Before this kind of scenario happens again—whether in response to economic conditions, terrorist attack, or natural disaster—we must ask ourselves what we should do if the NorthCom soldiers who are now deployed among us roll down our streets in their tanks, and stop us from getting our groceries or picking up our children at school, or, put another way….
Who Really Works for Whom?
Cindy Sheehan has said it so succinctly: “You [elected representative] do not work for Halliburton; you work for US!” (to paraphrase the sound clip often replayed on my local Air America station, AM 1090, Seattle, WA).
These are auspicious times for patriotic, Constitution-supporting, law-abiding U.S. citizens to prepare mentally for the possibility that friends and neighbors who are in the armed services could some day be ordered to prevent us, their friends and neighbors, from moving freely about our cities and neighborhoods. How would the Second Amendment apply (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed….”) if U.S. civilians must someday confront an armed occupying force, albeit one comprised of fellow U.S. citizens?
What shall we expect, that hypothetical day, perhaps after an earthquake or a human-caused event—when we, citizens, tax-payers, voters, order our Army, National Guard, or local police officers, to heed our command and defy their military commanders?
If we can’t convince our Congressional employee-Representatives today to vote as the majority wishes, how will we persuade Corporal So-and-so, deployed from Iowa or Nevada, to put down his or her rifle and join the majority of us on the streets to reassert that we don’t work for them; THEY, our soldiers and our locally-elected officials, work for us?
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