1

A: One word - U.R.A.N.I.U.M. Niger has lots of Uranium ore and hasn't been to particular about who they sell it too in the past.

I thought Joe Wilson had figured out who got Niger uranium by having all those tea-drinking sessions.

2 Niger? NIGER? This whole damn post is racist! Just takin' down another strong black man, that's all this is.

3
...Tandja Obama claims he is only pushing to stay in power because his people have demanded it...

A cautionary tale.

4 I am surprised that it has taken this many comments for the following to be stated:

CHAOS, IN THE END, ONLY CHAOS.  And death, and firestorms.

5 What country did the coup happen in?

6 mmmm yellow cake

7 I have a cunning plan to deal with this...

8

Is it Niger that has uranium or Nigeria? Or are they the same country.

Either way we should send Joe Wilson down to fix everything up

9

With the deposed taking a dirt nap, coups have a much better chance of being presented, and accepted, as done deals

Tell us about it.

10 Is it Niger that has uranium or Nigeria? Or are they the same country.

Niger does uranium, Nigeria does email scams.

11

Is it Niger that has uranium or Nigeria? Or are they the same country.

Niger does uranium, Nigeria does email scams.

What's the name of Fraiser Crane's brother on the sitcom Fraiser?

12 2 Niger? NIGER? This whole damn post is racist! Just takin' down another strong black man, that's all this is. Posted by: Rev. Al at February 19, 2010 11:38 AM (Q1lie) I hate how white people oppress us and niggardly keep society's wealth for themselves.

13

Let us be clear. The Nigerian people have spoken and they want Tandja as their leader. Why are you right wingers so opposed to democracy?

14 How do you refer to the people of Niger?

15 I have yet to receive my secret reich wing decoder bracelet (unicorn variant).  What does this post mean?  _(boy)

16 It would be nice for the U.S. to come down in favor of the non-dictator-for-life side this time.  Is that going to be too much to hope for?  Probably.  At least the Honduras won't feel left out.  And on the bright side, if Obama supports the dictator, I guess that increases the odds of the constitutional coup succeeding.

17 Can I even refer to this country without getting banned?

18 Why support anyone? Sell both sides weapons and make some popcorn.

19 #14

 Nationality:  (per CIA World Factbook)
noun: Nigerien(s)
adjective: Nigerien

20 Niger coup - another "constitutional coup" like Honduras?

I guess that means Obama won't be supporting it.

21 How do you refer to the people of Niger?

I'm pretty sure that it's got to be as the people of Niger.

22 Let Africa Sink

23

#4  CHAOS, IN THE END, ONLY CHAOS.  And death, and firestorms.

You're learning, that's so awesome!

24 Joe Wilson and Ms Flame ... call your office

25 How do you refer to the people of Niger?

Posted by: Flavius Julius at February 19, 2010 11:46 AM (NLZLH)

You don't! Got that you lousy Dago?

26 GEORGE BUSH DID IT! GEORGE BUSH! GEORGE BUSH! GEORGE W. BUSH!

27 Niger, please.

28 People of Niger; Nigerians, generally.

29 27 Bwaahahaa.

30 #27 LOL.

31 Are the people of Nigeria, Nigerians as well?

32 Okay, after reading Techie's comment at 19; when speaking about the people of Niger or Nigeria, call them Nigeriens/Nigerians with an added "e not a" as appropriate.  Similar to the formulation "dot not feather" when referring to one of two other groups of people likely to be confused with each other.

33

 I have yet to receive my secret reich wing decoder bracelet (unicorn variant).  What does this post mean?  _(boy)

I just got mine yesterday, did the decode and it came out "Buy more Ovaltine, Sieg Hiel".  What a jip that was.   Curiously enough though, borrowed a secret socialist left wing decoder ring from a friend, decoded again and the message read, "Michelle Obama says no more ovaltine for you lard butt". 

Guess it's a lot like playing Ozzy Ozbourne records backwards.  You'll either get hidden messages or the lyrics will actually make some sort of sense. 

34

when speaking about the people of Niger or Nigeria, call them Nigeriens/Nigerians with an added "e not a" as appropriate. 

Heh. I'll be sure to keep that straight.

35 I suspect that "allowing the deposed to live to mount opposition" isn't so much an issue as encouraging fence-sitters to "get with the program" and demonstrating the seriousness of the coup's leaders attempts to promote national unity -- on this side of the grass, anyway.

Or, to borrow a particularly nice phrase, "pour encouragement les autres."

36 Who is Obama siding with? That will tell us who is the bad guy.

37

36 Who is Obama siding with? That will tell us who is the bad guy.

Like Carter, he never met a dictator he didn't like.

38 Incidents like these come to mind whenever I hear some Obamabot calling up Hannity and saying, "You haven't given him enough time to fix things.... You haven't given him a chance.... He's only been in office one year...."  I have a sinking sense these people will be bleating the exact same thing at the end of four years (or God-forbid, eight).  Gives me the willies to be honest.

39 I suspect that "allowing the deposed to live to mount opposition" isn't so much an issue as encouraging fence-sitters to "get with the program" and demonstrating the seriousness of the coup's leaders attempts to promote national unity.

I think that was the point of Goodspeed's study though. That the practical results of this tactic lead to failed coups more often than not.  Probably because the deposed and his faction tend not to have "national unity" as a priority when they are not in power.

40 The Russians formed a partnership with the Nigerians in recent years for oil exploration.

The name of the joint venture?  "Nigaz".  I shiat you not.

http://tinyurl.com/l5j8xp

41

Like Carter, he never met a dictator he didn't like.

Me either!

Oh wait, you said dic-tator.  My bad.

42 Niger? Never heard of it.

43 more than 90% of Niger is muslim. What could posidbly go wrong by having a new government based upon popular vote ?

44 I still object to all the noise that leads up to teh chaos!

45 Wait a minute.  I think I may have misread cthulu's "national unity" comment. Sorry. 

I thought cthulu might have been saying that coup leaders would let the deposed live as a means of demonstrating their good intentions and to promote national unity.

Now I'm reading it more along the lines of killing the deposed leaders in order to send a message of "get with the program and let's all be unified about this or you're next to any possible dissenters.

Meh.

I'll go pour that extra cup of coffee now.  Looks like I could use it.

46 The name of the joint venture?  "Nigaz".  I shiat you not.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 19, 2010 12:11 PM (SFRtJ)

Hey! Dat's My Nigaz!

47

Wait a minute!  I know this one, but I don't want to say it!  The answer is

N-A-G-E-R!

48 I demand a quiet chaos or I am not gonna play!

49 Tandja's big mistake was hiring Tom Friedman as an adviser. Tom told the president to just avoid the structural "problems" and just plow ahead.

50 cue "Loard of War" here <===

51 This entire thread is racist.

52 g droppin racists. 

53

This is not a constitutional coup, because the constitution was legally amended to make the President President-for-Life.

It is a pro-democracy coup of a counter-revolutionary nature, in that the President's push to amend the constitution amounted to a constitutional coup of his own.

54 Dictator for life, no. King for life - depends on who's askin'

55

Thanks stuiec.

I didn't like to call Honduras a "coup" for that reason (obligatory side comment: fuck you, Chuck).

56

lol Noah 43, your most cogent comment on AoSHQ to date.

The "dictator perpetuus" gig doesn't work, though. It makes too many people nervous when they can't predict what the chief executive is going to do next. Read your Plutarch.

Better that the would-be ruler declare himself a king (or emperor) and then make the next-most powerful and wealthy, uh, Nigerese into his senate. At least then people know that the king has limits to what he can do.

Better still: the ruler appoint someone else king and then step down, like Bismarck did.

57 Why should we care?????

Why I get at least one email per week from Niger offering me millions of dollars!

58 wait .... given Obama's newfound love of nuclear power isn't having a possible disuption of uranium supplies a "grave national defense" threat ?  I see predator drones in their future ...

59


TC stole my joke, but I can still post the pic.

60 "Dirt nap."  Hahahahahaha!!  Thanks for making my sleepy, snowy Friday a little more bright.

61 7...lol, good one...and also very raacist!

62 The first day that there's some bad news for Obama that the media is sniffing around, he's gonna come out in favor of the deposed scumbag.  That's all he knows.  Scumbags.

63 This is not a constitutional coup, because the constitution was legally amended to make the President President-for-Life.

The legality is somewhat suspect since he eliminated any courts and state organs that would have been capable of overturning it.  Very convenient, that.

64 Imagine a scenario where a US president ordered all the SCOTUS judges clandestinely murdered, kidnapped, and then failed to appoint any fresh ones to take their place.

Then you've have a situation where SCOTUS only existed on paper and was incapable of declaring even the most outlandish actions of the executive or legislative branches  unconstitutional. 

That's sort of what happened with the supposedly "legal" constitution change in Niger.  It was about as legal as the Reichstag fire.

65

I can't claim to be an expert in the "Nigerien" constitution. I'm reading the article to figure out to what degree stuiec and PA are right. (Honduras was more clear-cut - their Constitution survived.)

It reads to me like Niger's Constitution, again by contrast with Honduras, was compiled by a bunch of dope-smoking wankers with absolutely no insight as to how political systems work. What the hell is this crap:

In May 2009, he dissolved the national assembly because it opposed his plan to hold a referendum removing term limits. The move was legal

The Nigeriens haven't got anyone to blame but themselves, that they let the executive run referenda and dissolve parliament at whim. They should have just designed a crown and purple robe, and saved time.

I assume that dissolving the court system was not legal, but I bet you the Nigerien Constitution had nothing to say about what to do when the President does it. Also I bet you that it had nothing to say about how the courts could decide whether the wording of a referendum was "legal" or not. I'll even go so far as to guess that the Constitution didn't even posit the concept of an illegal proposition. Which makes the courts toothless here.

Yes, this President was a criminal; but, one more time unlike Honduras, his criminality didn't disbar him from legally becoming Caesar.

66 Admit it, you teabagging moron racists wanted to type that second "g", didn't you

67 Did anyone else TOTALLY misunderstand the title of this story.  I thought Steele had hijacked CPAC or something..

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