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<v Speaker 1>Section thirty five of the Anti Coup. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>The Anti Coup by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins. Appendix I.

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<v Speaker 1>Legislation and of a Governmental Preparations for anti cou defense.

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<v Speaker 1>Important preparations can be made by governments to prevent and

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<v Speaker 1>defeat couditar These may require new legislation and implementation of

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<v Speaker 1>its provisions. In all of this legislation and these declarations

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<v Speaker 1>of responsibilities and duties, it shall be made clear that

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<v Speaker 1>no one is to commit acts of violence against one's

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<v Speaker 1>fellow citizens who are acting illegally. The following legal measures

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<v Speaker 1>and procedures are recommend for this purpose. One a constitutional

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<v Speaker 1>provision should be adopted that no citizen of any status, role,

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<v Speaker 1>or position in the society whatsoever, has the right to

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<v Speaker 1>accept as the legitimate government any person or group that

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<v Speaker 1>has conducted accouted her. To the contrary, all citizens, without exception,

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<v Speaker 1>have the constitutional duty to deny legitimacy to any group

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<v Speaker 1>of putchists, and to refuse all cooperation with them and

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<v Speaker 1>all obedience to them. Citizens will persistently continue their usual

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<v Speaker 1>duties and assist in meeting the human needs of their

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<v Speaker 1>fellow citizens while defying the puchists. Two specific laws should

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<v Speaker 1>be enacted to establish the leadgal obligations of all government

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<v Speaker 1>employees and civil servants on national, regional, and local levels

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<v Speaker 1>of government to refuse to assist Coudutar. Their legal obligation

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<v Speaker 1>would be to persist in conducting their work according to

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<v Speaker 1>established pre coup constitutional and legal procedures and policies only.

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<v Speaker 1>They would also be legally bound to refuse all cooperation

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<v Speaker 1>with and obedience to any group of usurpers. This refusal

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<v Speaker 1>would be aimed to deny to purch its all administrative

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<v Speaker 1>support to carry out their illegal orders and objectives. Three

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<v Speaker 1>specific laws should be enacted to implement the new constitutional

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<v Speaker 1>provision to make it a legal obligation of all members

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<v Speaker 1>of police forces and all members of the military forces

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<v Speaker 1>to swear not own allegiance to the constitutional government, but

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<v Speaker 1>to pledge, perhaps in the induction oath, to refuse to

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<v Speaker 1>participate in any conspiracy, to organize or conduct accouted her

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<v Speaker 1>in case a coup is then later attempted, It would

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<v Speaker 1>be the duty of these persons to refuse to obey, serve,

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<v Speaker 1>or collaborate with any group that has attempted to seize

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<v Speaker 1>the state apparatus, The police at all levels and members

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<v Speaker 1>of the judicial system must be mandated to continue to

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<v Speaker 1>apply the previously established laws, policies, and procedures only. They

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<v Speaker 1>must ignore any new policies, edicts, and orders received or

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<v Speaker 1>announced from those who have illegally attempted to seize the state. Specifically,

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<v Speaker 1>they may warn persons and groups of the likelihood of

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<v Speaker 1>a arrets and they should refuse to locate and arrest

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<v Speaker 1>patriotic resistors who were defying the putsch, either by individual

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<v Speaker 1>actions or by group resistance and demonstrations. At times, this

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<v Speaker 1>police resistance may be quite open, and at other times

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<v Speaker 1>police may pretend to be being the puchers but not

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<v Speaker 1>actually doing so. For example, they may report that it

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<v Speaker 1>was impossible for them to locate and arrest wanted persons.

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<v Speaker 1>If ordered to disperse street demonstrations, police actions may range

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<v Speaker 1>from simply being present at the site but not taking

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<v Speaker 1>repressive measures, to joining the demonstrators as resistors themselves. The

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<v Speaker 1>police must not be allowed to become a tool of

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<v Speaker 1>repression for the usurpers. Four in addition to resisting the purchasts,

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<v Speaker 1>police should, wherever feasible, be obligated to actively assist the resistance.

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<v Speaker 1>For example, it has happened in past resistance movements that

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<v Speaker 1>police transport its supplies of resistance newspapers and other literature

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<v Speaker 1>in police cars to other parts of the city or

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<v Speaker 1>region where they were needed. Five. Soldiers and other members

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<v Speaker 1>of military forces must not allow themselves to become a

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<v Speaker 1>tool of repression in the service of those who have

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<v Speaker 1>attempted to replace the constitutional government. Their non cooperation and

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<v Speaker 1>disobedience may be especially difficult when the coup has been

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<v Speaker 1>conducted by officers of the military forces, as compared to

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<v Speaker 1>a political group which seeks the compliance of military forces

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<v Speaker 1>in enforcing their illegal domination of the government and society.

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<v Speaker 1>Similarly to the options for police, soldiers in this difficult

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<v Speaker 1>situation who oppose the coup may take any one of

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<v Speaker 1>a range of actions, none of which serves the usurpers.

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<v Speaker 1>They may, for example, be very gentle in facing street demonstrators, or,

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<v Speaker 1>when ordered to fire at protesters, may shoot above their

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<v Speaker 1>heads so as not to injure anyone. They may also

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<v Speaker 1>seek to encourage their military unit to openly defy the

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<v Speaker 1>usurpers or without using their military weapons. Soldiers may engage

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<v Speaker 1>in especially dangerous acts of protest and defiance against the Puschists.

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<v Speaker 1>Open resistance by both police and military troops is likely

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<v Speaker 1>to be extremely dangerous, as the penalty for disobedience and

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<v Speaker 1>mutiny is often execution. Consequently, other less obvious ways of

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<v Speaker 1>denying usurpers obedience and assistance, merit, investigation, and application. Six

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<v Speaker 1>specific laws should be enacted to make it a legal

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<v Speaker 1>obligation of all persons and organizations working in communications to

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<v Speaker 1>persist in their loyalty to the constitutional government only. This

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<v Speaker 1>would mean that in the event of accutitar they would

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<v Speaker 1>be legally bound to refuse to submit to the Putchiest

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<v Speaker 1>attempts to impose censorship, publish announcements and orders from the Putchists,

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<v Speaker 1>and comply with any other illegal orders from the Putchiests.

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<v Speaker 1>In case the regular communications, printing and broadcasting facilities are

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<v Speaker 1>made unusable for normal activities and for use on behalf

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<v Speaker 1>of the legitimate government as a result of repressive actions

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<v Speaker 1>of the Puchiests, it should be the responsibility of people

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<v Speaker 1>in those professions, as well as other citizens, to create

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<v Speaker 1>new means of communication among the population outside the control

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<v Speaker 1>of the usurpers. Seven All persons and groups working for

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<v Speaker 1>any level of government should, in the event of a coup,

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<v Speaker 1>for as long as possible, continue to apply establish policies

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<v Speaker 1>and procedures, and ignore any new policies, orders, and instructions

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<v Speaker 1>issued by the usurpers under likely initial conditions. The government

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<v Speaker 1>employees can continue this defiance at their usual places of work.

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<v Speaker 1>If intolerable repression is launched against them there, these persons

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<v Speaker 1>and groups can go on strike or even disappear. The

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<v Speaker 1>machinery of government must not be permitted to become a

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<v Speaker 1>tool of the usurpers for controlling the society as a whole.

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<v Speaker 1>Eight specific laws should be enacted to make it a

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<v Speaker 1>legal obligation of all persons and organizations working in transportation

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<v Speaker 1>to refuse all orders from the usurpers and to make

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<v Speaker 1>the transportation system unusable by the putchists and instead use

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<v Speaker 1>it to assist the resistance. Nine specific laws should be

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<v Speaker 1>enacted to make it a legal obligation of all governmental

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<v Speaker 1>and private financial bodies, all banks, business institutions, and other

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<v Speaker 1>financial institutions, and all labor unions and similar associations to

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<v Speaker 1>refuse all financial relations whatsoever with the Putchists. Ten While

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<v Speaker 1>in advance of a coup attempt, the government should communicate

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<v Speaker 1>to all governments with which it has diplomatic relations and

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<v Speaker 1>to all international organizations, including the United Nations, that those

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<v Speaker 1>bodies a requested to refuse to conduct any normal political

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<v Speaker 1>or economic relationships with potential usurpers and instead should recognize

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<v Speaker 1>the constitutional government only. Eleven. The legislature and governmental ministries

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<v Speaker 1>and departments should make various types of contingency plans for

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<v Speaker 1>the continuation of legitimate leadership in case the purchases occupy

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<v Speaker 1>government buildings, in prison or execute government officials and representatives,

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<v Speaker 1>or take similar repressive actions. Twelve, The legislature should in

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<v Speaker 1>advance make precise plans as to how constitutional government shall

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<v Speaker 1>resume full normal operations upon the collapse of the attempted coup.

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<v Speaker 1>No other group of usurpers shall be permitted undemocratically to

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<v Speaker 1>impose its own rule during a period of transition. In

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<v Speaker 1>case of loss of life by previous officials during the

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<v Speaker 1>coup and defense against it, provisions should be made as

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<v Speaker 1>to how other persons may legitimately assume the constitutional positions

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<v Speaker 1>that have been vacated. Thirteen, The legislature should, in advance

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<v Speaker 1>of an attempted coup, urge and support all independent institutions, organizations, associations,

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<v Speaker 1>and all educational institutions of the country to participate in

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<v Speaker 1>the education of their members and the general citizenry as

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<v Speaker 1>to their appropriate patriotic duties, to repudiate the usurpers, and

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<v Speaker 1>to practice non cooperation and defiance against any attempted cutitar Fourteen.

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<v Speaker 1>The legislature may also enact legislation to deny participants in

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<v Speaker 1>a coup any lasting financial gain from their illegal activities.

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<v Speaker 1>They would also be prohibited from holding any future government

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<v Speaker 1>employment or positions. Fifteen. The legislature should also consider what

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<v Speaker 1>other types of punishment should be provided in the law

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<v Speaker 1>through initiating and cooperating with a coup. These provisions need

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<v Speaker 1>to take into consideration the need to encourage early supporters

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<v Speaker 1>of a coup to reverse their action and to join

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<v Speaker 1>the defense against it, and Section thirty five