Do we want a military junta running the UK?

Question

Our military exists to defend this country. When they are told by our politicians that a threat exists, they respond. What should they do when they find that they have been lied to?

Answer 1

What do our military do when they find that they've been lied to?

They do nothing. They do the job they're instructed to do as a tool of national security. They ignore political feelings and carry out their orders according to the military code and according to international law. They rely on an honest & democratic Parliament to right the wrong. They rely on the British people to do their duty as members of a democracy by protesting or by lobbying their representative MP.

Every soldier has a duty to obey international law. An order to harm civilians or use illegal torture / banned weapons is an illegal order and must be refused.

You understand that a military junta means rule under a military dictatorship? This could only happen by an armed coup d’État that would dissolve Parliament and remove the little bit of democracy left in the UK.

The British political system already has a process for removing a Prime Minister that has broken his oath and acted against national interest. But it needs an honest and moral Parliament to initiate impeachment procedures.

Of course, Britain is a Constitutional monarchy, so the Queen has supreme authority and the Prime Minister serves her (after winning an election and being invited to serve the Queen.) The PM swears to honour & serve the Queen, not the British people.

The Queen owns the military and they go to war for the Queen. She could also dissolve the Parliament tomorrow and kick out every MP, then put the Military in charge under a Monarch controlled martial rule.

But to answer your question, the military are a machine and every member agrees to put opinion aside and obey authority without question. If they've been lied to, then the system of representitive democracy has been abused by those elected and every British citizen has been betrayed. The whole country has a duty to fix the corruption, just like we fixed the unjust Poll Tax.

Answer 2

1.) Are you totally sure that that's why your military exists?

2.) Can you show me how it follows from the idea that the military has been lied to by the government, that therefore the military should run the country? What makes 'being lied to' into a qualification for running a country?

Also, what makes you think that the British military was lied to? Isn't it equally plausible that they knew as well as the government what the situation was, but were prevailed upon to shut up about it? And that they have not so much discovered the truth, as finally lost patience with the charade?

Answer 3

Having been unfortunate enough to pay a short visit to Argentina at the height of the so-called "Dirty War" I can honestly say we should not want or need a military junta running the UK. While our particular form of democracy may be flawed it is still better than any of the alternatives.

Answer 4

If being lied to by our government was a qualification for running the country then we would all be running the country and living in the Peoples' Republic of Britain and Northern Ireland!

Answer 5

You have hit the nail on the head. General sir Richard Dannat should have followed up his speech with a takeover. Frankly, people are brainwashed about dictators and that kind of government but the truth is that countries are better run that way. Its all scare stories. Most people who have lived under such regimes enjoy better services and lower crime rates.

Answer 6

Arrest the liar for treason perhaps, but how do you get to military junta from there ?
Stop taking coke and get a life.

Answer 7

All I can say is that the Goverment has lied to all the ulster people in N.Ireland since Labour got in

Answer 8

Pardon....?

Answer 9

anything has got to be better then what we have now