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Old 08-17-2019, 01:21 AM   #1
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Are we not demonstrably less free?
The man truly concerned for his liberties will be making it his business to arm himself. Becoming skillful with those arms will also be constructive -- at least civic-mindedly responsible.

The #resist lot are not exactly flocking to gun stores in aid of the above, regardless of how they prate about their endangered civil rights... you know: because Republican!! -- Aaaagh!!! Jesus, such poseurs. Such frauds. Such Democratic voters. I don't think much either of them or of their powers of analysis.

I guess I can step away from the soap wrapper -- not enough for a box -- for a bit now. I feel better already.
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Old 08-18-2019, 10:59 PM   #2
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The man truly concerned for his liberties will be making it his business to arm himself. Becoming skillful with those arms will also be constructive -- at least civic-mindedly responsible.
Right! That will scare the bejesus out of those Warthog and Apache pilots.
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Old 08-18-2019, 11:31 PM   #3
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"those Warthog and Apache pilots..."

...are far more likely to be people like 'me' & UG than 'you'.

You really think the bulk of military folk & law enforcers will comply with gun confiscation (for example)?

Pres. Sanders or Warren or Harris (and a complicit congress) ought to worry more about coup than rebellion.

Again: time will tell
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Old 08-20-2019, 09:57 PM   #4
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Who said anything about gun confiscation. I'm talking about a group of night watchmen taking a piece of US soil and declaring it a minarchy free from state and federal jurisdiction. That will not happen.
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Old 08-21-2019, 09:24 AM   #5
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'I'm talking about a group of night watchmen taking a piece of US soil and declaring it a minarchy free from state and federal jurisdiction."

Where did I say that was how things would go down? Where, Bruce? Nowhere, Bruce. I never said it, never hinted at it. You, implying I did, well, that just must makes you a damned liar, now doesn't it.
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Old 08-22-2019, 12:15 AM   #6
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Fuck you, how do you establish one without taking land from somebody.
Answer, you don't, and that's why you've living is fantasy land, never going to happen, even if you take the ring to Mordor.
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Old 08-22-2019, 09:10 AM   #7
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"Fuck you"

Better watch that: tw will declare you substandard, an extremist, a vulgarian, a child, etc.

Me: I just think you're dumb.

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"how do you establish one without taking land from somebody."

Yeah, like I said, to you elsewhere: Americans might very well vote themselves into smaller government, and -- if they find 'smaller' works --they may keep votin' for smaller. Without a shot fired, without a square foot annexed, minarchy might happen.

Is it likely? Nope.

Is it possible? Yep.

And: I think it becomes more possible every day.

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"never going to happen"

Accurate assessment or desperate hope?

As I say: time will tell.
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Old 08-24-2019, 01:08 AM   #8
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Who said anything about gun confiscation. I'm talking about a group of night watchmen taking a piece of US soil and declaring it a minarchy free from state and federal jurisdiction. That will not happen.
That's cool. Nobody was talking about that anyway.

Meanwhile, let's add Bruce's name to that list of people who can't understand either warfare or asymmetrical warfare, as unconventional war is now fashionably termed. Lack of study, don't you know.

Guerrillas that have developed beyond just civil commotion have a roughly one in two chance of success, a reading of history will tell you.
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Old 08-24-2019, 01:26 AM   #9
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So has Special Forces, red Dawn was a movie, you know hollywood, make believe.
Do Ruby Ridge and Waco ring a bell? Do you really think the US Government's hammer, the military, will use restraint when you try to take US territory? Good luck with that.
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