Posted on 09/10/2007 8:01:24 AM PDT by doug from upland
Which of his points make him “an ignorant ass,” the log established FFACT that government schools are academically inferior to private and home schools, or the fully-supported assetion that a public school with hundreds of potential victims and no guns makes a dandy terror target compared to a home school with a few victims and the possibility of flying lead?
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I wouldn’t say he was suggesting a quasi-vigilante response as much as predicting it. I have no doubt that there will be muslim free areas of our country if they pull off something like this.
One of the problems I see with the government using the military would be the military’s reluctance to fire on its own citizenry. Our soldiers are not the programmed butchers that other countries have and I don’t know it there are enough of them to do more that hit some really strategic hot spots, like bi cities. It’s a big country we have and there’ll be many places where they’d be spread too thing to be effective.
The attempts at government repression that you suggest are likely outcomes of vigilante justice, but may prove more difficult to enforce that is practical. Again, maybe in the cities, but out in the country? I dunno.
I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else. I was too harsh.
However, you and a few others have come across as not being concerned with any possible terrorist threat against the public schools since it would not personally affect you. And some of you have used this thread as an occasion to once again gin up a debate on the merits of homeshooling versus public education. But this isn’t what this thread is about. And the simple fact of the matter, is that homeschooling is not a real solution to this threat since the vast majority of parents who send their children to schools are not going to suddenly withdraw them and start educating them at home in order to keep them safe.
They won’t need no meter maid.....Armed dad’s will be on the scene and they better hope they are a better shot than me.
I for one would gleefully go in first. I’m not afraid of a bunch of spineless cowards who prey on kids. Guarantee I’ll take out at least one of’em.
I better stop....I just get angry to even think of this.
While I agree with your point about the interests of government, our government does not have the resources to quell a "real," albeit tightly targeted, rebellion from its most productive citizens.
Mobs may be stupid, but *Americans* are not.
I have said this time and again here on FR after the Beslan attack. I think the Beslan attack was just a warm-up for a plan against the U.S.
I also think they could easily target large churches in this country and the libs would have NO OUTRAGE it since they hate Christians so much! Libs would consider it a victory to have many Christians slaughtered as that would remove much of the conservative base and help to increase the Dems power.
Did he ever name any schools? And 17 kids are missing in Houston?
“I worry less about schools than I do about other large gathering places such as stadiums, shopping malls, churches, or public events”
Then you don’t understand what Muslim terrorists want.
As we are in the realm of speculation, I would agree that there are forms of rebellion that the government would find very difficult to control. The government has a Pavlovian response to perceived and real threats of anarchy. These responses would escalate rather rapidly. While there are segments of the population that are culturally antinomian (witness NOLA after Katrina), most Americans are law-abiding citizens who would find it difficult to become part of a armed rebellion.
Also agreed, but in recent years I have experienced first hand what the American Yeoman class can accomplish. An "Atlas Shrug" by those competent to judge when the laws they live under are no longer legitimate would overwhelm the comfortable bureaucrats in short order. There simply aren't enough troops to save them AND pacify the public.
Maybe its time for all Sikhs and Suffis to proclaim in their business that they are not sympathetic or aligned with the Muslims who would do evil.It would go a long way to protecting themselves from a reaction in the community they live.A smart means of self -preservation no doubt.Separating the wheat from the chaff.
....And after what has happened this week to a highly respected 4-star general in the nation’s capitol, with dedicated lib nutjobs trying to eat him alive, I bet there are military troops who will happly look the other way and let “We The People” take our government back from these bureaucrats.
Thanks for the response.
Why aren’t they publicizing the school districts?
I am assuming that many of the cars, trucks and buses that get stolen go straight to Mexico and are not being hidden by terrorists in garages. But you never know.
Your welcome!
Yep they would do well to even post those kinds of things in and around thier businesses.Most Rednecks just see a turban.
I don’t condone what may happen but I really think it might if these unthinkable things happen.
You have an interesting point, plus there is the advantage of knowing that known of ‘their kind’ would be killed if a Jewish synagogue, Catholic church, or Baptist church were gunned down.
I appreciate the apology, but you're projecting. There's nothing in any of my posts that applies in any way that terror attacks on schools would not be something that would greatly concern me. I doubt you're characterization of others is any more true.
And the simple fact of the matter, is that homeschooling is not a real solution to this threat since the vast majority of parents who send their children to schools are not going to suddenly withdraw them and start educating them at home in order to keep them safe.
So what? Nobody said "Everybody can homeschool tomorrow and they won't get us." They said, "If your kids are homeschooled they won't die in one of these attacks." I drive an SUV. I won't be killed in an accident as easily as someone driving a Prius. That doesn't mean if I point that out I'm saying every will (or should) start driving an SUV.
>>>Did you have blacks in your school?<<<
What does that have to do with my statement that I recalled only a few incidents of racism in the form of fighting or obscenity shouting? Please try to follow the conversation.
For the record, the first blacks attended my high school when I was a junior (that is the 11th Grade for those in Rio Linda).
>>>I stated clear history with no distortion<<<
You did not. You made the outrageous claim that a majority of Southern whites were OK with lynchings. Only a blithering idiot, or a race baiter, would make such a claim. Are you a blithering idiot, or a race baiter?
>>>Wow, what a concession.<<<
That was no concession. That was history, unlike your lie that a majority of Southern whites were OK with lynchings.
>>>I’m not race baiting, I’m ignorance baiting. And I’ve caught a whopper.<<<
Please get your history straight, sonny, and not straight from the mouths of leftwing nutjobs or the so-called “Rainbow Coalition”.
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