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To: Pitchfork
Well, read post 238 where I show how we can avoid the entire colonial discussion...

but the fact remains that colonial America's farmers were up against a professional army (and were getting their butt's kicked all over the continent) and still eventually won, while you asserted that it couldn't happen.

243 posted on 03/14/2003 9:41:19 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: Teacher317
Two idiot snipers leached a vastly disproportionate amount of federal and states' resources...

Taking the sheer numbers of armed people in the US - most of whom are better planners and are able to organize better than Malvo and friend, and far more likley to have popular support in that they would not be random murderers as were the "snipers" - instead they would be fighting not merely on the physical front but also in the ideological front with the many resources available for communication including friends in high places and in the police forces and military, I would say that a corrupt government wouldn't stand a chance against angry citizens who were not only actively fighting but no longer formally working and producing income to tax. The government could be quickly exhausted, its resources curtailed, and its forces demoralized, yet would still have to watch its back lest another government intervene or take advantage.

276 posted on 03/14/2003 10:14:33 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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