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Originally Posted by martinguerre
i think it's important to recall that the military is not a completly blind institution. while significantly more conservative on average than a randdom sampling of americans, they are not completely divorced from civilian concerns. Many of them were at one time, have family that currently are, or plan on being in the future just that, civilians.
While i think it's important to discuss the militarization of police efforts, and some of the problems that can create...i think one outcome we can safely take off the table is that a president could simply order the hostile take over of the nation with a completly complient military to do his or her bidding.
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Um, who ever said that the military would be "completely compliant?" Looking back at history, there was almost never a case of someone taking power without a civil war.
Hell, I don't think Bush could take over the US, but if the laws are in place, what's to keep some future dipshit president from trying it?
History is a fucking textbook. Learn from it. It's shit like this that makes me so mad. You think it could never happen now, but I'm sure that a lot of people in the past thought it couldn't happen in their country either. Slowly but surely, the government is chipping away. Little increases here, little decreases there, small enough so that nobody will notice.
Yeah sure Bush could change the laws and say that the military would only be used in the event of a disease. But what exactly is stopping a president from declaring martial law when there wasn't a disease? Bush invaded two countries based on lies, for God's sake. Get a clue people.