Quote Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski View Post
Even in a prison, weapons can be had.
Yes, but not the force multipliers we need though. You aren't going to take down a dictatorship with a shiv.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
It's part weapon and part will.

While we currently have the weapons and no will, take the weapons and there is no hope to ever find the will. The things that made Americans noble and courageous have been taken from us as a nation (while I believe some of us have held onto those things individually). There is no difference between the average modern American and the conquered oppressed peoples in history. These are people who vote away our freedom for the false promise of free healthcare, income equality, or just an Obamaphone.