The groups of people in the list above are considered “problems” that need to be dealt with. In some of the documents referenced above, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups.

[posted at a previous thread]

Y’all continue rational think and rational think and see what happens to y’all …

Except for Arab North Africa like Egypt and Libya who would like to burn him at the stake for the trouble he caused them; the rest of Africa has already put him in the past.

Let him fade away into obscurity.

Also, I don’t see them going door to door confiscating weapons (although I’m sure they’d love to). The left is perfectly willing to play the long game. They will be grumpy, but they can be satisfied with making it too difficult/expensive to
get ammunition or put gun stores out of business.
I think it suits their purposes to curtail our freedoms on a de facto rather than de jure basis. They don’t want to rile up the proles too much.

They achieve two important things, the first of which leads to the second, which pragmatically speaking is the more important. The first is legality and the second, support from the military.

If the constitution is formally and legally amended, conservatives have no legal basis for objection.

While we all know that the theory of ‘inalienable’ rights informed the thinking of the founders, the categorization of “inalienable” is not in the constitution. Because that is so, the military would have no legal basis for claiming an order to be lawful, if under a new amended constitution it is lawful. The left could amend the constitution such that it could outlaw all private ownership of firearms or place severe constraints upon free speech and any other ‘rights’ that today we view as ‘inalienable’.

No American government can survive which does not have the support of the US Military, which is sworn to uphold the US Constitution. They must do so even if it has been gutted, as long as any ‘amendments’ were legally done.

We are a few days away from the high holy day in Texas, March 6 1936 when the battle ended in Texan defeat and Texans remembered the Alamo on April 21 the Mexican army was defeated and Santa Anna was forced to order his troops out of Texas.

This is big stuff down here in Texas and some folks get carried away with thinking that the Texas did not really join the USA. There is some mystery to the history and being 57% conservative at times, from the Governor on down lots of people think the Texas has more right answers that the Feds.

Some of the Independence guys went active nutty in the late 1990’s and had a stand off and then gave in and the folks who had done criminal stuff went to prison. George W. was governor at the time and unlike Ann Richards who in 1992 along with Janet Reno went charging into Waco “for the children”, the lawmen managed to bring that standoff to a non bloody ending in about a week.

Yep, we have enough people in Texas for every kind of crazy and some of it is more colorful whackiness than harmful.