Red Dawn

     Will You Fight?

  One thing that bothers me a little about movies like this is that I'm sure that other countries have game planned the various ways they might come in and take us over. And I'm sure they've looked at every scenario they could think of. But just in case they haven't, its probably not a smart thing to give them any ideas. However, let's just say that another country like North Korea could come in without much of any kind of resistance from our military. For that to happen, our country would have already collapsed financially, and our military all went home because they weren't getting paid. Even then that scenario would not likely hold up, because you would probably get enough unpaid volunteers just from the great states of Tennessee and Texas to man up a pretty good size militia. And you're thinking that, oh, maybe they would do something like they did in the movie and disrupt our whole power grid. Well, I don't see how that would bother our military too much. They're pretty good at fighting in the dark. And I've heard talk of an EMP burst above the country that would take down not only the power grid but anything that needed electricity to run, like all types of communication (other than smoke signals), generators, cars, planes and trains. If you noticed in the movie vehicles and generators were still working. But even with the EMP thing, I know that our military has shielded darn near everything against such an attack. It wouldn't stop our nukes or most of our combat aircraft. So the EMP thing might cause a lot of confusion and panic in the general public but, as soon as we found out who was responsible, they would get nuked.
  But, hypothetically, let's just say they managed to get a sizable number of boots on the ground without much military resistance. Most people I asked said that they would fight if it came to a scenario like that. That's a pretty easy thing to say when you're sitting in your recliner watching the ball game or comfortably sitting in front of your computer contentedly pecking away at the key board. I'm not so sure there would be all that many that would actually take up all the weapons they could find and head for the hills (or marsh, swamp, or piney woods around here). Many of those that did, would probably just get themselves dead in a very short period of time. Let's just hope I'm wrong. Regardless, even if this scenario is a very remote one, would you really want to be caught flat footed and unarmed by your own government ahead of time? Think about it when you're going along with those in our government that want to get rid of our right to bear arms. I do not consider my self an extreme right wing sort of person. I am very liberal on some things, conservative on others and generally an independent politically. But I would never voluntarily give up my right to bear arms. Those that have historically, lost their freedom pretty rapidly afterwards. Our last couple of Presidents have steam rolled over us in the dark of night when no one was paying attention. Or they by-passed Congress altogether with Executive Orders and taken many of our rights already without much of a fight from any of us. But if you let them take the right to bear arms too...you will quickly find yourself someone's prisoner. Then you will be like the Palestinians throwing rocks at tanks and airplanes when they start poking and prodding you like cattle to get you to do their bidding. So my advice is to chose your battles wisely and hope you never have to fight. But just in case, you better make sure you have something in your hand to fight with.