[StonyBurk]

My daddy taught us that we are Americans-- and so long as
America gives recognition to the First Amendment--and we
speak what we know to be true-we have a right to say what we will.My wife worries that my oft offered opine will
one day lead to the cattletrucks and ninja wannabe of
army of Law enforcers. I tell her it will probably go down
with my walking in to the local cop shop as the FBI are there arranging for my arrest.And those at home left in the
dark. Either way I will speak until I have no tongue-nor
fingers to write with.

[Uncle Jaque]

Well, I hope it never comes to that, Stony -
but I have to wonder about your projected scenario just a bit.

Things may be a little different where you abide, but around New England it seems that relations between the Federales and Local LE run a bit "cool" to say the least.

Not long ago the Portland ME Police Dept. got a call about "Armed men" lurking around in a seedy area of the City.
(They have a few).

When Officers arrived they indeed found a small group of well - armed men, and a "Mexican standoff" ensued with weapons drawn untill it was determined that the suspicious party was a team of Federal Agents trying to make a drug bust.

No shots were fired & no one got hurt - but it came Waaaay too close!

The Feds apparently (and I don't think that this is an isolated incedent) didn't trust the PPD not to leak plans for the raid, so they never contacted them or let on about it untill some alert Citizen saw it going down and dropped the dime.

Needless to say, Chief Chitwood was NOT pleased (as well he shouldn't have been, as he could have lost some of his Officers that night, not to mention colatterals in the crossfire) but what, if any resolutions were achieved between his Dept and the Feds I have no clue.

I have a feeling it was simply hushed up and went away.

This was consistant with my experiences and observations back when I was a State Trooper over 30 years ago; The FBI would USE a local or State agency when & if it suits their purposes, and would work with them on a really big case - murder or kidnapping; that sort of thing - if they really had to - but such cooperation as there was hardly seemed to be reciprochal.

So how do you assume that the FBI (or whoever is assigned the task of rounding up us dissidents) is going to let local LEOs in on it, when you seem to have sufficient "Inside" contacts with the LPD who are going to tip you off in the planning stages?

If the FBI / BATFE and local /County/State LE Agencies and street - level personel have any significant trust or respect for one another, I have yet to observe it from where I sit.

One of the reasons, I opine, that Klinton backed off in his intentions to rapidly disarm civil America in the mid-'90s was that his Advisors probably told him that the cooperation of regional LE could not be guarenteed if Federal Agents attempted to enforce civil confiscation - which as is the case in Canada, the Locals might NOT... especially in the Deep South, where I suspect they may have actually joined in the resistance, and we could have been in for a deadly re-match of what happened in America between 1861 and 1865.

The Klintoons may be treacherous, but they ain't stupid, and probably knew better than to incite the South to "Rise Again".

Give the NEA and Hollywood a couple more generations of American youth to work on though, and they may be able to pull it off yet.

I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I spout off like I do and call 'em like I see 'em is that I'm unemployed, which outspoken Conservatives tend to be - if not in chronic trouble - from time to time I've noticed.

Even a politically neutral or "Conservative" Employer can be forced to comply with the power of PC by activists Lawyers and / or liberal Customers & "Advocacy Groups" (Jessie J. & Friends) threatening boycott and/or frivolus but expensive - and potentially catastrophic - litigation if they fail to comply with the persecution of "Offenders".

And in case anyone hasn't noticed by now, the same crowd that's always bawling for "Tolerance" and "Inclusion" and
"Sensitivity" never seems to get too far away from their tar, feathers, and noose of active, aggressive persecution whenever one of us is a little too slow to grovel at their feet.

Failure to grovel, don't you know, is just terribly (and intollerably) "OFFENSIVE" to them.

One of these days, I'm hoping that one of the last American Patriots left among us gets sick of groveling and comes up swinging.

Might that be you?

Anybody?

Isn't it about time?

Or is it too late already?

I'll let YOU decide - as indeed we must.