Reply #3: You won't have time to gloat -- you'll be hiding in your basement [View All]

[HamdenRice]

I've been thinking about this a lot for some reason lately, maybe because the mainstream media seems to be hinting at it.

Frankly, if MIHOP or LIHOP were generally accepted and disseminated by the media, there will be open rebellion in the streets. These people, however, won't just be peaceful lefties, but the nut job, gun loving, black helicopter crowds from the Pacific northwest, Iowa, etc. There will be family members of victims prepared to tear down the Pentagon or CIA (or whatever agencies were involved) with their fingernails. I would expect hundreds of thousands to march on Washington and the Bush administration would probably declare martial law. The stock market will certainly crash simply on the uncertainty and there will be a resulting wave of bankruptcies throughout the country.

I would like to think that Americans would organize a peaceful removal -- a combination of Watergate and the Phillipines "people's power" removal of Marcos, but Americans are just more violent and bizarre that the people of other countries.

It will be a very, very ugly time and I don't think gloating in DU's dungeon is going to be a high priority -- survival will be. Frankly, I don't think the media, even if the case is proven to them, will risk the possible outcomes by telling the truth, even if it becomes obvious.