We're officially a fascist dictatorship......Can a coup' be far behind...

[Webster Green]

Will our military leadership just sit back and watch the devil-chimp destroy our constitution, and our freedoms, and our democracy, and our armed forces?

[TrogL]

1. Wouldn't that be wierd; a left-wing, democratic, non-fascist military coup

[Poll_Blind]

11. Stranger things happen at sea. n/t

PB

[stevietheman]

13. Restoring the Constitution is not "left-wing"

It would happen to temporarily favor the left wing, but then democracy kicks in all over again, and who knows how the right might make a comeback in the future. Politics is a pendulum.

[Subdivisions]

2. Your treading on dangerous ground there. Who's to say that

the military would be willing to give it back to the people?

I've considered this scenario. Actually, I'm on the same treacherous ground. Why? Because if they steal the November elections (and they have ALL stated emphatically that they will not lose in November), I am 100% behind a military, or civilian, coup.

Now I'll just go over here and wait for the dark suits and sunglasses to come knock down my door and grab me before I have a chance to get my fat ass into gear.

[stevietheman]

14. You're not alone; the line in the sand is being crossed by this regime,

and the people will have to find some way to remove the tyrants. If our elective structures fail, or Bush launches elective aggression against Iran, or if the courts don't quickly turn back the Pro-Torture/Anti-Habeas-Corpus law, the American people and/or the military is going to have to move.

[StellaBlue]

3. already happened

back in 2000

[Webster Green]

6. Well, yes indeed it did!

That doesn't necessarly mean it won't happen again.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

4. WILL OUR PEOPLE ?

[SheilaT]

5. Like Stella Blue said.

There was a coup in 2000, and that explains much of what's happened since, especially all the chicanery with elections in 02, 04 and probably this year. People who come to power in a coup do not give up that power to something as silly as a free, fair, and honest election.

Personally, I have no confidence at all that we'll take either house of Congress, and I expect we'll actually lose ground. And on November 8, we'll be reading and hearing all kinds of fascinating stories about how the Republicans legitimately won all those seats. The main stream media will dismiss the scattered tales of non-working machines, insufficient machines and ballots in predominantly Democratic precincts, the mysterious switching of votes, the voters whose registrations disappeared, and on and on. It won't be until at least February, after the new Congress has been sworn in, that these stories will be put together and show clearly that there was widespread fraud.

Or, at least that's the way it's played out in the past three election cycles, and I see no reason to expect it to be much different this time.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. I apologize for repeating myself, but...They Thought They were Free...

seems to fit so perfectly here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2267916&mesg_id=2267916

[Somawas]

8. The necessity for a coup

after they steal the elections again in '08 is the very reason that the Second Amendment is pretty damn important for progressives.

[TomClash]

9. What would a coup look like?

Would it actually be the military stepping in as patriots, preventing another a Bush putsch or a right wing stolen election? Or forces loyal to Bush - like these evangelical nutjobs in the military - seeking to maintain power? Or the disgrace of Iraq convincing senior members of the military that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney must go - constitutionally of course - before their time?

The latter is "A Very American Coup" wouldn't you say?

[Subdivisions]

10. I think what we've already seen since 2000 is a

"Electoral Coup".

Perhaps, if they succeed in pulling it off again in November, it's time for a military coup.

[Greyhound]

12. Do we have a General Smedly Butler today?

I don't know, but since their careers depend on the very people that carried out the coup in 2000, I'm pretty skeptical that they care enough about the idea of America enough to bring down amerika.

And don't forget that even when the General exposed the plot, our politiwhores made sure that the plotters didn't even see the inside of a courtroom.:think:

[leftofthedial]

15. the coup already happened

in 2000

all this is just frog boiling.