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Could a Second Civil War Happen?
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Posted on 02/21/2013 10:50:03 PM PST by furquhart
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To: furquhart
The constitutional genie is out. I don’t see any scenario it can be put back in the bottle.
To: furquhart
Question: "Could a Second Civil War Happen?"
Answer: No.
Response: It will be a Social War,in essence Left vs. Right with a large racial element. The First American Civil War was a political war; i.e. could the States withdraw from the union at will.
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:11:13 AM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: furquhart
The soapbox and ballot box have failed us miserably, so yes - it could happen.
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:39:01 AM PST
by
MikeSteelBe
(Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
To: Forward the Light Brigade
In both the Russian and American Civil Wars people were much more independent in terms of how they obtained food & fuel; those two items make any large-scale violence very unlikely and easy to suppress. Even the LA riots, as small as they were, had law enforcement concede the streets to the animals, who promptly went home when the mail (and welfare checks) weren’t delivered.
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:39:24 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Olog-hai
Lenin was an agent of the German army during WWI. Once he came to power he gave them what they wanted, a peace treaty and substantial land concessions.
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:46:52 AM PST
by
Justa
To: Jack Black
For your morning coffee.
5.56mm
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:47:11 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: redpoll
The only possible scenario I see is passive resistance.
There are so many out there that are standing up and saying “no more” without support from the rest of us.
Classic case is not paying your taxes.
But you will always have those that pay anyway because they don't want to get in trouble with the IRS.
We are not organized, we are hard working people that want to support our families and have no time to get together and really make a change. The “You First” attitude is appalling.
It will never happen because as much as we would like things to change, we are unwilling to take the first step because it might become inconvient . Are you willing to loose it all for Liberty?
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posted on
02/22/2013 4:54:54 AM PST
by
lucky american
(The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
To: furquhart
I have posted for years that “two different cultures cannot occupy the same space” any more than can two objects. Two years of Latin in High School left me with some idea of what happened to Rome. Like you, it became aparrent to me years ago of the conflict that is seemingly inevitable in our future. Some months ago it occurred to me that my assumption at the beginning night be wrong and maybe there might be a way for to cultures to occupy the same space. Distinct economies would be a fundamental requirement. I conjectured that we could have “Blue Dollars” and let them have their “Red Dollars” (for the commies they are). Patriots would only take or do business with Blue Dollars and Progs would only deal in Red Dollars. No way it would be stable but it would allow a degeneration of their culture of no values while leaving ours almost unscathed. Something to ponder, anyway.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:00:00 AM PST
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: wastoute
Simply reduce the leftwingtards to slavery and you can do anything you want.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:04:06 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
I think this article makes a valid argument. I also think that’s exactly what the feds are pushing for with gun control...CWII
To: furquhart
THE ARTICLES BIG LAUGH LINE:”...does not the likelihood that some future crisis will spur some future President to take some spectacular action...”
People are always putting these thing in some “future”. Even now. With this president.
The “future” is here. Now.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:47:24 AM PST
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: furquhart
I would propose that the Red States Caucus would vote to purge neo Europa, the states from New York, north and east. Once the Eurotrash is gone, America can be America and the Eurocrats can have Europe in North America.
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:54:02 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: furquhart
Here in Louisiana we are ready for cw2 against the democrats/socialists
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posted on
02/22/2013 5:54:02 AM PST
by
Democrat_media
(media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
To: furquhart
The franticpacquisition of guns and ammunition by the government and the populace suggests that civil violence of some sort is definitely seen as a possibility by a very large segment of the population and by the government. Many folks don't, up in front of their minds, think anything like domestic warfare can occur but they have acquired an intense interest in firearms and ammunition. Everyone is becoming a gun collector. Even many lefties, who publicly abhor guns, are buying guns and ammo.
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posted on
02/22/2013 6:14:23 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: furquhart
To: Secret Agent Man
I think more of an economic war. Most criminal dimocrat scum can’t do much more than blather and they can’t eat words. Who controls the food supply will win.
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posted on
02/22/2013 7:17:27 AM PST
by
PYTHON77
To: Renegade
There actually hasn’t ever been a civil war in this country.
We had a group of sovereign states, in 1776, that decided to be independent of the central governing authority, and they won an armed conflict to do so.
In 1860, we had a group of sovereign states that decided to be independent of the central governing authority, and they lost an armed conflict to do so and were forced to remain under that authority.
201X? Tie breaker.
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posted on
02/22/2013 7:25:38 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: PYTHON77
And that means you have to control YOUR OWN food supply.
If you or your children are starving, you’re more likely to capitulate to a tyrant that promises to feed you.
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posted on
02/22/2013 7:27:33 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Democrat_media
The muslim member of islam brotherhood wants a race war that is all he is about, that and printing money every day to prop up the stock market. Our American dollar is worth half and the printing press at the mint is making it worse every day. The head of the snake must be removed to prevent blood in the streets.
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posted on
02/22/2013 7:39:53 AM PST
by
tiger63
To: furquhart
Nope.
Not as long as people still have cable service.
TV is much, MUCH better at placating that masses than “circuses” were.
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posted on
02/22/2013 7:44:03 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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