Originally Posted by powerclown

*Armed* overthrow of the US Govt?

What exactly would you be armed with? Last I checked, the Govt had all the good weapons.

They have the aircraft carriers, they have the atomic submarines, they have the F15 Raptors and Hornets, they have all the M1 Abrams tanks, Paladin self-propelled artillery systems and M6 LineBacker missile launchers, AH-64 Apache and AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters...they have all (or most of) the M60 7.62 machineguns, M249 Light Machine Guns, M16 Automatic Rifles, M40A1 Sniper Rifles, M203 40mm Grenade Launchers, Javelin Antitank Missiles, Avenger Pedestal Mounted Stinger mobile missile systems, Tomahawk/JDAM/HARM cruise missiles, SideWinder/Hellfire missiles, B2 Bomber aircraft, CG-47 Ticonderoga-class Destroyer warships, 900' Naval Battleships (Wisconsin-class), GCCS (Global Command and Control System) Nuclear capabilties, MQ-1 Predator/DarkStar Drones, M56 Coyote Smoke Generators, M151 Multi-Utility Tactical (MUTT) 4x4 Attack Jeeps, M1 Grizzly Mine Breachers,

...SAMOS-A Pioneer Military Satellite Systems equipped with KH-4 CORONA/KH-5 ARGON Optics Arrays, Kennan KH-11 Photographic Intelligence Satellite Operations, a Lacrosse Imaging Radar satellite, the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) advanced surface-to-air guided missile air defense system, Ground Based Radar [GBR] / X-band Radar [XBR] primary fire control sensor (providing surveillance, acquisition, tracking, discrimination, fire control support and kill assessment), JLENS (Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensos) systems, Firefly Aerial Decoys, HEXJAM (Hand-Emplaced Expendable Jammer) Systems...etc.

I would say the USA circa 2006 is probably THE most coup-proof government in the history of mankind.