re: #126 Charles

Charles, may I be so bold as to add the following:

For any of you who think in those terms, do you have even the remotest idea of what it would take to trigger a real “revolution” of the type you suggest? Do you have any idea what it would take in this day and age to mount such an enterprise? This nation of ours would had to have sunk to such a level where anarchy is close at hand—imagine a dozen cities in a post-Katrina-like setting. That is a very low order of probability-if not outright impossible.

The only reason the American Civil War went as long as it did was that the CSA had the nucleus of an army already built in to them in the form of a state militia. The modern National Guard is a branch of the US Military, though answerable to the local civilian government. In other words, the US Civil War cannot ever happen again.

What you suggest isn’t rebellion—it’s treason. It’s a revolt against the rule of law and the very thing that binds us together— our Constitution and our common heritage. I appreciate that some of your are frustrated and scared. Don’t be. As I told my very liberal neighbors in 2000 and in 2004, there’s precious little that one man can do to this Republic in four years that can’t be undone in the next four.

As I mentioned up-thread, we are not in a spot nearly as bad as it was in the 1930’s. If ever there was a decade for revolt, it was then. But, it never happened because we were Americans. The system may have been battered, but the country was strong and hung together. Our parents and grandparents did it the—we must do it now. So, shut up about revolting or forming some separatist commune; it would be too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum anyway.

Thanks. Now, go an remember what this weekend is about. As for me, I’m taking my boys and the other Scouts to Ft. Rosecrans tomorrow morning to decorate the graves. I suggest all of you “revolutionaries” might do something similar because your idea of “revolution” is, in my mind, pissing on those graves.

For the rest of you, have a peaceful weekend—just remember to thank those who paid for that peace.