On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:09:38 -0400, Kirk Gordon
wrote:


If you were a chess player, I suspect you'd sacrifice your queen to
capture one of my pawns, and then claim that you'd won a great victory
by hurting me and teaching me a lesson. Sebsequent moves might
demonstrate otherwise.

KG

Repost from another newsgroup:

A few shots are fired at an APC, on a rainy Friday night. A tac squad
rolls to the area, which happens to be in a trendy area of downtown.
The troops are dismounted, and patrol the area. No enemy is seen. As
they remount and move out of the area, a platter charge decimates the
lead and rear vehicles. The troops dismount in disorder, and are blown
to pieces by impromtu claymores located in city sewer drains in the
curbing. The few surviving troops are shot dead by several snipers. A
silent group of men and women rush to the scene, stripping the dead of
their uniforms, arms, ammunition, and stripping the vehicles of their
crew served weapons. They remain on the scene, no more than 5 minutes,
then blend back into the background.

Repeat this scene a few dozen, or a hundred times.

As the troopers are being killed, a gunship flies overhead, powerless,
as the buildings are too tall, and to fire on the area, will decimate
the trendy buildings and businesses, which will indeed cause their
owners to turn against the military. ROEs are confusing and
contradictory...

As the troopers were being killed, their CO was eating dinner, with
the Mayor of the city in a fancy restaurant. As he raised his fork..a
168gr International enters the junction of his skull and first
vertibrate, passes though, and severly wounds his XO sitting across
the table. The investigators later determine the shooter fired from
over 600yrds away.

Repeat a few dozen times

As the trucks and APCs sit waiting in the fueling depot, a single
trooper, places charges of C4 beneith several blivits. It seems his
folks were killed by Government forces in retaliation for a rebel
attack in Ohio. The resulting explosion, 15 minutes later, decimates
the fueling depot, and incinerates 75 men and women, and destroys a
number of APCs, trucks and other vehicles. The unknown trooper is
later thought to have been incinerated , but has actually deserted,
taking his skills, training and equipment with him, and has become a
rebel.

Repeat a few dozen times.

A Reserve unit, from Tennesee, is ordered to fire on a suspected
rebel position, in the middle of a small sleepy town. They refuse.
When MPs are sent to enforce the order, the troops turn their weapons
on the MPs, and then disburse, taking their ordnance with them.

Repeat a few dozen times.

A Government leader, a strong Federalist, dead set against the Rebels,
is blown to bits while having breakfast with his family. Ordnance used
was later found to have been looted from troopers killed in an ambush,
3 weeks before.

Repeat many dozen times.

A pair of old Vietnam vets, sick, dying of cancer, hold up in a
heavily occupied office building overlooking a State capital. They are
on different floors, but are linked by FRS radios, cell phones and the
offices own phone system. They each have a 308 deer rifle, with
copious amounts of ammunition. Being well trained at one time, and
having read all the sniper manuals, have constructed their hides well,
inside of unoccupied offices. Using X10 video cameras cheaply and
commonly available, they now control the accesses to their hides, with
improvised command detonated muntitions. They keep up a reasonable
rate of fire, killing several dozen State government workers,
including the Governor, and the chief of the local Anti Rebel forces.
Attempts to storm their position, result in over 50 deaths. A gun ship
is called in, and the building is rocketed and shot to kindling,
killing a number of innocent civilians, leaving vengeful families
behind.

Repeat several hundred times.

A fast freight train, moving troops and supplies, derails over a deep
canyon in Arizona. Deep 4x4 pickup tracks are found in the area during
the investigation. The truck, found later, was stolen from a local
dealership.

Repeat several dozen times

A concerted attack on switch stations and high voltage transmission
towers throughout the Western states, causes the entire grid to go
down, leaving 85 million people without power or heat during a record
coldspell in Febuary. Munitions used were found to be stolen from
military stores, armories and also many homemade and improvised AFO
devices were indicated.

Repeat a dozen times.

Farmers in the Midwest, decide that their crops are not going to be
planted this year in protest. A wheat, potato and corn shortage
develops in the cities. Government troops are dispatched to attempt to
force farmers to plant. The various agents and troops, are not seen
or heard from again. Hogs seem to be growing well though.

Repeat a few hundred times.

Food riots break out in several inner cities, in mid summer. Heavy
handed commanders order hundreds of men, women and children to be
machine gunned. Human waves of people storm the troops, dragging them
from their vehicles and positions, and they are beaten, shot and
stabbed to death. Responding gunships are taken under fire from squad
served weapons, manned by black and latino veterans, whom recruit the
local gang members into rebel milita units, providing training, arms,
intell and direction.

Repeat in most cities.

Need I go on? Sound like a nightmare? It would be. Sound like our
current military, police and draftees could handle such a population?
Think they would win?

Never think, that a rebel force, composed of motivated, vengeful,
citizens, many of whom are trained veterans, will fight a set piece
battle against technologically superior forces in a rural area.

Most of it, will be in urban, heavily populated areas, where each
fence sitting civilian killed, will leave a legacy of revenge for
their survivors. And that revenge will be directed towards ANY
government worker, uniformed or not. Wanna bet..governmental workers
will stop showing up for work? Wanna bet. that those whom do show
up..will not be sabotaging governmental efforts to rein in the
populace? Particulary those..whose folks were burned to death, when
their apartment house was fired on by heavy weapons, to attempt to
supress a single sniper? A sniper whom turned out to be a very old
Korean war vet, with a Garand, whom lived in the building for years,
whose wife died a year before..and he has nothing to live for..except
his dimly remembered Oath..to protect and defend the Constitution,
from all enemies, foriegn and domestic?

Think long and hard, about our modern military attempting to root out
the minnows.

Read the book, Unintended Consequences, and enlarge the scale a
thousand fold.

Consider the number of Western States, already mad as hell at the
government, whom will simply take a vote, and succeed from the Union.
Think of Texas, becoming the new capital of the rebels. Think our
military can even put down a revolt OF Texas? Think again. Think B52s
and A10s, will be of any value in Cincinnati, Huston, Detroit,
Bakersfield, etc etc etc etc? Think those aircrews are gonna drop
daisy cutters on Mom, Dad, Uncle Pete? How many do you think, will
drop those daisy cutters elsewhere? DC, for sure will get pasted.
Wanna be a congress critter working there? Wanna be a congress critter
thinking about going home after a session of Congress? Knowing he/she
will be running a gauntlet, with his/her face and name well known? Not
to mention, his home and familys address well known?

Nope..this has been wargamed many many times..and its someplace none
of us wants to go..as it will make the First Civil War, look like a
rugby scrum in comparison. And the government forces will indeed loose
in the end. And the end..would be much quicker than one would think.

Never think..that the Government would win. They can't. Everytime in
our nations history, when the Constitution and the nation was
threatened..the citizens have responded against the common enemy. And
250,000,000 armed, motivated and ****ed individuals..is indeed a force
to be reckoned with.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's
cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.
- George Orwell
Rule #35
"That which does not kill you,
has made a huge tactical error"