Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I agree, they weren't, but we must not redefine the term because they're a bunch of Pure-Bred American Rednecks (C) instead of people with beards and turbans. They were armed, they had intentions of displacing the Federal government.
I hope I'm wrong, but globally, the signs I'm reading are not good. Things look almost ripe for another World War, and massive political-economic-social shifts in cultures throughout the West, Russia, the Middle East, and parts of Africa (I don't see Asia being too heavily involved, though there may be some fighting in the South-Eastern part). The pages of the 21st century are being written, and globally it appears we may be in the twilight of a great darkness. Things tend to get ugly when people get too excited about ethnic or national identity, and the one nation that could have put further Right-wing victories throughout Europe to rest as a counter-vote to the UK's "Brexit" has the issue of a dated measure originally intended to keep slave holders from power, emboldening and empowering ethnic pride and "white pride" throughout the rest, assuring them it isn't impossible, and they can beat the "lovey-dovey soft" Liberals at the polls. I'm much more optimistic about the distant future after this has passed, but as history shows us it is the darkest and coldest, even for us, before the dawn. I also don't see religion playing a big role in this new society, and I see many nations reorganizing their economies so they are based on modern technology and the what-will-be-then just a few centuries shy of millennium-standing Industrial models, which means Capitalism and Consumerism will be greatly weakened, I foresee even as mandated by necessity in many places given out current state of gross over consumption. But many, many, many people will die terrible deaths and live under total control from the state before we get there.
