Tasine wrote:
I wonder if there is any group of people who enjoy living under a dictator? Dictators are so few, and populations are so vast, I have to wonder exactly how dictators ever make it to the top. Now that we have watched how Obama managed it, it makes a little more sense. And once enslaved, getting out from under a dictatorship is problematic. What if all the good people in the world ganged up on all the wannabe dictators and stopped them in their tracks? Would the world be a better place?
Figuratively, they walk on the bodies of the dead. Such an act invokes fear in the population and the take over of power is complete. To a lesser degree that same tactic is replicated here in the US. The initiation of fear (911) has lead to the Patriot Act which has spawned the greatest grab of liberty from the American people ever in the history of our nation. A direct assault on the Constitution that has gone unchallenged in 13 years. Also, contained in that act is the authority of the government to arrest and hold indefinitely a person suspected, real or not, of terrorism. If you think the gov is going o protect you from itself you are mistaken. Remember WW11 and Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned and lost everything they owned. Government will over reach to grab power upon every major catastrophic event because people are scared. Government is run by mankind and mankind is the most ruthless of all species.