1tulip
01-08-2012, 09:21 PM
This is not about black helicopter conspiracy theories. It's not even about President Obama. OK?
There is some chatter on some blogs (my husband reads them not me so I can't tell you which ones...) to the effect that if things looked bad for the incumbent, that a "crisis" would be manufactured and elections canceled. After that, of course, habeas corpus would be suspended and dissidents silenced, maybe put in some Guantanamo equivalent.
Seriously, I am not wearing my tin foil hat. I don't think this will happen. But it made me wonder how the nation would react if it did, i.e., I'm treating this as a thought exercise.
If some administration decided to play Hugo Chavez or Fidel... how would Americans react?
Would the members of the military cooperate if they were ordered to "secure" a particularly resistant region of the country? Or would National Guard units organize under the direction of their senior officers?
My husband and I have weapons, but at the end of the day... none of us have enough, if it came to actually using them to protect our freedom. (See "Branch Davidians")
What would our (Nevada) governor do? Would he immediately call a session of our legislature and pull our state out of the Union? (Umm, I'n not sure how we'd defend Las Vegas. That would be interesting.)
Would the centralized government anticipate organized resistance and arrest governors who they knew would be non-compliant?
How many old fogey veterans (myself included) would stand by their oaths to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? And even if we all became "oath keepers" what on earth could we do?
Not inviting any critique of any party or politician. Honest. Not what I'm interested in. I'm simply wondering what you think the American people would do, and/or could do if these circumstances arose. Sort of like, if you were writing a thriller, how would you have the population responding?
There is some chatter on some blogs (my husband reads them not me so I can't tell you which ones...) to the effect that if things looked bad for the incumbent, that a "crisis" would be manufactured and elections canceled. After that, of course, habeas corpus would be suspended and dissidents silenced, maybe put in some Guantanamo equivalent.
Seriously, I am not wearing my tin foil hat. I don't think this will happen. But it made me wonder how the nation would react if it did, i.e., I'm treating this as a thought exercise.
If some administration decided to play Hugo Chavez or Fidel... how would Americans react?
Would the members of the military cooperate if they were ordered to "secure" a particularly resistant region of the country? Or would National Guard units organize under the direction of their senior officers?
My husband and I have weapons, but at the end of the day... none of us have enough, if it came to actually using them to protect our freedom. (See "Branch Davidians")
What would our (Nevada) governor do? Would he immediately call a session of our legislature and pull our state out of the Union? (Umm, I'n not sure how we'd defend Las Vegas. That would be interesting.)
Would the centralized government anticipate organized resistance and arrest governors who they knew would be non-compliant?
How many old fogey veterans (myself included) would stand by their oaths to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? And even if we all became "oath keepers" what on earth could we do?
Not inviting any critique of any party or politician. Honest. Not what I'm interested in. I'm simply wondering what you think the American people would do, and/or could do if these circumstances arose. Sort of like, if you were writing a thriller, how would you have the population responding?