If you believe that Bush may not walk away in 2009 because some legal coup de tat, enacted by some an obscure FEMA directive, you are drinking some powerful kool-aid my friend and I'd like to give you some reality based nourishment. I find pretty pathetic that I have to lay out the reality below the fold, but here it goes...
The US is the economic and military super-power of the world. And even if China, Europe, or others are trying to beat us, they haven't caught up just yet and we still have the World Bank, IMF, oil is still traded in dollars, we have half of the world's military budget, etc.
The coup de tat detailed in that ridiculous diary would put an end to all that dominance by making those competing governments (and economic systems) more stable and a better investment immediately on 1/21/09, thereby destroying the exact system that you are declaring that they are trying to perpetuate.
The US dollar is not pegged to our stash of gold in Fort Knox, it is based on the faith in Americas global economic and military dominance. What do you think would happen if our military and National Guard had to come home and quell a massive domestic insurrection (a predictable outcome of a coup de tat in any country, especially one as gun-loving, revolutionary and free as ours)? Bankruptcy on a country-wide scale.
Lets put aside the reality that a majority of military and National Guard would not fire upon the domestic population to support a dictatorship that by most accounts has only 30% of the populations support in it's current non-dictatorship form (and lets pretend that even that pathetic number wouldn't plummet the day of the coup de tat, which it would). Putting all that reality aside, to entertain this fantasy coup de tat- we have 100% support of all the military and Secret Service and 30% of the population still supports Heir Bush by Feb 2009.
Large sections of the population would not go to work or pay taxes, others would actively work to sabotage the system- economic and military- so that it would not be cheap to run this coup de tat. Other countries would get involved, even former allies would use this opportunity to weaken our dominance and thereby gain a marginal advantage.
In America we have communities, not based in reality, that own guns specifically for the purpose that when the "govment" comes and takes away their land and rights, they will fight to the death. Check into Timothy McVeigh's twisted reality and see if it doesn't kinda correspond to the takeover delusions detailed in the linked Kos diary above. That Halliburton camp wouldn't last 4 days, let alone 4 months.
The very interests that would try this takeover would be the very ones with the most to lose by creating this situation. Our military-industrial complex is paid for by US tax payer dollars. That system would crumble.
Literally, by trying to takeover and create the accelerated empire that America could become, they would lead to it's destruction in the quickest way possible.
International treaties and trade agreements, which almost always benefit US based multinationals, would be null and void, impossible to enforce and maintain, our guns would be needed for Kansas, Kosovo and Okinawa, but not be able to be all places at once, while our currency plummeted. It would hurt the economic elite, they would not go along.
And, in my opinion, here's the real kicker to all this delusion- there is no need for this coup de tat, there is no motivation. You all will continue to support this current system, which rewards those at the top, those who are supposed to lead this coup de tat, as long as you pay taxes and continue to consume at a rate higher than the rest of planet. We aren't shutting the system down by electing a Democrat, and the real leaders of this system know that, they are promised it, literally.
The Pentagon (and military-industrial complex) will still get an increase in it's budget according all three Democratic leaders. The assurance of their funds, especially the bases overseas, will be impossible to guarantee if, and only if, some coup de tat were to occur.