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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64122)	5/23/2005 1:29:33 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Snowshoe Re: "firepower" If you add up the number of weapons in private hands we together are an armed body many times the size of the US military. And tanks, cluster bombs and nuclear weapons are crude instruments to use on a rebellious homeland. These military and federal government types all have friends and loved ones who could serve as hostages if the going got too rough and they know it. I just don't think any type of federal power grab would be possible without the complicity of the regional power brokers. The military wouldn't be reliable and couldn't be trusted to attack their own countrymen on command. Lincoln had to wait till all the Southerners in his army had returned to their home states till he could trust that any of his commands would be followed. Even after that there was a considerable reluctance till he found Grant. Never been to Somolia but have been to Columbia (briefly) and have lived in places every bit as rough as Colombia. What you have there is different. First of all, the average guy doesn't have a gun, couldn't afford one and if he tried to keep one in his hut some "ratero" would slip in and steal it from him. In most of these sorts of places guns are illegal so city dwellers are disarmed though the rural landowning gentry are mostly armed, legally or otherwise. But there are very few of these people. Now up in the hills there are always bandit leaders who usually claim some political identification, usually "communista" but depending on the place there are other types of bandit gangs too. These little warlords control lots of the countryside, at least at night and they are armed of course. But they have no power in the daytime, then they just slink back into the hill and live like animals. In all these sorts of places you have an "all powerful" national government. The national government pays the salaries of the local mayors and provincial governors and these local headmen serve at the pleasure of the ruling cabal in the capital city, elections or not. There really is no local power base. I know that years ago the National Guards were "federalized' and there was a big stink about it at the time. It is a bad thing and a move in the wrong direction. Still though, I am think that most guard commanders would refuse to obey an order to attack their own people. There are dangers here though, I admit and worry about it. That is why that a thinking person should fight gun control and liberalism in general and recognize the liberal agenda for the great evil that it truly is. Slagle

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