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Brant · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:14 am Post subject: Chock full of nuts

This column, which appeared on the NewsMax Web site, is representative of the kind of craziness that is creeping up all over the place. NewsMax, by the way, is the baby of Christopher Ruddy, one of the people who brought you the theories that Vince Foster and Ron Brown were murdered.

Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

By: John L. Perry

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?

Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must have to win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership is lost in a fool's fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
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.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.
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Amphikalein · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:38 am Post subject:

Incendiary claptrap. Which is nothing new coming from NewsMax.
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SSSS · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject:

NewsMax should come out in comic book format. I used to get daily e-mail from them-very entertaining at times.
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Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:53 am Post subject:

SSSS, that's why I get the Weekly Recorder every week. The laughs you get for 75 cents makes it a much better investment than Mad magazine. I do give credit to Cody for digging into some things that needed light shined on them, but some of the stuff in that paper is just hilarious.
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The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

- Thomas Jefferson

SSSS · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:05 am Post subject:

Cody asked me one time why no one took his paper seriously. I told him to look at the names of the people who write for him. Case closed. I think he had a great idea originally but went awry quickly. It IS entertaining though.....
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