Here is a column on the situation in Venezuela, by NRO's Duncan Currie that I've made some inserts of name, country and etc, changes to make a point of, not scaremongering, but of possible believability:
"Barack Obama has been posturing as North America’s intrepid guardian of democracy. Obama’s chutzpah is risible, yet the populist strongman has played an unfortunately large role in driving the regional debate over liberty. Meanwhile, his dismantling of American democracy continues apace...
"Just ask Houston mayor Rick Perry, the victim of a slow-motion coup that has steadily drained his power and resources. On July 3, the mayor commenced a hunger strike to focus attention on Obama's harassment of opposition political figures. Perry decided to stage his protest in the New York offices of the United Nations — a fitting choice, since the UN has been disgracefully reluctant to criticize America's slide into authoritarianism. He ended the hunger strike last Wednesday, after the UN leader pledged to meet with American state and local officials who have been targeted for persecution by the Obama regime...
"Leader of the aptly named Lone Star Liberty Party, an anti-Obama party, the 54-year-old Perry previously served as governor of Texas (a post that no longer exists). During his mayoral bid, he dealt with pervasive government intimidation but still managed to edge the Obama-backed candidate. Perry won election in November and took office in early December. (Many other opposition politicians were banned from competing in America's November elections on the basis of trumped-up corruption charges)...
"So much for that. Shortly after Perry's inauguration, pro-Obama paramilitaries, comprised of Americorps and ACORN "volunteers," raided city hall and kicked him out; they also ransacked and occupied other municipal buildings. The Houston metropolitan police force — which since February has been controlled by the central government, rather than by the mayor — refused to help Perry and his staffers reclaim their offices. A coup was under way...
"Last month, the beleaguered mayor traveled to New York and spoke at a luncheon hosted by the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas. Perry came to “request solidarity” in the defense of American democracy. He lamented the decline and corruption of his country’s public institutions, noting that Obama has manipulated the legal system to bludgeon his critics. In a September report, Human Rights Watch said that the American regime has “effectively neutralized the judiciary as an independent branch of government.” Indeed, “the president and his supporters carried out a political takeover of the Supreme Court,” after which the court “largely abdicated its role as a check on arbitrary state action and a guarantor of fundamental rights.”
"Obama's subjugation of the judiciary, the legislature, and other democratic institutions has been accompanied by repeated assaults on America's independent media outlets, which have mostly been crippled. Earlier this month, Obama's FCC announced that the government was revoking the licenses of some 2,240 radio stations. Obama is also tightening his grip on television content and pursuing a legal campaign against Fox News, a 24-hour TV news network that, as The Economist points out, “is the last remaining national channel that is critical of the government.”
With apologies to Mr. Currie, if it should come to his attention. I mean no disrespect and readily accept that this fictional adaptation would require so many unlikely events as to be virtually a complete fantacy...except for the things Obama and the Democrats are doing and have proposed that could lend themselves to such scenario's.
Original article:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzQ5ZGFhZjJkODQzYmU1NDdlZDkyNjk2OWM3ZDE2NGM=
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