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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
Hypothetical question:
IF the economy doesn't get better. IF unemployment skyrockets. IF the dollar crashes or takes a serious drop in value. IF the stock market plunges further. IF oil skyrockets and gas is $5 a gallon. IF due to high gas prices, food is getting scarce on the shelves. And IF the people were finally fed up, grew a pair and took to the streets to take their country back... would you join them, or would you watch it on the news?
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The problem is - it wouldn't be a civilized movement. The wackos would crash, burn and loot everything in sight...rather than attempt to make a positive change.
It wouldn't be a neat and orderly affair like the Boston Tea Party.
It would be chaos and anarchy and the military would be forced to fire on its own citizens in an attempt to enforce Marshall Law.
Would I join them? Today, no. 25 years ago - hell yeah. The difference being - as Mel Gibson put it in The Patriot - "I'm a parent...I can't afford to have principles."