Saturday, July 19, 2014

What Would Happen If....

          What would happen if a President of the United States were to go completely rogue? Just one of the crises that we are facing in America today is that our President often operates outside of the law and outside of our Constitution. It's a natural result of something like this that Americans would protest and even come together to form political blocs, it's part of being American, but it's not natural for the American government to double down and consider those protesting to be a threat, even domestic terrorists, that is not unless that government does indeed have ulterior motives that concerned the citizens to begin with.
          There are, and have been for quite some time, ominous news reports on government munitions, mechanized armor, intelligence gathering on all American citizens, training and practical exercises in controlling citizens, the forming and training of swat teams for government bureaucracies that one would never associate with the need for a paramilitary force, and other very questionable policies and dictates.
          It seems like this administration expects an upheaval and may even want one. It foments distrust and outrage from one part of America and then uses that distrust and outrage as an excuse to arm itself to the teeth.
          Barack Obama's mental stability is even being questioned. His comments and actions are often anything but presidential, his reasoning akin to a young boy who blames everything on his brother. One very disturbing trait is that he can make policy that is absurd, provocative and threatening and be castigated for it, even by members of his own party, and pause for only a brief moment before continuing as if never challenged at all. Is this something beyond arrogance? What if he institutes martial law? What if he suspends our Constitution or our national elections under the threat of a national emergency, a brewing national emergency he may have conveniently ignored?
          So back to my original question....what would happen if a President of the United States were to go completely rogue?