A mere bagatelle for your weekend consideration. I found this quote interesting. Again, from Barton Gellman's excellent Time cover story on domestic militias in the age of Obama & financial distress (our previous coverage is here):
"We're not planning to overthrow the government," he said. "We're planning for what could happen." He proceeded to list, among other scenarios, a pandemic; economic collapse; hunger-driven big-city refugees; a biological, chemical or nuclear terrorist attack; an electromagnetic pulse from the sun that wrecks earthly machinery; invasion by Mexican drug cartels; and an eruption of ash from Yellowstone that "wipes out the breadbasket of the United States." Any one of those would likely give Washington the excuse to declare martial law. If so, Wright and his brothers in arms would fight back. "Hopefully," he said, "if they rule the cities, we'll rule the countryside."Just because it sounds like a down-market Dolph Lundgren vehicle doesn't make it less real. Some of those events — and several he didn't mention — could actually happen. And if they do, consider the scenarios.
GP
