Reply #34: Hmm...Will the "American Patriotic Revolution" be televised?

[LibLabUK]

"They seem to be doing quite a bit against the US military in Iraq."

I was under the impression that it was more through the use of roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades that the Iraqi resistance (or insurgents/terrorists/freedom-fighters/hangers-on, whatever they really are) is having an effect on the coalition forces?

I would imagine that RPGs are quite difficult to get hold of legally in the US, does anyone argue for the right to possess them?

The roadside bombs are improvised, probably the same fertiliser/fuel mix that the IRA et al use regularly.. are the American Patriots (whose blood must water the tree of liberty) ready and able to utilise these rather indescriminate weapons?

Infact if you look at the IRA (the current incarnations, post-'68), their guns had almost no effect on the British government, they had to resort to the wholesale killing of civilians (more than 3,000 innnocents died for that "cause") to force any kind of dialogue.

Are the American Patriots ready for that scenario?

Is there an American Patriot Council (governing body, leadership, committee, etc etc) that decides when there is enough "tyranny" to warrant a revolution?

What happens if the APC decides that there is, but the majority of the populace of the US doesn't agree?

Would only soldiers be targeted by the APs, or would you include federal employees as well? Would it be open season on the postman?

What about collaborators, sympathisers and their families?

Is there a agreed upon result to the APs revolution... how much freedom would they settle for, are they anarchists, minarchists, libertarians, communists (*snicker*), liberals, conservatives, reichwing, fundies?

Sorry, these are just the questions that have built up over time fromn seeing this revolution argument so frequently on other boards.