Do the police think that they are gods?

[baldguy]

109. Fail, double fail, and triple fail.

The United States of America is a representative republic with aspirations of democracy. Please, tell us what the democratic institutions were that the Ceaucescu and Ghadaffi regimes replaced? There are none, of course. Ceaucescu was a communist dictator who replaced another communist dictator. And Ghadaffi was a military dictator who replaced another military dictator. So your "argument" first fails in that respect.

Secondly, neither regime was "overwhelmed" by a popular uprising of individuals with privately-owned firearms. That's your RW mythology dogma peeking through.

The Romanian Revolution never saw any battles between an oppressive regime backed by a bloodthirsty army vs. patriots armed with nothing but their grandfather's old hunting rifle. The unarmed protesters did just that - protest. Unfortunately, they were rather ineffectual. What really turned the tide was when officials from within the Romanian govt and Communist Party, with the support of elements of their military, launched a coup d'état from against Ceaucescu. The revolution didn't succeed until the coup plotters started attacking one another, which allowed the coup to fall apart, and the military & the lower echelons of the govt - including the police forces - defected to side with the people protesting in the streets.

The Libyan Revolution began just about the same way - with unarmed protests. After Ghadaffi's paramilitary units fired on civilian protesters, several units of the regular army (which were poorly trained & armed, and which usually were tasked with low-level domestic police duties) defected to the rebels and foreign govts - most notably the UN, the US and NATO - provided arms and military support to the rebels. Again, your RW mythology falters.

To sum up: (1) Before these regimes came to power, the respective countries bore no resemblance to the United States today; (2) Their respective falls prove that the RW myth of personal arms being able to defeat a modern army is putrid crap; and (3) The very people which you dismiss as being merely mindless tools of oppression - the police - were essential in allowing these revolutions to succeed.

Your posts are nothing but fail, because you have no clue what you're talking about & you have done nothing but spread RW bullshit.