First, my observations on the nature of Tyrants. Having read a good deal of history, I notice that Tyrants may rule with an iron fist, sometimes for decades, they have characteristics in common. Tyrants can never rest on their laurels. In tyrannical regimes, there are always courtiers, hangers-on, relatives, employees, and palace residents around the tyrant. Those people are always living in fear that the dictator’s evil eye will fall on them, and they will be shoved out of the way for some fabricated reason, or no reason at all. Crown Princes and henchmen of the tyrant are always jockeying for position, and none of them can be assured of maintaining that position.
If you look at historical tyrants, assassinations are quite common, both of the tyrant himself and those around him. Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by one of his friends. Emperor Caligula was assassinated by his own Praetorian Guard, which is a common way that tyrants’ reigns are ended. Bodyguards and other security personnel surrounding a tyrant are very familiar with the intrigue always found in a monarch’s milieu, and often the first to be suspect when a dictator is killed. Between 1194 BC and 1005 BC, no fewer than four kings of Babylon were assassinated! Military leaders in Rome were often assassinated by their own troops. In our modern era, two heads of state in Nigeria were assassinated by their own Army troops within a single month.
Every tyrant lives surrounded by enemies, and “frenemies” as long as they remain at the top by force (which is the main feature of all tyrants). Because of this, no tyrant can ever sleep soundly. Every tyrant, from the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III to Kim Jong Un of North Korea, must sleep with one eye open, and never be able to trust anyone around them. Some modern tyrants, like Kim Jong Un have less to fear from their populations, since they are kept always on the edge of starvation, but they still maintain a tight rein on their regimes. Hitler made himself a special bunker in the mountains, so protect himself from his own people, as much as from the Allies.
Most tyrants have periodic purges of those around them. Before the start of WWII, Joseph Stalin got extremely paranoid, and conducted a major purge of his army generals. As in lots of tyrannical regimes, they feared telling him the truth about their own strength, and there were whisperings among higher-ups that got back to Stalin. To his detriment, the Russian Army, due to the purges, was ill-prepared for the attacks of Hitler’s army when he broke the agreement that had recently been signed. Right now, Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is conducting a major purge of his military, ostensibly due to “corruption”, but it is thought that he is paranoid about the potentiality of a coup against him.
All tyrants must be afraid of their own people, the ones that are subjugated by tyrannical regimes. Tyrants are always aware of the one condition against which they are much less powerful. That condition is Mob Action. Every Tyrant knows that, all the time and everywhere, there are ALWAYS more of the People than there are of the Tyrant and his regime. Every Tyrant’s worst nightmare is the Mob at his gates, motivated by the rage which always builds among an oppressed public. No matter how many of those people are killed or maimed by the military behind the Tyrant, there will always be more at the ready. In fact, just recently in Nepal, young people overthrew their corrupt government. There were deaths and injuries, and the jury is still out as to the stability of the new government.
In the past few weeks here in America, a new phenomenon has been in the news, the “Teen Takeover.” This is when large groups of teenagers make plans on social media, and “take over” or mob a public place, often looting and destroying property of private businesses, or blocking streets with cars, and doing tricks in the intersection. Here are some examples.
Many of these mobs are made up of black teens. In our Nation’s Capitol, over 55% of the population is black, and until President Trump took over law-enforcement, mobs, looting, shootings and other crimes were commonplace occurrences.
So, in these situations, the Mob is intimidating law enforcement, and in many blue cities it’s relatively easy. This is due to the fact that leftist city governments seem to support the criminals more than their victims, and police ranks are always too low since officers know that the city does not “have their backs”. The masses of the People are also being harmed by these teen mobs, and it’s only a matter of time until the People take it into their own hands to deal with the teen mobs. Teen Takeovers, or RIOTS? Here’s one type of response.
Tyranny is abhorrent, in whatever way it manifests itself, from the top down, or from the bottom up. The Oppressed always rise up against the Oppressors, and Tyrants are always on the lookout for those that will overthrow them. History shows, again and again, that Human Nature Never Changes.
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