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From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,talk.politics.misc,alt.drugs,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Proof of the Viability of Gun Control
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Date: 16 Apr 93 11:58:04 GMT
References: <C5AnHH.K2u@wetware.com> <lsm9htINNfpj@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <lsm9htINNfpj@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes:
<In article <C5AnHH.K2u@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
<>wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
<> 
<>There was a long standing belief held in the USA at one time
<>that the US Military Should NOT become involved in the internal
<>policing of the Country. Under The Reagan/Bush Legacy this basic
<>tenant of the Military as being "out of the criminal enforcement loop"
<>was suspended, put in mothballs, made a NonOperableTruth.
<
<Ignoring the National Guard or state militias being called out to
<deal with mine strikers and the like...didn't the army get called in
<during the '20s to deal with a bunch of WW1 veterans who came out to
<protest the government's (mis)handling of their rights?
<
<Somebody named MacArthur ran the field end of the operation.

Wasn't that the 'Bonus Rebellion', when tanks were deployed against
US Citizens?  Grist for those who insist 'It couldn't happen here...'

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