シャドーイング練習: "She Is Our Caesar" | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Charles Dance) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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The End Gentlemen,
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In the past decade alone, there have, by my reckoning, been 73 coups in 46 different countries around the world.
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And the success of some of these might encourage us.
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In Ghana, two years ago, President Nkrumah was ousted with just 500 men.
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And in 1961, in South Korea, Major General Park Chung-hee seized power with 3,500 men.
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And in 1964, in Gabon,
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just 150 men were able to arrest President Umba and thus gain control over the levers of state power.
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And of course, it was with just one legion that Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
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And perhaps we would not seek to follow his fate.
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A sic semper tyrannis gentleman.
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Now what all successful insurgencies have in common are five key elements.
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Control of the media, control of the economy, and the capture of administrative targets for which you need the fourth element,
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the loyalty of the military.
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Now, in Ghana and Gabon, this can be achieved with a handful of battalions.
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But here, in the United Kingdom, we would need to secure parliament,
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Whitehall, the Ministry of Defence, and the Cabinet Office.
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The Prime Minister would be arrested, of course, along with other politicians still loyal still loyal.
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We would have to shut down the airports, air traffic control.
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Same with the train stations.
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Curfews will be put in place, martial law declared.
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And I haven't even mentioned the police.
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It would take tens of thousands of unquestioningly loyal servicemen.
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And even in my heyday, I could never command that.
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Which brings me to the fifth element, legitimacy.
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Now, our government draws its strength from long-established institutions that support it.
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The courts, body of common law, the Constitution.
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If any action against the state to succeed, you'd have to overthrow these as well.
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But in a highly evolved democracy such as ours, their authority is sacrosanct.
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Which is why, gentlemen, a coup d'etat in the United Kingdom doesn't stand a chance.
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Unless...
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Unless...
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Unless we had the support of the one person not yet mentioned.
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Do you see the temperament?
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Here we like to let our...
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The Crown has at its disposal unique constitutional powers, which could still make something like this possible.
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In 1834, William IV used them to dismiss his government in the face of opposition from the House.
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And in 1920, the Emergency Powers Act was passed,
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which gave the sovereign power in certain circumstances to declare a state of emergency by proclamation,
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meaning our Queen could dissolve Parliament and appoint a new government and a prime minister as well.
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She's also commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
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They swear allegiance to her and not to parliament, so could count on their support to see it through.
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She is our Caesar.
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And you think she might entertain this idea?
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The circumstances are certainly compelling.
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I've made a list here of exactly how compelling.
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And as her second cousin, I am in an ideal position to ask.
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