Obey me, I'll keep you from harm,

Enter me to wreck havoc on others,

Our defense has too few,

Liberia's change too many.

What am I?

I know it's not 'common sense', but I can't shake the feeling, so I gotta ask.

Maybe it's a more malleable form, just 'sense'

obey your (common) sense keeps you from harm
incensed is a state of anger
our (I assume USA's) defense has too little sense
Liberia's currency is like USA's: one dollar  = 100 cents, so their change is in cents

nice.

i don't know if it's right.....but i'm impressed.

no, but i like the guess

Obey me, I'll keep you from harm, -- Rules, laws, curfew(?),

Enter me to wreck havoc on others, -- Politics!, law!,

Our defense has too few, -- Rules???, Strategies, Funding,

Liberia's change too many. -- Hmm... Liberia still uses the Imperial Units along with the US and Mynamar, so...?,

Government? Liberia has a civil war every so often...

Are you government? A Republic? A republican? A democrat? A democracy? The Imperial Units???

none of the above

some of those are opinions

From Wikipedia:
Obey-> Obedience -> Obedience Plant, aka Arrowroot.

Arrowroot has been known historically to treat poisons, so "I'll keep you from harm". Or you could smoke it to make you feel like you're untouchable..?

Or is 'obey' meant literally and not a plant?

A Tank?

obey isn't a plant and my object isn't a tank

Constitution?

government?

ooh....good answer.

no, no

dollars?

i know that currency was said....but ........i got nothin'....

guards?

I'm going to guess things that I found on Liberia's coins on the Internet.  None of these make any sense however:

Elephants

Dragons

Protoceratops

Babe Ruth

Storks

Fish (A very cool looking coin BTW)

Parrots

Pandas

Snake

Rooster

Pearl Harbor

Gen. George Meade

Gen. Robert E. Lee

The Pope (I swear, I am not making this up nor did I realize this before I started)

White Tail Deer

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Timber Wolf

Cockatoos

Resplendant Quetzal

President Clinton

The Lousiana Purchase

The Mayflower Compact

The Declaration of Independence

The Ratification of the Constitution

Birds

Ships

Palm trees

Now you should be glad I didn't just post the above list as a riddle and ask what they had in common.

ooh....i know what they have in common.......

liberia......(somehow..)

yeah yall are making this much more complicated than it is keep guessing

The military?  Soldiers?

Riddles???

nope

when

it hits you you'll be like "oh hell"

ready for a hint yet?

Leadership?

another good answer.

When you say 'Our defense has too few' whose defence are you referring to?

And is the answer  - leader?

nope.

I think telling you whos defense would count as a hint, but if you want a hint, I have a better one than the answer to that question

borders? fences?

borders is on the right track

Restricted areas?

front lines?

Demilitarized zone!

Wait, what?

none of the above...you aren't going in the right direction now

borders, boundaries, edges, perimeters, walls, moats, ...

no

ok i'm going to start answering questions about the riddle since i don't think it's going to be one that people are just going to guess anymore

was military already guessed?

dunno, but that's not right

borders was on the right track but then they got back off track again

yeah....i'm trying to think along those lines....

don't

yikes.

you aren't thinking of the right kind of border

armor

skin

no

the ozone

atmosphere

earth

no

i swear when someone guesses this riddle you're gonna be like "well crap"

we always are...

that's why they are tricky, tricky riddles....

not always...some of synth's i'm like "yeah friggin right...like i was gonna get that"

okay....but those are the exception....

lol

i know what you mean, though..

i made this one up so it's not something obscure. everyone on this forum should know what it is

by "our defense" are we talking humans?

americans?

or even more general...

the only one you might have to look up is the last one and

maybe the second line

mmm...i can't say that it's more general but it's not those two

oh wait

yes, american defense

weapons?

i guess i shouldn't have used "our" defense when there's brits and aussies on the forums...didn't think of that

no

are you referring to our defense or the riddle as a whole now?

neighbors

no

the whole riddle.....i was just clarifying the defense because you mentioned something about it earlier....

force yourself to think in a different direction

you're welcome to ask questions about the riddle now too...i don't think it's going to be guessed in a strict guessing game

that's where i have trouble....

changing my chain of thought.....

ok what is the american defense?

is it a physical thing?

a concept?

physical

army, navy, air force, marines

(we don't ask for experience.....we give it)

do you remember that ad?

it's old...

trooops

i think we should take everyone on this forum and go play yahoo! graffiti...as a totally off subject comment

and no i don't

none of those

think where instead of what

what's yahoo grafitti?

military base?

like pictionary

cool.

or however you spell it

enemies?

foreign military bases?

wrong direction

did you nix....our military bases?

yes

i wouldn't consider it a base

the country itself?

though i think someone could prolly get technical about it

the desert?

no and no

smaller scale

you can change parts of the riddle and work on it if you want

what do mean change parts of the riddle?

well at the moment we're only working on one line

at least i thought we were

the defense line

why don't you change lines and ask more questions

no....i'm starting from there at the moment...but answering the whole?

okay....i'll try..

when you get one line i think you might be able to figure out the rest

the liberia one is bothering me....

ok, start asking

this is specific to liberia?

the example i'm using is from liberia

what's liberia's change?

hope that's a question for you and not me

okay...

i was trying anagrams when i first saw the riddle....

you know change....liberia

yes....i'm thinking out loud .......so to speak...

go ahead

change of regime

change of borders

change of enemies

wrong direction

huh.

change of currency

language

climate

close with change of currency

units of measurement

go back to currency

was duke doing good with his cents/sense theory?

dollar

yes and no

cents matters, but cents/sense doesnt

how many cents in a dollar

i have no idea

not in a liberian one anyway

coins

google ftw

google what?

how many cents in a liberian dollar?

not coins?

pennies

http://www.geocities.com/joek_bm/images/matematica/10_lados_ilusion.jpg

i realized that what i was going for was a bit obscure so i'm just linking what i was referring to

cool.

i'm not sure what your point is thought

**though

well that would be part of the riddle

the coins

the faces?

not the faces

illusions?

no

sides?

the shape

sides?

you're getting it...now finish the rest of the riddle

the right side?

the wrong side?

i'm sorry?

oh no

teams?

getting off track...look at the sides again

10 sides

2 sides

heads and tails

10 sides yes

huh

10 sides is the right answer for that part of the riddle

10 commandments

woah woah...reread the riddle

"obey me"

ah, no....look at the Liberia line one more time

states

no

grrrrrrr

lol

obey me and your safe

enter me and someone is in trouble

the u.s. defense doesn't have enough

liberias coins have too many

and you figured out i was referring to the 10 sides on liberia's coin

circle

no, but closer

no, but closer

no but closer

dammit

like half the time my messages don't go through so i have to retype them sorry

i know

i copy my longer messages before sending

is it a shape?

yes

pentagon

no

oval

lol read the riddle, don't make stabs

i'm not....oval office

ah, nope

square

triangle

diamond

i can't think of others that remotely relate

the last part of the defense line is "too few"

the last part of that line is "too few"

fuck

i hate this forum

i know...it's frustrating

and none of those

i've lost huge private messages

i sent about 9 messages in that one and only 3 got through

and none of them showed up until i had to reload the page

if you send and don't see it.....reload the page

oops

good to know i'm not the only one having issues

no...if you notice it happening during specific times or circumstances, tell dek.

she works here and wants to know that stuff

ah

they've been trying to figure it out....but no luck..

i'm so stuck here.....

if i don't hurry...i'm gonna get sniped

lol

there's like... eleventy billion messages here, and I can't read them with you people posting every 10 seconds

you're really close

lol yeah, something else i don't like

sniper alert

alert

basically what she got was:

Obey me, I'll keep you from harm,

Enter me to wreck havoc on others,

Our defense has too few, (US defense)

Liberia's change too many. (was referring to it having 10 sides)

don't tell him!

Wow, 193 comments in 45 minutes... good going...

make him work for it

ack!

more

i'm having more issues than normal here

I managed to read it by dragging the little scroll bar down - when it tried to jump I just wiggled the mouse and it jumped back to where I was reading

with things not loading or going through correctly

10 sides like 10 borders for Liberia? I'm too lazy to Google it

we should keep posting to make his life hell

you snooze you lose

10 sides like maybe you should read the previous posts

hurry blue and guess!

I've read it all, your puny attempts at disruption have failed 

(Yes, yes I do read inhumanly quickly)

lol

i'm stuck

sphere

nope

that's ok, i think you deserve half a point for getting this far

especially solo

So Liberian money has too many sides (10)... American defence has too few... sides?

If American defence = the pentagon, is the answer a shape with >5 but <10 sides?

points
sides
tops
restrictions

hexagon

heptagon

octagon

nonagon

yes SK

octagon..now explain the first two lines

nooooooo lol

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Reference to Geometry Wars on Xbox360 arcade?

lol sorry sweetpea. i tried to help you sweetie

uhh...no

Well clearly the almighty octagon will protect you if you obey him, but wreak havoc on others if you take control of it.

You all know about the almighty octagon right...

....

No?

you don't get the last half a point until you get the first two lines fool lol

Hahahahahaha

It's like scientology... except... geometry-ology....

and the almighty is a heptagon

stop sign will protect you

Is "enter me to wreak havoc on others" something about the G8 pissing off Russia?

Or is that overthinking things?

overthinking

yeah... especially what with Russia being one of the G8