iffy.

While we're on the subject of riots in the streets, I can just imagine how big the party is going to be when the Yankees win the WS!

OT: Does anyone else think that "Surviving Christmas" looks like an awesome movie? I think that and "Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason" will be battling out for the top spot until Christmas.