Be careful what you wish for........

It is ironic that so many are clamoring for the military to take over our federal government considering our founding fathers were 100% against a standing army and made sure our military would be 100% subject to civilian control.

I hope that there are truly White hats in the current military and that they can be trusted to transfer power back to the people. otherwise, we could see one form of dictatorship replaced by another.

“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” ~ Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789

“But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights” ~ Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury Federalist, No. 29

“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.” ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."

“It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.” ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution." 3 Samuel Adams, Writings 251 (Henry A. Cushing Ed., 1906).

“ ... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...” ~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father before the Constitutional Convention, June 2, 1787

“The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist The Complete Works of Frederick Nietzsche, 152 (O. Levy Ed. 1974)