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How would progressive Americans react if tomorrow morning the parliament of any country passed a bill to finance arming militia (aka rebels) in the United States?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)RadicalGeek
(344 posts)But I would urge the US sanction that country severly!
brooklynite
(94,602 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)Depleted uranium...agent orange? What???
brooklynite
(94,602 posts)...or that the world generally considers the Obama Administration as a dictatorship.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Because that's what Assad has done in Syria.
I'm sorry, but this is crazy talk and it's also an analogy fail.
malaise
(269,063 posts)brooklynite
(94,602 posts)The OP refers to supporting military opposition to the Government within the US.
reorg
(3,317 posts)http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Sancho
(9,070 posts)our Tea Party friends (rebels) will likely be out-gunned!
hack89
(39,171 posts)it would depend what the "rebels" were fighting for. If it was for the restoration of democracy then I would support it.
If it happened tomorrow with our current political climate I would ignore as irrelevant political posturing.
reorg
(3,317 posts)If you have a big hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
FSogol
(45,490 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Quelle horreur!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)militias to the recruitment website. I mean, think this through, Malaise....
Couple of airstrikes, we could really clean some shop.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)corporation funded a project arming militia (aka The Bundy Cow-Pie Vigilantes) in the United States?
Lets face it, the first battle over corporate use of public funded lands is over. The BLM and tax payer lost.
Someone had to finance the operation and pay for support, equipping, housing and incidental experiences for Bundy's troops.
Sure, you can make a few bucks off of cows, but the real money will be in the strip mines and fracking.
That 'board of directors' have no reason to believe they will be any repercussions from doing so.
reorg
(3,317 posts)lack of imagination, I guess.
You got to hold in their favor, though, that it would take quite an effort and a few decades of destabilizing a region to the point where such scenarios can occur.
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