The gubbamint against people - wont have any "people" on the side of the gubbamint, or it will have a very small few committed and corrupted bought and sold people, you think they will trust the rank and file armed serviceman ?

Cool.
Srinath.

Midnightrider wrote on 03/16/13 at 10:18:28:


It actually wasn't that difficult in just about any civil war that I'm aware of, including the one in this country about 150 years ago.

I think (and hope) that the regular military actually might opt out. That's why I think that The Department of Homeland Security is the most frightening thing I have seen created by our government in my lifetime.

Midnightrider wrote on 03/16/13 at 15:06:48:


That's mostly correct, but in the border states - Missouri,Kentucky.Tennesse and Kansas- which were pretty evenly divided between Northern and Southern sympathizers, a lot of the fighting was gurerrilla in nature, often with neighbors killing neighbors.
At ay rate I don't think finding and motivating people willing to slaughter each other is really the issue.

What worries me is that for the first time in this countries' history we have a huge, well funded, government agency that is given the power to conduct surveillance on American citizens without warrants, imprison them without due process, and which seems to be accumulating the resources to conduct a war.

How long will it be before anyone who dares to criticize or question the powers that be, will be declared a domestic terrorist, and therefore an enemy of the state?

Only part of TSA's mission is to make flying safe. A huge component of its job is to acclimate millions of Americans to being manhandled and searched by uniformed agents of the state. And they are not stopping at airports. The TSA also has what are called VIPR Teams(Visibile Intermodal Prevention and Response Teams) that are intended to be used on the highways - stopping and searching cars and trucks,and no doubt motorcycles - in the name of public saftey and protecting us from terrorists.  Private vehicles, not public transport. Kinda violates the IV Amendment I think. But I'm just an old biker with a bad attitude- what do I know.

And don't even get me started on Drones in American skys. DHS has got a bunch of them too!

Its a comfort to see how many here have the sense to see whats going on.
Gives me some hope.

Do we have those "bullets that go around corners" perfected yet ?
Cool.
Srinath.

srinath wrote on 03/17/13 at 14:27:55:



It's a rifle body and a Glock is attached to the end of it. A camera is mounted and a screen shows a display to the operator.




--Steve

Pine wrote Quote:


Take a peek at what the European Union is trying to pull in Cyprus. Sucking 10% out of every bank account in every bank there, in order to prop up the economy.

Most of what money I have is in the bank. Not real currency - just ones and zeros on a hard drive somewhere. Most people are in the same boat. Scares the crap out of me when I hear about stuff like this.

There has been talk of advisers to our guv'ment discussing the feasibility of dipping into peoples IRAs.

When you think about what could be done with a mouse and a keyboard it's gotta make you wonder why they think they need all those boolits!