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flamin lib

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20. I'll see your Posse Comitatus and raise with
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 01:53 PM
Sep 2020

the Insurrection Act.

And both are moot anyway because the current militia is a bunch of wannabes in little clusters here and there. They aren't a consolidated force and even if they were they lack technology and, foremost, Command and Control. Yes, they can wreak havoc on a small scale in isolated situations but even local police have better C&C. Like a Marine once told me, 'Without that guy with a radio I'm just a guy with a gun. With him comes hellfire and brimstone from the sky.'

Given that a Wild Weasel from the Nam days could find a cell phone signal even if the phone was turned off I doubt there could be any Command and Control to co-ordinate an offensive.

Besides I have it on good authority that the law abiding gun owners would rise up to put down any tyranny . . .

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my money is on the Marines and 101st airborne beachbumbob Sep 2020 #1
Bammmm!!! hwmnbn Sep 2020 #2
I agree, beachbumbob n/t Kitchari Sep 2020 #3
I hope you are right. My mind keeps going to... ret5hd Sep 2020 #4
My grandfather was at Ludlow Drahthaardogs Sep 2020 #23
This!! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #7
My money is not on the 102nd Armchair Commandos. GoCubsGo Sep 2020 #9
Posse Comitatus Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #11
There are exceptions. flamin lib Sep 2020 #12
Only kind of Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #19
I'll see your Posse Comitatus and raise with flamin lib Sep 2020 #20
I shouldn't chuckle but it amuses me when these wannabe insurrectionists misanthrope Sep 2020 #21
Just remind them what the blast radius of a drone launched Hellfire is. flamin lib Sep 2020 #22
Yes, indeed. But a coup? an insurrection? It's been done before. It's called the Civi War. keopeli Sep 2020 #14
my money was on the Union with that one too beachbumbob Sep 2020 #24
Well then we can count on trump to denounce this mob thuggery mnmoderatedem Sep 2020 #5
Stop scaring people Cosmo Blues Sep 2020 #6
Thank you..a voice of sanity!! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #8
+1 crickets Sep 2020 #10
If he wins again he and his cult will go after liberals, college professors, text books, ..... mudstump Sep 2020 #13
"This would involve dragging Democrats in front of kangaroo courts..." Texin Sep 2020 #15
All they will do is create a huge backlash. Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #16
I agree - this is a time of reckoning Kitchari Sep 2020 #17
All it's going to take is for one of these militia idiots to open fire Mr.Bill Sep 2020 #18
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