Give me ur opininon!!!!!!!?

Question

There's an expression which goes, " People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people" Do u think thats true? Can a wholenation rise up to its government and make them heard? Or is a government more powerful and its artillery more than enough to crush its whole population?

Answer 1

That was part of the reason for the second amendment. The government shouldn't cater to one group or another. Elected officials should run on what they believe, not change their story just to get elected.
When governments try to overtly oppress their citizens they are often met with uprisings. It looks like the States are slowly giving up little bits of power to the Federal government until now it is too big for it's britches. Remember reading in history class when people called it THESE United States, now it's THE United States.
If it wasn't for the whole slavery thing, people would still be able to remember that the Civil War was really about state rights vs. an overgrown federal government.
And can the government crush it's population, well it is a military made up of citizens. If the citizens are crushed, who will fund the government?

Answer 2

i will be looking at this from a democratic governmental state view...

in a democratic government, the people are the ones with the power. They have the power to choose which government they want to rule over them. Their power is permanent and there is nothing the government can do but to make them happy.

However, most of the time...the government does make the people happy and thus we see the people just leading their everyday lifes on the streets and not really caring if the government has done some minor thing wrong. this trust from the people is sort of hidden and thus we have lost the notion that the people are the ones in power and not the government.

then leading to your statment. this is what causes people to end up fearing the government. The government, doing its job, would definately want to hear feed back from its people about how things are going and all. the people can definately "rise up" and express their unhappiness, because the eventual priority of the country is its people. no people, government is useless...


there.

Answer 3

Governments should be afraid of the people, or at least wary. Many nations have had uprisings against their governments, for example, East Timor recently. And the people won, with some help from neighbouring countries

But while governments are doing an acceptable job, people, especially from Western countries, are quite content to let governments run their course.

Answer 4

The saying is filled with truth. Certainly our Founding Fathers and particularly Thomas Jefferson had a deep mistrust of government. And honestly we should all have a healthy fear of our own government. Not go all militia on you, but Ruby Ridge, Waco, JFK, the current Iraq debacle and our president's blatant disregard for the law....and his defense secretary telling Americans that dissenting opinions in a free democracy are morally confusing for him, are all things that should make us really wonder about our government.

And the NRA folks hug the 2nd Amendment like a bunch of tree huggers, because they believe Americans should have enough firepower to stand up to the government if it ever became necessary.

Now of course, my Southern ancestors in Virginia tried this approach once....but it's not recommended.

Answer 5

I think that they're trying to test the theory, I don't know, I'm more of an observer myself when it comes to those sort of things. Which for my 2 childrens sakes, I hope it doesn't anytime soon. But yes America was based upon the idealism that the people give the government it's power.

Answer 6

This is the true reason behind the right to bear arms.

Then the citizens have the ability to revolt if the government becomes a terony.

Answer 7

well iraq i ran affair the sent the the meliissha witn no weapons sent a mlllion pepole into battle with out s and the iranians ran out of and lost the battle so i would say power to the people how does a government falll from withen roman emipre it does not fall from a conquering nation but when people cant deal with the democracy of idiocracy of idiology they rise up and just sack the capitol so who will follow me to hell oops gone to far soory strenth and honor

Answer 8

i think a whole nation could rise up against the government and make themselves heard..........our nation? would never happen. people are just to lazy and complacent. they sit back and let people do whatever they want. such as the government taking away our freedom slowly. example "Click it or ticket" personally i always wear my seat belt for safety, but by not wearing one i would not be hurting anyone, why should there be a law forcing me to wear one?

Answer 9

it depends on the country. in america, if all of the people rose up against the government I think it could be pushed over. the problem is most americans are lazy and cant agree so that will never happen.

Answer 10

ppl are more strong than the Gov ... coz the Gov is elected by the nation ... so thats makes the Gov the choice of citizens .... .. (if the elections r fair ).... if the gov is totally agianst the nation ... the ppl can strike or can by any other means ..make theriselves heard .... but sumtimes the BAD govs dont hear them ... so that time u need to fight with swords not with pens ..as b4 ....