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originally posted by: Ex_MislTech
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
"Keep in mind in a revolt if the rebels got the upper hand they could always be nuked from orbit by the powers that be. "
Actually that is what the 30,000 drones for US skies is about.
Some of the new drones are small and disposable, basically a flying claymore mine.
Ask yourself why do they need to GPS mark where my front door is ???
Nuke is a fear trigger word, its not something they plan to use unless it
looks like we are winning against them.
If it looks like we are going to win, then we get nuked.
Thus why my plans involve not being near a major city.
Thus why they have a history of packing ppl into things like
the Warsaw ghettoes as a control mechanism.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
I think sone more gun grabs may be on the way in the near future, ammo reduction and the like will most likely become more common. Also rfid tags on all bullets so they can be tracked.
originally posted by: ANNED
With the second amendment you have no groups that could run a revolt that would not violate the constitution because it would be unconstitutional.
The second amendment protects the American peoples rights as a whole.
Any group that tried to revolt would run into a group that supported the constitution.
Oath keepers.???
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
It may not happen in our lifetimes but as long as the 2nd amendment is there I think a revolt will eventually come to pass.
originally posted by: stayinglowkey
No need for guns in a modern revolt. Who is going to be so stupid as to die/be injured only to make somebody else richer? Better to take the thieves money and assets.
originally posted by: Ex_MislTech
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
It may not happen in our lifetimes but as long as the 2nd amendment is there I think a revolt will eventually come to pass.
It is already under way, it is just being done via covert methods that
most of the public do not perceive for what it really is, ie. the last
lead smelter in the US being shutdown.
There are other aspects as well, more esoteric and even less obvious
such as the mass chemical and electronic brainwashing of the public.
originally posted by: MrNeo
We have a government regardless of political party that has no problem bombing other countries while killing and imprisoning it's own citizens more and more everyday. You are being watched so organizing such a revolt would throw red flags all over the NSA'a screens. Cell towers can be shut off and drones can drop 500 lb bombs in Detroit cheaper than Iran.
There is a way of accomplishing this without firing a shot.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
I dont think that would ever happen as long as weapons of worldwide mass destruction exist, and the handguns and rifles arent stopping any military from comming in.
originally posted by: MrSpad
What we have seen in recent history is revolts have been started by unarmed people. When soldiers are orded to fire they instead change sides. Not until the revolt members become armed does the military then no longer care about shooting because they are being shot at. And of course people with their guns at home would not stand a chance. Armed revolts only succeed when they are supported by outside powers. The revolters would need a backer who could train them and rearm them. A miltia of half tained people with a hodge podge of weapons is nothing but, a target. When you enemy has artillery, TLAMs, MLRS, drones. aircraft etc. an armed mob could be put down without a single loss.
The nature of revolution with or without guns...is that whenever a people have determined for themselves that a government can extract no more from them....it becomes cheaper to revolt than it is to cede more to them.
In otherwords it become more expensive to give in to government and cheaper to revolt.
Then you will have a revolt..guns or not.
This is the dirty little secret that people like the great El Rushbo and others do not want you to know. The so called conservatives and Republicans...all phonies. You know the left will never allow this to be taught to people but what disturbs me is that the so called Right will not teach it as well. I have deduced by this absence that the Republicans are nothing but Democrat Lite..including the great El Rushbo.
Nonetheless...when a people have determined for themselves that it is cheaper to revolt than it is to give in ..you will have a revolution.
The goal of government is to convince the people that it is cheaper to give in to government and more expensive to revolt.
And all kinds of means have been devised to deceive people as to how it is being done.
DAncinig with the Stars...
The gods of Sports..
American Idol...
The news media to reinforce all these distractions..
Hollywood...
Racism...sexism....sex, sex , sex sex ..and more and more sex....ad infinitum.
Also fear techniques...like the next enemy to be created, fostered, and managed by government...to keep you afraid.
You must always have an enemy and be afraid at some level. This goes back to the Romans and before.
Anything to keep the people from thinking for themselves about the true nature of what is going on out here.
All distractions to keep people occupied and never thinking about the real nature of revolution and how government keeps raising the cost to the people.
What you realize after watching this type of circus for enough years..is that as a so called citizen...what you really are to government is a " Competitor" who must needs be controlled, managed, and monitored in every facet of your life and without you being aware of most of this going on around you.
Government is putting in place the apparatus to monitor you as a competitor..to know everything about you and your family...continually....to keep you from revolting or knowing the nature of revolution.
Orangetom