Can a country be ruled through cruelty and fear?

Question

I know it can, I just need some facts to back it up for a history exam... been having a hard time finding what I need...

Answer 1

great documentary linked in this article

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207...

if link broke check here

http://www.rewtube.com/

watch Power of Nightmares and the TRAP

Answer 2

Great question, it has been for the past eight years - I guess the answer would be yes unless the people have a "set".

Answer 3

it already has been...see the decisions of bill clinton...

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance

- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*

- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation

- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify

- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly

- First president sued for sexual harassment.

- Second president accused of rape**

- First first lady to come under criminal investigation

- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case

- First president to establish a legal defense fund.

- First president to be held in contempt of court

- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions

- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad

- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.

Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

**Selene Walter accused Ronald Reagan of rape 39 years after the alleged assault in the 1950s. No further information is available on this case. The Juanita Broaddrick case involving Bill Clinton was investigated by the congressional impeachment counsel. According to counsel David Shippers those conducting the interview "have assured me that she is the most credible witness that either one of them have ever talked to"

STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION

- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14

- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5

- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4

- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3

CRIME STATS

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47

- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33

- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61

- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122

SMALTZ INVESTIGATION

- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15

- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6

- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million

- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million

CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION

- As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and 19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.

- According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September 2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the course of investigations into Gore's last fundraising campaign.

-James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.

CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED

Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

- Number of independent counsel inquiries since the 1978 law was passed: 19

- Number that have produced indictments: 7

- Number that produced more convictions th

Answer 4

Iraq under Hussein was

Answer 5

"Hitler, Stalin, and Vietnam, Russia"-- those examples weren't specific enough? (You do know that Stalin ruled Russia, don't you?)

Answer 6

Sure.  If a family can, then why can't a country?

Look at the U.S.A. for example.  Isn't it obvious that they have a president that played for years on their fears?

And now look at the results.  You have a country that used to be fairly high up as far as technology goes, but now they think that an iPhone is state-of-the-art technology.  Look at social issues, education issues.  A lot of them think that the theory of evolution is false.  This used to be one of the most respected countries, but now it's reduced to what it is.  That's mainly to do with the U.S.'s preoccupation with the fear of "terrorism".  Instead of spending all their time and money on this war, they could be at the forefront of everything.

I can't think of a more specific example than this which is happening right now.

I believe that things will improve though, just as they did with Germany.  There comes a point when the citizens really realize that it was all wrong and want to get on with life.  Even though there are a lot of naysayers, I think the Americans will get through this.

Answer 7

Of course it can. Iraq was, Russia was, China was.  There are countless numbers of countries who survived cruel leadership.  History is loaded with examples.  In today's world they don't last long.  

Answer 8

try reading about The Third Reich... Soviet  Russia under Stalin . there is plenty out there on rule by fear and intimidation.

Answer 9

Its called a dictatorship. There many examples of it in Africa and Asia right now. And there is Cuba, and in recent history Spain, who only in the last decade became a monarchy again.  North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, China , Zimbabwe. These are only some examples. Check out the site listed below and you will find so much more.

Answer 10

Has the united states been ruled by love these past 8 years.....??

Bush is a dictator...amerricans ask top stop the war ..answer ..NO  chenny asked abo-ut the american peoples opinion  answer...SO

terror

WMDS

war

911

terrorist

katrina

patriot act

illegal phone tap

loss of civil liberties

do i have to go on?

etc....

Answer 11

yeah every other country is like that...

ours is the only that is ruled by stupidity and ignorance and trickery...

Answer 12

look up the history of north korea

Answer 13

go to the library and read a book called the third reicht by the n**i regime and you might find some answeres but if you can wait and obama gets elected you can just read the newspapers////

Answer 14

Just look up anything about

Pol Pot

Adolf Hitler

Idi Amin

Joseph Stalin

Sadam Husein

Answer 15

http://www.reason.com/news/show/117383.h...

Try this article about Iraq

Answer 16

who cares if they fear you as long as respect you

Answer 17

Human nature will prevail and eventually such countries fail due

to coup or proverty!

Answer 18

Study North Korea, China, and Vietnam for examples.