No popular insurrection against a modern military has occurred mainly
   due to the lack of easy and affordable access of smart weapons. A broad
   interpretation of DD's right to publish its 3D plans might soon lead to
   practical TOW, Stinger and other smart weapons that could neutralize
   commonly deployed advanced military tech.

   On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 2:30 PM Steve Kinney <[1]admin@pilobilus.net>
   wrote:

     On 08/29/2018 03:38 PM, Razer wrote:
     > I wasn't really suggesting using guns to overthow the government.
     You
     > might like this explanation of why.
     >
     > Randazza at the libertarian legalwonkblog popehat:
     [...]
     > We managed to preserve our right to keep military grade rifles and
     > machine guns, so we all muster down on the Town Common with our
     guns. We
     > tried voting. We tried protesting. This is a reasonable time to
     start
     > with the armed insurrection stuff.
     >
     > So, you, me, all our neighbors, hell our entire city builds a
     perimeter
     > around it. We fill sandbags, we all have ammunition, we all have
     food,
     > water, supplies, and most importantly, we are all unified and in
     > complete solidarity.
     >
     > And we stand there, resisting whatever it is the government was
     going to
     > do to us.
     >
     > And then they fly over with one jet, dropping one FAE bomb, and
     roll in
     > with three tanks, and in about 12 hours, our "resistance" is
     reduced to
     > a few smoking holes. The Tree of Liberty will get its manure all
     right,
     > but it will be the manure that you shat out as you ran for cover,
     as
     > long range artillery rains down on our town, as we get carpet
     bombed
     > from 35,000 feet, and as the sky goes black with drones and cruise
     missiles.
     >
     > We're screwed.
     As a critique of Right Wing militia fantasies, the above stands up
     well.
     But as a statement about armed insurrection in general, it presents
     a
     straw man argument:  Nobody will stage an armed insurrection against
     a
     21st century government by using 18th century colonial strategy and
     tactics; anyone who tries it will certainly lose, early and badly.
     The strategic objectives of modern insurrections rarely include
     replacing the whole government, and winning tactical options rarely
     include defeating the national armed forces in head to head
     conflict;
     that requires mass defection and non-compliance by the opposing
     force.
     Instead, an insurrection seeks "redress of grievances" i.e. radical
     changes in State policy and procedures.  Bringing commerce to a halt
     via
     boycotts, civil disobedience, sabotage, etc. reliably produces
     maximum
     results at minimum risk.  "Economic terrorism" ranks at or near
     first
     place in formal assessments of threats to State and Corporate power
     today.
     The State exists to provide a stable environment for commerce and to
     enforce the rights, so called, of absentee landlords.  It has no
     other
     purpose.  When the State fails in these missions and can not restore
     business as usual by force, the State's owner/operators come to the
     bargaining table prepared to make concessions.  In the United
     States,
     the Labor Movement and Civil Rights Movement achieved significant
     objectives working within this model of domestic political warfare.
     Competent insurrectionists do not kill people except in self
     defense;
     murdering one's opponents only makes it difficult or impossible for
     the
     survivors to come to the bargaining table mentioned above.  "Off The
     Pig" was a heavily promoted slogan in the 60s and 70s when the FBI
     was
     running "Communist" revolutionary cells in the United States - guess
     who
     promoted it, and why?
     Our rulers and their faithful servants make every reasonable effort
     to
     provide the public with pre-failed models of rebellion, and to deny
     the
     public access to information about practical populist politics.
     "Rebel
     As You Are Told" ranks second behind "Divide The Conquered" among
     the
     most necessary, persistent and well funded themes in State and
     Corporate
     propaganda today.  Anyone who wants to see input from public at
     large
     have any impact of State policy and Corporate behavior faces a long
     uphill climb.  Any chance of success must start with basic political
     education.  An example of such:
     [2]http://pilobilus.net/strategic_conflict_docs_intro.html
     :o)

References

   1. mailto:admin@pilobilus.net
   2. http://pilobilus.net/strategic_conflict_docs_intro.html