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To: philman_36

My apologies. I am notoriously bad with names, and I forgot to ping you. I’m sorry.


122 posted on 07/02/2011 8:06:36 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

I believe you’ve described an assault against our nation. The following is a description, found at Wikipedia, of the expression “coup d’état” and what it means.

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A coup d’état, or plural coups d’état — also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow — is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment — typically the military — to replace the deposed government with another body; either civil or military. A coup d’état succeeds if the usurpers establish their dominance when the incumbent government fails to prevent or successfully resist their consolidation of power. If the coup neither fully fails nor achieves overall success, the attempted coup d’etat is likely to lead to a civil war.

Typically, a coup d’état uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak says, “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’état.

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Sure sounds like an apt description of what we’re experiencing.


124 posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:51 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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