EDITOR’S NOTE: I have written extensively in the past about the dangers of military coup and the sad reality that many in the Liberty Movement support such a development. To be frank, some people support the concept of military coup purely because of cowardice. It is far easier to have someone else fight your revolution against corruption for you, rather than having to do it yourself. The problem is, if average people do not lead in the fight against tyranny then they will have no power to decide what system replaces the original. The new system could very well end up being as criminal as the old. Military coup is NOT outlined as an option in the Constitution; it is the common citizen and civilian that carries the responsibility for the removal of corrupt government. If this duty is shirked out of laziness or fear, it will quickly come back to haunt us. It is the duty of each serviceman to refuse unconstitutional orders when they are given and to fight on the side of the citizenry when necessary, not to follow some trumped up cabal of elitist military brass in a potential farce of a revolt that ends in a Junta that the people will eventually be forced to destroy anyway. Also keep in mind that military coups have been used by the elites throughout history in order to con the masses into thinking they have “defeated” the oligarchy when in fact they have only replaced one puppet structure with another. Military coup is a losing proposition, and only a fool would entertain it as practical…
Brandon Smith, Alt-Market Founder
This article was written by Joshua Krause and originally published at The Daily Sheeple
As it stands today, our government is a constitutional republic in name only. Our nation is ruled by wealthy oligarchs and special interests, and there is plenty of blame to go around for this situation. No society falls to these depths without at least the implicit consent of the population, and even the most ruthless of governments can’t survive if its citizens refuse to go along with the program.
So it’s safe to say that the American people are at least partly to blame for the sick institutions that rule over them. And if that’s the case, you have to ask yourself, what might our society come to accept in the future? If our lack of resistance has contributed to the corrosion of our civil liberties and the growth of our unbounded government, then nothing is off the table. If we’re willing to put up with this, what won’t we put up with? What sort of system might our society produce in the future?
If recent polls are to be believed, then a military dictatorship is certainly a possibility. After a West Point professor entertained the possibility of a coup occurring on American soil two weeks ago, (which led to his resignation) YouGov decided to poll 1000 American voters on their opinion of the military, and whether or not they would support a military takeover. The results were fairly shocking.
In a new survey by YouGov, 29 percent of respondents said they can imagine a situation in which they would support the military taking control of the federal government – that translates into over 70 million American adults. Forty-one percent of respondents said could not imagine supporting the military taking over the country.
Republicans (43 percent) were more likely to say they can envision a scenario in which they could support a military coup than Democrats (20 percent). Perhaps that difference is related to having a Democratic president who some critics on the right see as overstepping his power.
Regardless of political ideology, one reason people might support a military coup is because they respect officers in the military far more than they do people in Congress. According to the same YouGov survey, almost three-quarters (70 percent) of respondents believe that military officers want what is best for the country, while only 29 percent think the same of members of Congress.
Lawmakers better shape up or they might be shipped out — literally.
The poll also found that 55% of the population believes that the police want what’s best for the country, while 24% thought that they were only interested in what’s best for themselves. The other categories, which included Congress, local politicians, and civil servants, went in the other direction. The majority of those polled thought that the people in these categories were self-serving.
In other words, most Americans have a lot of confidence in the armed enforcers of government, but very little confidence in the politicians and bureaucrats in our government. This is a rather dangerous trend when you think about it, but it’s not exactly a new one.
Every year gallup asks Americans about their confidence with 15 major segments of American society. The police and the military routinely top the list with overwhelming support, while no other government institution inspires confidence among the majority of voters. That includes the presidency, the Supreme Court, public schools, the justice system, and Congress. Also near the bottom, is the media, big business, and the banks.
Essentially, most Americans have completely lost faith in the system, and the powers that be. The only people they still trust, are cops and soldiers. And a society that trusts its armed enforcers more than everyone else, including the people they vote for, is a society that is ripe for a coup.
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1442260800.php
Try this question:
If you knew beyond any reasonable doubt that the only way to prevent a massive nuclear war and the guaranteed deaths of at least 250,000,000 American citizens and three times that number of citizens of other countries would be a military coup temporarily replacing the current leadership till the next scheduled elections would you support it?
The wording of the question and to whom it is asked is what is important in polls like this, and they are usually rather obscure and hard to find out.
I think the Yougov poll is Leftist propaganda and is off by about 50%; almost half of Americans would support a Counter Revolution to remove the Communist. I hope Americans toss them back into the sewers they came from on 8Nov2016.
Corruption ,fraud,no bid contracts giving congress a free cookie jar to steel from and give the bill to taxpayers.Obama care forced vaccinations is more rabid fraud and corruption involving president,congress big pharma.They can literally take money from your bank acc.Now flooding the country with illegals to displace US citizen and crush the middle class.That leaves jobs and food.Soon to be scarce.So whats the old saying?When is a man dangerous?When there is nothing left to lose!
Under the current system, a handful of people exercise complete control over the populace by means of spying and police power.
Under a military coup, what exactly would be the difference?
I would prefer that a hypothetical coup originate from the lower ranks rather than the politically-selected generals, but I would grant or withhold my support based on what they do.
Who needs the military when you have Donald Chump? He can solve all of our problems, right?
The most obvious change would be an even more transparent façade in front of the corporate corruption poisoning the country. Most military officers seem to be politicians with poor speech-making skills – they are owned by the same people that own the elected politicians.
If you want to get a good idea of what a military dictatorship in the US would probably look like, watch Schwarzenegger’s film The Running Man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)
Silly me, here I thought we already had a coup back in 2008, except instead of the military it was Wall St. banksters who took over.
“.. it is the common citizen and civilian that carries the responsibility for the removal of corrupt government.”
This is plain Bullshit. What, precisely, is the common citizen supposed to do? And who hell gave this guy a badge? He has words. They are not worth much.
This is a frightening statistic, but it does not surprise me.
Read your history, and consider the people who surround you at work, at church, in your extended family, and in public.. especially at political rallies and sports events. ESPECIALLY sports events. What is most evident in people?
What has to strike you is how eager and willing most people, of either sex and most socio-economic brackets, are, to worship someone, and let someone else do their thinking for them. They will do ANYTHING to be relieved of the necessity of thought, and most of all, to be rid of any doubt. They crave a savior, someone who will wave a wand and make all the messy problems go away. I remember back around the election in 1980, talking to a nice, but sad and stupid man. A high school geology teacher. He moaned about how he just “wanted to believe”. I heard the same phrase out of a lot of people.
When you are in a society that is going through an epochal shift that will, for better or for worse (and probably for worse) change the terms of life utterly and render all the arrangements and norms you were imprinted with as a child, and shred the institutions and networks on which you depend for your life, the last thing you should do is disconnect your mind and grope with your feelings and impulses. But that’s exactly what people have done throughout history, which is why it has this ugly rhyming quality to it. I don’t expect things will be any different this time, and, like many other people, I’ll just be looking for a place to hide, but there won’t be any.
Sure it can, if it eliminates them. How do you think Turkey ended up Turkish instead of Byzantine, or the U.S.A. stopped being evenly split between rebels and Loyalists?
TJF says: “Silly me, here I thought we already had a coup back in 2008, except instead of the military it was Wall St. banksters who took over.”
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When the Supreme Court handed the 2000 election to Bush, that was a coup of sorts.
But the most overt coup was November 22, 1963.