(October 4, 2017 at 2:25 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 4, 2017 at 11:00 am)Whateverist Wrote: Once some of us began to perceive the government devolving into tyranny, those of us interested in opposing that government would need a way to determine if the degree of consensus was sufficient to act. It is hard to imagine what form such an attempt to determine consensus would take short of holding an election. Otherwise, those with a short trigger might find themselves dealt with in the same manner as happened in Waco, with the approval of many of the potential militia members who might otherwise have supported insurrection had they been consulted. So as a practical matter, it is hard to imagine a better way to determine when a consensus had been reached apart from the elections we already hold.
This scene in Mel Gibson's The Patriot is unimaginable nowadays, given the vastly larger number of people and the ease communication and transportation now.
At the beginning of Trumps term there was a rumor that clinton was preparing herself to take the office if trump/pence were found guilty of conclusion with the Russians. I think that would be a very fast catylist to recall a militia. I know if trump himself called for armed militia many would be in DC with in a day or two.
I have no doubt he's stupid enough to do that.
