Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

On Jul 24, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Samium Gromoff wrote:

> Pierce wrote:
> > It would also worry me if we started training our army to be able
> > to peacefully subjugate thepopulation. (Consistency is boring...)
>
> Its probability worries you rightfully, but for a fundamentally
> wrong reason.
>
> If a state has to train too much policemen then this means that
> something is _really_ _really_ _wrong_ with the government of
> that state.

 Not if they were used for disaster relief etc. Though that's what
the national guard is for, but they don't have the army corp of
engineers.

 What would worry me is that then it might make them too easy to use
for some sort of "internal problem".

 Pierce