Excellent analysis, and I agree 100%. Newspapers are dinosaurs, and televised news isn't a whole lot better. But social media, like Facebook and Twitter, will fuel this revolution. It took Thomas Paine months to print his pamphlets and have them distributed. Today, news and commentary can be distributed in minutes, and even seconds.

That's good, and bad. Along with facts, we also get rumors and outright falsehoods. During the Nevada standoff, I was going nuts trying to determine what was real, and what wasn't. That's nothing new, of course, confusion on the battlefield is as old as warfare itself. Nowadays, we just get confused faster.

But these days, there's just no excuse for not having the capability of taking photos and videos. You can say the feds are confiscating weapons, but how do we know if that's true? But now if you have photos and videos of feds confiscating weapons, that's news we can use.

Not everyone wants to carry a cell phone, of course. But even so, today's digital cameras are quite a bit better, and quite a bit cheaper, than they were even a few years ago. I have a canon camera with 64X zoom (!) and audio and video capability for about $100. There's just no excuse for not having one.

The feds want to do there thing in private, in the shadows. Well, they can't do that anymore. We have the weapons they're most afraid of, and we need to be using them.

Onward and upward,
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