The People Will Only Stand for So Much
To the author of the meme here:
The guillotine was invented about 80 years after Louis XIV, associated with Versailles in late 17th and early 18th Century; it’s known as the instrument that beheaded Louis XVI and Marie Antionette in the French Revolution in 1789.
Having said that, the point here is a good one. People–any people–will put up with only so much indifference to their suffering before they’ll take action.
Now, a “revolution” today can only be nonviolent. Those in positions of power have at their disposal such incredibly powerful martial technologies that violent assaults are impossible.
That would be the case – but only if those members of that incredibly powerful martial technologies weren’t made very aware of the UCMJ’s Articles 90 and 92 – which specifically state:
— it is illegal to give an illegal order, and
— it is illegal to follow and illegal order.
A lot of these people aren’t dumb hicks from the sticks.