This is what a revolution looks like.

[cliffordu]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Qassams...they are not just for use on Israeli civilians any more

[cliffordu]

5. Nice try.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Just keeping it in real...harder to do some days than others

Qassams are not that hard to make, as your post clearly showed.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Yup.

Slingshots and improvised weapons. If you have a lathe you can make a lot of nasty things.

Sad that war has to be the mother of so much invention.

[cliffordu]

3. Yep.

[Warpy]

4. What's really so sad is that most violent revolutions fail

because the same pigs who made life so miserably for working people before the fighting started simply change uniforms and go back to business as usual.

[cliffordu]

6. But it ain't a reason not to try.

[Warpy]

8. I suppose not, not when all peaceful means have been exhausted

and the government is so irretrievably corrupt it coddles the guilty and oppresses everybody else.

It sounds sadly familiar. I just hope I'm dead and gone by the time it happens.

[cliffordu]

9. Never gonna happen here.

Too many ipads and HDTV.

And OXY.

And sports teams

[Warpy]

11. When the ipad breaks

and the HDTV is on broadcast, only, meaning nobody much sees the sports teams play but the fat cats and ordinary slobs have to read about it the next day in the newspaper, things will definitely start to happen.

That's probably a long way off. Working folks are still able to pay the bills and live fairly decently. When their health insurance goes bye-bye, that will stop. And it will.

[Selatius]

7. They're getting killed by the thousands against Assad's army, yet they still fight on.

Improvised mortars and slingshots to toss sticks of dynamite are rather underpowered against, say, a conventional T-72 tank.

One thing they do earn credit for is tenacity. They are a dedicated bunch of rebels.

[cliffordu]

10. The are crazy brave.