It’s not an easy task, dealing with a dictator. Even politicians today have difficulty on deciding what to do with a dictator. But it is important that people do, do something, and not just stand by while the dictator looms over the citizens. Not a very good example of this would be the Holocaust, where many Germans and other countries merely watched the genocide.
A problem that we are faced, is that most dictators are very determined to keep their power, and are willing to do anything to make that the power is held by them. In Julius Caesar, for example, Flavius and Marullus were ‘silenced’ when the two officers posed as a threat towards Caesar. With all the power dictators have, it’s extremely difficult to decide on how to take them down. Locking them up isn’t an option, because they surely will have allies, who will help them escape, in Caesar’s case it would have been his trusted right-hand Antony.
Exiling them is possible, but there is a favorable chance of them returning with more force and more determination to get power. People could confront them, although it seems like a weak attempt to persuade a power-hungry strong-willed dictator. But it would be worth a try for someone like beloved a family member or an extremely close friend. But, as it’s seen in Julius Caesar, dictators are obstinate. Caesar was not moved at all when the conspirators begged him to bring back Cimber, instead he claimed he was “constant as the North Star”, that the ‘ordinary’ conspirators could not change Caesar’s mind.
A more effective undertake to the situation would be of a larger, and most probably stronger, group forcing the dictator down and out of power. The country's military could use their weapons to forcefully take over the dictator. Surrounding countries could do the same, but consequences that follow that could be a bloodshed, which could kill innocent civilians. Organizations could make an efficient resistance, like protests or boycotts. These groups could do some underground work, to stealthily remove the dictator’s power. They could isolate the dictator from his/her connections, so there is no one to help them. The groups could also try and slowly take away the power, little by little, in a way that the dictator does not suspect anything, until it is too late.
But in the end, using these techniques, would still leave the dictator alive, and the danger of the dictator returning would remains. So, the last straw would be to assassinate the dictator, much like in Julius Caesar where the conspirators assassinated Caesar for obtaining too much dominance over Rome. Even though killing someone isn’t justifiable, because it would make the murderer almost as bad as the dictator. Of course in the case of Hitler and the Nazis, it would have been far better if someone had taken Hitler down before he killed about six million people. Killing a dictator is the only way of assuring that he/she won’t come back.
Although that does not mean the dictator’s descendants or former associates won’t carry on the dictator’s work. As it happened in Julius Caesar, Antony and Octavius disrupted the conspirator’s plans of making the Romans believe them. However, what you do with a dictator depends on how menacing the dictator is, even so, assassinating the dictator is the wisest choice, so the dictator is completely gotten rid off, before they can cause any damage.
A problem that we are faced, is that most dictators are very determined to keep their power, and are willing to do anything to make that the power is held by them. In Julius Caesar, for example, Flavius and Marullus were ‘silenced’ when the two officers posed as a threat towards Caesar. With all the power dictators have, it’s extremely difficult to decide on how to take them down. Locking them up isn’t an option, because they surely will have allies, who will help them escape, in Caesar’s case it would have been his trusted right-hand Antony.
Exiling them is possible, but there is a favorable chance of them returning with more force and more determination to get power. People could confront them, although it seems like a weak attempt to persuade a power-hungry strong-willed dictator. But it would be worth a try for someone like beloved a family member or an extremely close friend. But, as it’s seen in Julius Caesar, dictators are obstinate. Caesar was not moved at all when the conspirators begged him to bring back Cimber, instead he claimed he was “constant as the North Star”, that the ‘ordinary’ conspirators could not change Caesar’s mind.
A more effective undertake to the situation would be of a larger, and most probably stronger, group forcing the dictator down and out of power. The country's military could use their weapons to forcefully take over the dictator. Surrounding countries could do the same, but consequences that follow that could be a bloodshed, which could kill innocent civilians. Organizations could make an efficient resistance, like protests or boycotts. These groups could do some underground work, to stealthily remove the dictator’s power. They could isolate the dictator from his/her connections, so there is no one to help them. The groups could also try and slowly take away the power, little by little, in a way that the dictator does not suspect anything, until it is too late.
But in the end, using these techniques, would still leave the dictator alive, and the danger of the dictator returning would remains. So, the last straw would be to assassinate the dictator, much like in Julius Caesar where the conspirators assassinated Caesar for obtaining too much dominance over Rome. Even though killing someone isn’t justifiable, because it would make the murderer almost as bad as the dictator. Of course in the case of Hitler and the Nazis, it would have been far better if someone had taken Hitler down before he killed about six million people. Killing a dictator is the only way of assuring that he/she won’t come back.
Although that does not mean the dictator’s descendants or former associates won’t carry on the dictator’s work. As it happened in Julius Caesar, Antony and Octavius disrupted the conspirator’s plans of making the Romans believe them. However, what you do with a dictator depends on how menacing the dictator is, even so, assassinating the dictator is the wisest choice, so the dictator is completely gotten rid off, before they can cause any damage.
-Zara (:
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