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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (78961)	11/11/2003 8:03:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

LOL. Did you save that? No. Someone mentioned that a post of there's was number 3333. Even though they meant it was 3333 of their posts not 3333 on this thread I went back to 3333 on this thread, and then followed the conversation back a few posts. So something about a threat by SI's administration to close this thread and a few others, followed that forward through several branches and eventually stumbled on your post. I thought it would be a good new (or is that old) topic. But now we can't protect ourselves from our government with guns. Look what our military did to Saddam. A bunch of us, even all of us, with muskets or even machine guns wouldn't stand a chance. So there's no point in having guns for the original reason. In Iraq a small percentage of a population of twenty something million is managing to put up resistance to over hundred thousand American soldiers plus a few allies and a number or new Iraqi police or security forces. On the American side the war is hardly universally supported but there is almost no opposition beyond a few protests and political debates. A lot of people don't like it, but they are not doing opposing it outside the political process even passively, with at most a very few exceptions. In the US you have over 280mil people, millions of square miles including forest, hills, mountains and other good terrain to hide in and large borders and coastlines. If the US did get a tyrannical government presumably in addition to those who violently oppose it there would be others who resist in small ways. You could have thousand or millions of people in active opposition with millions or tens of millions who oppose the government more passively or help those in active opposition. The possibilities for guerilla warfare easily make the opposition in Iraq seem tame and under the right circumstances the opposition could be much tougher to put down then the Viet Cong. Just that possibility would be a deterrent to the situation happening in the first place. Tim