“You can’t fight the City Hall!” Perhaps, but…

[olegvolk]

Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.

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The State

[anonymous]

I have to agree with your assessment, with one provision. You mentioned "a few hundred thousand". I again agree, so long as they are equipped and lead properly. That same few hundred thousand, if equipped with say lever action .30-30 rifles would be a force that would create problems for "the State". But they would be eventually eliminated without proper military type weapons. Although a poorly equipped force with excellent leadership have in the past proven themselves over properly equipped forces.

Re: The State

[olegvolk]

That would also assume the state can tell who is against it. The current European situation suggests an inability to tell neutral from friend from foe, and that's even more true when a person might not know when or how he will decide to act until the decision is made.

single dissident

[anonymous]

There's an apocryphal story (I probably found it in a W.E.B. Griffin novel) about a WWII Polish youth who found a drunken Nazi soldier and stole his pistol.

He used that arm to kill and rob other Nazis in Warsaw, which led to the arming of a group of Polish resistance fighters.

Even though fiction, it provides a viable scenario for the forming of a resistance group. When compared to the American Revolution, it's a much more ad hoc approach, and unlikely to ever become necessary in this place and day. Still; had the British managed to defeat the Minute Men, the determination was in place in 18th Century America.

Which suggests the inevitability of the American Revolution.

Re: single dissident

[olegvolk]

The Warsaw episode was in John Ross' "Unintended Consequences".