"Pete C." wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

"RBnDFW" wrote in message
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Don Foreman wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:51:25 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I will be watching with interest, and with a lot of distance. While I
support liberty, and the Constitution, I'm also not interested in
challenging the power of the US Government.

Challenge of the government is essential to democracy. Fear of
retribution for challenge of government is clear evidence of
submission to and acceptance of tyranny.

Very well put, don.

That's not to say that challenges should be by fire. That's revolution
or anarchy, doomed to fail against vastly superior force unless done
with considerably more coordination and fieldcraft than is evident
among noisy dissidents clamoring for attention or trolling on usenet.

There was a time about 200 years ago that a rabble assembled into a
formidable force.

That was around the time that George Washington marched 16,000
federalized
militiamen into western PA, put down the Whiskey Rebellion, and indicted
a
bunch of them for treason, wasn't it?

Are you wishing for a repeat?

--
Ed Huntress

Say what you want about your beloved founders, constitution, laws, etc.,

Thank you, I will. I think very highly of them -- unlike the phonies here
who make up fantastical tales about endless usurpations and create fantasies
for themselves of becoming terrorists from within.

but having watched world events in recent years, can you honestly say
that you think the US government could withstand a home-soil insurgency
of even 10,000 (0.001% of the population) coordinated, committed
insurgents? I'm not so sure.

Yes. The Sons of Timothy McVeigh would find out in a hurry that most of us
would do everything we could to help wipe them out. Out-of-shape blowhards,
largely ignorant, stupid, and delusional, and much too impressed with their
own skills and abilities, the "insurgents" would never have a chance to
coordinate before they were found out and suppressed. And their commitment
would collapse in a heartbeat when they saw the trouble they'd unleashed.

That's the reality.

--
Ed Huntress