When the Revolution Comes it will be Bloody - The government has it right on this

 I have been reading German accounts of D Day. About the war. The German's didn't fear the soldier. He was doing what he was called to do. In many ways they were cannon fodder. The Germans were better soldiers than the Americans. They did fear the armed patriot. The zealots. Those hardened slightly off kilter backwoods boys who knew how to fight, kill and die if need be. The fearless ones. The ruthless ones. Those who would fight to the death without reservation. Those who came to the battle not with army green but with leather, cowboy hats, bib overalls, looking unregimented, but fearless. When they came ashore, the easy targets were all dead or cowering.

It wasn't like the Tom Hanks movie. The young men who died on the beach revealed the placement of the machine gun and cannon sites, the ones who came afterwards out of the boat looking rag tag went immediately for the throat. They scaled the wall. Some with swords on their side. With rifles. Armed. Wild eyed. They attacked with force and innate strategy. No commander was needed to lead them. They had only one objective. KILL THE ENEMY. When they encountered the Germans... there were no prisoners taken. Those who had been taken earlier were the lucky ones. One man with a samurai sword on his side beheaded a dozen in two seconds. The fear they felt was a fear of the zeal of the patriot. The average age of those who died on the beach at Normandy was 20. The average age of the German soldier at Normandy was 30. The average age of the informal citizen militia that turned the battle was 33. Hardened. Experienced. Brutal. Angry. Ready since birth.

When I read this I thought of the fear our currant administration has of the armed citizen militia. The drive to disarm it. The need to demonize anyone who has patriotic view. Perhaps they read the same book I did. Perhaps they know that if a revolution were to break out... the military may not prevail. And, in the end can they depend on a military who's members share many of the views the Germans have? Sure they can bomb and drone. But 20 million armed Americans is a substantive force. Some of them are JUST LIKE those men who came on shore late and destroyed the German opposition. IS past prologue?