Maybe the government should address some of the grevences and the fringe
elements will go away. Remember the abolitionists & states rights people were
once considered fringe elements and we wound up fighting a Civil War because the
issues were never addressed. I don't think that a civil war will happen I am
just illustrating a extreme example of what happens when issues are never
addressed.
Rick
JOHN SEIDTS wrote:
> Well,
> I think that some short-sighted individuals within our "elected"
> government would probably like to go home at night feeling safe that some
> military vehicle nut won't come tearing throught his house with an armored
> vehicle. Laughing at this?
>
> You shouldn't. There are lots of people out there who really have lost
> complete faith in the ability of the Federal Government to justly and
> reasonably govern the Citizens of the United States. Including many members
> of the US Government. And they are afraid of fringe elements. Don't you
> think that every government worker doesn't look at rental trucks parked
> outside their offices with some sort of trepidation? They do. And
> government workers are having unprecedented numbers of hours of training in
> counter-terrorism, disaster management, etc. I know, as I work for the
> Department of Defense.
>
> The Citizens and Government workers are not afraid of you in your little
> WWII jeep. But they are afraid of groups who buy tanks and armored vehicles
> and perform combat training with them. And that is what this executive
> branch wrangling is about. They essentially cut out the availability of
> armored vehicles to the public by demilling the majority of them. But they
> could not control the importation of foreign vehicles. Or at least they did
> not have a reason to mess with this practice. Evidently, they feel that
> they need to stop this flow into the country, for whatever reason. Are the
> reasons benign, like trying to control access to armor by hate groups, ultra
> left and right, etc? Or do they just not trust any US citizens with this
> type of technology any more? Hey, all you have to do is watch Jerry or
> Oprah to realize that John Q Public with an easily available destructive
> device and a tank will not resolve his conflicts in a positive and
> constructive manner.
>
> You can cry and moan about how your freedom is being subverted when they ban
> tanks, and cannons, and other devices. But do you really want them openly
> available to anybody who has a checkbook? You need to REALLY think about
> that one before you answer. With twelve years in the military, I feel
> reasonably secure in the knowledge that if I personally own any type of such
> devices, I will maintain them properly and not engage in any activities
> which would offend my neighbors. But how does a Government determine which
> people are 'safe' to own such devices? Let's use the Littlefield Scud as an
> example. I don't know Jacques Littlefield, but to my knowledge, he has
> never committed a felony, or belonged to any organizations which openly
> advocate the overthrow of the United States Government. He imports a Scud.
> His intention is to have the vehicle and missile as a part of his
> collection. But is he accompanying the missile and transporter through all
> phases of its movement? No. Does he personally supervise the proper safe
> rendering of the missile (or even know how to do it)? No, and it bites him
> in the ass. How difficult would it be for a 'bad' organization to get hold
> of this non-demilled missile, fill it with anthrax, and send it?
>
> Well from personal experience training to perform ship raids, and some
> knowledge of the practice of launching missiles, not very. These are very
> real threats. How difficult would it be to drive a privately owned armored
> vehicle down to the center of the city, and start firing Sarin shells
> randomly? Very easy. Remember Tokyo? Three ziplock bags of Sarin. 5500
> victims.
>
> Wake up, guys. While they may be fighting the citizenry, and depriving
> rights, and quashing hobbies, they have bigger fish to catch. Important
> dangerous ones which may be out there to hurt you and your family. And if
> you get caught in the net, that's your problem. And if it really bothers
> you, start electing people who really work to resolve social conflicts which
> lead to the proliferation of radical fringe elements in the beginning,
> instead of playing them off against each other in political games.
>
> Let's say this was my 5 cents worth.
>
> john@astory.com
> http://www.astory.com
>
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