Just pointing this out here as an example for people who think that the US Military would be deterred from firing on civilians even when it was explicitly ordered to stand down and not open fire if it's got a sufficiently bloodthirsty, trigger-happy commander:
http://www.gpb.org/march-of-the-bonus-army
If the government has gone wrong, armed resistance is not the answer to what has already happened. Democracies cannot in any event go wrong in this way without the consent of at least a sufficiently large, motivated plurality.
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Date: 21/1/13 16:02 (UTC)http://www.gpb.org/march-of-the-bonus-army
If the government has gone wrong, armed resistance is not the answer to what has already happened. Democracies cannot in any event go wrong in this way without the consent of at least a sufficiently large, motivated plurality.