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‘No but as long as they go home safe they can divide and conquer. They’ll do Boston type tactics in a specific area and clean it out. Then move on.’

This is true as long as a certain number of citizens don't resist with deadly force. The LEO’s will win the fight but getting shot at a couple of times a day definitely degrades morale. This is stark, but if it comes to this Americans are faced with the choice the Jews of eastern Europe were after 1940 or the ‘Kulaks’ had after 1930. People who will round up civilians or engage in food seizure actions are contemptible bullies and they know it and their morale is not that robust. Seeing one of your number get his or her face blown off by a load of 12 gage 00 shot would be definite downer. Having people snipe at you and fire on your vehicles and occasionally fight it out to the death would be very hard to sustain over any length of time. It would also lead to a slow moving but eventual general insurrection. The uniformed bullies leaders often exaggerate how much power they really can wield in a country as big as this one with as much open space as we have.

It really does boil down to logistics. Say you do send 20 guys out to get one guy's stash of beans, rice, and the tomatoes in his garden. That's fuel for the vehicles, pay for the bully boys, wear and tear on vehicles, etc... etc.. and then what do you do with the stuff? It's a mess, bunch of different size/shape containers of variable quality of food, and some dog-in-the-manger type may have spiked some of his with rat poison.

This from a government that can't even do a decent job of the census every ten years.

It's not a paying proposition, in the long run.

/johnny