Anyone who thinks that "the people" have anything to do with deciding any of this is delusional.
Should have killed him when they had a chance. Wimping out in the face of evil always gets more people killed.
...nothing like convoys of burros to put the fear into us. ;-)
Lovely. Just lovely another paranoid dictator.
This is standard practice for an emerging dictatorship.
Republican guards.
Praetorean guards.
It is a recipe that worked for thousands of years.
Next come the million spys, educated in government schools, turning thier parets in. And the next door neighbor.
Secret raids in the dead of night, carrying away parents, never to be seen again.
The only way to stop this is to have a Warsaw uprising, or something similar to Flight 93, or our own revolutionary war.
All of them depended on strong men with big balls, that just took action.
Keep it mind...it's coming here. And never give up your guns, nor register them.
This is extremely interesting, as an armed populace is incompatible with tyrannical rule (at least in theory).
Did I need to put irony tags around that statement?
Oh, I forgot another thing about the formation of dictatorships:
Unite the people against a common enemy. It does not matter if it is real or not.
It's easy to get people riled up to fight against a boogeyman, real or perceived.
If the crips and bloods in LA thought we were about to be attacked by Mars, they would unite to do what the government said to do to prepare to fight Mars. Including turning in anyone that the government said had Martian characteristics.
Such as not supporting the government.
Instant army of killing machines taking out anything the government wants.
Typical Communist tactic of diverting attention from themselves to a mythical outside threat. The USA is the monster all tyrants use to scare the sheep.
Oh cool, Dignity Battalions!
Wait till some smart a** slum punk thinks he can run the show better and turns on the Big Giant Head.
I hope this comes back to bite him in the ass!
Man!!! And we think Iran's Ahmadinejab is delusional!!
Chavez has turned delusional into an art form.