JISHOU, HUNAN — A columnist on a right-wing website Tuesday suggested that the US military maybe might possibly be considering a coup to remove President Barack Obama from office. Following some negative publicity, the site, Newsmax.com , quickly removed the offending column from sight.
What the hell are these people smoking? It’s gotta be laced with something than fries your brain permanently.
John L. Perry has been a regular contributor to Newsmax.com since 1999, according to his bio there. He supposedly worked in the Carter administration, but has since gone over to the Dark Side, it seems. In a column published Sept. 29, he suggests the military could be considering a solution to the “Obama problem.”
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will
intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem."
Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be
civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what
may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military
eyes:
Officers swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they
do not swear to "obey the orders of the president of the United States."
Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend
being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under
President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012
election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
They can see that the economy - ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment,
and impending inflation - is financially reliant on foreign lender
governments.
They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence
community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed
services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at
home.
They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this
nation by avowed enemies, even as America's troop strength is allowed to
sag.
They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and
possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments and
honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you
do?
Obey orders? Follow the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief, aka Barack H. Obama? No, indeed, Perry suggests. There would be instead an orderly military take-over of the executive branch of government. Of course, in this alternate reality, the rest of the government and the populace at large would just fall into line.
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an
interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and
defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would
replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded
with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial
speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for
"fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup
is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or
reversible.
To say that Perry and his loyal readers are delusional is understating the case. They act as if Obama is some power-mad, two-bit dictator ready to flip a switch and turn all of the USA is a socialist state in 3 … 2 … 1 … now.
Have they not been following the health care reform drama? If Obama was as power-mad as they say, he would have ramrodded health care reform through the House and Senate already, and the USA would finally have a public care health system like the rest of the developed nations. Instead, the White House is letting the House and Senate wrangle with the issue before it airlifts in its own proposal.
Perry and the other right-wing dolts also seem to forgotten that a majority of the US voters and the electoral college delegates voted for Obama-Biden. By the Constitution the wingers so often reference, that means Obama is in fact the president of these United States and the C-i-C. It’s not like he seized power or rigged any elections. He was fucking elected!
Well, anyway, MediaMatters.org drew attention to Perry’s sly advocacy of a coup d’etat (Perry says he was “just sayin’”), Newsmax.com pulled the article with no public explanation. Perry’s column, however, lives on at another wingnut site, AmericanGrandJury.org, and in the newsgroup, talk.politics.misc.
Since then, there’s been a lot of outrage directed at Perry and Newsmax, neither of which strikes me as examples of reliable news sources or erudite punditry. Who Perry has talked to in the military remains a mystery, if in fact he did have such discussions. He may rather be reviewing a movie script he’s got kicking around in his head instead of reality.
That’s the thing when I hear about all the anti-Obama wackos in the USA now. They act like they are bad actors in a really awful movie about resistance fighters in some science-fictiony dystopia. (Even worse, I think one of them is playing Jar-Jar Binks.)
No, He is going to sneak the HealthCare Bill thru by adding it to the Tarp Bill. It is to be signed nedxt week. He is just hoping we won’t notice until its to late. NOW…HOW CAN YOU TRUST HIM!! Your pres…not mine!
You need to take a civics lesson, luckyinky. The president cannot add anything to a bill that is already on the floor of the House or the Senate; only congressmen and -women can do that. The White House can only submit legislation to Congress, and influence its passage indirectly. If Obama had as much power as you think he does, we’d have a public health care option already.
So, how do you think Congress operates? They pass the Tarp bill, send it to the White House to be signed or vetoed, and then somehow an Obama operative staples a health care bill to it before it lands on his desk? These bills are pretty lengthy mo-fos. I think somebody might notice something is fishy if the Tarp bill doubles in size on its way from the Hill.
And, you nitwit, he is OUR president. He was elected in a fair election by a majority of the voters and a majority of the electoral college. If you read the Constitution, that means he is everyone’s president, even the people who didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for George W. Bush in either 2000 or 2004. I may have thought he was an incompetent idiot, but I begrudgingly accepted he was my president.
So, what’s your problem?
Hmmm… the idea of a "civilized" military coup occurring in the US is interesting. I wonder how the US military is going to deal with the handgun "problem," in the US- you know, the one were there is a 3:1 guns:people ratio? And, that is just pistols. Add in rifles, automatics, war trophies, illegal weaponry, and things that the average bright high school chemistry student can build, and you have a domestic military that is basically out gunned, and overwhelmingly out numbered. Oh yeah, let us just forget that about 35% of the US Armed Forces did in fact vote for Obama, and the Colin Powell endorsement. Should I mention that over 60% of the US military is currently deployed to either Afghanistan or Iraq? No, guess not. The author is right about one thing though, the idea is not far-fetched, it is pure fantasy, and only the kind you get by mixing cocaine with schizophrenia.
Someone on a website pointed out local law enforcement officers might not go along with a coup, either. He said there are 10,000 people on the NYPD; no one could control NYC without their help. And privately owned handguns are just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of folks have hunting rifles, target rifles, shotguns — even bows and arrow. Not all of them would sign on to a new government, either.Cocaine? I think more like LSD or meth. Something that heightens paranoia.
*Ruckus Laughter* Yes, I think LSD or meth might do. I was thinking of how cocaine makes one paranoid about almost everything. There is some interesting reporting going on about how closely linked Newsmax and the GOP are. I do not think that there is much more to this than normal GOP smear politics. I do wonder though was changed in Perry’s head. Reminds me of Nixon pre-JFK and post-LBJ. Two entirely different creatures. I was also happy to see that the Obama assassination poll on Facebook turned out to be the work of a young kid that did not quit understand what he was doing. I am sure that being ‘taken into protective custody’ by the Secret Service is an experience he will not soon forget.