Imagine... A Country Where A Questionably Elected President, With Ties To An Oligarchy Is...

[WillyT]

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Driven From Power, While The Legislators Vote To Impeach Him, Move Up New Elections, And Where The Army Stays Out Of It

I wonder how that feels?



Er, I mean...

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/22/oust-yanukovich-parliament_n_4837884.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

[gopiscrap]

1. exactly

[aquart]

2. How do you drive a country from power?

Big truck?

[WillyT]

3. Four Wheel Drive, Dude

[democratisphere]

4. New World Order OVERDRIVE!

Mission Accomplished.

[WillyT]

5. That's Good...

[Chris Diesel]

6. Why Can't This Happen Here?

Russians (Ukranians) are more cynical. Try convincing the Average American to even look at politics. Maybe we are just a few notches more comfortable. Not uncomfortable enough to react.

Maybe America's population centers are too spread out? Maybe the corporate establishment and it's media here are more prepared and organized against an uprising. We tried with the 99 percent but it was shut down, from the inside and the outside.

Also it's not like another country is trying to take over. Like Russia and Ukraine. It's more like the corporations are taking (have taken) over from within. How do you fight that when the average worker is not even aware of it?

[WillyT]

7. Welcome To DU, Chris Diesel !!!

Glad ta have ya aboard.

[El_Johns]

8. You think corporations taking over doesn't have anything to do with the conflict in Ukraine?

[Chris Diesel]

13. Haven't Read Up On it.

Haven't studied it but I'm sure it's possible. The West hates Putin, he shut the door on the Russian sell off to the west that happened after the walls came down.

[Chris Diesel]

14. Other Side of the Story?

""It is a fact that since 9-11-2001, the US Government has been in the business of destroying countries and using NATO as it principle instrument. That was stated more than a decade ago by then US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and later by General Wesley Clark. The Pentagon drew up a list of 7 states that were to be destroyed: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria and they have systematically proceeded to destroy all of the Countries on the list. The strategy in Ukraine is the same, US/NATO/EU are promoting the destabilization and the breakup of Ukraine in order to achieve the NATO goal of moving into Ukrainian territory closer to Russia. Harvard Professor Francis Boyle, a US based Russian expert who was invited to the Soviet Union to lecture spoke on these issues and more in an interview with the Voice of Russia.""


http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_02_22/Ukraine-The-Brown-Shirt-Revolution-Prof-Francis-Boyle-7578/

[Scootaloo]

9. Because Americans think bumper stickers are the height of protest n/t

[Fumesucker]

10. Because Americans think bumper stickers are the height of political philosophy n/t

[WinkyDink]

16. Americans think?

[Romulox]

11. Not here. In our country, somebody's relative is always the "inevitable" frontrunner. nt

[WinkyDink]

17. Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan---"somebody's relative"?

[Romulox]

18. JFK was...

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, and government official. Kennedy was the husband of Rose Kennedy. Their children included President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy (1932–2009). He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community. He was the inaugural Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), and later directed the Maritime Commission. Kennedy served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 until late 1940, including the early part of World War II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.

[WinkyDink]

19. Well, they ALL were, strictly speaking. But in terms of the Bushes and Clintons (Roosevelts,

Harrisons, Adamses), that is, presidential relatives, no. But so what if they are like the Windsors or the Grimaldis?

Politics, as with industry, medicine, law, education, etc., is often a family tradition.

[JHB]

12. He wasn't impeached (charged with a crime).

I don't know the ins and outs of Ukraine's parliamentary system, but this seems like some variety of a "vote of no confidence". Impeachment and VoNC are two entirely different animals.

[WinkyDink]

15. "...The haves...and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base."