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And as for the "Government gone gaga" ideas that would be highly unlikely, if not impossible. Surely taking the military and police force out of the Government's hands would put a stop to that.

In the UK, for example, the Government is not above the law, and the Government does not have its own police force (I don't believe that any real liberal democracy would allow for the Gov't to have its own police force). The military is in control of the Queen, which essentially means the PM, but she can (technically) still reject the PM's request for military use. Sure, she could be a facist at heart, but she's had sovereign power over this country for over 50 years, if she wanted to do something like that, she would have had to have done it a very long time ago. Whatsmore, the way things are moving, the power over the military will be removed from the Queen and given to Parliament over the next 10 years, reducing any Hitler's chance of success further.