Naomi is right on target. One thing that is key is that people CANT take action, because to take action is an expression of belief, and we WONT let ourselves believe, because it is too, too horrible to believe. Before I woke up, that is what I said. When I'm waking up others, that's what they say. People are not lazy, cynical, stupid; they are horrified. And horror is even more than terror. Terror is seeing a cyclops; horror is when it bites your head off.
If our government leaders can violate our Constitution because another government leader threatens them with military action--as they did for the "bailouts," for example--then that seems like the definition of an actual coup. The military action need not actually take place, however, only the threat, for this to be true: our representative were silenced by threat of force. To invoke that power, power that that leader had "given" himself, against the government, is a de facto act of sedition on the part of that leader. Further, if the military is used against citizens who dissent, then the democratic process is pressured from below as well. Whoever it is, whatever force, whatever ideological intent, behind this subversion of our republic, we must destroy their "fruits." This issue, as Naomi says, is a trans-partisan one. It is the kind of de-polarizIng issue that transcends petty "party" squabbles. The pursuit of liberty makes strange bedfellows. Shalom, Naomi and Mark.