How long do you think itll be untill america becomes a dictatorship?

Question

How many secret programs does your Gov have that it should not have as secrets? Where is the accountabilty and checks and balances? How come we never hear about secret programs like haarp by gov watch dogs in mass media?

Who exactly are thouse programs letting the Gov have the upper hand on? The countrys without as many weapons as us? Keeping things secret as little as possible would be a good start instead of having everything important top secret and no civilians get to know about it...

Answer 1

It's already happening. Has been for years. We have allowed a slow, steady erosion of our rights as we have drifted further and further away from the Constitution that should be our anchor and guiding light. Part of the problem is that our government is so big that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And we have listened to the lies from the barf bags in Washington that we have to give up more freedoms since 9/11 in order to be safe. It doesn't matter that the statistics prove that an armed America is a safer America. The truth has never mattered any way. The first step will be to invent some major crisis to suspend the Constitution, "just temporarily". And we all know how long a temporary tax increase is don't we. Then comes the police state, and then will come the dictatorship. Only it won't be called that. It will be another crisis, and we will be told they are temporary changing the rules to keep this president in office till the crisis is over.
Something to think about. What is the definition of a terrorist? It is what ever the government says it is.

Answer 2

How can you have accountabilty & checks & balances if things are secret?
Now if we were to hear about the secret programs they would NOT be secret. Would they?
I hate to say it really I do But we really do need to have somethings secret. I'm talking about programs that help us have the upper hand, if you know what I'm talking about.

Answer 3

We will never get a dictator as long as we don't elect Nancy Pelosi as president. If we have any secret programs I guess they are secret. There are a few things that are classified.

Answer 4

Not necessarily a dictatorship, but definitely a police state. I don't know how long, but I do know that things are moving in that direction rather quickly, and the only way to stop it is for most everyone to wake up and tell them Heeeelllll Nooooooooooooo!!***

Answer 5

Not very. The pieces are being put in place to make this happen. All we need is another catastrophe. Maybe we can take some of the worst Bush legesiations like the Patriot Act and the MCA and defang them.

Answer 6

Never, unless the people agree to it. It is against our laws.

Politics of the United States of America takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of the United States is both head of state and head of government, and of a two-party legislative and electoral system. The national government shares sovereignty with the 50 states governments, with the Supreme Court balancing the rights of each.

Executive power is exercised by the executive branch, which is headed by the President and independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Judicial power is excercised by the judicial branch (or judiciary), comprised of the Supreme Court of the United States and lower federal courts. The function of the judiciary is to interpret the United States Constitution as well as the federal laws and regulations. This includes resolving disputes between the executive and legislative branches.
The federal entity created by the Constitution is the dominant feature of the American governmental system. However, every person outside the capital is subject to at least three governing bodies: the federal government, a state, and/or a local government, usually a county Within an incorporated entity, such as a city, they are also subject to the local government and possibly a district
The government is answerable to citizens, who may change it through elections.
The government's power in matters of religion and expression should be limited to prevent abuse of power.
The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen (that is, citizens should be equal before the law).
Individuals and political parties debate how this ideology applies to particular circumstances, and may disagree openly with any of it
Another critical factor has been ballot access law. Originally voters went to the polls and publicly stated which candidate they supported. Later on, this developed into a process whereby each political party would create its own ballot and thus the voter would put the party's ballot into the voting box. In the late nineteenth century, states began to adopt the Australian Secret Ballot Method and it eventually became the national standard. The secret ballot method ensured that the privacy of voters would be protected (hence government jobs could no longer be awarded to loyal voters) and each state would be responsible for creating one official ballot. The fact that states legislators were dominated by Democrats and Republicans provided an opportunity to possible discriminatory laws against minor political parties, yet such laws did not start to arise until the first Red Scare that hit America after World War I. State legislators began to enact tough laws that made it harder for minor political parties to run candidates for office by requiring a high number of petition signatures from citizens and decreasing the length of time that such a petition could legally be circulated.

Another factor is the parliamentary system. Third parties thrive under the parliamentary system in which governing coalitions are formed after elections. The United States is not a parliamentary system, and indeed, in the United States, it could be said that coalitions are formed before elections under the umbrella of party organizations

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an investigation project to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems". Started in 1993, the project is proposed to last for a period of twenty years.

The project is jointly funded by the United States Air Force, the Navy, and the University of Alaska. It is said that the project is similar to numerous existing ionospheric heaters around the world, and has a large suite of diagnostic instruments that facilitate its use to increase scientific understanding of ionospheric dynamics. It is a popular target of conspiracy theories, and though many have expressed fears of the HAARP being used as a nefarious weapon, the scientists involved in aeronomy, space science, or plasma physics reject these fears as unfounded.
Research at the HAARP includes:

Ionospheric heating
Plasma line observations
Stimulated electron emission observations
Gyro-frequency heating research
Spread F observations
Airglow observations
Heating induced scintillation observations
VLF and ELF generation observations
Radio observations of meteors
Polar mesospheric summer echos : Polar Mesospheric Summer Echos (PMSE) have been studied using the IRI as a powerful radar, as well as with the 28 MHz radar, and the two VHF radars at 49 MHz and 139 MHz. The presence of multiple radars spanning both HF and VHF bands allows scientists to make comparative measurements that may someday lead to an understanding of the processes that form these elusive phenomenon.
The cost of building the HAARP has exceeded the dollar-adjusted cost of similar facilities around the world. HAARP was constructed at the site of an obsolete over-the-horizon radar facility for political reasons, but its location was less than ideal from a scientific perspective. Some believe that it was constructed as a pork barrel project for Alaska by Senator Ted Stevens.
The critics' views have been rejected by the HAARP's defenders, who have pointed out that the amount of energy at the project's disposal is minuscule compared to the colossal energies dumped into the atmosphere by solar radiation and thunderstorms. A University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute scientist has compared the HAARP to an "immersion heater in the Yukon River."

Since the ionosphere is inherently a chaotically turbulent region, HAARP's defenders claim any artificially induced changes would be "swept clean" within seconds or minutes at the most. Ionospheric heating experiments performed at the Arecibo Observatory's ionospheric heater and incoherent scatter radar have shown that after periods of modification (up to an hour), the ionosphere returns to normal within about the same period of time it had been heated.

these are secret?

Answer 7

If we know what's right and protect our freedom it will never happen.

As Bob Marley once said "Get up, Stand up. Stand up for your rights. Get up, Stand up. Don't give up the fight."

Answer 8

The Supreme Court is already full of dictators. They have been for many years -- decades, in fact.

Answer 9

it's not likely due to the foundation of the constitution

Answer 10

never, dummy. Or, should I say "wanker"? If you're from Britain, you'll have Sharia law before us, so let us know how you like it when you get it....