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In article <6plh0j$65p@umbc8.umbc.edu>
on 28 Jul 1998 17:49:07 -0400, jjasen1@umbc.edu (John "E.R." Jasen)
wrote:

>Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@netcom.com> wrote:
>> John "E.R." Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu) wrote:
>> : I'd like you to, at the very least, consider the actions of the partisans
>> : in Europe, during WWII; the actions of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews in the same;
>> : the actions of the Chinese Communists against the Japanese in the same;
>> : the actions of the Chinese Communists against the Nationalist Army after
>> : WWII; the actions of the IRA against the British; the actions of the PLO
>> : against Israel; the actions of the Viet Cong and NVA against the French
>> : and United States; the actions of the Algerian nationals against the
>> : French ...
>> 
>>      I'm not saying guerilla wars cannot be won, or at least 
>> stalemated which in the long run might be just as good.  I'm saying
>> that in a war between a US military that is 100% loyal to the
>> government and some armed civilians in the US, the military would
>> win, but the destruction of property and among non-participating
>> civilians would be horrendous.
>
>Define "some."
>
>I maintain that, if ten percent of the US population actively decided to
>overthrow the government, that the conclusion is inevitable, even if 100%
>of the military, National Guard, and reserves sided with the government.

Have you ever been in the military?  3/4ths of my life so far has been
either around the military or in the military and I tell you from my
experience that you don't have a chance against the US Military.

>That would be on the order of 10 to 1 against the military, and they don't
>have to play by the rules [see my comments on shards of glass in MREs and
>klaatu's brief discourse on biological warfare].

MRE's like C-Rations are produced for about a 10 to 15 year supply
before they run out.  Biological warfare would back fire on you and
contaminate the land and water for you and future generations... it
would make a lot of the land unusable for even the people that did the
uprising.  Think about it.