The US Constitution doesn't say anything about using firearms to defend the Constitution. It just says the citizens have the right to keep arms and the Federal Government can't take those arms away.
The KKK aren't Republicans, you are correct, from the formation of the KKK till the Civil Rights movement, the KKK members and sympathizers were strict Southern Democrats.
Even David Duke was a Democrat until 1982
Northern Democrats were the ones who pushed Civil Rights and eventually took over the party, pushing some of the "Dixiecrats" into the Republican Party and others hung on to their seats as a Democrat.
Thats exactly what the Christian Collation did to the Republican Party, they are taking it over and shifting it from Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan policies to Pat Robertson/Ron Paul policies.
The Tea Baggers aren't real Republicans, at least not historical Republicans from 1850-1996, Tea Baggers are fringe Christian Collation folks.
I'm a life long moderate Republican along the lines of Nixon/Reagan, I won't vote for a Tea Bagger or Ron Paul type.
I think people had gotten to a critical mass in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and things just snapped.
Algeria, a country you'd think would destabilize as well, with it's history over the last twenty year, hasn't because in the words of Algerians "we've bled enough and can't do it again."
So there is a nation and people who can't snap again, they are broken.
OK, scale your town of 12,000's police response, as some one who was a foolish youth and fired firearms in the city limits of small towns, medium towns and cities of 100,000+, response time and size of the response to "shots reported" generally isn't that robust.
Buddy picked me up at the airport once when I was 17, we went up into the south hills of Eugene Oregon in a new subdivision, he pulled out a Mini-14 and we both went through a magazine, firing into the air. It took about 10 minutes for a police car to come, asked us if we saw or heard anything, then he left.
SMS, my boss just came back from a technology conference and was talking about how during lectures some speakers had people vote from mobile devices by sending texts.
Geeks would be really good at planning heists and figuring out distracting counter measures I realized as I was googling up LAPD shift strengths and figuring out how many people historically respond to large calls.
Again, look at the North LA bank robbery AKA North Hollywood Shootout.
Two guys with 3,300 rounds of ammunition in box and drum magazines, two modified Romanian AIM assault rifles, one modified Norinco Type 56 S-1, a semi automatic HK91, a modified Bushmaster XM15 E2S, and one 9mm Beretta Model 92F. They fire 1,300 rounds total.
On any given shift in the LA metro area, there are about 5,500-7,000 officers on duty, in the biggest shootout in that city's history, 300 of those officers went to the North Hollywood shootout.
The first group of officers there numbered two, they called in a possible bank robbery and when the shooters left the bank there were about 30 officers outside. So for a good sized city, two armed robbers will make 2-3 dozen officers out of about 6,000 appear.
You don't think a bank robbery on the other side of town could have been handled?
"US diplomatic cables sent from the Tripoli embassy in 2008 - released by WikiLeaks earlier this year - described eastern Libya as an impoverished region and a breeding ground for Islamic extremism."
Some people think there always has to be a Great Man for there to be change, its an older theory in Political Science and History.
For these revolts, I guess the Great Man adherents say that has to be Assange or for Egypt, Wael Ghonim. But that really takes away from the suffering and sacrifices of the people.
I think it's disgusting that Assange is personally taking credit for these revolts, he did nothing, has not suffered any and sacrificed nothing.
In each of the North African countries, theres been a particular martyr who died recent and that death sparked the revolt, we should be talking them, not Wikileaks.
Thats why most police departments have more than one police station and more than one cop car.
Even during the North LA bank robbery, not every cop in the LAPD was dispatched there.
For your example - guys on the East Side fire off a bunch of rounds, car(s) are dispatched for shots fired calls, they don't see bloody corpses in the streets, they call it back in as responded too and go on to the next call.
West End of town, alarms go off and the police over there still respond.
No Fly Zone means his military airfield infrastructure can be bombed, so can SAM sites, radar sites and Command Control Communication nodes, like Gaddafi's compound.
Libyan or chartered planes bringing in mercenaries can be shot down or diverted.
The refineries are already offline, so fuel shipments to Libya's mechanized forces can be stopped while the Free Libyan forces get arms and training.
You really don't think that the US, French, British and likely Egyptian special forces aren't already there assisting and arming the former Libyan units that switched to the Free Libyan side?
I'd not be surprised if the Turks, Poles, Ukrainians and Czechs aren't there too, the Poles and Czechs were big into training Libya in the 80s and after 2004.
Theres probably even some Syrians and Israelis floating around on the Egyptian side of the border aiding fighters too, they always show up.
If Reagan or Bush had been able to get a UN Resolution for a No Fly Zone over Libya in the 80s we would have and the US Navy would have had a holiday blowing the crap out of Libya's navy and air force.
But the Cold War kept it from happening, the Arab League thought he was one of their guys and OPEC liked him.
Hell NATO couldn't agree on action against him, with Italy, France and Spain being against US/UK pressure on Libya.
Able Archer 83 was fracking reckless to the brink of nuclear war.
So was FleetEx 83 where carrier strike groups overflew Soviet territory in the Pacific, just cause, which also made the Soviets think we were about to attack.
Sure Reagan didn't plop the US in to ground wars in Asia, but he did practice nuclear brinksmanship with the GLCM and Pershing II while spending spending spending on weapons and unit deployments.
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The US Constitution doesn't say anything about using firearms to defend the Constitution. It just says the citizens have the right to keep arms and the Federal Government can't take those arms away.
And the original push for universal health care was Nixon in 1970 and 1972, the Ted Kennedy pushed the Democrats to refuse to deal with Nixon.
The KKK aren't Republicans, you are correct, from the formation of the KKK till the Civil Rights movement, the KKK members and sympathizers were strict Southern Democrats.
Even David Duke was a Democrat until 1982
Northern Democrats were the ones who pushed Civil Rights and eventually took over the party, pushing some of the "Dixiecrats" into the Republican Party and others hung on to their seats as a Democrat.
Thats exactly what the Christian Collation did to the Republican Party, they are taking it over and shifting it from Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan policies to Pat Robertson/Ron Paul policies.
The Tea Baggers aren't real Republicans, at least not historical Republicans from 1850-1996, Tea Baggers are fringe Christian Collation folks.
I'm a life long moderate Republican along the lines of Nixon/Reagan, I won't vote for a Tea Bagger or Ron Paul type.
Ron Paul has too close of ties to White Supremacists and Nazi groups too be a viable candidate.
And the United States Army is prosecuting Private Manning within the law as put forth in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
I think people had gotten to a critical mass in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and things just snapped.
Algeria, a country you'd think would destabilize as well, with it's history over the last twenty year, hasn't because in the words of Algerians "we've bled enough and can't do it again."
So there is a nation and people who can't snap again, they are broken.
OK, scale your town of 12,000's police response, as some one who was a foolish youth and fired firearms in the city limits of small towns, medium towns and cities of 100,000+, response time and size of the response to "shots reported" generally isn't that robust.
Buddy picked me up at the airport once when I was 17, we went up into the south hills of Eugene Oregon in a new subdivision, he pulled out a Mini-14 and we both went through a magazine, firing into the air. It took about 10 minutes for a police car to come, asked us if we saw or heard anything, then he left.
Thats the DoD, the President isn't going to push on them over a Private.
Manning is done, he was done the second he sent files to a third party.
SMS, my boss just came back from a technology conference and was talking about how during lectures some speakers had people vote from mobile devices by sending texts.
Geeks would be really good at planning heists and figuring out distracting counter measures I realized as I was googling up LAPD shift strengths and figuring out how many people historically respond to large calls.
Again, look at the North LA bank robbery AKA North Hollywood Shootout.
Two guys with 3,300 rounds of ammunition in box and drum magazines, two modified Romanian AIM assault rifles, one modified Norinco Type 56 S-1, a semi automatic HK91, a modified Bushmaster XM15 E2S, and one 9mm Beretta Model 92F. They fire 1,300 rounds total.
On any given shift in the LA metro area, there are about 5,500-7,000 officers on duty, in the biggest shootout in that city's history, 300 of those officers went to the North Hollywood shootout.
The first group of officers there numbered two, they called in a possible bank robbery and when the shooters left the bank there were about 30 officers outside. So for a good sized city, two armed robbers will make 2-3 dozen officers out of about 6,000 appear.
You don't think a bank robbery on the other side of town could have been handled?
This talks article and interviews answer alot of questions about what caused Libya's Civil War.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011318121134680476.html
Only one reference to Wikileaks
"US diplomatic cables sent from the Tripoli embassy in 2008 - released by WikiLeaks earlier this year - described eastern Libya as an impoverished region and a breeding ground for Islamic extremism."
Some people think there always has to be a Great Man for there to be change, its an older theory in Political Science and History.
For these revolts, I guess the Great Man adherents say that has to be Assange or for Egypt, Wael Ghonim. But that really takes away from the suffering and sacrifices of the people.
I think it's disgusting that Assange is personally taking credit for these revolts, he did nothing, has not suffered any and sacrificed nothing.
In each of the North African countries, theres been a particular martyr who died recent and that death sparked the revolt, we should be talking them, not Wikileaks.
Thats why most police departments have more than one police station and more than one cop car.
Even during the North LA bank robbery, not every cop in the LAPD was dispatched there.
For your example - guys on the East Side fire off a bunch of rounds, car(s) are dispatched for shots fired calls, they don't see bloody corpses in the streets, they call it back in as responded too and go on to the next call.
West End of town, alarms go off and the police over there still respond.
Which is the point, right now without gunshot senors the unit is pinned down trying to determine the location of the sniper.
They've been using them in police and military applications for over ten years.
And yea, fireworks don't spoof them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator
The US has mostly unconnected power grids too.
Two major and three minor grids, the grid I'm on, Alaska isn't connected to anything else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection - has more information
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398
But theres a plan to connect the Eastern and Western Interconnections at Clovis NM in the next couple years.
Airbus A330 is a twin engine wide body that can carry 335 people in a two class configuration.
Air France 447, registered as F-GZCP, had a total of 228 people aboard, and had two General Electric CF6-80E1 engines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
No Fly Zone means his military airfield infrastructure can be bombed, so can SAM sites, radar sites and Command Control Communication nodes, like Gaddafi's compound.
Libyan or chartered planes bringing in mercenaries can be shot down or diverted.
The refineries are already offline, so fuel shipments to Libya's mechanized forces can be stopped while the Free Libyan forces get arms and training.
You really don't think that the US, French, British and likely Egyptian special forces aren't already there assisting and arming the former Libyan units that switched to the Free Libyan side?
I'd not be surprised if the Turks, Poles, Ukrainians and Czechs aren't there too, the Poles and Czechs were big into training Libya in the 80s and after 2004.
Theres probably even some Syrians and Israelis floating around on the Egyptian side of the border aiding fighters too, they always show up.
Where is the wikileaks release about what Libya has done to their own people and how many people in Libya read it?
Same with Tunisia and Egypt, social media tools let people get spun up against injustices and that sparked the revolts, not Wikileaks.
If Reagan or Bush had been able to get a UN Resolution for a No Fly Zone over Libya in the 80s we would have and the US Navy would have had a holiday blowing the crap out of Libya's navy and air force.
But the Cold War kept it from happening, the Arab League thought he was one of their guys and OPEC liked him.
Hell NATO couldn't agree on action against him, with Italy, France and Spain being against US/UK pressure on Libya.
And bombed his tent and a couple airfields and sunk some of his navy while firing missiles at his SAM sites.
Exactly, if you show up at an office and walk to talk to X, saying "he gave me his card" and then show the card, you get more access.
They are nice to have around as backup bookmarks, place to scribble a note and I love that my doctor still hands them out with appointment date.
Able Archer 83 was fracking reckless to the brink of nuclear war.
So was FleetEx 83 where carrier strike groups overflew Soviet territory in the Pacific, just cause, which also made the Soviets think we were about to attack.
Sure Reagan didn't plop the US in to ground wars in Asia, but he did practice nuclear brinksmanship with the GLCM and Pershing II while spending spending spending on weapons and unit deployments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Defense_Spending_-_%25_to_Outlays.png