What would a budding dictator need to happen in order to declare martial law over a democracy?
if hurricanes were in short supply and it needed to look like a natural disaster?…something really big that would cause a lot of deaths and panic the population…
maybe even something that put the regime in charge of medicine, food, water, utilities, industry, travel, trade, communications, media, fuel……..and such.
and would cause an immediate need for a civilian army.
and if it was planned. would it have a better chance if it started somewhere out of that democracy’s control where it could get a good head of steam up first?
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*chuckle*
I guess the evil Obamas created the swine flu so they could take over the US.
Please refasten the tinfoil hat.
They could do it if the swine flu gets worse, or for any reason they want!!! watch the movie Red Dawn!!
It wouldn’t take much when you have one that want to destroy the nation. If a disease could be spread and enough people died and those still living started any thing that looked like trouble, he could and possibly would before you took your second breath.
A pandemic would do it. And maybe this Piglosi flu is just that.
Do you know what a budding dictator is called when in the second stage?
A blooming idiot dictator.
A flu pandemic would do nicely. Maybe that’s why his administration’s trying to make such a big deal out of nothing. This "flu" hasn’t killed jack compared to the number of people who get ill and/or die each year from our "normal" flu outbreaks.
That sounds like a novel.But it could happen.
Do something similar to the burning of the Reichstag. And blame it on the opposition.
Sabotage the economic system, then blame it on the system.
Shoot your dog in the leg, and then blame the dog for not fetching the paper in the morning.
Forget the flu bug — although we know it wouldn’t have happened if Mexico wasn’t getting so hot from man-made global warming–err, climate change…
Here are a few examples from History…
Stalin built a his own political machine inside the Communist Party while Lenin was in charge. He was "elected" by the Communist Party after Lenin died. He has supposed to have said "Power does not lie with the voters but with who counts the votes."
Mussolini seized power in a bloodless coup when thousands of his supporters marched on Rome, and demanded that he be put in power.
Franco came to power by winning the Spanish Civil War.
Hitler was able to declare a "state of emergency" after the Reichstag fire. There was a provision in the Wiemar Republic’s Constitution that allowed him to do this. Technically, the Wiemar Republic still existed under Hitler, (but only on paper)
I assume this question is based on the concern of "Reichstag’" type incident occurring the United States. There is no clause in the United States Constitution would allow the President to declare martial law over the entire United States without any limits.
President Lincoln faced the worst crisis in American History… A full scale civil war. Elections were still held, and free speech continued. This historical precedent is a powerful one.
I haven’t had all that much faith in our leaders, but I believe in our system of government.
For the indians to take back over the land and run it like it used to be until the whites came and stuffed up the place. Hehehehehhe come down under and join me in the Simpson Desert and roam like a aboordoon.
Pretty much anything real or imagined. Epidemic, terrorist attack of any kind, natural disaster, economic disaster and so on.
Maybe even if a few militia types showed up in D.C. with guns, or any riots.
Any excuse will most likely do.
Not the virtually curable Swine Flu >_>
An epidemic like swine flu
That was easy, can I have my treat?
sounds like 911
Hurricane is not big enough. It needs to be nationwide.
Bush did pretty good with Iraq, but we found out the truth. After that, the "Saddam is out to get us" mantra didn’t have the same impact.
The primary thing that a dictator needs is a military willing to go along with martial law. That is why dictatorships primarily occur in countries with a history of military intervention or young fragile democracies in which support for democratic institutions is not part of the culture of the military.
Depends on how imaginative the budding dictator is. …and what his teleprompter tells him.
It just fell in his lap. Like the economic crisis. oink oink!!!
First, have your security chief declare those who oppose you extremists.
Then discover that there are enough of them to warrant action.
Step one has already taken place.
Now, give the man time. He’ll find some way to get us nuked yet, yanno…
Good some of you have a brain
The the big bad piggy cold
well he would need a high unemployment rate to displace the masses, then he would need to generate concern over how they could make a living, next you would need to generate a "separate class (e.g. jews (hmm ..republicans?) " of people, then you’d need to start making sweeping statements about forthcoming disasters or emergencies.
Next thing you know, public institutions (schools, parks , theaters) would be closed and following that…..tada …..Marshall law
Then it’s (Marshall law) just never goes away and neither does the new dictator.
I would say.. a couple wars… a sinking economy and the possibility of a pandemic.. that ought to do it!!!
Presto.. I am king!
King Obama!
He would need to confiscate all of the guns in private hands so that the general population could not oppose him.
Once all of the guns in private hands have been confiscated, he can essentially do anything that he wants.
Even if the Supreme Court declares that his seizure of power is illegal, the Supreme Court has no method of enforcing it’s decisions.
The Supreme Court becomes merely a glorified debating society.