Reply #28: I don't think you understand how this works. [View All]

They already have camps ready to start picking people up. How many folks do you think they would have to lock up to subdue any resistance. And, consider that if the emergency is dire enough, which it most likely will be, then they can just take control of the web, and all mail and phone calls, in order to keep any resistance from being organized. Set up block bosses like the Nazis did to report on anyone that does not appear to be a loyal Bushie.

We are in the 21st century now, and they have had a few years to study how folks are networked. Google the term "social networks" and you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about. A whole lot of brainpower and money has gone into this stuff (TIA, with Poindexter of Iran/Contra fame, had unlimited funds to devote to this strategy and they will use it if they can).

I'd guess that if they locked up the right 30 people in my own town, then there would be no serious, or at least organized resistance to what they were doing. In a town of 30,000. So nationwide it might require bringing in 300,000 people, which is about how many detention camps they have ready right now.

If they also make it illegal to publicize arrests of insurgents, or to release their names as a national security issue, then who exactly is going to complain? More importantly, who would they complain to? If "they" came and took you tonight, what could anyone do about it? Seriously?

The same problems exist with the military. Most of the National Guard would not be able to be effective as bar to such actions. Normally, they would be a huge deterrent for this kind of coup, but when they are for the most part overseas, and what news they are told is not from a free press, but instead can be totally controlled and fabricated, that changes things.

Personally, I think the Joint Chiefs are the only thing that has been standing in the way of a nuclear first-strike against Iran. The appointment of a War-Czar may be an attempt to circumvent the authority of the Joint Chiefs.

The one thing I know for sure, the Commander in Chief and his advisors are crazy bat-shit insane monsters, so it just doesn't make any sense at all to keep expecting sane behavior from them.