Question for DUers

[malaise]

How would progressive Americans react if tomorrow morning the parliament of any country passed a bill to finance arming militia (aka rebels) in the United States?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I'd say 'What goes around, comes around'? nt

[RadicalGeek]

2. It's unlikley

But I would urge the US sanction that country severly!

[brooklynite]

3. Perhaps it depends on whether the militias are fighting a dictatorship that uses chemical weapons?

[malaise]

4. Like what

Depleted uranium...agent orange? What???

[brooklynite]

8. I'm not aware that those are being used domestically...

...or that the world generally considers the Obama Administration as a dictatorship.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. Obama is using or is about to use depleted uranium and agent orange against American militias?

Because that's what Assad has done in Syria.

I'm sorry, but this is crazy talk and it's also an analogy fail.

[malaise]

12. Bush used depleted uranium in Iraq n/t

[brooklynite]

19. Not the point of the question...

The OP refers to supporting military opposition to the Government within the US.

[reorg]

13. Perhaps you are confusing something

A series of chemical weapon attacks in March and April 2013 was investigated over the next few months by a special UN mission to Syria. A person with close knowledge of the UN’s activity in Syria told me that there was evidence linking the Syrian opposition to the first gas attack, on 19 March in Khan Al-Assal, a village near Aleppo. In its final report in December, the mission said that at least 19 civilians and one Syrian soldier were among the fatalities, along with scores of injured. It had no mandate to assign responsibility for the attack, but the person with knowledge of the UN’s activities said: ‘Investigators interviewed the people who were there, including the doctors who treated the victims. It was clear that the rebels used the gas. It did not come out in public because no one wanted to know.’

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

[Sancho]

5. Since we've now armed our local cops, schools, and post offices with armored carriers and mortars...

our Tea Party friends (rebels) will likely be out-gunned!

[hack89]

6. If we were in the midst of a bloody civil war after a dictator had taken over

it would depend what the "rebels" were fighting for. If it was for the restoration of democracy then I would support it.

If it happened tomorrow with our current political climate I would ignore as irrelevant political posturing.

[reorg]

7. they would call for an immediate bombing campaign, obviously

If you have a big hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[FSogol]

9. I guess the Koch brothers don't qualify as a parliament, right?

[wandy]

16. The Koch brothers likely have more 'clout' than the parliament of many small countrys.

[OilemFirchen]

10. Like France in 1778?

Quelle horreur!

[msanthrope]

14. Once I was done laughing, I would direct the WBC, Cliven Bundy, and few of the border

militias to the recruitment website. I mean, think this through, Malaise....

Couple of airstrikes, we could really clean some shop.

[JustAnotherGen]

17. Oh - that would be just awesome!

[msanthrope]

20. You just gotta think these through....nt

[wandy]

15. Let's rephrase that. If tomorrow morning the Board of Directors of any multinational.........

corporation funded a project arming militia (aka The Bundy Cow-Pie Vigilantes) in the United States?

Lets face it, the first battle over corporate use of public funded lands is over. The BLM and tax payer lost.
Someone had to finance the operation and pay for support, equipping, housing and incidental experiences for Bundy's troops.

Sure, you can make a few bucks off of cows, but the real money will be in the strip mines and fracking.
That 'board of directors' have no reason to believe they will be any repercussions from doing so.

[reorg]

18. they are not much into hypotheticals, malaise

lack of imagination, I guess.

You got to hold in their favor, though, that it would take quite an effort and a few decades of destabilizing a region to the point where such scenarios can occur.

[freshwest]

22. With a yawn. We won't even do anything about armed militias now.