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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
As a journalist, you should know that people will ONLY get riled up enough when they are PERSONALLY and PHYSICALLY affected by government oppression. A botched war, misspent billions, and troops dying for little to nothing are never going to be enough to start any kind of focused action against the government.
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Yeah, I do know that. The question was about what people SHOULD do, not what they WILL do.
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What is the population of this country? 300 million...approximately? 25% is 75 million people. 75 million vs. 5 million and you think that the government would still defeat us?
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Absolutely. They can easily kill 1000 for every 1 of them the people get. More if they decide to use the big bombs. Look how quickly the military rolled through Iraq in both wars, and they were up against people with much better weapons than we can get.
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enough threadjack though, in regards to this particular subject and taxation.....rebellion has been done for excess taxation in the past...if it continues, it will eventually happen again.
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That, I agree with. As the gap between the rich and the poor widens into a yawning chasm, the violence is already getting worse. Murders, fights, "road rage," "air rage," all of that crap that's escalating is, in my opinion, a reaction to the anger people feel at the fact that they have so comparatively little while a tiny minority has most of the country's wealth. Such a thing cannot continue, and the longer it takes to stop, the more violent and bloody will be the stopping process.