Posted on 06/13/2017 7:18:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
Stands true today for the Trump Admin.
Correct.
We should not storm the tax-payer funded palaces of taxpayer-paid princes and turn hem out onto the street. N
You tell us not to fight constantly and you want California to be able to secede and steal our Pacific Coast access without a fight, just who’s side are you on?
LOL - yep - you get it.
You people watch WAY to much TV and read way to many doomsday novels.
Why? Do the police go away? Do people become murderous idiots because DC is burning? No.
A real economic collapse can be triggered by the collapse of the petro-dollar, due to re-alignment of political and economic blocs. (Think Russia-Iran-Iraq-Syria bloc & Turkey-Azerbaijan-Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood bloc)
Or by the interest rate on the national debt rising sufficiently.
This is of course ignoring lower-probability black swan events, such as another sun-initiated “Carrington Event” like in 1859 or a rogue nation like North Korea launching an EMP strike.
Also, the nature of a CW II would be different than CW I. A good strategy for Red vs urban Blue would be to blow all the bridges leading into a Blue city, destroy all the powerlines going in, and cut off the water supply, food supply and let them stew in their own raw sewage as they starve, loot and die of cholera.
Yes, time to burn down the Bastille.
We live in a world where information and millions of people can be shared effortlessly. Motivated groups and individuals will be able to find out everything they need to know from voter rolls, government databases, private marketing databases, etc. There are many social analytical software tools that can be used to analyze phone records and emails, perform sentiment analysis that will give very clear information on targets. Imagine all of the corporate world's marketing tools turned to violence ends.
Here is a graph analysis of the Star Wars movie characters:
As you can see from the graph above, Obi-Wan the old, desert-rat, hermit "knows too much!"
I used Star Wars to lighten the mood of an otherwise Orwellian topic. For background on this type of analysis here is the link the the Star Wars Social Network http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/12-15-star-wars-social-network/
With this type of analytical tool the nodes of the major players can be sized, colored, and arranged according to their centrality, number of connections to other actors/nodes that that you're interested in. With this type of tool information starts popping out and people of influence or of interest become visible. Imagine this being applied to people in your neighborhood or City based on information regarding who they call, email, text, write checks to, what restaurants they eat at, what clubs/associations they belong too.
These tools can and will be used in the event of the Civil War in America. While we have a lot of tree hugging savages, Americans of all political beliefs are very techno-savvy. This may be turn out to be the first information-driven Civil War.
I could beat a plowshare like a bell and get my black powder rifle out...however, more likely, I would have my revolver, 9 shooter, Stryker, shotgun, etc. etc., at the ready.
320 million people in the USA and all of them are different. People in the South relate and feel allegiance to the state of their birth. I cannot speak for Yankees but down here many the majority, but not all of course, will immediately fall back on the state and show patriotism to their state and governor(s). Some states, mostly Yankee, where a lot of socialist live and depend on government will immediately go anarchy. This will exacerbate the secession that will surely follow. Each state, each community is different. They may be anarchy in huge cities but
Hmmm. I think it goes without saying that there is a coup actively underway in our country... And I hope the shooting starts pretty soon because if it don't, we are going to lose.....
I believe the progressives (better known as the commies) probably won't start the action because they are winning right now... So, there is no need for them to do so at this time... But we, (better known as he Constitutional Conservatives) on the other hand, better make our move pretty darn soon because the left is busy importing their "ARMY" into our country as fast as they can..!!! And YES... I really believe this to be true.. That's why the stinking, lousy traitor known as the obummer refused to enforce our immigration laws and imported all those Muslims.......
The one thing we got going for us is the vast majority of the oath takers, that is to say the police, army and such, are on our side... I don't want to be on the losing side so the sooner we start the dance the better....
MHO....
Things to consider might be camouflaged sentry guns (inside a vegetation-covered concrete or metal cloche) that face inwards (towards your residence) but such that your residence wouldn’t be hit by them. (so that an enemy would only see them once they have walked PAST them and get shot in the back)
The better-constructed paint ball sentry guns could be used as a guide to create a sturdier sentry with stronger servos that could handle firing something like 5.7 rounds.
Also, body armor and armor carriers should not be neglected. There are also decently-priced armored masks available to protect the face.
Read recent history.
The central power collapses, a lot of repressed grievances suddenly become bloody.
Do you really think that people will keep playing nice once the power of the FedGov is gone?
I am saying it's regional some regions will handle it seamlessly some regions anarchy will prevail. Bottom line people don't become suicidal/homicidal ruthless uncivilized animals when the central government collapses.
So what happens to the governor of Alabama for example in your scenario? Does he slink off into the corner and cower in the fetal position?
I don’t know much about Alabama. Probably realign the SEC.
Nebraska will probably cheer and paint red “N”s on all the nukes at Offut. Again (the techs got into some trouble last time). Maybe schedule Oklahoma for a Thanksgiving game again.
But New York? Georgia? Illinois?
Other mixed states?
Someone will try to “solve” the problem.
In time, even those “calm” states will get sucked in. When a State fails, it doesn’t do so quietly.
"Calexit"? YES, PLEASE.
“...and they have a lot of resources at their disposal (the media, money, large corporations, academia, and culture, not to mention the federal government itself) which can elevate the level of tension considerably.”
How many snowflake battalions will march out of the universities and enter the battlefield in your opinion?
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