Dsiturbing to say the least but far from surprisingly. The feds have been stacking their agencies with "like-minded" people over the years:
I have a friend who is high up in the A.T.F. (special agent in charge of a large state. He gets picked up on occasion by a black hawk to get to work). He is pro gun and pro 2nd amendment. I asked him what he and his people would do if they were ever tasked with confiscation of peoples guns, shooting those who resist and prosecution/imprisonment of those who survived. He looked me straight in the eye and said he would obey his orders and do his job. He said he would feel bad for anyone who resisted but it would not deter him from doing his job. I asked him if it would set off a civil war and he said the media would just spin it as the A.T.F. taking out radicals and domestic terrorists, which is how he would spin it to his men on the ground going through the doors and windows at 4 in the morning. He said the public would thank him and his men for keeping them safe from radicals and domestic terrorists with guns and give him and his men medals and bonuses. I believe he is telling me the truth. When they offer confidential informants and whistle blowers rewards for information on those who have "illegal" guns lots of friends and family will be glad for their 30 pieces of silver.
I would think that this would be common knowledge at this point.
Of
course that is what will happen, I have no doubt in my mind at all.
Especially when they, the FedCoats, will be the only ones with food and fuel and some currency of some sort.
If it goes to full scale guerrilla warfare, the task of the system's opposition will be to make life untenable for
Boobus,
to put him cold, hungry and in the dark by any and all means available.
He will swallow the system's propaganda hook line and sinker at first, and ruthlessly denounce to the government anyone suspected of being a "terrorist" or radical and causing him to lose his ball games, his McMansion and fuel for his truck, and that includes family members.
But if the opposition can keep up the pressure, can continue to monkey wrench supply lines, power and information grids, fuel and food supplies and all the other exposed ganglia of "modern" living for about six months or so, (maybe much less if modern collapses such as New Orleans after Katrina or areas of NY/NJ after Sandy are a lesson) then a problem arises for the system.
Boobus starts to blame the system just as much as the "radicals", starts to question the system's propaganda, since, obviously, the system does
not have the situation under control and will
not soon "crush the last nests of poisonous, anti-government vipers and reactionaries".
Boobus starts to get antsy, starts raising hell with the system about how "He's got no job, his kids are hungry, it's cold, my sail-fawn won't work, why can't you get things back in order?"
Then a few
Boobus' maybe start throwing rocks and bottles at a government food truck convoy, delivering steaks and caviar to the ruling class in one of their underground bunkers.
The systems responds in the only way it knows how to: by gunning them down
en masse. They then announce a new "crackdown", words to the effect "that any person interfering with government food supplies will be shot on sight".
Now
Boobus is pissed and doesn't really care, since now it is the system that is the target of his ire.
Now the system has millions and millions and millions of
Boobus to feed, clothe, house and keep out of trouble. Or kill. It's all the same to them.
Point is, that is when a resistance movement can make it's move, and start to claim victory, as the system teeters and collapses and becomes increasingly tyrannical in ways that
Boobus can see and understand. That is when you make your move to recruit "right thinking"
Boobus' into your effort, that will increase the monkey wrenching and hamstringing and internal espionage, when you can get more "inside men" pushing the system down from the inside.
And one upside is that, with a population as spoiled and lazy as this one is, a resistance movement will not need to resort to the measures that, say the Vietcong or IRA had to with a much tougher population to try and intimidate.