Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Who can blame a West Point instructor, a man of honor who has served his nation faithfully, for suggesting in a law review article that the military should overthrow the treasonous Obama, and put him where he belongs: In Leavenworth, awaiting a trial for treason, where if convicted, he can pick between the gallows or a firing squad? It’s not like there isn’t support for the idea among every day Americans either.
In a recent poll, 1/3 of Americans Said They Would Support Military Coup of the Obama Administration. That doesn’t even include the millions who have no idea the extent of the President’s treachery because the mainstream media is in lock step with him, and constantly provides him with cover. If the American people knew that a Top Obama Appointee (Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency), Said “The President Knowingly and Willingly Armed ISIS,” how many more would agree? What if they knew a Four Star Admiral with intimate details of Benghazi accused Obama of Treason, Colluding With the Enemy, and Providing the Enemy with Stinger Missiles? Then there’s also a Lieutenant General who has accused Obama of Treason saying he’s allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to infect every level of government, and then what if the American people heard what a former CIA Director, and a former Assistant Director of the FBI had to say about Obama? I bet that 1/3 of Americans would be closer to 2/3 of Americans. Why? Those are some very credible sources who have come forward but conveniently been covered up by Obama’s Crime Inc., and the media.
It’s not just domestically that people want Obama tried for treason. In the first video below, and Egyptian reporter goes bonkers:
“We’ve
said to them a million times, and we are still saying… Obama the liar,
the ally of the terrorists, I call him a liar. He’s a liar. He is the
ally of the terrorists, and this Obama deserves to stand trial!” Watch
the video to see what he says about the American people for falling for
Obama’s nonsense…
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A former West Point instructor who has called for American critics of the “war on terror” to be imprisoned or executed as traitors suggests
that the U.S. military would be hailed as the “constitutional and
political savior” of the country if it overthrew the civilian government
– and a surprisingly large number of Americans may agree with him.
Legal scholar William C. Bradford, who was forced to resign
from his position as an instructor of law at West Point in August, has
privately circulated a draft of an unpublished law review article
entitled “Alea Iacta Est: The U.S. Coup of 2017.” An abstract of that essay posted to Bradford’s LinkedIn page
adumbrates a scenario in which a U.S. president – presumably, Barack
Obama – becomes an undisguised “tyrant” who must be replaced by a
military junta.
“What if the
American people were to elect a president who want[s] to destroy the
nation and works to create division among the people, encourage a
culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and
sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation,
and weaken and destroy the military?” Bradford writes. “What remedies,
if any, did the Framers commend to us in the event a tyrant should every
assume the presidency? Do the people have the right to resist a tyrant,
and does that really hold any prospect of success without the support
of the military? Does the U.S. military have the right or even the
duty to intervene in the domestic politics of the United States as
constitutional and political savior when the times require it, and who
makes that determination?… Is such a duty incumbent upon the U.S. Armed
Forces at present?”(Emphasis added.)
The title of Bradford’s essay might be an allusion to a previous treatment of a similar theme:
Brig.
Gen. Charles J. Dunlap’s essay “The Origins of the American Military
Coup of 2012,” which was published in the Winter 1992—93 issue of the
U.S. Army War College journal Parameters. Where Bradford appears to
believe that a coup might be a “duty” incumbent on the military, Gen.
Dunlap – writing from a constitutionalist, rather than praetorian,
perspective – was clearly alarmed by what he saw as an entirely
plausible scenario.
Dunlap used the
literary device of a smuggled prison letter composed by “Prisoner
222305759,” condemned to death for “treason” by military ruler Gen. E.T.
Brutus. Following a series of military disasters overseas and domestic
crises at home, Brutus, acting on concerns very similar to those spelled
out by Bradford (or, for that matter, described in Robert Heinlein’s
premonitory novel Starship Troopers), staged a coup in the name of protecting “public order” from the corruption of the political class.
In the decades
leading up to the putsch, the unnamed Prisoner recalled, “The one
institution of government in which people retained faith was the
military.” Even as the public lamented the corruption and profligacy of
Big Government, they had nothing but bottomless respect for the Regime’s
chief instrument of death and property destruction. The military
retained its prestige in spite of the fact that its structural defects —
made painfully visible by a long, bloody, and futile war in the Gulf —
left it “unfit to engage an authentic military opponent.”
While the
military was no longer well-suited to fight and win wars, its subtle
integration into every element of domestic life made it perfectly suited
to carry out a coup:
“Eventually,
people became acclimated to seeing uniformed military personnel
patrolling their neighborhood. Now [meaning 2012 in the essay’s
timeline] troops are an adjunct to almost all police forces in the
country. In many of the areas where much of our burgeoning population of
elderly Americans live — [military dictator] Brutus calls them
‘National Security Zones’ — the military is often the only law
enforcement agency. Consequently, the military was ideally positioned in
thousands of communities to support the coup.”
Although 2012
passed without an overt military takeover, Dunlap’s projection of trends
– especially the disastrous long-term military entanglement in the
Middle East, the expanding role of the Pentagon in routine domestic law
enforcement, and the pervasive cultural presence of the military in
everyday American life — has proven to be uncannily prescient. The same
is true of the apparently inexhaustible respect and public deference
enjoyed by the military, despite widespread and deepening
disillusionment with nearly every other branch of government.
A recent YouGov survey of 1000 people posed
the question: “Is there any situation in which you could imagine
yourself supporting the U.S. military taking over the powers of [the]
federal government?” Nearly one-third of the respondents – thirty
percent – answered in the affirmative, with 43 percent of Republicans
(as opposed to twenty percent of Democrats) endorsing undisguised
military rule.
The poll also
found that a substantially higher percentage of respondents (70 percent)
believed that military officers want what’s best for the country than
police officers (55 percent). This result is broadly reminiscent of
public opinion in Egypt during the 2011 uprising that overthrew
long-ruling U.S. puppet dictator Hosni Mubarak – and eventually resulted
in the installation of a brutal military-led junta ruled by General Abdel al-Sisi. The impenitent corruption and relentless brutality of the Egyptian police led many of that country’s citizens to believe, in the words of protester Mustafa Abdel Wahab, that “The army is all good men by the police, every policeman is bad.”
.
As the protests spread, observed Steve Coll of The New Yorker,
reports proliferated “that protesters are relieved to see the Army in
the streets; no doubt, as in many other like countries, the Army has
more credibility than the corrupt and often torture-prone police.”
What Egyptians
tragically failed to understand – and what many Americans, who have less
excuse, are forgetting – is that the police and army are what Alexander
Hamilton called “correspondent appendages of military establishments.” In the Federalist, essay number eight,
Hamilton, who was no light touch when it came to the exercise of
executive power, warned that military bodies (which include police
agencies) “have a tendency to destroy … civil and political rights.”
Decades of
“emergency” rule in Egypt destroyed whatever trivial substantive
differences may once have separated the police from the military, and
when the former were discredited a desperate public was manipulated into
embracing the latter as “saviors in uniform.”
Although
the privations and abuses experienced by Americans have not generally
been as severe as those inflicted on the long-suffering subjects of
Egypt’s police state, the country has endured a variant of emergency
rule since creation of the national security state in 1946 – which was
radically deepened and expanded after the incident that should be
memorialized as Government Failure Day, September 11, 2001. A crisis of
similar magnitude could very easily lead to the consummation of the
military coup Gen. Dunlap dreaded, and William C. Bradford eagerly
awaits.
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