Complaining about stuff that hasn’t happened yet?
"Yet" being the operative word.....
Wait for it. Because it must follow, as the night does the day.
a little dinky-dow but it just don't mean a thing
Boo-coo dinky-dow. As in, completely bonkers. Stark, raving mad. Completely and utterly insane. Just ask anybody in the News and Current Events forum---they'll tell you.
Yes, and this is why you describe yourself as "Beaucoup-Diên-Cai-Dāu, which means "Much Crazy in the Head."
Thank you. I'm very well aware of what it means.
The title was bestowed upon my by a fellow vet in one of my PTSD support groups.
The rest of us, recognize only 2 categories: military personnel and civilians. When veterans leave the military they are supposed to return to being civilians.
I can only speak for myself and the other vets that I know, but the lot of us will never "return to being civilians". We
can't. Military service changes you in such a fashion that you will ever be what you were before. We don't think like civilians, we don't talk like civilians, we don't act like civilians. Go to any family reunion, and you'll always find the vets in the family off in some corner by themselves, talking among their own kind. Why? A lot of it has to do with the dark sense of humor and the cynical coping mechanisms we employ; civilians don't understand such things, and they are offended by them.
According to what you wrote, it looks like some veterans may fail to integrate into civilian society and consider themselves to belong into a unique category with a quasi-military function.
I've failed to integrate back into society, for sure....that's why the VA has me diagnosed with "Adjustment Disorder", which is basically a high-priced shrink term for "not making a very good civilian". As for the "quasi-military function", not so much. I don't belong to a militia, I don't tear around in the woods wearing cammies (contrary to what you may hear from certain parties in Australia who have no idea what they're taking about), and I don't even own a .50 caliber sniper rifle. But if the need were to arise, I would be ready to meet the threat level being presented.
I don't think you really grasp the problem. Do you not realize how man people in the military will refuse to take up arms against their own citizens. About half of the people in the military will join the group of "kevlar-wearing, masked, tin-pot, quasi-military American morons with more ammo than working neurons".
By the way, they took an oath to support and defend the constitution and obey all "lawful orders". If a soldier was ordered by their commander to massacre a village of unarmed civilians, that soldier would be punished along with the commander. Same thing would apply in this situation. If there is an uprising, it wouldn't be civilians storming the capital. It will probably look more like civil disobedience until the government tries to impose their will by force which will then be met with a counter-force.
This is very true. In the first place, the US military cannot be used in law-enforcement capacities inside the United States---it's against the law. In the second place, all American military personnel are told to never obey unlawful orders. Now, some of them would follow orders regardless, we know that. However, I believe enough of them would refuse to do so---and if the orders they're getting are clearly unconstitutional, they might even defect to the other side, along with their weaponry.
Most civilians don't know this, but military personnel swear an oath to defend the
Constitution. Not the President, not the country, but the Constitution. They are enjoined to follow the orders of their superiors and the Commander in Chief, but if those orders contradict the Constitution, by their oath, the personnel cannot follow those orders. Again, people refuse to think outside the box. They think that simply because things have always been this way, then they always
will be this way....but if it all hits the fan, that could change very, very quickly.
