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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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There's a reason they're using 6-12 officers to arrest one middle-aged mother. They know the communities they enter hate them and they are terrified of bystanders ganging up on them or worse, ambushing them with firearms.
I don't think there is a "peaceful show of force" in this scenario. The second a cop sees a civilian carrying a long arm walking up to them, pistols are leaving their holsters and they'll start screaming commands just like they're trained. The first shot fired is inevitable from there.
Why would you "walk up" with a long arm?
The comment I replied to appeared to suggest that if everyone together brandished firearms at the cops as a show of force, the cops would simply slink away in fear without a shot being fired or anyone being further hurt. Something I would not count on.
That's how it went down with the Bundy standoff.