Posted on 07/21/2020 6:19:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is now, thus the slippery slope to confiscation.
A second civil war in the US would last for decades and possibly centuries................
Well said, and logical. There is no other way for this current situation to go, given that the left will not yield and our Democrats essentially side with them. We must sooner or later make our socialist leaders fear for their homes and families as much as we fear. If the left makes a hit, we WILL make a hit - twice.
Sad, but true. This will end only when their hurt is much greater than our hurt. It’s called war.
Why is Soros still alive?
Probably very nearly correct. The mess in Portland is beginning to be troubling. It has gone on too long, local leadership is supporting it and if they break through the Federal lines, all hell is going to break loose all over the country. The main line is Portland, Oregon. THAT must be stopped no matter what.
The Civil War is here. It is happening now. It is people losing their jobs because of something they posted online in 2014. It is riots and looting. It is Nancy Pelosi literally threatening the President. The fact that the author doesn’t recognize the war is happening now tells us how ineffective the insurrectionists have been.
We will survive this. Eventually, the parents of the uncivil warriors will kick them out of their basements and force them to get jobs. One sign liberals are losing was posted here today. Red Bull fired their diversity and inclusion staff. (The “diversity” program at my last two jobs was the most threatened I have ever felt in the workplace. If I didn’t suspect it would kill me I’d start using Red Bull products.)
The problem, as I see it, is that local law enforcement has had a tendency to support and assist urban rioters and has a tendency to throw the book at Normal people who want to engage in self-defense and protect their property.
The whole situation changes quickly if that reverses.
If Normal people are given wide latitude to protect themselves and their property, then even the urban areas can be pacified quickly.
All we really need would be federal troops “explaining” the situation to local law enforcement. Just stand down. Let the militia do the work. In times of trouble, Normal people can police themselves.
It will look like Kosovo and Serbia. armies will surround areas, snipers will shoot anyone on the streets. Independent gangs will rape and pillage at will, murder will be for fun and revenge. You won’t sleep at night and someone else will have to watch over you during the day.. Lead will be more valuable than gold, and it will be the new currency. You’ll sell your wife for 2 cans of beans...
The large cities would be destroyed first like they are now then occupied by gangs. Rural areas would have groups to protect their crops, food and resourced.
I completely agree. Have been thinking of ways...
Law enforcement and the courts will be on the sidelines and out of the way while people with grudges and payback WILL go after their adversaries whether they be their neighbors, their HOA/POA, journalists, lawyers, or pols.
No one wants a Civil War and thousands will perish before one officially kicks off.
Of course our side would certainly have the advantage from the logistics perspective as we control the vast majority of the nations food and energy production. We could essentially cut food shipments and power to the cities and then sit back and wait.
This all seems a little short sighted. Sorry for skimming, but I’d imagine something like the fall of Yugoslavia, with all the trappings, including the fact that there may well be more than two sides, factions, or parties involved, and also lots of claims for all sides of war crimes, and combinations of organized war, asymetric and guerilla war, and soooooo much innocent and civilian death and destruction caught all in the middle. So please pray that this is nothing more than a thought exercise. Groups hiding the the hills, the taking of cities, and also, like that scenario in the 90s with Kosovo, serbia and croatia, lots of outside intervention. U.N. boots on the ground, and many powers in the world (old and new) sooo very happy to see the collapse and as crazy as rabid dogs to get in for a piece of the action, all for the sake of ‘peace and restoring stability’ of course. wink/nudge heh
I don’t know how and who will control the military, and where it will land, but even if we don’t have outside air power over our skies, I would definitely not be suprised to see a lot of air drops of supplies and aid, and perhaps secretly even weapons, and I am sure you would have cities and regions under seige, at least for certain periods of time. Ugly ugly business. You don’t want this.
Or we will have Rwanda.
This is a people who masks themselves and hides in their homes from a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. Do you honestly think that these cowards will fight for anything?
In CWI, there were a clear demarcation of states that could join forces to create a new country, and a willingness by both the population and the state governments to separate and create their own central government.
In CWII, all 50 states have factions from both sides, but no state governments willing to break away from the United States to create their own country.
So CWII won't be a civil war, it will be an asymmetric gorilla war.
Decades only in the same sense that our first civil war lasted that long with post-war friction. The actual widespread shooting would last from 5-8 years. Millions of decent people will die in that war, along with tens of millions of socialists and their allies/sympathizers. I hope we can avoid it, but that civil war is far more likely now than it seemed just a year ago. It could start as early as the window between Election Day and Inauguration Day.
“ An armed citizenry ready and prepared to defend its rights would be an intolerable threat to the regime.
It is now, thus the slippery slope to confiscation.”
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I think there’s merit to both statements.
Indeed,if the citizenry remains armed the Left has zero chance of taking over. Much of Antifa and other rioters and lootersconsists of white, elite college students. At the moment they’re having a jolly good time. However, if the shooting should start these spoiled idiot will run for home in a New York minute. They’ve got no stomach for a firefight.
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