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Old 11-24-2010, 09:45 AM
 
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Originally Posted by NomadRefugee View Post
I'm just throwing the idea out there. Hopefully more and more Americans will realize that a government overthrow is the best thing for us until finally one day people put down the remote control and the potato chips, get off ther fat azzes and do something about it.

Elections are rigged, corruption runs through our government, bankers and billionares have taken over, our Democracy is finished.
A significant majority of Americans aren’t even willing to serve in the armed forces. I don't how you expect this change to happen.

Very few Americans are willing to die for their freedom.

For many Americans as long as they have their 200 channels of high-def TV, a roof over their head, clothes on their backs, food in their stomachs, credit cards in their wallets and a car in their garage, they are happy. Corporate America realizes this and the crack cocaine of the American economy is credit. Most Americans are hooked on it.
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Old 11-24-2010, 10:19 AM
 
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It's sad how far we've devolved. Today, most of the incontinent sheeple on CD would be whooping and cheering, as they hang Thomas Jefferson in the public square for treason.
If you were loyal to the English crown you would have no problem whopping and cheering for the hanging of Thomas Jefferson.

So the question is this: are you loyal to the United States Government or your own ideas of liberty and freedom?

Also do you feel so strongly about these ideas that you are willing to face the most powerful government on the planet and die for them?

Keep in mind that you are not in a colony that is three thousand miles away from the government. You are right here discussing overthrowing your own government. How successful do you think you will be and how much support do you really have?
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Old 11-24-2010, 10:30 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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A significant majority of Americans aren’t even willing to serve in the armed forces. I don't how you expect this change to happen.

Very few Americans are willing to die for their freedom.

For many Americans as long as they have their 200 channels of high-def TV, a roof over their head, clothes on their backs, food in their stomachs, credit cards in their wallets and a car in their garage, they are happy. Corporate America realizes this and the crack cocaine of the American economy is credit. Most Americans are hooked on it.
It makes sense to be more interested in material things including food, clothes, transport etc. than in an abstract thing such as freedom which won't keep you alive, not even warm.
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Old 11-24-2010, 10:40 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Does it make an American a "terrorist" because they want to overthrow the U.S. government?
This couldn't be true, because Barack H. Obama is still in the Oval Office.
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Old 11-24-2010, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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Blah, blah, blah......If you are going to commit treason get your gun and go for it, you don't have to ask permission
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Old 11-24-2010, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Earth
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A military coup is not out of the question, since this administration violates the constitution and the Oath of Office left and right, not to mention the question of Obama's birth place. There was talk of a military coup during the Watergate era if Nixon refused to leave office.
Only by the tinfoil hat brigade.

US military officers don't think like that. If there ever is a coup in the US it would be via the legal system and the courts, like what Joe McCarthy and Newt Gingrich tried to do. Some might even say that Bush v. Gore was a "judicial coup"

No military dictator has ruled over any of the US since Oliver Cromwell and that is not likely to change.

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Even an overthrow by the Palace Guard (Secret Service) is not out of the realm of possibility.
Some might argue that is what happened on November 22, 1963...
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