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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 12:58 PM Original message |
HuffPo: What Would You Do If Bush Declared Martial Law? |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. I guess I'd consider George to be openly declaring himself king |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bush and what army? nm |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Exactly. Which is why my reaction would be to |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. You guys don't understand what fascism entails. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. And since police officers have no minds of their own... |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. You don't understand this country . |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. I am very aware of what it entails. |
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BluePatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:12 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. *nods* |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. You've got a point, I remember the big DU controversy over |
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BluePatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Right. |
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C_U_L8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Burn Baby Burn |
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Taxloss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Clear the guest room |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. He would have to abandon his adventure in Iraq |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. Leave. |
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Pachamama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Same here...my family left Nazi Germany.... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
34. In modern times, that could be harder to do, though |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Like others have said --- with WHAT ARMY |
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ruiner4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. the 101st flying keyboard-kommandos brigade... |
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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
61. HEY! Don't sully the good name of Magic: the Gathering with that of a freeper. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
9. Extend my options on my cable t.v. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. He can't imagine Martial Law in the US? Where has he been?? |
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UnyieldingHierophant (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
12. Country Boy will survive. |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. I guess I would wonder... |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. Sitting at my congressman's office |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
16. Do you think this would wake |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. See, the freepers argued that they needed their assault weapons in case Clinton declared martial law |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Creating martial law would be a stupid move by the Bush Admin |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. The Frat Boy better not be expecting me to fall in line |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. I'd laugh. |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
25. My phone would be ringing off the hook. Somehow, I have become the go to political person for many |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Well, what action specifically? Mass defiance of no-assembly orders? nt |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Who needs that level of ugliness when they can pawn us off to a |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. We would have to go out in the streets in droves so they could not |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:07 PM Response to Reply #30 |
49. Well, civil disobedience does have an excellent track record. The question is who would be willing |
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eddy51 (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. Not to worry |
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meldroc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
27. Work on setting the Gandhi Trap. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:16 PM Response to Reply #27 |
52. Agreed |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
28. I guess it would be off to Gitmo for me, because I would be part of whatever resistance there was... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
31. Just a fact for your consideration --rise of paid mercenaries in US.... |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
36. Support the troops. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
37. They will go after any of us who've spoken out, blogged, protested, |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. The desenters will be screwn! |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. That's why we all have to stand with Cindy and Cynthia and |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:16 PM Response to Reply #37 |
53. Sadly correct. |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:00 PM Response to Reply #53 |
65. "...a well-armed populace, etc....." |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:10 PM Response to Reply #53 |
66. I like the way you think.... |
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meldroc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:24 PM Response to Reply #53 |
67. Non-violence for as long as non-violence is possible. Then... |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:37 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. as someone who hunted white tail with a Browning |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
38. With what army? How about |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
41. First thing I'd do is to stop all federal payroll deductions. Second, buy me a big old |
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OxQQme (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:58 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. Civil War/Seccesion |
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Homer Wells (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #45 |
63. Agreed! |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
43. I hate to say this, but.... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:02 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. Yep, if you needed a good trial run of martial law to see how people would react it was New Orleans |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:41 PM Response to Reply #43 |
60. Not quite the same situation |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
44. It will likely follow a 'terrorist attack' on the homeland, and sold as only temporary.... |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
46. We should all have plans to sneak out of the country |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
47. I think it would be very easy. I saw a minority of armed mounted police in NYC |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:38 PM Response to Reply #47 |
58. Balderdash |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
50. Quit being paranoid. |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
51. Right of Revolution/Despotism |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
54. Why would he need to? |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
55. Then all bets are off. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
56. Before or after the economy collapses? nt |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:41 PM Response to Reply #56 |
70. Either way, |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
57. Executive orders, martial law, Rex84, Op CableSplicer Op Garden Plot |
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In Truth We Trust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
59. K&R Impeach NOW!!! |
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leftyclimber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
62. I have a passport and I'm not afraid to use it. |
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yy4me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
64. What else are they going to find buried in the budget? |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
69. martial law? LOL! |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
71. bush thinks that martial law means that the cops will be using kung-fu on lawbreakers... |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 02:18 AM Response to Reply #71 |
74. rumsferatu probably told busche about that new "microwave" weapon |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
72. To anybody that believes that they would buy a gun if it happens: |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 01:39 AM Response to Reply #72 |
73. Your point about the 30% crowd |
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meldroc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 05:53 PM Response to Reply #72 |
76. That's why you need to arm yourselves NOW. |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
75. Feel really sorry for my family and all my DU friends in the US |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
77. As they say in New Hampshire |
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