Actually, the SCOTUS only became involved after the Florida Supreme Court interjected itself into the situation, when Federal law gave the power to the state legislature. There were written laws published well before the election governing how the election should be conducted, including the time frame in which the county election boards must report results. These laws even included penalties for county election boards which did not report the results by the deadlines. The Florida Supreme Court decided that those deadlines were irrelevant, and set it's OWN deadlines, completely violating the seperation of powers AND the Federal law which dictated that the rules for conducting elections could not be retroactively changed. A PERFECT case for strict enforcement of the seperation of powers, and the impeachment of judges who violate them.
It depends on who winds up in charge. Some 'revolutionaries' would want a theocracy shaped in their mold. Some would want (based on the US) a
return to the government and laws as stipulated in the US Constitution. Some probably want a monarchy. And you'd find a large proportion, probably the majority, who just want to be left alone as long as they're not hurting anyone else.
I have YET to find a tank or fighter plane that drives itself. Or one that has a latrine in it.
As for citizens killing each other, a careful examination of the demographics of violent crime in the US finds that MOST of the violent crime is within a particular minority group, and MOST of it seems to be related to failed government policies (War on Some Drugs, as well as the fiasco of breaking up families in the way the welfare rules used to be written. Government benevolence did more to destroy the black family than the KKK ever dreamed of). For people with no adult criminal record, no record of abusing alchohol or drugs, and no history of serious mental illness, driving to work is more dangerous than owning a dozen guns.
As for Africa, a serious observor would note that the ANC was backed by the Soviets for a number of years, not out of any altruism but in an effort to block US and NATO access to a number of natural resources that were only available there. Taking a group whose only experience with government is trying to tear it down and handing them the keys is seldom effective. As for guns in Africa, seems to me that one of the first things the government of Zimbabwe did before confiscating the farms of the whites (frequently killing them in the process) was to disarm all of the whites. MOST of the arms seen used in violence in Africa were imported from the old Soviet Union or China illegally.
Actually, in 1946, the local political machine in Athens, TN tried to fix the election. Running against it was a non-partisan coalition of veterans. When the local machine tried to stuff the ballot box in the privacy of the jail, the veterans raided a National Guard armory (guns are expensive, lots of areas of rural Tennessee are still rather poor), and a shootout ensued. There was SOME talk of sending Federal troops in, but it was feared that the troops would sympathize with the veterans. Go look up "The Battle of Athens" for more details.
I'll speak from the opposite perspective - I graduated from Tech a number of years ago (and if you think parking pre-99 was bad, try dealing with parking pre-92). Resnet servers represent one of the biggest security concerns at Tech, and students frequently have little concern for the impact of their activities on others.
That said, Tech DOES have some problems recruiting IT professionals (and most of the Unix admins I work with used to work for OIT). One is a certain lady who at least used to work in HR who tended to circular file applications from whites, particularly white males. The other is that the State of Georgia pays considerably less than market rates for IT professionals. My wife worked in admissions for several years doing system administration, managing their portion of the Banner conversion, etc, but was making less than $35k when she left there. I know a former system admin who now does DBA work at Tech who has been there more than ten years who is making less than $50k.
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Actually, the SCOTUS only became involved after the Florida Supreme Court interjected itself into the situation, when Federal law gave the power to the state legislature. There were written laws published well before the election governing how the election should be conducted, including the time frame in which the county election boards must report results. These laws even included penalties for county election boards which did not report the results by the deadlines. The Florida Supreme Court decided that those deadlines were irrelevant, and set it's OWN deadlines, completely violating the seperation of powers AND the Federal law which dictated that the rules for conducting elections could not be retroactively changed. A PERFECT case for strict enforcement of the seperation of powers, and the impeachment of judges who violate them.
It depends on who winds up in charge. Some 'revolutionaries' would want a theocracy shaped in their mold. Some would want (based on the US) a return to the government and laws as stipulated in the US Constitution. Some probably want a monarchy. And you'd find a large proportion, probably the majority, who just want to be left alone as long as they're not hurting anyone else.
I have YET to find a tank or fighter plane that drives itself. Or one that has a latrine in it. As for citizens killing each other, a careful examination of the demographics of violent crime in the US finds that MOST of the violent crime is within a particular minority group, and MOST of it seems to be related to failed government policies (War on Some Drugs, as well as the fiasco of breaking up families in the way the welfare rules used to be written. Government benevolence did more to destroy the black family than the KKK ever dreamed of). For people with no adult criminal record, no record of abusing alchohol or drugs, and no history of serious mental illness, driving to work is more dangerous than owning a dozen guns. As for Africa, a serious observor would note that the ANC was backed by the Soviets for a number of years, not out of any altruism but in an effort to block US and NATO access to a number of natural resources that were only available there. Taking a group whose only experience with government is trying to tear it down and handing them the keys is seldom effective. As for guns in Africa, seems to me that one of the first things the government of Zimbabwe did before confiscating the farms of the whites (frequently killing them in the process) was to disarm all of the whites. MOST of the arms seen used in violence in Africa were imported from the old Soviet Union or China illegally.
Actually, in 1946, the local political machine in Athens, TN tried to fix the election. Running against it was a non-partisan coalition of veterans. When the local machine tried to stuff the ballot box in the privacy of the jail, the veterans raided a National Guard armory (guns are expensive, lots of areas of rural Tennessee are still rather poor), and a shootout ensued. There was SOME talk of sending Federal troops in, but it was feared that the troops would sympathize with the veterans. Go look up "The Battle of Athens" for more details.
I'll speak from the opposite perspective - I graduated from Tech a number of years ago (and if you think parking pre-99 was bad, try dealing with parking pre-92). Resnet servers represent one of the biggest security concerns at Tech, and students frequently have little concern for the impact of their activities on others. That said, Tech DOES have some problems recruiting IT professionals (and most of the Unix admins I work with used to work for OIT). One is a certain lady who at least used to work in HR who tended to circular file applications from whites, particularly white males. The other is that the State of Georgia pays considerably less than market rates for IT professionals. My wife worked in admissions for several years doing system administration, managing their portion of the Banner conversion, etc, but was making less than $35k when she left there. I know a former system admin who now does DBA work at Tech who has been there more than ten years who is making less than $50k.
Gee, sounds like they want X-terminals with an encrypted data link...