From: Robert Barber (rbarber41@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 16:38:47 PDT
RE the "Citizen militias" and their value. There is a lot of skeptics out
there in this country.. Most are spoon feed the garbage form the one side
media of this country .. But they all avoid the following
TRUE simple facts ...
If you ever get a chance to read the debrief documents from the end
of WW II do so.. After the war the US held conversations with the remaining
Japanese military hierarchy. One of the most burning questions was " Why
didn't you invade the Hawaiian Islands or for
that matter the US West Coast ? After all they had successfully destroyed
the majority of the Pacific fleet which left the Hawaiian
Islands and the Western part of the US wide open.."
The Japanese all looked very surprised at the question. The answer
was that something like one in every 15 or 20 persons in the US
owned at least one firearm. They knew if they invaded they may gain
a successful foothold but would be faced with a dual threat of both
a trained US Military and a ARMED gorilla civilian force that also
knew how to shoot. Their spies in the US sent them numbers of
copies of NRA shooting score sheets from the local gun clubs as
proof and verification of these facts..
They therefore concluded that invading the US would be a futile effort. They
instead planed on the Pearl Harbor strike and then overrunning
the islands and countries they did since private firearm ownership
was prohibited. This greatly reduced the ability of the local populace to
rise against them once they took over...So they formulated their stragity to
strike the major blow at Pearl Harbor, run unchecked
for 18 months to 2 years and then force the US into a peace settlement
which allowed then to retain their conquests ..
Yes today is a major change from the weapon technology of the 40's BUT the
facts remain that one of the major factors that stopped the Japanese from
invading US soil was private firearm ownership ...
You may wish to dismiss it but I will guarantee that simple fact that Joe
Citizen has the capacity to grab his gun and swell the ranks of
the standing Army of the US 20 fold has GOT to have weighed as a critical
factor of any nut case who has ever contemplated the over-throw of this
country ....
Bob B
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