Joanna wrote:
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> History fans out there can let us know whether there have been any revos
> where the cops ever came round. If you want the guys with guns, go for
> the army.
A successful iusurrection is more or less just another name for the refusal of the army to fire on demonstrators. Police will _always_ obey that command. The army (where it is not totally professionalized) is much more ambiguous. In '68 De Gaulle visited NATO headquarters to ask his generals if their troops would obey. Andwer Yes-- End of the '68 kuprising. The Shah a few years later asked his generals if their troops would obey and fire on those enormous parades (in best clothes) that occupied the streets of Tehran. andwer No. End of the Shah.
Carrol