Originally posted by snowen20
WAR BY ATTRITION WINS THE DAY
Since you're an Army guy as you previously stated, you may not have had the kinds of experiences that would make you understand why resistance will
be spotty and futile, unless superbly organized with undisturbed communications, which as we all know, will be unattainable under martial law
circumstances.
The experiences I'm referring to is being taken into custody by a superior authority for something you know you shouldn't be being seized over, for
something you know clear as day is a violation of your so-called civil rights, or those that you supposedly have to protect you in the Constitution.
Most people typically say if faced with such a situation by say, the local police department, that they would disobey the police insofar as doing
something non-violent and non-dangerous such as disobeying an order to .. walk out of their house at that instant and come to the officer, standing on
the curb or in the neighbor's property, and going inside instead and locking the police out until they come up with a warrant to search the home.
Even though they
technically are within their rights to do so, when they eventually go to trial, after the police eventually get the warrant
and find
some reason to write you a summons, which they will trust me on that.. even if they have to stretch the truth thin like a rubber band
about to snap, which they will and do and have done, they will tell the Judge you were particularly uncooperative, not allowing the officer's inside
or not obeying their order to waive your rights and walk outside. Then you actually get jail time for something most folks get their jail time
suspended for having good behavior during the arrest (and by pleading guilty, saving the court and police some time in their methodic prosecution
machine called the judicial branch). All for trying to stand up for your own rights, whether or not you had something illegal to hide, you have rights
and they were made to protect you. Hmm..
protect? This means that in the privacy of your own home, something illegal that is harmless to anyone, even your own self, should be protected by
your civil rights. Why else would they be there? If we didn't have the right to deny a search if they didnt have a warrant, and then they find
nothing illegal, how was it such a horrible violation? That person barely got disturbed, isnt going to jail, isnt going to have a court trial, has
nothing to worry about. Thus it seems fairly obvious these rights were partially created to protect yourself when in possession of illegal yet
harmless things. (for example: a small personal amount of cannabis, or a bottle of booze over the limit for alcohol level, or even a prescription pain
medicine for your cracked tooth/injury that you are too poor to be able to see a doctor for, so were given for free by a friend? all of which you will
be arrested for if they are discovered)
In the end, what im getting at is, when faced with people of authority, who are armed and are representatives of the government, be it local or
federal, you are routinely intimidated into not invoking your rights. You will be threatened in a certain wording so as to allude to it without
directly saying it; that you will be treated bad on purpose, and jailed for something they'd otherwise write you a summons and send you on your merry
way over.
Now allow me to ask you, Mr. Soldier. Who do you consider more intimidating? A few police officers with holstered handguns in blue uniforms, or a
small group of soldiers, be they national guard, reserve or U.N. peacekeepers, with shouldered machine gun rifles, in full urban camoflauge combat
gear? I personally have been intimidated out of my rights by police threatening indirectly and so forth like mentioned above, and was at my own home
even. And it angered me greatly afterward, but at the time I was mildly scared. I could only imagine if that situation was replayed out, except with
solders with machine guns under a martial law circumstance where my rights literally wouldnt mean a damn thing period. The kind of circumstance where
they just walk right on in your home, pushing you aside or what have you. Or even kicking your door in, and rounding up your family into a single
room, as the house is torn apart in a fruitless search.
Let me know how you feel about this,
much respekt.
-runetang
[edit on 9/25/2008 by runetang]