Best think again
During Sporty Time, one can reasonably expect that the cops and/or soldiery will join up with the side of Righteousness and refuse to shoot their fellow Americans at the behest of an illegitimate, tyrannical government, right?
Right?!?
Yeah, about all that.
As if. The civilians who were threatened with force, or subjected to force, by American troops would like to have a word:
- 1791: The Whiskey Rebellion
- 1863: The New York City Draft Riots
- 1877: Great Railroad Strike in 1877
- 1932: The Bonus Army
- 1957: Desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
- 1962: Desegregation of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi
- 1963: Desegregation of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
- 1967 Detroit Riots
- 1967: Newark Riots
- 1968 King assassination riots in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
- 1970 New York City Postal Strike in 1970
- 1980 Cuban Refugee Crisis
- 1989 Hurricane Hugo
- 1992: Los Angeles Riots
- 1993: Branch Davidians in Waco
As long a list as that is, DM still left off a few, to include Kent State in 1970 (“four dead in Ohio,” as sung/groaned by execrable über-shitlib Neal Dung) and the 5-0 bombing and burning of the MOVE HQ in Philly in 1985 which destroyed a city block entire, among others.
Update! DM commenter Big Ruckus D nails down the grim, gruesome reality.
And note that presently there’s all this talk of the invaders being tapped as new troops in exchange for citizenship. I maintain they don’t even need to recruit those, as there are plenty of bonafide Americans already serving who will obey an order to fire on other American civilians, and I suspect there are many who will do so with a certain amount of relish. The idea that wouldn’t happen is a pipe dream, and flies in the face of observable human nature. The only rights anyone truly has are the ones they are willing to kill a motherfucker who is infringing on them over. Everything else is mere words on paper and mental masturbation to guard against acknowledging unpleasant realities.
Pretty much, yeah. Tonight’s Eyrie outing, to be posted in a short (so it is written, so it shall be done), touches on this, if somewhat obliquely.
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