[ndt]

"And do people understand what a NUKE can do to a US city and the country? "

Nuke, hell why stop there, I hear "they" are working on a modified Martian Discombobulator!! I'm scared, lets just disband congress, close the courts and hand control to the meanest looking general we can find. /sarc

[garbanzo]

Article 48 of the [Constitution of the Weimar Republic] gave the President power to "take all necessary steps" if "public order and security are seriously disturbed or endangered". Although this was intended as an emergency clause, it was often used before 1933 to issue decrees without the support of Parliament...For example, the Reichstag Fire Decree was issued on the basis of Article 48.

This tidbit from the article I linked to above is interesting.