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    "The Civil War of 2016"

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    EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016 - Washington Times

    Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles.

    At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.” It was written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert at the University of Kansas. It posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement” seizing control of Darlington, S.C., in 2016, “occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council and placing the mayor under house arrest.” The rebels set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and Interstate 20 looking for illegal aliens. It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.
    A ) If this is the shite being written about in US Military professional journals, I'm glad I'm now out of uniform.

    B ) This *is* a cartoonish representation of the aims, methods, and politics of the Tea Party.

    C ) If any moron terrorist group were to seize control of a town in any state, I'm sure that local, State, and Federal law enforcement would easily be able to handle the issue, along with the state National Guard, without needing to violate Posse Comitatus.
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    Not watched the dark knight have you
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    Quote Originally Posted by tiger stacker View Post
    Not watched the dark knight have you
    I've watched a major news network insinuate that the Denver shooter was a member of the Tea Party within minutes of the shots being fired. I've watched mainstream news organizations, the NAACP, and members of the CBC all call the Tea Party racist and violent--yet I've never seen Tea Party violence. Now I read a US military professional journal buying into the lies and slander.

    Meanwhile, members of the Occupy movement were arrested in Cleveland in a bombing conspiracy, and when queried about it, the Southern Poverty Law Center said "We're not set up to monitor left wing extremists". Really? They seem very willing to blow shit up for their agenda (Hello, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorne)
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    Contingencies & what-not though isn't it? I would have thought those desk bound types would 'wargame' just about any scenario. Academics can spout some odd stuff depending on who they are hoping to inform/aggravate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonny_Blue_Balls View Post
    Contingencies & what-not though isn't it? I would have thought those desk bound types would 'wargame' just about any scenario. Academics can spout some odd stuff depending on who they are hoping to inform/aggravate.
    Seconded. They probably have theoretical response scenarios for an Alien Invasion and a Zombie Apocalypse. Both of which are only slightly less likely than a Second War of Northern Aggression.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Werewolf View Post
    Seconded. They probably have theoretical response scenarios for an Alien Invasion and a Zombie Apocalypse. Both of which are only slightly less likely than a Second War of Northern Aggression.
    And they just "happen" to pick the Tea Party as the instigators, a political organization with no violent history, rather than the raft of leftist radical groups which already have a history of taking over portions of cities and violent clashes with police when they are told to vacate.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JmUEMQ6zY

    "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. ... Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'"

    Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

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    Never mind, I'm sure the Michigan Militia and similar groups will be able to hold off the black helicopters and Obama's shock troops, provided their stocks of candy bars and energy drinks hold out.

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    Well, when one considers the current POTUS ran with and was advised by a bunch of extreme left wing domestic terrorists who do you think they consider the enemy? Who commissioned the Colonel to write the plan? Will the PDR of America eventually create all black units as their Praetorian Guard? Deputize inner city drug gangs as Special Constables? Form millions of illegal Hispanic immigrants into a new People's Militia? All in an attempt to counter an increasingly politically unreliable Army and Marine Corps, suppress the white revolt and hang onto power. Sounds preposterous doesn't it? As preposterous as the scenario regarding 'Tea Party' (read Whites) taking over a city.

    Damn the Democratic left really are paranoid, Obama's gang have done more to polarize American society than any group since the Civil War for no reason other than their desire to hang onto power and their contempt for American society.
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    Just wonder if the American goverment will yet again ask the British to provide the military specialists as they have done so often before. Vietnam taught them not to go it alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigshyt_Freeman View Post
    Never mind, I'm sure the Michigan Militia and similar groups will be able to hold off the black helicopters and Obama's shock troops, provided their stocks of candy bars and energy drinks hold out.
    Oh I don't know, all the 'Good Ol' Boys' in this neck of the woods are well able to live off the land, can you?
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