text: well i can appreciate your opinion ed, but i choose to remain hopeful that there are enough high ranking officials left to quell the direction we've been going in for 50 years...lots of research over the past 3 weeks here at home all showed me the same kind of narrative written a hundred different ways, and with the troop movements over the last 3 days, seeing those usmc aircraft after a 4 star marine general refused to deploy marines to dc denying nancy pelosi of her request... he told her he didn't work for her.. you may be right and this is all a political ruse to scare, or make conservatives and patriots reevaluate their trip to the inauguration or a protest at the state capital.. our group here in maine is doing neither...i guess we shall see..active duty friends voiced the fact that the "skinny" around their unit was that something big was goin to take place between the 18th and 20th...personally i hope they lock em up and make examples of the left... buying popcorn for the show...