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Rampage.
Explain again how a force consisting of a few machine guns and mostly deer rifles, could defeat one Abrams tank.
Just one tank... but of course a well equipped invading force wold first destroy most of the enemy with artillery,
naval gunfire, air strikes or drop mines to negate much of the resistance.

Quoted from Box A Rox

A great description Shadow...
But if you are facing an equipped trained invading force, you assume that you will use these weapons in sight of your enemy.
~ Chemical agents will leave all the weapons you mentioned totally useless.
~ Tactical artillery launched nukes will negate using these weapons.
~ None of the weapons you mentioned have any effect on an Abrams tank.
~ Satellite or drone surveillance will divulge your position, while you will be blind to enemy location.
~ Night vision and heat seeking optics would point out your exact location, at night, out of range of all your weapons...
but in range of your opponents.

"The Good Ole Boy, US Deer Hunting Militia" makes a good movie... but it's pure fiction.

Quoted from rampage

It's called American Ingenuity.  Just ask the British who decided they were going to invade this bunch of rednecks who didn't want to pay their taxes anymore back a couple hundred years ago.  Now, there are several tens of thousands the number of people who would be willing to fight.  

..and if this were to happen now, it would be an entire generation of people who grew up watching MacGyver, you know, the guy who could break out of anything with a stick of gum (only using half of it) and a bobby pin.  

Quoted from CICERO

Not only are the 65 million Americans familiar with guns, but they are also skilled workers that can set up a mining and manufacturing operations to sustain a counter attack.  By no means do I believe a foreign invader could roll through the American countryside without substantial resistance and eventual repulsion.

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How would the hypothetical invader keep a supply line available?  We are hypothetically talking about the invasion of 3.8 MILLION square miles of terrain.  Unless this invader was able to conquer very quickly and take over all resources, and food sources and was able to set up munitions and food manufacturing to maintain a sustained attack, I think it would be very difficult for a foreign enemy to sustain a long distance military operation against 65 million armed Americans.  Not only are the 65 million Americans familiar with guns, but they are also skilled workers that can set up a mining and manufacturing operations to sustain a counter attack.  By no means do I believe a foreign invader could roll through the American countryside without substantial resistance and eventual repulsion.

Quoted from Box A Rox

You must assume that an invading force would have already taken out our military... since these posts deal only with the
RedNeck US Army of Deer Hunters.

Quoted from Box A Rox

An invasion of the USA would probably look like a combination of the Iraqi "shock and awe" campaign, and the
Normandy Invasion... or in a lesser way, the Iraq invasions.

Quoted from rampage

That's why even our own government has been trying to dumb us down for years.  This is due to the outside influences, so that they can attempt to do this.

Quoted from Henry

Their supply routes would be almost impossible to stay functional considering they would have to have a continuous flow of supplies. Unlike our wars they would have to ship fuel, ammo, food from across the ocean to maintain a long term presence.

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‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill Passes Senate 93-7

Americans completely stripped of all rights under Section 1031

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, December 2, 2011

The Senate last night codified into law the power of the U.S. military to indefinitely detain an American citizen with no charge, no trial and no oversight whatsoever with the passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act.




One amendment that would have specifically blocked the measures from being used against U.S. citizens was voted down and the final bill was passed 93-7.

Another amendment introduced by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein that attempted to bar the provision from being used on American soil, an effort to ensure “the military won’t be roaming our streets looking for suspected terrorists,” also failed, although Feinstein voted in favor of the bill anyway.

Feinstein was able to include a largely symbolic amendment which states that “nothing in the bill changes current law relating to the detention of U.S. citizens and legal aliens,” but this measure is meaningless according to Republican Congressman Justin Amash, a fierce critic of the bill.

“Some have asserted that Sen. Feinstein’s amendment, S Amdt 1456, protects the rights of American citizens and preserves constitutional due process. Unfortunately, it does not. It’s just more cleverly worded nonsense,” Amash wrote on his Facebook page.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t




Though the White House has threatened to veto the bill, the fact that Obama administration lawyers yesterday reaffirmed their backing for state sponsored assassination of U.S. citizens would suggest otherwise. Not voting for the bill, or in other words upholding the oath to protect the Constitution, has been described over and over again as “political suicide”.

“The bill puts military detention authority on steroids and makes it permanent, American citizens and others are at greater risk of being locked away by the military without charge or trial,” said Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

As Spencer Ackerman highlights, the bill completely violates the sixth amendment in that it allows American citizens to be locked up indefinitely, including in a foreign detention center, without any burden of proof whatsoever. An American merely has to be declared a terrorist and they can be abducted off the streets and never seen again.

“The detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority,” writes Ackerman.

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Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!

by Andrew Curry


One of the colonial officers gave an order that would later become famous: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.


The colonists were outnumbered and low on ammunition. Their commanders knew they had to make every bullet count, and ordered their inexperienced men to hold their fire as the British formed their neat battle lines. One of the colonial officers gave an order that would later become famous: "Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes." When the "redcoats" were less than 150 feet away, the men opened up "an incessant stream of fire," a British officer wrote later. "It seemed a continued sheet of fire for near thirty minutes."

The counterattack was devastating. British officers and enlisted men alike fell "as thick as sheeps in a field," another eyewitness wrote. The battle lasted an intense two and a half hours as British troops made charge after direct charge up the hill. On the third attempt, the exhausted colonial militia ran out of ammunition and the British swarmed over the barricades with bayonets. The colonists beat a hasty retreat, but the damage had been done: More than a thousand British troops were wounded or killed, twice the casualty count among the fledgling American army.

Though the battle was technically a defeat for the American colonists, Bunker Hill forced some tough conclusions on the British. It was suddenly clear to the proud British command that the American revolution was going to be a long, hard fight. The colonial militias learned tough lessons too – if they were going to prevail in their fight for freedom, they would need far better organization, training and supplies.

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Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. Earliest quote

Posted by James Briggs on January 15, 2003

The Times publishes a regular Q&A column, often about the origin of sayings and phrases (I've had several answers published).
A recent question was about the saying "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes"? Some answers have been published, but one today seems to put the origin back 32 years from the accepted version. I thought it worth while passing on. The text come directly from the newpaper, and I thus acknowledge its source.

"Further to your previous correspondence (Q&A, December 30), which attributes the saying to the American General William Prescott, at the Battle of Bunker Hill ill 1775, this phrase is actually recorded some 32 years earlier.
At Dettingen, Flanders, on June 27, 1743, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw (5th Baronet) gave to the men or his regiment, the 21st of Foot, an order from which this saying is derived. A man of spirit even for the times, he had earlier in the day replied to a brigade order that "the scoundrels will never have the impudence to attack the Scots Fusiliers", but they did.
Formed in square, the Scots Fusiliers held a steady fire rolling along their lines and kept off the advancing French infantry.
Sir Andrew, a resourceful and experienced officer, had in training practised a novel battle drill with the men in his square, should they be attacked by cavalry.
At last, the opportunity to spring this trap appeared when the square was attacked by enemy cuirassiers. Instead of employing the orthodox tactic of seeing them off by standing firm and taking the charge on muskets and pikes, Sir Andrew gave orders that, as the cavalry approached the front line, the two centre companies should divide from the centre and fall back from the outer markers. This novel approach allowed the cavalry to charge through a lane with the Fusiliers facing inwards. At this point Sir Andrew gave the command:
"Dinna fire till ye can see the whites of their e' en . . . if ye dinna kill them they'll kill you." The French, as they rode through this lane of soldiers, were subjected to a withering crossfire and destroyed.
Later in the day King George II, who commanded the Army but was a little out of his depth, rode up and said: "So, Sir.
Andrew, I hear the cuirassiers rode through your regiment today."
"Ou, ay, yer Majestee," was the reply "but they didna get oot again."
This account is extracted from an article in the Journal of the Royal Highland Fusiliers Volume 24, No 2 (Winter 2000) and written by Sir Andrew's descendant, Major Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, Bt.
Dr J. R. Donald. Glasgow"

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Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.