[central_va]

And there are quite a few military analysists who would feel that the quickest, most humane, shortest and most definite solution to those requirements would result from some very large smoking holes that glow in the dark. That's reality.

If I get what you are saying: The USA didn't nuke North Korea or China in 1950, It didn't nuke Vietnam on 1966, It didn't nuke Iraq or Afghanistan in 2003, BUT IT WOULD NUKE Dallas Texas in a secession movement. You are insane.

My message to the FedGov™-bring it.

[Talisker]

Perhaps I am an insane comedian. But as far as I can see, you have no idea how the real world works. The USA would nuke Dallas, Texas if TX seriously pursued an armed rebellion of secession and started attacking FedGov installations and sealing off its border precisely because it is Dallas, Texas and not North Korea, China or Vietnam.

Look at the horror of the Civil War. Look at was done in Sherman's March, in the prison camps, during Reconstruction. These monstrosities were not repeated until the Nazis and Communists came along.

You laugh at the present system, you want to discard it because it is "broken" - but you don't even understand what you want to discard. For example, it isn't broken - it's not being used. It's been replaced by a completely different system, and that switcharoo works because people like you would rather fight than learn.

Many people, including my family members, fought and died for this country and its Constitutional protections. To not use them, to let them be ignored and then fight an impossible battle rather than use the enormously valuable gift that is already here simply because people are too lazy to read how their inheritance works, is what is really insane.

But for far too many Americans, dying it preferable to learning. And that is the damn shame of it all - as in shameful.