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John M Atkinson wrote:

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> 
> OK, who in hell would this hypothetical militia fight?  If criminals, then
> vigilante.  If armed invasion, let's just say anything that gets this far is too
> mean for a couple of rednecks to stop with hunting rifles.  If the Federal
> Government, fsck them, I'll be helping hunt them down.

You seem to have very conveniently overlooked one possibility, or need I
say eventuality.

That would be a long-term infiltration by renegade elements of foreign
powers, operating with or without support from their former countrymen.

Some might say that the evident (talk to the Fairfax, Arlington or
Alexandria gang-units if you don't believe me) presence of
foreign-gangsters presently engaged in a whole-sale efort to acquire
automatic weapons in exchange for contraband chemicals or acess to
prostitutes, etc - might constitute such a long-term infiltration.
Remember than an armed invasion need not cross the border in open armed
order, they can easily cross the border piecemeal, regroup at a
prearranged location, or as circumstances allow or warrant, and acquire
weapons locally.

Or you might consider that such an infiltration, should they attempt to
destabilize local conditions, might almost be required (as one of their
initial moves) to target known members of any official Militia such as
the National Guard for compromise with sex, money, ideology, contraband
or ego. I'd say that they could definitely get to you through ego. Your
complete failure to recognize that foreign elements might well be
willing to infiltrate under civilian colors seems to indicate that you
think that you alone have the intelligence to pull off something like
that. But did you even consider it?

Certainly any known Organized Militia members, and in particular their
armories, C4I centers, etc etc would be initial targets at the outset of
open hostilities. A series of surgical strikes (after sufficient
softening-up of course) could completely disable local Organized Militia
suficiently so as to allow the infiltrators to effectively decapitate
local government through the simple means of assassinating local leaders
in the absence of any protection by local Organized Militia, who would
be busy recapturing or retrenching their armories and C4I centers and
would in any case probably not realize that this would simply be a local
feint to permit a decapitation action of local leadership. Of course,
replacements would immediately be forthcoming - possibly carefully
groomed for such placement by those who decapitated the extant
leadership.

Jeeze, I'm not even military and such a strategy is to me baldly
obvious.

Ask anyone in Southern California if anything like this could happen.

Oh, BTW if anyone in alt.california has any current links to the LA
Times great story on the "18th Street gangsters", largely composed of
non-citizens operating under arms, please post them! 

Also don't forget to follow this link to
http://www.clark.net/pub/klaatu/alien_gangs.html



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