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Listening to NPR and AFR on the way home last night, talking about Libya and Syria attacking and killing their own people, after what started as peaceful protests. The way the US is and has condemmed the governments for the killings and how they should step down, how the people have spoken, how they need to heed what the people want, yadda, yadda, etc, etc. It got me to wondering, for all of the posturing and pro-citizen comments and statements of the US government, what would happen here if the "people" here were to rise up and start protesting the US government and demanding real changes in policy and the government. I'm not talking about complete overthrow, but real positive changes. How long do you think the government would take it before it lashed out with armed force and we started having "Kent State's" happening. What would the government claim then, what excuses would it use to the rest of the world for it's actions. I dought this would happen here (the protests that is), there are not enough citizens with any back bone left to stand up, but it makes for an interesting thought. Thanks