What will David "Those Nasty Liberal Bloggers Use Swear Words!" Broder have to say about this?

Though Perry put conditions on his call for a coup, he's clearly saying there's no alternative if his conditions are met.

This isn't surprising to those who know about an obscure incident in US history, the attempted coup against FDR. It failed only because the plotters picked as a leader a former general, Smedley Butler, who wanted no more being the bully for corporate interests and turned them in.

Any publicity is good publicity.

Methinks it's just about time for the rogue Wasila Weasel to chime in...

This is how it works: These are right wing thoughts written down. From there it goes to their masses of crazies who already think Obama is foreign-born, wants to setup a socialist-nazi dictatorship and is already building concentration camps. My what a world we live in.

I noticed that Drudge is silent on this subject.

Not that it's necessary, but a couple of other points tying it to Newsmax: his column has a name on the site ("Right Angles"), and is copyrighted by Newsmax, not the author.

Interesting that Gore Vidal thinks there'll be a coup, too

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6854498.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

US under Obama could slide into military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal

Barack Obama is failing as President and the US is in danger of sliding into a military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal, the American essayist and intellectual.

In an exclusive interview with The Times, Vidal, 83, reveals that he regrets switching his allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Mr Obama during last year’s campaign to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I was hopeful,” he said of Mr Obama. “He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He’s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism.”

America should leave Afghanistan, Vidal said. “We’ve failed in every other aspect of our effort of conquering the Middle East or whatever you want to call it.” Vidal, a friend of President John F. Kennedy, became an Obama backer because he “grew up in a black city” (Washington) and was impressed by Obama’s intelligence.

On Mr Obama’s plan to reform healthcare, he said: “He f***** it up. I don’t know how, because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen.”

Vidal added: "He loves quoting Lincoln and there’s a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. ’I am President of the United States. I have full overall power and never forget it, because I will exercise it’. That’s what Obama needs - a bit of Lincoln’s chill.” He also predicted Obama may be assassinated: “Just one lone gunman lurking in the shadows of the capital.”

America has no intellectual class and is rotting away at a funereal pace, he believes. “We’ll have a military dictatorship soon, on the basis nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being overeducated. He doesn’t realise how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is.”

I hope he's wrong

But y'all, this is what it is. Don't just wish it away. Hold the right wing/Republican Party to their own words and behavior. They can sit in their circle jerks and bump peter heads all day long, but we aren't any better if we don't make them own it.

If what Vidal says is remotely accurate, if what JMM talks about daily is even close to being correct, the right wing/Republicans are winning the debate with "death panels," communist takeovers, concentration camps, and military coups; and all of us are just as guilty to let it slide by. If they've won, then my God what have they won?

I was interested in the way Perry was parsing the exact oath that officers take, so I did a little searching, and immediately came up with this from 2003:

http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/re_1230.shtml

Key paragraph: The election of Bill Clinton in 1992 changed everything for those who swore the oath, but who were stuck serving under a man who candidly "loathed" the military's disciplines and, unavoidably, its middle-class conservatism. Clinton's eight-year politicization of the military caused a renaissance of officer resistance against popular liberal agendas that were inherently at odds with military service. Keeping in mind their oath, which, by its very language specifies obligations to the Constitution and not necessarily to the sitting president, officers either ignored Clinton's directives or vocally confronted the damaging effect of his enduring loathing of the military.

So the idea that an oath somehow overrides the very thing it is meant to defend is not something Perry thought up by himself. Apparently there are people in the military who convince themselves that protecting and defending the constitution does NOT mean protecting and defending Article 2, Section 2, that makes the President the Commander in Chief, nor Article 1, Section2 and 3, that give the House and Senate sole power to impeach and remove a President, etc., etc. The attitude of Perry and the self-righteous dope from gopusa.com gives one a good idea of the general lawlessness of the radical right. They whine a lot about the constitution, but generally aren't too well versed in it, and generally don't care to be. They are the law, and the rest follows from that.

From Perry's biography on Newsmax it seems that he was a liberal Democrat in the '60s and '70s -- evidently he worked in the Johnson and Carter administrations, and was part of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a liberal think tank.

What's this guy's real story? What happened to him between then and now? Inquiring minds want to know....

So, the military will depose a sitting president after 8 months in office because he has promised to reform health care, which possibly might even include a public option, but may not; because he won't build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe; and because he may not send additional troops to Afghanistan.

Seven Days in May this isn't. At least in that book (and movie), the somewhat plausible rationale for the military coup was that the supposedly weak-willed liberal president was going to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the sneaky Soviet Russkies, which would leave the US defenseless when the USSR attacked us with all the weapons they had hidden away. This NewsMax article is just another masturbatory right-wing fantasy which will never see fruition, kinda like President Palin. And with all due respect to Gore Vidal, whose writings I have greatly admired, anyone who is afraid of this scenario actually coming true is in need of the same medication as the teabaggers who want Obama to keep his hands off their medicare.

Newsmax is funded by Richard Mellon Scaife. They knew exactly what they were doing when they published that column.

Reference Perry's incredibly ignorant post:

I not only condemn his article, but call it stupid because he has no idea how the U.S. Military works.

But…he covers many points that are very high in the worries of many people in the U.S. some of them already proven true, some speculated at and others that are more worthy of being scare tactics than anything else.

But his premise of the Military being involved in or the method of salvation or revolution is wrong, and wrong-headed.

Now I can see ex-U.S. Military involved in coming back and running for office in their states or even national offices. I can see x-Mil joining organizations such as The Oath Keepers. I can see x-Mil coming back and setting up local militias, and going to Tea Parties and even speaking at them. I can see them going door to door getting out the vote to get Obama and the Democrats out of office.

I can also see as a last resort, mass resignations of Officers in our Military services.

But in the bitter end, if salvation or revolution is needed for the preservation and protection of this Republic, it will fall to each citizen to stand up, load up and march forward to do it.

Papa Ray
Central Texas

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
2009 Judge Alex Kozinski

If the military rebels it will have to be from the middle ranks on down. The upper ranks are vetted for loyalty to the NWO. You can count on that.

It's already 'fascism' and headed toward full blown communism. The sheeple and most 'patriots'/conservatives/truthers/paulbots/whatever will be willing slaves because they are unwilling to do what is required.

It will take many expensive suits hanging along Pennsylvania Ave. to fix this mess if it can be fixed.

Don’t understand? Start here:

http://willowtown.com/promo/quotes.htm

Think globally, fight locally. Aim small, miss small. One shot, one dead "Liberal"(communist/fascist).

Yoo-hoooo! Funny thing, this "interweb"? Just like a real spider web, you'd be AMAZED at all the dead things you find hanging in it, long after the spider is gone. Such as all the way back from 2001?

And remember, folks, screenshot or it never happened.