name an individual who has gained and abused power?
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Here's someone from the 19th and 20th century industrial world:\nJohn D. Rockefeller\nLater in life, he realized how much of an SOB he'd been in his rise to wealth and power and became a philanthropist in order to assuage his guilt and remorse.\n\nSome other ideas:\n- The Romans: Julius Ceasar, Nero, Caligula\n- Henry VIII (wanted a divorce that the Catholic Church wouldn't give him, so he separated from the Vatican and created the Church of England; oh, and he executed some of his wives because they couldn't bear him a son)\n- Suge Knight:  Death Row records; murder; extortion; blackmail; you name it\n\nLook into some of the CEOs of companies in the last 20 years (i.e. Enron) and look at their paychecks.  Some of these people make over $100 million dollars a year in SALARY alone!!!!
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will power....\n\nnothing to it.....
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The never-ending quest for more power.
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Was it puppet master?
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I dunno. I would probably have to say Pol Pot. He was the leader of Cambodia during the late seventies. During his few years in power he set up an extremely oppresive communist government, and killed over 2,000,000 people. I'm not too certain about the details, you should look them up, but i have heard that he was actually a little bit canabalistic. I do know that he was obsessed with making people afraid of him, and he was later killed by his own officers. \n\nAnother one would probably be Stalin. He was an extremely paranoid leader of the soviet union. He killed 24,000,000 people. That's 4 times as many people as hitler killed. The only reason we didn't care about stalin is because he was on our side at the time.(this was during WWII)
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NONE!! he may have followed bad information provided to him by the Democrats in the previous administration , but he never violated any laws, as in your most apt profile of the Felon who was president before him.
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just go to wikipedia. im sure they have a biography of them with their names and pics.
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I don't live in the USA, but from what I can see from here, and once you've excluded politicians, I think it's Michael Jackson. What can be lower than abusing children?
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Kleptocracy.  He stole billions in foreign aid that were meant to benefit the people of his country.  Likely also imprisoned and tortured political dissidents.
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Actually, I think all politicians have way too much power.  In the case of the president, the problem is that he presides over a vast entrenched bureaucracy that cannot change very quickly, and still less when it is asked to down-size.  So it's not so much the president's power that has grown directly, but his authority to increase bureaucracy, which grows like mushrooms after a rain.
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I believe that would be Hywel Francis. Got elected in 2005. See below for election results.
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probably Hitler of Germany.....not a good person but still was a very powerful leader .....at the present time though its probably George Bush same as Hitler not a very good person but still very powrful.\nalso napolean was quite a strong leader.
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Someone who speaks on behalf of a government or agency.
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Someone who gives more than they take and believes in the greatness of this country.
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One who encroaches on the rights of another.
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People usually give others power over them. Once they get the power, the elected ones abuse it and try and control your lives. There is truly no freedom anywhere in the world.
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the effects of corruption of those in power in any country on this planet and measures taken to control it?  Look to history.