18-09-2012, 10:26 AM
LR Trotter Wrote:Ms Edisen,
Didn't you get the memo that said "that can't happen here"? Seriously, I believe it can, and does. Those people believe they are right, and within their rights to take those steps. They also seem to think the "like minded" number is near about half of the population. Thankfully, there are those that recognize the situation, but sadly far too many discount the magnitude of it. Thank you for your post expressing the nature of the problem.
:banghead:
Larry, I didn't have time to answer your post in more detail. I am sure, based on what you said, you know that in history, beginning about 1920 in Italy, war veterans were organizing into small militia groups which then melded and became Mussolini's private army of "Blackshirts."
In Germany, former army corporal Adolph Hitler was spewing his ideas in beer halls and also organizing war veterans into what became his militia, the Brownshirts.
In France, the veterans' groups organized under an umbrella organization, the Croix de Feu (Cross of Fire), a fascist-type group. This group was studied by the stockbroker who was working for a J.P. Morgan brokerage house on Wall Street, and also trying to convince retired US Marine General Smedley D. Butler to lead 500,000 American Legionnaires to Washington, D.C., to oust President Franklin D. Rosevelt and replace him with a fascist dictator in 1933-34. An act of treason by Wall Street bankers, industrialists, etc.
Since that time, we have had a president murdered, the shots probably fired by riflemen trained in the armed services (not Oswald), but Roscoe White and others are a possibility. We have had a federal building in Oklahoma City bombed by a former military person/persons. We have private militia groups in various states, Idaho and elsewhee, and I suspect some of their members are former soldiers.
By no means do I mean to imply that war veterans are dangerous. But some of the ones referred to in the news articles at the beginning of this topic had not yet been to war, but were in training and did have treasonous ideas. And from history we have observed that some soldiers do not like to give up their weapons...
Adele