🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus Spake klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>:


%Thank GOD someone had the nerve to stand up and say that. I for one am
%sick and tired of people bending over backwards to tell American
%Citizens that they had better cower before the might of the US Military
%like the Russians under the KGB. I only wish I thought for a minute that
%most of the military remembered they are intended to keep the borders
%secure or carry out the national will _ABROAD_.

I seem to recall there being something of that nature occouring in LA a few
years back.  National Guardsmen.  As I recall, once they started setting up the
.50 cal HMGs, things got quiet really fast.
 
%Absolutely and with no arguments whatsoever. In fact if there is a
%single reason to frag your lieutenent stateside, that is it - him giving
%an order to execute Americans, or any order that is clearly prefatory to
%such an action. Leave that sort of thing up to the BATF.

Depends on circumstances.

%It is essential that the public retain the means to at least convey
%their displeasure at the notion of the military being turned against
%them. While they might get the shit stomped out of them for expressing
%their displeasure, still if you only have a pop-gun or molotov-cocktail
%against artillery, it's better than only having harsh language as a
%resort. Cause a "good german" soldier has got his ears all full of that
%pep-talk, and he can't hear your harsh language.

Assuming things got so bad as to necessitate artillery (which would only be the
case in an armed, open insurrection in the style of Robert E. Lee and the CSA)
your molotov-waving individual is not going to make much of a difference.
 

John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon 
have a despicable army
                 --Jerry Pournelle