People who fly and maintian airfraft and missiles...or tanks for that matter...have to have food, fuel, parts, and they have to sleep, etc. as do their familes.
If their entire logistics chain is threatened and impeded by a population armed with 40 million hunting rifles...pretty soon the mechanism that supports those implements grinds to a halt.
Logisitics feeds those large systems and requires a lot of effort...a lot more than an individual rifleman and their weapon.
BTW, betty, please take a look at these two links and let me know what you think:
MY ADVISE TO THE FARMERS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Which just goes to show that there is no consolidation of governmental power than can possibly happen in a vacuum.
For there is no vacuum to begin with: The American citizenry is armed, and that by God-given right, as further guaranteed by our Constitution.
Though we do not possess fighter jets or nuclear arms does not mean we are helpless. A lot of "effective" little people running around in concerted, or even individual activity can undermine the power of great States. The testimony of history attests to this fact of reality.
But isn't this the very gamble that Obama is taking? That people understand themselves to be generally helpless, vis-a-vis the power of the State? That we are are born needy for what only the State can provide? Isn't this the central premise of the Obama ideology?
Okay. Let's test the truth of that premise, say I.
Obama does not own the truth of reality. Rather, he seems to be its greatest enemy right about now. Certainly, he is working towards reducing the United States of America into a completely ineffectual body in the world, and one so ineffectual that it can no longer defend its own, that is, American strategic interests.
Which boils down to the preservation, the sheer survival of American values and principles: Can they survive the reign of Obama?
We live in an age when the enemies of the United States of America are just as likely to be domestic as foreign. Indeed, the cancer seems to be lodged in the very bosom of the body politic. If it succeeds, even such tinhorn dictators as Chavez, or Ahmadinajad could wipe us out with ease, with impunity.
American is strong because of her ideas, her universal values. If we lose those, America dies.
But Americans will not let that happen without a fight, if need be. Let the world hear this from the lips of a quite average American citizen.
Anyhoot, stay tuned, people. We live in fascinating times. Follow the public arguments. And keep your firearms in well-maintained, operable condition; and know how to use them effectively.
It's always best to prepare for the worst-case scenario, even while hoping and praying that this "worst" will never come.
I think it is terribly, terribly wrong for environmentalists to stand in the way of the fulfillment of Darwin's dictum, "survival of the fittest!" Obviously a species isn't "fit" if it needs to be "protected." Just let it go.
I agree, protecting it is in fact an "illegal taking." All those farmers are due just compensation under the law. And how much compensation does it require to compensate a person for the total loss of their livelihood, just to protect a fish?
These people are simply raving, crazy — and obviously dangerous.
They are dangerous because, even though they are certifiable, they effectively wield power — for a purpose. The purpose is simple, pure destruction of the way of life of American citizens.
And that is why it is so important for us to support the "INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION."
Either problems like what's happening in the San Joachin Valley are justly redressed and resolved by constitutional means, or eventually there is going to be real Hell to pay....
Thank you, Jeff, as ever — for all that you do in support of the Constitution and the American Way of Life! These cannot be stolen from us with impunity.