“Secondly, why would one think the US military would take the side of a tyrant who has shown them and America disdain?”
Why do you think substantial numbers would mutiny?
“I don’t think there would be many who would attack fellow patriots by some Presidential Order.”
I think many would follow orders to ‘suppress insurrection’ with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm.
If we come to civil war the fractures will be as many and complex as those in the Spanish Civil War.
There need not be a shot fired. We had a peaceful secession already...in 1787. No one was shot, hung, or arrested back then.
If Obama is Jackson/Lincoln revisited, then we’ll see. But I’m not remotely convinced there would be shooting. Just saber rattling and very tense negotiations.
“I think many would follow orders to ‘suppress insurrection’ with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm.”
I’ve seen no recent evidence that our soldiers and Marines are Nazis, gestapo and eizengruppen who would goosestep into their homes and kill their mothers and fathers in bed.
Perhaps you can point out recent training exercises where our troops were encouraged to murder US citizens by the thousands.
If and when this begins, some States will stand up with the people against the tyrannical Administration. The only way anyone will conquer Texas or Montana or any of number States is to nuc us and I am 100% certain any such Presidential order will be refused and turned against him.
To put all in perspective, Texas nor Texans feel any animosity toward the United States of America, we love America just as many other patriots do. I do not think secession will become necessary. The more dictatorial nobama becomes (i.e. Executive Orders bypassing Congress) the less even the mainstream dems will maintain their backing. At that point either nobama will back off or will be escorted to the plane taking him to his true friends in the muslim world.