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    What would it take to overthrow the U.S. goverment

    No I don't have any ideas (despite what I've said in the past). Or maybe I'm just putting that disclaimer in there because of secret service internet snooping.

    I've always been fascinated by revolutions. How would one overthrow a goverment the size of the United States. I just can't see it happening. Not with our state goverments to intercede. True, they don't have the power (and militias) they used to. But they still have national guard troops that are maintained by each state I believe.

    As another hypothetical. What would it take for terrorists to defeat the U.S.? Essentually forcing a govermental collapse. I've often wondered about this as well.
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    Nuking DC when alot of high fliers are in should upset it all nicely.
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      Finding out the president has f*cked an intern?
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        Nah thats expected.

        Being found giving it to an underage chicken might cause problems though
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            • #7
              well to overthrow a government first of all the population should want to..(e.i hating the government due to it being a police state, but in the US it will be probably about a tax raise or paying one cent more for gas ) then i think it will have to happen in the same way as in the first civil war... first on a state level...if a blood will flow between americans i will not be in a bloody coup but in a 2nd civil war...even if 1 army division would seize D.C. because of the power the states have and I also think the mind set of the american people (thinking they control who runs there country) a coup will not work
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                Finding out the president didn't f*ck that cute intern, thus casting doubts on his sexuality.
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                • #9
                  I find it hard to imagine how the U.S. government in its current form could be overthrown militarily, but I could easily imagine the U.S. government eventually passing laws which change its makeup so entirely that it becomes some kind of Empire or Dictatorship, and then whatever party that wasn't in power when this happens would have to overthrown it by militant means.
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                  • #10
                    You would basically have to kill about 20 million active/reservist military members and veterans.

                    The military is the government, and the way it is set up it will invariably always be tied to whatever faction is in power. And that is the way a good democracy wants it.
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                    • #11
                      I think it'll be quite easy. In about 3 years time. All it'd take is a decent election campaign...
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                      • #12
                        Revealing both Janet Jackson's breasts live on air.

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                        • #13
                          Re: What would it take to overthrow the U.S. goverment

                          A really big lever.
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                            Re: Re: What would it take to overthrow the U.S. goverment

                            Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                            A really big liver.
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                            • #15
                              If I had the answer, don't you think I'd have done it by now?
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