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About 30% of my Active Duty unit would of thought that Rev. Wright was right on. Another 30% didn’t follow or care about politics. So that would leave about 30% who might have a problem with it.

I know what you mean here, but I think the 30% is way too high. I'd say that maybe 30-50% of the black guys in the Army would agree with Wright on some level, but since black people comprise about 15-20% of the armed forces (and are disproportionately represented in support units), we're only talking about a maximum of about 10%. However, that attitude has always tended to make them less apt to favor the government, not more, in my opinion, not that racists couldn't be counted on to take advantage of a conflict to get in a few shots at the objects of their hatred.

As far as comparisons to Civil War era soldiers, I'd have to say that times are different now. Back then, people tended to think of themselves as Minnesotans or Virginians first, and Americans second. Nowadays, the world is so small that we don't really make that kind of distinction.

And finally, we are also not German or Japanese. Those cultures are very different than ours. I spent most of my time in the Army learning just how different the mentality of a German is compared to an American. I wouldn't go as far as to say that somehow Americans are above evil, because we all know that isn't true, but I don't believe, for instance, that a Nazi party could arise in the US, and commit the crimes that it did in Germany, without a big fight internally. In fact, that is part of what this current fight is about: preventing the national socialists from taking over the country.

In the end, though, it is all just speculation. We'll only know for sure what will happen when it happens. But given the oppressive, socialist direction in which this country is being dragged, the only thing that scares me more than doing something, is doing nothing.

Actually I do believe that Democrats get at least 30% of the military vote anymore.

As for the Germans or Japanese the key point is that they are followers. Followers can be lead much easier than individuals. From what I have seen of the Army the old troublemakers who made the best soldiers many times I thought is being replaced by followers. Patton couldn’t make it in today’s PC army. The Scots for example could never of done the Holocaust they fought too much among themselves because of the independent spirit.

If the events that we describe take place I will suggest the following. Don’t trust anyone unless you really know them. The guy who talks loudest about the government needing to be taken down a notch or two may be the one that runs quickest to tell the government all he knows.

Second remember Red Dawn, yes it is just a movie but the 2nd Amendment citizen who had the bumper sticker they will pry my rifle from my cold dead hands was killed pretty quickly. On the other hand the kids who ran away to the woods did better. I am not saying head for the hills, if they had hid their weapons and played it cool they could of lived and attacked pretty much under the enemy eyes.

Another thing is that the media will take the government side and you may think you are freedom fighters but the media says you are terrorists then the public won’t support you. There has been times when resistance movements fail at first because the public support isn’t there. It isn’t called the underground for nothing so be willing to wait, go underground and fight smart.

Boy I hope the country can right itself before all this.