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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, h*ll, we'll just send Cheney out and he'll get em all. <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> The modern military is overly techno-crap dependent.  There is no place in
> the world where the entire crushing weight of our military has succeeded 
> in
> uprooting an armed populace, and that in countries where a rife and 200 
> rounds
> costs a fortune of a lifetime, like buying a house here or more.
>
> In this country the populace, overall, is far, far better armed than the
> Pakistanis, Iraqis, or Afghanastanis.  And yet our military has been only
> marginally successful against them.
>
> If the armed American populace turned its sights on the military, it would 
> be
> no contest in a very great hurry.
>
> Additionally, you would have very few in the military who would turn their
> guns on their own people.  There is a very revered former state policeman 
> in
> Wise Co. Va who during one of the coal strikes was ordered, along with the 
> rest
> of the state police assigned to the task, to hold a bridge against the 
> strikers
> and if they attempted to cross, he was to use deadly force.   He laid down
> his gun and said he would in no way point a gun at his own people.  The 
> state
> police reassigned troopers putting men from east Virginia on the lines. 
> Signs
> went up at every convenience store and restaurant, "State Troopers 
> Unwelcome
> Here" "We Refuse to Serve State Troopers".   They lost their nerve and 
> left.
>
> I am glad to see gun and ammunition sales up.  The government needs to 
> know
> at all times that the populace is armed and in the end has the final say.