What would have to happen before you would fight against American soldiers?

Question

And 'no, i would not fight american soldiers even if the government instituted brain control, outlawed christianity, and declared property illegal.' is a valid response.

Be forewarned, admitting that you would EVER fight American soldiers is an act of terrorism, and as such makes you an enemy combatant and you void your right to not be tortured or indefinitely imprisoned.

This country was founded by people who took up arms against their government, the constitution says we are supposed to have militias to protect us against the government. Why is it that I am so terrified to even submit this question?

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

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Answer 1

If you want positive results, you don't fight the American soldiers, you fight Washington DC and the crooks that occupy it.

Answer 2

Oh, please, your scaremongering and imaginary fear is not worthy of attention.

Now, you talk about fighting American soldiers, as if they would be the tools to impose an unConstitutional tyranny on the US. This is clearly more hysteria than fact.

If you knew or understood those in the US military, you would know they are probably more zealous about defending our freedoms than any group of leftist protesters - because that is what they are willing to fight, kill and die for. Every US military officer takes an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States - not the president, not the Congress, not the government - the Constitution. When I was an officer, I took that part of the oath seriously, as did those I served with.

The hypothetical question we asked ourselves was what our duty was if the government acted against the Constitution and the people. It would be to protect the Constitution and the people, and fight against such a government. That was our understanding of our duty.

As for your hyperventilating about enemy combatant and torture, etc. The fact is, you can say that you'd fight against the military if they ever became a force of evil in the US. As for merely the fact of fighting them made you an illegal alien combatant or subject to torture - those are clearly unsupported by the facts.

Answer 3

First off I wouldn't provoke an American soldier but I have fought the government just about non stop for 35 years, there are other ways to fight than by picking up arms. Once arms are introduced into a fight you are nothing more than a terrorist rather you are an individual, militia or any other type of so called Resistance. If you have to force your ideals on someone by death then you must be stopped because you become a threat to yourself, family, friends and innocent neighbors.
You must be scared to submit the question because you are not wanting to fight. I'm personally not afraid of my government.

Answer 4

Not to worry. I will attempt to answer the unanswerable (the doomsday scenario of the republic of the United States).

Our nation is built on the principle that a just government rests on the "explicit consent" of those governed.

Hypothetically speaking, a citizen would have the duty (and right)) to fight against our government (and, presumably, its soldiers) when it failed to uphold, in wholesale fashion, the declarations and articles of the Constitution of the United States of America and those amendments which established the government, and order of the nation underneath that government. Those who hold the offices of the positions of government have taken an oath to do the same.

Hypothetically, that would mean fighting against either an internal, or external abolishment of the two houses of the representative Congress (via armed overthrow by the military of the representative government, for example), abolishment of the judicial system (the Supreme Court of the United States of America), and the Presidency, plus a complete military takeover of the government of the 50 states of the nation, with concomitant overthrow of those 50 states' executive, legislative, and judiciary branches.

It is this last point which, hypothetically, would be problematic for a one-person or federal military takeover of the entire nation, either external or internal. The individual states, particularly those not in agreement, would find themselves in the unenviable position of representing their own citizen's views or being required to back a federal government which the state's citizens and representatives no longer supported. Each state maintains its own national guard, thus its own "army" to protect the state and its borders, hypothetically. In each states' constitutions, the right to keep a militia is explained. A state's citizens would be able to volunteer for that militia.

Our nation is built on the principle that a just government rests on the "explicit consent" of those governed. Such a government, as given in the example described above, would be operating without the explicit consent of its citizenry.

Bear this in mind when you consider the "United" States of America--the majority of the power is yielded to the states in the Constitution, and the federal government cannot operate without their consent and support; political, financial and otherwise. In the case of the State of California, for example, it is the world's fifth-largest economy and the fifth-largest supplier of food to the world.

As Lincoln so deftly defended the Constitution and the establishment of the unity of our nation and its laws, so we would also.

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Answer 5

Your question is flawed. It is not against the law to say you would, in certain situations take up arms against soldiers.
This is exactly why the forefathers included the second amendment in the Constitution. To prevent an overbearing government from absolute control. And no I probably wouldn't take up arms against the US. It would be futile.

Answer 6

I would never take my anger out on a soldier. I would take my anger out on the government officials that are too scared to go to war themselves. They are the ones who deserve to be killed. Instead they use the patriotism of their voters to send the innocent out to war. Its sad really. So i would never fight against and American soldier. I would much rather take it to the White House.

Answer 7

I can't imagine it happening, but if our government ever became so corrupt that it turned against us, the people, I wouldn't see that as turning against the soldiers as much as I would see it as defending my life, and the lives of the people I love.

Answer 8

They'd have to occupy my country or be the undeniable perpetrators of a clear hostility without reason(Iraq is gettig near but doesn't quite qualify.)

Answer 9

I would fight against an American Soldier if he/she posed a direct threat to my child or myself. So there.

Answer 10

I don't think the soldiers need fighting, they are just doing what Geroge W has tried to convince us all is necessary. We need to do some Bush whacking.