If the U.S. has another civil war? - Page 2

nikimcbee · 12-27-10, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by privateer

Well I Damned well wouldn't post what I'd do on this
Top Secret Internet thing!
Whatever side I go with?
I'll be reading posts like this and doing my Hunting from there.

Flee to Canada?

Cohaagen · 01-05-11, 01:32 PM

One of the reasons why a right-wing uprising will never occur amongst the masses in the US is because the Tea Baggers, wingnuts, and assorted reactionary fellow travellers are, almost to a man, dedicated cop lovers and soldier worshippers - precisely the two groups who would be tasked with enforcing any proscriptive police-state legislation in such a scenario. That's why the militias and people like Alex Jones cook up these preposterous fantasies about the jackbooted, blue-bereted United Nations stormtroopers falling upon a sleeping America in their helicopters and armoured cars, performing door-to-door gun confiscations and taking the men off to WHO internment camps (fantasies the nuts find perversely satisfying and seem, perhaps, to even secretly wish for)

In this scenario, an organisation which can't even find consensus nor intervene in minor African territorial wars, and that the United States is dismissively contemptuous of 90% of the time, is somehow supposed defeat the richest, most powerful military force in the world, and then occupy its enormous home country. What bollocks.

Moreover, the ease - indeed, popular support - with which things like the PATRIOT Act were passed put lie to the whole idea of the armed US citizenry being an effective safeguard against tyranny. People weaned on the cosy myths of a Revolution won solely by wily mountain men and their Pennsylvania Rifles (the cowardly French armies and Navy and irrelevant Dutch and Spanish now written out of the popular record) would likely find a few problems going up against Abrams with a tricked-out AR-15, as many Iraqis have discovered.

Sailor Steve · 01-05-11, 02:34 PM

Spoken like a true Brit.

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01-05-11, 01:32 PM	#2
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	One of the reasons why a right-wing uprising will never occur amongst the masses in the US is because the Tea Baggers, wingnuts, and assorted reactionary fellow travellers are, almost to a man, dedicated cop lovers and soldier worshippers - precisely the two groups who would be tasked with enforcing any proscriptive police-state legislation in such a scenario. That's why the militias and people like Alex Jones cook up these preposterous fantasies about the jackbooted, blue-bereted United Nations stormtroopers falling upon a sleeping America in their helicopters and armoured cars, performing door-to-door gun confiscations and taking the men off to WHO internment camps (fantasies the nuts find perversely satisfying and seem, perhaps, to even secretly wish for) In this scenario, an organisation which can't even find consensus nor intervene in minor African territorial wars, and that the United States is dismissively contemptuous of 90% of the time, is somehow supposed defeat the richest, most powerful military force in the world, and then occupy its enormous home country. What bollocks. Moreover, the ease - indeed, popular support - with which things like the PATRIOT Act were passed put lie to the whole idea of the armed US citizenry being an effective safeguard against tyranny. People weaned on the cosy myths of a Revolution won solely by wily mountain men and their Pennsylvania Rifles (the cowardly French armies and Navy and irrelevant Dutch and Spanish now written out of the popular record) would likely find a few problems going up against Abrams with a tricked-out AR-15, as many Iraqis have discovered.