Reply #24: I think a few will try [View All]

Of course, not enough to appear in force, and dreadfully under-armed. And they'll be swiftly slaughtered. Oddly, the prime candidates for such come out of the right wing, the "militia" types, not the "commie pinko red" left the neocons so love to berate. Apparently whoever tells the FBI what to investigate is far more "concerned" about elderly hippies carrying concealed flora in their hair and Armani-clad desk jockeys filing FOIA requests than machinegun-toting Klansmen or church-burning bigots who are the ones so hellbent on unlawful activity.

Anyway, the whole neocon affair was effectively a "velvet revolution" since they didn't really do it by force of arms. A more relevant question is what they've done to prevent a retaliation in kind for that. The most obvious thing they've arranged is the COINTELPRO revival and other police state tactics, but doubtless there is an "active, layered defense" against the people of the US actually expressing their own political will, e.g. systems of blackmail and/or exclusion of elected representatives.