The Anti Coup.
Published in 2003.
description:
Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent decades. Coups have overthrown established constitutional democratic systems of government, halted movements toward greater democracy, and have imposed brutal and oppressive regimes. Coups d'état are one of the main ways in which new dictatorships are established. Coups may also precipitate civil wars and international crises. Coups remain a major unsolved defense problem.
This book describes an anti-coup policy focused on defense of the society by the society itself, using non-violent methods. The two basic principles of anti-coup defense promoted in this book are to: 1) deny legitimacy to the putschists, and 2) to resist the putschists with noncooperation and defiance.one point is that since Coups have unintended consequences, they need to be stopped before they occur, and the book discusses how to do this.
it is on Amazon, or you can also download the ebook or text on internet archives. or at the publisher's website.
related item:
Glenn Reynolds: Of Coups and the constitution. written Aug 2016.
the origins of the military coup of 2012 written in 1992.
and the book that the NYTimes thinks predicted Trumpieboy (read it and compare to what they think Trump might do, but so far hasn't done, suggesting that maybe they are a bit paranoid).
Sinclair Lewis: It can't happen here.
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update:
here in the Philippines, we have occasional military coups, and impeachment hearings occur regularly (Lolo hated our lovely ex president Gloria and would watch them and cheer them on... nothing ever came from them, of course, but it was a great way to let off steam for her opponents).
Which is why I'm not wasting my time watching the shenanigans in the US congress. (not to mention they were on in the middle of the night).
It was passed in a hurry, with little discussion because... well I'm not sure why they were in such a hurry, but apparently they couldn't wait for the court cases to decide about separation of powers claim (one claim was he refused to release information, which comes under US law as separation of powers).
But now it's sitting there for some reason, because Pelosi won't send it to the Senate: and Cocaine Mitch is up in arms:
Cocaine Mitch?
So where did that nickname come from? After an opponant accused him of being a drug smuggler because someone hid cocaine on one of his wife's Chinese family's ships.
From KnowYourMeme:
After Don Blankenship lost the primary, McConnell's campaign Twitter[5] account, @Team_Mitch, posted an image of McConnell photoshopped onto the poster for the television series Narcos, which follows the exploits of real-life drug lord Pablo Escobar. They captioned the tweet "Thanks for playing Don".the nickname is ironic and used with affection by his supporters: McConnell is slow talking and so mild acting that even when he was attacked by SJW (over a federal immigration policy instituted on President Obama's watch), he didn't fight back (although his tiny Asian wife did: never upset a Tiger Mother).
the other irony of this is that the publicity is bad for Joe Biden, who is supported by most non crazy Democrats in the US, probably because they never heard of any of the other candidates.
and ironically it probably won't hurt him much: Biden is old and slow but people figure he is "a man without guile" (as the biblical saying goes): so when his prodigal son was offered a cushy position by a Ukrainian oil company, well.., Joe just knew a lot of congressfolks' families got similar jobs, so he just was too dumb to recognize his son's job was an attempt to bribe him.
as for Pelosi: She just invited Trump to give the State of the Union speech in February. Meaning she knows he will still be president then.
So impeachment is just a political game: move along folks, nothing to see here
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