A Military Dictatorship in the US?

An oldie but goodie:Newsmax: Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. To be fair, he may have been giving a warning about it (and if so, I agree with him). Another terrorist attack “causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event,” Franks said. This “begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution,” Franks said. “Two steps—very, very important.”

NuSapiens takes a pretty good shot at my response to the real solution.

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[pwb]

I wonder if he still thinks that way today, 2.5 years later.

The voters got what they deserved.

[a z]

The people have already voted to diminish their own rights. Perhaps removing the facade of adhering to the Constitution quickly would be better than the death by a thousand cuts we seem to be doing. I can see the American people willingly discarding the Constituion in the illusory hope that a dictatorship or martial law will make the country safe.

I am of the opinion that barring the wholesale destruction of the human race that the US Constitution is worth dying for, even for people not in uniform. Even a nuke going off is not worth the loss of the Bill of Rights.

[MountainRunner]

Franks is relying on a nuke attack, (now) Brig General Dunlap, thought of less destructive reasons when he wrote Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 in 1992.