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2 U.S. Supreme Court Justices ? And Numerous Other Top Government Officials ? Warn of Dictatorship | Washington's Blog
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Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter told University of New Hampshire School of Law that the pervasive civic ignorance in the U.S. could bring dictatorship:
"I dont worry about our losing a republican government in the United States because Im afraid of a foreign invasion. I dont worry about it because of a coup by the military, as has happened in some other places. What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed people will not know who is responsible, and when the problems get bad enough as they might do for example with another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown some one person will come forward and say: Give me total power and I will solve this problem.
"That is how the Roman republic fel. Augustus became emperor not because he arrested the Roman senate. He became emperor because he promised that he would solve problems that were not being solved."
But what most people really want to know is all about the Kardashians.