When the (_____?____) begins.

[FredStembottom]

You know, the giant American (_____?____) that some Internet site has planted in the heads of America's weapons stockpilers,

Will they know when to begin using those weapons all at once?
Will they have co-ordinated targets and assault plans?
Will they even all understand which (______?______) Armageddon, tyranny thingy they have just headed out the door to fight?

Or will a few hundred thousand men stoked on comic-book conspiracy theories and paranoia just start shooting at what each mind understands to be The Enemy?
Enemy/ pow. Enemy/ pow. Enemy/pow.

How well will you and your kids be categorized by each well-armed mind (over and over) on that day?

[peacebird]

1. ? Sorry to be dense, but what are you talking about?

[FredStembottom]

2. Updated for better clarity.

N/t

[patrice]

3. or will it proceed by deadly incrementalism, bloody Self-fulfilling prophecy built upon

even bloodier self-fulfilling prophecy built upon self-fulfilling prophecy

[rgbecker]

4. These are mind numbing questions that can't answered without a direct connection.

If you could find just one of these guys to give up the key code they will be following on the day of the event, I hope you'll share it with the rest of us. I predict it won't happen until the enemy is closely defined and hopefully we'll see that coming before the day. Mostly, will they start with those of us that post on DU or with the listeners of NPR?

[nc4bo]

5. Scary thought if you're saying what I think you are.

And I'm sure the government has eyes and ears listening in and watching - if they aren't, than the Patriot Act was a complete and utter epic failure.

[FredStembottom]

7. I am.

I can much more envision series' of individuals and small cells each going critical at different times due to the fuzzy and vague nature of their imaginings of the apocalypse.

Day after day, year after year of these guys thinking the Big (whatever the fuck it is) has begun might start entering Penneys not to do some shopping, but to BEGIN.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. most of these people are windbags,

like Rush saying he would move to Costa Rica or O'Reilly saying he would quit his job.

The worst that will happen is some Ruby Ridge / Branch Davidian style lunatics that think just because they can barricade themselves in a compound that they are fighting a revolution.

This isn't a real threat.

[FredStembottom]

8. Let me give you pause.

I already lost my rights to one of these guys just the other day.
He won. Instantly. I couldn't even speak my mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022191703

[Motown_Johnny]

9. He won because you backed down

You could have spoken your mind, you choose not to.


If the mall has security you should have called it, then the cops.

If he wanted to fight it out in court then he has that right.


I don't see what rights you lost to him, you simply decided to not speak. That isn't losing a right, it is not exercising it.


And before you get to far into it I have had nut jobs point a gun at me 3 different times in the last ~33 years (I am 49), so yes, I do know what I am saying.

[FredStembottom]

10. My right to speak was over powered by....

...simply getting through it. Was he just a crank or a guy about to do his own shooting?
Before conceal and carry, I never had to choose.

That little pat was a small act of terrorism. One pat and we are afraid to argue with him.
That's rights loss.