03-29-2011, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Rochard
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I'm just saying that if this was to happen in the US and we had civilians arming themselves, taking over entire states by force.... The White House wouldn't be calling them "rebels".
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Of course, they would and we were called criminals. And whose side I am on would depend on the specifics.
I fought with the anti-war movement during the latter Nixon years ? in the end we won. The only good thing President Carter did was pardon me for the "crime" of supporting my peers that didn't want to be part of the "meat-grinder" known as the Vietnam War.
There were millions of us and one day at my side 60,000 of us took the day in the streets. This was repeated all around the nation. Nixon was responsible for the dead at Kent State in Ohio. US Soldiers (National Guard actually)
And in the end, even our detractors admitted their errors and we brought in a new government. Fortunately, without force of arms. Nixon resigned in disgrace but some 20,000 of my generation died for nothing in the end.
I think we can only honor our dead by taking a position, in alliance with those that fight the dictator and the corrupt. I wish we had had some real help, we did not but won our victory and redemption by taking to the streets.
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[T]he Kent State shootings?also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre[2][3][4]?occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[6][7]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million[8] students, and the event further affected the public opinion?at an already socially contentious time?over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[9] ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
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So, the scenario that you have laid out has occurred in the USA in recent history. The result was the end of Nixon by both non-violent and other means.
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