When does the time come to form Left wing-Militia groups?

Is there a point where we just get fed up and start living in armed compounds?---I am reaching that point.

have a couple of near feral barking dogs chained up in the back yard, and a camaro and or pickup on blocks in the front yard. ---Many gated communities would have a problem there.

I dont want to leave--I've been most other places, and lived in a few and unlike most people I chose to become an American.

...I'm scared. I'd rather raise my family in a socialist country than in a fascist dictatorship, as my country may be becoming. I don't know where we'd go, for sure, but I'm thinking Canada or a country in Europe.

Redstone

who will disagree with your assesment. You might be suprised by the amount of gun owners here in DU. many owners and collectors here, also.

...and so "liberal" with your assumptions and accusations. :eyes:

is safe from them?
:hi:

Tell me, does your Armed America have any place for non-Christians?

Redstone

at least 6 months, probably since the 2004 "election". I also think starting communal compounds, with or without a militia, might be a good idea. The economy is gonna tank by this fall, and we all better have gardens and be raising animals for meat and eggs and such.

http://gen.ecovillage.org/index.html
Check out the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage:
http://www.dancingrabbit.org/

like they are!

What a wonderful and well-thought-out solution.

Redstone

I see it more as protection of freedom--If someone drags me out of my house one night, I want to be able to have a defence --Is that wrong?--and if it is the Republican army dragging me out to foce me into the christian re-education camp---yes, I will fight back.

out in Idaho.

I'm not going to do that. Period. It's undignified, degrading, and just plain stupid.

PS: If the Jews in Germany had had guns, it wouldn't have helped them. And thinking it would have is a pure fantasy. Just like your fantasy...if "they come for you," don't you think they'll have more guns than you do? How many people have barricaded themselves in a house with their guns and held off the cops long enough that the cops just gave up and went away?

Pure wet-dream gun-nut fantasy. Ain't gonna happen. You'll never have more guns than the government does.

Redstone

I just can not agree to that---That is just defeatism

be able to beat them on a basis of force.

Did Ghandi use force? No. Did he win? Yes.

The whole "Ah'm gone git me some GUNS and Ah'll jis fight off them revenooers" mindset is stupid. The rightwingers have tried it more than once, and lost every time.

As would you. One more time: They have more guns than you do.

Redstone

.....I start with how crazy you are and then I'll make a decision as to how useful the info is. :toast:

a resistance to an illegal occupation or internal dictatorial takeover must be done by a resistance underground. Militias are neat, but their primary function can only be to back up a regular army or be used as a new police force when a revolution is over, or at least in its bursting stage...

militias created against a power with overwhelming force are heroic but mostly lose in the end (and give a good reason to the dictatorship to clamp on any dissenter, even the peaceful ones...

normally a legal democratic opposition uses legal means to fight first, maybe with civil disobedience...

most of the time they are brought down with violence when the dictatorship becomes open. Then normally an uderground resistance is created but often it is too late and they cannot really succeed without foreign professional help...

the key to avoid a a dictatorial overtake is to organize a MASS movement through different organisations, unions etc... provide help to people in need so the people protects the so far legal resistance...

the problem is that very few democrats have a clue how to do it, not to talk about experience... there is no massparty tradition in the US since the labor movement was eliminated in the early nineties. And you can't always count on some FDR to show up at the right moment...

the template is there

it works.

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