These people are nuts, and coming out of the woodwork. Bigots all.

I love the logic, "our constitution is in jepardy, so let's form a new kind of government with our military in charge"; which wouldn't that be a bigger threat?

Besides, Perry "clearly stated that he was not advocating such a scenario but simply describing one," she wrote.

Wrong. He made one grammatically challenged attempt to say he did not advocate this, but was 'just sayin'

Then he went on to advocate it, over and over.

Also hard to not notice his use of military lingo.....so we can be pretty sure he was in the military (or a wannabe) and thinks he is speaking FOR and TO the military mindset.

Never, with all of the proof that TheCheney and Chimp were leading us off constitutional cliffs, did the Left advocate military coups.

We live in scary times, when people who are so deluded and incapable of processing facts and truth are advocating such dire and violent solutions to their imaginary dilemmas. They have now an inkling of what we felt during the Bush years, but they are so unhinged from truth and reality...that there is really no empathy that we can share.

Besides, Perry "clearly stated that he was not advocating such a scenario but simply describing one," she wrote.

If that's the case, then why take down the article?

Compare and contrast:

"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." - J. Perry

"Perry "clearly stated that he was not advocating such a scenario but simply describing one," - Newsmax spokesperson

So he's not advocating a coup, but he's reporting that it's a "gaining [sic, I think] possibility". He obviously has some evidence to back that up if he's not advocating such a position.

Waiting...

Waterboarding Newsmax management and J. Perry is not an ideal option, but this radical column is not acceptable or reverisble. Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Newsmax problem.

I am not advocating such a scenario, but simply describing one.

Not a very graceful way to discover boundaries.

Say, I wonder if the New York Times is going to "respond more quickly" to this conversation on the right.

"I love the logic, "our constitution is in jepardy, so let's form a new kind of government with our military in charge"; which wouldn't that be a bigger threat?"

I coincidentally have a post about this on my blog called "Conservatives and the Ancient Constitution". The Anglo-American Common Law tradition doesn't rest on any written constitution, instead it appeals to what the lawyers called the Ancient Constitution which is not only older than recorded history but by definition perfect and unchanging. The Conservative movement that grew up around Edmund Burke in Britain around the time of our Revolution explicitly appealed to the Ancient Constitution in defending the rights of Parliament, i.e. property owners, against both the government and the people. American Conservatism simply internalized Burkean Ancient Constitution Conservatism. Which I think explains their tendency to take our written Constitution cafeteria style, regarding it an an imperfect reflection of the perfect Ancient Constitution.

When these people claim they are 'Originalists' they mean it, their allegiance is to a Constitution that is literally invisible to you and me but which they see as clearly endorsing the rights of property owners to resist taxation and to limit the demands on them by the property-less.

For example it is on one level insane to say that the income tax is unconstitutional. Because the Sixteenth Amendment is clear as day. And it is pretty odd to say that the 'General Welfare' clause seen both in the Preamble and in Article 1 Sec 8 'Powers of Congress' is not legally meaningful. But if you regard both as violations of the underlying Ancient Constitution then all becomes clear. I doubt one reichnut in a thousand could articulate this but clearly they are living in a world where 'Things Just Are Not Right' and that everything would just be better if we got it realigned with the "The Way it Ought To Be', a way that is only dimly and imperfectly reflected in the written Constitution and the statutes enacted pursuant to that.

I don't know that in the end it makes a difference whether you talk about the Ancient Constitution, or Natural Law, or Revealed Truth as reflected in the Bible, these people know what they believe and believe what they know, and our pitiful attempts to point to events in the reality based continuum are just not persuasive.

(And yes the path from this mindset to the more mystical sides of Fascism is short and swift)

New GOP mem: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (Henry II)

Has this been reported to the DOD? Love to hear what Secretary Gates has to say about this.

Just sayin'.

I looked at his biography and it looked, for the most part, like a sort of middle-of-the-road Democratic underling and mediocre journalist. So what happened to send this guy over the edge?
I've had the same question about people like Zell Miller or Ralph Nader.
Since I'm approaching senior-citizenhood, I think I can say, without being attacked as agist, that maybe there's some little brain glitches -- sort of like a computer file that works but has some errors that send it into a tailspin under certain circumstances.
I'm telling my family members that if they see that happening to me, get me to a neurologist immediately. Symptoms would be:
suddenly thinking the far-right has a point
carrying signs with words like moron misspelled
screaming epithets at meetings
calling elected officials nazis at the same time as accusing them of being communists
seeing hidden messages in the artwork in public buildings

Perry is all but an original founder of Newsmax. He has been with them since the very beginning. I suspect he has been paid by them a lot more than once as well.

Gee, ACORN "distanced itself" from its problem workers and it mattered not one bit.

Perhaps if Mr. Perry is so hot for military coups, I can suggest any number of nations he can go to where this is the more-or-less normal way that power is shifted. Now, I'm not suggesting that Mr. Perry should leave the country nor am I suggesting that he likes military dictatorships. I'm just saying that IF it were true then PERHAPS he might want to avail himself of that option. Did I get that right? Is that how it works? Say it and then say you didn't say what you said? I'm WELL on my way to being a conservative columnist! Yay!

These people will stop at nothing, including overthrowing the government and tearing up the Constitution, to get their way. It's truly frightening. Get ready for the next US Civil War.