What would it take?

[Tonchi]

However serious the issue, the question starting this thread was a rhetorical one. It was not for the purpose of strategic planning. Just because few of the guys here are booting up and racking the rifles the minute somebody asks them a rhetorical question does not mean they are all a bunch of pussies. Few people know how hard they would have to be pushed or by whom until the countdown was actually begun, and we can't even agree that the clock is ticking.

Besides, with the response time this government has shown in Iraq and NO, I will be comfortably settled in Switzerland before the (still theoretical) march begins. With all the military bases being shut down and sold to developers, just how and where do you forsee troops being mobilized for a takeover anyway? You can't start the draft again just to have enough men handy to launch a crackdown on civil liberties, not even with a Republican administration.

But to come right out and answer your question about EXACTLY WHAT would it take to make me fight to get those people out of power, cancelling elections would do it for me. If Bush forced an ammendment through allowing himself unlimited terms in office, that would do it too.