You presume that the federal military would actually follow orders to put down a rightful insurection. Perhaps they wouldn't. Perhaps the rebels cause would be so strong that they'd be sweeping down the street behind a friendly-to-the-cause M1A1 tank.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." -- a bunch of smart, dead guys.
That's a dangerous hope to form a revolution on. You'd need something big enough of a pisser for every citizen to rally behind before even hoping that the military would turn. But they don't do it that way, they do it gradually, one little bit of freedom at a time until it just becomes normal. No one remembers it any other way, kind of like I used to be able to smoke anywhere, now I'm not. A gentle phasing out of freedoms.
There's a thing called conspiracy. We can all go to jail for this thread. This thread can be considered a conspiracy to commit treason. But how can you have treason in a country where it is our right to abolish the government? Who's the government governer? Who says "Okay, you can overthrow the government? What's the supreme court doing lately? Will they give us the right to stage a coup? Who runs this coup? Who will set up the interim government, or is that what we're rebuilding Iraq for? Is this the system that the illuminati put in place? Does the Iraqi supreme court say, "OK American government has become destructive of those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." Thanks for the permission guys, we appreciate it after the whole liberation thing. It won't happen because money says it won't happen. If we drop the status quo, we have no money. In God we trust because we're praying that our economy backed bills stay worth something, that's it, they're paper man, drop the government, no way, my cell phone won't work, my computer won't work, we'll be a fourth-world country and all the other third world countries will pee on us. Oh man, we'll be peons. No way, who'll take care of my blog? I guess Bush wasn't so bad. What will happen on Lost? Who will win Survivor this year... the cute chick that's now anorexic, or the fat naked guy? No way man, save overthrowing the government for the next generation. Government will fix itself, the republicans will save us, if not them the democrats will save us, gee I hope an independant woman minority president is elected, and no one assasinates her, that will fix everything. Maybe we can get that Jack Bauer guy to protect her. We can't stage a revolution, it will throw the world into chaos. Without the american dollar everything and everyone else is worthless. What's gonna happen to my ipod? In a society where the best thing that could happen to america's youth is a draft, how do you establish one without triggering a revolution? You don't. How do you get the youth to volunteer for the military? Offer them a camoflauge Ipod. What came first, the amoeba or Barbara Bush?
None of it matters, no one cares, that's the society we have. We replace the job interview with a computer and a background check, if you can beat simon, you can have a job. You need to figure out the employment kiosk to stock shelves at walmart. Peoplesoft says he's ok. This is why we have employment issues, no one gets a degree to stock shelves, that's not on the guidance counselor's poster. We replace 3 cashiers with 1 cashier to monitor 4 self-checkout areas. Who cares if we lose a few dollars because an item didn't scan properly, what's more important is that we're pissing off the customer trying to use this thing.
Customer service sucks so bad everywhere, companies acknowledge it and try to market it. "We have better customer service! It's half as crappy as our competitors." Who cares, I'll accept th
