That was because of the delicate and gentle ROE.
Our ROE will be more Wolverines than US Army.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/10/2009 3:48:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That was because of the delicate and gentle ROE.
Our ROE will be more Wolverines than US Army.
The Red Army would provoke farmers to violence so they could seize their weapons. The Soviets would make outrageous demands on farmers for grain. Troops would show up at the farm and set fire to the women’s skirts. Where are you hiding the grain, Pavel? After a while, there were no more guns in the hands of the populace. And they still don’t have them. That’s why there were no armed reprisals to the Beslan school massacre. Read The Black Book of Communism.
I will tell you - when the war finally hits, it’s going to be very messy, isn’t it?
CA....
I'm afraid no one will really be aware of a "start".
A lone man or woman will console themselves thinking, "I hope the kids will tell the story correctly ... I hope they'll have the guts TO TELL the story"
My children know all about FreeRepublic and other contacts for me .... That's about all anyone can hope for and expect.
America is no longer our father's Buick.
I remember sitting quietly and watching my father make bullets. He retired from the Det. Police force in 1950, so it was prior to that...The force did not supply bullets for the cops...It was fascinating watching him with the mold and lead pot. When he retired, he used the mold to make sinkers for fishing....
Its almost a lost art...I wish I had kept his mold. I do have a pot of lead still out in the garage, it had a pouring spout on it to pour out the lead...
He had his own brass casings and gun powder, did the whole ball of wax for his VERY large service revolver...
As the old saying goes "Give me liberty or give me death" those are the only 2 options. There is no common ground, no compromise with those that would enslave you...
I have said for years, we are already slaves to the government via how many months it takes of working to pay all the taxes that have been laid on us...people are starting to wake up...If all of our work for 5 months of the year is what we owe all branches of gov't, federal, state and local.....we are slaves for that period of time...as nothing we work and sweat for belongs to us us for that period of time......WAKE UP..
You might call us part time slaves, those that are not the slaves are those feeding at the government teat. Interesting isn't it...
In WWI, they went toe-to-toe with the Germans. I think that’s where they lost a large percentage of their male population - in the trenches.
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Thanks for posting. Yes, it’s certainly worth reading, or reading again for those who saw it earlier.
It seems to me that you can add another factor to what the author says. Yes, the Russians had a tough time against the Chechens and the Afghans, even if it was rifles against planes and tanks. But the battle lines there were clearly drawn.
I’m not at all so sure that the military would follow Obama’s orders singlemindedly if he commanded them to attack American civilians here at home.
Some of them might, certainly, because they are trained to obey orders. And no doubt the leadership would lie to them as best they could about what they were doing and why they were doing it. Still, there would be a lot of hesitation. And it seems to me that an armed populace, fighting back, would increase that hesitation. It’s one thing to load people on trains for the gas chambers, maybe pretending to yourself that you don’t know where they’re going and it’s not your business to know. It’s another to fight them house to house in your own cities.
I’m not sure what the outcome would be. But no question it would be better with an armed citizenry than it would be if the people had no defense against tyranny.
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“what good can a handgun do against an army with advanced weaponry, tanks, missiles, planes, or whatever else they might have at their disposal to achieve their nefarious goals?”
It can do lots. Guerilla warfare, baby.
“A ragtag bunch of yahoos in Iraq sure did give our military an awful lot of trouble.”
A lot? Yes. But not enough. We need to do it more like the NVA/VC did. But I don’t think we’d enjoy living in holes as much.
“Most of US military + armed citizens VS ACORN + Americorps”
Don’t forget SEIU.
“Have you noticed the politicians (especially the Democratic Leaders and Chairmen) acting like they could care less what their constituents (or the “Blue Dogs”) want? Could it be that they know that something between now and November 2010 will keep elections from happening? There’s not another explanation that I can think of, can you? What would’ve sounded extremely paranoid a year ago is fast approaching a reasonable theory, IMO. “
EXACTLY what I’ve been fearing since I first laid eyes on ObaMaO.
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>>“Most of US military + armed citizens VS ACORN + Americorps”
>>Don’t forget SEIU.
Lol. I’d like to see them shoot a guy with an AR-15 with what most likely would be a .32 semi automatic.
Just say, "I'd much rather be shot with your little piss-ant .32 than my .45..."
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