Voreqe Frank Bainimarama Quotes
We have reasonable grounds to believe that the life of the state is being threatened
The justification was a sham. He forced the President to resign, appointed a new President who then fired the Prime Minister and dissolved Parliament.
Voreqe Frank Bainimarama, Fiji Navy Commodore, Commander of the Armed Forces of Fiji, Coup Leader overthrowing the government, Reason justifying his seizure of control of the government, December 6, 2006
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Duke of Northumberland. When King James VI of poorer Scotland assumed the English throne (as James I) most of the Scots, and especially the Highlanders, were anti-English and concerned about the integrity and independence of Scotland. Together with dissident Englishmen, Dudley foresaw the schism that was to engulf England and Scotland in bloody civil war.
Young China had toppled the Manchu Dynasty, but once in power, they found it much harder to govern—a common happening after revolution.
The incident to which he referred was Islamic extremist terrorists attacking with assault weapons a group of unarmed tourists killing over 30. Tunisia, although it has a large majority Muslim population, became a secular republic after its Arab Spring revolution. Tunisia's economy is dependent on tourism, which is diminished by the fear of more terrorist attacks.
Lincoln was the first President who had ever been elected who was overtly and publicly opposed to slavery. As a result of that and other positions Lincoln took, there were many who would have liked to see him assassinated and there were others who talked of seizing the government in Washington before the radical new President could be sworn in and inaugurated. The plot was not carried out however.
Jefferson was also the first President who had to contend with a plot to seize part of the country and ally with a foreign power. Yet when he tried to arrest some of the plotters, he found that the laws were unclear in that they had not yet implemented their plan. The President asked for legislation so he could cope with a plot against the United States as readily as a private plot against a foreign nation. Conspiracy to commit treason was not then a crime.
