Reply #25: The coup happened in Nov. 1963

[Gringo]

And has continued since with a people too dispirited make a change. The hippies in the 60's thought they were revolutionaries, but most of them never put everything on the line the way the socialists, unionists, populists, and "wobblies" did a hundred years ago. They keep enough of us, JUST ENOUGH of us JUST WELL-FED enough that the millions who are starving and breaking back for a living will never have enough support to make a real change, whether through rebellion or at the ballot box. It's a brilliant system if you're in the power elite. But now I'm starting to sound like Chomsky on a bad day, so I'll just say: Yes - Dec 2000 was an illegal, bloodless coup d'etat. I'm still not sure whether 9-11 was the Reichstag, though...