Posted on 03/23/2009 7:42:35 PM PDT by HotLead61
No, this one sounds legit. I have seen bouncy tales on here many times though.
I have always told myself to be happy if our military will just watch the borders while the rest of sort things out internally.
It all depends on who does the sorting to whom. Nice Tag.
I took the same oath in 1976. To this day I still wear my dog tags. Every day they are a visible reminder to me of that oath...an oath, which in my view, did not “expire” when my active duty enlistment period was over.
It would be my wish to see ever veteran in the country pull out from his (or her), dresser drawer, or from that little box where we put away all of our military awards, decorations, medals, etc, and took out their dog tags and started wearing them again as a reminder. We swore an oath to the Constitution, and by extension, to the American people, to protect our freedom,, our liberty and our way of life. It would be a simple act of obedience to the oath we all took. To me, that oath doesn't “expire” until the day I “expire.”.
Money line, right there. I took the oath three years after you did, and it binds me still, even to this day. ANYONE who thinks I don't take it seriously either doesn't know me at all, or is just plain to dumb to breathe. To Obama, and his proposed "(insert color here) shirts" I say, unequivocally, to make war on the Constitution, in any way, shape, or form, with the intent of supplanting it for something else, is by definition Treason, and will be treated by me, as such...
the infowarrior
Moat of our military wouldn’t confiscate weapons from citizens, much less fire upon citizens who are protesting unfair or unconstitutional Government policies.
I do think that the alphabet law enforcement Beauracracies might be far more problematic — FBI, BATF, Secret Service, Homeland Security, FEMA, and the like. THey have not taken oaths to the Constitution, but their loyalty is to the beauracracy from which they draw their pay, and/or to the politicians who assure their pay is coming.
There are also local law enforcement, many who might be compelled to accept Federal instructions to enforce martial law like conditions and confiscate weapons. This might be very true of many on larger city police forces. Local sheriff’s, state troopers and police in many suburban and even more rural areas would resist such orders vehemently.
But, they’d find a crowd to try and put this together. And it wouldn’t happen in a vaccuum. They’d provoke a violent confrontation — or incite violence from the hotheads among us (there are a few who would act rashly, I’m afraid). Then, they would use that as a pretext to declare martial law and confiscate weapons IN LIMITED AREAS that are deemed “most unstable.”
They would then hope that these examples would persuade others to remain passive, or perhaps to surrender their weapons willfully and peacefully.
They wouldn’t have to do this nationwide — only in enough locations to convince the populace that pacification is smarter and safer than resistance.
Urban enviroments, like say, Chicago, are not self supporting. A city like Chicago has stock piles for a week. They would not be easy to blockade, but a study of maps will show choke points. An Interstate viaduct and property, 100 yards of cleared land, no cover, like I-294, looping the city, is a perfect wall/dead zone...
Even as passive a population as Chicago's will start getting jumpy when the only people eating are wearing a badge, wandering around tasering people. We are talking urban LEOs. They ain't the sharp end of the spear.
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