DICTATORSHIP
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
—Rev. 13:4
1113 Jailed For Calling “Dictator”
A North Sumatra court sentenced a man to three weeks imprisonment for calling a local official “a dictator.” The judge found the defendant guilty of insulting the official in the exercise of his duties.
1114 O Liberty!
When Madame Roland was being led through the streets of Paris to the guillotine, and saw standing in the “Place de la Revolution” the statue of Liberty, she uttered the famous apostrophe: “O Liberty! Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!” Of a more sacred name an even more bitter apostrophe could be uttered. The name of the Saviour of men has been used by His votaries to cover the most blasphemous of deeds.
—James Burns
1115 Perpetual Presidency Refused
When the Duke of Orleans proposed to make Fontenelle perpetual President of the Academy of Sciences, his reply was, “Take not from me, my Lord, the delight of living with my equals.”
—Horace Smith
1116 Survey For Japanese Emperor
An overwhelming majority of the Japanese people want to see the Emperor maintained as the “symbol of the state,” according to a Mainichi Shimbun (daily) survey.
Asked how they felt about the Imperial Family, 36 percent of the respondents said they had “no interest.” Thirty-two percent said they had “respect” and 26 percent “a friendly feeling.” Four percent had “antipathy.”
Nearly 60 percent of those in their late teens and in their 20s had “no interest” in the Imperial Family while 49 percent of those in their 20s, and 65 percent of those in their 60s or more, had “respect.”
In summary, the survey showed that 80 percent of the polled said they were in favor of continuation of the Emperor as the Constitution provides, while 7% say Emperor should have more authority.
1117 Emergency Regulations
At the time that the Russians were first suspected of putting aggressive missiles in Cuba in 1961, a series of emergency measures were formulated in the event of a full confrontation and possible strategic war. Nikita Khrushchev backed down and withdrew the missiles in 1962, but the emergency measures which were signed into law by the late John F. Kennedy, then President of the United States, still stand. They became a part of the vast EXECUTIVE ORDERS when they were signed on February 16 and 27, 1962. Those emergency documents provide that the President, and any succeeding President, shall have complete and final dictatorial control.
The Executive Orders are to be carried out through the Office of Emergency Planning, and they may be put into effect in any “time of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis.” So all-inclusive are these orders that a listing of them is provided here:
THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Executive Order 10995-Take over all communications Media.
Executive Order 10997-Take over all Electric Power, Petroleum, and Gas fuels and minerals.
Executive Order 10998-Take over all food resources and farms (including farming machinery).
Executive Order 10999-Take over all methods of transportation, highways, seaports, etc.
Executive Order 11000-Mobilization of civilians into work forces under governmental supervision.
Executive Order 11001-Take over all health, welfare and educational functions.
Executive Order 11002-Postmaster General (member of President’s cabinet) will operate nationwide registration of all persons.
Executive Order 11003-Take over all airports and aircraft.
Executive Order 11004-Take over housing and finance authorities to relocate communities, to build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned as unsafe, and established New Locations for populations.
Executive Order 11005-Take over all railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
Executive Order 11051-Designate responsibilities of office of emergency planning, give authorization to put all other executive orders into effect in times of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis.
1118 Majority Rule Dangerous
All the great injustices of history have been committed in the name of unchecked and unbridled “majority rule.”
The late Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, in one of the most forceful speeches ever delivered before the Senate, observed with great truth: “The majority crucified Jesus Christ; the majority burned the Christians at the stake; the majority established slavery; the majority jeered when Columbus said the world was round; the majority threw him into a dungeon for having discovered a new world; the majority cut off the ears of John Pym because he dared advocate the liberty of the press.”
1119 Epigram On Dictatorship
• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
—Abraham Lincoln
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
—Abraham Lincoln
• Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
—Fulton J. Sheen
• Democracy is the worst system ever invented except for all the rest.
—Winston Churchill
See also: Antichrist ; Freedom ; World Government ; Rev. 13:15.