Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I wonder if that's what the British thought back in the 1700's ...>> We would have lost the war of independence without foreign help.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "You've obviously never seen Red Dawn." This is the only movie I ever had nightmares about.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >I would not for one second believe that our mercenary military would not aim its weapons at the American citizenry if it was ordered to do so.< I'd believe it...then again I know people in the military who would "fight and die" to protect america from it's apparent high speed decline into a "3rd world muslim socialist country" Also muslims tend to be conservative... so how can Obama be a secret muslim and a secret socialist?
Originally Posted By fkurucz Like I said before, the massacre at Kent State is proof that soldiers will follow orders. Period.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Small right-wing fringe groups are no threat to our government. But an organized mass movement with a huge voter presence (No the TeaBaggers don't qualify) could bring about change.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Like I said before, the massacre at Kent State is proof that soldiers will follow orders. Period." Wow. Taken in a vacuum, this statement in no way could prove any point. Soldiers from 40 years were made from a DNA entirely different from today's. Moreover, it's like saying since the Celtics almost always beat the Lakers in the NBA Finals, they will this year as well.
Originally Posted By disneydad109 the soldiers at Kent State were suffering from a lack of clear orders and I seem to recall they were not regular army but NG or maybe reserves
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^And they fired upon unarmed civilians. It can happen again. I have little faith that soldiers would defy a direct order. They are trained to obey and to kill. That's what soldiers do. And the only way a person can do that is to stop seeing the opponent as a human being and simply seeing them as "the enemy".
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Soldiers from 40 years were made from a DNA entirely different from today's.<< If by that you mean that they are trained to be even more efficient and unfeeling killing machines then I might agree with you.
Originally Posted By Mr X ^--I would imagine a good deal more religious indoctrination by now as well.
