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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
You're presupposing a level of organization that I just find impossible given the state of technology today and the level of surveillance that goes with it. I find it impossible to believe that a grass-roots rebellion could get to the level of sophistication that you're implying without the government swooping in and arresting the majority of the conspirators.
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You missed my point. The trick to beating a powerful military with exceptional intelligence is to have no central organization, and to basically be dark 100% of the time. If, for example, I wanted to incite an armed rebelion against the current administration (btw, NSA, if you're reading this, welcome to TFP! Feel free to join up and please join us in the discussion. Also, I have no plans to overthrow the government. I'm a pretty peaceful guy.), I would go about my busniess. Every once in a while I would purchase things like styrofoam and gasoline (for napalm). There are thousands of government buildings in California. I know that many of them do not have security durring the night. Boom. I also know where Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, United Technologies, Science Applications International Corporation, Health Net, and many other US weapons manufacturers do their dirty work. I'm pretty sure they're all in the yellow pages. I could probably destroy 3-4 buildings in a few hours and make a serious statement. Would it have any effect? Not really. The US military is armed to the teeth. The point would be that there are people out there willing to do what it takes to see that (insert complaint about government here). It's really wquite simple. The al Qaeda is a perfect example. Terrorism is an incredibly powerful, cheap and effective tool against what would normally be an invincable foe. Can you imagine Palestine trying to beat Israel military to military? A bit one sided. Yet, we see horrible things like bombs strapped to people going off in crowded supermarkets. Is it right? Of course not. Is it effective? Damn straight.
If, and this is a big if, someone wanted to overthrow the government badly enough, one would only need to become a one man terrorist cell. If enough people become one man cells, then you have a successful rebelion.