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To: KonKilo who wrote (128233)	1/7/2010 8:02:51 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542243

Since the armament gap between them and US Armed Forces is so great, and since it is not centered in any one geographic region, any serious militant movement would need to resort to civil disobedience and asymmetric sabotage-style attacks rather than open combat. If ten million or more refuse to file taxes, and disregard other select federal laws, they could cause some disarray. Domestic sabotage would be much harder to control and they could conceivably keep the feds tied in knots and the citizenry panicked for some time. Thanks for bringing this argument back down to earth. Those are the issues that immediately occurred to me. In addition, a tax revolt would be met by massive federal garnishment of wages or auditing hell for small business owners. The movement might persist if enough folks were willing to endure that, but it's not like everyone on the highway suddenly deciding to drive 90mph and ignore the cops. On the sabotage front, they would be hard pressed not to injure or kill other ordinary citizens. Most adamant zealots won't go that far, the Tim McVeights of the this world being the exception.