You know, with two Supreme Court positions up in the air, I've gotten to thinking.
At what point does open, armed revolt become a real option?
I think that I would start considering it if abortion were made illegal in all cases excepting medical emergency.
Aside from some things that just don't seem credible, like a registration and travel crackdown on homosexuals, or a succesful attempt to destroy judicial oversight, I think abortion is the only issue I'd be willing to take up arms for. Choice is just that important, without choice you've put half the population back in slavery.
Disclaimer: I'm not going to run off into the woods and start a guerilla army or anything.
But with the nation so totally divided and with so much bipartisan tension in the government I can't help but wonder how much it would really take to push America into a situation where armed revolt against the government became a realistic and justifiable option.
I'm thinking back to the major revolts that I know of. The revolution in Russia in 1917 had a lot of very severe and obvious causes. Starvation, a long war, years of discontent with the oppresive policies of the Tzars.
Some of the English revolts have had simple reasons. One of the big ones happened because the King wanted a divorce.
The American Revolution seems to have been primarily caused by a bunch of guys who thought that they could run things for themselves and were willing to go to war to prove it.
Eitherway, I don't like to think about it, and I'm not even sure if it is legal to think about it, but if the worst possible situation comes about I think there is a very real chance of another American civil war in the next ten years or so.
I just hope it never comes to that.
At what point does open, armed revolt become a real option?
I think that I would start considering it if abortion were made illegal in all cases excepting medical emergency.
Aside from some things that just don't seem credible, like a registration and travel crackdown on homosexuals, or a succesful attempt to destroy judicial oversight, I think abortion is the only issue I'd be willing to take up arms for. Choice is just that important, without choice you've put half the population back in slavery.
Disclaimer: I'm not going to run off into the woods and start a guerilla army or anything.
But with the nation so totally divided and with so much bipartisan tension in the government I can't help but wonder how much it would really take to push America into a situation where armed revolt against the government became a realistic and justifiable option.
I'm thinking back to the major revolts that I know of. The revolution in Russia in 1917 had a lot of very severe and obvious causes. Starvation, a long war, years of discontent with the oppresive policies of the Tzars.
Some of the English revolts have had simple reasons. One of the big ones happened because the King wanted a divorce.
The American Revolution seems to have been primarily caused by a bunch of guys who thought that they could run things for themselves and were willing to go to war to prove it.
Eitherway, I don't like to think about it, and I'm not even sure if it is legal to think about it, but if the worst possible situation comes about I think there is a very real chance of another American civil war in the next ten years or so.
I just hope it never comes to that.
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Abortion has little to do with equality. unless you're talking about making the world an even 50/50 split boys/girls. Let's assume that a guy wants to get a girl pregnant, and to make sure slices a hole in his condom. Assuming he's using a condom, one of the reasons is so she doesn't get a bun in the oven. So in this scenario, she's gonna get pregnant whether she wants to or not (sounds pretty equal so far...not!). She gets pregnant. Now, with abortion being legal she has the right to go get one without telling the guy (remember, he wants the kid). Again there isn't any equality here. He can claim to know that she's pregnant and want her to go to counseling with him, but unless he can prove it... he's stuck.
The flip side, of course is that its her body and she can do what she wants. If abortion were illegal, she would be forced into having that kid. Sure, she could give it up for adoption if she doesn't want it, but of course women tend to become emotionally attached to something that they've carried for 9 months or so. This has nothing to do with equality of the sexes though. Unless we perfect the "rabbit test" and get it so men can carry the child. Then abortion may become illegal, and an equality may arise when the woman says she doesn't want it, can't afford to care for it, etc. but the man can then say, "fine, I'll carry it." Now that's equality.