Rambo in Reverse: The Dangerous Fantasies of the Huratee Losers

from http://blogs.alternet.org/dh1976/2010/03/30/rambo-in-reverse-the-dangerous-fantasies-of-the-huratee-losers/

Back in 1982, in the anti-government and anti-establishment afterglow of Watergate and Vietnam, Sly Stallone of Rocky fame directed and starred in a small, mid-budget movie called 'First Blood.' In it a highly trained Green Beret named Rambo, cast aside and abandoned by the government he fought for, becomes entangled with a small town sheriff in a pissing match that results in a whole town being devastated by Rambo whose advanced training, conditioning and survival skills overwhelm the 'weekend warriors' of the local National Guard. If you ever stumble across it on cable, take the time to watch it. One of the most memorable lines is when the sheriff admonishes the head of the Guard charged with tracking Rambo, telling him he'll have to stay out in the woods all night to find him, to which the Guard commander responds …"Aw come on Sheriff, I have to be back at the pharmacy tomorrow!"

Well, this weekend the Federal Government and the FBI took down what looks like the mirror image of that story, a so-called militia group in Michigan that was planning to spark a civil insurrection that would, in their warped imagination, serve as a catalyst for the downfall of the U.S. government. Apparently, this group has been in 'rigerous' training for many months in the woods of Michigan, honing their mental, physical and military skills so they would be prepared to take on not only local law enforcement, whom they were planning to kill and use as props for sparking their grand insurrection, but also to take on the Michigan National Guard, the Army, the Marines, and other U.S. military like the Green Beret and the Navy Seals, arms of the U.S. military that are sworn to uphold the Constitution and to protect the U.S. Government.

Now, as a screenplay or fantasy, the plan that these angry patriots laid out sounds compelling, and in their minds it appears that they really felt that they were going to successfully pull it off and forever change the course of our Republic. But for the rest of the rational world, one need only take a look at the leaders and shakers of this militia movement to know better…(CONTINUES HERE)