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2003-11-22 10:23 | User Profile
The Zen of CounterInsurgency: Pt. 1
The 2nd Amendment v. Military Dictatorship
by Todd Brendan Fahey November 22, 2003
Quoted this week in NewsMax.com, General Tommy Franks issued baldly that the U.S. Constitution will probably need to be scrapped, in favor of some form of military dictatorship. Citing the blanket-spectre of "terrorist threats," he reasoned that the U.S. would need to come under lockdown and Total Control via the U.S. military...for our own good.
And just like that, General Franks sets the stage for a Second American Revolution.
Under General Franks' vision, vaporized are the creeping threats against the second amendment (McCain-like attacks on gun show "loopholes"; "Brady Bill" legislation against "assault weapons"; restrictions on clip/magazine capacity for rifles and handguns). Nor are we talking about the rape of the 4th amendment, which protects We The People against "unlawful search and seizure," as seen in the recent "Patriot Act" and the proposed "Victory Act."
General Franks speaks plainly of martial law--where such silly Jeffersonian presumptions of Liberty are moot; null and void.
Scary sh*t. Truly. From one of America's foremost Military Men; and spread, for unknown reasons, through NewsMax.com--one of America's most-read "conservative" Internet news magazines.
Myriad statistical studies suggest that United States citizens hold roughly 15,000,000 (million) rifles--largely for hunting purposes, but also for sporting target-practice. Add to that millions more shotguns, handguns and even "illegal" automatic weapons (machine-guns) and devices equipped to launch small mortars, grenades and cannon-balls, and one sees very readily that the U.S. military is facing a dilemma. These common deer rifles (30.06, equipped with a scope and carrying a high-grain propellant and steel-core bullet) can and do penetrate the toughest Kevlar vest. Nevermind the head/neck or groin or leg-shot (femural artery). A row of cannons and the odd LAAWS rocket-launcher/bazooka/Howitzer assembled strategically will dispatch a goodly squadron of aerial and ground-force vehicles and their occupants.
It's a crying shame that one must write these words. But Tommy Franks "brought it on," and, in the face of dismantling all that Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams and other valiant souls held for the hope of Liberty in our nation, there is no other way to phrase things. When the enemy becomes Our Own Government, then We The People must react with similar force and vigor...
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2003-11-22 19:23 | User Profile
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Of an op-ed which deals with Military Crackdown on We The People?
Are those of OriginalDissent.com content to succumb to military dictatorship, per retired General Tommy Franks' vision? If so, Heil Bush!!
Just wondering.
2003-11-22 19:44 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]41 views, no replies?
Of an op-ed which deals with Military Crackdown on We The People?
Are those of OriginalDissent.com content to succumb to military dictatorship, per retired General Tommy Franks' vision? If so, Heil Bush!!
Just wondering.[/QUOTE]
I don't know how to take General Franks' apparent threats - I suspect he was just shooting his mouth off. He's clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
If it does come down to suspending habeus corpus and muzzling the press, keep in mind that it won't be the first time itz happened. Lincoln did the same. There were also similar abuses in WWI.
If it does come down to a fight, I have to wonder whether Americans have it in them to actually take up arms and fight for their rights. We do have a lot of guns, but they're mostly owned by Joe Sixpack types who've been lobotomized by cheap beer and professional sports events on television, or by dispensationalists who would side with the Empire because itz defending Israel, and that's the only way to be sure that the Rapture will happen, or some nonsense like that.
Americans in general underwhelm me. I fear that we're more likely to go out with a whimper than a bang.
Walter